Adaptation Decay 21: Max Payne
Added 2018-12-17 23:30:59 +0000 UTCA side effect of Valkyr is sucking all of the fun out of a movie.
The problem with adapting something that is such a pastiche is that you risk just making another version of whatever inspired the pastiche. When Hollywood set out to adapt Max Payne, which itself is an homage to crime and noir films, they avoided that. Instead, they made a really mediocre mid-2000s action movie and profoundly miscast it.
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Sorry to be the Old Post Responder, but as a guy who points out when he sees things that are reasonable, I feel incredibly seen by this episode.
Matt Bixler! Hello!
2019-07-08 03:18:15 +0000 UTCOH MY GOD YOU GUYS YOU ARE THE ACTUAL BEST
Jack Corrigan
2018-12-18 00:37:59 +0000 UTC
