So I was excited about the upcoming max payne adaption when I first heard Mark Wahlberg was involved, I thought, he is a bit young but he could have the look from the first game of Max.  Then I heard about the director.

John Moore is his name, known for his craptastic pictures as;
Behind Enemy Lines
The Omen (remake)
Flight of the Pheonix.... And not much more really.

None have recieved much critical praise (as in, critics think he's a hack) and they haven't even made that much money.  A director is pretty useless if he can't please critics, or the moviegoing populous...

But what has pissed me off the most about all this, is in this article
http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/09/06/max_payne_director_pissed_about_rrating_blames_batman_blowjob-2.html

He not only concedes that he was aiming max payne to have a pg-13 (for the artistic integrity of the material, to be sure) but then goes on to bitch and moan about himself being treated poorly by the MPAA at giving him an R.
Aside from the fact this shows he is an idiot, for rambling on so immaturely at the press, pointing to The Dark Knight and complaining special treatment (insighting the board gave Warner fellatio no less), it points to a deeper problem with the entire philosophy behind max payne.

The fact of the matter is it was a SHIT decision to go for a pg-13 in the first place, as demographically speaking, the game itself is like 8 years old. Aiming for a market that DOESNT EVEN no about it in the first place is not very smart. those that would even KNOW about what the game is about or even care are in the 21+ bracket, not the pg-13 range.

Add to the fact that Max Payne is a very brutal vision, of modern film noir, in any media, much less a videogame the whole idea that he tried to shoehorn and cut the film in a way to get pg13 angers me greatly.
It also has alienated fans like me, with an atrocious teaser trailer basically making it clear that for now, the studio system has no wish to treat videogame adaptions seriously for quite awhile to come, this really is shaping up exactly like how Hitman did.

Argh, I say this to John Moore, Uhm... isn't an R better to recut the film? Unless the whole point of this movie is to make tons of cash at the expense of the fans and the original source.... Oh wait... Sorry, my mistake John, continue fucking with Max Payne, yet another missed opporunity in cinematic potential.

Smokey Signing Off