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9月19日 Hey all, it has been awhile. For those who have thought I've disappeared off the edge of the world, I kindof did. For the past 3 years (feels longer) I've been struggling with vibromialgia, which in itself, was an odyssey to even get a diagnosis. For those who don't know it, it's a form of post viral syndrome, with remants of a virus (something like glandular fever) staying in the system, causing health issues. In my case it seems that the initial virus never became symptomatic and the remnants had a free for all on my body after my immune system being highly damaged. This translates to blackouts, muscle pains, severe chronic migraine, sensitivity to light, nauseau, insomnia, and more. All great fun, garanteed! I'm pleased to say however that the worst is most defiantely over. From various diets, the most drastic being an elimination diet, vitamin supplements and most recently migraine prevention, I'm FINELY showing sure sounds of recovery. It's been extremely hard, with my state of mind taking a beating at times just as much as my body, to which I thank the people close to me so much, for keeping me alive pretty much, and being there for me. To the rest who never really thought I was sick, or not very sick at all, go fuck yourselves :P. It's a great feeling to have my energy returning, less and less chronic migraines (kill me now types) and not be getting the flu 1 once a month for 3 weeks. Even just being able to concentrate and collect my thoughts a bit more again, is a godsend. Not all birds swaying, trees singing though, as now i need to get a job, so i actually have money again haha, no easy feat after being out of the workforce for awhile. It will also be hard to return to uni, after being away for quite awhile, but the drive of just being able to do EVERYTHING again, keeps me excited about it all. Baby steps is key I think. If you haven't had much contact from me in recent years and feeling hard done by, I'm sorry about that. Hope to be a much more sociable person again and change all that. Aside from all this, for those who know me well will know how close I was with my grandmother (who i called nanna). She unfortunately has passed away, I will miss her greatly. I will finish of this entry with my thoughts on her which I shared at her funeral. Love you nanna Nanna one time gave me dating advice. She told me that sometimes people can change and become not so close. That it's no one's fault just time can change us. To reiterate her point she quoted Michael Corleone from "The Godfather" [It's nothing personal, it's strictly business.] This made me think 2 things - 1. Not sure how much the parallel between organised crime and relationships actually helped reassure me. 2. I had a very special grandmother I knew absolutely cared about me and would offer any support she could on anything I had to say. Nanna made me feel that there wasn't really and barrier between us with communicating such as age and that made me feel very priveliged to talk to her on the same level. It was always a discussion between us. It was never Nanna telling me what to think but more, to just simply think. That's just one example of how her thoughts and stories being shared with me were often humorous, caring and important. Most of the time it was all three together. I will never forget Nanna's love, caring and support for me and will cherish the memories she gave me forever. 1月19日 Max PayneSo I finally watched this film, maybe it's the defeatist in me but i'm not even upset about it, it was so bad, it was hilarious to watch.
When I heard they were making a movie of Max Payne, one of my favorite video games of all time, I couldn't help but get excited. Despite the fact that with the possible exception of the Tom Raider films and Silent Hill and a few others all video game adaptations for the big screen have been miserable failures, I thought (or maybe just hoped) that they would get it right this time and make a movie that captured the quality of the Max Payne game series. The video game Max Payne is so well done: spot on voice acting, great Film Noir atmosphere, good writing, an intriguing protagonist, the list goes on and on. What could they possibly do to ruin the movie? All they needed to do was navigate the game's storyline, use the same characters, maybe even employ the same writers, and the result would be a pretty darn good movie. I mean, Max Payne 2 even has the tagline, A Noir Love Story.
To sum up the rest of this review: they failed horribly and created a movie that is a sad, sad parody of the infinitely superior games. Mark Wahlberg is a pretty good actor, and I was happy when I heard he had been cast as Max. He seemed a good fit for the part, and while I expected he might not plumb the depths of Max's character, I did think that he would be believable when delivering a good beat-down or using his signature dual pistols. Unfortunately, he looks bored in the film, and it leaves me wondering if his agent signed him up before explaining just what kind of movie this was going to be. Once he read the script, he just gave up. However, it's not really his fault this movie is a flop. The responsibility for that rests on the shoulders of the writers and the director. The dialogue is atrocious. From over bearing to just plain silly, the whole thing sounds like two thirteen-year-olds play acting. Lines like "You have to finish this," are strewn throughout. Every time Max doesn't know what to do, some ominously worded phrase will send him off in another violent fit of "finding the answers." The plot (if you can call it that) is a strange amalgamation of the original (they kept the drug Valkyrie, the brutal murder of Max' family, some of the characters and jacked up the importance of the hallucinations of the drug) and new elements that feel pieced together. There are so many plot holes and loose ends that even the sometimes imaginative action sequences lose their appeal. The movie just doesn't make sense. What makes even less sense: there may be a sequel. The character's which are used, are turned upside down alittle too, even Max Payne. After the tragic murder of his family, in the game, he goes undercover and transfers to the DEA, and infiltrates the worst mafia crime family in the city. In the film, he becomes a cold cases office clerk, and just so happens to spend his free time chasing after leads on the murder of his family. The most loyalty this gives to the game is shallow nods of locations, words or symbols, like the opening station.
Another example is Jack Lupino, in the game he is a high up in the mafia family that max was undercover in, which due to becoming addicted to the drug, loses it, and i mean loses it. He starts up his own little cult in a den of a heavy metal nightclub fittingly called Ragnarok and performs all manner of good fun. In the film, he is almost made into a main protagonist and is made "superhuman" through being experimented on with the drug by the government, housted out of the army.
The game is a wonderful mix of vengeance, noir, crime epic, intense emotion, dark humour and john woo action flick. The film hardly scratched the surface of ANY of these.
To put it another way, the plot of the game has Max being chased by EVERYONE, the police, the mafia, and others from the shadows, at the sametime, investigating and blowing the hell out of the criminal underworld to find the answers he wants. He is framed for murder, has nothing to lose, and through ODing on Valkyrie, tortured with a baseball bat, countless bullet wounds, he prevails through his sheer anger and will to withstand the pain. It is a sprawling crime epic filled with intrigue and dark humour, with highly memorable monologues from max himself filled with metaphor.
The film, is just an echo, of max payne looking for the killer of his wife (they were just random junkies in the game) and teaming up with mona to find said killer, then he finds out "the truth".
The cinamatography I'll admit was actually quite nicely done for itself, tremendously dark, it's just a shame that the direction, and even editing spoil it. I also thought the set work was pretty impressive, and the cityscape in general was impressive for being film in Canada.
I suspect this was also done to keep the rating down (though it got MA here, and pg13 in the states) but I was quite annoyed out how the actual drug, valkyrie was handled. In game, it's no secret that it's out there, it's almost an epedemic of addiction which has hit the streets, with the police not able to cope, and max payne was fully aware that they were junkies which came to his house and killed his wife and baby. It gave him the inspiration to go undercover and chase down the source of the drug. On a more basic level than that, the drug is actually INJECTED, not a family friendly blue liquid which looks like an energy drink which u just scoff down that we get in the film.
Do yourself a favor. Instead of watching this movie, get yourself a copy of Max Payne the video game and play that instead. I promise you it will be more fun. 10月22日 3D Realms CEO speaks out on finished product of Max Payne film So Max Payne has been released, the deals done, the carpet stained. My feelings are summed up pretty well in this entry here http://paulcorleone.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C1110B18A801A863!553.entry What hope do I have of appreciating this film, if the CEO of 3d Realms (the developer behind the original Max Payne Games) isn't buying what they've done. It's clear that if I'm going to see it 1 - I must not pay money for the film 2 - I must not be Sober 3 - Lie to myself that it's just a random action film Found Miller Scott's thoughts in this article here http://www.edge-online.com/news/3d-realms-bewildered-max-payne-flick Something which perplexes me around Max Payne as well is the Director's public spitting out the dummy on wanting a PG-13 rating in the states. He was successful in receiving it but yet here in Aus, we receive MA+, one shot off of our top rating. Ratings aren't apart by THIS much most of the time. Smokey Signing Off 10月8日 Before And After Darwin http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2007/01/before-and-afte.php An interesting article featuring Brian Eno who is a prominent composer and musician, some of his accolades over the years are collaborations with David Bowie and writing a few songs for U2 for a few. he's also a bit of a pioneer of sorts of Ambient music. He gave a talk at the UOA in Berlin on generative art, and the implications of Darwin's theory on the flow of information and how it's changed. For those not sure what the hell I'm talking about the idea of generative art is making art create itself, through algorithms. John Cage was the first to go down this path (Eno even talks about it). He created generative music for SPORE and over the years has made visual generative art. Smokey signing off 9月9日 Upcoming Max Payne Film's Director Acts Like a 4 year old with No Toy 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
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