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- crichton101, on 09/06/2008, -0/+156Anyone who has played Max Payne knows that a Max Payne movie SHOULD be rated R. Its a freaking John Woo movie in video game form.
- RoboDonut, on 09/05/2008, -0/+128I don't see what the big deal is. The games were rated M, if I recall correctly.
Anyone who was old enough to play those games when they came out is definitely old enough to watch an R-rated movie now. - roijen, on 09/05/2008, -0/+104If there is still time to reshoot the movie I think it would be better if they did go for the R rating. It seems to me that them going for PG13 means it isn't that great. They are just making a movie most people can see, if they are bored or ... something.
I really wish movies weren't marketed this way but it seems like this is the mentality. - j3rm1981, on 09/06/2008, -0/+99Um...it was an "M" game. It should be an "R" film.
C'mon, Hollywood. You have an adult audience too. Quit watering ***** down just because you want to rake in cash and make a good ***** film for a change.
If a film is good enough to stand on its own story and marketing, it shouldn't need a lower rating to help bring in the $. - Culero, on 09/05/2008, -13/+102http://batman69.ytmnd.com/
- valleyvideo, on 09/06/2008, -4/+78I'm still shocked that Dark Knight got a PG-13.
- Typhoon2009, on 09/06/2008, -0/+61"Max Payne Director Pissed About R-Rating, Blames Batman Blowjob John Moore, director of the Max Payne movie adaptation, is pissed."
Huh? - Nekura20x6, on 09/06/2008, -0/+57Is it just me, or does it seem ridiculous that you can have as much violence as you want in a film, but show a little skin or use the "F" word to much and suddenly you're wrestling with an R rating. The MPAA has become a complete joke and is out of touch with their viewing audience. Also - why they get to happily regulate themselves while lawmakers go apoplectic over video games is another mystery.
- TheWriteGuy, on 09/06/2008, -0/+52I am so sick of Hollywood insisting that every movie they crank out must be watched by little boys. Grow up, Hollywood.
- kashk5, on 09/06/2008, -0/+52It had no boobs
- crichton101, on 09/06/2008, -1/+39Matrix was a huge movie that made alot of money and it was rated R.
- Saitekc, on 09/06/2008, -0/+34***** the MPAA, they're all 40 year old mothers who would probably ban video games if they were on the ESRB rating board.
- jholden42, on 09/06/2008, -1/+32Yeah, that's retarded. Making a PG-13 movie based on M-rated games is asinine.
- Darren07, on 09/06/2008, -1/+28How the hell do these "directors" expect a PG-13 rating for action films like Max Payne?
Clealy that loser has never played the game. - murderklok, on 09/06/2008, -2/+28I'm not interesting a PG-13 "Max Payne" That's not the Max Payne I know.
- lastrite, on 09/06/2008, -0/+26$$$.
- chrissku, on 09/06/2008, -0/+23Remember the movies back in the 80's that would show a few ***** and still be PG-13?
- scotttech1, on 09/06/2008, -1/+21and this would be a John Woo Movie in Video Game Form in Movie form...? I know you know that I know you know what I am thinking...you know?
- BinderGang, on 09/06/2008, -0/+20What sucks is that this movie is probably barely an R rated film if they were shooting for a PG-13 rating. If you're going to get an R rating, you mine as well go all out. RESHOOT!
- brenthals, on 09/06/2008, -0/+19I've said the same thing, that movie should've been an R. Ratings are the most unpredictable things ever.....look at Jaws (PG), the original Planet of the Apes (G). Whatever.
Seriously, see the film "This Film is not yet Rated", it shows some insight into the idiocy and hypocritical elements these ratings systems really are. - craterburnsu, on 09/06/2008, -0/+17It isn't like an R rating stops kids from going. Older siblings and parents get them in all the time. I just saw College the other night and the front row of the theater was all like 12 year olds.
- lokee73, on 09/06/2008, -0/+17What the hell is wrong with an R rating?! So the ***** what? Kids are going to sneak in and theater owners aren't going to kick them out. What the hell is wrong with making an action movie for adults?!
- Cougarcat, on 09/06/2008, -1/+17Yes, but The Matrix was good.
- ScreenRant, on 09/06/2008, -0/+16Based on the trailers it sure as hell looks like they were shooting for an R rating (no pun intended - really).
- mywhitenoise, on 09/06/2008, -0/+14The Dark Knight was pretty violent, but they were careful about it. Did you see ANY blood at all in the film?
- shadeOfGrey, on 09/06/2008, -1/+15Batman, Blowjob, Bears, Beets... Battlestar Gallactica.
- TheAmazingBob, on 09/06/2008, -0/+12Dugg for the phrase "Blames Batman Blowjob"
- Doctype, on 09/06/2008, -1/+12Ah, you like your men to cum quick I see....
- btschul, on 09/06/2008, -1/+11Enjoy: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-559517494 ...
- inactive, on 09/06/2008, -0/+10***** that director for trying to make Max Payne PG-13 in the first place, ***** him for not knowing a god damn thing about Max Payne.
- skabyss, on 09/06/2008, -0/+10That was surprisingly relevant...
- kowcun, on 09/06/2008, -0/+9Max Payne director is a girly man.
- morphinapg, on 09/06/2008, -0/+9you can't really count the old movies as the ratings were much different back then, but I don't think Dark Knight earned an R, as nearly all the violence was off screen. Maybe if there was PG-15 or something it would have been more appropriate
- audomatix, on 09/06/2008, -0/+8Well it's not too late to add a gratuitous sex scene.
- Louis11, on 09/06/2008, -0/+8A few months back my gf wanted to watch '16 Candles' . . . Best of my recollection it was rated PG and showed *****, and said ***** more than once.
- Jhiaxuz, on 09/06/2008, -0/+8What I have a hard time grasping is when I seen the commercial for "Everybody Wants to be Italian" and thought to myself "Ok, this looks like Meet the Parents or some other generic family comedy" and it ended with "Rated R". I was perplexed. Then, you see The Dark Knight get PG-PG-13 ratings and you get confused.
You know things are ***** up when killing someone gets a PG or PG-13 rating and romance comedies get R Rating. - inactive, on 09/06/2008, -1/+8Um, why would you make an action movie PG-13?
Same rules apply to horror movies. If any of those two genres ever consider coming out with a PG-13 flick, it will suck.
Examples: Live Free or Die Hard, Fast and the Furious, The Ring... ugh. - junskey, on 09/06/2008, -0/+7the fact that they went for a PG-13 rating probably means the movies gonna be a really watered down max payne..hope it doesnt suck :
- ZeeZee2k, on 09/06/2008, -0/+7Oh well, it's still not too late to insert some nude scenes. The game did it, remember Mona?
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9653/mona2nu0.j ... - T8erT0T, on 09/06/2008, -0/+6Lol, how the hell do you make Max Payne film and hope or try for anything less than an R rating? This is what is wrong with directors' rationale --> let us dilute and pussify the original gritty content in which we are to adapt in order to appeal to a mass audience in hopes of bigger sales.
While we're at it, let's go ahead and do A Clockwork Orange for the kids, and we'll animate it and put in some witty humor to entertain parents. Or let's do a Punisher sequel but call him the "Time-Out Giver" so things aren't so crass.
Sounds great. - slapded, on 09/06/2008, -0/+6MPAA is full of soccer mom retards.
- kyle212, on 09/06/2008, -1/+7Id of preffered the dark knight to be a R, then it could of been even darker
- stubadub, on 09/06/2008, -0/+6A lot of the most graphic stuff was set up and happened off camera, or from an angle where it couldn't be seen. The pencil thing was set up, but there was no blood or shots of any wounds. When he is holding the knife in Gamble's mouth, it cuts away to reaction shots by Gamble's men. Really, the only thing close is Two-Face's face.
The movie was intense, but the violence was such that it was easy for Warner Brothers to get a PG-13. - Doctype, on 09/06/2008, -0/+6I agree, when I first read the headline I thought he was mad because the film did not get an NC-17 rating...
These things should appeal to the primary audience, the gamers and film goers who are out to see one their favorite stories portrayed accurately without censorship. - Scaryclouds, on 09/06/2008, -0/+6I don't think such an judgment is fair to pass (R rated movies lack creativity). Some excellent films are rated R, Godfather Part 2, The Departed, Terminator 2, just to name a few.
- Blandyman, on 09/07/2008, -0/+6Marky Mark my ***** words.
- elitexero, on 09/06/2008, -0/+6The movie is based on a renegade cop chasing down the scum crooks of the city, and then to the mob bosses who brutally murdered his family while being whacked out on/spreading the newest meth-like drug craze. That sounds a little harder than Dora the Explorer, so I don't know what the hell the director's complaining about.
- craterburnsu, on 09/06/2008, -1/+6Should have pushed the limit and made it NC-17. I love NC-17 just for the fact that there are no children in the theater.
- yetAnotherCroc, on 09/06/2008, -0/+5@massaks: I dont think anyone here has advocated piracy. In fact you were the one to bring it up. Why don't you go tell your masters that when they make good films more people pay to watch them?
- burnttoast11, on 09/06/2008, -0/+5It seems like the movie ratings keep on changing with time. Space Balls is a great example. They drop the f bomb in that movie and it is only PG!!
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