Max Payne director upset about potential R-rating

Just eliminate any scenes with shooting and it should be fine. Everyone loves a good G action flick!

The MPAA -- helping artists to compromise their vision since 1948.

Even though they would make more money with that PG-13 rating, and it
would probably be better for them, Max Payne was a very very dark
video game (NOT THE BABY MAX NO! NO!) and should be R

Owned. The movie is now a butchered R-rated flick, as opposed to a butchered PG-13 one. They should've gone all out from the get-go. Awesome.

There is a very good documentary on the MPAA called This Film is Not Yet Rated. It's got some problematic arguments, but it really does a good job outlining how the MPAA really doesn't operate under any hard, fast rules.

Hopefully Moore will be able to talk his current cut down to PG-13, since it sounds like he is happy with it in it's current state (and assuming that he is contractually obligated to bring it in at PG-13).

Director upset about R rating; fans rejoice

Who cares what the rating is? It's not like anyone is going to see the movie anyway.

Videogame movies are always good. I look forward to seeing this fine piece of cinema.

I saw the trailer. Must have slept through the parts of the story explaining the demons and fire and dead guy.

Yeah i can agree with the Director Im still puzzeled on how in the world Beowolf Got a pg 13 rating and yeah i loved dark knight and maybe it was to Dark for that cause i know alot of people had ask me if its ok for the kids to say i almost say its a lil Dark for pg 13 and they sould see it first.

even though the trailer was mostly confusing...i actually think it looks AWESOME. i work at amovie theater and we have a REALLY badass Max Payne poster that i want to steal...

plus, mark wahlberg is pretty cool.

and i dont think its a big deal if they cut it down to pg-13. anybody remember how awesome live free or die hard was even after being brought down to pg-13? and then those that wanted more got the unrated so it works out pretty well.

and as for the dark knight, i dont get why people say it should be r rated. there were no fuck words, or even shits. the violence is almost non-existant. almost each instance of violence is implied, but not seen. the mood and the emotional intensity is very strong and dark, but i dont think that should warrant an R.

a lot of people look at what a film is rated pg-13 for and are comfortable with taking a 9 year old. dark knight was one where i think you really should be of age. but then everybody is raised around different films and some people deal with it better than others.

wow. i just typed MUCH more than i intended to.

I agree with him about Dark Knight, though. If any PG-13 movie should have been R, it was that one. Too bad the MPAA was playing favorites when they rated it.

So what- John Moore is an absolute dick. I'm not surprised he found something to whine about. Just check out the behind-the-scenes DVD on Flight of the Navigator if you want to see why this guy is loathed...

i hate it when they try to get a pg-13. if the story takes it to a R then it needs a R don't dumb down it to get a pg-13 . i am so glad that the watchmen is getting a R rating and that what the director wants and the story will need to be a R to tell the story

I'm kind of hoping this movie turns out to be good. Max Payne is still among the few PC games I occasionally play.

In the meanwhile, I was pretty surprised "Death Race" didn't end up with a game tie in from somewhere. It would've been nice to see either a next-gen version of Carmageddon or a decent follow up to Full Auto. (I wonder if GTA4 offers a carmageddon style race mode in the online options...)

meh, oh well. if it becomes rated R, now worry for me. most movies that are rated R in the US are rated 14A (no one under 14 without an adult allowed) here in canada (but not always)

example: Tropic Thunder-R in the US, 14A in Canada.

the fact that he was aiming to take a dark thriller full of guns to a PG-13 rating means this guy doesn't get it and the movie is going to suck.

He's probably the one guy who thought editing John McClane's "Yi Pi Ki Yay M ..." in Die Hard 4 was good a idea.

I don't think some of you are seeing the problem here. He was intentionally scaling the violence he shot to stay strictly within his understanding of the totally undefined limits of a PG-13 rating. However, the MPAA, like their idiotic asses tend to do, thought that the movie "felt like an R", and rated it as such, screwing them out of a significant part of the audience (yes, people under 17 will still see it, but not nearly enough to make up for the losses). The MPAA has no guidelines or standards, and are prohibited from using other movies (like the Dark Knight) as precedent when rating movies. To hell with them.

I think it should stay Rated 'R' Max Payne is made for a R Rating. At least I think. But I was doubting Live Free or Die Hard being PG13 and they still pulled it off, but i would like it in R like the rest of the Die Hard movies...

Yeah the R-rating means someone did something right in making the Max Payne movie. I played the games when I was 16-ish and loved the darkness. Crept me out. And kept me off of drugs ;)

John Moore is a fucking idiot, fighting for a PG-13 rating, fucking pussy, they should have had neveldine/taylor direct this.

Thats the exact same thing i thought when i saw the trailer. If not Im walking out. Max Payne Pretty much WAS a movie there is no need to add retarded shit just to move the story along