Max Payne movie director upset with possible R rating

Posted Sep 6th 2008 10:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, Action

You may have noticed that the trailers for the upcoming movie version of Remedy's Max Payne game series don't have a rating yet, even though the movie is a little more than a month away from release. That's because the Twentieth Century Fox production is trying to get a PG-13 rating for the ultra-violent film. However the MPAA ratings board has slapped an early cut of the film with an R rating which will almost certainly lower its potential take at the box office.

Das Gamer has a chat with the film's director John Moore who expressed frustration over the ratings fight with the MPAA with Max Payne. Moore states, "They said to me, the movie feels R. And I said, "What the f*** is that, a group therapy session?" You can't do that. They're meant to judge content, not intent. They said the movie felt dark." Max Payne is due in theaters on Oct 17.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

....Yeah because a kiddy PG-13 movie of a criminal killing madman will be waay better then a more true to game rated R movie...

I rather see a movie like max payne that was meant to be fully viewed in its violent/true nature then watered down pg-13 kid movie.Posted at 12:20PM on Sep 6th 2008 by Danny F.

.. the movie "feels" R? i thought The Dark Knight "felt" R, and pretty freaking "dark" so what's the difference? PG-13 movies are just R movies with deeper (payola) pockets.Posted at 1:37PM on Sep 6th 2008 by dan k

WHY?! I'm sick and tired of all these shoulda-been-R-rated movies getting shaved of all the flavor just to make them PG-13 thinking that they'll get more money in the box office! I can guarantee I won't see it at PG-13 because I know I'll be getting less than what I should - kinda like buying a car and not getting an interior. An "unrated" version on DVD won't be enough because I'm damn sure not going to drop $20 on a movie I haven't already seen. Max Payne is a gruesome, violent game. The movie should match. I want to see gray matter explode out the back of some guy's head, not comically-red splatter on a wall after the fact.Posted at 10:09AM on Sep 9th 2008 by Ross

i have movie(max payne) but i need the password how i can get itPosted at 7:31AM on Oct 26th 2008 by ahmed

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