'Max Payne' Is Top Gun at the Box OfficeI wonder how many gun owners know about anti-gun Pokey Poke but continue to reward him anyway by patronizing his violent "gun movies"?
Monday, October 20, 2008
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[Posted to wrong article--reposted here--DC]
Dave your forgetting Mark's past criminal record. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wahlberg
Attempted murder , assault, drugs, racial harassment.
Why is a guy that pled guilty to assault, sentenced to 2 years (He only does 45 days) allowed to even handle a firearm in a hollywood movie?
Illinois Voter--I didn't forget anything. Who do you think did the original reporting on that? And why do you think I made the effort to put that "Pokey Poke" link in my post?
David
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You might want to look quick as it probably won’t be there long.
W. W Woodward - Mon, Oct 20, 08 at 02:03 PM
This box office success appears to be at least the third of Wahlberg's "gun-totin' flicks". I would like to know how he is managing to get around federal laws that, because of his criminal record, prohibit him from possessing firearms?
Looks like we've got another Hollyweird star that likes to act in gun-happy movies while forbidding us from having them (with a straight face, no less!)
Well, of course he is anti-gun, given his past, he most probably realizes that he would not have lived long enough to become a Hollywood actor if his victims had been armed.
Who better to take advice on arms from? (just in case, that is sarcasm)
Thanks for the heads up. I loved the Max Payne Game,and was GOING to see the movie.
Not now....
CIII
I went to go see American Carol, and then after that was done wandered into Max Payne.
I would recommend this course of action to anyone wanting to check out a movie with a controversial actor.
AC was much better (I loved the ACLU zombies part), but MP was enjoyable in it's own right.
It wasn't as good as the game, and it was rather slow in parts, but serviceable. Wahlberg played the same basic character he did in Shooter.
What amuses me (and it did during Shooter when I watched it at a bargain theater), is this:
Remember the movie Three Kings, which showed an internal view of a person getting shot?
When Wahlberg was asked about it, he claimed to be disturbed by it and claimed he wouldn't shoot guns anymore in movies.
Yeah, whatever.
They don't use real guns on movie sets.... c'mon people.
Joe G--I assume you're being humorous? The sarcasm isn't translating clearly on this end...
No doubt there are a lot of weapons masters making very good livings who would get a good laugh hearing that.
Max Payne was a great game -except for some foul language. (if my gaming rig was still hooked up, mabey I'd make a patch)
As I have said before, I hate it when they make a movie based on a good game. It is hardly ever any good, or anthing like the game. Movies never compare and even detract from the original experience. Same with making a movie based on a book.
C.H.
Joe G. said:
They don't use real guns on movie sets.... c'mon people.
C'mon WHAT? Pokey Poke, a felon, makes tons of money in lots of movies portraying a person committing violent acts with a gun. Then he lobbies against citizens owning guns.
Oh, and yes - they DO use real guns in movies. They have been converted to blank firing guns that in many cases can't chamber a live round. But with barrel changes I'd bet that many handguns on many movie sets could be made to fire "real" bullets.
Felons can't touch a gun - unless they're rich and famous, and lobby against guns.
But then David has spelled that out a number of times over the years.
C'mon, joe g.
"They don't use real guns on movie sets.... c'mon people.?
Naw they just never reload..........
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