Director of Max Payne gets his PG-13 rating. Idiot!

"Max Payne" director John Moore has won his fight and secured a PG-13 rating for the video game adaptation reports Shack News.

Initially rated R by the MPAA, Moore strongly criticized the MPAA in an interview - calling the ruling unjust. Moore and crew "trimmed some frames more for the sake of trimming frames" and the film will now open with the PG-13.

The director also tells Game Daily that he is planning a "Gamer Dedicated Cut" of the film:"It's a little slower and a little more atmospheric. There are some rougher edges on it, but it's not going to be a bloodfest. I want this to be the Max Payne that I set out to shoot. It's not that I wanted to release one version in the theaters and make a cheap buck by following up with a blood-drenched DVD version. The movie you see in the theaters will be an intense experience and the movie you see on DVD will be as intense an experience with some extra sensibilities for people who really adore the game."

In my opinion making it a PG-13 will suck an awful lot of the appeal out of the movie. What do you think?
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Max Payne - R Rated? Good or bad thing?

Looks as if the Max Payne movie is going to be R rated and not PG-13 as the film makers wanted (our previous posts on the Max Payne posters and trailer's are here). Now this is good for the older movie going audience and could mean that it will be close to the game with lots of brutal killings. However, it does of course mean it might not do as well at the box office as a PG-13 rating would. The Max Payne games are a few years old now so the main fans of the game will all be old enough to go and see an R rating.

However, Max Payne director John Moore is not happy with the MPAA’s decision to give the film an R and is supposedly trying to cut the film down to the original PG-13. He tells Das Gamer, of his frustration with the whole process:

We’re suffering from what I call Batman blowback. The Motion Picture Association of America gave The Dark Knight a PG-13 rating and basically sucked Warner Bros. cock…The MPAA changes their rules willy-nilly and it depends on who’s seeing your actual movie at the time. It’s very difficult to get a hold on what’s acceptable. The only thing you can use is current standards. So I go and see The Dark Knight and I say, “Gee, that’s pretty gnarly for PG-13,” but I felt good about Max Payne after coming out of the theater. I thought Max wasn’t going to have a problem. And that’s not the case. They’re coming down on us pretty hard.
[The MPAA] really hung themselves with The Dark Knight. Every other filmmaker in town is knocking on their door saying, “Please sir, may I have my PG-13 rating and be as fair to my movie as you were to The Dark Knight.”

What is your opinion of all this? Should it be an R or PG-13? Should the Dark Knight have been rated R and, if it had, would it have been the huge box office smash?

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