Max Payne Director John Moore Just A Tad Pissed With Film Ratings Board

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Are You Ready For Some Football?
Published 9/5/2008 at Complex
... ] Das Gamer: The Max Payne director is tight with the Film Ratings Board, find out why. [ LINK ] Daily Drop: Cop that Jordan 22/1 Countdown Pack…early. [ ...

“Max Payne” Director John Moore Upset Over R-Rating, Claims MPAA Gave WB a Blowjob For “Dark Knight”
Published 9/6/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... A PG-13 rating can open a film up to a wider audience than an R-rating, making a big box office take just a tad more attainable. It’s not a huge mystery, then, why Max Payne director John Moore is none too pleased with the MPAA’s decision to give his upcoming film, Max Payne, an R. In a recent interview with Das Gamer, John Moore, who is apparently trying to cut the film down to qualify for a PG-13 (its original target rating) expressed some of his frustration, saying: ...

Max Payne Rated R, Director Pissed
Published 9/7/2008 by James Cook at TheMovingPicture.net
Max Payne Rated R, Director Pissed max_payne_r.jpg Soon after filming began on the video game adaptation of Max Payne word came out that the flick was aiming for a PG-13 rating, which didn’t particularly please a lot of people who enjoyed the mature rated game. Now comes word from director John Moore, in an interview with Das Gamer , that Payne is having a much harder time of securing the teen friendly rating. Moore tells the site that right now he’s been given an R rating because the film “feels dark”. While Moore is hard at work trying to reverse the rating, he is more ...

Max Payne director attacks MPAA
Published 9/7/2008 at Filmstalker
MaxPayne.jpg The director of Max Payne, John Moore, has been talking about his struggles with the MPAA to try and receive a PG-13 rating, and when I heard that a number of questions leapt to the fore immediately. The first being why is Max Payne going for a PG-13? Then there are other issues, why is an R rating such a problem for the filmmakers and the studio, and would Americans really not go and see an R rated Max Payne? Speaking at Das Gamer through ...

'Max Payne' Director Blames Batman Bias for R Rating
Published 9/7/2008 by William Goss at Cinematical
... . His NSFW thoughts on the matter were brought to light during an interview with Das Gamer; I'd recommend that you head over there and give it a look-see. ...

‘Max Payne’ Receives R Rating, Director John Moore Calls MPAA Nazi Cockgobblers [Fightin' Words]
Published 9/8/2008 by Rob Hunter at Film School Rejects
... Moore recently spoke with dasgamer.com and voiced his dissatisfaction with the MPAA’s structure, guidelines, and decision. Oh, and he also strongly inferred that the aged MPAA dropped to its arthritic knees and fellated the collective suit-wearing phalluses at Warner Bros. over that little bat man movie. ...

Max Payne Butchered To Attract Teenagers?
Published 9/8/2008 at Cinema Blend News
Max Payne Butchered To Attract Teenagers? We love a good anti-MPAA story here on Cinema Blend, and right now there’s one going around. Apparently Max Payne director John Moore is pissed off at the ratings board, and has accused them of sucking Warner Bros’ cock. No really, that’s an actual quote from his interview with a site called Dasgamer . But to me, the interesting thing about this story isn’t that the MPAA sucks, but that Max Payne may be butchered in order to get in under the PG-13 wire. Moore is pissed at the MPAA, but maybe he should be pissed at 20th Century ...

“Max Payne” Receives R Rating, Director John Moore Pissed
Published 9/8/2008 by Allan Ford at FilmoFilia
... John Moore , “Max Payne” movie adaptation director talked to Das Gamer expressing his upset because he couldn’t get Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to give the movie the rating PG-13.. accusing the folks of judging his movie for its intent instead of content. Moore tells the site that right now he’s been given an R rating because the film “feels dark”. While Moore is hard at work trying to reverse the rating, he is more upset over how the MPAA conducts itself. Das Gamer: How challenging has it been to get a PG-13 rating for Max Payne? John Moore : It continues to ...

John Moore is Pissed that TDK gets PG-13 and Max Payne gets R
Published 9/8/2008 at FilmWad
... “What the fuck 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. Darker than the Batman flick? John Moore: They 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.” The rest of the interview with John Moore is on Das Gamer.  ...

'Max Payne' Hates the MPAA, and Vice Versa
Published 9/8/2008 at I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever
... See? Three-fourths of parents found the only system we have in place to provide any sort of reference of a movie's appropriateness for children to be sort of useful. That's like bread getting a rating of "mostly satisfactory" for use in sandwiches. Not that bad of a score until you realize, wait, what else would possibly be more useful? John Moore Pissed with Film Ratings Board [Das Gamer, via /Film]

Max Payne Director Furious At MPAA Rating
Published 9/9/2008 by Dom Duncombe at Movie Moron
... be to publish a list of guidelines that would outline what had to be in the film for it to recieve a PG-13, R, NC-17 etc. and these kinds of things would not happen. Apparently the reason given for the R rating was that it “feels R”. With inexact reasoning such as that it basically gives the board carte blanche to rate films unfairly and abuse their power. See our video report about Max Payne here Source: Das Gamer via SlashFilm ...

'Max Payne' Director On 'Dark Knight's PG-13: 'MPAA S*cked Warners' C*ck' [The Dark Hummer]
Published 9/9/2008 by Seth at Defamer
... fair to my movie as you were to The Dark Knight.” Indeed, we suspect the MPAA will find they've opened a Pandora's Box by being so dazzled by shiny Bat Gadgetry as to let their stringent decency standards fall by the wayside. There's no turning back once the board develops what the industry deems a slutty reputation, and you start finding the kinds of unseemly graffiti defacing their venerated ratings cards as the one we've mocked up for you above. Max Payne Director John Moore Just A Tad Pissed With Film Ratings Board [dasgamer via ...

'Max Payne' Gets a PG-13 Rating and John Moore is Confused
Published 9/28/2008 at RopeofSilicon.com
Back on September 5 word around the Internet grew into a roar following an interview director John Moore gave to DasGamer regarding the R-rating his upcoming videogame adaptation ...

Max Payne Gets A PG-13 Rating
Published 10/1/2008 by Kofi Outlaw at Screen Rant
... The best part of this whole Max Payne rating is that the director, John Moore (Flight Of The Phoenix), thinks that he and his loyal league of Internet cronies actually had something to do with “winning” a PG-13 rating for Payne. From an interview with Das Gamer before the rating came out he lamented how difficult it would be to cut down the film to achieve the coveted PG-13: ...