I love that film, and apart from the lack of fairies, you've hit the nail on the head. The underlying plot is practically the same as that film.uBert said:
James Cameron says that Halo fans need to shut up about Avatar
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I am reminded of when Briney Spears first permeated our culture with the stink of her dancing lip-synching jailbait act. It was so cliched and so widespread that to talk about how much she sucked became a cliche. Kind of like Halo fanboys. Now, before y'all flame me, I'm only talking about the morons who picked up gaming just in time for Halo and have no awareness that science fiction, religious wars, space marines and the like existed long before the folks at Bungie were conceived, and also have no idea how derivative the series is. So it's become so much of a cliche that I feel cliche even discussing how useless these idiots are.Saucycardog said:
1996? How about 1986, when Cameron's film Aliens appeared in theaters. You know, the one with all the space marines. The movie that's been aped countless times by video games in general and FPS's in particular.
Oh, how I do love the unintentional irony. If I were Cameron, I'd be a billionaire and I do think I would be ignoring these tools.
Halo sucks.
Avatar does not.
Also, Pandora is more expanded and beautiful. Everything kinda makes sense in Avatar. and there's no super overpowered guy
Avatar does not.
Also, Pandora is more expanded and beautiful. Everything kinda makes sense in Avatar. and there's no super overpowered guy
The Halo fanboys should know to keep quiet, considering how much the Halo series borrowed from Aliens, one of James Cameron's best-known films (and made over 20 years ago, to boot). Not that borrowing from Aliens is a bad thing, as it's a great bit of SF action. But claiming that Cameron is then stealing from Halo is just roaringly stupid.
Really...Halo...since when did halo rip off Pocahontas,Ferngully and the Matrix.
Fanboys are stupid.
Fanboys are stupid.
Also to add to that the Covenant were the evil invaders while in this it is a role reversal.orangeapples said:
OT: It is stupid on the Halo fanboys part if they are doing this for anything other than attention and even silly for Cameron for giving it too them. He shouldn't care what fanboys of anything think except maybe his film as they do watch them so he does have to pay a certain amount of heed to what they say.
So does that mean I need to worry about my Avatar disc attacking my Halo games while I'm not home?
Ha ha, kidding. I don't own a 360. I'm a real gamer.
Ha ha, kidding. I don't own a 360. I'm a real gamer.
"Nobody else gets to do that, but I get to do that. My rule, anyway."
Really, so nobody else can recycle ideas, you just went ahead and invented that?
Dickhead.
No you're not, because you stated you are, making you not.
Works the same way as "being cool".
Really, so nobody else can recycle ideas, you just went ahead and invented that?
Dickhead.
Ha, ha, ha!ShadowKatt said:
No you're not, because you stated you are, making you not.
Works the same way as "being cool".
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Why does he even care what they think? : /
I played part of the game Half-Life and I didn't see any similarities between it and halo.
That happened? D:slowpoke999 said:
I played part of the game Half-Life and I didn't see any similarities between it and halo.
Yeah, you might have a point there. The vocal members of Halo's fanbase are too young and/or stupid to think that Halo might have been influenced by other works of SF. The moderate and intelligent ones (of which there are a decent few, let's be fair) accept it and just don't bother commenting on any similarities. They don't care about the similarities between a game and a film because they've got other things to be thinking about.Irridium said:
It's not a new story at all. It's actually 4 movies rolled into 1. Aliens, A Man called Horse & Braveheart. Wrapped up in Ferngully. If you want future tech to look convincing, there are only a few designs that'll work. Re Halo: the flood are a bio-organism that takes over a host in order 2 evolve into a higher more predatory life-form. Oh, wait, that sounds like a story by Dan O'Bannon. The guy who wrote Alien & tilt-rotor aircraft r nothing new. American coastguard had them 20 years ago. Fanboy=moron.
You should watch MovieBob's review on Avatar, he mentions "Dances with Wolves" and I think you'd quite enjoy it due to the fact that noticing that Dances with Wolves has the same basic story as Avatar does not make you observant [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/1333-Avatar].madcap2112 said:
*AHEM anyways, James Cameron shouldn't have to justify himself to a bunch of idiotic Halo fanboys.
Are people saying Avatar stole from Halo?
What a bunch of fucking idiots.
The two are nothing alike other than they're about aliens.
What a bunch of fucking idiots.
The two are nothing alike other than they're about aliens.
He makes a good point in his response. Halo borrowed a LOT from "Aliens", Cameron's film from 1986. Here's an educational link for those naysayers.
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_References_to_Aliens_in_Halo
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_References_to_Aliens_in_Halo