Poll: A HALO MOVIE???
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yea with Uwe Boll alive there is a chance...if he does make it it will suck....if you say it sucks and you are an actual critic he will challenge you to a boxing match.If he does all you need to do though is kick him in the groin and say you were aiming for his chestGodsAndFishes said:
No. No no no no no no no no no. A halo movie would suck ass. As a rule, the quality of movies made from games is a ratio: one tenth the original quality of the game. With a good game you can make a sucky movie. With dross like halo you will summon the apocalypse. But jesus wasn't cool with that and stayed peter jackson's hand.
you sir, are clearly from another planet. You really think a god damn halo movie would be better than district 9? District 9 was an intelligent, yet badass, action movie that was shockingly relevant and good. Halo is a turd and using my ratio you could see that a halo movie would suck so bad that your eyeballs would fall out and run away if you tried watching it.rockingnic said:
You guys are fucking with me?13lackfriday said:
THAT looks good?
THAT LOOKS ANY GOOD AT ALL!?
I fear for the future of cinema. Because THAT looks like shit.
Anyway, the concept of a "Halo" movies is a bad one. Not enough story to walk away with a good movie, especially not after the first game.
Since there os already multiple books on them it might get done, so in my opinion..... Huh all i can come up with is. If you spend 9.95 on a movie about a series of video games and books of which you have played and read what are you fulfilling? Obviously not a pickup line for you to use with the ladies, but in all seriousness, what is the point?
That's like saying "a marmite doughnut would be really good, but the professional bakers at the bakery would probably mess up the execution".kidigus said:it would be cool but the hollywood guys who are most likely too busy to play games would probably mess it up.
Which is to say that you're completely missing the source of the shittiness of any potential cinematic adaption of Halo.
A fan of Halo wanting a Halo movie? Seriously, where have you been? With all the movies that are based off games, most of the fans are always pissed about it more than anyone. Halo isn't going to be any different, they will ruin it (in terms of not following the story or changing things up) and then all the fan (boys) will be pissed.Ellibod1 said:
For example, Doom. I thought it was a great movie, acting could have been better, but it completely missed the point of the game. Some Doom fanboy I go to school with was piss about it and whined that the Hell Knight didn't throw fire. Yet, he completely ignored the fact that in the movie they weren't even monsters from hell.
Only thing that could get me to watch a Halo movie would be if they made him take off his helmet at the end and it was Chuck Norris. I'm not a huge fan of either Halo or Chuck Norris, but he would turn the entire Halo series into a joke if they did that, and that would make me laugh so hard.
Well as I've said before I oppose the idea that Halo is just a reskinned Starship Troopers given that:
A. Starship Troopers does not feature a giant ringworld
B. The aliens in Starship Troopers did not have a politically motivated civil war
I actually think that while there is the right material for a ripsnorting action trilogy in the works for Halo, given that it feels largely like a replication for western and eastern civilisation going to war and given that it has great music and a universe bursting with depth, at the same time it's hard to turn a plot that had to be spread across ten hours or so into a mere two hour blockbuster. Large parts would be cut out which would be a problem, so perhaps its better just being part of an interactive medium because at least there, there is room to fill lots more content.
However if shortened but well paced and put together with someone with an understanding of what made Halo great in the first place it could still turn out quite enjoyably watchable, provided that it follows the canon of the main trilogy enough but still adds enough to feel different because after all if it's a literal translation from game to movie it might as well not exist. So it would need to feel different, further more it can't be called Halo unless it actually features Halo as in the megastructure which would mean following the main trilogy with Masterchief Cortana and the Arbiter (Arby's involvement is crucial I think to giving a would be movie some kick as he was the best part of Halo 2) so it would be difficult.
But if we had the first movie on Alpha Halo swtiching perspective between the MC and the soon-to-be Arbiter both wanting the ring for different purposes and then making a trilogy after that I would be interested.
However the effort required to make such a movie work sounds like so much effort we might as well just leave it at a damn fine game series.
A. Starship Troopers does not feature a giant ringworld
B. The aliens in Starship Troopers did not have a politically motivated civil war
I actually think that while there is the right material for a ripsnorting action trilogy in the works for Halo, given that it feels largely like a replication for western and eastern civilisation going to war and given that it has great music and a universe bursting with depth, at the same time it's hard to turn a plot that had to be spread across ten hours or so into a mere two hour blockbuster. Large parts would be cut out which would be a problem, so perhaps its better just being part of an interactive medium because at least there, there is room to fill lots more content.
However if shortened but well paced and put together with someone with an understanding of what made Halo great in the first place it could still turn out quite enjoyably watchable, provided that it follows the canon of the main trilogy enough but still adds enough to feel different because after all if it's a literal translation from game to movie it might as well not exist. So it would need to feel different, further more it can't be called Halo unless it actually features Halo as in the megastructure which would mean following the main trilogy with Masterchief Cortana and the Arbiter (Arby's involvement is crucial I think to giving a would be movie some kick as he was the best part of Halo 2) so it would be difficult.
But if we had the first movie on Alpha Halo swtiching perspective between the MC and the soon-to-be Arbiter both wanting the ring for different purposes and then making a trilogy after that I would be interested.
However the effort required to make such a movie work sounds like so much effort we might as well just leave it at a damn fine game series.
they were going to make a halo movie but the director didn't want to do it and he made district 9 instead.
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halo has poor char recognition. no interest in mainstream other than core gamers.
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halo has poor char recognition. no interest in mainstream other than core gamers.
I thought it was that they both wanted to make the movie (Neil Blomkamp in particular was seen making interviews about it seeming quite keen and Peter Jackson first came up with it after all) but that it went through development hell and they were forced to shut down production half way through but they still had left over budget that they needed to spend and that became District 9.gadafgadaf said:
I could be mistaken though, but that's what I heard.
hmm i might have read an article meant as pr for the public...i dunno. It had quotes from the director and producer of the district 9 movie indicating what I posted is what happened to the halo movie. In hind sight a movie debacle like you are describing can be bad for image and stock of the film production company.Vrex360 said: