HAlf life 2 would make a good move

Tread carefully.. you'll be lynched here for saying that. Not by me, but by many of the others. They would hate to see half-life made into a movie... unless its made by god himself to be perfect.
 
in the hands of the right people, it would probalby make a fine movie. i mean, the source material is certainly enough for a good producer/writer/director to work with.
 
I sincerely hope it is never made into a movie. The chance of it turning into a crapfest are way too high :p Part of the intrigue of the game is the unique way that the player actually embodies the character (I don't mean by perspective, I mean that you always see out of your eyes, and you never speak) is part of what gives the game and story such personality. Like Gabe said, "You are Gordon Freemen."
 
No doubt Half-Life could make a great movie. But it's a film of a videogame. Paul W Anderson will get it. Or Simon West. Or soem music video director or something. Come on, it's not like game movies ever go to a really good director is it?
 
Could you imagine a movie like that? Where the camera is the main character, no special fancy shots from overhead or across the room, your watching through the eyes of the person in the struggle and people are talking directly to the audience and you see it much like a fps game, where you can see the hand/gun etc. That might be pretty interesting.
 
You would need a very talented director to pull that off :upstare:
 
Exactly. It would be interesting though. Another thign about an HL movie is the actor would have to be really good, as they'd be on their own with barely, if any dialogue. Giving Gordon speech is risky to say the least (ever read any HL novelisation fanfics?) and without changeing the story he'll be on his own for much of the film. THe best approach would be not to slavishly follow the game but make something different, maybe following a group of scientists trying to escape, or a squad of soldiers that we haven't seen before in the games.

Interestingly, I'm sure I remember someone actually making an HL movie with their home video camera. It was quite crap. Any ideas where to find it?
 
It would be quite an amazing feat if they could do that. Problem is... I don't think 'any' director out there today could even handle such a project... creating the movie so that it feels like the audience is watching through someones eyes completely.
 
So you don't involve Gordon (save possibly as a semi-mythic figure who doesn't actually appear on camera). You make it about some completely different nerd-turned-action-hero. Or, preferably,a group of them. I've always been fascinated byt he so-called Black Mesa resistance...picking their way through the facility scavenging equipment, maybe even joining with a squad of rogue soldiers in the last hours of the facility and escaping on a convoy of stolen vehicles...

While an HL film about Freeman is possible, it's unlikely that the film would go to any director capable of doing it well. Best not to constrain the script by trying to keep it identical to the game.
 
Yes I have. I beat it for the 5th time today. Just i really didnt think about how gorden dosent talk.
 
Alternatively you could make a claustrophobic introspective horror with a silent Gordon sneaking through BMRF with hardly any other characters who aren't solders or aliens. Put in a few tight action sequences and it could work. Also, rework On A Rail as Apocalypse Now (but with a train instead of a boat).
 
sHm0zY said:
Yes I have. I beat it for the 5th time today. Just i really didnt think about how gorden dosent talk.
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I'm just teasing you :angel:

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Sulkdodds said:
So you don't involve Gordon (save possibly as a semi-mythic figure who doesn't actually appear on camera). You make it about some completely different nerd-turned-action-hero. Or, preferably,a group of them. I've always been fascinated byt he so-called Black Mesa resistance...picking their way through the facility scavenging equipment, maybe even joining with a squad of rogue soldiers in the last hours of the facility and escaping on a convoy of stolen vehicles...

While an HL film about Freeman is possible, it's unlikely that the film would go to any director capable of doing it well. Best not to constrain the script by trying to keep it identical to the game.
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You know... that's a very good idea. I'd love to see a movie about the incident at Black Mesa... it doesn't even have to include gordon freeman as a main role for me to like it :) It's still half-life, just a different story of it.
 
I'd like to see an HL movie showing some of Black Mesa the military operation, as well as Black Mesa the subterranian nightmare.
 
Raziaar said:
You know... that's a very good idea. I'd love to see a movie about the incident at Black Mesa... it doesn't even have to include gordon freeman as a main role for me to like it :) It's still half-life, just a different story of it.
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That would be pretty cool :)

Sulkdodds said:
Alternatively you could make a claustrophobic introspective horror with a silent Gordon sneaking through BMRF with hardly any other characters who aren't solders or aliens. Put in a few tight action sequences and it could work. Also, rework On A Rail as Apocalypse Now (but with a train instead of a boat).
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I also like that idea, if done properly, it could be a very good movie.
 
My God, I can't believe that no-one has complained about "Half-Life 2 move" yet. A first for the forums, probably...

If you make Half-Life into a movie that mimicks the game, you have to distill all those fights into just a few big sequences. Who wants to watch a film where Gordon walks around a corner, plugs a couple of headcrabs, smashes a crate, goes through a door and kills one alien slave, smashes two crates, goes into a a vent, kills one headcrab, comes out, kills two alien slvas and accidentally pastes a Barney before smashing some crates, etc ad infinitum...

Meanwhile, if you distill the game into 'Intro, Initial escape, We've got hostiles warehouse fight, Tentacles, On a rail, Surface tension, Deserted lambda, Xen, End' you could make a decent film.
 
I meant just a half life movie dosen't have to be like the game.
 
Well it has to be a bit like the game...else it isn't HL, is it?
 
Not sure if anyone posted this before me, but I think it would be better to leave the storylines from the 2 games out of this, and focus elsewhere in a movie. Perhaps based in the time between Black Mesa and City17. It's already been confirmed that there was a reasonably long period of time between the two games, so it's pretty much begging for an explaination. I'm sure we'll get a basic one during HL2, but if there's ever a movie, I think that would be the best idea.

Now, it's nearly 2:30 AM so please disregard all previous comments, suggestions, or what-have-you. I don't remember what I wrote, and I aint reading it again.
 
If they did make a movie from Freeman's point of view, they should end the film when Freeman steps into the teleporter to Xen. I doubt any audience would like to see Freeman jumping from platform to platform for an extra 30 minutes, to get to a final showdown that wouldn't bee interesting for a non-player.
 
Meh. I still think it would be best to start at the beginning, with the Black Mesa Incedent. So much went on that you can stick anything in there and no-one will notice.

EDIT: Oops, this was a reply tot he post before yours. As for your post...good point. ;)
 
:hmph: Won't work Gordon would be the main character but he doesn't say anything! Of course they could easily change Gordon into a talker... but would fans really enjoy that? Personally I don't mind as long as everything else is accurate.
 
Sulkdodds said:
So you don't involve Gordon (save possibly as a semi-mythic figure who doesn't actually appear on camera). You make it about some completely different nerd-turned-action-hero. Or, preferably,a group of them. I've always been fascinated byt he so-called Black Mesa resistance...picking their way through the facility scavenging equipment, maybe even joining with a squad of rogue soldiers in the last hours of the facility and escaping on a convoy of stolen vehicles...
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Now there's an idea. You could have the movie based on Shephard's story, and show Freeman during that one scene where he jumps through the portal.
 
You can't make it a movie. The story of Gordon is not meant to be portrayed by anything like that. He's supposed to be the player(you), that's part of the Half-Life experience.
 
:eek: Hollywood doesn't give a shit. Take a look at Resident Evil, yeah they DID **** shit up as opposed to the game.
 
If they really tried hard to make a good movie and not just cash in on the games success, then maybe it would be great. But unfortunately Hollywood and the likes would just try to cash in on the game, thus there we have one of the worst movies in the history of mankind.
 
I think it's become quite obvious that the solution would be to make sure Freeman is not in the film, or at least not as a speaking character.
 
maybe they could have the fans from ohh lets just say Halflife2.net work on the movie to make sure they get everything right. i think it could have potential, as long as gordon isnt played by Vin Diesel.
 
I think if Peter Jackson directed Half Life movie THEN MAYBE
 
if will be a Half-life movie
but
Valve is not a developer of the movie
the movie will not be sooo good
 
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