Half-Life Movie

This This fan made trailer for a half-life movie is actually quite good.

I think VALVe will either wait until the current story arc is finnished or just not make one. After all, they try to make the half life games as movie like as possible.
 
^ That trailers quite good :)

To be honest, as is oh so clear, game-to-movie productions are usually, well, crap.

Honestly, who can say that the Resident Evil series were loyal enough to the original games and, well, Who actually thoroughly enjoyed it?

Making a Half Life movie will be entertaining at the first view, but then I am sure it will bugger up the History of the game in some way.
 
If I buy xsi foundations, I'm thinking about making a CG movie about 20 minutes long about a General in charge of the Black Mesa situation.

Imagine the opening scene of this is a commander coming up to Breen in hand cuffs saying "WHAT
THE FU*K DID YOU DO IN THAT SHIT HOLE AND WHY DID A NUKE JUST GO OFF! MY MEN ARE STILL IN THERE. THESE LITTLE ONE EYED FU*KS ARE TEARING MY MEN TO PIECES! YOU, TALK NOW, OR DIE!"

How's this sound:

In a latter scene, he may be in a Humvee driving through the after effects. Portal storm over Phoenix. He's on line with Rumsfield or someone (Assuming it happened around 9/11).

Rumsfield: Is the situation under control yet?

General: Situation? This is a fu*king invasion. I got these little craps going around trying to eat civ's heads, these damn wilder beasts coming at my damn jeep, spitting damn acid at me.

Rumsfield: WHat about witnesses?

General: Witnesses?! I GOT A FREAKING GREEN LIGHTING STROM CLOUD RAINING DOWN HEADCRABS IN FRONT OF MILLIONS! You want this situation under control? Fu*k Iraq, get me some men in the SOuth West!. Oh yea, these captured slaves things(Vorts) are thanking me like some God or something for freedom. Now their telling me that something big is coming through the storms.

Rummy cuts off general to talk to someone else

Some one else: Sir, we've lost contact with the Black Mesa satilite and the Europeans are reporting Storms overhead there too.

Rummy: Get me the president.
 
PortalStormzzzz said:
*yelling*
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A main character that shouts all the time does not seem very appealing, to be honest.

'HI! I'M THE F*CKING DUDE IN CHARGE OF BLACK MESA! F*CK! ALIENS!'

Repeat x 100.

Then again, that might be your type of film...
 
well, your men just got nuked after getting multiple asswoopings by an unknown entity. Then all of the sudden, the guys you've been trying to kill turn out to be slaves that now want to help you. I'd be screaming WTF!!! alot. Maybe I've just seen too may war videos with the commander screaming through the radio to get X number of troops to the front lines.
 
scotland1 said:
This fan made trailer for a half-life movie is actually quite good.

I think VALVe will either wait until the current story arc is finnished or just not make one. After all, they try to make the half life games as movie like as possible.
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Love that. Guy doesn't really look like Gordon Freeman, but it's still well done. :)
 
Crazy_killer said:
And who will play the main role? Arnold Zwarzenegger? Stalone? ANAKIN?
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Arnie's busy governing. Can't save the world while you're in charge of a state. Stalone's almost dead.

So it'd have to be your last option
 
You can't have well known actors. You can't have real people as characters (i.e. Rumsfield). You can't relate to real life events, like 9/11 (I'm getting tired of the 9/11 references in movies... it's a cheap story writing tactic).

A Half-Life movie has to be unique. Why? Because the games are unique. They excel far above and beyond anything else out there in their narrative technique, and in the cases where they do give in to cliches, those moments are STILL pulled off so spectacularly well that it's not a negative thing.

Having popular actors in the lead role will make you see that character as the actor. If you got Tom Cruise playing the lead role, you're not going to see that character as that character, he's going to be Tom Cruise playing some guy. You lose immersion that way.

When you talk about real-world events, you create a balancing act on the suspension of disbelief required for a sci-fi movie. For example:

"OK, so we have portal storms and aliens teleporting to earth... but lets make sure to ground this all in reality by referencing 9/11 and don't forget to insult the Bush administration!! You can't have a movie without insulting Bush!!!!"

No, that just doesn't work. You have to create an entire universe for the movie to take place in, that way your suspension of disbelief remains at a constant level throughout. Everything is new and fresh and feels like it fits together and belongs... it doesn't feel like someone just forced some things into an existing world.
 
Gah, c'mon. How cool would it be to have rummy getting fired for screwing up the Portal situation, or how about Kerry going "Driver licenses for illegal vortigants!"

Ok, that's a little to far, but you have to relate it to reality some how. Obviously there's a USA, so you have to keep in line with the current history. I think the movie would fail if Bush wasn't president and then the portals happened. Alot of crazies out there would flame the movie for some kind of pro-Bush thing and go crazy, what with his polls in 20 and bellow.
 
I juts realised... maybe Gordon is Tom Cruise... that would explain why he can't jump over a waist hight wall.
 
PortalStormzzzz said:
Gah, c'mon. How cool would it be to have rummy getting fired for screwing up the Portal situation, or how about Kerry going "Driver licenses for illegal vortigants!"

Ok, that's a little to far, but you have to relate it to reality some how. Obviously there's a USA, so you have to keep in line with the current history. I think the movie would fail if Bush wasn't president and then the portals happened. Alot of crazies out there would flame the movie for some kind of pro-Bush thing and go crazy, what with his polls in 20 and bellow.
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So you think that the movie would fail if it DIDN'T make fun of Bush? That is HAS to be anti-Bush?

You know, I don't like the guy myself but for god's sake, he's not 100% at fault for everything wrong with the world right now, no, he's definitely just a scape goat. Seriously, they're blaming GLOBAL WARMING on him. How can you tell me that Global Warming is his fault?

Anyways, I don't want to turn this into a political debate but it'd definitely the "popular" thing to make fun of Bush and the Bush Administration and I lose ALL respect for TV shows and movies that do such a thing. It's like, come on, think up a new joke.

But, I guess if you're a fan of Family Guy, then you must LIKE tried and true jokes rehashed without any sort of new context whatsoever.
 
DerbyDriver1985 said:
So you think that the movie would fail if it DIDN'T make fun of Bush? That is HAS to be anti-Bush?

You know, I don't like the guy myself but for god's sake, he's not 100% at fault for everything wrong with the world right now, no, he's definitely just a scape goat. Seriously, they're blaming GLOBAL WARMING on him. How can you tell me that Global Warming is his fault?

Anyways, I don't want to turn this into a political debate but it'd definitely the "popular" thing to make fun of Bush and the Bush Administration and I lose ALL respect for TV shows and movies that do such a thing. It's like, come on, think up a new joke.

But, I guess if you're a fan of Family Guy, then you must LIKE tried and true jokes rehashed without any sort of new context whatsoever.
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No, you got it wrong. Why WOULDN'T they put Bush in? Who would be the president in the year 200x? President Gabe Newell or something? Keep it on track, then start getting into sci fi as time goes on and humanity breaks apart.
 
Druckles said:
I juts realised... maybe Gordon is Tom Cruise... that would explain why he can't jump over a waist hight wall.
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He Is:
"And Just as they are physically about to eat me" (Episode 2)
"SURPRISE! I THROUGH A GRENADE DOWN YOUR THROAT!"-1:13
That's so him, moving so stupidly side to side and all, strafing side to side drunken by so much Morphine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM_DuUQgdFo
 
See, the problem with making a Half Life movie is you can not show Gordon because you are Gordon. Thats why a movie of a secondary character would be ideal.

The Gordon in the fake trailer looks like my uncle...
 
nipples said:
See, the problem with making a Half Life movie is you can not show Gordon because you are Gordon. Thats why a movie of a secondary character would be ideal.

The Gordon in the fake trailer looks like my uncle...
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Film with a cameraman walking the camera through corridors, then insert CGI enemies / stunts, and add in recorded arms?
 
nipples said:
See, the problem with making a Half Life movie is you can not show Gordon because you are Gordon. Thats why a movie of a secondary character would be ideal.

The Gordon in the fake trailer looks like my uncle...
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I'm Gordon? Well hell, with that PhD from MIT I should be commanding a better salary...
 
If there is a Half-Life movie, Hugh Laurie should be the actor that stars as Gordon Freeman. I think to find a actress for Alyx is going to be extremely hard to find.
 
Bacons said:
If there is a Half-Life movie, Hugh Laurie should be the actor that stars as Gordon Freeman. I think to find a actress for Alyx is going to be extremely hard to find.
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gtfo nao
 
Having a whole movie in first person view would be absolutely stupid.
 
Cheomesh said:
gtfo nao
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NEVAR!

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House = win
 
He's got the right shaped face, but he's too old to play 27-year-old Gordon Freeman.
 
Agreed with the latter point. But his chin's too pointy.
 



Sorry about this big pic, but i think it wasn't mentioned yet, just wanted to show you.
 
Red said:



Sorry about this big pic, but i think it wasn't mentioned yet, just wanted to show you.
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Some of them yes, some of them no.

Just no with Gordon Freeman.

We know for a fact that Gordon is almost 2 meters (If you don't know why I shall mock you). Tom Cruise is barely one.
 
Elijah Wood isn't just 1 meter, but in lotr, he appears to be 1 meter, so nothing is impossible.

You're right, Bill Cosby don't look like this now and Sean Connery don't wnat to make movies anyway, but i just wanted too show you the pic to inspire you.
 
They can make tall people short, not short people tall.
 
Gandalf was also made taller. That's how Frodo was actually made to look short.

I have a better solution than making short ass Tom Cruise look tall...

Use a different actor :O
 
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