The Halo Movie is "Dead"

So is the Gears of War movie, apparently.
 
wasnt it suppose to be made by steven Spielberg? What about the warcraft 3 movie?
 
Wow, they dropped one of the few games that would've actually made a decent movie?

Throw in some no name actors, lots of CGI and pyrotechnics, a booming soundtrack and a little story and you've got the Halo movie.
 
xlucidx said:
Wow, they dropped one of the few games that would've actually made a decent movie?

Throw in some no name actors, lots of CGI and pyrotechnics, a booming soundtrack and a little story and you've got the Halo movie.
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Thats what they did :p
 
...dead tired of getting bad reception on his phone while he's roaming in the jungle!

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soulslicer said:
only successful game movie was resident evil series..
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The Resident Evil movies were god awful, the first one was just barely watchable... and the other two(haven't seen Extinction but I'm sure it's shit.) are utter shit.

The only video game movies that I've seen that were actually pretty faithful to their video game counterparts were Mortal Kombat 1 and Silent Hill.
 
soulslicer said:
only successful game movie was resident evil series..
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GTFO.

This is brillaint news to be honest. So Hollywood, how about some original movies instead of pathetic, half-assed video game copies?
 
The only video game movies that I've seen that were actually pretty faithful to their video game counterparts were Mortal Kombat 1 and Silent Hill.
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I wouldn't even say silent hill was that good either. :|
 
**** you lot.

Halo could have very well turned into a bad movie, but it was a project I actually had some faith in. I think it had the potential to be one of the first good and respectable game-to-film translations.

1.) Halo is not bad subject material. Not brilliant, mind you. But competent and would have made a satisfactory vessel for a film.
2.) Uwe Boll was not behind this. There was going to be serious money and production behind this. It was being taken seriously.
3.) DID YOU NOT SEE THE DIRECTOR'S PREVIOUS SHORT FILMS? They were great. The man has talent and it was safe to assume he would have tried to do a damn good job at it.

So I'm somewhat depressed by this news.
 
I have enough respect for Halo to say that this was probably a good thing, and find it reassuring that game to movie conversions don't just go ahead regardless of problems simply because there is a financial incentive to put out any old shit.
 
A Halo movie will get made now that Halo 3 has shattered records, I'm sure of it. It just won't be made by the people who were originally going to do it.
 
AHA-Lambda said:
I wouldn't even say silent hill was that good either. :|
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Silent Hill was a decent horror flick, it managed to creep me out on a few occasions.
I've never played the games but I knew of the monsters that were in it.
 
xlucidx said:
The only video game movies that I've seen that were actually pretty faithful to their video game counterparts were Mortal Kombat 1 and Silent Hill.
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You forgot Doom. People give the Doom movie a lot of flak, but honestly, best movie translation possible, given the subject matter. Only way it could've been improved would have been the addition of, "Here comes the night train!"

Anyway, I wasn't too invested in the thought of a Halo movie to begin with. Who's to say what the quality would have been, but eh, I enjoyed seeing the story unfold through the games, so to me it isn't a big loss.
 
Absinthe said:
1.) Halo is not bad subject material. Not brilliant, mind you. But competent and would have made a satisfactory vessel for a film.
2.) Uwe Boll was not behind this. There was going to be serious money and production behind this. It was being taken seriously.
3.) DID YOU NOT SEE THE DIRECTOR'S PREVIOUS SHORT FILMS? They were great. The man has talent and it was safe to assume he would have tried to do a damn good job at it.
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That sums it up for me too. Despite being a huge Halo fan, I was very excited to see what Neill Blomkamp could do with a decent budget - his short movies are excellent. A Halo movie could be epic.
 
See? SEE?!

Warbie agrees with me. I'm not entirely unreasonable when it comes to Halo! :D
 
Absinthe said:
Halo could have very well turned into a bad movie, but it was a project I actually had some faith in. I think it had the potential to be one of the first good and respectable game-to-film translations.

1.) Halo is not bad subject material. Not brilliant, mind you. But competent and would have made a satisfactory vessel for a film.
2.) Uwe Boll was not behind this. There was going to be serious money and production behind this. It was being taken seriously.
3.) DID YOU NOT SEE THE DIRECTOR'S PREVIOUS SHORT FILMS? They were great. The man has talent and it was safe to assume he would have tried to do a damn good job at it.

So I'm somewhat depressed by this news.
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Super agreement.

By the way, this is what he was able to make of a Halo movie on a LOW budget. There are more of those if you look.
 
Absinthe said:
**** you lot.

Halo could have very well turned into a bad movie, but it was a project I actually had some faith in. I think it had the potential to be one of the first good and respectable game-to-film translations.

1.) Halo is not bad subject material. Not brilliant, mind you. But competent and would have made a satisfactory vessel for a film.
2.) Uwe Boll was not behind this. There was going to be serious money and production behind this. It was being taken seriously.
3.) DID YOU NOT SEE THE DIRECTOR'S PREVIOUS SHORT FILMS? They were great. The man has talent and it was safe to assume he would have tried to do a damn good job at it.

So I'm somewhat depressed by this news.
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Exactly. They could even take the soundtrack straight from the games (namely Halo 3's - just f*cking awesome).
 
Darkside55 said:
You forgot Doom. People give the Doom movie a lot of flak, but honestly, best movie translation possible, given the subject matter. Only way it could've been improved would have been the addition of, "Here comes the night train!"

Anyway, I wasn't too invested in the thought of a Halo movie to begin with. Who's to say what the quality would have been, but eh, I enjoyed seeing the story unfold through the games, so to me it isn't a big loss.
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Doom was the worst video game movie I've ever seen. :|
 
It's a terrible game, what did you expect? Yes, I went there.
 
Oh, wow. I really wish he had actually made this now.

It would be better if they remade Halo 1 as a film. Brutes are just silly, having Elites as the main antagonists is much better.
 
Awww,poor halo fanboys.*pets a fanboy
Don't ye be crying.
I hear Uwe Boll would be more than happy to turn your lovely game into one of his masterpieces.Ahhh,one can only hope.
 
Not disapointed in the least :p

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Darkside55 said:
You forgot Doom. People give the Doom movie a lot of flak, but honestly, best movie translation possible, given the subject matter. Only way it could've been improved would have been the addition of, "Here comes the night train!"
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The only way it could have been improved was by using Doom's actual story (New chromosome mutates differently whether you're good/evil, WTF? Pathetic story), having an actual scary/horror atmosphere and not having an incredibly retarded and crap first-person sequence.
 
riomhaire said:
The only way it could have been improved was by using Doom's actual story (New chromosome mutates differently whether you're good/evil, WTF? Pathetic story), having an actual scary/horror atmosphere and not having an incredibly retarded and crap first-person sequence.
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But Doom isn't scary. Well, none of the monsters were, just the atmosphere. But after playing it for awhile, you're kinda like, "Eh, creepy dark room again." I think the movie captured that.

And they opened a portal to Hell in the movie, didn't they? Well in any case they addressed demons. The chromosome shit was a bit :rolleyes:, but what're you gonna do? I think they were just trying to get the story out of the way as quickly as possible anyway. While I thought it was stupid when I heard it, I wouldn't have been any more impressed with the movie if they had said, "We opened a portal to Hell and all these monsters started coming out and turning other people into monsters." No one's looking for STORY in Doom. You just want to see creepy things get shot in dark rooms. Movie delivered.
 
Darkside55 said:
But Doom isn't scary. Well, none of the monsters were, just the atmosphere. But after playing it for awhile, you're kinda like, "Eh, creepy dark room again." I think the movie captured that.

And they opened a portal to Hell in the movie, didn't they? Well in any case they addressed demons. The chromosome shit was a bit :rolleyes:, but what're you gonna do? I think they were just trying to get the story out of the way as quickly as possible anyway. While I thought it was stupid when I heard it, I wouldn't have been any more impressed with the movie if they had said, "We opened a portal to Hell and all these monsters started coming out and turning other people into monsters." No one's looking for STORY in Doom. You just want to see creepy things get shot in dark rooms. Movie delivered.
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This of course all your personal opinion.
/Start rant that'll probably be grammatically incorrect due to my just waking up.

The first time I played Doom 3, it was pretty damn creepy and it made me jump in a quite a few spots.
The Doom movie would've so much better if it actually followed the source material and didn't butcher it.
Turning the Rock into the 'boss' monster of the movie was so incredibly lame... hell just having the hand-to-hand combat sequences was idiotic.
It should've been a single Marine sent to a station on Mars where hell was about to break loose.
There should've been pentagram covered rooms and sequence that brought the Marine to hell to battle hordes of demons and eventually a final face off with the cyber demon.
Instead they have several generically named Marines that all get killed off in a span of about 20/30 minutes.
And terrible first-person sequences that looked so corny and completely out of place.
They should've kept the originally weapons instead of these god awful super-cannon-machine-gun variants... and what the **** did they do to my beloved BFG? It's now a ****ing BIO-FORCE GUN? Instead of the aptly named BIG ****ING GUN? And it's not even that bad-ass anymore? It should've been bigger and actually annihilated every single being in a room.

/end rant cause I'm tired of running on.
 
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