- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Awesome Bungie. Absolutely awesome.
About the "Arms Race" film though:
I thought this short film was cheese. It looked like it was intentionally filmed using your average DV camera (which can sometimes be done right, but in this case it didn't help at all in making the short more serious). All of the Halo 3 media, like the ads and announcement trailers, etc, have been of such high calibre in terms of visual quality, and it makes this short pale in comparison. With respect to Weta workshop, the armour looked home-made cardboard -blam!-. I also couldn't help but cringe at that cliche ending shot. Overall the short felt like a bad TV sci-fi show - I couldn't tell, were we supposed to laugh or take this seriously? The overused concept of having the computer processing was eye-rolling, and the the font was as low quality as you can get (was it like Arial or something?) I'm assuming this was intended to be a realistic impression of an assembly line thing, so the viewer can get pumped up and get an insight into what its like to manufacture ODSTs, but for me it just didn't work. If it was meant to be serious, cinematically it should have been something more like the StarCraft 2 trailer.
Maybe I'm being a little harsh, but really it's just my review of the to-be-director of the Halo 'movie'. If you can't nail the flavour in 2minutes, it questions your ability to nail a feature length film. Basically I'm saying if this is any indication of what the movie might be, I'm really not liking the direction its headed.
(*Honestly I'm just concerned about this director for the Halo movie. I WANT it to be outstanding! Unlike the other game-based movies we've seen in the past.)
[Edited on 07.11.2007 3:41 PM PDT]