- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Firstly, I must give a HELL NO to anime. It wouldn't be Halo if it were anime. Hard to explain why, but to make it anime would just...yeah...
Now, the bonus of CG is that all the characters will look the same, but honestly, I'd rather live action. I mean, live action is more believable. Look at Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. There was never a moment where it looked totally real. Was it realISTIC? Yes. Was it REAL? No. There are always parts in every frame that look fake and stand out as such. Making it live action will sell the believability more and more fully support the suspension of disbelief. Basically I'd prefer high budget film that has a lot of fake Ghosts and Warthogs (well, Warthogs don't have to be fake) being used as well as real explosions because, as a lot of special effects masters are starting to say nowadays, real is always better than CG. This is why miniatures are still being used in a lot of today's movies. It's cheaper to CG it, but the quality on the big screen really stands out.
Next up, I must be the only person that doesn't really like the books that much. The second one is most obvious in that it's just rehashing the game, but when I read the Fall of Reach novel I was incredibly disappointed. The whole first half of the book reminded me of a cheap sort of Ender's Game, not to mention had parts that I flat out didn't like. For example, there is a scene where the Spartan teens are performing a sort of CTF exercise, and they wind up knocking down guys in power suits with nothing but kicks and stuff. This makes you wonder, if you can do that to a guy in a power suit, why not a Hunter? The book makes them so bad ass, and I'd rather Halo be represented as it is in Legendary (since it is the mode the game is meant to be played in). The Master Chief is not superman. He is superhuman, but not superman. He is basically the human equivalent of an Elite. Everything the Elite can do, Master Chief can do. And I don't see Elites pulling -blam!- as bad ass as the Chief does in the books sometimes.
I also didn't like how they pull of the Chief's personality. It's true that the Chief isn't the quickest to pick up on stuff (opening of Assault on the Control Room, for example), but I don't think he's as grunty dumb as the books sometimes made him out to be. When Keyes questioned whether their victory was a true victory in the book, he didn't get it because he didn't understand that, though the objective was achieved, the massive loss of life made it a sort of failure. I think the Chief would have had a perfect understanding of that. He's trained to understand all aspects of the military, and with the mentality he had in the book he'd be willing to just send troop after troop after troop into a hell hole situation until the objective was completed. Instead, he would rather reach his goals and put the lives of the marines as a higher priority.
In the game, there are times where MC seems to have more of a sense of humor, too. The opening of "The Maw", for example. "We're not gonna make it!" "We'll make it." "Pull up!" *BOOM!* "You did that on purpose..." He knows his abilities and limits, and thus made a joke to worry Cortana. Halo 2, the two of them make that wager at the end of the 2003 E3 Demo. In the books, he doesn't seem this way at all.
Lastly, there wasn't enough combat in Fall of Reach, really, and any combat that was there wasn't that great. Maybe I'm jaded because I've read a plethora (sp?) of other, better books, but the Halo book....it just wasn't a good book, and it definitely didn't give me the sort of prologue for Halo I wanted. Part of the reason that I figured "If there is a Halo movie, it should be the Fall of Reach".
Now, I haven't read the third book and didn't finish the second, but I heard MC runs into Private Jenkins fighting off the flood in one of them. This, sirs, I definitely don't like. One, it's corny, two, if you look at the Flood, all the bodies are decayed. Basically, you have to be dead in order for the Flood to take you over. So Jenkins couldn't have fought it off.
A friend of mine also told me that in book 3 MC picks up a group of Spartans. I hope not. I want someone to tell me this isn't true. If it is, I'll be pissed.
But yeah, as both a book reader and a Halo fan, I can't take the idea of a Halo movie based on any of the books. The books merely exist to make money anyway. I'd rather see a totally original plot, for reasons stated above and reasons stated in my last post.
Man, I shoulda warned you guys that when I write posts, I write them long.