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Subject: The Halo Movie Discussion Thread
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Look i'll msg that guy whos' relative worked for bungie. caml down moose.AWFUL WAFFLE, thx man i precieate it.

  • 08.21.2004 10:59 PM PDT
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The paradox is the source of the thinkers passion

Is that even a question? Hell ya there should be a HALO movie!!

  • 08.21.2004 11:14 PM PDT
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yes but what kind do you think it should be, CG or Live action. (anime is just out of da question) Who should play in in. i think it should be a blend of both. Covenant CG, and human Live action.

  • 08.21.2004 11:19 PM PDT
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ok so it seems here we have 4 hardcore fellas after the Halo movie... me, the guy who cant be bothered doing much in terms of proactiveness but plays the informal 'enforcer' when it comes to idiotic comments *cough* grimrupert *cough*. also of varying sobriety... ropie and awlful waffle, the nice guys who are trying to get into contact with bungie... also of varying texture and flavour, and mustafaqual, the exitable, hoarse ringleader of this two bit operation. also of varying sanity. and playing with fire by comparing us to hitler, which has probly pissed off about half of the american people who would otherwise have supported us (fickle as they are), but merely amuses me. did i say of varying sanity?

so now ive offitiated the gang status and given us hilarious character traits and insights into our scandalous hijinks(and shenangegans), what the heck are we gonna do? and more importantly, where are my pants?

  • 08.22.2004 12:30 AM PDT
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First off I would like to say that I love the Halo books (hadn't read a book in years previous to them). I have had passing thoughts of what a movie based on them and the game itself would be like. I mean the story is an epic and complex, deep and unique telling of mankind's struggle against a menacing and overwhelmingly powerful alien force, hell-bent on our complete and utter annihilation. Perfect movie material, all of this despite the somewhat overused one-man saviour of Earth bit.

More involved thought led me to realize, "No! It just wouldn't be right". Unlike book-to-movie, which has been done many times with great success, once you've been as involved as a game, you just shouldn't take that step back and turn it into a movie. Besides, after all the disappointments of other game-to-movie productions (most ultimately leading to a revulsion towards games I once loved. It just sticks, you know?), I realized that games are just not like movies (big surprise, I know).

Yes they have similarities, as both put you in a situation that you will not, most likely, ever witness, let alone participate in, during the course of your entire life. Then there is a very important difference: Movies, you WATCH them. You grab some popcorn and some coke (or pepsi), sit down, and glare at a screen for about 2 hours or so, only to be led around by your nose through whole thing. Games, you EXPERIENCE them! In a game you are the protagonist (main character), you make the decisions that determine success or failure of... well, YOU. Controlling YOUR own fate, not just some bystander gawking at the action. From a safe distance, I might add. Instead you are right there, in the thick of it all.

Don't get me wrong, I like movies (especially a good suspense/thriller, even though they are really only interesting once), but games should not be translated to movies for the previously mentioned reason. You just lose some of the feel, a "dimension" if you will. It's like going a step down, from say, television to radio. From hockey to golf. From 100% real meat to tofu simulation substitutes (eww). From Half-Life to Halo... J/K, J/K (... although, everyone here agrees Half-Life is great game, right?).

It's the level of interactivity that divides these medias, and is the defining feature of games. In my humbe opinion, I believe that video games will eventually be the dominating entertainment medium. Movies (and all TV shows for that matter) will kind of fade into the abyss, Hollywood will be but a page in history, and video games will continue to advance in ways we cannot yet even imagine. A Halowood, if you will. Heh heh. It's all about evolution, when it comes right down to it.

But I'm probably just stating what everyone here understood all along ;)

Off topic, but since this is closely related, I feel very sorry for anybody who lacks the mental capacity to realize that "reality" TV is just plain moronic and pure crap. "Real" reality TV would require the involved parties to be unaware that they are being filmed, cause lets face it. If YOU were on television being observed by millions of people, would you be your "real" self? AND there is no such thing as scripts, editing and censoring in "real" life.

Just my two cents. Sorry if anyone has been offended, but the truth should be known.

[Edited on 8/22/2004 3:30:54 AM]

  • 08.22.2004 3:25 AM PDT
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...Havn't we learnt our leson yet ? you can not turn a game to a movie ... think about it Mortal Kombat , Street Fighter , Tomb Raider all very good games but the movie was nuthing but a shameless grab for money. The Movies that have been turned movie to game are just embassing eh.. Bad boys 2 , t2 , Matrix. Gaming is the future.

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  • 08.22.2004 5:42 AM PDT
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a movie would rule if it was done propperly but if it f**ked up then it would ruin the halo name. why the f**k not a mini series i know people already sugested that but i have one thing to say. tonnami starwars : the clone wars (animated series) if it was done like that then i think i would truly rock and i would be allot easier to stay true to the story line and true to halo because in some thing like that u dont need allot of speach so u wouldnt need to make a full script u could go off the books (there would be anough material there) and u would be able to get some propper halo action in to it. plus u would be able to get the story all the way through from the fall of reach to the ending of halo 2 and beond from every perspective human and convent.

  • 08.22.2004 7:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: Ag3nt ...Havn't we learnt our leson yet ? you can not turn a game to a movie ..
I think you're wrong. It is possible to make a game into a good movie. But all the games that has been made into movies thus far have had stupid or no story. AND they have had louse directors and producers.
But Halo is one of few games that actually has a story that feels like a movie. Well the story in the books atleast,,
Given to the right people (James Cameron, Steven Spielberg) it could be an epic movie.

  • 08.22.2004 7:47 AM PDT
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For example... heres one... who were the first Spartans indeed? HMMM... I think they were the SPARTANS... you know, the guys from ancient Greece? Perhaps just even a little minor research? Oh hell no, lets just jump in feet first, burn all our bridges and generally act like the pompous ass that we are...

Holy -blam!- -blam!-, you sit there and say I'm an idiot, not giving any reason why to prove to me that you yourself are intelligent and worth paying attention to, and then you use some bull-blam!- crap like that.

Yes, I know about the Spartans in Greece and the legend about them. I have a mini-series of comics called "300", which is *gasp* about the 300 Spartans! But when you name something after something from history, you don't simply add "2" at the end. There's a battleship called The Missouri. Not the Missouri 2, even though Missouri already exists as a state, for example. It's totally illogical to say "Hey, there was a group of bad ass warriors waaaaaaaaay back in the day that still used spears and shields, so why don't we name our bad asses...wait for it....THE SPARTAN 2'S! Get it?" No. That's moronic. If you name them Spartan 2's, it's because there was a group made before that.

Now do you have any REAL reasons for calling me an idiot, or are you just going to sit there with your caps lock on typing "OMG U SO STOOPID!!11!!1!11"

Oh and grim rupert, Jenkins did not survive on Halo. Sergeant Johnson did because he had some sort of radiation desiese a couple of years back, and it made it so the flood couldn't take over his body and turn it into a combat form

Alright. I didn't even bother to read that one since I didn't enjoy the first and couldn't even keep reading the second, so I was going off of what a friend told me. Hence why I asked for confirmation on it. Thanks for telling me.

However, there is still a problem. Again, you have to be dead in order for the Flood to take over your body. That's why all the Flood are decaying bodies growing fungus. Second, since you say "Jenkins didn't survive Halo", this makes me believe it's in the third book that you see this. I don't like that at all, neither do I like this:

I don't know who asked...but yes there are more Spartans alive. All in all there are 5: Master Chief, Linda, Kelly, Fred and Will. Personally, I like the idea of Master Chief being the last Spartan and when I read that more survived I was dissapointed.

See, now that just destroys a whole aspect of the Master Chief. First, he's the only Spartan to survive Reach, and then he's the only HUMAN to survive Halo. It's almost like he's a cursed warrior, making him a tragic hero to an extent. It's like everyone around him is destined to die but he'll come out alive. By making other Spartans survive and then, if I was reading your post right, Johnson survives....it's not quite the same. A really good chunk of his character is just flushed right down the toilet.


Maybe I'm just too tight assed or something and critique the books more than they need to be. I dunno. I just grew up reading books targetted for people older than me all my life and when the Halo book came out I was extremely disappointed.

  • 08.22.2004 7:54 AM PDT
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I totally agree with you. Making more Spartans survive is taking away half the bad ass in the MC because theree's more now...he's not the only survivor...anyway you took the words right outta my mouth. Hopefully...they all die in Halo 2. Except Master chief of course lol!!!

  • 08.22.2004 8:45 AM PDT
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(quote from rupert)However, there is still a problem. Again, you have to be dead in order for the Flood to take over your body. That's why all the Flood are decaying bodies growing fungus. Second, since you say "Jenkins didn't survive Halo", this makes me believe it's in the third book that you see this. I don't like that at all, neither do I like this:

NOOOOOOOO. You must be ALIVE when the flood get you. Have you read the books rupert? The flood Just destroy your mind and transform your body. You must be alive so that your body still works when they take over it. only your mind is destroyed. and, to clear thingss up on jenkins, When the flood form took over his body, it couldn't destroy his mind because the it had been severly weakened. It could use his body any way it wanted to, but he still had his mind. Eventually the marines found him, took him to there base, and later on discovered that he did indeed, have his mind. so there, no more questions about jenkins.




[Edited on 8/22/2004 9:13:49 AM]

  • 08.22.2004 9:10 AM PDT
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Ahhhh. A Halo movie. Just think about how awesome that COULD be. Then imagine how badly the could disgrace the Halo franchise if they did it wrong. Personally a Halo Movie based on the fall of reach wold be awesome. I think they should do it with live actors only for the parts of people like Keyes and Dr. Halsey. The chief could be a person in the armor (that you never see the face of) and have the voice actor from the game. The idea of Vin Deisel being the MC in my opinon is bad. One thing that would be great about the The Fall of Reach would be the space battles. You know the one where Keyes takes Iroquois and destroys 3 Covenant ships. That would be so cool on the big screen. Imagine the best parts of Star Wars, made today, with the MC.

  • 08.22.2004 10:19 AM PDT
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Wow! Thirty-one pages and you guys are still neck-deep in this crap. Lemme' tell ya', it's not gonna' happen--nor should it.
Are you all a bunch of ten-year-olds? Do your parents know you actively participate in a forum dedicated to a Mature game? Why don't you go off and play your Kirby and your Pokemon, and leave the Mature games to the grown ups.
People who lie awake at night hoping for a video game to become a movie are executive producers who wet themselves at the thought of a commercial crossover success and prepubescent boys who wet themselves on a regular basis regardless, but actually crap themselves at the thought of a single franchise present on multiple media.
Playing it at home and writing about it on the internet should be enough. Don't drag it through the movies, cereals, happy meals, etc. just to fill your shorts some more. In other words, just grow up.

  • 08.22.2004 10:44 AM PDT
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dude, your -blam!- up! that was uncalled for.

  • 08.22.2004 10:59 AM PDT
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Dude, do you even know the meaning of the term "uncalled for?" Thirty-one pages of mindless, Nintendo-esque fanboi-ism does nothing if not call for reason and a tiny dose of reality.
Nevertheless, if your sensitivity about being too young to play an M-rated game affects you that deeply, perhaps this isn't the type of activity in which you should be involved. Try something that involves sharing, or, perhaps, coloring...

  • 08.22.2004 11:04 AM PDT
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if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all thats what my mommy says lol,
besides this post is supposed to be for comments on a halo movie, not for abusing peoples opinions.

  • 08.22.2004 11:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: Mattacus
Dude, do you even know the meaning of the term "uncalled for?" Thirty-one pages of mindless, Nintendo-esque fanboi-ism does nothing if not call for reason and a tiny dose of reality.
Nevertheless, if your sensitivity about being too young to play an M-rated game affects you that deeply, perhaps this isn't the type of activity in which you should be involved. Try something that involves sharing, or, perhaps, coloring...
Yeah man F**k off. You don't know whether they'll make a movie or not.I'll tell you 1 thing, if they make it, it'll be based on our opinions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I REALLY DON'T GIVE A RATS ASS WHAT YOU THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND NIETHER DO THE PEOPLE HERE ON THIS FORUM!!! SO, WHY DON'T YOU GO BACK TO WHATEVER LAMEASS DEAD END JOB YOU HAVE, AND LETS US VOICE OUR OPINIONS ON THIS FORUM BECAUSE THATS WHAT ITS FOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Edited on 8/22/2004 12:07:12 PM]

  • 08.22.2004 12:04 PM PDT
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Yah man, shut the hell up!! You say Halo is for grown-ups?? No offence man but if your that old you should have something better to do than come on this forum and bash us. Get a job old man!!! And besides the point of a forum is so you can speak your mind on a topic, in this case a Halo movie...so dont come in here and say we have kiddyish ideas because at least we have ideas. And don't just come in here and freak out on every little thing someone says just cause you think something should be done differently!! If you have an opinion, say it!!! And by opinion I dont mean dissing us all !! I mean actual good thoughts put into words!!!

  • 08.22.2004 12:28 PM PDT
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Ack, no CG! It would be just like a repitition of the game. I would like to see a halo movie, but it would be live action. Of course, it would be hard to make a master cheif, because a main character in a movie usually has some character, which MC doesn't have. If Bungie has a lot of control, that will be good, but a really good director is what a Halo movie would need. A director that won't mess it up (and the script writer needs to be good too, of course)

  • 08.22.2004 12:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: Mattacus
Wow! Thirty-one pages and you guys are still neck-deep in this crap. Lemme' tell ya', it's not gonna' happen--nor should it.
Are you all a bunch of ten-year-olds? Do your parents know you actively participate in a forum dedicated to a Mature game? Why don't you go off and play your Kirby and your Pokemon, and leave the Mature games to the grown ups.
People who lie awake at night hoping for a video game to become a movie are executive producers who wet themselves at the thought of a commercial crossover success and prepubescent boys who wet themselves on a regular basis regardless, but actually crap themselves at the thought of a single franchise present on multiple media.
Playing it at home and writing about it on the internet should be enough. Don't drag it through the movies, cereals, happy meals, etc. just to fill your shorts some more. In other words, just grow up.


That is just about as good of a summarization of what this 'discussion' has become as you can get. And for My Opinion™ on this topic, go read page one.

[Edited on 8/22/2004 12:46:41 PM]

  • 08.22.2004 12:46 PM PDT
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I have no idea what you're talking about but i think there should be a Halo movie and a Halo 2 movie.(The reason i don't understand is because you're thread is long i didn't want to read it all.)

  • 08.22.2004 12:50 PM PDT
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I ain't 10 you little retard!

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  • 08.22.2004 12:51 PM PDT
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I'm replying to myself because i'm bored.Hehehehehehehehehehe.

  • 08.22.2004 12:52 PM PDT
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Oh and by the way i agree with ropie all the way.Well i know you are probubly bored of me and i must admit i am too, c'ya wouldn't wanna be ya.

  • 08.22.2004 12:55 PM PDT
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the movie should take place as halo 3.





i'm jordan using moose's acount.

  • 08.22.2004 1:19 PM PDT