- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Okay, there's just too many posts (47 pages!!!) to read them all, so I hope I'm not repeating anything that's already been said, but I think a Halo movie would rock so long as 1) Hollywood doesn't try to overhaul the look of the world of Halo, 2) They don't show the Master Chief's face, 3) They don't let that dumbass Paul W. S. Anderson get his slimy little hands on it.
One thing I've noticed is that when video games are made into movies, somewhere along the line the studio decides that they don't want to cater to the fans (the only people who will watch it), and instead opt to change EVERY ASPECT of the original concept. For example: Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Super Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat, Final Fantasy, and every other movie based on a video game have completely destroyed and rebuilt everything that makes the game what it is. In Final Fantasy, they took out Chocobos, Moogles, magic spells, summons, interesting characters, a fantasy setting, and everything else that makes a Final Fantasy game what the fans have grown to love. In Resident Evil, the character Alice is some stupid -blam!- Hollywood made up who has nothing to do with the games. The zombie's origins are changed, along with the way they look and behave. The mansion looks more like an office building out of 'The Matrix', with lasers and talking holograms, and other crap that has absoutely nothing to do with ANY Resident Evil game!
My point (if it isn't already clear) is that in order to make a GOOD Halo movie, they can't stray far from the original look and mood of the games, along with not adding stupid new characters or making Master Chief's suit purple with some shoulder mounted poison-tipped shiruiken launcher he uses to take down genetically altered communist dinosaurs.
On second thought, don't make a Halo movie. Hollywood will ruin it and I will be very, very pissed off.