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  • Poll [21 votes]: Should there be a Halo Movie?
Subject: Halo The Movie
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Poll: Should there be a Halo Movie?  [closed]
Yes:  76%
(16 Votes)
No:  10%
(2 Votes)
Probaly...:  0%
(0 Votes)
I don't care:  5%
(1 Votes)
Why would they?:  10%
(2 Votes)
Total Votes: 21

Well should there be a Halo Movie

  • 08.15.2004 5:51 PM PDT

I think that there should be a Halo movie, BUT it's too risky right now. Video game based movies generally suck big time, and I don't want Halo to become another typical video game movie that could possibly hurt the video game franchise and Bungie's hopes for world dominaiton. Therefore, I think that it is important to wait until Bungie is through with Halo games, then to make a really kickass CGI movie that follows the Halo Bible, and is approved by Bungie. If Hollywood gets their dirty paws on it, it will suck, they will get some idiot like Ben Affleck to play master chief, and he will spend his free rescueing kittens from trees, painting and falling in love, to make the character "more human." There would probably be some twist about how we angered the Covenant and brought all this destruction upon ourselves, and how if Al Gore were president, none of this would've happened.

  • 08.15.2004 6:35 PM PDT
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I think if they make a halo movie it wont suck because bungie wont let it suck and that if they make a movie it should be based on fall of reach then halo then first strike then halo2 but then who would play master chief I think a good master chief would be voice wise would be the guy who played in terminator and aliens the marine that survived at the end of the movie aliens would play a good master chief

  • 08.15.2004 8:51 PM PDT
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Urgh... video game movies make me shudder. Super Mario Bros, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil and the Van Damme abomination Street Fighter are all examples of why good videogames != good movies.

When you have an outside movie star go play a videogame character, they always ruin it, talking typical movie star trash about the challenges of being faithful to the fans, and how they were such a big fan of the original game (i.e. they played it once, and died on the first level), and basically go and overshadow the original game with their poor interpretation. It is better that the idea remain with those who understand it, rather than some movie producer who wants to create a "mass market" version that basically messes up the entire franchise.

  • 08.16.2004 9:44 AM PDT
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if there was a halo movie it would be based on the books and would have to be like the graphics of Finding Nemo

  • 08.16.2004 11:49 AM PDT
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I think that there is no need to make this new topic. There is already a whole thread devoted to this.

  • 08.16.2004 11:54 AM PDT
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I would love to see a Halo movie, if done well; and I think that Halo has one thing going for it that sets it apart from most other video games: an engaging and well developed plot. Though the game's storyline is not too involved, the backdrop that Nyberg (sp?) wove it into, in the first book, IS. Also, the book "The Flood" contains a very engaging side-story of the marooned marine expedition that parallels the MC's efforts: Very poignant, very nicely done. This story could easily steal the show from the MC (i.e., the story as told in the game) if treated well.

The only BIG problem I see, from a prospective director's point of view, is: not being able to see the main star's face is a huge disadvantage. It is tough to bond with an expressionless character, and bonding = bucks at the box office. Hollywood is not going to spend $100 million on a movie whose main star you can't see. Therefore, the MJOLNIR suit would have to be changed, and/or MC would have to spend a significant portion of his time out of it. Oh, and another thing: Don't count on the movie being true to the suppressed "testosterone drive" mentioned in the "The Fall of Reach."

If Bungie holds out for a good director to work with, and lays down the law on the acceptable bounds of artistic interpretation; then it should go well. I would not cry about a movie done after the fashion of "Starship Troopers;" but with the CGI effects of Lord of the Rings, and a little better plot and character development. And I do think it WILL happen, because Halo (the trilogy) is a very good story, with good opportunities for plot character development; and Hollywood will kill, nowadays to get even a sort of good story.

  • 08.16.2004 11:57 AM PDT
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There should be a Halo movie beyond any and all doubt.

  • 08.17.2004 8:09 PM PDT