Article by David Konow and Rob Wright.

Halo is one of the most successful series in the video game industry, yet the proposed Halo movie has been toiling in development hell despite the support of Peter Jackson and Microsoft. So what's the hold up? Tom's Games investigates.

http://www.tomsgames.com/us/2008/0 [...] wentwrong/

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Doom 3 was great. Doom the movie was............................ . .. ... ... ...

Lets just hole the don't completely fack up the Warcraft movies. Legendary Pictures is behind it and all but....let us wait and see.

From all the games i played, Only Starcraft and Warcraft have enough lore (and good one as well) to become movies. I can't see them making a movie out of Half Life.

A professional production of The Witcher would've been great too - unfortunately the only Witcher movie that came out was like a B- title lol.

Yeah, I wanted Hit Man to be good, because Tim Olyphant is the man on Deadwood, but that movie was atrocious. Ditto for Resident Evil (all three). The only flick that showed some promise was Silent Hill -- the first half of that movie is very good, really captured the spirit of the games. But the second half goes nowhere...

Lol funny reference to Resident Evil films. I actually enjoyed the first one, thinking it a half decent action flick. Liked the third one as well, even though I could tell it was poor. Problem was they didn't get the feel of Resi at all.

Tru on the Silent Hill front; got the feel kinda right. V little subtlty in the story though which detracted from it completely.

As for Halo; hmm. I find it hard to think it could be pulled off.

I dont know about all you guys but I really Want the HAlO movie. Because its a great game... all three of them. And the books are great. If they made the movie based of the book then IT WOULD BE THE BEST MOVIE EVER. But the game is a FPS so there is very little dialog but the book was so much better story wise The book about halo 1 called the Flood has a bunch of battles that would action packed. I just really want the movie to be made.

Nice. BTW, Alien Vs. Predator II might just be the worst movie I've ever seen. Ever.

As for Halo, I think you have to have the Flood in the movie. The Covenant is lame, especially the little guys running around giggling like Carnival workers on crack. The Flood are scary.

Another thing I think the movie has to have is the Arbiter. I think that's a fascinating character, and he really elevated Halo 2. If Peter Jackson doesn't get Keith David to do the voice of the Arbiter in the movie, then I'm out. Speaking of Keith David, what I wouldn't pay to see a re-enactment of David and Roddy Piper's fight scene in "They Live" with the Arbiter and Master Chief. That would bring down the house!

Okay, time to switch to decaf....

Now Rob...

Surely AvP2 wasn't the worst film you've seen. Granted it wasn't the movie I had hoped it would be since the graphic novels and paperbacks were very good. Don't worry, I'm not gonna turn this into an AvP fanboy rant. Just saying... it wasn't "that" bad.


Granted... If only AvP2 the movie could have been half as good as AvP2 the video game... then there might have been something.

Back to my initial idea of "AvPvMC"... just think... the colonial marines could be getting their butts handed to them and then MC bursts in squashing bugs and pimp slap'n Predators.

Hmm... I'm kinda start'n to like this idea...

I think the only video game movie I enjoyed even a little was the first Resident Evil. The intro was awesome and the audio was really good. The dialogue was pretty horrible and everything else was mediocre at best. I don't even want to talk about the sequels.

As much as I have extremely fond memories of playing the game (in particular the multiplayer), I just cannot visualize a movie that is anything other than bad on an epic scale... I'm thinking Waterworld bad here. The story just is not all that compelling IMO. I mean, it's not a bad story for a first person shooter, but realistically, I don't think it's strong enough to carry a film audience for 90+ minutes. Fans of the series may disagree, but I don't recall being surprised even once by the storyline while playing through the single player campiagn.

BTW, I am going to disagree with Rob, AVPII is not the worst film ever. I'm going to point the finger of shame in the direction of Double Team in awarding that "honor". AVPII is a shining beacon of cinematic excellence next to that steaming pile of excrement.

What went wrong? One simple answer: Don't ever make movies from games. That's a universal law; when will people learn?