Some more reasons why the Half Life Movie should be made:
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I’d hardly call district 9 Half-life inspired, considering it’s about aliens being discriminated against by humans, and the closest thing to Half-Life is some of the rebels say they don’t trust the vorts.
Anyway, I can’t watch the first trailer without mentally dubbing the alien over with zoidberg.
I think we did not watch the same trailer. How is that Half-Life inspired?
Edit: Ninja’d.
This is the guy that made the Halo movie, so its more inspired by that than anything. Loved his previous work, though, so can’t wait!
This one is in theatres August 14. Its not the fan made vid.
https://www.d-9.com/
Its more the style I was referring to rather than the actual plot.
I think it looks good, and i don’t think it looks half life inspired.
How about we agree that the movie looks AWESOME and not Half-Life inspired in the slightest?
i agree with that.
I’ll feel a little uneasy when I see this, unsure of who to be cheering for. I normally pull for the underdog, for the oppressed. But in this case, the underdog is completely foreign and has superior technology… hmmm…
It seems from the trailer that the robot is really a human in a suit helping the aliens. Otherwise, I’m definetly rooting for the humans, because you don’t want to be a dirty alien lover, like in Mass Effect or something.
As long as it is as good as his previous shorts and the Halo minisode (but with a higher budget for CG 
) then I am so definetly seeing it.
So what the halo movie already came out then
Oh yes, they’re just waiting for Bungie to finish with Halo: The Movie: The Game so they can milk the most money off of it.
Only that Bungie doesn’t own the rights to Halo anymore.
WOW.
Topic:
Hmm its a bit…hmm…
Combines-aliens rebels-hummies. In the movie it was the other way. The hummies were “combines” and the aliens were “rebels”.
Theres nothing from half life.
Maybe that theres aliens.
Half-Life inspired…it seems like the complete opposite?
I think people concentrate to much on the storyline as opposed to the artistic style of the movie - it has the fundamental ambience of the Half Life games - in particular HL2.
I can easily see a Half life movie using this sort of gritty pseudo docureality effect.
Another movie with a similar style was “Children of Men” an awesome scifi though most Americans probably would have skipped past it.
The more you try to push it, the less people are going to listen to you, because there isn’t any connection, no matter how hard you try to force one. There is a huge difference between something being inspired by something and something looking similar to the way you think it looks.
Most Americans don’t skip a movie whose trailer is chock full of explosions and gunmen. Even if that is only for five minutes of the movie.:[
Topic: I don’t know how you connected this to Children of Men, but I CAN see how COM and HL might be similar due to the use of long and uncut scenes. However, this can be said about all video games.
I loved Children of Men’s style. I hope to see more films inspired by its cinematography. It had long, exciting takes that would have captured the attention of Tarkovsky… and it built on a wonderful character niche where the protagonist is truly a sympathetic leaf getting swept up in a waterfall.
District 9 excites me for the same ambiance of a borderline-apocalyptic society, where the setting is marked by not only the entropy of decay, but also the broiling of changing ideology.
Children of Men will hold a hallowed status as strongly as 1979’s Stalker has, and retaining this authentic cinematic value throughout time is my criteria for great film. I hope District 9 will not stoop to being another mindless action flick that’s easily forgotten, for its atmosphere could let it be so much more. It has the potential to be great even 30 years from now.
But I fear it will prefer the immediate gratification of action instead of striving for greatness…
Oh well. It should at least be exceptionally entertaining for the two hours it plays.
A half-life movie would suck. What Valve should do (I’m so serious-face right now) is make a Team Fortress 2 CG movie (Similar to the “Meet the…” shorts) as exclusive content for one of their games. Thoughts?
Well they’re brothers. . . and they’re trying to kill each other. . . so I guess It’s kinda similar. I haven’t really tried MGS that much, just played a little bit of Snake Eater, so I wouldn’t really know.