Comments on: Open Discussion – Mar 12, 2008

By: Screen Rant

Screen Rant — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:49:58 +0000

I’ll finally watch that one someday…

Vic

By: 790

790 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:58:54 +0000

Thanks Jim, yea I really think everyone should rent Into the Wild. Its such a great true story.
I really think it should have won Best Picture back a few weeks ago.

By: Jim Carey

Jim Carey — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:37:53 +0000

Andy,
“Reader Rants & Raves” is great. It has a nice rhythm.

790,
Thanks for mentioning Into the Wild some time ago (and again here). Loved it, identified with some of it. The questions I pondered afterwards were: Was this wayfaring man running FROM something or TO something? And, personally, I may not travel as far, but do I run To/From also?

By: 790

790 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:47:02 +0000

Right on Surma.
The voice actor that plays Master Chief is Steve Downes. He could and should do the voice if they do a film.

By: Surma

Surma — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:35:31 +0000

Like I said 790 you don’t want a big name actor to play the mc just somebody to do the action and the original guy to do the voice, then if they do show him they don’t even really need him to talk just be a face that no one knows.

By: 790

790 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:35:07 +0000

How bout….
“Ventilation shaft”

?????

Hey gang Cloverfield on dvd 4-22 !!

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:30:29 +0000

I have a title suggestion. The Weekly Vent. Short and simple.

By: 790

790 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:02:55 +0000

So Duke battled on Ringworlds against a alien foe called the Covenant? Wow I guess Halo’s a blatant rip-off?

One if not the biggest plotlines goin in Halo is that you never see Master Chief’s face.
I think once they slap an actors face in that outfit and unvail Master Chief to be “Vin Diesel, Bruce Willis, Carrot Top , whatever” its going to ruin it…

Also on Arnold doing any future action films would be highly unlikely.
He can barely do his (infamous leader)job now and its aging him bigtime.

By: Swapp

Swapp — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:39:33 +0000

Master chief is Duke Nukem. you guys did’nt know that? he just cant show his face cause of his contract with 3D Realms. infact halo 1 2 and 3 are just the first chapters in the Duke Nukem Forever game -

and cause, sure old arnold would have played him in the movie back in the 90′s – but who should play him now?

By: 790

790 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:11:11 +0000

Yea kyyle23 anything other than more stupid predators on alien action would be fine with me.

If they do make another AvP film I wouldn’t be too surprised if it goes direct to dvd.

By: Screen Rant

Screen Rant — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:51:23 +0000

Hey kyyle, nice of you to “de-cloak.”

I hope you join in on the fun here more often!

Andy, SORRY about the spoiler on SG-1, bro! Didn’t even think about that, dang it!

Vic

By: kyyle23

kyyle23 — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:53:15 +0000

I have read a few articles on this fabulous website regarding the possibility of another Aliens vs Predator crapfest. While I agree that considering the first two attempts, the 3rd attempt should be really bad on all levels and piss of the loyal fanbases of both creatures, I still have to wonder if there is a salvageable storyline for either Aliens or Predators anymore.

I thought about it a while, and started to think that it could be possible to transition the storyline to the takeover of Earth by the Aliens, which was a fantastic 3 book set. I dont know where they could go with the Predators right now, i have to say the luster is off this franchise.

Anyhow, this was my first post here, i have been lurking a while now. I really enjoy reading the articles and discussion. I dont really know much about the Halo games, so I thought i would throw this out there.

By: 790

790 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:56:04 +0000

Yea Surma well you know that Microsoft is going to fund a branch in Bungie to keep Halo going even if its a r&d outfit.
It wouldn’t make economic sense to strickly stay online with Halo 3. That market will top off and fans will expect another chapter. No matter what Bungies says there up too it would be coporate suicide to sit on their hands when it comes to the biggest Video game franchise in history…

After watching the 1st Pirates of the Carribean film I do believe it possible to write a film based on a ride or a video game and make a huge amount of cash but in the long run what will Halo turn into a film franchise or a video game?
Will Halo 2 and 3 suck as bad as Pirates 2 and 3?? This could get ugly.

By: 790

790 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:39:13 +0000

Heath I’ll tell ya its slow right now in Hollywood. Since the strikes been
settled it seems like alot of productions are taking off in super slowmo.

(IMO) The studios are dragging their collective feet and biding their time for this SAG deadline, meanwhile I’ve heard nothing out of SAG to suggest a settlement. I’m growing concerned that we may see a SAG strike afterall.

(Conpiracy? Yes). I’m not sure why but both sides should be working on avoiding this strike yet I don’t see any evidence that they are…
I would love to see Screen Rant look into this.

By: Surma

Surma — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:38:51 +0000

I really don’t know the real gritty realistic style the shorts had seemed to work, but like you said “a whole movie?”. Other than that, I see the first game as being perfect for a movie.

But you have to remember that Microsoft still has the rights to Halo thats why ensemble is making Halo Wars.

I’ll tell you one thing though, Do the Darth Vader here, don’t show his face and use the original voice and if you show his face either it be death or flashback to when hes too young to tell what he would look like now.

By: Heath McKnight

Heath McKnight — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:26:38 +0000

Movie news, overall, has been dry since before the strike. Sometimes I felt there was more news during, but that’s probably because they were generally still making them. If the actors strike, it’ll be 100% shutdown. That’s probably why it’s so dry these days.

heath

By: 790

790 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:23:27 +0000

Well yea Bungie after making Halo didn’t offically admit that they were working on sequel for a long time and then they gave out a release date they couldn’t make and then they changed the date all together.
After H2 Bungie again didn’t admit to a sequel for awhile after the game was out. Now Bungie is officially saying Halo is on the shelf for now. In the meantime Halo Wars is about to come out. Its going to be an RPG for the 360 console. (A very different gamestyle for you non-gamers). Also H3 is blazzing a trial of online success on Xbox live. The life of a Video game is a long one. I would predict we will see a Halo 4 game in late 2009.

Anyway Surma what kind of direction do you think Halo should take if they make a film??

By: Surma

Surma — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:11:08 +0000

Theres a difference between saying there is no sequel and just not showing screen shots or trailers for a new game. Bungie has always been secretive about their games but never said they weren’t making more. You could argue they did that with halo 2 but they never said no halo 3 are u kidding me.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:41:46 +0000

I am looking forward to the SG-1 films, please no more spoilers other than the one Vic let slip, PLEASE!!!! Speaking of Stargate, I saw that SciFi played the movie the other night. I had forgotten how much better Richard Dean Anderson is as Colonel O’Neill than Kurt Russell. Not that Russell was awful, I just think MacGyver played the part better….or maybe it was just the 10 seasons or so that he played the part that he became O’Neill.

Instead of “Open Discussion”, maybe “Reader Rants and Raves?”

By: 790

790 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:00:22 +0000

Yea Surma I remember reading something about that split but I thought that it was more of a license on new games type of split. Bungie wanted to break away from Microsofts taking half of the profits on new games.

Halo is such a huge and successfull game that I can’t see Bungie abandoning it.
Not to mention Bungie has allways said they are NOT working on any new Halo games since the first one.
By Bungie putting out a statement saying there not working on a Halo sequel practically gaurantees that they are… I don’t see why not Halo 3 was huge and there’s no letting up online.