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Re: Why the Halo movie failed to launch
Posted By: Ibeechu	Date: 4/19/12 12:37 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Why the Halo movie failed to launch (Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)) : Hunh? I don't see MS as the villain of this piece, particularly given the : fears I recall at the time of Uni/Fox cranking out another Aliens vs. : Predator turd-in-punchbowl flick if MS hadn't kept tight hold of creative : control... and that the box office on a Halo film done right would've : easily justified the costs. I'm way with you. I'd much, much, much getting a potentially good Halo movie made not made at all than getting a mediocre Halo movie actually made. I don't like to bash Hollywood because about as many great movies come out of Hollywood each year as do from indie sources. The trouble is that there's also a huge amount of shit. That's understandable, though. They make money and they entertain people, usually even if the movie objectively sucks. Transformers is an objectively bad movie, but it still entertained me and was worth my time and money (the first Transformers, anyway). In that case, I really have no objections at all to a Michael Bay-quality director getting the rights to Halo and making a ton of money off of the name. If it makes a ton of money, then people must see some sort of value in it. However, Halo is more personally important to me than Transformers. And I don't want to see a subpar Halo movie even exist. I think a lot of it is that I don't want other people, people outside of our cliques, to see it and get a bad impression of Halo or something like that. There's an element of not wanting to tarnish the legacy or have to look back at a Halo product and say, "that was made by people who wanted to maximize profits with minimal care," something that every single franchise seems to have at least a few of. That in no way means that I think Hollywood or Microsoft or whoever were being malicious (or even greedy, but what's wrong with that?). I just think there was a communication gap. In creative industries like Hollywood, there's a rule of thumb. You can make a movie good, quickly, or cheaply. Pick two. Obviously I'd LIKE to see a good Halo movie before the series becomes irrelevant, presumably after Halo 6. But that requires a lot of money, and that requires studio support, and that requires studio input. We can't eat our cake and have it, too. In this case, I'd rather just have no movie at all, and that looks like what I'm going to get. But you can't fault Microsoft or Hollywood for wanting to make a (big) profit. If they were to make a Halo movie that all of HBO and Bungie just hated the fuck out of, but it still made a ton of money, then they deserve all that money, because people enjoyed it.

Message Index

Why the Halo movie failed to launch	ElzarTheBam	4/19/12 6:34 a.m.
Re: Why the Halo movie failed to launch	mc_leprechaun	4/19/12 7:09 a.m.
Re: Why the Halo movie failed to launch	DEEP NNN	4/19/12 7:12 a.m.
Re: Why the Halo movie failed to launch	bryan newman	4/19/12 7:44 a.m.
Ewww	davidfuchs	4/19/12 8:11 a.m.
They would have been 2 different kinds of film	bryan newman	4/19/12 8:26 a.m.
Re: They would have been 2 different kinds of film	davidfuchs	4/19/12 11:13 a.m.
Re: They would have been 2 different kinds of film	bryan newman	4/19/12 12:43 p.m.
Continue the storylines of...	thebruce0	4/19/12 1:39 p.m.
Re: Ewww	bluerunner	4/19/12 9:48 a.m.
Re: Ewww	Ibeechu	4/19/12 12:12 p.m.
Re: Ewww	agdtinman	4/19/12 5:29 p.m.
Re: Ewww	Miguel Chavez	4/20/12 2:50 a.m.
Re: Ewww	SonofMacPhisto	4/19/12 10:29 a.m.
Re: Why the Halo movie failed to launch	Louis Wu	4/19/12 8:16 a.m.
Re: Why the Halo movie failed to launch	serpx	4/19/12 8:25 a.m.
Re: Why the Halo movie failed to launch	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	4/19/12 9:26 a.m.
Re: Why the Halo movie failed to launch	Ibeechu	4/19/12 12:37 p.m.
Re: Why the Halo movie failed to launch	serpx	4/19/12 3:14 p.m.
Re: Why the Halo movie failed to launch	TDSpiral	4/19/12 12:38 p.m.
Thank you, Microsoft.	Vandle Valsher	4/19/12 8:35 a.m.
Re: Thank you, Microsoft.	PyroSporker16	4/19/12 9:01 a.m.
Re: Thank you, Microsoft.	Vandle Valsher	4/19/12 9:13 a.m.
Re: Thank you, Microsoft.	mc_leprechaun	4/19/12 10:03 a.m.
Re: Thank you, Microsoft.	Vandle Valsher	4/19/12 10:17 a.m.
Re: Thank you, Microsoft.	SonofMacPhisto	4/19/12 10:32 a.m.
Re: Thank you, Microsoft.	mc_leprechaun	4/19/12 10:38 a.m.
Re: Thank you, Microsoft.	PyroSporker16	4/19/12 10:26 a.m.
Microsoft Film Studios?	Vandle Valsher	4/19/12 12:12 p.m.
Re: Thank you, Microsoft.	General Vagueness	4/21/12 7:59 p.m.
Re: Thank you, Microsoft.	DEEP NNN	4/21/12 8:10 p.m.
Re: Thank you, Microsoft.	General Vagueness	4/22/12 10:41 p.m.
Re: Thank you, Microsoft.	Someone	4/19/12 12:14 p.m.
Re: Thank you, Microsoft.	Vandle Valsher	4/19/12 12:25 p.m.
Re: Thank you, Microsoft.	Someone	4/19/12 12:56 p.m.
Much better.	Vandle Valsher	4/19/12 5:05 p.m.
Re: Much better.	SonofMacPhisto	4/19/12 6:38 p.m.
Re: Thank you, Microsoft.	Cody Miller	4/20/12 1:59 p.m.
Boy, you sure do know a whole lot! *NM*	Vandle Valsher	4/20/12 4:01 p.m.
The script...	bluerunner	4/19/12 10:05 a.m.
Re: The script...	mc_leprechaun	4/19/12 10:39 a.m.
Yes, here it is.	Bryan Newman	4/19/12 11:10 a.m.
Re: Yes, here it is.	bluerunner	4/19/12 11:31 a.m.
Re: Yes, here it is.	Bryan Newman	4/19/12 11:37 a.m.
Re: Yes, here it is.	davidfuchs	4/19/12 3:26 p.m.
Re: Yes, here it is.	Bryan Newman	4/19/12 5:22 p.m.
Re: Yes, here it is.	Tex	4/19/12 2:13 p.m.
Re: Yes, here it is.	Cody Miller	4/20/12 2:02 p.m.
Nope	Cody Miller	4/20/12 2:17 p.m.
Re: Nope	General Vagueness	4/21/12 9:03 p.m.
This is still possible. See The Avengers.	Joony Joon	4/19/12 3:12 p.m.