I’m a Sci-Fi nerd. I can’t get anough of fantasy, action, sci-fi flicks. You’ve got to understand this because deep down in my bowls I WANT to look forward to a Halo movie. I WANT to be excited about it. I WANT to believe it will be somelthing great. But I can’t.
I already mentioned the other day what a mess the Halo project is in right now… and today I heard something that maybe the rest of you already knew. But it just made me hang my head. According to AICN, the idea fo the Halo movie is that Master Chief isn’t goig to take off his helmet the entire movie. D’Oh! (In my best Homer Simpson voice)
This is stupid stupid stupid. I know a lot of the games fan will be happy about this news because it “sticks to the game”. After all… Master Chief never has his helmet off in the game right?
The problem, ONCE AGAIN, here is that just because you can get away with something in a video game, doesn’t mean you can get away with it on the big scree. Jsut because something works fine in a comic, or in a book, doesn’t mean it works for a movie. The idea of the LEAD PERFORMER never once having a face is going to get REALLY tired really fast. And basically, make the “movie” as flat as sitting watching a video game.
HOWEVER… to contradict myself a little here I will say this:
V for Vendetta had a masked character who never showed his face the whole film. So it “CAN” work. It is “POSSIBLE”.
But “V” was a much deeper and interesting c haracter than Master Chief is (even the most die hard Halo fans will agree). V was a poet, a revolutionary, a historian with a history and mystery to him played to total and absolute perfection by Hugo Weaving. The film also spent as much (if not more) time on Natalie Portman and Stephen Rea to balance it out.
V for Vendetta proves that it “CAN” be done. But I also believe V is the exception that proves the rule.
