Sup guys, Slowpoke here talking about the dead Halo movie. I've heard a lot about it on the internet, people talking as if this is a real nail in the coffin for video games and movies working properly instead of just another money machine for half-arsed directors and writers (No names needed I assume) to cash in on quickly. But in all seriousness, is this a real blow? Not to me at least.

The way I see it, Halo is already a movie. It has elements from movies we are all used to. A truly epic storyline that puts you in the place of a real hero that can be identified easily, same with the enemies. The Prophet is very easy to recognize. Hell even the Flood have such a unique characteristic to them, their look can change depending on whoever they infect. But when you see these characters, you know it's Halo.

The music has a grand feel to them, something vast in numbers and energy that it feels ripped straight from a movie. The Halo theme is one of my favourite pieces of video game music, purely because it pumps you up. Hearing the violin playing that almost Irish theme through a string cabinet and the pounding drums, it feels very epic.

The storyline makes you think it is a movie, and it very easily could be. The way the cut scenes were shot, the colours of the planet and the sky, the multiple enemies you deal with, it's all very "Hollywood". It just makes me think that Halo could not translate well as a movie, because the elements throughout the game already make it feel like one. Maybe that's why it was so popular to begin with. Because in the first Halo, you felt like you were a part of something huge. I remember when the Flood came out of nowhere, and I thought "Jesus who the hell are these fuckers?!". That kind of twist, it wasn't that big in action games back then. It's very commonplace nowadays to have huge out of the ordinary twists, but I can't remember many action games with them back then. It was very straightforward. You shoot stuff, you survive, you get to the end.

Not only that, but the relationship with Chief and Cortana was a huge deal throughout the series to me. It gave you a sense of direction that wasn't just to destroy the Covenent. You had a very warped and true relationship with this woman, who was not real. Halo 3 really made that relationship stand out to me, but it existed throughout the 3 games. Now what other action games can you suggest that involved a love story as a secondary part throughout the entire game? There are few and far between, but Halo is one of them.

Fair enough, Halo 2 and 3 might be one of the cheapest things in history, half-arsing a storyline and cutting it in half purely to get another sequel to come out of it. But you can't deny that first game had a truely epic campaign that made you feel like a part of it. To me anyway, I felt like I was in a movie.

So how can a real movie compete with that? Halo already uses so many traits of movies, how can you make the real thing more exciting if we've already experienced it in game? Maybe the CGI would be better, and the direction would be a lot tighter, and the acting would be far better thanks to using real people rather than models in a game, but the storyline would be the same. Humans, Covenent, Flood, explosions, dead stuff, Haloz rings, blow up, end. Hell, even the Cortana/Chief relationship couldn't be improved on the big screen to me. They did that perfectly in the game in my eyes. I don't see how it could get better.

Halo is Hollywood already, there's no need to make a movie about it. I know that's not the reason it was cancelled, and that if it wasn't, this would just be another movie to cash in on. But still, to me, Halo cannot get better as a movie. The elements throughout the series already make it a movie to me. When that music picks up and your men are fighting along side you while you are killing anything which makes your crosshair red, and shit is exploding around you while you are fighting...that's the movie right there.