After just recently reading the news for the Halo movie coming out, I must say that I'm less than excited. Looking back at the track record of video games turned into movies the future for a good Halo movie is rather bleak. In case you don't believe me lets take a walk down memory lane shall we?

Street Fighter, one of the best game franchises ever. However, when it was turned into a movie, they got Jean-Claude Van Damme to play Guile and focused the entire movie on Guile rather than the series's actual main characters, Ken and Ryu, turning what was an amazing game into one of the worst movies ever. Another example comes in the form of those oh-so incredibly crappy Resident Evil movies. Once again Capcom got bit in the ass by not one but two God-awful movies. But that's not to say that only Capcom has had to suffer, look at Midway, they had to endure the ridicule of their best selling series, Mortal Kombat, because of the terrible injustice the movies did to the games - particularly the second movie. And I may not have seen the Alone in the Dark movie yet, but I think the critics speak volumes for how that video game-movie adaptation resulted.

With such abysmal displays of video game-movie transitions it's hard to be anything but pessimistic about this upcoming Halo movie. Since this game is so wildly popular and there are so many huge Halo fans in the world, the movie won't be able to balance the mainstream movie goer and the hardcore gamer, more specifically the big Halo fans. The reason why it'll be close to impossible to strike such a balance comes in the game's length as supposed to a feature length movie's length. The Halo game lasted roughly 10-20 hours, a movie lasts anywhere between 1.5-3 hours, and since the game's single player campaign was so story driven, they're going to have to cut out many potentially important parts that hardcore fans are going to be disappointed not to see. As for an average movie goer - one who doesn't play video games and is clueless as to what Halo is - they're going to be none the wiser as to cut out bits, but they can still tell slick from s***, and if the movie does end up coming out as crap, then your looking at another "Alexander" on your hands.

Let's face it Hollywood and the video game industry just don't go well with each other, but they still keep trying, and I may not like the idea of a Halo movie, but I know I'm still going to drag my butt to the local movie theatre to go see it. However I'll do so in a most disgruntled manner.