shikamaru317 said:
roborad said: also, i thought the nightfall episode started off really awkwardly with that elite (which had very wonky cgi, worse than forward unto dawn, tbh). but it really picked up mid-way, which finished pretty strong. so first half- totally meh second half or so- great. |
Agreed about the pacing, definitely started off slow. I also agree about that CGI Elite, it was pretty bad in some scenes. Honestly the CGI Brute from Neil Blomkamp's 2007 Halo 3 short film was almost as good as that elite, sad that CGI from a low budget short film from 7 years ago was almost as good. Hopefully the Spielberg Halo tv show on Showtime will have a much better special effects and CG budget than Halo:Nightfall.
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yup. blomkamp is masterful with limited budgets. I wish microsoft would just pay the man some money for a little halo movie. or even just re-hire forward unto dawn's director. he was pretty awesome (that elevator break up scene wowed me).
I think it'd be better for these web series if they were just released as a movie. I mean, they were shot as a movie, not a show.
20 minute segments probably really don't do it much justice.