Comments on: Happy 10th Birthday, Half-Life!

By: farresto

farresto — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:01:52 +0000

Hugh Laurie is not a bad idea at ALL. It doesn’t really matter if a bit older.

Another option for me would be Gary Oldman.

By: nicklang319

nicklang319 — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:11:06 +0000

final fantasy was a good animated film, and I thought the silent hill film was ok, other then that most game to movies suck

By: Rudy

Rudy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:45:44 +0000

Happy Elevnth Birthday half-life, its 2009 and i plan on staying aboard the half-life saga until a giant rock hits the earth and crashes my computer.

By: Ryan Waddell

Ryan Waddell — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:38:31 +0000

I disagree – there’s been a handful of not-horrible video game movies:

- Resident Evil
- Tomb Raider (ok, it wasn’t great, but it wasn’t a Uwe Boll massacre either)
- Max Payne was actually not bad as well.

Hrmm, ok so there aren’t that many. But come on… How can you deny the awesomeness of the Street Fighter movie, and the Super Mario Brothers movie?

By: Joey deVilla

Joey deVilla — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:54:45 +0000

@Paul C: If the movie has to remain true to every last detail in the game, then yes, Hugh Laurie is too old. However, I think that it’s all right to use some artistic licence and take some liberties with minor details like Freeman’s age.

In my dream videogame-based movie — Dig Dug, starring Jackie Chan in the title role — you can bet I’d be taking all sorts of creative liberties.

By: Paul C

Paul C — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:59:23 +0000

Hugh Laurie’s nearly fifty – too old for Gordon Freeman; several characters in the Half Life games have made references to him being young for the kind of work he’s doing, and I’m pretty sure there’s official mentions of his age being early-30s.

And if I was (somehow) at the helm of a Half Life film, the first person to speak would be Freeman, to get that out of the way. You can’t have a movie (at least, not an effective one) where the main character doesn’t speak. In the game, you are Gordon Freeman; personally, when I’m playing Half Life, I speak to the NPCs in Gordon’s place.

By: August Lilleaas

August Lilleaas — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:35:18 +0000

A movie where Freeman talks? We can’t have that.

By: marktucks

marktucks — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:16:28 +0000

I contest – I personally think Hitman’s a good film. Doom was good right at the beginning when the Universal world logo was actually Mars and it zoomed right in. But then the story started and it was all a down hill train wreck violently colliding with the first person mode at the end.

Hugh Laurie would make a great Gordon Freeman, if Gordon Freeman had a really bad American accent. But yea, he does look similar.