More well known), and the latter produced Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. Mind Game (one of my favorite anime films of all time I wish it was the former produced anĪnimatrix short titled Beyond and a little-known feature film called Studios like Studio 4Â✬ and Production I.G. His way around the technical end of computer animation), and top notch Mamoru Oshii ( Ghost in the Shell 1 & 2) and Shinji Aramaki (theĪppleseed movies he’s not a great filmmaker, but he certainly knows (though not as wide a variety as I’d like.) Technically speaking, theĪnimation looks terrific. A variety of visual styles and animation techniques are employed Told on a small, intimate scale, but a few are told on a grand, epic A series of short animated films set in this world most are In mind, Halo Legends is the first good movie based on a videogame I’veĮssentially, this is The Animatrix for the Halo Svankmajer and Zeman, that’s the team to beat.) With that perspective Like Japanese anime, though for my money Czech animation, Trnka, Barta, (both the pulpy and arthouse ends of the spectrum) and animation (I I went into this as a fan of science fiction cinema Little about the world of Halo other than what the walls, floors and One summer at a friend’s house some years ago playing Halo 2 inĤ-player splitscreen mode, but in multiplayer mode you learn very True, I’d whittled away endless ill-spent hours Seven different original stories, all set in the world of Halo.įull disclosure: I went into Halo Legends knowing almost nothing about The theatrical Halo movie fell through, so as a stopgap Microsoft produced an anime anthology of shorts. Writers: Hiroyuki Kawasaki (segment “Homecoming”), Ryan Morris (segment “The Package), Naruki Nagakawa (segment “The Package”), Daisuke Nishio (segment “Odd One Out”), Frank O’Connor, Dai Sato (segment “The Package”), Megumi Shimizu (segment “Odd One Out”), Eiji Umehara (segment “The Duel”), Hiroshi Yamazaki (segment “The Duel”) Ships of the Line: The Overview of Military Spaces.The Halomatrix! The Animalo! In beatific Haloscope!ĭirectors: Shinji Aramaki (segment “The Package”), Hideki Futamura (segment “Origins”), Toshiyuki Kanno (segment “The Babysitter”), Tomoki Kyôda (segment “Prototype”), Kôichi Mashimo (segment “Homecoming”), Yasushi Muraki (segment “Prototype”), Daisuke Nishio (segment “Odd One Out”), Frank O’Connor (creative director), Mamoru Oshii (creative director), (segment “The Duel”), Koji Sawai (segment “Homecoming”), Keiichi Sugiyama (co-director), (segment “Origins II”), Takahiro Tanaka (co-director), (segment “Origins”), Hiroshi Yamazaki (segment “The Duel”).MSF Oddities: Captain Power and the Soldiers of th.FWS movie review of Starship Troopers 3: Marauder.The FWS Armory-The Return of the Bullet.So, natural the SPARTAN dies protecting the ODST team takes the shot, and wins the day. My favorite was the Japanese styled alien buildings, the bad ending, and the long blonde hair of the dying Spartan. This muddy animation is furthered injured by the lame dialog (seeing a pattern?), the imposing of Japanese elements into the story. This plot remains me of an episode of Space: Above and Beyond, just without the excellent writing and acting. The bitter cold relationship between the ODST and Spartans is explored, especially one ODST sniper that feels he should be tapped to take the shot. My 1996 VHS copy of Ghost in the Shell had better production values than The Babysitter! The plot as a ODST team couple with a SPARTAN-II sniper making a drop to a Covenant world to kill a prophet, turning the entire region into choas. It is the muted, messy, animation, and lame-ass dialog ruins any chance of this short being good. She was born in 2492, which would make her about 52, which she looks in her mid-20's on The Package. After the big battle, the dialog spoken by 117 is downright painfully. Only the combat scenes inside the ship are cool, the rest is filled with stupid ideas that are not HALO.īy far, the Babysitter has the best plot, and would make a great mission in a HALO game. The all-SPARTANs rescue team is deployed via an odd, tactical unsound, rocket sled, that makes not one wit of damned sense into a large Covenant naval taskforce. The close-quarters combat inside the Covenant cruiser is frankly one of the golden moments on the entire DVD. But quickly ends when Dr. Catherine Halsey, the head of the SPARTAN II program. In this short, the Master Chief (voiced by someone else) is sent to rescue Dr. Like a majority of HALO: Legends, they use the wrong gun-sounds, wrong voice talent, and wrong items for the HALO universe. But it is the end of what makes the Package good. Visually, the CGI of The Package is the most organic with the video game cutscenes, and pops on screen.
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