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Ladies and Gentlemen, this will be my review for the videogame based anime: Halo Legends. Or at least one chapter of the legendary movie. And this chapter is: Concept Art: The Movie. I mean euh, The Duel.
Fans of the Halo franchise have been shouting out for a movie adaptation of the game done by the right people. When the right people came along, things took a turn for the worse as their movie got canned and District 9 was made in its stead. Luckily however, these people turned towards anime and created several episodes like the Animatrix. But, will it be a one part pony just like The Animatrix?
The Story: The people behind Ghost in Shell bring us The Duel, a story which involves the Arbiter when the Covenant first make their appearance in the Elite world. Everyone wishes to accept the Covenant, but Arbiter does not. The consequences are dire.
One of the few redeeming factors for this episode has to be the story. It's not original or unique, but it's done in a whole new world and done quite good. If only it wasn't just feudal japan gone Elite.
There was one thing totally off however. Remember that scene from Jackie Chan's: The Myth, where he tackles an army and wins. Remember how ridiculously and horrendously stupid those enemies were? Yeah, copy pasta that shit, smart move mister director man.
The music: As expected, a lot of music is born from movies and games around fuedal japan. Still, very awesome to listen to and it perfectly sets the mood.
The art: suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked. Throughout the entire movie you can't help but feel like they blended another background. That feeling is fortified at times where you can clearly see them use a feature similar to Paint.net's dent feature in the background. The main images themselves I have already described as being nothing more than Concept art. And I was right. It was like the director said: Fuck it, let's just roll with it.
A few other points that were off were: No bodies during the 1 v army scene until after the battle (NINJA VANISH!), the director's choice for the arbiter to literally bleed a fountain of his blood with the most ridiculous sound effect ever and the general design for the Elites.
I mean seriously, no split mouths, human clothes ... OH and not to mention their behavior. They act just like humans would in a fuedal japan movie (think last samurai) It's terrible. What was interesting however was to see a female Elite. If only she wasn't unbelievably giggly ...
Thank god I watched this for free on Gametrailers.com. Absolutely terrible. If this was a way for people to buy this eventually, then I'm not interested at all. You want my advice, stay away from it and watch the positively received ones on youtube.
Lastly: (excuse my language) Grunt @ 11:40. FUCKING LAWD.
One of the few redeeming factors for this episode has to be the story. It's not original or unique, but it's done in a whole new world and done quite good. If only it wasn't just feudal japan gone Elite.
There was one thing totally off however. Remember that scene from Jackie Chan's: The Myth, where he tackles an army and wins. Remember how ridiculously and horrendously stupid those enemies were? Yeah, copy pasta that shit, smart move mister director man.
The music: As expected, a lot of music is born from movies and games around fuedal japan. Still, very awesome to listen to and it perfectly sets the mood.
The art: suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked. Throughout the entire movie you can't help but feel like they blended another background. That feeling is fortified at times where you can clearly see them use a feature similar to Paint.net's dent feature in the background. The main images themselves I have already described as being nothing more than Concept art. And I was right. It was like the director said: Fuck it, let's just roll with it.
A few other points that were off were: No bodies during the 1 v army scene until after the battle (NINJA VANISH!), the director's choice for the arbiter to literally bleed a fountain of his blood with the most ridiculous sound effect ever and the general design for the Elites.
I mean seriously, no split mouths, human clothes ... OH and not to mention their behavior. They act just like humans would in a fuedal japan movie (think last samurai) It's terrible. What was interesting however was to see a female Elite. If only she wasn't unbelievably giggly ...
Thank god I watched this for free on Gametrailers.com. Absolutely terrible. If this was a way for people to buy this eventually, then I'm not interested at all. You want my advice, stay away from it and watch the positively received ones on youtube.
Lastly: (excuse my language) Grunt @ 11:40. FUCKING LAWD.
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