My favorite part of this show is when Chief wore his helmet to drive a car, then took it off again after driving. Mf treated the armor like it's a motorcycle helmet.
I find it ironic that they took MC's helmet off to avoid comparisons with The Mandalorian, but this only resulted in comparisons with The Mandalorian...negative comparisons, to be precise
I think you might be right! Maybe not the loudest opinion, but I actually liked Halo better than The Mandalorian, especially towards the end of the first season. The Mandalorian is like playing on Easy - it's entertaining, but there's basically zero stakes because he's in title and baby Yoda is a money printer. Halo (both the games and the show) are much darker and grittier by comparison. Sure, Star Wars "tries" to go for that dark / apocalyptic vibe and every once in a while manages to pull it off, but that franchise has way too much baggage for that sort of atmosphere to be taken seriously.
@evil-wombat you know they say everyone is entitled to their own opinion but I think you are abusing the privilege. JK but the halo show is the same thing because master chief is literally the main character and is in no real danger. Especially because if they actually did the show right it would also basically be a money printer.
Red Vs Blue is 18ish seasons long, with wildly varying quality from season to season, is older then RUclips, was made with almost no budget, and is a comedy/parody. Yet it is better then this professionally made action/drama that probably cost more money in one season then all of the seasons of RvB combined.
It's kinda funny that there was more drama and tension in 44 seconds of the Halo 4 scene when Cortana talks about how real the star orbiting Requiem is. And in that scene, Chief has his helmet on, but probably displays more emotion in Halo 4 than he ever does in this show, and that's WITHOUT seeing his face. You know who was the only other person who had a more sad actual facial expression in the games? Arbiter in Halo 2, when he learns of the Rings' true purpose.
The final scene of halo 4 where he loses cortana and then talks to laskey while staring at earth is super hard hitting and completely negates the "you can't convey emotion with a helmet" argument.
Kind of seems like the Paramount way to tell old fans to get bent because they are being replaced by new fans. Doesn't matter if other studios are making big money on a mix of old and new fans the old fans have got to go.
they took a character famous for never showing his face even after 20 years. and decided he should spend the majority of his screen time with his helmet off. THAT is all you need to know about how accurate this show is to its source material
It is not even about the source material. Chief communicated evrything with his helmet off just fine in games. I expected such acting mastery here and I was disappounted.
every member of noble team is more interesting than john 117 by design. THAT game introduced personality and flair to the INTENTIONALLY blank slate mjolnir mk 2 or whatever 117 wears in H1. masterchief is supposed to be nameless, faceless, a ghost, formless. 343 undid everything bungie created for a few dollars.
Halo is being shown on Brittish TV pretty soon and the ads on TV show every scene with Master Chirf with his helmet on. Also Quan Ha is barely shown despite all the screen time she gets, false advertisement doesn't even begin to describe it.
Word is the writers did not play the game or did not like the halo story. So they just did whatever and said that this is a different timeline to the original story.
@@msgsgt My headcanon is that it's an in-universe historical drama made decades later that took a few too many liberties. It happens all the time IRL, with Michael Bay's _Pearl Harbor_ being one example off the top of my head.
The first game is literally a perfect movie or show already, you barely have to do anything. It has a twist in the middle where things get really crazy, good characters that could be expanded on, a satisfying ending that hints at more to come. I don't understand why they had to go so crazy with it when they could and probably should have played it safe and just copied Halo CE.
Or a three season arc focusing on reach. Telling the story about the rise of the spartan project, the war with the rebels and finish it all with the covenant invsion.
The funniest part of this show was watching it with my mom, who knew nothing about the Halo games. Yet even she could tell something was off based on what little she saw of my brother and I playing the games.
Agreed. The new _Dune_ is more _Halo_ than Paramount _Halo._ *And that's saying something.* (Seriously, MS. Get the license to Denis stat... he could even use Quebec City/Montreal to double for New Alexandria, lol.)
I wish I could say the same for mine lol She thought it was accurate. But at least it got her interested in the lore of the games! Whether or not she'll watch gameplay of them is another matter entirely.... She asks me sometimes "Why do you watch people playing games when you could just play them?"
Won't lie started RvB late, like post Shizno Paradox late, but yeah its substantially better than I would have expected. I mean they managed to give a character arc to Donut, they gave a one note innuendo joke depth, okay two note joke if we count Wash shooting him, but still that's kind of impressive.
I love it when multi billion dollar production companies take advantage of our childhoods to make mediocre films that somehow end up looking worse than the actual games themselves
The game stories had more emotional depth because the Spartans didn’t show their emotions constantly but through subtle gestures that got the point across.
@@papagrantits in Halo reach the Spartans are more emotive but MasterChef and other Spartans consistently show subtle hints of personality and allow the player to fill in the gaps
Master Chief and Cortana's relationship developed pretty well, until 343 made it creepy. It wasn't romantic, and it highlighted their character flaws which were primarily responsible for their strength. Chief is a human that operates like a machine; emotionless, pragmatic, driven by results. Cortana is an AI that has developed the yearning to feel, but it too intelligent to understand what it's like to be human.
That face when people keep forgetting that the live action Forward Unto Dawn exists, and it's last 30 minutes are a better showcase of live action Chief than the entirety of this show.
Man it would’ve been so cool to have a halo show that just loosely follows the events of the universe in semi chronological order. Guess that’s a pipe dream though.
I waited until ep9 with the tree dating stuff to stop watching. I needed to know how far the show would go to ruin HALO. But I just had to call the operation off after the torture.
There's so much they could have pulled from the lore! Hell, if they wanted spartans to be more emotional, they could have used the SIIIs. They're known to be more expressive.
@@ahmedshaharyarejaz9886 It would still be better Mass Effect than Halo. You could actually get away with a good bit of what this show does if it were Mass Effect. ME is a more character focused story with a lot of people in the background. I'd be a lot more willing to except character drama in it than I would in Halo.
@@spectralassassin6030 To be fair that is true. Even Master Cheeks could easily be Canon there. But this show was still pretty hollow and threadbare in it's story. Is a Mass Effect TV show in the works?
If anyone wants to see a GOOD live-action Halo series, they need to watch Forward Unto Dawn. That was very well done, even if it's been a bit since it came out
If only the Spartans took their helmets off only in private, with other Spartans or with Cortana or Halsey. It would’ve made it a lot more impactful whenever his helmet was off.
Something in 4 really stood out for me. Chief was always robotic and Cortana was the personality of the two. According to the games, there’s so much lore and they only used 1%. Love first season of red vs blue!
That's part of why their dynamic is interesting. The AI that isn't a human at all acts like a human and the human that has been so brainwashed and traumatized he acts like a robot.
It should have been required ‘homework’ for everyone included in the show to watch all Halo 2 anniversary cutscenes. That alone is a masterpiece that deserves an Oscar
Another win for RoosterTeeth. Now let’s have a RWBY honest trailer or a Gen:Lock honest trailer, or better yet, a RED vs BLUE honest trailer before RTX 2022 begins.
We did get a better live action version before this for 10x less in terms of budget. It was Halo: Forward unto dawn. It was so much better and made chief look more accurate to the character and generally awesome. .
Rewatched Dawn some months ago, and felt it was better than the first time I watched it. It stays loyal to the core themes and story beats while telling its own story. Now, that's how you do it.
I thought for sure they would mention how the one former spartan kept sayin: "I made a promise to chief to keep you safe". Like every scene he was in after he made that promise, he brought it up
My favorite thing about the show is whenever they're on sorans space pirate thing, whenever they have an overview shot of everyone walking around their is one guy on a motorcycle driving in these stupidly cramped places, but my friend and I knew everytime they had a specific shot come up in this place, motorcycle man would drive by
5:17 Red vs Blue was fun to watch back in the old days of Rooster Teeth when they were just a couple of friends just having fun making the fan animation of Halo.
Yeah, shame it kinda went the way of the Simpsons. Still leaps and bounds better than this, though, and probably has more to do with the actual plot of Halo.
I predicted the entire plot including the "twist" from the first trailer. I wasn't even a fan of the games but thought they had plenty of material to work with to make this good... how could they fail so badly?
Having played all the games and reading each of the books at least twice, I knew how this series was going to go when they said they didn't stick to the source. The worst thing thou is when people would try to defend the series saying, "why would you want a retelling of a story you already know?" Well because the original story is amazing and seeing it in live action would be have been great....but no, we got his instead.
The Oldest and greatest work of literature in the Western Canon the Iliad is literally a story that all of Ancient Greece already knew. It was at least 500 years old by the time Homer wrote it down. His genius was writing about 54 days of the last year of the war with depth and vision and dramatic characterization. But his audience knew the Greek pantheon, they knew Afememnon, Achilles, Helen, Paris and Hector. They knew at the end the Trojans lost and the poem doesn’t even get to the horse and sacking of Troy. But they didn’t know how the gods argued with each other, the rage of Achilles, or the nobility of hector, of the tragedy and heroism of it all. If the oldest work of literature can re tell a known story why couldn’t they make a show based on the rich universe of the halo franchise. They could have just focused on one thing and had creative license while staying faithful to the characters.
"why would you want a retelling of a story you already know?" Would anyone go to a performance of Hamlet, or The Nutcracker, if they already knew the story?
I wholeheartedly believe that the only knowledge of Halo the people designing the show had was in a random file labelled Halo somebody sent to them containing clips from a half-dozen generic sci-fi games mixed with either fanfics or a short wiki dive. It's either that or they chose to deliberately make a video game adaptation that deliberately spits on every single theme and goal of the actual thing it's supposedly based on.
@@3takoyakis At that point why even make an adaptation? If you're not gonna use the what's already established then why don't you go make something new.
@@spectralassassin6030 This is actually my biggest problem with it. They made it very clear from the start that they don't care about the HALO-fans, but why use the franchise then in the first place if you admit it?
Always Always Always leave something in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing and/ or has fan worthy level of knowledge of the product they are adapting.
It shouldn't be so gosh darn hard to make though. It's just that the screenwriters for this show doesn't even know diddly dick about the game. And they try to make it sound like ignoring the source material is a good thing
@@Yorikoification And I really don't get how this happens time and time again. How often did a game (or book) adaption fail because they ignored the source material? Or rather, how often was a show like Halo not only succesful but also beloved so it justified this course of action? So I really don't understand how this gets greenlighted time and time again...
creators: we're going to remove his helmet Investors: are you sure that's a good idea? creators: why? we've never played the games, he takes his helmet off right? Investors:
The thing with his helmet, is that I understand when took it off when he was in his home base, but in battle grounds? That doesn’t even make sense. Soldiers don’t take their helmets in battle grounds, that’s how you get shot in the head.
Or when they have high-powered rifles pointed directly at their skulls. You'd swear the Spartans had potatoes for brains. To be fair, it is quite difficult to write characters smarter than yourself.
Yup. It could have been a signal of transition between downtime scenes and fight scenes, in parallel with music which signals that transition (cue the Ominous Horns from Star Trek). It could have emphasized that there ARE some times and places he feels safe... and those could become fewer and fewer, if the story goes into "all territory is enemy territory". It could have even showed that he regrets HAVING to put on the helmet, that he wishes he could be a human more than he's killing machine, but alas, he was designed to be a killing machine and he's not in a situation where an ordinary human can survive.
In the book for the first Halo game, John has to take off his chest-plate during a battle, because he got stabbed by the Flood. It is heavily emphasized how vulnerable he feels in that moment, pretty sure it is the only time in all of the books the Master Chief displays some kind of panic. In the Haloverse, when traveling longer distance through Warpjumps, crews get into cryostasis. You ALWAYS do this naked. Only the Spartans get frozen in their armor, even though it leds to heavy freezer-burn. That is how commited they are to be immediately ready to fight and to not risk getting MJOLNIR damaged.
My favorite part of this show is when Chief wore his helmet to drive a car, then took it off again after driving. Mf treated the armor like it's a motorcycle helmet.
A 2 trillion dollar motorcycle helmet.
p
safety first mate
my favorite part was when Kwan was handcuffed to the bike while the covenant glassed the planet
or at least it would have been had it happened
When NOT on a motorcycle.
I find it ironic that they took MC's helmet off to avoid comparisons with The Mandalorian, but this only resulted in comparisons with The Mandalorian...negative comparisons, to be precise
Cobra effect in a nutshell.
I think you might be right! Maybe not the loudest opinion, but I actually liked Halo better than The Mandalorian, especially towards the end of the first season. The Mandalorian is like playing on Easy - it's entertaining, but there's basically zero stakes because he's in title and baby Yoda is a money printer. Halo (both the games and the show) are much darker and grittier by comparison. Sure, Star Wars "tries" to go for that dark / apocalyptic vibe and every once in a while manages to pull it off, but that franchise has way too much baggage for that sort of atmosphere to be taken seriously.
@evil-wombat you know they say everyone is entitled to their own opinion but I think you are abusing the privilege. JK but the halo show is the same thing because master chief is literally the main character and is in no real danger. Especially because if they actually did the show right it would also basically be a money printer.
@@gabemartinez2558 no he absolutely is abusing the priviledge. The halo show is pure garbage only low IQ consoomers enjoy.
I think it would be ironic if everyone was made of iron
Dredd taught me that you can definitely make something awesome with a main character who never takes off his helmet. So yeah, it can be done twice.
I love the Dredd with Stallone and the one that mimicked Raid the redemption...
@@alinaitzal1173 raid was a matial arts film dredd was gun fights
Judges helmets are basically domino masks, you still see the face
Urban is a Dredd fan. Not taking the helmet off was a condition of signing on for the movie.
@@gregadams5642 I mean there was quite a bit of gun fights in Raid redemption
"Fear the covenant, a horrifying glimpse of what would happen if the star wars trade federation found religion" ok that is hilarious 😂
I know right lol. 😆 👍
Say "this cave is not a natural formation"
The Imperium of Man would like to know your location
A nemoidian televangelist crusade sounds fun.
@@tones9_6 someone built it so it must lead somewhere Halo 2 nice
Red Vs Blue is 18ish seasons long, with wildly varying quality from season to season, is older then RUclips, was made with almost no budget, and is a comedy/parody. Yet it is better then this professionally made action/drama that probably cost more money in one season then all of the seasons of RvB combined.
To this day whenever someone mentions a timeline, in my head I hear Caboose correct them.
Older _than._ Not then. lol you edited it and still got it wrong.
@@rachelshelby2814 I’ve used that line routinely in life. Never gets old 👌
season 10 had more emotional impact than the entirety of this show. and there's a scene where a guy gets a grapple hook stuck to his balls
18 seasons, not counting the small spin-offs, PSAs, mini-arcs, etc.
It's kinda funny that there was more drama and tension in 44 seconds of the Halo 4 scene when Cortana talks about how real the star orbiting Requiem is. And in that scene, Chief has his helmet on, but probably displays more emotion in Halo 4 than he ever does in this show, and that's WITHOUT seeing his face. You know who was the only other person who had a more sad actual facial expression in the games? Arbiter in Halo 2, when he learns of the Rings' true purpose.
The final scene of halo 4 where he loses cortana and then talks to laskey while staring at earth is super hard hitting and completely negates the "you can't convey emotion with a helmet" argument.
I'll give the showrunners credit for one thing, it was pretty creative of them to replace all the cgi with XBOX 360 cutscenes. So authentic!
Please, don't insult the 360 like that. I think you mean the original xbox...
Bruh halo reach and 4 looked stellar on xbox 360.
Halo 1 and 2 on og xbox could use some work. Which they actually received.
@@pobzy4076 I think you mean PS1
@@No_More_Eyes545 I dunno ff7 was pretty incredible
Just goes to show how ridiculously expensive good CGI is
" ... and knowing is half the screen time." This has to be one of the best lines in a honest trailer in a while.
Hey, you could apply that to most of Shyamalan's catalog too :D
Agreed :-)
Truth always hits the spot!
@Don't Read My Profile Photo you said it chief🫡
Amen to that. They spent a nearly 2 whole episodes on Kwan and it had basically no impact on the master chief storyline.
Half the run time*
I love red vs Blue. Feel the need to rewatch that now
Donut!
Same, I'm gonna rewatch it up until Season 14...you know, back when it was still borderline flawless.
The call back to RVB. You guys just showed Halo more respect than Paramount did.
It also has better characterization, story, and action than this show ever did.
@@Mgauge And they never removed their helmets.
@@decrozi actually when they did a recap of the halo episodes recently, Sarge did take off his helmet but it was blurred lmao
@@decrozi Well, the Freelancers did get helmets removed, but it actually fucking made sense for the story.
Kind of seems like the Paramount way to tell old fans to get bent because they are being replaced by new fans. Doesn't matter if other studios are making big money on a mix of old and new fans the old fans have got to go.
they took a character famous for never showing his face even after 20 years. and decided he should spend the majority of his screen time with his helmet off. THAT is all you need to know about how accurate this show is to its source material
It is not even about the source material. Chief communicated evrything with his helmet off just fine in games. I expected such acting mastery here and I was disappounted.
Hell, he spent half the season with his armor off.
every member of noble team is more interesting than john 117 by design. THAT game introduced personality and flair to the INTENTIONALLY blank slate mjolnir mk 2 or whatever 117 wears in H1. masterchief is supposed to be nameless, faceless, a ghost, formless. 343 undid everything bungie created for a few dollars.
Halo is being shown on Brittish TV pretty soon and the ads on TV show every scene with Master Chirf with his helmet on. Also Quan Ha is barely shown despite all the screen time she gets, false advertisement doesn't even begin to describe it.
The same mistake the older Judge Dredd movie made.
All those live-action miniseries that came before were really good. How did they drop the ball so badly?
Idk man but those mini series were all awesome
Word is the writers did not play the game or did not like the halo story. So they just did whatever and said that this is a different timeline to the original story.
@@msgsgt My headcanon is that it's an in-universe historical drama made decades later that took a few too many liberties. It happens all the time IRL, with Michael Bay's _Pearl Harbor_ being one example off the top of my head.
@@msgsgt yep they said they read parts if the books 🙄
@@msgsgt sounds like the same case with The Witcher, which Henry Cavill left because of creative differences
The first game is literally a perfect movie or show already, you barely have to do anything. It has a twist in the middle where things get really crazy, good characters that could be expanded on, a satisfying ending that hints at more to come. I don't understand why they had to go so crazy with it when they could and probably should have played it safe and just copied Halo CE.
Halo CE is a masterpiece of a story
Truly one of the best video games ever made
You should read the novel "The Flood," it's based on CE and actually does expand on all the characters.
This would be such a good film.
Or a three season arc focusing on reach. Telling the story about the rise of the spartan project, the war with the rebels and finish it all with the covenant invsion.
That Red vs Blue conversation was hilarious, which is probably more than we can say about the actual TV show. 😆
Now we need a Red vs Blue honest trailer.
Just watch that show and skip this show. What a disappointment.
@@korybass136 Make it happen honest trailers. You'll get all the likes in the world.
too bad red vs blue wrote itself into a corner...
@Kristopher Prime “If we were to pull out today, then they’d just have two bases in the middle of a box canyon. Woopdy fucking doo”.
"Because knowing is half the runtime."
New favorite quotable quote!
Yes, Red vs Blue was indeed THE definitieve adaptation on the smallest screen possible
2 decades later, and RVB is still the best Halo show we’re ever gonna get
RvB is a MASTERPIECE (at least until Season 14).
I don't think most of us watched red vs blue on our phones
@@Revealingstorm. Need something to do on lunch break.
@@Revealingstorm. phones? No of course not, we downloaded it onto our iPod Nanos and Zunes.
I think the correct term for Master Chief in this series is Master Cheeks
I thought it was Jimmy rings
Jimmy Rings
He's not a master IMO. Maybe Mister Cheeks?
That or Jimmy Rings.
@@perceivedvelocity9914 He's a master at clapping them cheeks tho
You know
This series made me appreciate the live action trailers way more
Deliver hope was a masterpiece
The funniest part of this show was watching it with my mom, who knew nothing about the Halo games. Yet even she could tell something was off based on what little she saw of my brother and I playing the games.
Agreed. The new _Dune_ is more _Halo_ than Paramount _Halo._ *And that's saying something.*
(Seriously, MS. Get the license to Denis stat... he could even use Quebec City/Montreal to double for New Alexandria, lol.)
I wish I could say the same for mine lol She thought it was accurate. But at least it got her interested in the lore of the games! Whether or not she'll watch gameplay of them is another matter entirely.... She asks me sometimes "Why do you watch people playing games when you could just play them?"
But did she like it?
So she knew something
That's already more than what the Writers knew of the game.
Loved the RvB acknowledgement! Actually in the middle of rewatching it and it's still so good
"What's in your pants?" "Doom."
At least up until post-Chorus, RvB was by far the best Halo fan content on the entire internet
"...play it again, FILSS"
Won't lie started RvB late, like post Shizno Paradox late, but yeah its substantially better than I would have expected.
I mean they managed to give a character arc to Donut, they gave a one note innuendo joke depth, okay two note joke if we count Wash shooting him, but still that's kind of impressive.
So much actually's in the comments lol.
I love it when multi billion dollar production companies take advantage of our childhoods to make mediocre films that somehow end up looking worse than the actual games themselves
Happens all the time, bud
@@Thelastetherbornso don’t act like it’s ok, pal
Major respect for the Red Vs Blue clip. That was my childhood right there.
Good thing I started watching that show almost 4 years ago otherwise I wouldn't have gotten that reference 😅 😄.
I still have a Caboose -1 beanie. Saw a guy with a Caboose hoodie in the grocery store the other day and it made my day
Such a good show. Seasons 1-10 were the absolute best
The RvB clip was the best footage in the entire video.
@@dun498 Hey don't sleep on 11-13. The Chorus Trilogy is damn good.
"Viewers who demand to see a deadly hidden ring are encouraged to look at their own buttholes"
That is gold right there
Gold nuggets, for sure
Yeet
🤣🤣🤣
That ring Master Cheeks was drawing on the mirror was Makee's holes.
@@iverson7x I don’t think the nuggets are gold when viewing at a butthole 😂
My favorite scene is when Master Chief took off his helmet and said: "Halo, gamers." Truly one of the moment in history.
the new Morbin' time
I loved the part where he shouted "It's Chiefin' time!" and Chiefed all over the Covenant soldiers. Truly one of the moments of all time.
The game stories had more emotional depth because the Spartans didn’t show their emotions constantly but through subtle gestures that got the point across.
No.... No it didn't.
@@papagrantits in Halo reach the Spartans are more emotive but MasterChef and other Spartans consistently show subtle hints of personality and allow the player to fill in the gaps
I would not call any of the halo games having emotional depth(except reach). Its like saying far cry 1 protagonist is an emotional character .
Frags are subtle AF.
Master Chief and Cortana's relationship developed pretty well, until 343 made it creepy. It wasn't romantic, and it highlighted their character flaws which were primarily responsible for their strength. Chief is a human that operates like a machine; emotionless, pragmatic, driven by results. Cortana is an AI that has developed the yearning to feel, but it too intelligent to understand what it's like to be human.
Brutally honest and 100% accurate. Thanks for helping us roast them into oblivion.
Honestly I felt like they went soft on these guys, but I can't complain about the results lol
This literally, perfectly, summarizes why the show wasn't good
One of the best HT's I've seen
That face when people keep forgetting that the live action Forward Unto Dawn exists, and it's last 30 minutes are a better showcase of live action Chief than the entirety of this show.
I still rewatch that movie here of YT from time to time. It was so good.
I remember that one! Really good!
Thank you! How quickly people forget.
Short repided busrt...
@@ragingoaktree Is the movie version better than the original or is it the exact same?
“Viewers who demand to see a deadly hidden ring are encouraged to look at their own buttholes”🤣🤣🤣
That one really caught me off guard lol
The sacred butt rings
If that’s not an Elden Ring “try finger butt hole” joke then I’m at a loss.
Considering the position, that'd be hard to do.
@@CelticVictory that’s not a winning attitude
Man it would’ve been so cool to have a halo show that just loosely follows the events of the universe in semi chronological order. Guess that’s a pipe dream though.
Honestly, I'm impressed by anyone who made it past episode 1.
went straight out of the airlock after ep 01 😂
I stopped watching this show after episode 4... This show doesn't deserve to be on my list.
Bro, actually 10 mins max that crap gave me a headache.
I waited until ep9 with the tree dating stuff to stop watching. I needed to know how far the show would go to ruin HALO. But I just had to call the operation off after the torture.
I did but it was full of PAIN
Halo has one of the densest lore that they didn’t have to adapt the game… and we got this
I'm so glad they made this trailer, so I didn't have to watch this trainwreck.
There's so much they could have pulled from the lore! Hell, if they wanted spartans to be more emotional, they could have used the SIIIs. They're known to be more expressive.
The first mistake was letting paramount to make the show.
@@josuepatino8179 should have sticked with Warner Brothers?
@@josuepatino8179 Especially with their track record with Star Trek... *shudders*
They had the ingredients to make a great series. They just decided to do their own thing. The halo series is pretty much good to go on its own.
I can't believe you went there... man you just gave me PTSD with flashbacks to Clippy. The horror... the absolute, madness. Brilliant!
It looks like you're having a psychotic episode. Would you like some help with that?
@@henryglennon3864 you got a genuine chuckle out of me for that. Bravo.
I remember changing Clippy to a cat and then locating recycle bin on desktop in a way that cat jumps there when Word is closed. Good ol' times...
Those were hands down my favorite parts of this episode... couldn't stop laughing hysterically...
I remember you used to could turn clippy into other things but I can't recall one of them
This show is what happens when you really want to make a Mass Effect TV show, but can't get the rights to Mass Effect.
A very Bad Mass Effect TV show maybe.
@@ahmedshaharyarejaz9886 It would still be better Mass Effect than Halo. You could actually get away with a good bit of what this show does if it were Mass Effect. ME is a more character focused story with a lot of people in the background. I'd be a lot more willing to except character drama in it than I would in Halo.
A Mass Effect TV show already exists. It's called The Expanse.
@@spectralassassin6030 To be fair that is true. Even Master Cheeks could easily be Canon there. But this show was still pretty hollow and threadbare in it's story. Is a Mass Effect TV show in the works?
It would even work was an Unreal 2 show, which was basically bootleg Halo anyway.
"now you know and knowing is half the runtime" I will be using that quote for many things now
Spot on, this was perfect! I especially loved the end, when he reminds us how we forgot Kwan, which was half the show
the wesley crusher (from star trek fame) of halo....lol
Naw he didn’t say master cheeks. Other than that👌🏼
I actually miss Clippy. Added some fun to the boring time of typing a book report by watching his cute animations.
Links the cat >>>>
Im just gonna do that thing that Simmons does where he starts with a hopeless laugh that just degrades into crying now
“If the Star Wars trade federation found religion”. Such an awesome line.
If anyone wants to see a GOOD live-action Halo series, they need to watch Forward Unto Dawn. That was very well done, even if it's been a bit since it came out
I absolutely loved forward unto dawn
Red vs. Blue is the only Halo show needed.
And it’s a live action adaptation that gets Master Chief rigjt
Agreed... Everyone responsible for this show should have taken notes from all the fan created content already out there.
this is like that DBZ movie that shall not be named all over again
My favourite part about this show is that I forgot it existed
If only the Spartans took their helmets off only in private, with other Spartans or with Cortana or Halsey. It would’ve made it a lot more impactful whenever his helmet was off.
Even in the game lore they walk around base with helmets off.
Yeah like goblin slayer or mandalorian
I could've gone the rest of my life without knowing that Master Chief looked like a great value Jon Bernthal.
Mom said we have Jon Bernthal at home
Except john bernthals physique is tiny and hes short compared to pablo schreiber...
Jon Bernthal is a far greater actor and a much better human being though.
Something in 4 really stood out for me. Chief was always robotic and Cortana was the personality of the two. According to the games, there’s so much lore and they only used 1%. Love first season of red vs blue!
That's part of why their dynamic is interesting. The AI that isn't a human at all acts like a human and the human that has been so brainwashed and traumatized he acts like a robot.
Yo the RvB shoutout was amazing! Lol
It should have been required ‘homework’ for everyone included in the show to watch all Halo 2 anniversary cutscenes. That alone is a masterpiece that deserves an Oscar
"Halo 2"
Immediate PTSD from legendary jackal snipers
Except for the silly cliffhanger ending
But then the dropships would fly backwards
CE Anniversary, 2 Anniversary, 3, ODST, Halo Wars, and Reach all should have been watched. Such great stories they could have told.
At the very minimum the story writers should have been forced to watch the cut scenes for Halo reach since the Paramount show Completely butcher's it.
"you couldn't make a a whole series about a honorable space soldier who never takes off his helmet, ah... Twice." XD
This video was better than the entire show. Also, thank you for reminding me about Red vs Blue.
yep RvB was my introduction to halo... it was hilarious.....
“Watch Red vs Blue instead” has never been more accurate
"Do you think he is tea-bagging?" that right there made me laugh!
This is far and away the best honest trailer in a long time. Not dumping on the others, this one is just excellent. Top shelf work folks, well done.
This video was terrible lol. Honest Trailers peaked three years ago
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"False" - Dwight Schrute
This one was good because they didn't inject any virtue signaling woke crap into it. They do that a lot now.
@@thehumblepotatoreborn9313 7 years ago.
@@paulsoldner9500 Possibly... Just seems like they're scared to really offend anyone, so the writing just ends up being super bland
This was a surprisingly neutral and funny trailer. Kudos.
ima tell my kids that RvB was the real halo series
"I'm going to rewatch Red vs. Blue instead." Truer words were never spoken.
Another win for RoosterTeeth. Now let’s have a RWBY honest trailer or a Gen:Lock honest trailer, or better yet, a RED vs BLUE honest trailer before RTX 2022 begins.
@@multiverse_media2023 Amen!
this video was exactly correct. "its only sold, lets see here, 80 million copies!" lol
not only was it the shortest warthog ride, it didn't even flip once.
Realism 0/10. They didn't even try to drive it where it clearly shouldn't be driven.
Now I want a honest trailer for red vs blue.
I'd have been fine with the world's shortest warthog ride if they kept it accurate and it flipped on a pebble.
Kudos to you guys for suffering through this sh*tfest to actually make this video. Loved the disclaimer about season 2 lol.
It was so clear they didn't want to hahaha
All that was missing was "PRAISE TOM CRUISE! And also Sonic, for some reason."
We did get a better live action version before this for 10x less in terms of budget. It was Halo: Forward unto dawn. It was so much better and made chief look more accurate to the character and generally awesome. .
Don’t forget that movie sucked until the last 10 minutes
@@williambenton6254 wasn't a movie if you were there each week; the not so good, but clearly old days.
it was very low budget and had no-name actors
but it had the spirit of the game
and Master Chief and the spartans looked legit badass
Forward Unto Dawn was awful. This is better lol.
Rewatched Dawn some months ago, and felt it was better than the first time I watched it. It stays loyal to the core themes and story beats while telling its own story. Now, that's how you do it.
I love it if every time Chief took off his helmet he got snipped.
Bored of the Ring genuinely made me laugh.
I actually forgot that a Halo live action series was meant to come out at all, so it's nice to know that I wasn't missing anything
People gotta stop saying actually.
@@mkultra2456 what a weird hangup
@@Seiyol It's not a hang up I'm just pointing out that people misuse the word actually _all the time._ JoshtheOverlander used it in a redundant way.
@@mkultra2456 Actually, it's not redundant actually.
@@mkultra2456 Actually we can all use the word Actually all of the actual time, stop stifling our actual creativity!
I thought for sure they would mention how the one former spartan kept sayin: "I made a promise to chief to keep you safe". Like every scene he was in after he made that promise, he brought it up
It took them this long to get a Halo show and this is the best they could do? This?!
The best they wanted to do.
Everyone always forgets Forward Unto Dawn 😢
@@disclancer not me dude it's such a good adaptation for its budget.
Gaylo
@@disclancer forward unto dawn and halo legends are the most decent adaptations. They should learn from those.
This show is canon, in that it takes place in Chief's mind when he was hallucinating after that haymaker from Aatriox.
My favorite thing about the show is whenever they're on sorans space pirate thing, whenever they have an overview shot of everyone walking around their is one guy on a motorcycle driving in these stupidly cramped places, but my friend and I knew everytime they had a specific shot come up in this place, motorcycle man would drive by
For every Top Gun Maverick…… we get a Paramount Halo series….
Fun Fact: the guy who directed top gun Maverick also directed the starry night commercial for halo 3
With Paramount make that 100
Paramount was doing too well this year. They had to balance the ledger.
@@sombramemer1230 yeah that good/bad ratio is definitely not 1:1
dont forget to include Netflix "Witcher" in it too. It got the same HALO treatment :(
This makes me feel proud of the work I did on Red vs Blue. (Season 12's animation) :)
😎👍👍
You should!
You should, you outdid goddamn Hollywood by an incomprehensible amount lmfao
Eww.
That was the most failed attempt at getting praise I've ever seen lol.
There are 12 seasons? wtf I only saw the ones up to halo 3.
Episode one was far more than enough than I could stomach
"Never take your helmet off"
Dredd just grimaces at this an The Mandalorian
I love that the Kwon story was completely unresolved lol
i had completely forgotten about her storyline by the end and apparently so did the writers
Thank god, she was the most annoying part of the show. And we're talking about a show where Master Chief doesn't wear his helmet 90% of the time.
Let’s keep it that way
I forgot that part of the story existed until the last 4 seconds of this Honest Trailer lmao
Pretty certain they planned for it to pick up again in season 2. The well is probably a portal to wherever the covenant is going or trying to go.
The characters in the show aren't the ones from Halo, its just a fanfic called Holo. Starring Mr Chef, Dr Haley and the AI Courtney.
Halo was my favourite videogame series and still is. Hollywood just stepped on my nuts and never let go with this adaptation
5:17 Red vs Blue was fun to watch back in the old days of Rooster Teeth when they were just a couple of friends just having fun making the fan animation of Halo.
Speaking of 'Red Vs Blue', that was more faithful than whatever the hell this is
Yeah, those were good days.
Yeah, shame it kinda went the way of the Simpsons. Still leaps and bounds better than this, though, and probably has more to do with the actual plot of Halo.
Halo Forge was fucking fantastic
I've actually enjoyed RvB all the way, including RvB Zero. No one else has to like it, but I did.
HE'S NOT MASTER CHIEF, HE'S MASTER CHEEKS. A joke 😂😂😂
I predicted the entire plot including the "twist" from the first trailer. I wasn't even a fan of the games but thought they had plenty of material to work with to make this good... how could they fail so badly?
They completely ignored the source material except for names and functions of things
There was a twist? I think that’s giving the writers too much credit..
Why did you hope they wouldn't fail THAT BADLY ?
Why did you hold unto the hope that they would make a good halo Tv series ?
This video is literally a 6.5 minute explanation, wtf do you mean "how"?
Overpaid executives
Having played all the games and reading each of the books at least twice, I knew how this series was going to go when they said they didn't stick to the source. The worst thing thou is when people would try to defend the series saying, "why would you want a retelling of a story you already know?" Well because the original story is amazing and seeing it in live action would be have been great....but no, we got his instead.
Yep. Its like if you have your own ideas make them. Don't use someone else's success to give yours credibility.
🙄
The Oldest and greatest work of literature in the Western Canon the Iliad is literally a story that all of Ancient Greece already knew. It was at least 500 years old by the time Homer wrote it down.
His genius was writing about 54 days of the last year of the war with depth and vision and dramatic characterization. But his audience knew the Greek pantheon, they knew Afememnon, Achilles, Helen, Paris and Hector. They knew at the end the Trojans lost and the poem doesn’t even get to the horse and sacking of Troy. But they didn’t know how the gods argued with each other, the rage of Achilles, or the nobility of hector, of the tragedy and heroism of it all.
If the oldest work of literature can re tell a known story why couldn’t they make a show based on the rich universe of the halo franchise. They could have just focused on one thing and had creative license while staying faithful to the characters.
and even if then, this wasn't even a good new telling.
"why would you want a retelling of a story you already know?"
Would anyone go to a performance of Hamlet, or The Nutcracker, if they already knew the story?
@@rileymclaughlin4831 Of course they would and do.
I respect that you showed Red vs Blue and put them in here. Very well done and Very classy @screen Junkies. Props man.
I wholeheartedly believe that the only knowledge of Halo the people designing the show had was in a random file labelled Halo somebody sent to them containing clips from a half-dozen generic sci-fi games mixed with either fanfics or a short wiki dive.
It's either that or they chose to deliberately make a video game adaptation that deliberately spits on every single theme and goal of the actual thing it's supposedly based on.
I'm laughing hard when news said
"We aren't reading the source materials and we are proud of it"
I knew its going to be bad
@@3takoyakis At that point why even make an adaptation? If you're not gonna use the what's already established then why don't you go make something new.
@@spectralassassin6030 This is actually my biggest problem with it. They made it very clear from the start that they don't care about the HALO-fans, but why use the franchise then in the first place if you admit it?
I got 1000x more enjoyment out of this than I did the halo show
Please bring back older SJ shows!! Hal Rudnik interviews and all! Literally some of my favorite content from the mid 2010s
Always Always Always leave something in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing and/ or has fan worthy level of knowledge of the product they are adapting.
Love the RvB mentions, love that show.
Haven’t watched an honest trailer in so long. This brought back so much nostalgia
Everyone forgets Forward Unto Dawn, but that movie was actually pretty damn solid and lore accurate
You gotta stop saying actually.
@@mkultra2456 Actually, they don't.
@@Thisunknownguy AAAAAAGH! MAKE IT STOP!
@@mkultra2456 you gotta stop getting triggered at a regular word
@@mkultra2456 Actually, it won't stop because actually, actually is actually an important and actually common word in the lexicon, actually.
Video games have reached a point where they are more immersive than movies and TV. Adapting games to live action is backward.
Exactly. I used to love the idea of video game movies and shows, but it's proven to be a mistake time and time again
It shouldn't be so gosh darn hard to make though. It's just that the screenwriters for this show doesn't even know diddly dick about the game. And they try to make it sound like ignoring the source material is a good thing
@@Yorikoification And I really don't get how this happens time and time again. How often did a game (or book) adaption fail because they ignored the source material? Or rather, how often was a show like Halo not only succesful but also beloved so it justified this course of action? So I really don't understand how this gets greenlighted time and time again...
It's shocking that "Forward Unto Dawn" had a lower budget and runtime, and was still better.
creators: we're going to remove his helmet
Investors: are you sure that's a good idea?
creators: why? we've never played the games, he takes his helmet off right?
Investors:
The thing with his helmet, is that I understand when took it off when he was in his home base, but in battle grounds? That doesn’t even make sense. Soldiers don’t take their helmets in battle grounds, that’s how you get shot in the head.
Or when they have high-powered rifles pointed directly at their skulls. You'd swear the Spartans had potatoes for brains.
To be fair, it is quite difficult to write characters smarter than yourself.
Yup. It could have been a signal of transition between downtime scenes and fight scenes, in parallel with music which signals that transition (cue the Ominous Horns from Star Trek). It could have emphasized that there ARE some times and places he feels safe... and those could become fewer and fewer, if the story goes into "all territory is enemy territory". It could have even showed that he regrets HAVING to put on the helmet, that he wishes he could be a human more than he's killing machine, but alas, he was designed to be a killing machine and he's not in a situation where an ordinary human can survive.
Reading the first few Halo books, there's quite a bit of mil-sim stuff thrown in which I liked.
In the book for the first Halo game, John has to take off his chest-plate during a battle, because he got stabbed by the Flood. It is heavily emphasized how vulnerable he feels in that moment, pretty sure it is the only time in all of the books the Master Chief displays some kind of panic.
In the Haloverse, when traveling longer distance through Warpjumps, crews get into cryostasis. You ALWAYS do this naked. Only the Spartans get frozen in their armor, even though it leds to heavy freezer-burn. That is how commited they are to be immediately ready to fight and to not risk getting MJOLNIR damaged.
Best advise ever: "watch 'Red Verses Blue' instead."
Hahahahaha, ooooooh!
My favorite part of the show was when he took off his helmet, so I knew immediately that I wasn't watching Halo and could just turn it off.
I never been a Halo fan, but I would love to see a Halo movie directed by Denis Villeneuve.
You my good sir, have earned the right to call yourself a Halo fan. Denis Villeneuve is an amazing choice.
Could you imagine 😱💯
I'm a long time halo fan and i would also like to see that.
Him and in the style of the original Starship Troopers....That would be awesome.
Or, Michael bay , just full on explosions everywhere , right back like the old days
1:45 LMFAO best fckng line of the video 😂👌 I couldn't take her seriously with that wig on her head
"Hold X to touch the artifact"
Freaking brilliant!
Could we please get an Honest Trailer for _Everything Everywhere All at Once?_
Nah i think we should get them one by one
They’d just be complimenting the movie the whole time! Not worth it, worse films that have more substance to shred apart
Please
@@Dolan.Lovendahl_Presents Or they could talk about how batshit insane it is!
I ❤️ that you referenced Red vs Blue!!!
Do an Honest Tralier for Obi-Wan Kenobi
Honestly, this is the best one yet! Absolutely hilarious! You guys knocked it out of the park 😆🤣🤣