In your opinion, do you think that if Halo was a movie, it would be rated R for the gore violence, and language?
That is if it has: Blood, Gore, foul Language,and Intense Sci-Fi violence. if it has some of this, it would probably be rated PG-13.
Halo: forward unto dawn is already Rated: TV-14
I don’t think it would be.
Sci-fi violence, blood, gore, and language hardly make a R rated movie nowadays.
What’s wierd is that nowadays, Rated R movies are basically PG-13 movies. There’s hardly a difference.
If this hypothetical movie was a lot like the games:
Blood: minimal
Gore: nonexistent except the Flood
Swearing: minimal
Violence: yes
Therefore, PG-13.
It may be a M video game but look at the uprising trailer, that would be the extent of halo’s movie violence i think. It was not too bad at all
If it is done right, it would be rated R I think.
And by “done right” I mean: taking more cues from the books, which means: mature sci fi that doesn’t shy away from gritty action. And in terms of visuals: taking a LOT of cues from the live action videos we’ve seen so far.
Basically: my ideal Halo movie would be somewhat like a mixture between what we know from Halo (but not focussing on Chief) with the grit of Saving Private Ryan (in sci fi I think you should then compare it to Alien(s)), the visuals of the live action videos.
> If this hypothetical movie was a lot like the games:
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> Blood: minimal
> Gore: nonexistent except the Flood
> Swearing: minimal
> Violence: yes
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> Therefore, PG-13.
Hve you played any Halo or read the books??? lol
could be wrong but think that once its aliens you are killing and alien purple blood they can nearly show as much as they want, its when its human blood and violence on humans they show that pushes the ratings up!!
> > If this hypothetical movie was a lot like the games:
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> > Blood: minimal
> > Gore: nonexistent except the Flood
> > Swearing: minimal
> > Violence: yes
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> > Therefore, PG-13.
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> Hve you played any Halo or read the books??? lol
I’ve played all the Halo games.
I’ve also played Left 4 Dead, Gears of War, and Killzone, all of which are a LOT more profane and/or gory than Halo.
Halo has an epic storyline with mature themes, but story doesn’t count for anything when getting a content rating.
I think if they do a movie they would have to go by the original trilogy of the books.(Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike) then they should go by the games but make John look more super human in the movies than he does in the games (because he is nerfed for reasons of gameplay).
Or they could have a movie about a regular soldier’s struggles just to survive and not become a meal to the grunts, brutes, jackles, or the flood. Make him/her the main character and the Spartans or Spartan a side character. Really go into the mind of the normal person about surviving the ordeal of an alien race wanting all humans dead and an alien zombie virus wanting everything dead.
nope: the target audience is teens and twenty-somethings.
> nope: the target audience is teens and twenty-somethings.
I don’t know if that’s the limit of the target. The target audience of the games would be that, except the game is Rated M. So eesentially if a parent doesn’t but the game, nobody under 17 should own them. And after 11 years. Their audience ranges between 15/16 - 40’s. There are plenty of people in their 30’s and 40’s that would kill to see a Halo movie made. The same group that’s been playing Halo since the day it came out (or in that same year at least).
Throw in MC and cortana bangin… 
then you got that rated R
> Throw in MC and cortana bangin… then you got that rated R
THat, and the Elites stabbing people in the back with energy swords.
> the game is Rated M.
i just checked and damn, you’re right. PEGI 16.
honestly i don’t understand such a rating for a game like halo (or even higher ones, like the 17/M rating - it’s even 18+ in germany, but they are always tough when it comes to just the slightest violence): no foul language, you’re not shooting human targets, but “purple aliens” and the amount of blood shown resembles a Disney movie…)
but this doesn’t change the fact that a large part of the population played their first Halo game at a younger age than 17/18, won’t you agree?
also keep in mind that blockbuster movies have a bigger budget than a video game and simultaneously need to reach out to a lot more people than a video game since a movie ticket costs a lot less than a video game copy - hence movies “need” a lower rating.
> > the game is Rated M.
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> i just checked and damn, you’re right. PEGI 16.
> honestly i don’t understand such a rating for a game like halo (or even higher ones, like the 17/M rating - it’s even 18+ in germany, but they are always tough when it comes to just the slightest violence): no foul language, you’re not shooting human targets, but “purple aliens” and the amount of blood shown resembles a Disney movie…)
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> but this doesn’t change the fact that a large part of the population played their first Halo game at a younger age than 17/18, won’t you agree?
> also keep in mind that blockbuster movies have a bigger budget than a video game and simultaneously need to reach out to a lot more people than a video game since a movie ticket costs a lot less than a video game copy - hence movies “need” a lower rating.
I most definitely agree they would want to get the audience as wide and broad as possible. Obviously the more people able to see it means more money. I’d see a Halo movie the day of release, even in 3-d (although I despise that every movie is made 3D anymore). But I would be more excited about it, if it had the whole super violent sci fi military vibe to it. Like the MJOLNIR armor living up to it’s specs. The Spartan IIs sneaking up on an Elite, and instead of simply breaking it’s neck, spinning it completely around and having it fall off. Think Punisher: War Zone. Only with Spartans…
It would probably just be PG-13 unless they make it as Gory as some of the novels or if the flood is in the movie.
The director of the Bioshock movie refuses to have it anything other than “R” and that is why we have yet to see it. So I doubt Halo would be rated R
I’d want a Halo movie rating to be 14-A for some reason. It’d be easier to watch in the theatre rather than a movie with a higher rating. A large percentage of the Halo community are teens and young adults, so 14-A should be nice imo.
I’ve heard and am sure that Forward Unto Dawn is rated 14-A. If there was to be a Halo movie, I’d want it to be around as gory/scary that Prometheus was.