Impressive Hollywood Fan Film Brings Half-Life Alive

[Spacefrog]

This is probably the best half-life fan film I have seen. (Or at least tying with Half-life origins, which was more of a recording of the game, than a fan film proper)

The atmosphere was great and unlike most other fan film I have seen, it had an underlying narrative.

Also it is nice to see someone take up the first game, which in my opinion had a much better setting.

 

[Dondonalien44]

Am I the only one entirely unimpressed by this? XD
Maybe it's because I know how much it cost, and I've seen better fanvids made on more modest budgets. The effects were underwhelming.
Maybe it's because the tone was way off. Casual f-bombs and vocal protagonists don't belong in the HL universe. And when is this actually supposed to take place?
It doesn't offend me as a fan, but it strikes me as pointless.

 

[Itchi_da_killa]

I thought it was fucking great! Then again I like short fan films better than the bloated pieces of shit big studios push out.

 

[Covarr]

This lighting was really annoying. It made me feel like there weren't any sets, just a bunch of people floating around in nothing.

P.S. Thanks

 

[Itchi_da_killa]

Shouldn't have made the suit shinny, but other then that it's bloody brilliant work, even Gordon speaking is fine.

I totally agree and yeah, no shiny suits.

 

[gyroscopeboy]

It looked great, but it has the same problem as most fan made short films...it was boring as shit.

They pick a really insignificant part of the overall story and focus on that without showing anything on a macro level.

I get that short films are shot on small budgets, but i wouldn't watch it more than once, and i wouldn't watch a feature length film shot in that kind of boring detail.

 

[bafrali]

Did Freeman just speak? YOU FOOLS!!! What have you done? Prepare for unforeseen conseqences.

Seconded!!!

Staff at Black Mesa are supposed to either recognize him or be in too deep a pile of shit to bother about his identity!

Still, not crap. It looked pretty slick but it wasn't very skillfully edited or shot, the acting wasn't bad though...

Sometimes a hug says much more than words

 

[Karoshi]

Fangirled there for a couple minutes. Awesome work!

 

[maninahat]

I know there's a lot of work put into fan films like this, but whenever I seen them I can't help but find them very unbelievable and rather ridiculous.

They seem to be special effects experts first, and writers last. As with a lot of these Half Life videos (and indeed, most fan films of games) the creators seem to love wearing the costumes more than anything else, which doesn't make for a particularly entertaining movie. I'm sure they had a lot of fun making it though.