Not all great video games make great movies

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One of my favorite X-box games, Halo, is now coming to a theatre near you. While entertaining in a very shoot-them-up-watch-them-explode-use-all-kinds-of-weaponry- kind of way, there's no emotional connection nor much of a plot. I know many hard-core fans (including my husband, brother and cousin) would beg to differ, but to me, there's no character development in this video game. I simply don't care about these people and aliens other than to shoot them and squeal with delight to see their corpses fall off a cliff. Halo is primitive in that pleasurable way that video games have. It's best appeal is its social aspect, thus the Halo parties where four X-boxes are networked and 16 folks play all at once. But as a movie, it'll probably follow in the footsteps of Mortal Kombat and the like, which is sad because Mortal Kombat the video game actually had a storyline and failed miserably as a movie. Let's hope Halo has a substantial plot beyond killing the Covenant otherwise it'd be smarter to skip the movie and just play at home.