The Halo Movie That 343 Wishes You'd Forget

In 2014, a Halo movie released... And no one seems to remember it.
Twitter/X: @LaperLarden
Timestamps:
0:00 Agent Locke
2:39 Story recap
7:17 Nuke rant
8:39 Story recap cont'd
13:02 Pretty mid
16:22 The Flood fix
20:35 In conclusion
#halo #haloinfinite #343industries

[@LaperLarden]

Apologies for the radio silence for ages , folks! Have been very busy the past few weeks. And yes, I know Nightfall isn't technically a "movie". But it is 120 minutes long and plays like one. So, close enough.

[@ajackass5950]

Great to have you back

[@SilverViper1000]

Finally, content from one of my most favorite halo you tubers. I don't know why, but I love your halo content almost the most. Only actman is a little bit in front of you... But he doesn't cover halo anymore so that's a win for you!

[@holcanperez9412]

Forward Unto Dawn next?

[@adamgill9730]

I realised that I saw a DVD of this in a charity shop once But that was many years ago

[@AlyxGMusic]

The whole “nuke it again” solution will stay immortalized in my head.

[@LaperLarden]

It is just truly ridiculous 😂 I hate but also love how everything in Halo has to be solved by blowing it up.

[@MExperiences]

@@LaperLarden Helps that most of those boom booms can destroy planets and stars via sheer energy/power. And they look sick to look at so they just have to man, the holy nuke ship of, uh, Reacholot and the, uh, divine...Halo of, uh...Forerunneria? Yeah, those are my favourites.

[@GeorgeThoughts]

​@@LaperLardenthat's because nuking the entire site from orbit is the only way to be sure.

[@jasmin9173]

BOUUUWHAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!😂😂😂

[@samiamtheman7379]

@@LaperLarden As a great Jedi once said, "If it works."

[@samiamtheman7379]

Something that always felt off about how Hunters are portrayed in live action Halo is they treat the worms as 200x more deadly when they're not in the armor, begging the question of why the Covenant put them in armor and Scarabs to begin with rather than just let a bunch of worms loose.

[@fadelsukoco3092]

The lore explanation is that the worms in the movie are supposed to be a special genetically-modified version used by the Forerunners against the Flood (since hunter worms are more resistant to it than most species) called thanolekgolo, but I remember that from the wiki, I'm not sure if the movie ever actually explained it and it seems doubtful.

[@richardrussel4567]

​@fadelsukoco3092 sounds like the explanation was added in post, to appease the fans.

[@Jiub_SN]

@@richardrussel4567that is how things are typically added yeah

[@polybius8571]

Also the worms canonically get smarter when they’re assembled together, separately they’re just worms.

[@smokay480]

I always felt that the fans were the most passionate about halo, more than 343 or Microsoft ever was. I’ve heard of sooo many ideas that sounded awesome and some that would probably work well as a movie or series, but 343 or Microsoft just doesn’t care nor do they listen. Also 343 is afraid or just dislikes the flood for some reason, they totally phased them out entirely.

[@dg7347]

halo wars 2 had flood. halo 4 and 5 are supposed to be set after halo 3, ya know the big battle that was supposed stop the flood? it would've been pretty lame for chief to wake after 4 years to find the flood are still a thing.

[@smokay480]

@@dg7347 that was at The Ark ya know the place that’s outside the Milky Way galaxy? Flood are still throughout the galaxy, and are still a big part of the universe because the halos are the entire reason why they were made. If they can bring back the “covenant” not once but twice, I’m pretty sure the flood can make a return too.

[@dg7347]

@@smokay480 yes i know but you don't get how that was supposed to be their big conclusion for them, at least for a time in the main story. i know flood are still present and important which is why using them too much would sort of lessen what makes them cool. honestly after 3 straight games of them it was time for something a little different. the covenant has to stay they're the main enemies, they can change the name, covenant, banished, whatever but halo wouldn't be halo without them.

[@EliteInExile]

I could not agree more. Why the fuck are we more creative and passionate about this franchise than the fucks heading it?! It's just a shame

[@ORLY911]

but bruh, DA ENDLESS

[@Evamme534]

I find it funny that 343 seems to mock themselves in halo 5 with an easter egg where a grunt talks about having to leave a planet on a ship and there being a whole conflict about it having a single seat only for him to get on board and find out that it is actually huge inside and had enough room for them all!

[@mustard8714]

The worms being hostile only when their armour and tech is on could mean that it's the electro magnetism that aggros them, however I'm also pretty sure that gravity would do the same thing anyway-

[@homelochino3864]

The worms feed on technology that has energy, thats the whole reason the hunter worms got domisticated so they wouldnt eat forerruner tech, it was already explained

[@samiamtheman7379]

Idk why live action Halo media likes to portray Hunters as being 200x more deadly when outside of their armor. It makes you wonder why the Covenant bothered putting them in armor and Scarabs if they could've just dropped a bunch of worms on the field.

[@frenchsoldier8485]

​@@samiamtheman7379Because all consuming worms isn't very good for a military trying to find ancient technology

[@void-master9077]

@@samiamtheman7379you realize we’re talking about a world where an alien covenant genocides entire human planets, it’s not far fetched that for the sake of lore they are like this, but whateva.

[@nagger8216]

​@@frenchsoldier8485You mean the all consuming worms aren't good enough for the alien alliance trying to exterminate an entire species? lol If you say so

[@Alec_Shepard]

Now do Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn. Imo its actually pretty solid.

[@harmagedonFR]

Only good thing of halo 4

[@LaperLarden]

It's pretty good compared to Nightfall. I'll say that much.

[@Mikey_Storm]

Way too much build up but the pay off was worth it.

[@nagger8216]

FUD was shit too, but not nearly as bad as Nightfall

[@bigdoubleu117]

​@@harmagedonFRnah, incorrect.

[@nobleman9393]

The Nova bomb was silently retconned, it was used twice, then authors relized that with this any conflict can be easily resolved and never used it again.

[@LaperLarden]

Good point. That, and detonating the fusion reactors of any old ship are the best ways to solve any problem in Halo, apparently 😂

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

halo legends is still the GOAT of all halo adaptions and is very underrated.

[@SilverViper1000]

I like halo legends the only thing I don't like is it's lack of continuity to the halo universe and the corrupted "origins" part which 343 tried to tell there own crappy story.

[@sturm9087]

Some of legends is good and some of it is either subpar or just bad

[@CHURCHISAWESUM]

Authorization code: B e h u m a n

[@mos4434]

Halo Landfall?

[@brandon_crow1291]

My first thoughts when I watched Nightfall was "I guess someone saw Pitch Black and Crematoria from Cronicals of Riddick was cool too." That's literally what this shit was. It was Pitch Black and Cronicals with a Halo twist but done so damn badly.

[@illWillienumber31]

Nightfall is bad and super boring and still way better than the halo tv series.

[@SilverViper1000]

This is so sad, but only because it's true 😓 At least this show had less of a wasted budget than the halo TV show

[@vaniellys]

I wish I could forget it. It was so bad. And so incoherent. The two dudes came on the rings with horse, who are the size of at least two humans. There was more than enough space for everyone on their ship.

[@masterchief6460]

This show would've been better if I was in it. Ain't no angry worms stoppin' the Master Chad.

[@astrealbrizbee9815]

What bothers me is right before this book, Greg Bears Forerunner books already explained why a Halo installation can do a jump, it's not to scatter the remains, it's to get repairs done at The Ark. They didn't need to involve the ring in the first place either. They'd later go on to introduce a smaller prototype ring that could have been used to collect the element needed for the Remnant weapon....

[@DemarcationMedia]

I'm honestly very disappointed that Locke didn't get good buildup, because he's a super cool character.

[@smoldoggy1005]

He’s one of the worst looking Human characters in all of Halo bruh.

[@DemarcationMedia]

@@smoldoggy1005 That is opinion, not fact

[@smoldoggy1005]

@@DemarcationMedia saying he’s cool is also opinion. Barely any Halo fans even know who he was

[@TheNaturalGamer1]

Naw he sucks

[@DemarcationMedia]

@@smoldoggy1005 I never claimed it wasn't an opinion. It is 100% my opinion that Locke is a cool character with great armor

[@NoMoreCrumbs]

If you'd like an excellent flood horror film check out The Mona Lisa. It's technically a full motion comic or something like that, but it does a great job making the flood into something deeply horrifying. You'll especially like it if you're a fan of Dead Space

[@aceambling7685]

The ideal Halo movie would just be a live action adaptation of Mona Lisa. It could be done well on a small budget, it requires little to no previous knowledge of Halo to understand, its a self contained story that would easily fit in an average length screenplay.

[@J4CKC00P3R]

Bionicle and ripping into Nightfall, 10/10 video

[@LaperLarden]

I miss those biomechanical, Maori-inspired, Lego lads.

[@TheIrishTexan]

This is actually probably my favorite of all the live action Halo things. Partly due to my fascination with the Lekgolo and what happens to a Halo ring after its destruction and how the environment on them would be effected without power, maintenance and other factors at play to keep them a stable ecosystem.

[@LaperLarden]

They're all interesting concepts but I just don't think the show does enough with them, y'know? In a BTS interview Frank O'Connor talked about how the Halo ring is trying to rebuild itself during the hours it's not facing the sun, but that's never really shown in the show. Would've been cool to see some damaged, underground Forerunner structures as well. Or even the odd beam tower, just to remind us that this is actually Halo and not an Icelandic mountain tour with guns.

[@TheIrishTexan]

@@LaperLarden Oh, absolutely. There was a lot of potential in this one, but the execution could've been a lot better.

[@davidpoynter1223]

We need a halo horror movie or game, focused on Johnson and the Marines fighting into the forerunner construct and the fight changing to fight the flood with the covenant and Johnson being the sole survivor.

[@jantvrdy2461]

Now that's a spinoff I'd like to watch, unlike the Paramount shit.

[@aceambling7685]

Just make a live action adaptation of Mona Lisa, simple. It could be done well with a pretty small budget, its a short story so you wouldnt have to cut anything to fit it in a screenplay.

[@ShreddedNerd]

We were hoping it'd stay forgotten

[@LaperLarden]

I had to assemble the evidence before 343 are tried at the Hague for this war crime of a movie.

[@HaileyEira]

@6:59 that short scream had me crying.

[@toxenzz]

I actually halfway enjoyed it back then. Only watched it for the Nightfall armor, but it grew on me. Looking back on it I’m grateful for any Halo media, really.

[@joeowensby3997]

I'm glad I missed this the first time and wished I never knew this existed. The Landfall short is still superior. I did like the Bionicle reference though.

[@Somewhat_Unknown]

I can't believe it! KZbin actually recommended me a cool and interesting video from a small channel I've never heard of instead of a lets play video of a random game I've never heard of that doesn't even have a proper thumbnail!

[@LaperLarden]

It's my first upload in a while so I'm surprised it's being pushed out by KZbin. Hope you enjoyed it!

[@TheNaturalGamer1]

Naw it's wack cuh

[@cosmictreason2242]

@@LaperLardenthe algo was adjusted a month ago to show more stuff outside of your usual recommendations

[@mrtom2854]

@@LaperLarden KZbin's still pushing this a month later. Never heard of you before today...think I might stick around though.

[@Opbee12]

Same@@mrtom2854

[@jamiecarpenter6452]

Mid is putting it lightly. Those insufferable monologues over various scenes by Aiken about gods and soldiers were pseudo-intellectual sounding bs. Give me Forward Unto Dawn any day.

[@nicholasshealy9040]

Whoa, IGN gave Nightfall a 5/10? That’s like . . . a -2.5 on a normal person’s scale. But speaking of “forgotten Halo movies”, have you caught wind of a long since cancelled Halo CE movie written by Alex Garland? HiddenXperia already talked about it earlier this year, but I would love to hear your thoughts on its leaked script. Especially if it means the movie could somehow get a revival if gained enough traction and eventually get on the big screen, as it should’ve all those years ago. Big if, though.

[@XeZzamE]

something that wouldve been neat (but likely something they wouldnt have done due to budget especially but also the series' direction at the time) is actually *show* one of those underground forerunner caverns you were talking about, and having it look like ce (or at the very least cea) wouldve been nice to see chunky forerunner tech in live action ://

[@LaperLarden]

Yes! Thank you! I think I mentioned it in another comment below. But it would've been nice to have seen some Forerunner structures, or even the odd "not natural" cave formation or beam towers. Just to remind us that this is indeed a Halo film set on the remains of a Halo ring, and not an Icelandic sightseeing tour with guns.

[@Gartos_CZ]

Cerrection. We never forgot about it ... We just refuse to remember it

[@ToxicBalloon360]

I've only ever watched Nightfall once and that was back when it came out. And by God, it's worse than I remember. On the topic of Locke, I was very excited about the idea of a new protagonist back when he was first announced. He had cool looking armour, a cool name, an interesting vibe to him (from the MCC CGI trailer) and I was looking forward to playing as him... only to find that he was boring af as character. Which is an issue that can be fixed mind you, if they ever decide to revisit the character.

[@wumbosaurus9121]

I heard that locke was killed sometime before the events of Infinite. Dunno where that was mentioned, but saw someone saying it in the comments somewhere. But I wouldn't be surprised, the writers (like in the SW sequels) are afraid of committing to anything so that there's no coherence over the course of the trilogy.

[@ToxicBalloon360]

@@wumbosaurus9121 It was mentioned one of the Infinite audio logs that he was deployed elsewhere iirc.

[@PandaJerk007]

Cool to see a video on this! Nightfall may have been forgotten on a general level, or swept under the rug, but it's definitely clickbait to say "Halo Movie That Everyone Forgot", because I definitely remember it, and you remembered it enough to write a review xD

[@LaperLarden]

Doesn't quite have the same ring as "Halo movie that almost everyone forgot" 😂

[@soktherat777]

I remember watching this to get that armor set for Halo 5. That was totally a good time investment.

[@ebomb1133]

4:41 umm sir, you underestimate how many Bionicle fans there are still out there. Before my love for Halo, there was...... the Bionicle (insert kazoo mask of light theme here )

[@steadysamurai1172]

God man, 343i’s entire Halo legacy will be “what could’ve been”

[@aceambling7685]

And only that because Halo fans are so endlessly optimistic and always see the potential in 343's failures.

[@Chalupador]

The idea of a "new element" being made in a fusion explosion isnt necessarily far fetched, but that element would very quicking alpha decay, then either beta plus or beta minus decay into a more common element. The nuclear force of attraction of a nucleon can only be saturated so much making a limited range of elements.

[@Hans_dds]

I remember buying this film from Halo Channel, just because at the time they gave you the Nightfall armor set on Halo 5 if you did so (which was the closest to the ODST); but I completely forgot what this film was about.

[@dinovaldez3832]

The whole thing with modern halo has always been leaning too heavily on humanity bad inner conflict. Problem is 343 isn't talented enough to deliver a good halo story.

[@SilverViper1000]

They don't have any good writers who know the story of halo. Also, it feels like the higher ups don't want to have anything of bungie in their new halo. If you think about it: As soon as halo 4 started they cut almost everything but the names. Master chief, cortana, covenant and unsc.... The only things they kept. Everything else was done completely different. No more flood, not even mentioned. Actually the covenant was gone, but 343i tried to keep it alive, even though bungie killed it with the split of the elites. Spartan 2s and 3s exist already? Let's do Spartan 4s and make them worse Spartan 3s so they are almost like casual soldiers but they are called Spartans. Why are they even called Spartans? They have nothing alike. Halo infinite Was the first glimpse of hope that they return at least a little bit to the roots of halo but they still had to create a new super villain which is defeated within one game and noone cares about anymore. So much bad writing and many people have covered this before

[@dg7347]

@@SilverViper1000 why would they have the flood come back after 3 was supposed to be this last big battle to stop them? Dude you clearly just dont pay attention, halo 4 terminals are quite literally all about the flood and their origin with the forerunners and humanity before the halos firing. honestly makes me question who has less understanding of halo, 343 or the "fans"

[@am-ranth8955]

​@@dg7347The Flood was meant to be finished after 3, but the rest of the lore 343 made goes against most of what Bungie established.

[@dg7347]

@@am-ranth8955 the new lore changes virtually nothing. the only lore that everyone makes a big deal out of is the human forerunner thing, which still hardly changes the previous story.

[@cosmictreason2242]

Not talented, ideologically woke, and constrained by managerial corporatists who fear change

[@PrincelyWhistle]

I never finished this movie when it came out. I couldn't find the full thing anywhere. But I did watch the Forward Unto Dawn movie. I thought that was pretty good. Would love to hear your thoughts on it. Perhaps in a new video?

[@blueninja8094]

Thought I recognised Randals name, he has a small mention in ghosts of Onyx (one of the best halo books) and was in a short story which coincidentally also had Soren 066 who is a also a character in the awful halo show, seems like that short has two characters who are in bad live action halo story’s

[@atch4764]

one of the movies ever

[@LaperLarden]

Certainly a movie of all time.

[@PackHunter117]

*Rip the horses* Also the Lekgolo worms was cool and terrifying but the rest was average or lame

[@HidinginYourGarden]

STILL BETTER THAN THE TV SHOW

[@nagger8216]

Not really, no

[@tommoorcroft2026]

It really is

[@105thBattalion]

I remember having this run on the Waypoint app to get the not ODST armor for Halo 5, and within a week forgot every plot point except there were somehow Hunter Worms that ate tech that survived

[@JE06product]

Oh i never forgot, this shit fucked me up, the worst written halo story up there with the paramount plus garbage

[@dg7347]

using the flood actually would've made less sense because how would they even mine for some "human killing element" with threat of the flood let alone taking off the ring and weaponizing them too? they probably wouldn't waste any time detonating that nuke.

[@dianavespid937]

Being fair to the Elite walking on the mall unopposed, during the Post War several Covenant species started to live in human worlds. Rio de Janeiro had a significant Covenant population as stated in Spartan Ops So people would be like "oh damn an elite immigrant".

[@DeathTempler]

They could've made this a cheesy 90's horror with Flood, that would've been good enough. I remember getting Nightfall on DVD and rushing home in excitement. My mom watched it with me, and despite her knowing nothing of Halo and me being obsessed, we both were equally confused. That's pretty bad. I literally remember none of it, but I guess this DVD is somewhat an oddity on my shelf.

[@joshuadavid7957]

What a great video! You should do more of this. Really enjoyed

[@matcauthon1081]

It's good to see another upload from you, it seems like all my favorite youtuber have stopped uploading

[@thisiskt9210]

I thought you were gonna mention the slipspace bomb that was used in halo reach, that would've been a nice touch

[@josiahresler8073]

Ok, if Ridley did a flood movie, it would be peak horror, but it would have to be flood centric, probably following odsts

[@shreksnow1918]

Ridley Scott has gone off the deepend as evidenced by his Alien prequels. He should not be allowed anywhere near the directing chair. The funny thing about the original Alien the fact that the film was a collaborative effort and Ridley Scott had multiple people who told him no whenever he had a bad idea.

[@cosmictreason2242]

@@shreksnow1918I'm adopting this headcanon. Agree that ridley has no concept of biology or continuity, pretty crucial for flood. Could you imagine him retconning the flood to be the creators of the universe and humans are their descendants? Barf

[@Aether-Entropy]

Ah yes, 2014... Before we knew better than to trust 343's Halo releases.

[@JE06product]

Forward unto dawn is the only good live action adaptation

[@Fourger14]

I like your review, but I'm glad the Covenant never canonically use the Flood as a bio weapon, unlike the UNSC and ONI who were researching doing that. It's a line the Covenant won't cross that humans will and that adds some much needed complexity to the moral landscape of the universe.

[@metronome8471]

Maybe the covenant ain't wrong.

[@mentalglitch9603]

Bro this video was so good! I subscribed! Your channel will be huge if this is the quality of your content!

[@TenthSgtSnipes]

I didn’t forget it existed cause it provided the best odst armour in halo 5. I did forget 90% of the shows content however

[@SeniorCharry]

The unfortunate thing is Locke could’ve been a good character if 343 didn’t try to force him down our throats. The worst part was Locke was writen more like a side character than a main character, and the worst sin was the fact that they had Locke leading the new Spartan team instead of Buck. Seriously, wtf? Buck was successfully leading teams of ODSTs during the worst parts of the war. He was pretty much as successful as a Spartan without the training, augmentations, and equipment. Nightfall was just crap, and this vid does all the explaining about why it sucks so I don’t have to lol. Nice vid muh dude.

[@SomeNativeOfficial]

Hard to “forget” a movie, when you didn’t even know it existed 😅 I need to find a copy of this movie now for a bad movie night!

[@nightflash96]

Honestly the creation of new elements when the PoA went supernova didn't sound too far fetched to me when I heard it. I guess maybe the fact that pvt mesa made that up on the spot is a bit unbelievable. I'd expect that to come from a scientist or someone.

[@brycevo]

Is still remember all the love action movies. Forward Unto Dawn was pretty good.

[@gunmetalrook432]

High quality content here. Well crafted friend, keep up the good work, hope to see you grow!

[@caramelldansen2204]

mfw Halo Landfall, a fucking COMMERCIAL for Bungie, is a better piece of fiction than all of 343i's TV shows / films put together

[@EbrybodyLuvTony]

The editing is amazing man hilarious and perfect

[@thekietnguyen2673]

Now this is high quality content m8 PS: glad to see you back :D

[@Vi--ss7tt]

I remember watching this on waypoint just for the armor

[@kojironovach.7649]

had a good laugh from this, your channel is underrated lol keep up the good work edit: ok just finished the rest of the video, you got a new subscriber

[@LaperLarden]

Hell yeah! Glad to have earned your subscription!

[@theobtusemongoose3980]

The only two things i remember about this is mike colter, who i also remember enjoying, and the lekgolo worm being scary as hell.

[@valzicplayz3845]

I didn't forget the movie, but I didn't see a reason for it to exist and i also really didnt like the plot. I get it was to introduce Locke. But I didn't care and this movie was the first thing that brought into question. Why don't the Legolo worms fight the UNSC like that instead of fighting them as well hunters?

[@EggEnjoyer]

This is the problem with halo lore. It just isn’t consistent and makes the world make less and less sense. Like in halo bad blood they talk about how Spartans don’t age, how they don’t really know what a spartan life span is, just that it is extremely long and they no spartan has ever aged out of service. And then look at Halo 4 where master chief is described as an aging Spartan and then when you see his eyes they look very aged and old. Extended universes are trash

[@ArcTrooperRod-269]

HALO TV SHOWS ARE A DOUBLE-BLADED WEAPONS *You can Have Masterpieces like Halo Legends or Halo Forward unto Down, or you can have Mediocre Dumpsterfires like the Paramount+ 2022 Fanfic*

[@aceambling7685]

Legends and FUD are not masterpieces by any metric. They are exceptionally mid. Legends is the better of the two, only because a few of its shorts are actually kino.

[@lennzilla5578]

4:41 I understood that reference

[@CryptidRenfri]

I haven't watched this film, but I just discovered your channel and this was the next recommended video. I gotta see what my boy Luke Cage got up to in the Halo universe lol

[@cpt.s.seiden]

I literally only watched it to get the ODST armor in H5

[@harrybee5924]

WAKE UP BABE, NEW LARDEN VIDEO DROPPED

[@TobeWilsonNetwork]

4:40 Unity, Duty, and Destiny baby

[@helljumper7101]

I remember that this was bad but I didn’t remember it being this bad I can’t believe this actually got approved

[@EmeraldCoasttt]

Early last year a mega construx figure of one of Locke's outfits in this show was released for the halo heroes line. Subsequent halo heroes released have been incredibly difficult to find because every store still has 6 lockes in stock and doesn't think they need to order more. There have been 3 halo heroes series I haven't seen locally because I don't want to have to buy 6 lockes to get them to order the next ones. Please send help

[@IRLJojo]

This was hilarious! Great video man!

[@LaperLarden]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@phoenixsidepeen5468]

I love Colter. We actually have the same Alma mater! Which makes me even sadder that he got the short of the script in his two performances in Halo. Really wish they would bring him back and do his character justice

[@grayling2]

i only vaguely knew of nightfall, so it's interesting to finally have more of an idea of what it actually is. saved me 2 hours lol

[@cosmictreason2242]

The lekgolo were interesting as a concept but there were no stakes or compelling plot

[@MAJR172]

Its kinda sad that Locke had so much build-up, but the only time they actually wrote him well was in the bits they added to H2A

[@aceambling7685]

The bits that actively degrade the rest of H2A. Hot Take: the old cutscenes were better.

[@343themarine]

Please make a video on Forward Unto Dawn, that movie was actually good. It was not perfect, it was clearly thought of as a proper series and later shortened as a web series/ movie, but it is still by far the best live-action halo we've got.

[@meltedicet777]

Just sitting here I can think of a stronger plot. There’s a specific halo five visor color that talks about spartan teams that infiltrate forerunner installations that might have the flood. Spartan Locke and his team from halo five could’ve just had a plot written around this similar to the popular Mona Lisa halo video boom right there much more interesting.

[@vplasmatm]

nightfall truly was one of the stories ever

[@Jakk2803]

Nightfall was my first introduction to the condor which I really like as a ship

[@Omega4Productions]

I actually did manage to score a Blu Ray copy of Nightfall, but only because it came attached to my H4: Forward Unto Dawn Blu Ray. I remember back in school being hyped to come home and watch every episode of Nightfall on the Halo Channel as it came out. It was…uh…yeah, one of life’s little disappointments. 8:34. Tbf I don’t think the UNSC exactly has many NOVA bombs on hand. We only know of two (the bombs detonated at Joyous Exaltation and Glyke) and they were prototypes to begin with.

[@LaperLarden]

There is always the *bigger* nuke option, though!

[@Omega4Productions]

@@LaperLarden That’s true!

[@dsdy1205]

10:50 In all fairness to the show, there's some speculation that the reason UNSC weapons reach their unholy levels of performance vs what we'd expect for a round that size is that they use electronic ignition, which would require powering the weapon up, even if it's gas operated

[@tylerherr4288]

about randall was a spartan that peacefully went rogue it doesnt matter how expensive a spartan is if they dont want to fight they wont and you cant make them i do agree that its weird that they wasted the money tearing him apart to get every scrap of titanium out of him though

[@benbrgr9]

I just wanted to say, thank you for the Bionicle joke

[@themodernfrontiersmen]

I actually liked this movie and Forward Unto Dawn. Locke is a good characters poorly used by 343. This was a really well made video!

[@harmagedonFR]

Nightfall was not very fun but it was interesting, halo forward unto dawn was good and the ambiance was nice, just a little long sometime and the halo series is good

[@lambdaweaponscache5394]

I remember watching this as a fifteen year old, hyped for halo 5, and just thinking at the time how ass it was 😂

[@KarlPHorse]

I could see the team going every man for themselves if they were some random troopers. But this is an ONI field team. These guys not only accept, but expect suicide missions. They are special operations soldiers who go through not just extensive training, but extensive psychological tests and observation to make sure they are the perfect people for the job. Just like pretty much all special forces units. I mean, just look at the dead ONI security team from Halo Reach. Each of them fought to the death in a hopeless battle to protect the artifact in Halsey's lab. They backed themselves into a corner knowing it would be the last thing they ever did.

[@TheHaiko117]

the rant about how firearms work was hillarious

[@liamgabrielides2802]

For the question about how could an element only target Humans, it's obviously a ridiculous plot point, but I am a scientist and a nerd so I'll try give some possible explanation even though it's far fetched! It could be that the 'elements' are actually ions (charged atoms/elements), and their specific charge is such that they interact with atoms in human anatomy and not any other species (as some of our atomic makeup is likely to be of energy/construct particular to us). So, it could be that the bomb releases heavy (I'm assuming because it's a newly discovered element) atoms that react with atoms in our body, passing on huge amounts of energy that can only cause a chain reaction of energy being passed on in us. Or some of us? I'm not a Biologist as you can probably tell, but I do know that certain reactions are concerned with energy being a very specific value, i.e. when electrons become excited during ionisation, they climb very well defined energy levels, and release very well defined energy in the form of photons (light), which can be harmful if of high enough energy. Maybe if this chain reaction can be engaged from within our anatomy, the light (x-ray or gamma) would be absorbed by the human, meaning that other species would be safe if the reaction didn't occur within their bodies. I realise that this is a dumb movie, and I've now likely put more effort into this comment than the writers did for this movie, but like I said I'm a nerd lol. Lmk what you guys think, especially if you're a biologist haha

[@LaperLarden]

This is the kind of comment that I really appreciate. Love the thought that was put into this!

[@savageslattz5705]

That star treky dude is actually one of the oldest covenant races they are like traders and tech experts i think, they were in a book or somthing aswell as this show

[@H4L0GUY117]

idk what you're on about i have found both forward unto dawn and this up on youtube in good quality and the forward unto dawn full vid has been up for like 7 years

[@hellohowareyou3265]

I honestly was thinking about it, and it would’ve made more sense, If the bomb that they found on the halo ring was a forerunner artifact that the forerunners would use to keep the humans from overpopulating. It would have made sense if they found it while scavenging the remains of the ring.

[@XtreemAlan]

Every time I come back to this im surprised it’s *not* written by Frank O’Connor I mean, the part about the ring fragments went somewhere else, despite the games proving this fact wrong? Similar to Frank writing that the keyship s were destroyed, despite a keyship being the center point of Halo 3

[@ajackass5950]

Nightfall was some seriously stanky booty

[@Mothware]

Ya know, I only watched this once when it came out and at the time thought it was a solid 'okay'. Not good, mind you, this video pointed out a lot of the flaws I also found in it, but it was entertaining enough for me to turn my brain off and enjoy. I must have been out of my mind, as hearing it retold has reminded of everything else I must have blocked out of my memory, like I never realized it had a de-spartaned spartan in it. Why does it always seem impossible for 'professional' writers to create even passable stories or at least keep them logically consistent for the existing fictional worlds they're in? I understand writers and producers put a bit of themselves in their work, yet rarely does it improve the final product, usually makes it worse.

[@jaski4022]

you should do a video on the cancelled neill blomkamp/peter jackson/alex garland movie that was cancelled.

[@LaperLarden]

I've done another video discussing the Blomkamp film along with all of the other live action Halo shows and trailers if you're interested! kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZncgayBg7KVqLcsi=W-YSS3Ic0A0itOy_

[@DSP-gh5ei]

I liked nightfall and thought Randall was cool as hell in the way he went out, I can see why critics didn't like it though

[@aceambling7685]

Randall's sacrifice looks low budget and goofy and makes zero sense, both in the context of the movie and the larger context of Halo as a whole.