I've read all four books, but I barely remember 2061 and absolutely loathed 3001.  So I don't particularly care if they ever get made or not.

And to add to the thread:

Metal Gear.

Ideally, I'd like to see Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake condensed into a single Metal Gear film, followed by Metal Gear 2: The Twin Snakes (a fairly faithful adaptation of Metal Gear Solid), Metal Gear 3: Sons of Liberty (adaptation of MGS2 with some liberties taken to make sure it, you know, makes sense), Metal Gear: Outer Heaven (MGS3, Portable Ops and Peace Walker all combined and reorganized into a single prequel focusing on Big Boss), and finally Metal Gear 4: Guns of the Patriots (again, an adaptation of MGS4 with some liberties taken to make it make more sense).

I seriously doubt that will happen - if we get a Metal Gear game, it'll be one of three things - a unique story outside the canon of the games, an adaptation of Metal Gear Solid, or a side story/sequel/midquel that tells a non-game story, but still takes place in the games' canon.  The first and third possibilities I wouldn't mind, but it'd bug me if they ignored MG and MG2:SS just to adapt Metal Gear Solid.

Half-Life: Escape from City-17.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKffQO2UZBE&feature=relmfu

While far from flawless, these guys did a fantastic job on the little of it they did make. I'd love to see the whole thing, or a feature length film made by them. Unfortunately, this is from back in early 2009 with no sign of life since then. Beside the trailer I posted, there is a five minute long "part one" of the feature up on youtube, but the second part promised to be "coming soon" never showed up. I've always grimaced at the idea of a Half-Life movie, but man, these guys did an amazing job for a next to nothing budget.

thejediknighthusezni said:

The greatest misconception about '1984' is that GO was warning us about what could happen. That is true, but only part of the truth. Rather, he was alerting us to what is happenning- at this moment- at any modern moment. He was describing the inborn and conditioned mechanisms that drive people to use modern techniques to seek power-UNLIMITED POWER-without end. WS tells his torturer that there are more rational ways of dealing with him and he is promptly tormented yet more for missing the point entirely. The point is that, for people who start down the path of controlling all in the name of some greater good, a point will be reached when it is no longer sufficient to hold potential power. At a point, only the exercise of actual power to intrude in the most minute and intimate ways in the life of another can be acceptable. "Power corrupts...." It was also a tale about the effect such total survaillance has upon the observed- Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. There's no escape from it. The more intensive the observation, the more radical the course of the observed is altered. How utterly warping it is to the individuals trapped in such intolerably inhuman conditions.

Oh man, I just fell in love with you... a little.

I actually just discovered Beyond Black Mesa and Escape from City-17 earlier this evening. Beyond Black Mesa was kind of cool, but I didn't think it was near as well done as Escape from City-17. The combine soldiers looked okay I guess, but I really wasn't a fan of the zombies being portrayed as regular zombie movie type zombies. I love the unique Half-Life brand of parasitic aliens that latch onto your brain, mutate you, and turn you into a zombie into a creepy, wailing, slowish moving zombie. The running spitting modern Hollywoodesque zombies this just weren't very Half-Lifey to me.

The big over the top Matrixesque fight scene toward the end between Adrian and the Combine soldier struck me as extremely comical (and very lame). And the whole sacrifice thing at the end when he drops the grenade behind them makes no sense. For one, it has a bright flashing red light on it, so the Combine have to be really dumb not to see it yet they are still approaching them. It would have made more sense for them to run, unless I missed something, they seem to be sacrificing themselves for no other purpose than to kill half a dozen Combine soldiers (did I miss something?). Feels like it was done for no other reason that to be sappily dramatic (though it suffered from that through and through with the dire voice over narration), and to bring a quick end to the story. However, I still have to appreciate the effort that was put into it.

TK-949 said:

 

RedFive said:

I've been waiting for something more to come from this since I first saw it a couple years ago.  It's so awesome, whatever it is.

What's In The Box?

Wow. A nice one, although I don't know what it really was.
And though I don't know Half Life (since I was never into shooters) it is fun to see the logos of Black Mesa, Aperture Science (Portal, and Half Life, too?) and Hanso Foundation (Lost) on the fake website of Babel Research.

 

Definitely some very heavy Half-Life influence in there, the look and feel of the atmosphere was heavily borrowed from HL2, as were the majority of the sound effects throughout, and I recognized many of the music cues as being from Lost. Pretty interesting little short, but it looks like it was from 2009 and has been on hold. Probably dead in the water then.