Obviously Oblivious

I was over on CNet watching the video feed, which included the trailer for Halo 3. Which, really, looks awesome. I'm not a gamer, mostly because today's games are more difficult and complex than I have the time or patience for, not to mention how expensive consoles are these days (the Wii being the exception). But the trailer is cool, graphics having advanced to the point where game rendering and movie rendering don't look much different. Then my brain kicked out the idea that Halo would probably be a movie. And it will be, in 2008, according to rottentomatoes.com. I probably heard this months ago and my brain picked this particular moment to kick out this particular piece for jetsam (far superior to flotsam).

But, duh, any succesful video game is bound to become a movie, and vice versa, if for no other reason than for fanboys to have something else to buy. It might suck, it might not. I'd say the movie adaptation of Halo will do the Transformers thing and turn into one huge recruiting ad for the army. Starship Troopers did wonders for the air force way back when.