Half-Life movie to float in limbo

In a recent interview with Gabe Newell, co-founder and managing director of Valve, he says that while the idea of a Half-Life movie is not out of the question, he will not let it happen until a decent script gets written for it.

According to Newell the movie industry tends to bastardize game licenses by producing shoddy works that have no real theatrical quality. They are running a train on this cash cow, and we, the ever loyal and hopefull (to a fault) fans continue to throw money in the garbage whenever the next game turned movie blockbuster hits the big screen.

Well geeze, I don't know what Newell is talking about, there's been plenty of really great video game movies. I'll name a few, Doom, Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2, Mortal Kombat 2, Resident Evil 2, Street Fighter, Wing Commander, and my personal favorite, Super Mario Brothers. I mean, not all of those movies could have sucked right? Right? Come on, Jean Claude Van mother fuckin' Dam was Guile! It gets no better than that right? Right?

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Yeah ok, so those movies sucked. But maybe the next one will be different right? Right?

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