Martian Outpost

It’s seems like it is hard to do, and it rarely turns out well. The video games we love to play, for some reason, don’t seem to adapt well to movies. Movies, however, have been turned into some good video games.

There are many examples of sci-fi video games that did not turn out well on the silver screen. My favorite example of the absolute failure to adapt a sci-fi video game to movie is the flop Wing Commander. What a great video game and what a complete waste of my time to watch in the theater.

The other day Wing Commander was on TV and I thought I would try stomaching another try at it. I lasted about 15 minutes and had to change the channel. This is coming from someone who loves to watch cheesy sci-fi movies like Enemy Mine, Soylent Green and Mars Attacks!. Remind me to never watch another movie directed by Chris Roberts.

There have been some decent sci-fi movies that have been turned into games. There aren’t many sci-fi video game to movie adaptations however. Keep in mind that there are some good video game adaptations, but I am specifically talking about sci-fi video games.

My top two favorite sci-fi video game adaptations have to be Resident Evil, which is a sci-fi/horror and Doom, which is also a sci-fi/horror. Both of these movies were exciting, enjoyable and kept me on the edge of my seat. It also helps that these movies used great actors and actresses such as The Rock, Carl Urban and Milla Jovovich. By the way Milla, congrats on the new baby (born November 3, 2007).

I need to give an honorable mention to Final Fantasy – The Spirits Within. That was a good adaptation and a fun movie to watch as well.

What sci-fi games should be made into a movie? There are a lot out there. A movie based on StarCraft would be very fun. How about Contra? Even a Metroid movie would be fun to watch.

And what about Halo? That movie has great potential. First it was official, then canceled and now it seems it may still yet become a reality. Gears of War is another video game that is slated to become a movie in the near future (2009).

No matter what you think about sci-fi video games, they have a large fan base. Something Halo 3 has proved to Hollywood is that as video games make a lot of money. There is plenty of money to be made in making those games into movies. There is already a guaranteed fan base, and as long as the movie is well made, it will be very profitable.

So Halloween is only four days away and I have a big huge pumpkin sitting on my counter still waiting to be carved. I’ve always created the usual pumpkin with triangle eyes and jagged teeth. It usually ends up looking like an elementary school project. I thought this year it would be fun to create a pumpkin with a sci-fi theme.

Today I would like to show you some of the cool Halo-themed pumpkins I found on the Web. I tried very hard to find a Halo pumpkin patter, but without any luck. Let me know if you find one! Anyway, these are some of the best pumpkins I found from around the Web. Some of these people are VERY creative!

Halo Pumkin #1

Halo Pumpkin #2

Halo Pumpkin #3

Halo Pumpkin #4

Halo Pumpkin #5

Let me know if you find any fun sci-fi pumpkin patterns! Enjoy these pictures and have a very happy Haloween!

**UPDATE**

I have found a few stencils you may be able to use. These are pretty cool. You can either right-click them and save them or click on the link to see them in a separate window.

Halo Stencil With Master Chief

I also found some cool Xbox themed pumpkin stencils from www.xbox.com.

Xbox Power Button Stencil

Xbox Live Logo Stencil

Xbox 360 Console Stencil

Xbox Jewel Logo Stencil