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Halo 5: Guardians is the latest instalment in the Halo franchise and a direct sequel to Halo 4.
It sees Master Chief go rogue for reasons I won’t spoil here and then get hunted by Spartan Locke, sent by the UNSC. Coming out three years after Halo 4 and a great marketing campaign, promising a rivalry/battle between Chief and Locke and hinting at an antagonistic Chief, does Halo 5 deliver?
First off, I have to put it out there that I am a huge fan of the Halo series and that is for its campaigns more so than the multiplayer. I will always complete the story before moving onto the multiplayer because I am invested in the character of the Master Chief and always excited to see where his character will go or how he will develop emotionally, especially after a rather sad ending to Halo 4.I actually really like Halo 4 contrary to other people’s opinions because although the multiplayer had clear, undeniable issues, the campaign was amazing, technically and story-wise.It was almost like a character study of Chief and Cortana as it put them at the forefront so I was hoping for Halo 5 to continue this in its story.
Unfortunately, whilst Halo 5’s campaign is beautiful, graphically at a constant 60fps, and has better level design and is probably more fun than Halo 4, its story is a real weakness which dampens an otherwise perfect Halo game. You may be wondering why this is ‘unfortunate’ since it still sounds pretty great, but if you were hoping for a great story and further development for the Master Chief,you may be disappointed.
The cutscenes, while stunning and impressive to behold, are too short and feel unfinished as they suddenly fade to black, and sometimes it felt like some cutscenes were removed. For example, you never see Locke’s team get assigned to tracking down the Master Chief and it is just thrust upon you all-of-a-sudden. The game tries to add a new element which just feels out of place in a Halo game as you go up to people and press ‘x’ to talk as if it’s an RPG game like Skyrim. The problem is this element never goes anywhere and just feels like they were too lazy to make it a cutscene.
The story also feels rushed and is frustrating in the way that it has so much more potential that it never fulfills, but I’m not going to talk about what it should’ve been, I’ll talk about what’s there and the problems with it. Firstly, Chief’s reasons for going rogue just don’t feel near sufficient or important enough to truly get invested in his story and the way he goes rogue is just so anti-climactic and offhandedly done. Moreover, you only play as Chief for three missions out of the 15 missions in the campaign so obviously there’s not much time there for proper development of his character.
The rest of the story is with the dutiful, but dull Spartan Locke who, with his team, hunts down the Chief. It starts out that way, but I won’t spoil it so all I’ll say is the ads and the marketing campaign lied to you. Hell, even the front cover lies to you as this game is not really Chief vs. Locke. Team Osiris, while more interesting than Blue Team in this game, are never fleshed out and have no emotional ties to their mission to hunt down the Chief as they see it as «just another target» as Lock puts it so how are we supposed to care whether they find the Chief or not and root for them.
I won’t spoil any returning characters in case you don’t follow the trailers and advertisements, but it was good to see them, albeit briefly.
However, if you don’t care for the Halo story and don’t bother with cutscenes there is still lots of fun to be had in the gameplay. The level design is amazing with beautiful scenery and HD graphics, especially on the plant Sanghelios which features great towering stone- statues of Elites that are nothing if not impressive. You also fight a Kraken…enough said. There is not a dull mission and there are a lot of great standout moments in the gameplay which you just have to stop to take in. Although a boss fight with a certain character is repeated quite a bit it doesn’t detract much from the fun of it. Also, your teammates do revive you so if you die it’s not a definite respawn unless your teammates are all dead and they fail trying to get to yo, which can be frustrating.
I haven’t got much to say about the multiplayer, but I had lots of fun on it and it is much better and more balanced than Halo 4, though I’ve been playing Arena more than Warzone because I just prefer it, but that’s just my opinion.
I’ve heard Halo fans who’ve been playing since 2004 when Halo 2 came out and are saying this is the best Halo multiplayer since then, which must be a good thing.
In conclusion, if you like Halo, this is a must-buy because although the campaign has a weak story, it has some standout moments such as an awesome hand to hand fight between Chief and Locke, but there is also lots of fun and memories to be made in the gameplay. Also, the multiplayer is great which just shows Halo is back baby! If you are not a Halo fan, you will not care about the weak story and you will find lots of enjoyment in the gameplay as well as its impressive graphics and 60fps fluidity so I’d say this is definitely a game worth checking out.
Oh, and the soundtrack is amazing!
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The magic words “based on a true story” draw audiences in – and directors know it well. Moreover, as a rule, first of all, we are talking about such stories that excite the imagination of the audience either with their mystery, or with their gloom, or both, and others, but first of all — unusual. Sometimes films are based on such cases that are simply hard to believe. One way or another, writers and directors have always been happy to take stories from real life, because the truth is much more outlandish than fiction.
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The horror film, based on the novel of the same name, may remind fans of the genre such classics as The Blair Witch Project ). The plots are really similar: a group of young people wandering through the forests, and something otherworldly and bloodthirsty following on their heels. True, in the case of the «Ritual» everything is even more interesting, because it is inspired by the real story of the strange disappearance of five people that occurred in the United States in 19’78 in Yuba County, California. The case received a great response due to the numerous mysterious and simply inexplicable circumstances over which researchers are puzzled to this day (it was even dubbed the «American Dyatlov Pass»). A company of five friends went by car to another city for a basketball game. It is curious that all five, although they were able-bodied, suffered from mild mental or mental disabilities (we ourselves do not understand how it came together, and yet).
After the match, they were supposed to immediately go back, but relatives did not wait for their return. Later, their car was found in a completely opposite direction, in the mountains, in the middle of the forest in the national reserve. For some reason they abandoned her even though she was serviceable. Three of the five missing were found dead in the forest only after several weeks of searching. The body of the fourth was found in a travel trailer intended for lost tourists. However, although the trailer had enough food and fuel (plus a walkie-talkie to contact the rescuers), this man did not call for help and died of starvation. The fifth disappeared without a trace and was never found. All the oddities of this confusing case can be listed for a very long time, and there is still no clear answer to the question of what happened. Some researchers (as in the case of the Dyatlov Pass) allow any options, up to conspiracy theories or mystical ones — one of them is just shown in the «Ritual».
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Hostel and its sequels are among those films that one wants to consider fictional from beginning to end, however, according to them created by Eli Roth, he was inspired by something real — something that Roth himself encountered. In the Hostel, members of the Elite Hunt Club are shelling out money for torturing kidnapped tourists, and Roth didn’t take this idea out of the blue at all. As he told in this interview, one day a journalist friend sent him a link to a certain site, which, in all seriousness, advertised a «vacation with a murder.» “The site offered the following: you go to Thailand, pay $10,000, and the establishment provides you with a “volunteer” whom you can kill with a headshot. Yes, it was clarified that there was supposedly no coercion here, the person knows what he is getting into, and the money, or part of it, should go to his relatives. So you supposedly could save someone from poverty, and, at the same time, find out what it is like to kill a person.
Roth called the creator of the site — whoever he was — «mentally ill» (actually, how else to call a psychopath who thought of this?). Of course, we can assume that all this was a joke in the spirit of the «dark side of the Internet», but … who knows.
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The Exorcist (1973)
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According to eyewitnesses, after being possessed by a demon, the boy acquired superpowers — for example, he could lift objects and people that were superior in weight to him, and also move things with the power of his mind. The bed on which he lay moved around the room and sometimes almost hung in the air. The boy himself suddenly spoke in Latin, and even swore in it, although no one had ever taught him this language. The article was released on 29August 1949, but it is reliably known that the victim, whose name was never declassified, was sent to the hospital at the Jesuit University of Georgetown (Columbia) in May of the same year, where he was observed for some time. It is also curious that it was in 1949 that Blatty studied at Georgetown University — it is even possible that he knew more about this mystical story from his teachers, and also saw or talked with this boy.
«The Drop» (1988)
A still from the film «The Drop»
A book was written and two films were made about a carnivorous alien from outer space that looks like a large shapeless clot (or «drop») and devours people — the original 1958 of the year and a remake of the same name, a 1988 horror film.
And although it seems incredible that the imagination of the creators of «The Drop» could be struck by some real event, thanks to which such a plot was invented, nevertheless, it is true. In 1950, a strange incident was allegedly documented in the United States, when two police officers saw at night how an object similar to a parachute descended from the sky. Arriving at the place where he landed, they saw something shapeless about two meters in diameter, similar to jelly. Inside the «jelly» there was something like crystals, and it spread a haze, gleamed in the light of lanterns and glowed, much like some types of jellyfish. Despite the fact that the find was an unknown thing that fell from the sky, pulsing like something alive (all eyewitnesses had the impression that it was something alive), one of the officers had the great idea to put his hand inside and look , What will happen. The substance that got on his skin evaporated almost instantly, leaving behind «a thin layer of foam without any smell.
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The “clot” itself completely vanished into thin air in half an hour, before anyone in authority had time to study it, but the story and rumors about it circulated in American newspapers for a long time. By the way, here you can find the original message under the heading «A ‘Saucer’ Floats to Earth And a Theory Is Dished Up».
The Shining (1980)
Still from the film The Shining
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is a freestyle adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name, which in turn was based on a real incident that occurred with a writer. At 19In 74, he and his wife Tabitha visited the Stanley Hotel, famous throughout America as a “ghost hotel”. It was Stanley that later became the prototype of the Overlook Hotel, also located in Colorado and in many ways similar to its real “double”. It is believed that during the evening and night that King spent in an almost empty hotel (where he and his wife were the only guests), he himself had to become an eyewitness to strange phenomena.
He saw the ghosts of children in the corridors, ghostly dancers in the ballroom, and a long-dead maid cleaning room 217 (the «same» ominous number 217 also appears in the book). In addition, he had a nightmare that was included in The Shining in a minimally revised form — about how his three-year-old son was being chased down the hotel corridor by a snake-like fire hose (if King spoke about ghosts in various interviews, he told about a terrible dream on your website). It is easy to assume that the writer’s imagination simply played out (besides, it is known that just at that time he was struggling with alcoholism). But whatever King really owes his inspiration to, the story of a sinister hotel, a father who struggles with his demons and addiction to alcohol, and his young son, according to many fans of the novel, turned out to be simply extraordinarily convincing and lively.
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The Roman Empire is trying to establish its order in the British Isles. In constant skirmishes with local Celtic tribes, many soldiers and centurions of the Roman army die. Twenty years ago, the legendary ninth legion disappeared in these parts, which no one has heard of since. Then the honor of the family of the still baby Marcus Flavius Aquila was trampled on, since his father led the missing legion. But Mark believed all his life that the lost golden eagle, the symbol of the legion, could be returned.
Since then, he has matured and become a centurion, who is sent to these hostile lands to lead a large garrison. A young but promising military leader immediately establishes his own strict rules, which leads to massive discontent among ordinary soldiers. However, such a harsh discipline soon gives its results. The garrison of Mark successfully fended off several Celtic raids with minimal losses, which earns the centurion honors and a reward from the senate.
But due to a serious wound in the thigh, Mark is forced to leave the service for a while. He recovers to the south of the island to his uncle’s estate, where he has no choice but to simply wait for his recovery, indulging in idle secular entertainment.
During one of the gladiator fights, Mark saves the life of a young slave, a captive Celt named Esca, whose entire family was once killed by the Romans. The guy, although he hates Rome and everything connected with it, recognizes the authority of his new master and swears to serve him. Rumors soon reach Mark that the golden eagle of the ninth legion has been sighted in the north of the country. Aquila tries to convince his uncle and the senators that they need to organize a trip to those places, but high officials consider this idea inappropriate. Then Mark decides to go himself to where no Roman has ever returned. The Centurion takes Esca with him and they cross Hadrian’s Wall, after which only the gods can protect them. After several days of travel, Mark and Esca meet the former legionary Lucius Caius Metellus, one of the surviving warriors of the ninth legion.
He tells travelers about a tribe of seal people, the Picts, who ambushed and killed Mark’s father. Soon they find the tribe, and with it the eagle, which the leader of the tribe kept all this time. After several battles, Aquila grants Esca freedom and they unite with the rest of the surviving legionnaires, who were scattered across the local lands. Mark and Esca bring the eagle to the senators, after which the ninth legion is restored.
vlad_black
A good film for the younger generation. I watched twice. Put 9 out of 10.
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Mishgan
A little naive, but kind film, you can watch with your family. Pulls shorter than 8/10.
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ZuluS
Excellent ribbon.
February 27, 2017
pritchin1938
I can’t say that this is a good film, this is a wonderful film and I thought how more such films would be shown If only we-on television, on screens in cinemas,
in my opinion, they can even be included in the school curriculum for elementary grades.
Capercaillie and his ilk, where for a dollar they will do whatever you want with a person. Where is honor and
conscience. Thank you, the Organizers for these films!!!!!
February 12, 2016
Yce
Beautifully told about the senselessness and ruthlessness of war. Good film. I can not vouch, but still it seems to me that it was filmed without obvious historical mistakes, so you can watch it.
February 1, 2012
pavel
the movie is tough! well done!! nice to look at!!!
February 18, 2012
Ninis
What a movie! People know how to make good films! The Eagle of the Ninth Legion is by far my favorite movie. And it’s free!
February 20, 2012
treevi
A good film about honor, friendship, duty.
March 20, 2012
Unity Flyer
A brutal but powerful film that deserves attention. Barely found it in good quality, very satisfied! Look!
March 22, 2012
Yef
The Eagle of the Ninth Legion is a great movie! You can watch it many times! We found it online and we are happy to watch it for the second time and are very satisfied! Seriously good movie!
March 25, 2012
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