The Halo Movie That 343 Wishes You'd Forget 

Apologies for the radio silence for ages , folks! Have been very busy the past few weeks. And yes, I know Nightfall isn't technically a "movie". But it is 120 minutes long and plays like one. So, close enough.

The whole “nuke it again” solution will stay immortalized in my head.

Something that always felt off about how Hunters are portrayed in live action Halo is they treat the worms as 200x more deadly when they're not in the armor, begging the question of why the Covenant put them in armor and Scarabs to begin with rather than just let a bunch of worms loose.

I always felt that the fans were the most passionate about halo, more than 343 or Microsoft ever was. I’ve heard of sooo many ideas that sounded awesome and some that would probably work well as a movie or series, but 343 or Microsoft just doesn’t care nor do they listen. Also 343 is afraid or just dislikes the flood for some reason, they totally phased them out entirely.

I find it funny that 343 seems to mock themselves in halo 5 with an easter egg where a grunt talks about having to leave a planet on a ship and there being a whole conflict about it having a single seat only for him to get on board and find out that it is actually huge inside and had enough room for them all!

The worms being hostile only when their armour and tech is on could mean that it's the electro magnetism that aggros them, however I'm also pretty sure that gravity would do the same thing anyway-

The Nova bomb was silently retconned, it was used twice, then authors relized that with this any conflict can be easily resolved and never used it again.

This show would've been better if I was in it. Ain't no angry worms stoppin' the Master Chad.

Now do Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn. Imo its actually pretty solid.

I wish I could forget it. It was so bad. And so incoherent. The two dudes came on the rings with horse, who are the size of at least two humans. There was more than enough space for everyone on their ship.

halo legends is still the GOAT of all halo adaptions and is very underrated.

What bothers me is right before this book, Greg Bears Forerunner books already explained why a Halo installation can do a jump, it's not to scatter the remains, it's to get repairs done at The Ark. They didn't need to involve the ring in the first place either. They'd later go on to introduce a smaller prototype ring that could have been used to collect the element needed for the Remnant weapon....

I actually halfway enjoyed it back then. Only watched it for the Nightfall armor, but it grew on me. Looking back on it I’m grateful for any Halo media, really.

Bionicle and ripping into Nightfall, 10/10 video

This is actually probably my favorite of all the live action Halo things. Partly due to my fascination with the Lekgolo and what happens to a Halo ring after its destruction and how the environment on them would be effected without power, maintenance and other factors at play to keep them a stable ecosystem.

If you'd like an excellent flood horror film check out The Mona Lisa. It's technically a full motion comic or something like that, but it does a great job making the flood into something deeply horrifying. You'll especially like it if you're a fan of Dead Space

My first thoughts when I watched Nightfall was "I guess someone saw Pitch Black and Crematoria from Cronicals of Riddick was cool too." That's literally what this shit was. It was Pitch Black and Cronicals with a Halo twist but done so damn badly.

I'm honestly very disappointed that Locke didn't get good buildup, because he's a super cool character.

I'm glad I missed this the first time and wished I never knew this existed. The Landfall short is still superior. I did like the Bionicle reference though.

@6:59 that short scream had me crying.

I can't believe it! RU-vid actually recommended me a cool and interesting video from a small channel I've never heard of instead of a lets play video of a random game I've never heard of that doesn't even have a proper thumbnail!

Cool to see a video on this! Nightfall may have been forgotten on a general level, or swept under the rug, but it's definitely clickbait to say "Halo Movie That Everyone Forgot", because I definitely remember it, and you remembered it enough to write a review xD

We need a halo horror movie or game, focused on Johnson and the Marines fighting into the forerunner construct and the fight changing to fight the flood with the covenant and Johnson being the sole survivor.

Nightfall is bad and super boring and still way better than the halo tv series.

We were hoping it'd stay forgotten

Whoa, IGN gave Nightfall a 5/10? That’s like . . . a -2.5 on a normal person’s scale. But speaking of “forgotten Halo movies”, have you caught wind of a long since cancelled Halo CE movie written by Alex Garland? HiddenXperia already talked about it earlier this year, but I would love to hear your thoughts on its leaked script. Especially if it means the movie could somehow get a revival if gained enough traction and eventually get on the big screen, as it should’ve all those years ago. Big if, though.

Mid is putting it lightly. Those insufferable monologues over various scenes by Aiken about gods and soldiers were pseudo-intellectual sounding bs. Give me Forward Unto Dawn any day.

I've only ever watched Nightfall once and that was back when it came out. And by God, it's worse than I remember. On the topic of Locke, I was very excited about the idea of a new protagonist back when he was first announced. He had cool looking armour, a cool name, an interesting vibe to him (from the MCC CGI trailer) and I was looking forward to playing as him... only to find that he was boring af as character. Which is an issue that can be fixed mind you, if they ever decide to revisit the character.

something that wouldve been neat (but likely something they wouldnt have done due to budget especially but also the series' direction at the time) is actually *show* one of those underground forerunner caverns you were talking about, and having it look like ce (or at the very least cea) wouldve been nice to see chunky forerunner tech in live action ://

Cerrection. We never forgot about it ... We just refuse to remember it

I remember watching this to get that armor set for Halo 5. That was totally a good time investment.

I remember buying this film from Halo Channel, just because at the time they gave you the Nightfall armor set on Halo 5 if you did so (which was the closest to the ODST); but I completely forgot what this film was about.

4:41 umm sir, you underestimate how many Bionicle fans there are still out there. Before my love for Halo, there was...... the Bionicle (insert kazoo mask of light theme here )

I never finished this movie when it came out. I couldn't find the full thing anywhere. But I did watch the Forward Unto Dawn movie. I thought that was pretty good. Would love to hear your thoughts on it. Perhaps in a new video?

God man, 343i’s entire Halo legacy will be “what could’ve been”

The idea of a "new element" being made in a fusion explosion isnt necessarily far fetched, but that element would very quicking alpha decay, then either beta plus or beta minus decay into a more common element. The nuclear force of attraction of a nucleon can only be saturated so much making a limited range of elements.

What a great video! You should do more of this. Really enjoyed

It's good to see another upload from you, it seems like all my favorite youtuber have stopped uploading

*Rip the horses* Also the Lekgolo worms was cool and terrifying but the rest was average or lame

The whole thing with modern halo has always been leaning too heavily on humanity bad inner conflict. Problem is 343 isn't talented enough to deliver a good halo story.

one of the movies ever

Thought I recognised Randals name, he has a small mention in ghosts of Onyx (one of the best halo books) and was in a short story which coincidentally also had Soren 066 who is a also a character in the awful halo show, seems like that short has two characters who are in bad live action halo story’s

Bro this video was so good! I subscribed! Your channel will be huge if this is the quality of your content!

High quality content here. Well crafted friend, keep up the good work, hope to see you grow!

I remember having this run on the Waypoint app to get the not ODST armor for Halo 5, and within a week forgot every plot point except there were somehow Hunter Worms that ate tech that survived

STILL BETTER THAN THE TV SHOW

using the flood actually would've made less sense because how would they even mine for some "human killing element" with threat of the flood let alone taking off the ring and weaponizing them too? they probably wouldn't waste any time detonating that nuke.

The editing is amazing man hilarious and perfect

had a good laugh from this, your channel is underrated lol keep up the good work edit: ok just finished the rest of the video, you got a new subscriber

Being fair to the Elite walking on the mall unopposed, during the Post War several Covenant species started to live in human worlds. Rio de Janeiro had a significant Covenant population as stated in Spartan Ops So people would be like "oh damn an elite immigrant".

Now this is high quality content m8 PS: glad to see you back :D

Ah yes, 2014... Before we knew better than to trust 343's Halo releases.

I haven't watched this film, but I just discovered your channel and this was the next recommended video. I gotta see what my boy Luke Cage got up to in the Halo universe lol

This was hilarious! Great video man!

Early last year a mega construx figure of one of Locke's outfits in this show was released for the halo heroes line. Subsequent halo heroes released have been incredibly difficult to find because every store still has 6 lockes in stock and doesn't think they need to order more. There have been 3 halo heroes series I haven't seen locally because I don't want to have to buy 6 lockes to get them to order the next ones. Please send help

I thought you were gonna mention the slipspace bomb that was used in halo reach, that would've been a nice touch

4:41 I understood that reference

mfw Halo Landfall, a fucking COMMERCIAL for Bungie, is a better piece of fiction than all of 343i's TV shows / films put together

The unfortunate thing is Locke could’ve been a good character if 343 didn’t try to force him down our throats. The worst part was Locke was writen more like a side character than a main character, and the worst sin was the fact that they had Locke leading the new Spartan team instead of Buck. Seriously, wtf? Buck was successfully leading teams of ODSTs during the worst parts of the war. He was pretty much as successful as a Spartan without the training, augmentations, and equipment. Nightfall was just crap, and this vid does all the explaining about why it sucks so I don’t have to lol. Nice vid muh dude.

They could've made this a cheesy 90's horror with Flood, that would've been good enough. I remember getting Nightfall on DVD and rushing home in excitement. My mom watched it with me, and despite her knowing nothing of Halo and me being obsessed, we both were equally confused. That's pretty bad. I literally remember none of it, but I guess this DVD is somewhat an oddity on my shelf.

4:40 Unity, Duty, and Destiny baby

Forward unto dawn is the only good live action adaptation

I like your review, but I'm glad the Covenant never canonically use the Flood as a bio weapon, unlike the UNSC and ONI who were researching doing that. It's a line the Covenant won't cross that humans will and that adds some much needed complexity to the moral landscape of the universe.

Hard to “forget” a movie, when you didn’t even know it existed 😅 I need to find a copy of this movie now for a bad movie night!

Is still remember all the love action movies. Forward Unto Dawn was pretty good.

i only vaguely knew of nightfall, so it's interesting to finally have more of an idea of what it actually is. saved me 2 hours lol

I actually liked this movie and Forward Unto Dawn. Locke is a good characters poorly used by 343. This was a really well made video!

Honestly the creation of new elements when the PoA went supernova didn't sound too far fetched to me when I heard it. I guess maybe the fact that pvt mesa made that up on the spot is a bit unbelievable. I'd expect that to come from a scientist or someone.

WAKE UP BABE, NEW LARDEN VIDEO DROPPED

I didn't forget the movie, but I didn't see a reason for it to exist and i also really didnt like the plot. I get it was to introduce Locke. But I didn't care and this movie was the first thing that brought into question. Why don't the Legolo worms fight the UNSC like that instead of fighting them as well hunters?

Ok, if Ridley did a flood movie, it would be peak horror, but it would have to be flood centric, probably following odsts

I literally only watched it to get the ODST armor in H5

I remember watching this on waypoint just for the armor

Nightfall was my first introduction to the condor which I really like as a ship

I just wanted to say, thank you for the Bionicle joke

Please make a video on Forward Unto Dawn, that movie was actually good. It was not perfect, it was clearly thought of as a proper series and later shortened as a web series/ movie, but it is still by far the best live-action halo we've got.

Nightfall was some seriously stanky booty

The only two things i remember about this is mike colter, who i also remember enjoying, and the lekgolo worm being scary as hell.

Oh i never forgot, this shit fucked me up, the worst written halo story up there with the paramount plus garbage

4:40 : well, I did at least ;) Also, regarding 6:45 I guess you could theorise that it had to do something with forerunner experiments contained on the ring, maybe the fission/fusion reaction just "activated" something in an experimental element created by the forerunners in case they needed to dispose of humans? I know I'm grasping straws even moreso than Macer did but it's the most plausible explanation to me.

I actually did manage to score a Blu Ray copy of Nightfall, but only because it came attached to my H4: Forward Unto Dawn Blu Ray. I remember back in school being hyped to come home and watch every episode of Nightfall on the Halo Channel as it came out. It was…uh…yeah, one of life’s little disappointments. 8:34. Tbf I don’t think the UNSC exactly has many NOVA bombs on hand. We only know of two (the bombs detonated at Joyous Exaltation and Glyke) and they were prototypes to begin with.

Bro this video is a banger haha, got a few good laughs out of me

about randall was a spartan that peacefully went rogue it doesnt matter how expensive a spartan is if they dont want to fight they wont and you cant make them i do agree that its weird that they wasted the money tearing him apart to get every scrap of titanium out of him though

I love Colter. We actually have the same Alma mater! Which makes me even sadder that he got the short of the script in his two performances in Halo. Really wish they would bring him back and do his character justice

I remember watching this as a fifteen year old, hyped for halo 5, and just thinking at the time how ass it was 😂

Just sitting here I can think of a stronger plot. There’s a specific halo five visor color that talks about spartan teams that infiltrate forerunner installations that might have the flood. Spartan Locke and his team from halo five could’ve just had a plot written around this similar to the popular Mona Lisa halo video boom right there much more interesting.

I remember that this was bad but I didn’t remember it being this bad I can’t believe this actually got approved

For the question about how could an element only target Humans, it's obviously a ridiculous plot point, but I am a scientist and a nerd so I'll try give some possible explanation even though it's far fetched! It could be that the 'elements' are actually ions (charged atoms/elements), and their specific charge is such that they interact with atoms in human anatomy and not any other species (as some of our atomic makeup is likely to be of energy/construct particular to us). So, it could be that the bomb releases heavy (I'm assuming because it's a newly discovered element) atoms that react with atoms in our body, passing on huge amounts of energy that can only cause a chain reaction of energy being passed on in us. Or some of us? I'm not a Biologist as you can probably tell, but I do know that certain reactions are concerned with energy being a very specific value, i.e. when electrons become excited during ionisation, they climb very well defined energy levels, and release very well defined energy in the form of photons (light), which can be harmful if of high enough energy. Maybe if this chain reaction can be engaged from within our anatomy, the light (x-ray or gamma) would be absorbed by the human, meaning that other species would be safe if the reaction didn't occur within their bodies. I realise that this is a dumb movie, and I've now likely put more effort into this comment than the writers did for this movie, but like I said I'm a nerd lol. Lmk what you guys think, especially if you're a biologist haha

Never made it past the second episode of this, can't remember where I watched it but it was split into like 4 or 5 episodes

Its kinda sad that Locke had so much build-up, but the only time they actually wrote him well was in the bits they added to H2A

10:50 In all fairness to the show, there's some speculation that the reason UNSC weapons reach their unholy levels of performance vs what we'd expect for a round that size is that they use electronic ignition, which would require powering the weapon up, even if it's gas operated

the rant about how firearms work was hillarious

HALO TV SHOWS ARE A DOUBLE-BLADED WEAPONS *You can Have Masterpieces like Halo Legends or Halo Forward unto Down, or you can have Mediocre Dumpsterfires like the Paramount+ 2022 Fanfic*

I could see the team going every man for themselves if they were some random troopers. But this is an ONI field team. These guys not only accept, but expect suicide missions. They are special operations soldiers who go through not just extensive training, but extensive psychological tests and observation to make sure they are the perfect people for the job. Just like pretty much all special forces units. I mean, just look at the dead ONI security team from Halo Reach. Each of them fought to the death in a hopeless battle to protect the artifact in Halsey's lab. They backed themselves into a corner knowing it would be the last thing they ever did.

Did you review with halo fall reach

nightfall truly was one of the stories ever

Every time I come back to this im surprised it’s *not* written by Frank O’Connor I mean, the part about the ring fragments went somewhere else, despite the games proving this fact wrong? Similar to Frank writing that the keyship s were destroyed, despite a keyship being the center point of Halo 3

He's back!

idk what you're on about i have found both forward unto dawn and this up on youtube in good quality and the forward unto dawn full vid has been up for like 7 years

“His intentions, which were to Hunt down-“ *PTSD flashbacks of Huntdown The Freeman* “The Master Chief.” *EVEN STRONGER PTSD FLASHBACKS*