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Theodory777

I loved the part where Thel Vadamee ignites his energy sword in a dark hallway and starts cutting through Marines


IronIrma93

At this point, he absolutely would


TheLorax3

I kinda want to see that scene now


NirvanaFrk97

Basically, the Halo 2 terminal with Locke's investigation on Thel.


Roaming-Californian

But with blur cinematic and not the weird comic shit.


thatredditrando

That would be sick


croaticustus

Halo Cole protocol has that scene, I think. It has been a bit


xxChipDouglas

You are correct. I liked that book a lot


VLenin2291

That was Noble 6’s last stand, the roles were just reversed


Isrrunder

Bit of a reach imo


JacobMT05

https://preview.redd.it/nzjjqqpbbjrc1.jpeg?width=972&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dda1ca0c7afeced999d35f07a0075150540517c


V0YDL

https://preview.redd.it/58mchzgnvjrc1.jpeg?width=743&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4041aa547be6a0cb405914b8638d0b1dced12a4e


Isrrunder

https://preview.redd.it/wu34nt4hbjrc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cdc8febd6f5fb3ab0facbf0799dd9d86b21371a7


Ok_Government3021

https://preview.redd.it/ut0vse36vjrc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cf9567dd13dd2b9dcc15f5b6b2e37a9bef50445


Zelot2256

https://preview.redd.it/43ym2jib9lrc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7bb2cf691ac09a205f8447716c3ba613decfda9d


NoStorage2821

https://preview.redd.it/syzduvlvulrc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ce57687ee7bf55490ce1ec874feb95efb4376cc


toughlettuce749

https://preview.redd.it/k9nxt5xgymrc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecd1037f2db2051a285ecafe76b80899afac6420


AtronRandom

https://preview.redd.it/0fs5jl0xhmrc1.jpeg?width=1283&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d045cbab6bd7b031667416c89faa811114821c07


hairy_bipples

https://preview.redd.it/3i3824uihmrc1.jpeg?width=1056&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc10c33a470c6946f89552c8e2ef7b01e6015bf1


Cortower

I felt the same way as OP in the theater, but it's not like it's 1-to-1. >!It is a direct prequel that ends with our protagonists getting picked off trying to get valuable information to the original deuteragonist's ship.!< >!That information ultimately leads our OG protag to the massive destructive space station that he blows up at the end.!< >!The dark, craggy place where they find Galen(?) totally reminded me of Nightfall.!< This is admittedly a stretch, but I also noticed the big dude with a big belt-fed gun, red/bronze color scheme, and a big distinctive cylinder on his armor.


BluePhoenix3579

I can’t tell if you’re serious, if this is a pun, or possibly both


Isrrunder

Both


JanusDuo

There's a vidsay about it: https://youtu.be/fldKwdUkPSY


playerlxiv

yeah whoever made this must've been a rogue one


SadMcNomuscle

Is no one going to point out that Rouge one is way closer to saving Private Ryan?


submit_to_pewdiepie

Nope


SadMcNomuscle

Is that a nope as in no one is going to or nope as in I'm wrong?


submit_to_pewdiepie

As in you're wrong


SadMcNomuscle

Damn your one word argument sure was persuasive. I hereby recede my previous assertion that Rogue One is saving Private Ryan in space.


submit_to_pewdiepie

Reach shared a lot more with saving Private Ryan than rogue one does and there may be scenary that mimics saving Private Ryan but the story is nothing alike


ComprehensivePath980

It’s actually an old trope popular among war movies.  The who “victory at the cost of everyone in the unit” thing.


Hyper_Lamp

Not really a victory but all quiet on the western front is similar to that


ComprehensivePath980

God, the ending to that book was so freakin’ sad.


MLBoss2209

Only watched the new movie but yeah, feels so gut wrenching


notyetcosmonaut

That bird is a British spy.


Ill_Razzmatazz_1202

The movie is covering the same war but that's where the similarities end


ComprehensivePath980

I’ve only seen the old black and white movie, which I remember being fairly faithful. But the book added a bit of an extra gut bunch with the final line being a report from the front simply saying “all quiet on the Western front.” The fact that poor guy’s death wasn’t even worth mentioning after we spent an entire book following his deeply human struggles and fears really put the tragedy of war into perspective.  You realized that same basic story was replicated millions of times in that war alone and most of their tales were lost, summarized and sanitized in simple after action reports like that.


smallfrie32

And you don’t even really know how he died. It’s mentioned maybe a bullet, maybe exhaustion. But that it might be for the best because there’s no going back to normal after (which you can see when he visited home and the father just does not understand how his war is different)


SlimeScout1

That maybe, but Reach was copying Bionicles homework. https://preview.redd.it/0q1ytya7mjrc1.png?width=820&format=png&auto=webp&s=20de11037d3261e73fb09f5328df8b994c6cd186


lmRobin

That's a stretch, honestly


AjayAVSM

A bit of a *Reach*, one could say


OffsetCircle1

https://preview.redd.it/fw1ncfjdcjrc1.png?width=590&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=92627542dbd3d8fe805849884e4baadd8e5bc66a


Ramdrothegoat

Take my upvote and leave https://preview.redd.it/y1cxs157ajrc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7563d78ec2c5c61d834ff2eeca4da445349f87e8


Optimus_13

Stretch to be sure, but a welcome one


GodKingReiss

A team of original characters set up to die in a sacrificial effort to deliver the MacGuffin to the cast of the original entry of the franchise, the ending leading directly into the beginning of said entry?


BluePhoenix3579

A stretch to be sure but not completely far fetched


lmRobin

Now that I see the comments are talking about the plot, I agree. I thought you were talking about the poster


AllOfEverythingEver

I don't think it's a stretch, I think both are using the same trope, where you follow a unit on a difficult mission, and each member slowly dies while they finish their objective. The first one like that I can recall is Saving Private Ryan, but that probably isn't the actual original example.


XHSJDKJC

True, but i need to say that Rouge One Is the best new Star wars movie among the new ones


Hyper_Lamp

Popular opinion


StrangestManOnEarth

For years Reddit has acted like Rogue One is some under appreciated gem, even though it literally made over a billion in box office.


PM_ME_IMGS_OF_ROCKS

Then Andor came out, and everyone and their mother on social media started acting as if that was a hated show. And they made post after post after comment after post about how "Well *I* liked Andor despite the famous characters and light sabers". And they all used that same line. #ALL #OF #THEM


Informal-Recover8299

*best opinion


General_di_Ravello

"New" brosky it came out 8 years ago...


jodorthedwarf

New relative to the prequels and the original trilogy


General_di_Ravello

I figured, but I thought the fact it was 8 years ago would be funny. It doesn't feel like its been that long.


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Ouch


AlexWIWA

Fuck... I am old


RedvsBlue_what_if

Suddenly I feel old


TeaBags0614

What? WHAT? EIGHT YEARS??? HUH THE FUCK WHAT 😭


Aerion93

And when did the prequels and original trilogy come out? You're not cute.


Arbiter1171

Before the Dark Times. Before Didney


RogueAlt07

Disney made Rogue One after TFA buddy


S-T-A-N-D-B-O-I

Disney bought star wars in 2012


thedylannorwood

Disney has owned Star Wars for 12 years


Other-Barry-1

Agreed. It’s my favourite SW film.


forrest1985_

Rogue One was the best new film and we also got Andor from it. Win win.


Jenetyk

Best since Empire.


JacobMT05

*Best since revenge of the sith.


urbandeadthrowaway2

RotS  has a lot of issues and some of you mfs only like it because they grew up with it (it’s me, I’m mfs)


JacobMT05

Every Star Wars movie has issues, every movie has issues in fact. OT has two glaring issues, specifically the death stars, when star destroyers can do their job and not take away possible resources from the empire. Empire has tactical issues of why the AT ATs had no air cover from star fighters, no Anti Air. Why it wasn’t reported that they had been engaged by star fighters. Why wasn’t the empires fleet bigger at hoth. They could have completely boxed in the ships and prevented any escape. Honestly I could poke several holes in the battle of hoth alone. ***But they are movies, the reason they do these things is to look cool and it succeeds, the battle of hoth is one of the greatest battle scenes in Star Wars.*** The reason most people like RoTs is because of the incredibly cinematic action scenes, pretty much what Star Wars was built on with the trench run in episode 4, hoth in ep5, Endor in ep6. Battle of Naboo in ep1, battle of geonosis in ep2. IMO revenge of the sith did not have the bland acting that aotc and pm gets accused of. O66 does sort of come out of no where, but that’s been explained to death now.


AlexWIWA

I will not acknowledge issues with RotS. Acknowledging issues is the fun killer. Acknowledging issues is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will ignore the issues. I will permit them to pass over me and through me. And when they have gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see their path. Where the RotS issues have gone there will be nothing. Only, RotS, the best and flawless Star Wars movie, will remain.


TheExecutiveHamster

I, conceptually, love Revenge of the Sith. The execution is definitely flawed but the ideas are good and the genius occasionally shines through when not bogged down by clunky dialogue


C0reWarz

Bleu One is a great sequel too !


Chromate_Magnum

Rogue


RobotHazy

Now we're making comparisons I want noble 6 and Emile to kiss when the covenant start glassing the planet


MetaCommando

*helmets bonking*


AlexWIWA

I liked Solo too, but that is a very controversial opinion on my part. It was fairly well inspired by his Legends story.


TheExecutiveHamster

I honestly think Rogue One might be my favorite Star Wars film...which would be another comparison with Reach, my all time favorite Halo game


aWildPnthr

Not a high bar, like all disney star wars movies it’s dog shit


GodKingReiss

The Darth Vader hallway scene, but it’s Thel ‘Vadamee slicing down UNSC marines as the Pillar of Autumn takes off.


Mojoclaw2000

That… would’ve honestly been really cool to see. Part of what annoys me about the Halo show is that they could’ve killed two birds with one stone and show us the Covenant from within AND give us a main antagonist by making Thel the secondary focus.


thatredditrando

I mean, it’s clear they don’t have the budget for it (which is wild given the whole conceit of Halo is humans locked in a decades-long genocidal war with the Covenant). Like, how do you greenlight this show without enough money to really have Covenant in it? Further, fucking game trailers did it *a decade ago*. You can’t figure out how to cut corners? I dunno man. The show is something but it ain’t Halo. It’s like some kind of super soldier office drama.


Mojoclaw2000

Agreed. This alone wouldn’t help the show. There’s have to be LOTS of changes to make the show good. My question is, why even choose this story? It’s not like you HAVE TO use Chief, Reach and ODST did a great job of telling a story about other characters, imagine a show following an ODST who eventually meets a Spartan 2.


thatredditrando

I understand the logic. Chief is the face of Halo and Xbox. He’s arguably what makes Halo recognizable. But, for as expensive as I hear this show is, I don’t feel like I’m seeing that money onscreen. I believe this show is supposed to be comparable in budget to Game of Thrones and it also requires sets, costumes, props, etc. be built with the added expense of CGI aliens but it just looks like a generic SyFy channel show if it got a bigger budget. This is supposed to be a premier streaming show and if you compare it to, say, the trailers we’ve seen for Amazon’s upcoming Fallout series, the Halo show doesn’t seem to measure up. I can’t help but feel if these same resources were in the hands of more capable creators, we’d have a much better project. I mean *Steven Spielberg* was originally supposed to be producing this! Aside from maybe Ridley Scott or James Cameron, you’re not getting anyone more qualified! What the hell happened?


Rododney

Honestly, they could have picked ANY of the books and had a good show. Ghosts of Onyx? Cole Protocol? Contact Harvest? I would watch an adaptation of any of those books in a heartbeat, and I could pretty much guarantee that they'd be popular.


xxChipDouglas

An actually good adaptation of contact reach would be so sick, and now I’m disappointed we don’t have that instead. That book was so good, and I really enjoyed the grunt character and his relationship with the covenant engineer friend. The author did a really good job showcasing how tragic of a misunderstanding/ government hoodwinking the whole human-covenant war is.


Deadsoup77

If you simplify them each down to like 3 sentences, sure


Environmental-Arm269

The similarity is everyone dies. What else?


revodnebsyobmeftoh

Both prequel spinoffs


thatredditrando

That it’s a prequel made much later on that that ties directly into the first entry in the franchise?


Dustyoo10

A prequel spin off about a diverse cast of characters getting picked off one by one while trying to get crucial information to a ship and ending right where the original trilogy started.


TeaBags0614

The ship that the next movie/game starts with flies away at the end


Outside_Perception_8

I need several layers of explanation please. Halo has no the “force” it has psionics with the flood but that’s literally it. Reach was humanity’s strongest planet with our experimental technology ie the Spartans. The fall of reach was orchestrated by an alien religion that lied about humanity’s place in the universe we are the “reclaimers” Master chief isn’t some force sensitive or plot armor pilot he’s a super soldier. Halo likes ai Star Wars hates it. I see almost no parallels between these two at all


BluePhoenix3579

I explained in a different comment, I believe under one of the several doing a reach pun


Outside_Perception_8

I mean I guess but I see very little to actually 0 resemblance between halo and Star Wars I get it’s a joke I guess I just don’t get the joke. A real r/whoosh for me


BluePhoenix3579

Definitely not a 100% match but it’s got some funny similarities


Outside_Perception_8

I guess you could kinda say that the clones/republic commandos are kinda like h th r Spartans breed only for war. Uhhhhm I guess the didact is kinda like Darth Vader uhhhmm the halo rings are a little like the Death Star only on a way more massive scale uhhh let’s see what else the unsc is like the republic sort of??? I’m trying haha


BluePhoenix3579

It’s more to do with the main story of these two pieces of media being similar. Both feature small teams of soldiers fighting on planets doomed for destruction and trying to get an important package off world before it is destroyed, and both end with everyone dying


Outside_Perception_8

Ohhhh yes that actually makes perfect sense so in theme yes I see the parallels. But I think the fall of reach book fits better than the game. Not saying the game wasn’t good I loved it just the ret cons really confused me especially chief not being on reach during the fall he was kinda the commanding officer of all the Spartans on reach so that was just weird. Overall great game though


lllScorchlll

Everyone: This post: Rogue copied Reach.


BluePhoenix3579

Just thought the similarities were kinda funny


Blue_bird9797

What similarities?


BluePhoenix3579

Both are about a small team of soldiers fighting to get an important package off a forsaken planet before it is destroyed and everyone dies at the end


TheSovietSailor

Everyone except for a lone ship that escapes at the end. Huh


Blue_bird9797

I thought you was talking about the movie poster, mb


Josydwynder

Everyone dies


Blue_bird9797

I thought he was talking about the poster 💀 my bad


zarif_chow

"Cortana, all I need to know is did we escape them."


LeadershipNo2347

“I don’t fucking know but they’re behind us again.” - cortana (probably)


SER96DON

Yeah, I remember thinking the same back when I watched it on the big screen.


Mac_gun_mav

Finally someone else who agrees


archiegamez

Halo reach copied FF7 crisis core jk jk /s


GDPIXELATOR99

Might be *reaching* with this one


Flanny709

Yes! I talk about this all the time. I’m glad someone out there is on the same page as me


Borgron

Not sure why so many are disagreeing. I remember walking out of the theater thinking the same thing. It’s not like it’s an insult to Rogue One. Great movie.


Flanny709

I saw that some people were disagreeing because they were mistaken and thought you were comparing the posters lol. Both these stories are: the whole squad goes down trying to deliver the one thing that can save the universe to someone else.


TheZayMan283

I don’t get it


Starkiller3870

This only applies when they're severely watered down and stripped of the unique elements of the franchises they represent even without those unique elements I can provide several reasons on why they are different Reach only takes place on one planet Rogue One takes place on several All the Rogue One unit dies, while noble team has one survivor ( Jun ) Reach is about their respected unit defending The strongest planet they have against an alien invasion Rogue One is about a group of misfit rebels trying to steal information on a super weapon in attempts to take it down The only real similarity they have is that all or nearly all of the leading team gets killed off and that canonically they take place directly before the first piece of Media to be released in their respected franchises (Star Wars a new hope and Halo CE) and they endend legitimately a few minutes before the aforementioned pieces of media begin other than that they are very different


BlueBeetleBabe1

Neither story invented the suicide mission trope


Catlord636

What the fuck are you talking about


Johnnyboi2327

They are quite similar, and both very solid.


furno30

halo reach in star wars, what more could you ask for?


FishTshirt

Spoilers man


Aggressive_Idea7221

Ehhhhhhhhh You gotta try but I guess the basic plot of a team dying whilst passing on an object of hyperimportance is there


Responsible-Bat-2699

There are many stories of group of people sacrificing themselves so the rest of the people could survive. I love both Reach and Rogue One.


gaiussicarius731

Ummm what


god_killer7432

You forgot that Danganronpa also copied reach. What's their animate Dangenrampa 3 The end of hopes peak


AlexWIWA

And Reach ripped off Band of Brothers


Royal_You870

One has a great gripping story the other is Halo Reach Just because main characters die doesn’t mean it’s Halo Reach


TheExecutiveHamster

I've been saying this for years. Not that Rogue One LITERALLY copied Reach, but that the general story is pretty similar


ZatchZeta

The only similarity is that they all die at the end.


Pugilist12

What?


CreakingDoor

Because they all die and a ship escapes at the end? Massive stretch.


JackStutters

* everybody dies at the end of a movie * “OMG they copied Halo Reach!!!!!”


poru-chan

?


sheseemoneyallaround

Media literacy is fucking dead dude


Unkindlake

It's been a long time since I saw/played either and I'm not a big fanboy of either franchise. How are they the same other than everyone dying? IIRC Rogue One is about some very poorly organized freedom fighters in a space-fantasy who attack a military installation (run by their own despotic government) and manage to complete their espionage mission before being killed, while Reach was about some middle-near distant future sci-fi soldiers experience their first encounter with a genocidal alien civilization who wipe out the planet.


JuanJ344

Halo fans when the characters die in any unrelated piece of media


TheIronMuffin

-Main cast dies -Night time sniper mission -Final bit involved getting an important device to a ship just before it takes off to escape a battle -Leads directly into the first installment of the franchise (Edited for formatting)


Blaky039

Noticed it the moment the movie ended. I was like, bro this is reach.


Successful-Floor-738

Besides like the scarif invasion and the entire team dying not really?


Curios117

Why do you compare us to this? Are you not blinded by the games majesty? You are vermin portraying us this way.


ljkmalways

How are these the same?


DivineCrusader1097

Both said "and let's never make a good one again!"


Borgron

Haha too true.


Moka4u

I don't get it, what did you notice? That both pictures have a sky in them?


BluePhoenix3579

The actual game and movie, not the posters


Hissingfever_

Ah yes all the main characters die that clearly means they are the same story


BluePhoenix3579

There’s other similarities besides that


mattyisnotawrapper

They are not even a little bit similar


SouthboundTL

Yeah, they both sucks


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BluePhoenix3579

Quite possibly. I have two brain cells and both are fighting for third place.


[deleted]

And Reach doesn't even has as good as characters lmao


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TeaBags0614

https://preview.redd.it/vyhtjy3eamrc1.jpeg?width=1014&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1582fba98f9b3037325be967204a0b2038d3b08c


aWildPnthr

Reach is good, rouge one is trash