A Few Good G-Men

By Ellie Gibson Published 14 July, 2005

Movie gets HL2 makeover.

Ever thought what a good idea it would be to remake a scene from classic military flick A Few Good Men as if it was actually a scene in Half-Life 2?

No, we haven't either. But a Mr R. Glass of Seattle not only considered this possibility, but went so far as to spend two months of his life making it a reality - and now you can watch the results.

A Few Good G-Men takes the voices of Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise, gives them to new characters and resets the scene in a HL2-style courtroom, essentially. It's all rather nicely done, if a little pointless.

But we're excited by the prospect of future game-movie hybrids, however... How about Sam Fisher as Mahoney in Police Academy? Or Master Chief in Kindergarten Cop? Or Chun Li and Nina Williams in something where girls kiss in it? The possibilities are endless...

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

Read more articles from Ellie by visiting the Ellie Gibson archive page.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • Thamuhacha #1 7 years ago

    >Or Chun Li and Nina Williams in something where girls kiss in it?

    Wow. I had to double check that it wasn't Tom writing this. Ellie's fitted right in hasn't she?

    Video is awesomely pointless by the way.

  • markypants #2 7 years ago

    Agreed, it's a little pointless... But you have to respect the work that has been put in. Shows what can be done with good vocal work!!

    M

  • Rahul #3 7 years ago

    >Or Chun Li and Nina Williams in something where girls kiss in it?

    I call discrimination! Ellie is obviously being asked to write for a male demographic, which is hardly the kind of professional journalism we should expect from Eurogamer given that the games industry should be more appealing to females as well as males in this difficult time.

    I demand reformatting to include "Sephiroth and Cloud in something where boys do more with swords than just fight".
    Edited by 1 at 14/07/05 @ 13:00

  • Tech #4 7 years ago

    It's not really pointless though is it. He's done it to add to his portfolio so that he might get a job.

  • tonynibbles #5 7 years ago

    Man that is so good.

    Source engine pwnz. Yay to Valve!

  • Derblington #6 7 years ago

    Rahul - Ellie could be gay.

  • cubbymoore #7 7 years ago

    I didn't realize that took two months to make when I first saw it. Hmm. Thought it might've taken a day if I'm honest.

  • Thamuhacha #8 7 years ago

    >It's not really pointless though is it.

    I suppose not. I did agree that it was awesome though ...

  • Rahul #9 7 years ago

    The nature of Ellie's sexuality is hardly any of our business, never you mind worth discussing in the comments of one of her news posts. I'm going to stick with complaining about discriminatory content until I get my yaoi reference, thankyouverymuch.

  • hulahoops #10 7 years ago

    Is Rahul actually Nicebloke 1.0 icognito?

    http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/2005/07/w ork-underway-on-nicebloke-v10.html

  • UncleLou #11 7 years ago

    I didn't realize that took two months to make when I first saw it. Hmm. Thought it might've taken a day if I'm honest.

    Um. Have you actually seen it? How on earth would it be possible to do that in one day?

  • Khab #12 7 years ago

    It's still as good as it was when I posted it in the forums last night, yes. :)

  • crashVoodoo #13 7 years ago

    that was really good.



    /is well impressed

  • cubbymoore #14 7 years ago

    Um. Have you actually seen it? How on earth would it be possible to do that in one day?

    I've seen it three times now. I know nothing about how it was made but it seemed to me to be done in a very similar way to how the Red Vs Blue vids were done. I thought the engine would've done all the lip syncing itself.

    Making the courtroom might've taken a while I'll concede, I just don't know where the majority of the two months were spent, that's all.

  • crashVoodoo #15 7 years ago

    while i'm guessing he didn't put 24/7 into it for the whole 2 months ... i could understand it taking a while.

    guess it all depends on fluet he is at making maps (or rooms in this case) and how quickly he picked up the 3dsmax animation (guessing this was the time consuming bit). the engine does all the lip-synching for him tho which will have been a massive timesaver.

  • UncleLou #16 7 years ago

    Just watch how subtle the eyes and eye-brows move according to what the characters say, and the hardly noticeable movement of the heads etc. That was certainly all done manually.

  • Hunam85 #17 7 years ago

    Yeah, the scene was excellent, i dont know if the engine did the the lip sync as it was all done to the backing track of the movie, ie it wasnt cut down and then fed as dialouge. But the facial animations are excellent and its just all round well done

  • Genji #18 7 years ago

    Wow! If only HL2 was this interesting!

    (sorry)

  • BravoGolf #19 7 years ago

    /Claps