Doom

[onionhead]

Any thoughts?  Anybody going to see it?
My personal opinion:  Any industry that has to rely on video games for its source material must be stagnant in the originality department (imagine, PARCHEESI:  THE MOTION PICTURE!)

[Mr. Hockstatter]

I already saw Resident Evil, and this one doesn't even have Milla Jovovich in it.  And the CGI looks waaaaay awful.

I'm sure the plot will be a multi-faceted masterpiece of gripping suspense though.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Hmm, a rewritten video game movie  starring a wrestler and undergone several rewrites.  I think I'll wait for it to hit TV.
-Ed

[Ash]

Hell yeah I'm going to see it!
Probably this Sunday.

I'm going because The Rock is one of my favorite actors.  If he wasn't in it, I doubt I'd go.

[Three Oranges]

I may have to go see it.  The extended first person shooter scenes seem like such a delightfully terible idea that they can't help but be entertaining.

I've also been considering whether or not to like Uwe Boll, though.  I like how arrogant he is about his clearly terrible movies, and I find the theory that his entire existence is due to a loophole in German tax law to be amusing.  I've only seen "House of the Dead," though.  More research is required.

[Mr_Vindictive]

Hell yeah, I'm going too!  I've been a fan of Doom since the days of my 486.  I can't call myself a gamer, and not go see this.  

It looks terrible, but the reviews have been pretty decent.  Most are saying only to go see it if you are looking for mindless action, which sounds pretty damned good to me.  I can't wait to see the first person perspective used in a film.....especially if it involves a "Pinky" demon and a chainsaw.

Three Oranges, as for the thing about Uwe Boll....I'm one of his few fans.  His movies are so damned bad that they are hugely entertaining.  House Of The Dead was awful, but Alone In The Dark was actually much better.  It seems the man is actually starting to learn a few things about directing a film.

[Dunners]

NOOOOOOOOO! Skaboi you've crossed over to the darkside!! All our years of positive indifference gone! BLAAARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

S"ok, just means now I get to tease you. But back to DOOM, From what I've read while it does have something to do with the game they did remove the whole hell element and thats really p**sed off  quite a few fans and gamers as that did add a lot to what DOOM was.

However I have read that what they did do here was pretty cool, they very much emulated the look and feel of the game quite well and its a wonderful cheese fest with gore and language and some scares mixed in.

Sounds like a wonderful addition to our little forum here :)

[Shadowphile]

The trailers make it look like it's a cheesy knock off of Resident Evil set on Mars.   It's going to be bad in such horrible ways.  

The tag line I caught was:  "The final 10% of the human genome has been unravelled and all Hell is breaking loose."

Here's a question:  Is Uwe Boll a modern day Ed Wood?  Or does his attitude deny him such a comparison?

[dean]

I've been a fan of the whole Doom thing for the better part of my life, though not a hardcore fan [I didn't even buy Doom3, but only vaguely saw a demo]

But I'll probably want to go see this film.  Whether or not I go or not depends on how its recieved when it's released, but if I don't see it on the big screen, I'll definitely rent the DVD as soon as it's out.

I just looked on IMDB and the plot keywords, some of which are:

Based On Video Game
Corporate Crime
Portal To Hell
Super Soldier
Accident
Alien Invasion
Hell
Martian
Soldier
Space Marine
Zombie
Genetic Mutation
Gore
Multiple Monsters
 
I mean, whilst it may not translate into a brilliant film by any means [and were Doom fans really expecting something other than a mindless action flick??] but I think it's hard to go too wrong with some key words like that!

[Three Oranges]

"It seems the man is actually starting to learn a few things about directing a film."

That's a shame.  As the idiot king of films he might've had a chance to be compelling, but if he starts getting better, the only thing he'll approach is mediocrity.

[Ash]

I'm under the impression that you all think Doom was directed by Uwe Boll...not so.
Andrecz Bartkowiak directed it. (or however his name is spelled)

He's mostly known as a cinematographer but has directed a few clunkers.
Either way, I'm still going to go see Doom.

I've been playing the s**t outta Doom 3 on my X Box lately...so it's helped me to get into Doom movie mode.  :)



Post Edited (10-22-05 02:05)

[Archivist]

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw it a few weeks ago in December.  I was expecting something like the awful Resident Evil movie, but it was a much more involved and atmospheric movie.  I was also not expecting it to be as graphically violent, either.  The characters make some decent performances, the action scenes aren't bad, and even the plot wasn't as cliched as the descriptions might make it seem.  You can wait for the DVD rental, but by all means, check it out if you want something a little better than you may expect.

(As you can guess, I haven't been on the board for a long time, and I'm just catching up with the past month's threads!)

~Archivist~

[Mofo Rising]

I went to see DOOM in the theaters, mostly because I had free time and I wanted to see the "first person shooter" segment.

First off, they removed Hell.  Why?  Hell is the whole goddamned (mug) point.

It's not terrible.  It's just not good.  Space marines wander around station for an hour and a half, occasionally getting eaten.

Oh well.  The girl was hot.

[raj]

Instead, maybe I'll reload my copy of Doom or II or III and play the game instead.

[Just Plain Horse]

Mortal Kombat- and the ill-fated sequel- taught me a lesson about a video-game inspired movie, and that is it's a quirk of fate that the movie can either be good or totally awful.