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Doom Movie in Production For Aug 2005 Release
Lord Prox writes "Doom:
The motion picture is now in production from
Universal Pictures for a release date of August 5, 2005. According to
IMDB the cast includes The Rock, Rosamund Pike, Razaaq Adoti, Ben Daniels, and Karl Urban. The plot
and
setting is right from the game."
Doom Movie Scriptwriter Dave Callaham Interviewed
What is the appeal of a DOOM movie? Just to witness the bloodshed on the big screen?
I mean, I guess I love zombie movies and stuff, but it seems like a DOOM movie would be way too channeled towards the hardcore gamer audience and leave the other 98% of the population wondering "What's a BFG, and why does he wish he had one right now?" Another question they might have is 'Why doesn't that marine just pick up some duct tape and attach his flashlight to his shotgun?" (And let's not get into the possibility of having the DOOM movie incorporate the duct tape mod. That's just silly.)
Remember that Dungeons and Dragons movie from a few years ago? Horrible.
I think the best that video game movies are gonna get is what they do in Red vs. Blue. Because when you think about it, what exactly is to be gained by grabbing the red flag and bringing it to your base? To my knowledge no real-world conflict has ever ended because of a cap. Also, your country's flag doesn't magically teleport back to base when you walk over it. Come to think of it you're not really supposed to be walking on the flag in the first place. Shees what was Threewave thinking?
The plot and setting is right from the game.
Oh come on, do you think they can really condense the intricate storyline, complex characterizations, and nuanced dialogue of Doom into a 2 hour movie? I think not.
Good god, people, Doom had a bad storyline EVEN BY VIDEOGAME STANDARDS. Who actually thinks it will make a good movie? If you answer "me", then please explain it to me.
The funny thing is most slashdot stories about something the MPAA has done are followed by comments about "who cares, Hollywood movies are so bad why would you want to watch them anyway?". You do realize that you can't honestly be in both camps, you know? You can't criticize the mindless drivel that Hollywood puts out and then say in the next breath that you're eagerly awaiting Doom.
Alright, I MAY see it, but that's only because Rosamund Pike is sexy as hell. When you're the sexiest woman in a movie that also stars Halle Berry, that's something special. But the movie itself isn't something that a sentient being should look forward to.
Since when does Hollywood give a shit about accurate physics? Hell, Doom 3 has a better physics Engine than most Hollywood movies!
...that this movie will be disliked. Why? Well, it's possible that the movie itelf will suck, but I personally doubt it. Instead, I think it comes from a perspective shift between playing a game and essentially watching a movie about playing a game.
I think I am one of the only people on the planet who likes the original Mortal Kombat movie. Granted, the movie itself is not mind-blowing or original; but instead it accurately captures the mood and feel of the original games. Combine that with some interesting action, and you have a movie that I enjoy watching from time to time partly because of all the memories it brings back.
However, partly why I enjoy MK so much is that it didn't try to be anything different than the game. It kept the same characters, same mechanics, even the same settings for many of the fights. Watching the movie feels like watching someone play a live-action version of the game. From what I've seen of this D3 movie, they are stuck in a hard spot. One one hand, they could add a whole story and disrupt the movie/game tie which would cause everyone who played the game to dislike the movie. On the other hand, they could essentially do a live action version of portions of the game, which would cause everyone who hadn't played the game to feel let down by the movie. From what I've seen, this difficulty in setting the correct perspective is why so many gaming movies seem to fail.
However, I love the game Doom 3, so here's to hoping the movie is just as good...
WTF? I don't recall any women in Doom.
The Rock is a poor man's Ahhhhnold. Vin Diesel is a poor man's The Rock.
God Bless America. Why? Did it sneeze?
I liked Boiler Room.
But that's not an action movie.
"It takes many nails to build a crib, but one screw to fill it."
Hey, if you enjoyed them, good for you. But I like my mindless chop-socky violent entertainment to be high quality mindless violent entertainment made by people who know how to sustain tension, write witty dialogue and produce choreograph action sequences. And the plots don't have to be deep, but it'd be nice if they were at least slightly coherent.
That's why Enter The Dragon and The Matrix are great mindless entertainment, and Mortal Kombat is an appalling waste of everyone's time and money.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
saving private ryan :)
Which is also why the original 1964 "The Haunting" was MUCH more frightening than the special effect laden remake just a few years ago.
It's what you don't see that scares me. Which is why none of the Freddy or Jason movies were at all frightening. I mean, not even in the least.
I like creepy. "The Ring" was creepy. Kubrick's "The Shining" was creepy. "The Changling" was creepy. "28 Days Later" also. All creepy...at least to me, your miliage may vary of course.
Creepy is cool. Just blood and gore for no reason is not creepy. It's not scary...just looks messy to me. What I think when I see a really bloody scene in a so called horror movie is "wow, who get's to clean that up" or "that looks fake"...which totally takes you out of the movie experience.
Of course, there are gore movies that are also creepy. "Evil Dead 2" comes to mind. That hit on all cylinders because it was cheezy, funny AND creepy.
Oh well, we're all different I guess. Some people may find "Gigli" a creepy film, and who can argue with them?
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
Well, my bottom three would be Wing Commander, Super Mario Bros., and Street Fighter. I mean, come on... you got Christopher Lambert, I got Jean-Claude Van Damme (sp?). Obviously, your choices look like Oscar contenders next to my icons of B-movie badness.
Think about it: would you rather spend five days strapped in a chair forced to watch Milla Jovavich and Angelina Jolie, or Jean-Claude Van Damme and John Leguizamo? Choose very, very carefully.
Certain actors can read bad lines and make them sound good.
The king of making bad lines sound good is Bruce Campbell. Hail to the king, baby.
Second place is anyone who looked good in a George Lucas movie. That's why Harrison Ford can demand eight-figure sums and why they knighted Sir Alec Guinness.
The Rock gained popularity from professional wrestling, electrifying audiences by reciting this kind of schlock: "Do you smell what The Rock is cooking?" This is a guy whose big draw was "The People's Elbow." It's moronic -- but when Dwayne Johnson does it, it's electrifying.
You just have to have the right tone. Imagine any of the above actors saying the line, "We've all got a monster inside." Campbell would ham it up, making us grin. Ford would make us wonder what monster is hiding inside him, building suspense. With Sir Alec Guinness, we feel like we've been given this great piece of wisdom, even though the idea itself is kind of lame (Think "The Force is an energy field that penetrates us and surrounds us...").
And with The Rock, we think... "Yeah, and you're gonna go KICK THOSE MONSTERS' ASSES, RIGHT?!?!?! FUCK YEAH!
It's not about what you say... it's all about how you say it.
"Snootchie Bootchies!" -- need I say more?
I'd have much preferred it if Bruce Campbell was playing the lead. "The Rock" sucks "The Ass", and this movie will, too. I loved Doom, but I'm prepared to stubbornly and insanely deny the existence of this movie if/when I find that it sucks.
Either that, or I'm deliberately lowering my expectations so that this fucking great kick-ass movie will really blow me away. God dammit.. The Rock.. What a fag.
The comic even has a scene with Ash, umm, "John". whoever the main character is, standing in the middle of a room filled with dead zombies all around him, smoking gun still in hand, saying "Groovy." Dammit, man. Just, dammit.
Where is Bruce when you need him?
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Ever heard of a little film named Saving Private Ryan?
I enjoyed xXx (Triple-X), I enjoyed Pitch Black, like you said. Boiler Room is good. A lot of people liked The Fast and the Furious, although I'm not a big fan of it. Didn't he do a voice in The Iron Giant? Surely one of the great animated films of the last 10 years...
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