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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
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...
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.
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.
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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