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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."
Who's going to play the big floating eye?
Doom Movie Scriptwriter Dave Callaham Interviewed
I heard that an issue was the amount of goriness. Remember the soldiers hanging from meathooks ? Apparently the director wants to show that!
How do you make a movie without vertical clipping? I think it's going to be a real challenge to explain to the audience why a rocket fired 300 feet below someone can hit them. Should make for interesting cinematography though.
If guns kill people, then CmdrTaco's keyboard misspells words.
No plot and Mars.
You feel a strange mental acuity.
Hooray! Because we all know that films based on video games are always great
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
...cuz you can't have both, Mr. The Rock.
ABSURDITY, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
I want the post of Gaffer for that movie!
The poor man's Vin Diesel.
He'll probably have to type IDKFA every thirty seconds just to make it through the movie.
I believe the rock will not only do all his own stunts, but he will also be doing all his own camera work too.
You can't beat those first-person movies.
Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
In other words, there is no plot, and the movie is set in several hallways and rooms that look identical to the one in the last scene.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
... with any luck, it'll be every bit as good as the comic book.
Al Qaeda has ninjas!
To let the general public get the full Doom experience, they should push the release date back like 5 or 6 times and eventually put it out in 2009.
The code to destroy the base is IDKFA.
A story so short there is no need to read the article.
Anyone can submit info to the The Internet Movie Database, and it's rather notorious for posting incorrect information about movies which are still far from release.
I'm not saying that the casting news at the imdb definitely isn't true, I'm just saying to take it with a grain of salt.
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These aren't the droids you're looking for.
1. Star-studded cast - check
2. Fantastic storyline - check
3. Less than a year from production to release - check
Wow - how will this not be a hit?
This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. - Dorothy Parker
Before final fantasy or resident evil, there was doom. Oh wait, what about Wolfestein. Oh wait.... PONG the movie, that's what i want to see. (Actually not a bad idea for a short film)
Will movie theaters need to upgrade to the latest video equipment to be able to run this film?
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.
They have a lot of work to do in order to recreate the atmosphere created in DOOM3.
But think of the money they'll save by not having to hire a lighting crew.
In an effort to increase the level of suspense the entire picture will be shot with a single hand held flashlight for lighting?
Call me a pessimist, but I can't see modern Hollywood producing such a violent and gory film. This will probably be another sci-fi/horror flick turned PG-13 (which you can't really call Doom). No studio in it's right mind is going to release a film with people gutted and hanging on hooks. Soccer Moms of the world would have them for lunch.
Will the movie characters strafe jumping away from the monsters?
from the original game...
You're a marine, one of Earth's toughest, hardened in combat and trained for action. Three years ago you assaulted a superior officer for ordering his soldiers to fire upon civilians. He and his body cast were shipped to Pearl Harbour, while you were transferred to Mars, home of the Union Aerospace Corporation.
The UAC is a multi-planetary conglomerate with radioactive waste facilities on Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos. With no action for fifty million miles, your day consisted of suckin' dust and watchin' restricted flicks in the rec room.
For the last four years the military, UAC's biggest supplier, has used the remote facilities on Phobos and Deimos to conduct various secret projects, including research on inter-dimensional space travel. So far they have been able to open Gateways between Phobos and Deimos, throwing a few gadgets into one and watching them come out the other.
Recently, however, the Gateways have grown dangerously unstable. Military "volunteers" entering them have disappeared or been stricken with a strange form of insanity -- babbling vulgarities, bludgeoning anything that breathes, and finally suffering an untimely death of full-body explosion. Matching heads with torsos to send home to the folks became a full-time job. Latest military reports state that the research is suffering a small set-back, but everything is under control.
A few hours ago, Mars received a garbled message from Phobos. "We require immediate military support. Some fraggin' evil is coming out of the Gateways! Computer systems have gone berserk!" The rest was incoherent. Soon afterwards, Deimos simply vanished from the sky. Since then, attempts to establish contact with either moon have been unsuccessful.
You and your buddies, the only combat troop for fifty million miles were sent up pronto to Phobos. You were ordered to secure the perimeter of the base while the rest of the team went inside. For several hours, your radio picked up the sounds of combat: guns firing, men yelling orders, screams, bones cracking, then finally, silence. Seems your buddies are dead.
It's Up To You
Things aren't looking too good. You'll never navigate off the planet on your own. Plus, all the heavy weapons have been taken by the assault team leaving you with only a pistol. If only you could get your hands around a plasma rifle or even a shotgun you could take a few down on your way out. Whatever killed your buddies deserves a couple of pellets in the forehead. Securing your helmet, you exit the landing pod. Hopefully you can find more substantial firepower somewhere within the station.
As you walk through the main entrance of the base, you hear animal-like growls echoing throughout the distant corridors. They know you're here. There's no turning back now.
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
The really sad thing here is that the Doom movie is likely to be more true to the original than Peter Jackson's LotR trilogy was.
...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...
Who's going to play Barney the dinosaur? If this movie doesn't have a Barney patch, it's just not worth watching.
These people looked deep into my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.
This has been reported all over the place, including interviews with John Carmak himself. It is still slightly vaporware, but is definately not a hoax.
* WARNING - SPOILER! *
According to a leaked copy of the script, it appears that in the final scene, just before stepping into the final room full of monsters, The Rock will step up to a computer terminal and type in "idkfa".
Then after picking up all the weapons and ammo that have inexplicably just materialized in front of him, he'll type in "iddqd" followed by "idspispopd".
Then apparently he'll just walk right through the wall and blow the entire room away without taking a single hit!
And then he'll die anyway.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
Chicks got hung on a meathook back in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and that guy was actually after a PG-13 rating.
That guy (Tobe Hooper) must have been a very forward thinking individual, because the PG-13 rating wouldn't exist for another 10 years.
So do I have to upgrade my TV set too, when the DVD version comes out?
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ooh THE ROCK types IDKFA!!!
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HA HA HA, yeah, it was posted 4832984 times before this post and each are marked funny. IT'S FUNNY, PEOPLE.
We can't hear this one enough, can we?!
"Hey, The Rock!"
"IDKFA?!"
"Yes."
*insert joke about flashlight*
IDKFA!!! HA HA HA.
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
Let's hope the character script is taken directly from the game too so that I don't have to hear "The Rock" say anything at all.
-- I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist. It's not my fault that life sucks so much. --
You poor folk sure do complain a lot.
DAMN YOU OCTODOG! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
... two such roles in a row could be hard on one's career. How'd you like to be type-cast as an evil-eye.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
I think the burning question is whether you'll be allowed to download the first 20 minutes off P2P, before a little message pops up saying "Get the other 40 minutes, for only $4.99 - plus, a free hint booklet!"
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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Seriously, I'd like to see a movie trilogy of the Marathon universe. Marathon's story was the best video game story ever, certainly of the FPS genre (IMO at least). Halo, an extension of that universe, wasn't as good or creative, but Marathon 1/2/3 was untouchable.
Did anyone else notice that Rosamund Pike appears to be filming Pride and Prejudice and Doom simultaneously? Now that's a true test for an actress. I hope she doesn't get confused between her two roles...