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Doom Movie Might Not Be Terrible
Like many upcoming nerdly pieces of media, the Doom movie had a showing at this year's Comic-Con. Gamecloud reports on the related panel and footage shown, and posits that against all odds the Doom movie might not suck. From the article: "Everyone on the panel said that every effort was being made to make the movie faithful to the game and that it will be a R rated film. While there will be some CGI, the Doom monsters like the Baron, the Imp and the Pinky Demon will mostly be real monsters created by the Stan Winston Studios (who created the creatures in all the Terminator movies, Aliens, Predator and many more)."
Yeah, according to the article, it's back on Mars.
"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" --Seymour Cray
One modern example (The Thing) does not a conclusion make. I would point out the difference between the old-school Yoda muppet and the new shiny Yoda. The old one has the unmistakeable look of reality and life. The new CGI Yoda, not so much.
You do have a point when it comes to Terminator, where the transitions (particularly in the first one) are horribly jarring. But Aliens is a much different experience.
It's funny about Predator -- I happened across the end of Predator 2 over the weekend. There was a scene where a bunch of Predators materialize in a foggy room. I swear, even for 1990 the transition was awful. A hard thing to animate, but something that would be undoubtedly handled by a fully CGI scene these days.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
but it's a little sad when I know the film-makers HAVE to do that
It's what Spielberg had to do with Jaws. The shark sucked, so he had to only hint, and imply and such. Turns out it made the movie better. It's lesson Spielberg still keeps to heart.
Just a guy with an opinion
This guy is directing. He has nothing in his directorial history that gives me reason to be optimistic, though he was cinematographer on a few decent movies.
To further remove reasons for optimism, the writer appears to have never written a single movie before this.
One bright spot: the score is being done by Clint Mansell, who has done some excellent scores in the past, not to mention his years with the band Pop Will Eat Itself.