The example of Doom as a movie has never ceased to amaze me.
Game: Phobos. Open a gate to hell. Demons.
Movie. Mars. Resident evil plot. Mutants.
How friggin' hard is it to keep one of the most simple plots in existance intact? Not only that, but if they'd kept it at least they would have differentiated themselves from the Resident Evil movies. Hell, Doom even had some novels go on and they got pretty tripped out and sci-fi'ish from the second book on. Work with what little established canon you have hollywood!
If the Doom movie had been called "Zombies on Mars" I would have accepted it. The fact that they tried to ride on the coattails of an infamous and iconic video game and didn't get a ridiculously simple plot right belies the problem with Video Game Movies: Hollywood thinks slapping a video game title onto crappy movies will make them rich.
Hollywood is not the only one at fault here though; why do game companies who have invested so much money into establishing these brands allow their products' images to be tarnished by such horrible movies? For every Uwe Boll film there was someone at a game studio signing away the rights to a game's likeness and name. These people should be held accountable as well.
Give this man some geek points. It was explained in the books that the Kessel Run is measured in distance instead of time. To garner more infamy or prestige, smugglers would plot their courses as close to the Maw Cluster (a bunch of black holes in close proximity)as they could - skimming off distance while at the same time quite possibly getting themselves sucked in. Few people dared to do this, as it was mostly seen as suicidal. Even better, after the maw there was a huge section of asteroids. People who made it through the maw and thought they could then relax were generally not mentally or physically ready to tackle an asteroid field...
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The Wing Commander Series, another example of Hollywood getting even the most simple details wrong.
Game: Kilarthi are big space cat aliens. Humans fight them.
Movie: Kilrathi are weird hairless things. Pilgrims complain about stuff.
Another series lost to the morass of bad creative decisions.
The example of Doom as a movie has never ceased to amaze me.
Game: Phobos. Open a gate to hell. Demons.
Movie. Mars. Resident evil plot. Mutants.
How friggin' hard is it to keep one of the most simple plots in existance intact? Not only that, but if they'd kept it at least they would have differentiated themselves from the Resident Evil movies. Hell, Doom even had some novels go on and they got pretty tripped out and sci-fi'ish from the second book on. Work with what little established canon you have hollywood!
If the Doom movie had been called "Zombies on Mars" I would have accepted it. The fact that they tried to ride on the coattails of an infamous and iconic video game and didn't get a ridiculously simple plot right belies the problem with Video Game Movies: Hollywood thinks slapping a video game title onto crappy movies will make them rich.
Hollywood is not the only one at fault here though; why do game companies who have invested so much money into establishing these brands allow their products' images to be tarnished by such horrible movies? For every Uwe Boll film there was someone at a game studio signing away the rights to a game's likeness and name. These people should be held accountable as well.
IMHO, "noob" is the newb way to spell newb.
I will have to change the homepage on the home theater PC from piratebay to mininova : (
Give this man some geek points. It was explained in the books that the Kessel Run is measured in distance instead of time. To garner more infamy or prestige, smugglers would plot their courses as close to the Maw Cluster (a bunch of black holes in close proximity)as they could - skimming off distance while at the same time quite possibly getting themselves sucked in. Few people dared to do this, as it was mostly seen as suicidal. Even better, after the maw there was a huge section of asteroids. People who made it through the maw and thought they could then relax were generally not mentally or physically ready to tackle an asteroid field...