I haven't bothered to read any of the reviews of this movie, because I assuming they say the same thing I am going to here. This movie could have been so much more.
They dropped any and all references to Hell. Why? No one in the bible belt was going to watch it anyway...
the horror was minimized by making the movie centered around a group rather than one or a few characters (see Silent Hill if you don't think that would work for a movie, it does) The "genetic mutant" angle was just, well, retarded. Even if they had stripped Doom from the title and all references to it (which, lets face it, there were few), that subject just doesn't work.
The acting wasn't great, but then again, I wasn't expecting much there. I like most of the actors, the ones i was familiar with anyway. The Rock is just fun to watch, and Karl Urban has never disappointed me.
My final complaint is actually one i read in a magazine. They ended a movie based on the mother of all first person shooters with a damn fist fight? Come on.
The bad aside, there was some good in this movie. It still succeeds as a cheesy Sci-fi action horror movie. It was fun, there were good kills, the monster costumes looked like the creatures in Doom 3, and we get to see the Bfg in action. Not much action, but at least it was there.
All in all, if you are a Doom fan, forget the title of the movie and just watch it as a movie in the vein of running man and total recall: cheesy futuristic action.
If you know nothing of the game, watch it as cheesy sci-fi action. Then play the game and marvel on how they could have made something much better if they had bigger balls and had stuck to the game story.
In the future, only people with a deep passion for a game should make a movie about it. Paul W S Anderson, Uwe Boll and Courtney Solomon should be banned from film making. The boys who made Doom should have talked to Christophe Gans about translating passion to film.
They dropped any and all references to Hell. Why? No one in the bible belt was going to watch it anyway...
the horror was minimized by making the movie centered around a group rather than one or a few characters (see Silent Hill if you don't think that would work for a movie, it does) The "genetic mutant" angle was just, well, retarded. Even if they had stripped Doom from the title and all references to it (which, lets face it, there were few), that subject just doesn't work.
The acting wasn't great, but then again, I wasn't expecting much there. I like most of the actors, the ones i was familiar with anyway. The Rock is just fun to watch, and Karl Urban has never disappointed me.
My final complaint is actually one i read in a magazine. They ended a movie based on the mother of all first person shooters with a damn fist fight? Come on.
The bad aside, there was some good in this movie. It still succeeds as a cheesy Sci-fi action horror movie. It was fun, there were good kills, the monster costumes looked like the creatures in Doom 3, and we get to see the Bfg in action. Not much action, but at least it was there.
All in all, if you are a Doom fan, forget the title of the movie and just watch it as a movie in the vein of running man and total recall: cheesy futuristic action.
If you know nothing of the game, watch it as cheesy sci-fi action. Then play the game and marvel on how they could have made something much better if they had bigger balls and had stuck to the game story.
In the future, only people with a deep passion for a game should make a movie about it. Paul W S Anderson, Uwe Boll and Courtney Solomon should be banned from film making. The boys who made Doom should have talked to Christophe Gans about translating passion to film.
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