Doom movie by est120

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Doom movie

POSTED BY: EST120
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 07:04
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:33 AM

I saw a commercial for the movie version of the game Doom last night. I have to say, quite creative. From the line "It's game time" to the first person perspective filming, I have to admit, it looks like it could be fun. The first person perspective is especially interesting because I have not seen anything like that in a movie before. I guess that would really only appeal to fans of first person shooter types of games.

Anyone else see this commercial and find it amusing?

Of course, so many game to movie tranfers have been box office failures recently (Final Fantasy being the biggest considering what was spent), I wonder if this will do well at all in the theater?

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:41 AM

FREMDFIRMA

I think they went hard for that cult-B look, myself - it's a pretty obvious sop to fans of the game, and looked fairly low budget overall.

I plan to see it, just, well.. cause imma fellow fragmaster (everbody's doooin the chaingun cha-cha...) and thus it appeals to me, not to mention I certainly wanna rent it and go all MST3000 on it with my friends.

"Shoot it AGAIN you ninny, in the head, then throw a grenade.. don't go up an poke at .. NOOOoo... dumbass!"

Sooo, any other evil Fragbastards out there, ehe ?

-F

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:48 AM

PYREFX

ahh, doom... Doom.... DOOOOOOM!!!!!

god i can't wait. it's probably going to suck. i know. i don't expect much out of it... but i don't care. i can't wait. it has potential. the Rock's action movies have been decent. the director is mainly known as a Cinematographer for flicks such as Devil's Advocate, Species, Speed, and Falling Down has also directed a couple of flicks, mainly gangsta kung-fu movies like Romeo Must Die while one of the writers screenplayed The Saint, Arachnaphobia, and Cape Fear. So the potential is there for a solid horror/action flick.

now a video game to movie that's going to be great is Silent Hill. Way hardcore Silent Hill fan here. they crew they've got is fantastic. Between Christophe Gans, director of Brotherhood of the Wolf, and Roger Avary, who is amazing at writing adaptations (look at Rules of Attraction, a movie that blew the book out of the water, not to mention his significant part in the writing of Pulp Fiction). They've also got Sean Bean and Radha something or other (the blonde chick from Pitch Black)...

so yes... there is much promise in upcoming video game movies.

"I call her Vera."

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:03 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

I will be seeing it when it comes out, not on opening weekend, but sometime before it leaves theatres. Saw the preview for it when we went to see Serenity & it looked just "B" enough to be campy & funny. A group of local browncoats who used to play Doom will most likely go see it for fun.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:28 AM

KHIMBAR

I'll be there. Not opening night but I gotta see if they do the BFG and chainsaw right

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:35 AM

TALLAUSSIEBROWNCOAT

Dear God Rock should have done Duke Nukem instead. THAT I can picture as suiting him!

And these guys SO ripped off the idea used for "Shaun Of The Dead"'s climactic shootout.
(EDIT: I of course mean the P.O.V shots, not the plot.)

As someone heckled the screen at the end of a showing (in the dark silence):

"Bring back Wolfenstein!"

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:41 AM

KNIBBLET

I couldn't have less interest in Doom.

Actually, I would rather see this than, "Monster In Law".

If I wanted to play a video game, I'd play a video game. If I wanted to watch a video game, I'd frickin' play a video game.

I noticed only one thing about the preview. The Rock has "semper fi" tatooed across his back but the voice over said "good luck, soldier".

He's a Marine -- not a frickin' soldier. Idiots.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 8:08 AM

THELURKER

I might have a slight interest in seeing it if you could guarantee me that the Rockhead would suffer a painful and gruesome death. What? Vin Diesel wasn't available?

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I noticed only one thing about the preview. The Rock has "semper fi" tatooed across his back but the voice over said "good luck, soldier".

He's a Marine -- not a frickin' soldier. Idiots.

First thing I noticed too. lol

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 8:28 AM

DEEKEYE

I agree. Video games don't translate well into movies. Remember mario brothers. Hell, maybe we should make a pokeman movie. oh wait...

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:38 AM

SPINLAND

My personal opinion: what utter and complete garbage. People would pay real money to see that crap?

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:53 AM

KHIMBAR

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And these guys SO ripped off the idea used for "Shaun Of The Dead"'s climactic shootout.
(EDIT: I of course mean the P.O.V shots, not the plot.)

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and here was me figuring the P.O.V shots were in it as it was based on a first person shooter which uses the same P.O.V...dumb old me huh?

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 4:54 PM

TALLAUSSIEBROWNCOAT

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Originally posted by DeekEye:
I agree. Video games don't translate well into movies. Remember mario brothers. Hell, maybe we should make a pokeman movie. oh wait...

Hey, as long as you give reality the boot and just have fun, SMB can be fun, if cheesy in parts. Pure Popcorn.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 4:58 PM

TALLAUSSIEBROWNCOAT

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Originally posted by khimbar:
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And these guys SO ripped off the idea used for "Shaun Of The Dead"'s climactic shootout.
(EDIT: I of course mean the P.O.V shots, not the plot.)

[\QUOTE]

and here was me figuring the P.O.V shots were in it as it was based on a first person shooter which uses the same P.O.V...dumb old me huh?

As in they took the *filming technique* from them.
I.e: Strapping a film camera to someone's chest while their arms operate the guns.

The "game used the P.O.V" is a no-brainer. DOOM used that too, but hey, not first. They got the idea from Wolf3D after all.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 6:13 PM

CALLMEATH

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Originally posted by TallAussieBrowncoat:

The "game used the P.O.V" is a no-brainer. DOOM used that too, but hey, not first. They got the idea from Wolf3D after all.

Wolfenstein was made by the same company as Doom, ID, so I wouldn't exactly say they got the idea from it. And I'm pretty sure W3D wasnt the first first-person shooter, just the first famous one.

Oh, and the movie looks like garbage.

"Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!"

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:04 PM

TALLAUSSIEBROWNCOAT

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Originally posted by CallMeAth:
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Originally posted by TallAussieBrowncoat:

The "game used the P.O.V" is a no-brainer. DOOM used that too, but hey, not first. They got the idea from Wolf3D after all.

Wolfenstein was made by the same company as Doom, ID, so I wouldn't exactly say they got the idea from it. And I'm pretty sure W3D wasnt the first first-person shooter, just the first famous one.

Oh, and the movie looks like garbage.

I know they were made by the same company, but W3D before DOOM after all, so the idea evolved. ;)

And I agree. Worst movie trailer since Mortal Kombat, despite, at the time, the music and hype being BIG around MK, and worst expectations since Street Fighter the movie. Looking back, what a go sa movie THAT was, and we waited half the time! XD

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Tuesday, October 11, 2005 7:18 PM

TMURRIE

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Originally posted by DeekEye:
I agree. Video games don't translate well into movies. Remember mario brothers.

Oh man, I watched that movie like everday when I was 10 when it came out on video, I don't even know why, it really really sucked.

/they should make an animated mario brothers movie, with a fraction of the suck

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 4:11 AM

GATORMARC

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
I think they went hard for that cult-B look, myself - it's a pretty obvious sop to fans of the game, and looked fairly low budget overall.

I wouldn't call a $70 million dollar production budget low. Between that and the heavy promotion it is getting, Universal will probably spend twice as much money on Doom as they did on Serenity.

I could be wrong, but from the trailers, I can't figure out where the money went unless The Rock got paid $40 million of it.

GatorMarc

Eat 'em up, chomp, chomp.

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:06 AM

TOMANTA

Doom looks almost Catwoman bad. I mean... horrid, and I wouldn't go see it if I was getting paid. Well, maybe... depends on how much I was getting paid.

BUT, judging from the trailers, I do have to give them credit for making seem like a video game.

There's the obvious first-person perspective (which looks baaad, but it's fairly original). But there's also the way the guns talk (Reload... Search and Destroy...). I think my favorite is the "Handle ID" part... like everyone choosing a name before logging into the server.

Now, if they got rid of the demons and just had the marines running around shooting each other (then, of course, respawning to do it some more) I might be more inclined to see it. But only for the 30-minute capture-the-flag segment.

"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 5:58 AM

CYBERSNARK

What I want to know is why the frell can't we get an animé Legend of Zelda movie!

That's all I really want.

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 6:46 AM

FREMDFIRMA

I wouldn't call a $70 million dollar production budget low. Between that and the heavy promotion it is getting, Universal will probably spend twice as much money on Doom as they did on Serenity.

Yah, they hype this, but did not hype Serenity, and then had the nerve to bitch about box office numbers not being good enough ?

It smacks of being Serenity being f*x'ed by Universal, it really does.

-F

PS - If one can use 'companion' as a verb, I supposed one can use f*x'ed as a verb too, since it seems quite appropriate for this.

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 6:59 AM

CITIZEN

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
I think they went hard for that cult-B look, myself - it's a pretty obvious sop to fans of the game, and looked fairly low budget overall.

I plan to see it, just, well.. cause imma fellow fragmaster (everbody's doooin the chaingun cha-cha...) and thus it appeals to me, not to mention I certainly wanna rent it and go all MST3000 on it with my friends.

"Shoot it AGAIN you ninny, in the head, then throw a grenade.. don't go up an poke at .. NOOOoo... dumbass!"

Sooo, any other evil Fragbastards out there, ehe ?

-F

Hahaha!
Chaingun cha-cha! I remember the days well!

And MST3K, there's simply no otherway you can watch a B-Movie!

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 6:59 AM

EARLY

I don't make enough money to burn it on crap movies. Doom looks so freakin' horrible...but I might watch it when it come to USA on Saturday afternoon. Is that $70 million a real figure? It sounds right, but its so sad studios will pay more money for crap like Doom, that are 10 years too late with horrible stories, actors and camera angles (The 1st person is retarded, like someone said earlier, I'd rather just play the game if I wanted first person) than for good stories. I'm not just talking about Serenity...there's a lot of good movies with smaller or equivilant budgets like X-Men. That was a good movie. Doom...I doubt it. I bet Serenity makes more money than Doom. That should help Joss a lot in the battle for the sequel.

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:04 AM

GATORMARC

Quote:
Originally posted by Early:
Is that $70 million a real figure?

I got it from the Wikipedia entry for the movie:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(film)

Sorry that the link is hosed up. I tried BBCode but it looks like it creates the links automatically and keeps removing the closing parenthesis.

GatorMarc

Eat 'em up, chomp, chomp.

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