Doom
2005 Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak
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No one gets out alive.
Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on a distant planet but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.
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Part of Dastardly Difficult December: film nr.7
Dear makers of Doom,
Quick question, have any of you dimwitted bumfarts actually played the game you allegedly based this steaming pile of Martian manure on?
And don't you dare give me that 'look at that first person perspective bit!' crap. That just means one of you dumb cows discovered, probably after intense Google research, that Doom in fact is a first person shooter.
It's set on Mars you say? That's you're defence? That's like saying Die Hard is a remake of Hamlet because they're both set on Earth.
You should be ashamed of yourselves violating an innocent classic like that.
Bastards.
Yours sincerely,
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Y pensar que hay pobres almas perdidas que no les gusta esta película...
Es más, hay almas perdidísimas que dicen que es de las peores adaptaciones de un videojuego que se han hecho, y por ahí sí que no paso.
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Sure it's a bit cheesy at times, but Urban and Pike make this very watchable. The Rock is okay too I guess. The creatures are all fun and I simply love the scene when they do the POV first person shooter from the video game. I also loved the whole mystery in the plot, and of course the guy half frozen in the door. One of the better video game films.
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First off I will admit that I have never played a Doom video game for more than ten minutes so I won't ever call myself an expert on the series and I have no clue as to how close this movie follows the plot of the game so I can only judge this movie for what it is, a movie. You know its kinda refreshing to be able to do that after so many comic book movies that I have to force to separate from the source material.
After all communication has ceased from a research facility on Mars a heavily armed team of space marines head to the facility to see just what exactly is going on and take…
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Andrzej Bartkowiak's adaptation of the famous videogame series is another instalment of that type of popcorn action horror hybrid film that started with Resident Evil.
This isn't to say that the film is ultimately bad, but it is quite bland. The set up alludes to something more interesting than what is delivered. The typical plot points of genetics gone bad and sinister corporations doing experiments are elements that rob the film of any originality. Apart from Karl Urban and The Rock, the rest of the cast are utterly forgettable, much like the action moments. The scares have no tension and are easily predicted in advanced.
Even stylistically the film is bland as we are constantly shown one corridor after another. For a cinematographer Bartkowiak's direction is pedestrian with only the introduction of the BFG and the first person perspective scene standing out.
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If you want to know how not to make a movie based on a legendary game franchise watch this teeming pile of crap. For some reason the film makers threw away the "plot" of the videogame (scientists create a gateway to hell on Mars (the first game actually set on Phobos)). That is a cool idea, sort of like Event Horizon only not in space. Instead, the film version of Doom has some nonsense virus contracted by ancient aliens or something. Stupid. Rosalind Pike shows up, god knows why, and Karl Urban and The Rock do their typical macho act. The central gimmick to the film is a short section where a first-person view is used. To be honest, it…
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The POV sequence was cool...and that was pretty much it for this film. I mean you know your movie is terrible when Dwayne Johnson claims that it is the cheesiest thing he has made in his career.
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Kár, hogy csak ímmel-ámmal volt köze a játékokhoz, de az FPS nézet cool volt!
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I am not sure why I like this movie; but it is a fun movie.
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I had this playing in the background on a lazy afternoon, and find myself standing behind the mildly surprised reaction I had some eight years ago (has it been that long?!), in that while this is by no means actively good, there are numerous mitigating factors that provide better entertainment value than you'd expect from a video game adaptation directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak.
These include largely practical (and often gloriously cheesy) monster and gore effects, loads of moody, set-enshrouding darkness (which many have criticized as being too murky, but I find it a pleasant alternative to the standard of overzealously HD-friendly lighting), an entire set piece that is niftily shot like a first-person shooter, a dorky but nonetheless amusingly…
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Y pensar que hay pobres almas perdidas que no les gusta esta película...
Es más, hay almas perdidísimas que dicen que es de las peores adaptaciones de un videojuego que se han hecho, y por ahí sí que no paso.
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Why did I have to be reminded this exists?
I remember being excited when I first heard the Doom movie announcement, back when I was still naive enough to not yet know almost every video game movie ever is awful. Imagine my disappointment when I finally sat down and watched this. I can only imagine Carmack and Romero shaking their heads in disapproval that this is even allowed to be called "Doom".
I felt insulted by this movie. I'm actually surprised this one was not directed by Uwe Boll.
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April's Dirty Dozen - April 22
Doom- 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.
I know everybody seems to hate this film. This film starts The Rock and Karl Urban and is based off of a video game that I have never played. Basically it is set in the future and there is some kind of outbreak on the planet Mars that is turning everyone into zombies and monsters. The Rock is the leader of an elite squad of soldiers that are sent to the planet to investigate and "contain" the outbreak. Similar to Aliens or Resident Evil( a video game I have played). Doom doesn't break any new grounds as far as action/science Fiction films go but I enjoyed the hell out it. It does have it flaws but 20% on RT is too damn low!!!
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Terrible
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I remember my son playing this game incesantly as a kid. Great early tension in the movie but the story loses focus about halfway through. It’s as if they pitched and financed only the first half and then couldn’t figure out what to do with where they were at. The Rock is a disaster in this one.