Anyone here seen DOOM?

Avatar007 · Post by **Avatar007** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:33 am

I have to admit I never actually saw the whole thing. It was one of those, "This is so bad, I'm going to shut it off now" movies.

Kind of like Tomb Raider.

JexKerome · Post by **JexKerome** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:14 pm

PeppermintAfterlife wrote:Street Figher was awesome. It's so phenomenally dumb, yet watchable. And Raul Julia really milks that crappy part for all it's worth.

I cried bitter tears of sadness when I learned he had passed away and Bison was his last role ever. Now THAT was no way for an actor of his caliber to end.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:38 pm

The first 2/3 of Doom weren't that bad at all...a decent little "Aliens" rip-off.

But then things kind of fall apart in the final 3rd. We have good guys going over-the-top evil for no particular reason, there's suddenly zombies running around and all sorts of crap. The hyped "1st-person shooter" scene is gory fun...but it doesn't fit in with the rest of the movie at all...the first 2/3 is suspenseful and the enemies are portrayed as unstoppable killers. Then we get this scene where one guy wipes out dozens of them effortlessly in gory ways in a silly 1st person perspective...just doesn't fit together.

Oh...and then the biggest flaw...the Doom movie, based on the series of games that made first-person shooting popular, ends with a big fist-fight in it's finale. Bwuh? That would be like a Rocky movie ending a John Woo-esque shootout.

It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it wasn't very good either...5/10.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:14 pm

Yeah, 5/10 sounds about right.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:40 pm

Jackhass wrote:TThat would be like a Rocky movie ending a John Woo-esque shootout.

But that would be so cool!

It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it wasn't very good either...5/10.

That's exactly average, though. I really can't believe it'd be even an average movie.

- Joel Fagin

Kirb · Post by **Kirb** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:22 pm

*cries inside for the upcoming Metroid movie*

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:07 pm

Doom is so 1994.

And if I can't be the one shooting people...

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:16 pm

Joel Fagin wrote:
It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it wasn't very good either...5/10.
That's exactly average, though. I really can't believe it'd be even an average movie.

- Joel Fagin

If first two halfs are average (decent Alien ripoff) and the third one ruins it, then mathermatically speaking it's 5/3+5/3+1/3 = 3.66

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:18 pm

JexKerome wrote:
PeppermintAfterlife wrote:Street Figher was awesome. It's so phenomenally dumb, yet watchable. And Raul Julia really milks that crappy part for all it's worth.
I cried bitter tears of sadness when I learned he had passed away and Bison was his last role ever. Now THAT was no way for an actor of his caliber to end.

Yeah I know. As funny as that movie is, it's quite tragic that he wasn't able to do one last good movie before he passed on.

Kirb wrote:*cries inside for the upcoming Metroid movie*

...WHAT!? Screw that noise. Screw it with the screw attack.

zzzzZZZAAA! *pop*

Avatar007 · Post by **Avatar007** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:34 pm

Oh, and before I forget, I really did like the Final Fantasy movie. Honest!

I count that as one good transition from games into movies. Heck, they went <em>backwards</em> from movie into video game with 10... but let's not degenerate this into a video game debate thread.

Video Games!

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:38 pm

Blech. Okay, Doom was better than the Final Fantasy movie...mostly because the FF movie really had very little connection to any of the games and went for more cold sci fi. Unless you meant Advent Children which, though I know it was a piece of fangasmic propoganda, I still loved ^_^.

Ferguson · Post by **Ferguson** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:53 pm

I've always thought Duke Nukem just screamed for a film version.
I can picture it being like Army of Darkness, and that's just fine by me.

Sincerely · Post by **Sincerely** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:08 pm

I adored the first Resident Evil. They really did a good job with the game-to-movie conversion, not necessarily staying true to the games, but staying true to the storytelling style. And this is why I was so pissed off when halfway through the second Resident Evil movie they apparently got -bored- of zombies and walked away from the plot. All I can say besides that is "Two by two, hands of blue."

Doom was going to be a bad movie from square one. I wanted it to be a good watch. I didn't play the Doom games but I was familiar with their game play (if not their story). It was a bad sign that about halfway through the movie I started getting bored and fidgity.

The Final Fantasy movie (which could've gotten by just as well with the title "The Spirits Within", dropping the [false] connection to the FF games) was a very pretty movie. It had a decent story, but it was definitely not a Final Fantasy movie. I want to see Advent Children -so- badly... I'm just waiting for my brother to download the subtitles for it without having to reformat his harddrive from all the viruses he keeps picking up.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:10 pm

Ferguson wrote:I've always thought Duke Nukem just screamed for a film version.
I can picture it being like Army of Darkness, and that's just fine by me.

No problem, just re-dub one of Arnold Shwarzeneger films so that everyone calls him "Duke" and that will be about it.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:34 pm

Joel Fagin wrote:
It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it wasn't very good either...5/10.
That's exactly average, though. I really can't believe it'd be even an average movie.

I wouldn't consider 5/10 average...I'd consider that below average bordering on downright lousy.

6 or 7/10 is what I'd consider average. A 5/10 is a D in most any grading system I ever had in school.

Kirb · Post by **Kirb** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:00 pm

Jackhass wrote:6 or 7/10 is what I'd consider average. A 5/10 is a D in most any grading system I ever had in school.

Really? You had it easy. 65% or lower meant an F in my school.

Avatar007 · Post by **Avatar007** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:08 pm

sincerely wrote:The Final Fantasy movie (which could've gotten by just as well with the title "The Spirits Within", dropping the [false] connection to the FF games) was a very pretty movie. It had a decent story, but it was definitely not a Final Fantasy movie. I want to see Advent Children -so- badly... I'm just waiting for my brother to download the subtitles for it without having to reformat his harddrive from all the viruses he keeps picking up.

I think this is where I disagree with most people, because it really was FF-like. Most people have trouble in realizing that the only real ties between each of the games are the names Bahamut (sadly missing from TSW), Cid, and Excalibur (also sadly missing). In any case, the movie <em>is</em> a great deal more futuristic than, say, FF-IV. But it's not too far a stretch from FF-VII.

Anyway... I still enjoyed it. I might be one of the few who did.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:16 am

Jackhass wrote:I wouldn't consider 5/10 average...I'd consider that below average bordering on downright lousy. 6 or 7/10 is what I'd consider average.

But... but... but... average is in the middle! That gives you maximum manoevering space on either side. The way you have it set up, you've got more room for movies to be lousy than good. It doesn't really make a lot of sense, common or mathematical.

Well, for me anyway.

- Joel Fagin

JexKerome · Post by **JexKerome** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 1:06 am

mcDuffies wrote:
Ferguson wrote:I've always thought Duke Nukem just screamed for a film version.
I can picture it being like Army of Darkness, and that's just fine by me.
No problem, just re-dub one of Arnold Shwarzeneger films so that everyone calls him "Duke" and that will be about it.

Yap, McDuffies got it in one ^^