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Pragma · 10-22-2005, 07:47 AM

Here's my reply - I'll do my best to cover up spoilers wherever possible.

It's a scifi action/horror film. If you liked Aliens, you'll like this. It's the same genre of movie, and to me, that's not a bad thing. The theater I saw it at was packed, despite all of the bad reviews - and most of the people didn't look like gamers, and I don't think most of them had ever played Doom. That said, basing a movie on Doom is kind of a nebulous concept, as Doom doesn't have a huge story to draw off.

There are several things that are drawn from Doom 3 - and they pull it off great in my opinion. The layout looks remarkably similar to Doom 3 in a lot of places (Spoiler: especially when The Rock picks up the BFG), and I thought that was a really neat touch. The monsters aren't from hell - but they do look exactly like the monsters in Doom 3 (Spoiler: Imps, Pinkie demon, and zombies - though the imps don't throw flame). The background story isn't terribly strong, but what background story there is was pretty cool, in my opinion (Spoiler: rogue science experiments tampering with the human genome, turns some people into superhuman, some people into monsters, and then lots of killing results).

Now that I've done the background stuff -- what makes the movie really cool? The action, the violence, the gore, and the humor. The movie has pretty much nonstop violence for most of the entire time, and it's done well - it's filmed such that you don't mind watching the Marines running around shooting at people, you never go "blah blah, move on and do something else" (unlike Aliens, when they kept chasing after Newt - I took a bathroom break). There's plenty of violence - people getting shot in the head, the throat, all over the place - in addition to random acts of monster violence (Spoiler: like getting your head ripped off by an imp). There's plenty of gore - similar to Doom 3 in a lot of ways - and yet it's not overdone in a comical way. It's more along the lines of "yea, he got shot, and so there's blood everywhere."

The humor is mostly gallows humor, though there's also a lot of Doom humor moments (Spoiler: ... Big fucking gun!). The part of the movie that I loved the most was the first person shooter mode sequence. I won't explain what happened to cause it (as that would require a lot of typing, all of it in spoiler tags), but when the sequence kicks off, the entire crowd was like "SWEET!" - and the sequence was nonstop with Doom 3 references (Spoiler: ever hated the zombies hanging from the ceiling in the beginning of Doom 3? Reaper runs into those). Spoiler: The pinky demon (and where it comes from - I always wondered what the hell was up with those mechanical wheels), was awesome - chainsaw for the win. The concluding fight was a very badass fight, as would suit any action movie, but especially Doom.

Overall? It's not a perfect Doom movie (no flying skulls, no pumpkin heads, no Hell) - but there was never going to be a perfect Doom movie that non-Doom people would go see, because they just really wouldn't get it. That being said, I think it does do a great job at being based on Doom, and it is a very good movie. I'd give it an 8/10 and recommend anyone who (a) likes Doom or (b) likes scifi action movies should go see it.

10-22-2005, 07:47 AM	#13 (permalink)
Pragma I am Winter Born Location: Alexandria, VA	Here's my reply - I'll do my best to cover up spoilers wherever possible. It's a scifi action/horror film. If you liked Aliens, you'll like this. It's the same genre of movie, and to me, that's not a bad thing. The theater I saw it at was packed, despite all of the bad reviews - and most of the people didn't look like gamers, and I don't think most of them had ever played Doom. That said, basing a movie on Doom is kind of a nebulous concept, as Doom doesn't have a huge story to draw off. There are several things that are drawn from Doom 3 - and they pull it off great in my opinion. The layout looks remarkably similar to Doom 3 in a lot of places (Spoiler: especially when The Rock picks up the BFG), and I thought that was a really neat touch. The monsters aren't from hell - but they do look exactly like the monsters in Doom 3 (Spoiler: Imps, Pinkie demon, and zombies - though the imps don't throw flame). The background story isn't terribly strong, but what background story there is was pretty cool, in my opinion (Spoiler: rogue science experiments tampering with the human genome, turns some people into superhuman, some people into monsters, and then lots of killing results). Now that I've done the background stuff -- what makes the movie really cool? The action, the violence, the gore, and the humor. The movie has pretty much nonstop violence for most of the entire time, and it's done well - it's filmed such that you don't mind watching the Marines running around shooting at people, you never go "blah blah, move on and do something else" (unlike Aliens, when they kept chasing after Newt - I took a bathroom break). There's plenty of violence - people getting shot in the head, the throat, all over the place - in addition to random acts of monster violence (Spoiler: like getting your head ripped off by an imp). There's plenty of gore - similar to Doom 3 in a lot of ways - and yet it's not overdone in a comical way. It's more along the lines of "yea, he got shot, and so there's blood everywhere." The humor is mostly gallows humor, though there's also a lot of Doom humor moments (Spoiler: ... Big fucking gun!). The part of the movie that I loved the most was the first person shooter mode sequence. I won't explain what happened to cause it (as that would require a lot of typing, all of it in spoiler tags), but when the sequence kicks off, the entire crowd was like "SWEET!" - and the sequence was nonstop with Doom 3 references (Spoiler: ever hated the zombies hanging from the ceiling in the beginning of Doom 3? Reaper runs into those). Spoiler: The pinky demon (and where it comes from - I always wondered what the hell was up with those mechanical wheels), was awesome - chainsaw for the win. The concluding fight was a very badass fight, as would suit any action movie, but especially Doom. Overall? It's not a perfect Doom movie (no flying skulls, no pumpkin heads, no Hell) - but there was never going to be a perfect Doom movie that non-Doom people would go see, because they just really wouldn't get it. That being said, I think it does do a great job at being based on Doom, and it is a very good movie. I'd give it an 8/10 and recommend anyone who (a) likes Doom or (b) likes scifi action movies should go see it. __________________ Eat antimatter, Posleen-boy!