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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sp4de on October 22, 2005, 06:19:51 PM
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When a co-worker described it as being as bad as Super Mario Brothers, I decided to pass on it.
ack-ack
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movie based on a videogame = bad idea
movie based on a video game with no real plot = terrible idea
movei based on a video game with no real plot featuring the rock and talking guns = no ****** way.
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Movie not based on the actual story of the game = bad.
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I wonder if the orignal music is in there..I kinda liked it. I may rent it but thats about it.
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Originally posted by Heretik
movie based on a videogame = bad idea
I liked this one (2):
(http://images.art.com/images/products/large/10054000/10054422.jpg)
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I havnt' seen it yet but I did watch the Rock on the "daily Show" and he said they stuck really close to the game.
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What's he supposed to say? It's nothing like the game and it sucks?
I saw the same interview, and it sounded like everything he said was spoon fed to him straight from one of the studio's marketing guys.
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
I havnt' seen it yet but I did watch the Rock on the "daily Show" and he said they stuck really close to the game.
Well, considering the game's plot line pretty much just revovles killing things, it's not too hard to stray from the story line. Too bad though they didn't follow the story from Doom 3.
ack-ack
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I think he means they used a lot of "pwned!" and "OMG!" in the dialogue.
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
I havnt' seen it yet but I did watch the Rock on the "daily Show" and he said they stuck really close to the game.
Guns did you also hear the disgust from the crowd when he mentioned the Skull-Thrower wasnt in the movie. At that point right there, I knew it would be a flop. You can't make these kind of movies without die-hard fans nitpicking and ruining it for those not familiar with the originals.
I'm waiting for the movie to prove me wrong.
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So, they take a video game where someone immerses themselves in, and actually Does something to manipulate the story along, and turn it into a movie where you sit and watch the game unfold.
Hollywood is out of ideas, time for a new form of entertainment.
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Lawyer Hunting?
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How could it stick closely to the game? In the game, a portal to hell has opened. Sure, you have Pinky, but he's the result of genetic mutation?
Are there the goat headed guys? The spiderdemon guys with the machine guns? Is the BFG really that FB? I saw a shot in the trailer where it looked... underwhelming. It was more of a SBNRBG (Sorta But Not Really Big Gun). Not as catchy, sure....
BTW, I made the mistake of seeing the movie 'Domino'. It is the dawn of a new genre of films that I will refer to as "Suck-noire".
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If anything Domino has Keira Knightley in it and that can never be bad Chairboy. Anyway, when I saw Doom was gonna be a movie I made up my mind not to see it because........The Rock was in it and he sucks.
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Like with all other movies ill wait for the DVD.
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False advertisement is what it is. Nice job Id.
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"How could it stick closely to the game?"
I don't know about "Doom3" as I never played it. The original DooM actually had a pretty solid plot--solid enough for a typical action movie anyway. It just wasn't necessary to pay any attention to that plot to play the game.
The key elements were:
--the "hero" is shipped out to the boonies (the martain research labs) as punishment for assaulting a superior officer who ordered him to fire on civilians. The military base is on mars itself, while the labs are on mars and both its moons.
--the research being done at these facilities is really shady and being performed by a Haliburton-esque company called UAC with plenty of political ties and basically no oversight.
--they're working on dimensional transport when they seem to open a gate to something . They don't know what, and live subjects who are sent through either come back violently insane, or don't come back at all.
--finally everything starts to go haywire. The labs on Phobos report some sort of creatures attacking the base and Deimos literally vanishes from the sky. The marines are sent in.
--the "hero" is the guy left behind to guard the ship (apparently his new CO here didn't trust him). The rest of the squad is apparently killed violently as gristly sounds some over the radios for a time--then nothing but static. This is where the game starts--with no other course of action, the "hero" goes in alone. He knows almost nothing and his plan isn't much better than "kill a few of whatever killed my buddies before dying".
There are lots of wierd portents, human bodies dismembered and impaled and such, pentagrams carved into the floor, etc. A DooM film done right would be part action and part horror film.
--it's very late before we learn that the Diemos moon vanished through a gateway to Hell itself.
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Basically, this is the sort of movie that would work best if the majority of the movie was buildup in a similar manner as something like "Jurassic Park". There are plenty of opportunities to tie in the UAC with modern corporate corruption.
As far as the monsters go...no monsters in any movie or game I've ever seen are better than the ones from DooM. If the movie didn't use them, that's only to its detriment. The "floatring flaming skulls" were important because they were literally "lost souls"...you can't have Hell without lost souls!
I haven't seen the doom movie and don't plan to. I know plenty of other situations where the game was much better than the movie (Wing Commander being the most famous example because the game actually had bigger stars than the feature film). I don't want to ruin my memory of DooM.
J_A_B
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I saw it and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but it also wasn't as good as it could have been.
I don't think it stuck to the doom plot at all.
Not enough monsters and to much Rock.
I won't spoil it (like I could) but I would hold off for the DVD to come out AND to go on sale.
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--the "hero" is shipped out to the boonies (the martain research labs) as punishment for assaulting a superior officer who ordered him to fire on civilians. The military base is on mars itself, while the labs are on mars and both its moons.
--the research being done at these facilities is really shady and being performed by a Haliburton-esque company called UAC with plenty of political ties and basically no oversight.
--they're working on dimensional transport when they seem to open a gate to something . They don't know what, and live subjects who are sent through either come back violently insane, or don't come back at all.
--finally everything starts to go haywire. The labs on Phobos report some sort of creatures attacking the base and Deimos literally vanishes from the sky. The marines are sent in.
--the "hero" is the guy left behind to guard the ship (apparently his new CO here didn't trust him). The rest of the squad is apparently killed violently as gristly sounds some over the radios for a time--then nothing but static. This is where the game starts--with no other course of action, the "hero" goes in alone. He knows almost nothing and his plan isn't much better than "kill a few of whatever killed my buddies before dying".
There are lots of wierd portents, human bodies dismembered and impaled and such, pentagrams carved into the floor, etc. A DooM film done right would be part action and part horror film.
--it's very late before we learn that the Diemos moon vanished through a gateway to Hell itself.
One of the best games even to this day.
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Originally posted by nirvana
If anything Domino has Keira Knightley in it and that can never be bad
Ah, you haven't seen the film, I can tell.
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Originally posted by Chairboy
Ah, you haven't seen the film, I can tell.
Seriously it has Keira Knightly and she has guns? How could it be so bad that not even Keira with automatic weapons cant save it?
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Not even showing her breast can save Domino, it's just that bad.
ack-ack
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I saw it, I never played the original so I cant compair it. But it isnt a bad movie, kinda hard to say good because its all the same stuff now a days. Camera work wasnt great, but I dont think its important in this kind of movie. It does move at a decent pace which is something I enjoy when there isnt much dialouge. It isnt too long either, a key to making me like action movies.
BTW the 1st person scene was excelent, really well done.
Its worth seeing, just dont spend the prices at night, that wouldnt be worth the money.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
I liked this one (2):
(http://images.art.com/images/products/large/10054000/10054422.jpg)
Tomb Raider XIV
(http://www.northoltwing.com/~mietla/TombRaiderXIV.jpg)
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WTFFFF
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Looks more like Fridge Raider.
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I knew someone would post that...