The DOOM Movie

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » 2004-12-08 05:58pm

No Space Marines? Heresy! This is a hallow mockery of DOOM and to actually mock a game like DOOM takes work. These guys must of taken lessons from BB or something.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-12-08 06:24pm

Has anyone else noticed that the phrase "give the people what the want" seems to have gone right out the window?

Darksider · Post by **Darksider** » 2004-12-08 06:30pm

Spyder wrote:Has anyone else noticed that the phrase "give the people what the want" seems to have gone right out the window?

I'm sure people are starting to think they should toss all these shitty producers out right along with it.

Post by **weemadando** » 2004-12-08 06:33pm

You know, when it was first announced that The Rock would be starring and that the guy who made Romeo Must Die was directing, all of us on the radio show went - "yeah, that'll be kinda - no, that will be damn cool."

Now, this weekend it might well be time for the Doom Movie obituary to be put out there.

But on a related note:

DOOM 3 - The Boardgame!

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-12-08 06:58pm

For fucks sake .......

That is all that needs to be said!

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2004-12-08 07:30pm

A. Where Do I get the board game?

Basically, they took the name, took what it was about and found a way to directly change it. They might as well change the name too, call it 'Balls', because that is what it will suck.

One thing I noticed was Doom 3 was more horror. A recent review of Quake 4 says it will be more shooter. Isn't that a total role reversal. I always saw Doom as the shooter, and Quake as the horror. Well Q3 excluded because that was really designed for multi more than anything. So, shouldn't the Doom movie be a big action shooter. Since there was co op in Doom why not have a few marines start off and maybe one survives at the end or some such. But you have to keep it to demons on mars attacking space marines.

There, that was simple. I also think if they have a Quake movie that it should be more horror, but with some action shooting going on at tense parts. My two cents.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-12-08 07:54pm

A recent review of Quake 4 says it will be more shooter. Isn't that a total role reversal. I always saw Doom as the shooter, and Quake as the horror.

Quake 4 is going to be a sequel to Quake 2, which was most certainly more shooter, less horror.

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2004-12-08 08:19pm

My...favourite...game...has been blasphemed.

They'll all die, I swear.

Anyways, I always thought the original Quake was the best. The Lovecraftian environment was far creepier than anything else ever put out.

-Damien

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-12-08 08:49pm

Damn, I was hoping this would be a movie about Cairber's dog.

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2004-12-08 08:59pm

Durandal wrote:There's still hope for the Halo movie. If Ridley Scott ends up directing it, I'll have several orgasms.

And thus is launched "The Online Petition to Save Damien's Sex Life"...

Sharpshooter · Post by **Sharpshooter** » 2004-12-08 09:18pm

Spyder wrote:
InnocentBystander wrote:Is it possible they wanted to avoid calling them "critters from hell" because they don't want religous freaks getting and uppity about it?
That's highly probable. "Oh, we wouldn't want to encourage satanism."

Actually, it'd probably be even better for the zealots if they left in the whole demonic hellspawn bit - they could then rally behind it as an example of Christian greatness ala that one review of Halo someone mentioned a while ago.

It's sickening, in terms of honor and intelligence, just how far they've degraded the good name of DOOM:

*The script writer must be an absolute madman if he thinks he can honor the games in any way by making the whole thing a virul outbreak. Yeah, that'll work: the flaming skulls, floating, one-eyed heads, Cyberdemons, Barons of Hell, and those mechanical spider things are the result of virul mutations. Idiot! At the very least, make them pure extraterrestrials if you don't want to piss off the fanatics!
*That they dare to pussify the Space Marines, the roughest, toughest, and rowdiest men and women to suck vacuum, and turn them into nothing more than a glorified SWAT team deserves a beating in itself, let alone the rest earned from their abominable acts.
*Way to uphold the basic story: suddenly, they have functional teleportation systems that don't result in a guarenteed case of spontanious combustion and which don't serve as the major source for all the chaos that's to emerge, and the incident takes place in the ass-end of nowhere as opposed to a government-funded research facility.
*Removing the chainsaw and the BFG (I refuse to call that a Bio Force Gun) just makes it even words: those are mandatory staples of canon DOOM games, almost trademarks, even. DOOM just isn't the same without hacking enemies to bits with Buzz and vaporizing them with every FPS fan's favorite power-wanking death machine.

I wonder if Id has the right to sue if they feel the studio completily fucked up their series?

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2004-12-08 10:18pm

Oni Koneko Damien wrote: Anyways, I always thought the original Quake was the best. The Lovecraftian environment was far creepier than anything else ever put out.

Pics?

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2004-12-08 10:50pm

What in the bloody blue hell have they done? Why don't they just call it "Resident Evil--In Space!"?

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-12-08 11:18pm

This fucking sucks. The only good thing in that whole stupid like is Karl Urban is in it. Karl Urban is cool. That is all. Fucking Resident Evil in space, complete with SWAT outfits! Fucking morons.

Coalition · Post by **Coalition** » 2004-12-09 03:36am

Anybody besides me read the Doom books? At the end of the first book, after they beat the masterminds on Mars, they see Earth out the window, and the heroes know they made it.

Then the first nukes start goin off, and they realize they're too late.

That might be a twisted ending for the movie, if they bothered to do it right.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-12-09 08:19am

I'm betting it will suck more than Wing Commander, at least with WC they had the same basic story and setting as the games!

Oni Koneko Damien · Post by **Oni Koneko Damien** » 2004-12-09 02:50pm

DP DarkPrimus wrote:Pics?

Okay,

The final boss, Shub-Niggurath. If that isn't Lovecraftian, I don't know what is.

A Vore, which obviously took some inspiration from Nyarlathotep

The first boss, Chthon. No comment needed.

-Damien

Natorgator · Post by **Natorgator** » 2004-12-09 04:32pm

Did Quake even have a story? I have no recollection of it, if so.

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2004-12-09 05:25pm

Natorgator wrote:Did Quake even have a story? I have no recollection of it, if so.

I guess it did. You played a character cursed with amnesia, and a geas that compelled him to run through incomprehensively constructed tunnels while killing viciously rampant Origami figures on PCP. Its music is a subtle allegory on the ephemereal nature of the player's eardrums. Mounting tension leads up to a big finish in the basement of the "gateway level", where HP Lovecraft is interred, the powerful revolutions of his body powering the game's then-revolutionary 3D engine. From this place you are teleported to the domain of Shub-niggurath, and shown the true power of the Hentai Side.

..

...maybe the ending's different if you don't enter the cheat codes.

Kintaro · Post by **Kintaro** » 2004-12-09 06:00pm

Yes, another Hollywood fuckup! I'm so happy!

Those mother fucking assholes are about to fuck up my favorite game!

Who the fuck lets this shit happen? There is no way in Hell that I am ever going to see this movie. Goddamn assholes

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2004-12-09 06:55pm

Natorgator wrote:Did Quake even have a story? I have no recollection of it, if so.

Not a million miles removed from Doom, IIRC - wierd alien things come out of the experimental teleporters, and you have to go in and stop them.

There were 4 Runes you needed, also, IIRC.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-12-10 03:41pm

The worst part is, after Doom flops, Hollywood will decide it's simply because games don't make good stories and stop giving any of them a shot.

Or maybe it's because Hollywood is getting jealous of the quality of stories in games and is deliberately trying to sabotage them to make the drek they pump out look better by comparison.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2004-12-12 01:01pm

SPOOFE wrote:The worst part is, after Doom flops, Hollywood will decide it's simply because games don't make good stories and stop giving any of them a shot.

Or maybe it's because Hollywood is getting jealous of the quality of stories in games and is deliberately trying to sabotage them to make the drek they pump out look better by comparison.

On the other hand, Doom simply has *no* quality story after all. Now if we're talking about WarCraft III.....

Dunno', but I guess Duke Nukem 3D could make a better movie with such colorful character. How about Arnold Schwarzenegger playing Duke Nukem?

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2004-12-12 01:17pm

I always pictured Bruce Campbell as Duke, with dyed hair of course.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2004-12-12 01:46pm

Vendetta wrote:The Doom movie will only be Doom in name.

Everything else, apparently, will be Resident Evil.

The Resident Evil movie was, I remind you, ass.

I have a friend who lives, breathes and worships Resident Evil. He's even read the novelizations of the RE games. This guy can't watch a movie without at some point exclaiming "This is more Resident Evil than Resident Evil: The Movie was".

He even said that during Jenseits Der Stille, and that should account for something.