Doom Movie..

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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20044

A REPORT from the set of the Doom movie has unveiled some fantastic
re-writes and re-characterisations.
The movie project, based on the ubiquitous video game, is currently being
filmed in Prague. Eastern Europe has become a hot-bed of low budget horror
movie making in recent years, due to the activities of the SciFi channel,
who have their Saturday night monster-flicks filmed there.

The report says that screenwriter, Dave Callaham, was keen to keep the
atmosphere of the game intact whilst making some 'necessary' story changes.
The changes? Well, Doom won't be set on Mars. The monsters have nothing to
do with Hell. Space marines are SWAT teams. The monsters will, apparently,
be people mututated by a secret virus.

Gosh, how original. Have they seen Resident Evil?

The report is the latest in a series that don't exactly lend the movie
credit. The director recently hired to take over the project, Andrzej
Bartkowiak, has such high-quality films as Species and Dante's Peak in his
back-catalogue.

The lack of any kind of 'Hell' connection is something of a kicker. Doom 2
was subtitled 'Hell on Earth', and the key plot point of Doom 3 is that the
monsters in-game are Hellspawn, hence the multiple pentograms and such vile
creations as dead-baby-cherub-wasp combinations. A 'necessary' change, or a
neat way to avoid right-wing criticism? We wonder.

The Doom movie is due out some time in 2005



Well, it's Inquirer but anyway.

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Petri Piira - Mikkeli - Finland

 

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Yawn. The *only* movie I've seen/read about/heard about that was based
off a game that came even moderately close to being a good movie was Tron.


And Tron wasn't that great.


(i bet somebody is going to pull some obscure movie from the archives
just to make me feel like an ass for saying something, but whatever)


Look at Aliens Vs. Predator:

- Great Game
- Poor Movie

Game -> Movie?

Doesn't work.

Now, maybe for people who haven't played the game, the movie would be
enjoyable, but frankly, after having played the game, I don't think I
could watch through a standard alien/virus/zombie horror flick and enjoy it.

My 2 cents, for what it's worth.

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Noob - "do you have digital cable?"
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On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:25:07 -0500, SnoopJeDi
<snoopjediHOLDTHESPAM@comcast.net> wrote:

>Yawn. The *only* movie I've seen/read about/heard about that was based
>off a game that came even moderately close to being a good movie was Tron.
>
>And Tron wasn't that great.
>

Acually, Tron was a movie by it self. The game came well after the movie
(at least 15 years later), mainly because of technology limitations at the
time.

>
>(i bet somebody is going to pull some obscure movie from the archives
>just to make me feel like an ass for saying something, but whatever)
>
>
>Look at Aliens Vs. Predator:
>
> - Great Game
> - Poor Movie

Actually, Aliens Vs. Predator movie was based off both the Aliens movie
series and the Predator movie series. It just happens that the game was
based on the same universe as well.

In addition, there were also books in the universe as well. If anything,
the AvP movie was simply an addition to the univese rather than a game to
movie conversion.

>
>Game -> Movie?
>
>Doesn't work.

Actually, it can work. The Chronicles of Riddic is a movie based with a
game were released somewhere around the same time. While the movie isn't
the absolute best, it is considered good by users on the various
user-review sites (but that's only counting votes from users that voted.)

The only reason it doesn't appear to work is because games are based around
strong action - and there's only so much action that can be placed in a
movie before it gets boring. The solution is naturally to bring up some
story, but that almost always fails because of poor plotwriter staffs that
either create plot holes (e.g. changing the Demons to a viral outbreak), or
don't put in enough... movie stuff.

>Now, maybe for people who haven't played the game, the movie would be
>enjoyable, but frankly, after having played the game, I don't think I
>could watch through a standard alien/virus/zombie horror flick and enjoy it.

I wouldn't be suprised about not enjoying standard alien/virus/zombie
horror flicks. Generally, they are predictable or cliched and overuse
certain writing elements, thus killing whatever entertainments or
nightmares that can arise from a movie.

 

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Raymond Martineau wasted my time with the following on 12/9/2004 11:49 PM:
>
> I wouldn't be suprised about not enjoying standard alien/virus/zombie
> horror flicks. Generally, they are predictable or cliched and overuse
> certain writing elements, thus killing whatever entertainments or
> nightmares that can arise from a movie.
>

That was the idea I was aiming for, despite now sounding like an ass for
being proved wrong on basically all my supporting points.

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Noob - "do you hack?"
Justin - "i hack like a maniac!"
Noob - "do you have digital cable?"
Justin - "i have *ALL* the cables!"

 

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"Petri Piira" <petrick@REMOVEdnainternet.net> wrote in message
news:41b89e10$1_2@news.dnainternet.net...
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20044
>
> A REPORT from the set of the Doom movie has unveiled some fantastic
> re-writes and re-characterisations.

Thats a bad sign right there.

> The movie project, based on the ubiquitous video game, is currently being
> filmed in Prague. Eastern Europe has become a hot-bed of low budget horror
> movie making in recent years, due to the activities of the SciFi channel,
> who have their Saturday night monster-flicks filmed there.

I knew they were bad but now I know why theyre really bad!
Those scifi movies are just amazing in their ability to take
the biggest cliches and mix them together in the nuttiest
concoction to make an even bigger cliche.
Its almost enough to make me think even I could write a
bad movie and actually get it made!

> The report says that screenwriter, Dave Callaham, was keen to keep the
> atmosphere of the game intact whilst making some 'necessary' story
changes.
> The changes? Well, Doom won't be set on Mars. The monsters have nothing to
> do with Hell. Space marines are SWAT teams. The monsters will, apparently,
> be people mututated by a secret virus.
>
> Gosh, how original. Have they seen Resident Evil?

Sounds like the usual bottom line thinking which makes for bad movies.
Isnt someone from ID overseeing this? Dont they care about the
"integrity" of their product?!
If its not on Mars and has nothing to do with Hell well then it has
nothing to do with Doom and it isnt Doom! eF him and all of them!
I wont pay to see it!

 

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> I think the best we could ever hope for it a Leisure Suit Larry pr0n
> flick.
>

LSL! Right on!