Doom
| release date | October 21 2005 |
| studio | Universal Pictures |
| director | Andrzej Bartkowiak |
| writer | Dave Callaham |
| starring | Karl Urban, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson |
| rating | R |
| site | doommovie.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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“[N]othing in the world could prepare me for the cinematic catastrophe I was about to witness. When a game is turned into a film, one can only expect the story to be changed a little, but surely not to such a degree that the title is the only thing linking the two. Let me give you a little run down on the storyline differences.
Game:- A secret research base on the moon accidentally creates a rift between the moon’s surface and the shores of hell, people become possessed, satanic rituals take place, demons run riot and soon the base begins to merge with hell itself, the player (you) is the last surviving member of a team of marines sent to investigate (pretty basic stuff) Movie:- A research facility on Mars try to make a serum to make people into super humans. But it does not work on everyone, some people when infected mutate into large monsters that have detachable tongues which pass the infection onto others. Confused yet? There’s more. Using what seems to be floating liquid mercury, The Rock and his team of equally talentless actors travel to mars to investigate a distress call. While there they discover what has happened and are all killed except for The Rock and some white guy who’s name I can’t remember, both of which become super humans and have to battle it out.
Now that I’m done bitching about the differences between the film and the game, permit me to explain to you the other reasons why this seizure of a film is not worth your time.
The dialogue is, how should i put it?, very structured, by this I mean that when the characters interact with one another, you are very aware that it has been scripted and there is no ad-libbing.
The cinematography is clumsy. The camera angle never quite knows what it wants to do, and the lighting (where there is any) is just irritating.
The filters are not subtle, they use lots of red (probably because it’s set on Mars) and a fair bit of everyone’s favourite green (because it’s “post-Matrix”) But the most laughable part has to be the five minute long first person sequence, which looks exactly like “Doom 3″ on Xbox, the CGI in this scene is laughable (although possibly deliberate) and it ingeniously shows the big hulking monsters attacking the main character with a chainsaw which he later uses against what can only be described as a “boss” All in all, this film is terrible. Less of a film, more of a Labotomy on celluloid. Spend your
a failure of a film that lacks integrity with characters and villian, too familiar with other sci fi horror films and nothing to different here that i havent seen before.
crap
The doom movie was an absolute disgrace compared to the video game. If this movie was named something else other than doom I honestly wouldn’t have thought it was based on the game. The storyline is nothing like doom and the action that is in this movie is pathetic. Okay the storyline for doom is this: You are a marine on mars and a scientist unlocks the portals to hell, soon the whole mars bars is overrun and everyone is either a zombie or a flesh eating demon spawn. You are the only survivor and you have to battle your way out through the hordes of endless demons, pure fps fun! But on this shitty movie a rescue team is sent into the mars base and there is hardly any demons from the game in this movie at all. The poster is a complete piece of shit, it shows a guy holding a p90 and that gun isn’t even in the god damn movie! The special effects were lame and the demons and zombies looked like shit. There was lots of gore in this movie and it looked kind of good. Sarge’s transformation at the end was gay and not scary one bit, the whole end fight was boring and stupid. The only gun from the game in this movie was the B.F.G. and what does it stand for in the movie??? Bio force gun!!!! What a piece of shit! Every single doom fan knows that B.F.G. means big fucking gun! Did they even play the game before they made this movie???? The acting was cheesy and not too good for my liking. The gooey teleporter thing sucked ass that wasn’t even in the freaking game. I still can’t believe how many demons were actually in this movie, hardly any! Lets list them.
Imp: There was a few imps here and there and I didn’t see one fireball and they looked completely different then the original version.
Hellknight: I think there was one pitiful scene with the bad ass hell knight, and again it didn’t look anything like the original version. It didn’t cast any fireballs and the fight that it had with one of the marines………..Made the hellknight seem like a mindless, huge zombie!
Pinky: There was one pinky out of the whole movie! What a fuck up and guess what the pinky was before it got transformed??? Some pitiful half robot half human guy who did absoulutley nothing!
So thats about all the demons you’ll see in this stupid movie, and someone please tell me what demon that is on the poster!!!!!! The only enemy you see alot of is those bloody zombies! Doom was infamous for it’s grotesque scary looking demons not just another zombie fps! Now onto the fps scene itself. Man is it bad! The gun again isn’t from the game at all and all he shoots is zombies and a few imps. The calmness of the character when he is blowing away all this shit that is out to kill him is just totally unrealistic. Doom got your adrenaline pumping and nerves racing as you were constantly watching out for something to jump out. But this guy really dosen’t care if he lives or dies, he is just walking around blowing zombies heads off. The bit where he has the chainsaw and kills the pinky with it was gay, they could have done way better use of the chainsaw and had way more gore on that part! How sarge dies is just uncreative and so predictable, and he got killed for a good reason, he was a fucking psychopath before! He shot his own team member in the neck at close range, so much for team work I guess we can chuck that idea out the window! But there shouldn’t even be a team it should be one bad ass marine taking em all on, true doom style! Even some of the people in the team are a bit strange, infact the whole team is fucked up! There is one guy who cuts himself every time he makes a mistake. Another guy likes to perv on naked one armed zombies, yes thats right NAKED ONE ARMED ZOMBIES WHILE IN THE ACT OF FEEDING! Yea that sure turns me on, the director must have had some sick thoughts going through his head when he thought up that gem of a scene. Overall this movie was lame and a disgrace to doom fans everywhere and the doom franchise itself! Next time they decide to make a doom movie, let someone direct it who has actually played the damn game!!!!!!!!!!!!! The director even said in an interview that he was a hardcore doom fan as a kid and still is now, yeah well it really shows that in this movie. I mean all true fans of the franchise know that there is like only 3 important demons and a fuckload of zombies to worry about, not the insanely powerful hellknight or the gruesome mancubus. What a stupid ass hole!!!!!!! The game doom 3 was fucking scary as fucking shit but this garbage didn’t even keep me entertained for 2 minutes at the most! Doom also had great lighting but the movie’s lighting effects were shit as! The ending was shit, no huge awesome epic battle with the cyberdemon just a “hardcore” chainsaw fight with a stupid pinky that is considered to be a “boss”! Overall this movie sucked ass and I hate it to death, I give Doom the movie a shitty 2/10. Although the movie was a huge dissapointment I know that when doom 4 comes out its gunna be kick ass!!
I can remember being super hyped to see this movie, untill i heard about the god-awful “Rock” being the lead. I than knew right away what kind of film i’d be viewing. A shit movie.
The filmmakers seemed to have no knowledge or respect for the source material. Whoever green-lit this script needs a swift kick to the groin.
yucky!
Really bad. The best part was the little bit of FPS fanfare they threw in at the end. As a gamer I found it pretty badass.
Shitty movie though, don’t get me wrong.
Insulting the fans of this game (including me) is a disgrace. Please Please if another Doom movie is made (probably not now) make sure that somebody locks the director in a dark room with just a computer and a huge screen and get him playing Doom3 with the volume racked up to very loud, then he’ll know what scary is!!! and hopefully translate that to screen. Lets hope a french horror director picks up the tab
Although more stupid and uncalled for than necessary, the action and the innovative FPS-sequence as well as a nicely overplayed The Rock are yet considered decent “fast food”-entertainment.
As with the majority of movies based on games Doom is visually captured, offering solid and strong action sequences, real and gory special effects as well as nice camera work; the FPS-sequence by the ending is not only the film’s hallmark but innovative, nicely done and obviously somewhat appreciative by fans and FPS-players. However, the alteration of plot replacing “hell” with “genetics” is totally unnecessary and unwise, as is the silly and suspense killing “Quake II”-scores during the battle sequences.
“As with the majority of movies based on games”-part 2 Doom obviously has no script nor characters to deliver; a few short scenes revolving a couple of characters at a time attempt to deliver characters, but it ends up useless. The cast works fine having a nicely working overplayed The Rock and a solid Karl Urban in the leading roles. A well performed Rosamund Pike and a funny-nasty Richard Brake, however, are brought to the “highlights”-category, creating a little nerve out of their roles.
Doom brings a few solid elements and decent entertainment visually, but plot and script remain decidedly sloppy and unwise.
As with every video game to movie adaptation, Doom fails in most ways. For one, they get a load of terrible actors, with hardly no exprience to act out as the “toughest” marines ever. The Rock is a great example. From the terrible creature CGI and make up, to the rather horrible plot, Doom fails, point blank. Although, I liked the “first person view” section of the movie. That’s what gains it the 3 rating!
3/10
Was this a horror movie? Idk but it was ok.
Dwayne Johnson really picked a bad decision here. I enjoyed The Run Down & Walking Tall but I didn’t agree with this film one bit. The actors were Horrible to say te least and CGI was just as bad
Fantastic this ain’t. I adored the first person sequence. The rest, bleh, not so much.
This movie was not as bad as it was made out to be. Sure the movie is made on a semi low budget, and the plot is unoriginal. But is you enjoyed such movies as Resident Evil, Outpost and Deep Rising this movie is worth checking out.
I’ve always been a fan of the sci-fi spacestation setting, and this movie has a pretty nice setting. If you enjoy a sci-fi movie with a simple plot, ok acting and recent action this is a movie for you.
As a fan of the video game, I was disappointed. The storyline falls short and is highly predictable. The ending is rediculous, to say the least, as with most of The Rock’s films.
Loved the game absolutely hated this film enough said.
Stick to the games
Great movie,not for nice girls who work in banks.Hardcore stuff,particularly loved the extra pair chromosome theory,and the experimentation on condemned criminals.did i mention psyhopatic,lol.the connection between sam andher brother was warm and “the rock” was totally alpha modus operandi.the kid he shot was a junkie and definitely in the wrong profession.the guy cutting himself added a nice flair to the stresses of military life experienced by soldiers over time.well thought out movie,excellent imagination,i hope there is a sequel.See people fail to realise that part 2 just might learn build ad be much better unless the directors ran out of ideas.Genetcally producing monsters is never a stable kinda research lol.Somebody’s gotta clean it up.Hence the commando team.The guy “portman” added a distinctive comedic yet freaky element to this movie.
the extreme unrated version is really good
This movie is ok, i’ts really not as bad as the doom gamers make it sound.
It was changed WAY too much from the game to movie part. Wasn’t scary at all, had maybe one creepy part; that was it. DOOM 3 had all your senses working and delivered one of the creepiest and intense games that I have ever played. Why they felt the need to make the demons transformed humans and zombies I will never know.
If this was just another horror movie not based off one of the BEST, if not the best, horror games of all time then it might have been considered good. As far as living up to the game…well it died in the early thinking process.
Well, it had action, not much else really…
Well I stayed up to watch this, I enjoyed the titles and thought, well why not! But I’m sorry this was just pathetic. For starters evrything looked so fake, you didn’t feel like you were in space, you just felt as if you were in an unstable set made out of cardboard. From the guns to the acting this film was fake. The characters actually did have a hint of personality in them which wasn’t expected but I just didn’t care for any of them because none of them were that likable. To mask a bad film like this and to make it more enjoyable it needed to be gory, it had some “gore” but it wasn’t enough, it’s a 15 for Gods sake! The naff rock music that played now again was also annoying, making the film feel even cheaper than it already looks. Though I must say I did enjoy the little game tribute sequence towards the end I found that to be fun and a little different, even though I am not familiar with the games, I guess this is how you play them? Anyway that good bit aside this film is bad. Dull. Little action. Little gore.
Doom is pretty awesome, but there was one part that piss me off was the part is when you see a character holding the gun, but all you see in that scene is only the gun shooting, but all over the movie was actually awesome, and that’s I’m giving it a 9/10.
for a film based on a game its really not that bad. i was a big fan of the game and i think the fans need to give the movie more of a chance. i like the end were it goes back to the gamer mode, a nice touch i feel.
The extreme unrated version is dope.
When this was announced, I was like OMG OMG OMG, Dooms hitting the big screen!! I saw it…… I was a lil disappointed, but over all, i liked it.
Pros:Very Good on tying the game and the movie together,The Rock, BFG, Demons and zombies,action.
Cons:Most of the demons in Doom weren’t in the movie,acting sometimes failed,story falls apart.
Over all, it was a good game-based-movie. Some cons, but it is a worthy edition to the Doom franchise. 6 out of 10
Started out really well, and just flopped towards the end. I’m a huge fan of the DOOM games, and unfortunately this movie was not a good homage to them. It was lame, and didn’t have the original DOOM feel, NOR the scares it should’ve had. It was a sci-fi action movie, when it should’ve been scary as hell. LITERALLY scary as hell. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.
I. Love. This. Movie. So much. Ignoring that it has nothing to do with the game, and that the science is…uh…yeah…, this is freaking awesome. The coloring and camera work, the characters, and the FPS scene at the end–I have no idea why more people don’t at least TOLERATE this movie. It’s gotten a bad rep, a lot of it because of it not living up to the ten year wait, but you just have to pretend the name isn’t Doom, and give it a chance.