Doom

[Bourne101]

http://www.moviesonline.ca/movie-gallery/albums/userpics//DoomPoster.jpg

Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak

Genre: Action/Horror

Tagline: Hell breaks loose

Plot: Something has gone wrong at a remote scientific research station on Mars. All research has ceased. Communication has failed. And the messages that do get through are less than comforting. It's a level 5 quarantine and the only souls allowed in or out are the Rapid Response Tactical Squad - hardened Space Marines armed to the teeth with enough firepower to neutralize the enemy... or so they think.

Starring: The Rock, Rosamund Pike, Al Weaver, Karl Urban and Deobia Oparei.

Rated R for strong violence/gore and language.

Finally, an R rated action/horror movie. It doesn't look amazing but it looks like one hell of a fun time at the movies. I will definitly be seeing this.

[Moviefan1234]

Man, this film looks absolutely abominable.

[Lazy Boy]

It looks terrible...hence, it will have a 20 million plus opening weekend.

[Moviefan02000]

Can you put a poster in your post or something? :p

I think DOOM looks like a fun movie. Nothing great or anything but fun. I'll definetely check it out.

[Tuukka]

I don't expect great art from movies like Doom - In fact I'm generally very easy on films like this. And I really like Rock.

But the trailers just make this look incredibly BORING, and that's one thing a flick like this shouldn't be. So I'll pass.

[Cronos]

at first i was expecting a complete shitfest but from the footage/trailers ive seen it actually looks like it could be a great popcorn flick

[chinton]

wait til you see the incredible FPS sequence. Especially for fans of the game its really brilliant

[Bourne101]

I did put a poster but it never showed up. I try again.

[Ender]

Originally posted by chinton
wait til you see the incredible FPS sequence. Especially for fans of the game its really brilliant

As a fan of the game, I think that sequence looks abominable. The shots from the trailer gave me a headache and left me thinking that they spent millions of dollars recreating something I could see just as easily on my god damn PC. Of course, everyone who has seen the movie keeps raving about this sequence, so perhaps I'm wrong.

[chinton]

I thought it was great. It was nice seeing some innovative and orginal in the movie.

Also they didnt spend millions of dollars on it. It lasts for only 7 minutes or so.

[ilovemovies]

Originally posted by chinton
I thought it was great. It was nice seeing some innovative and orginal in the movie.


That's all well and fine but the question is, is the movie any good? I ask you since you seem to have already seen the movie.

I've enjoyed all of The Rock's movies so far (yes, even The Scorpion King) but this one looks like a lame ripoff combo of Aliens and Resident Evil (which wasn't that great to begin with).

[chinton]

It was decent with an awesome sequence. Nothing amazing though.

[MisterTwister]

I plan on seeing this friday. Looks like tons of fun.

[someguy]

They FUCKED up the game here folks, it's Paul Anderson territory in terms of sticking to the plot.

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Well it looks like there isn't even a hell in this movie. Instead they find the last 10% of the human genome and this causes the creatures to form. But it only happens to evil people, they become their 'inner demon' and the good ones are just killed. Urban's character is good, but The Rock turns evil and Urban gets injected with the genome so he can be strong enough to fight him (remember, he's a good person so he won't change).





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That's the dumbest shit ever. The plot for the game is so simple and easy to do. People go on Mars, some experimentation goes wrong and it causes hell to open up, they have to fight their way out. This would make the movie a fun/scary action film that's good for watching here and there. The FPS scene doesn't do anything either along with the small details. You still need the plot, or at least stay close to it. It's like putting a ruby on a piece of shit.

[Skysaber]

This movie was terrible.

[Shockwave]

It looks like the game in almost every aspect. Im going to go see the movie as a mindless shooter full of action and gore...just like i would the game. If these qualities are not present ill be disappointed but im not going to blast the film for lacking in areas it had no interest in acheiving.

Ill see soon enough.

[chinton]

wait til you see the FPS sequence jus t like Doom 3 in e evr aspect expect bright

[Shockwave]

The "bright" bit made me chuckle abit.:)

[MadsenOMC]

SPOILERS!!!!

I've never played the game, so I have no idea how fans of the game will like the movie. I just wanted a decent, mindless action/horror/sci-fi flick. Unfortunately, I think it falls short of that due to tediousness and an overall overfamiliarity. Even if it is based on a game, the entire movie is recycled from other movies. Nothing new is brought to the table. The tediousness kicks in early on. After the RRTS team is on Mars (after the obligatory "something goes wrong in a lab" scene), Doom becomes redundant in a hurry. Two team members methodically and quietly walk through an ominous hallway in the research facility. Suddenly, a generic rock song starts blaring as a creature you can barely see jumps out of nowhere to do battle with a team member. Repeat. This seems to go on forever, and it gets more than a little boring. This is also one of the darkest movies I have ever seen, but not in a good way. It doesn't add atmosphere or create tension. It just causes frustration as you squint to see what's on the screen and makes the movie look cheaper than it apparently was. The finale is a letdown as well. The Rock and Karl Urban in man to man combat is not what I was expecting from this particular movie, and their fight is pretty lame. Nothing we haven't seen a hundred times before. The acting is weak. Urban made no impression on me and the rest of the team is fairly indistinguishable from one another. Save for The Rock. Normally, I like the guy. He's got charisma to spare. But he did nothing for me here. In some of his line readings, he seemed to be trying way too hard. His dialogue doesn't help matters. Nothing but tired tough guy one-liners. Again, heard them all before. The FPS sequence was cool for about 30 seconds I guess, but that's about it. I already felt like I was playing a video game as it was. And that's the thing. You're probably better off staying home and playing the game. I suppose the filmmakers succeed in making the movie feel a whole hell of a lot like a video game, and there's some decent blood and gore. But it's nothing special and a rental at best.

5/10

[moose1132]

I thought this was going to be horrible at first too, but the trailers look promising if you're looking for a straight up action movie with nice monsters and gore. I haven't seen the movie yet, but it's kind of dumb how they pussed out by not having the monsters from hell. Ah well, I'm not looking for plot with this movie anyway and at least they made these human genome defects look exactly like the demons from hell in the game.

[happy_killmore]

That poster is retarded

[Edie0027]

The Rock was on the today show promoting this this morning. He cracks me up. I still won't see this movie.

[Lazy Boy]

He's a very charismatic guy. I just wish he would pick better scripts.

[Edie0027]

Exactly...I must say though, that although his role in Be Cool was just eh, he did still crack me up...

[Ender]

Oh yeah, Dwayne Johnson is the only thing worth seeing in BE COOL, I couldn't believe how far out he went with it. Most movies he just plays to type, seeing him go all-out for the comedy role was a hoot and a half. When he does the "Sccccccorchin'!" bit I just about lose it. Shame about the rest of that movie though.

But, um, back to the subject at hand, yeah, DOOM looks pretty lame. So why am I still going to end up seeing it? Why must I continue to perpetuate the system of rewarding shitty filmmaking? It's a sickness I tell you.

[MadsenOMC]

SPOILERS!!!

Some reviews mention a "twist" that comes near the end of the movie. All that comes to mind is The Rock going one-on-one with Karl Urban after ordering the civilians killed. Is that really a twist? His character is an all-business, do-whatever-it-takes-to-get-the-job-done hardass the entire movie. There's nothing remotely surprising about what his character does as the film comes to a close. In fact, quite the opposite. He does exactly what I expected him to do. He remains the same guy from start to finish as far as I'm concerned.

[therealjohng]

I liked it. 7/10. Nine Inch Nails has a song for the end credits, so it can't be all bad.

[chinton]

Actually to me it is a surpise that the Rock character does what he does since theres no transitions scene or at elast the last tiem i s aw there wasnt between the two phases he goes through

[Badbird]

Doom = Resident Evil + Predator + Stargate + Universal Soldier

As far as the movie goes, there isn't any big reason why it should be bad. The cast is pretty solid, if nothing but archetypes. The production values are outstanding. Sets, costumes, guns, and effects are all strong. The score is cool and they capture the overall vibe of the game to an extent.

But

They really dropped the ball by turning Doom into Resident Evil. Think about it. Team of commandos goes into top secret research facility where "something has gone wrong." Commandos encounter creatures. Many die. They must escape the facility and not let the creatures escape. etc.

Unlike some previously good rumors, there is no hell, no demons, no supernatural at all in this movie. It's basically a zombie movie. There seems to be no reason for the movie taking place on Mars (read = The Hive from Resident Evil).

It's too bad they wimped out. The storyline in Doom 3 is pretty awesome and would have made for one intense movie. But they wanted an commando team movie.

I won't say this was a bad movie, considering how solid it is despite its generic story line. The precredit sequence was really cool, with Earth replaced by Mars in the Universal logo. The FPS sequence is really well done and original (though not seemless). But it was just too much been there, done that.

A disappointing 6/10.

[Mahab]

Originally posted by Badbird
The FPS sequence is really well done and original (though not seemless).

It really was quite the hackjob. All of the cuts were easily detected, which really killed the flow of it all.

[Shockwave]

I really liked it......but ti wasnt the non stop ass kicker i was hoping it would be.

7/10.

The first person bit was EASILY one of the absolute coolest scenes i have seen in a movie this year. I wish we would have had less build up and more of that type of action.

The gore was nice however. I was starting to think horror movies didnt need this stuff anymore.:)

[Tyler_Durden_208]

This was the big dumb action movie I was looking for all year. Best B-movie of the year. Although the "blurry" movement of the camera in the FPS scene should've been fixed, cuz it made most people sick. I mean, when I'm playing an FPS, my vision doesn't blue when I move the camera around... Anyway, 7/10 for me.

[Rated R]

DOOM

Let’s do a brief review shall we? Street Fighter, Super Mario Brothers, House of the Dead, Alone In The Dark, The Resident Evils, etc. have thus far proven that video games tend not to translate too well to film. They end up being quite flashy like their console counterparts but lack the heart and ingenuity that would make them a good film, either that or some semi-interesting action. While Doom is a bad movie, and it most certainly is, the filmmakers behind it knew exactly how to market and create it successfully.

Of course, my negative expectations were actually reinforced by the early goings in the movie. At first we are introduced to the marines that are going to Mars (the planet, not the candy bar) to quarantine an archaeological dig gone wrong! What is thrown at us? Weak character development, hooray! In an idiotic attempt to give these people an identity despite the fact that we know exactly what they are from the beginning, plot devices, instruments of gore and nothing more. While it is kind of refreshing to see an action movie try to be more than it is, I found myself antsy and bored waiting for the brains to splatter! Depraved as I may be, when I walk into a movie like this I want to drown in blood.

The “People’s Action Hero”, The Rock has made quite the name for himself being the unofficial heir to the action movie throne since Arnie has stepped down. Regardless of acting talent from the Governator, The Rock has huge shoes to fill. Unfortunately he’s only really come close with The Rundown, and I am inclined to say that it was an improvement on all of Ah Nuld’s later flicks and as good as most of those from the 80’s. Doom tries too hard to elevate The Rock into Arnold status, and it falls short. The difference between this and let’s say Predator is that in those quick character development scenes the audience was not bored; the banter was quick and sharp whereas it feels forced and uninspired in Doom. Also, and I know it’s been said before but I just cannot help myself, CGI. Predator’s special effects were amazing and looked realistic, the Predator himself was another character! In Doom, all we have are computer-generated images that hardly seem real and I felt another sense of detachment in that sense.

The Rock did play his part well, and if he chooses his path wisely he has a shot at being a legitimate movie star; he has the charisma and he has the look he just needs to be smart. Doom is a bad movie, but once the second half starts, the character development goes out the window like my week old burrito under my driver’s seat. We the audience are treated to a drenching of the red stuff and it feels great. Not since the House of Blue Leaves sequence in Kill Bill or all of Sin City have I had a grin on my face from gore at the theatres and I sure had it today. Throw in an ultra cheesy first person homage to the actual game near the end and I do not feel entirely dissatisfied from my experience. I cannot quite recommend it, but if you like blood and guts, give it a shot…

5/10

[Ender]

***MINOR SPOILERS***

Where to start?

For one thing, this is not DOOM. This is RESIDENT EVIL in space. Only you can't really tell they're in space. So it's RESIDENT EVIL with a slightly better cast and fewer monsters. I can't believe they candy-assed out of the DOOM plot and went with this crappy genetic engineering bullshit instead.

Let me ask you, where are all the goddamn monsters in this monster movie? Up until the FPS sequence (which I'll get to in a moment), there are about four beasties onscreen in this movie, most of which we see for about a nanosecond, and in poor lighting at that. True, the "Less is more" strategy is a good way to build tension, but it's also a good way to cover up your shitty fake-looking monster costumes. Methinks this is a case of the latter. The first half of DOOM is actually pretty boring. Marines go through dark halls, something scares them, they talk to one another, they go through more dark halls, they talk a little more, look out, something's coming! No, wait, just a false alarm. Now there are some marines searching a dark hall. You get the idea.

And I don't care what anyone says, my first instincts on the FPS scene were right on the money. Five minutes of dizzy, out of control, naseau-inducing camera work layered onto laughably bad action that was more like a ride through a carnival funhouse than a movie. It's a shame, that fight with the big beastie at the end might have been a bright spot in this otherwise tepid fare if it hadn't been ruined by this lamentably bad technique.

I will say this, at least they didn't puss out and give us the PG-13 version. DOOM is not just gory and graphic, it's actually quite dark (and I'm not talking about the lighting. Although, that's dark too) and when the flick wakes up out of it's coma in the last half hour there's some genuine intensity. There's a scene toward the end where a few of our leads walk around waxing a mob of civilians and it's pretty hardcore shit. Kudos to the studio for showing a little backbone.

And kudos to Dwayne Johnson as well, he was the only thing that kept me watching through this entire affair. He's playing somewhat off-type here, as this is the first time he's been cast as a real bad guy (BE COOL didn't count, nor, in my opinion, did his two minutes of screentime in THE MUMMY RETURNS), and wrestling fans know that The Rock has always made an excellent villian. This was no exception, I hope that the overall shittiness of the rest of the movie doesn't distract people from the really rather good job he does with the script.

[moviegroupie]

Video game movies suck dick. And Doom III was just about the last game I played (maybe Halo 2 as well), and then I quit video games. So that's like having one more smoke after you quit. It's just not happening.

And this looks like crap.

[jackson13]

Originally posted by therealjohng
I liked it. 7/10. Nine Inch Nails has a song for the end credits, so it can't be all bad.

Yeah, what was that song? I really liked it.

As for the movie, I saw it with 9 other people, and I was the only one who liked it. I got what I wanted out of it: violence, gore, fast paced script, not too much to think about. Plus, personally, The Rock kicked ass.

I got a feeling this movie will be that way with a lot of people: Hate it or Love it. No in between.

[Mr. Fred Krueger]

It wasn't bad. I wanted mindless fun and that's what I got. And yes, The Rock was a total bad ass.

Semper Fi, motherfucker!

[ilovemovies]

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Pretty good movie, AWSOME ending. I love the twist at the end. It was unexpected certainly to me. It's not every movie where the supposed hero turns evil. I don't care if this game is way different than the game and becomes a Resident Evil knock off. I still enjoyed it plus it's much better than the first RE movie anyway. And it has double the badass factor with Karl Urban and The Rock.

[MadsenOMC]

Originally posted by ilovemovies
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Pretty good movie, AWSOME ending. I love the twist at the end. It was unexpected certainly to me. It's not every movie where the supposed hero turns evil.


When you say twist, are you talking about The Rock turning evil? If so, how is that a twist? I am not seeing it. From start to finish, Karl Urban is the hero. Plain and simple. And from start to finish, The Rock is a hard-core, dedicated Marine who will do anything to get the job done, no questions asked. He is all about following orders and completing the mission. Nothing he did surprised me at all. He did exactly what I thought his character would do. This is not a twist people. Far from it.

[KillerKlown]

Originally posted by moviegroupie
Video game movies suck dick.



Indeed.

[Duke Nukem]

That is only your opinion, Madsen, and this is mine and ilovemovies' opinions. Sorry, you can't win every argument (or thread).

[MadsenOMC]

Jesus Christ, here we fucking go again. And now I can get blamed for ruining another thread even though all I have done here is state my opinions while also respecting everyone else's. What a fucking joke. Duke, I never said that anyone is wrong. I am not trying to "win" anything. Your post baffles me since I haven't done anything wrong here. Other people's statements about the supposed twist have me perplexed, and so I stated as much and explained my side of it. Maybe you should try doing the same, rather than getting accusatory when there's nothing to warrant it.

[TrippingBalls]

Joblo's forum: DURRR BEST MOVIE EVER 11/10 LOLZ!1

Madsen: I didn't like this movie. I don't see why everyone likes it so much but they're entitled to their own opinion.

Joblo's forum: GRAAHHHH WHY DO YOU HAVE TO RUIN EVERY THREAD IT IS OUR OPINION WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO ATTACK US WHAT THE FUCK DID WE DO TO YOU? WHY DID YOU ATTACK US LIKE THAT ALL WE WERE STATING IS WE LIKED THE MOVIE!! YOU NEED TO STOP BEING A FUCKIN BULLY GODDAMMIT!!

[someguy]

Yeah Duke, I see nothing with Madsen trying to create an argument. He just doesn't see how it's a 'twist' when it was very predictable in the movie what the outcome would be.

I'm guessing that maybe people just fell for the TV ads and such and thought that it wouldn't happen. That and.........


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The Rock is usually seen as the protagonist in the movie so he was expected to survive at least with Urban






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Since I know about the game I pretty much know what happens so I know the 'twist'

[ilovemovies]

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I disagree that it is clear that Karl Urban is the hero from the begining. He really didn't step up as the hero until the third act. Until then he was really just a supporting character. I read some spoilers that said that someone turns evil at the end and I read that The Rock fights somebody before seeing the movie. But never, ever did I expect that it was The Rock who turns evil. That was a cool twist to me.

And just because The Rock is a hard-core, dedicated Marine who will do anything to get the job done, no questions asked kind of guy doesn't mean he's evil. Have you seen the tv show "24"? The main character in that show, Jack Bauer, is also the do anything to get the job done kind of guy but he's not an evil character. In the tv show "ALIAS" one of it's main characters, Jack Bristow, could definately also be described that way. But he's not evil. Those are just two examples that come to me that I can use.

[MadsenOMC]

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I totally respect your opinion, and obviously you're not alone since other people have called it a twist. But frankly I was shocked to read that. The Rock said he passed on the lead because he found the Sarge character more interesting, so as I watched the movie, it seemed completely obvious that Urban is the hero/protagonist, and Sarge is basically the second lead. When he turned on Urban and started fighting him, it seemed to me like the natural progression for his character. His behavior prior to that falls right in line with what he does at the end of the movie. But hey, whatever. No big deal.

[ilovemovies]

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Another thing I should point out is that they seem to be good friends and respect each other especially in the begining when The Rock suggested to Urban's character to not come on the mission. There definately seemed to be a mutual respect and friendship between them that also made The Rock's turn to evil surprising to me.

[Ender]

Just my $0.02, but I was also not particularly taken with the "surprise" ending. I suppose it was surprising in and that I didn't predict it, but it wasn't a Keyzer Soze moment either.

[MrVicchio]

See, this is why theaters are seeing a decline over all, in people going to the movies.

Doom, perfect example. Lot's of people have played atleast ONE of the Doom games, and many have played Resident Evil,a nd of course, we have seen Resident Evil....

So, pray tell, what genius playbook screwed up this movie?

SPOILERS!

Lets start where the problem begins, Hollywood. It's a money making business, and the suits that make the money calls have no cahones what-so-ever. "Hey! Doom! Isn't that like a popular game? Let's make it into a MOVIE!"

Great so the ball rolls, it holds, it rolls, and finally now they make it... but oh wait... problem...

"What? Demons? Hell? That's expensive... do we HAVE to do that? Hey REsident Evil made money, they didn't have demons! Let's do that! Who will care?"

We will suit boys, we care. We want new, exciting, or at least... stuff that sticks to the original material. Thank you for ensuring that most gamers will tell thier friends (at least in my experience) "Dude, this movie, sucked. They tottaly ruined the plot" And the friend will tell thier non-gamer friend, who in turn doesn't see the movie.

Hollywood needs to learn what's killing them is this "Wash, rinse, Repeat" garbage that ensures every movie that DOES make money has 500 clones behind it.

Yawn. Wake me when they figure that out.

3/10 (as soon as they went into the 24th gene crap I fell half asleep)

[TrippingBalls]

Everybody's been goin on about how this movie sticks true to the games.

Aside from the rather awesome FPS sequence, this isn't a Doom movie! For a Doom movie, this shit is rather slow-paced, and where the hell are all the demons? There's like 4 monsters in this movie total.

The FPS sequence still rocks though.

5/10

[Dom Shady]

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I think Madsen was trying to say that Karl Urban's character was the only one you could tell the movie was trying to build up any character development for. That's how he knew he was the lead and not the Rock who, in Madsen's opinion, was pretty much a marine who does whatever it takes to complete the mission.
Alot of people will probably see the Rock's star power instead of the actual character that he's portraying and assume that there's no way he'll end up bad since the only bad guys in the movies would be the monsters. Therefore, its a shock that he ends up not as good as they thought he would. That's understandable.
Madsen ignored the star power and just looked at the character the movie presented. That's why its not a stretch for him and other people that the Rock actually wound up fighting Karl Urban in the end. I could be wrong but that's what I get from this whole argument. Everybody has their own opinions and none should be bashed for it.
In my own opinion, it wasn't that much of a stretch. I don't think we are given any indication that the Rock was supposed to be a saint either. But by the time the movie got to the part the Rock shows his bad side, I was already disinterested. The movie seemed like Resident Evil in what was supposed to be space, but i never got the sense they were in space anyway. It had it's moments but nothing special so I'd give it..
5/10

[MadsenOMC]

Originally posted by Dom Shady
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I think Madsen was trying to say that Karl Urban's character was the only one you could tell the movie was trying to build up any character development for. That's how he knew he was the lead and not the Rock who, in Madsen's opinion, was pretty much a marine who does whatever it takes to complete the mission.
Alot of people will probably see the Rock's star power instead of the actual character that he's portraying and assume that there's no way he'll end up bad since the only bad guys in the movies would be the monsters. Therefore, its a shock that he ends up not as good as they thought he would. That's understandable.
Madsen ignored the star power and just looked at the character the movie presented. That's why its not a stretch for him and other people that the Rock actually wound up fighting Karl Urban in the end. I could be wrong but that's what I get from this whole argument. Everybody has their own opinions and none should be bashed for it.

5/10

That's a fairly accurate assessment. That and the fact that, as I said before, The Rock himself stated that he turned down Karl Urban's leading role and chose Sarge instead because it was more interesting to him. I figured going into it that he wasn't playing the hero/lead.

[drdash]

2/10

Hands down the worst movie I've seen this year. It beat both Cursed and Charlie and the Choclate Factory. I think it's worst problem was it was just so frigging boring. Nthing really happened til the last 20 minutes of the film. The only things I liked were the FPS scene and the Jake Busey like Commando. Another thing was the actress who played the scientist, I think Tara Ried could have done a better job here. It seems she was only hired so they could show off her nipples in that shirt she was wearing. Very dissapointing. Oh well, at least I've got Saw 2 this weekend.

ciao
drdash

[LegionX]

**SPOILERS**

I was at work today and and I had the oppurtunity to run a 2 Screen movie theater for the day and me being such a nice guy decided to cover for the day. What I did not expect was for it to be slow. 2 people showed up for "Doom" at 5:00 so being bored I decided to sit and watch the movie with them. I read a review prior to seeing this and Roger Ebert (who's opinion I dont really pay attention to, strictly since I dissagree with about 70% of his reviews) said that the best scene of the movie was the opening credits displaying the Universial Logo. The movie was not all that great. I saw so much "CHEESE" in this film I could make a bowl of nachos! The point of this movie made hardly any connection to the video game at all. It followed next to none of the plot from the games, and the studio thought that if they threw in a few CGI characters from the game that you would respect it. I love the video game and was largely dissapointed with this movie. The Rock played a good role, but you can tell that if he wants to fit Arnies shoes he has alot of work to do. The only true joy I got out of this picture was the FPS view after he wakes from his unconcious state. That was truly "BAD ASS", its just a shame that the rest of the film couldnt follow. I dont know if I can trust another Video Game to movie adaptation again. I was let down by Resident Evil (which could have been good, but failed), House of the Dead (which was a JOKE!), Tomb Raider (which wasnt too too bad but my Lord the Second Sucked) and Mortal Kombat (which was not to bad either but the second sucked as well). The film tried at greatness but failed miserably. The FPS (which was only about 7-10 minutes long) was the only great point of this movie.

a gracious 5/10

[Badbird]

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As for the "Twist" - The Rock gave that one away himself on The Daily Show before the movie even opened up. What I think makes it a twist in one regard is that it is not what you would expect an actor like The Rock to do. I'll give it that much. I liked how he was slowly turning that direction the whole movie - the biggest turning point when he gets the BFG, that's pretty much when he snaps.

There was probably about twenty minutes of a good movie burried in this mess that deserved to be in another, much better, movie.

I think what pisses me off more than anything was how the entire promotion campaign was one big lie. "Hell breaks loose" my ass. Not to mention Karl Urban getting my hopes up in that Ain't it Cool interview linked here a while back where he pumped the movie up like crazy and said it was based on Doom 3. I know that's his job, but I really had high hopes after hearing that. Hell, it even seemed they were eventually going to go there in the movie, considering what a big deal they made about the excavation dig and the stuff they found.

Then there was that whole Stargate teleporter thing. What the fuck was up with that?

[Tyler_Durden_208]

Now that someone brought up the whole thing of Hell being left out again, that does remind me one thing that made me sad.... I wanted to fucking see something like the Hell I was in Doom 3 on the screen. And I wanted to see a human villain the likes of Dr. Betruger.

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Since Betruger pretty much caused all of that and made Sarge into the half tank/half flesh BFG toting thing I guess it wouldn't have made The Rock's character as interesting, BUT the story was already done so yeah...

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[Lemmywinks]

I saw this last night, and I had pretty low expectations, and it pretty much met them. I liked it I guess, but there were too many laugh out loud retarded moments. The FPS sequence was pretty good, but not as good as it could have been. The Rock turning into a bad guy I didnt see coming at all, until he started shooting everything. Even though he had the BFG, he only used it what, twice? TWICE?! And he didnt even kill anything with it. What a rip off. Aslo, the Rock didnt seem like he even had any lines. It seemed like every word that came out of him was, "soldier." Basically all he did was run around yelling "Soldier" this and ":Soldier" that.

The only main issue I had was how stupid these "soldiers" are. I mean, usually in horror movies like this, the people are pretty dumb, but these guys were retarded. Who would keep these guys on their team? You've got a pedophile, a guy who is overly religious and cuts himself, a black dude that basically thinks with his penis the whole movie, and a high kid. WTF? I know they needed these guys to set up the whole, Evil People attract the monsters, but come one. They sacrificed having better characters to set up a plot point that doesnt even make sense in the first place. First off, the huge black dude, who sticks his head into an air shaft to see whats there in the pitch black darkness. Way to go! How dumb are you? "I'll just stick my head into an unknown, fairly dark place where strange creature noises are coming out of." Even though it was a monkey, I still wish he had gotten his head ripped off. Also, who goes by themself in a place like this to take a shit?! You dont go off on your own to some creepy bathroom, and talk loudly into a reciever so every monster in the facility can hear you. That guy deserved to die, but I was seriously laughing out loud because I couldnt believe how dumb this pervert was. He didnt even have a cool death. In fact, the only somewhat cool death that happened to anyone was the asian guy that had one line.

Overall, some pretty awful deaths, pretty awful dialogue, and hardly any action that brought something new to the table. The only part I liked was the last 20 min. It took so long to get going.

2/10

[happy_killmore]

I just got back from seeing this, and it was a lot of fun. I give it a 7/10, and since this is the internet, if you dont agree go fuck yourself.:D

[jaw2929]

Well I decided to get check this movie out, since Brad and my brother said it was kick ass and a good movie....

And while I found it to be full of action, and the Rock doing a good job in yet another action role, I was kinda disappointed.... I don't know, maybe it's just me but I'm not such a huge fan of mindless action movies anymore.... I like a little substance or story with my movie, and this one was just so ridiculous (and over-done to death) that I was pretty much taken outta the movie....

So the Rock leads a buncha Marines into a portal that was discovered in the Nevada desert that takes you to Mars... On Mars there's an experimental laboratory where Scientists are holed up in Quarantine due to a massive breach because of monsters/aliens.... It's the Rock and his Marines' job to go in ala "Aliens" and kick the asses of said monsters....

Nothing really memorable in this one, and I was kinda disappointed with the way the monster's looked... Kind of a hybrid between the "Alien" from said franchise and some b-movie horror nonsense, that looked too much like guys running around in ugly alien Halloween costume's.... Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of gun toting action, along with some decent blood and gore....

But I guess I found the thing that most stuck out in this to me would haveta be the Rock using the word "Fuck" a few times, the "I have to take a dump dialogue" (which was actually kinda lame, but I found it amusing) and looking at that hot bitch who played the main character's emotionless scientific sister (who I'm more than WILLING to bet is NOT American) since I could hear it in her accent....

In the end, I'd say if you're a fan of the video games and you're looking for a good way to kill 90 minutes on mindless unbelievable action, then this is the flick for you! :p

[Tyler_Durden_208]

Actually having reflected on it, I'd argue that if you're a fan of the game, you should stay away, maybe rent it on DVD and just skip to the FPS scene and that's it.