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Rosamund Pike Thinks the 'Doom' Movie Almost Ended Her Career (gizmodo.com)
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[–] 29 points 6 months ago (18 children)

By coincidence I just researched doom a few weeks ago.

Yes. I would agree with her. There is nothing redeeming about it, truly a trash movie, the plot feels like something someone realized might be needed after the action scenes were shot, it's hammed up and bad. A great bad film to watch with friends no doubt, but it was horrible.

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  • [–] 33 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The PoV-scene towards the end of the movie was gold.

    But overall it was utter trash. Fun watching with friends and/or some beers though.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I see you were not familiar with the works of Uwe Boll...

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Boll movies are glorious in their awfulness, Doom was mostly just boring and uninspired (despite a great cast on paper).

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Still, it had the honor of being the best videogame movie for about a decade. It wasn't a highly competitive superlative, but it was the winner.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (5 children)

    What you've described is a movie adaption which stayed true to the source material. Some people are just never happy.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

    If you think the Doom movie stayed true to the source material, I'm not sure you ever played Doom.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I said the description given describes a movie true to the source material not that the movie actually is true to the source material.

    the plot feels like something someone realized might be needed after the action scenes were shot

    Seems a pretty fair description of most 90s shooters.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    The original doom games had less plot than the movie. The movie had none. Doom fans give it too much credit. Duke nukem, serious sam, quake, none of that had any real plot. But that wasn't the point at the time, was it? It was just good fun. Any plot was just an excuse and then you brushed it off because who cares? "Alright I'm shootin demons, let's go!"

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Doom (the game) very much had a plot. It was short and basic. Something like 1 paragraph per episode and the 2 or 3 in the manual giving a little backstory.

    But I mean, one of the Johns (Carmack or Romero, I forget who but probably Romero) has been quoted to say "story in a video game is like a story in a porno; everyone expects it to be there, but it isn't needed."

    So 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    That's exactly my point. There is a "plot" but is there, really? And nobody cares. It's not the point. We're killing demons, got it. Let's fucking go! Honestly it was better than Wolfenstein which tried, and continues to try to make a plot and fails. I fucking hate modern Wolfenstein, constantly getting captured during cut scenes. Such cheap garbage.

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