DOOM
DOOM Reviews
Though I was waiting for Thursday to sum up and
find examples for this feeling, the good people over at AICN have recently
posted two more movie reviews for DOOM, with each review on the
opposite side of the spectrum. Harry loved the film for its shear gore,
nonsense and fun while Massawyrm bashes it for the same nonsense, character
development and dialogue.
Which side of the spectrum will you be on?
Harry-
Positive
Whoa! I had fun with DOOM!
I was delighted that this movie was this fun. Just like when playing DOOM
– there’s a point where someone on the team will just fucking
go bug nuts crazy and the entire direction of the film changes. I like that
I felt that shift. It played in all the same goofy dumb fun ways that I
felt when being up in that room above Quackenbush’s taunting, shit-talking
and blowing the fuck out of everything that moved. That’s what DOOM
is supposed to be about, and while the monster quotient isn’t nearly
high enough for the first half of the film, I like that build. The end result
is a blast. They found a way to adapt many of the ludicrous things you could
do in the game, including a “sort of” God Mode that just led
to further absurdity.
Massawyrm-
Negative
Doom isn’t so much a bad film as it is a pathetic film. It’s
just sad. The character development is dismally weak, the storyline is but
a retread of a retread of a retread and the dialog is so bad it gets yours
eyes rolling often enough to induce vertigo. But you don’t care about
that, do you? You want action. You want aliens and zombies exploding in
fantastic fashion and you don’t give a flaying rats ass about any
of that bullshit. Well, good fucking luck my friend, because the action
here is some of the lamest, overdone, guitar driven drivel to grace the
screen in recent years. Weighed down by its own attempts at being cute,
it throws any and every reference to the video game humanly possible at
you, trying to convince you that it is its own original concept. Of course,
it does so as it begins to descend into a hellish pit of cliché that
doesn’t just seem to blatantly rip off other films, it almost parodies
them.
That should be it for the early reviews on DOOM.
Expect one or two from us by Friday or later this weekend.
All hell breaks lose on October 21st, 2005.
For the trailers, movie stills, set pics, clips, movie info and synopsis,
go to the DOOM
Movie Page.
Stay tuned for updates.
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