Rosamund Pike takes herself too seriously.
She just cares a lot.
One of my favorite movie moments of all time was getting to see her tits in Gone Girl. I felt like my life finally made some sense once I saw them.
The people casting her in roles also take her, and other things, that seriously.
That’s funny, because Rosamund Pike’s parts are easily the most watchable in Doom.
Several times she and Karl Urban nearly elevate it to something more interesting, before jump scares or weird camera cut-aways return it to being predicable sci-fi action horror.
I find that Doom is the exception that proves the rule - If Rosamund Pike is in something, it is probably at least watchable. (Sorry Doom movie fans. It didn’t work for me.)
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.
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.
Very cool scene, where most of the movie’s attention was put
Definitely feels like they had the idea for that scene and just built the rest of the movie around that.
Sadly it wasn’t anywhere as good as that one scene.
I see you were not familiar with the works of Uwe Boll…
Boll movies are glorious in their awfulness, Doom was mostly just boring and uninspired (despite a great cast on paper).
Doom was mostly just boring and uninspired
I kind of got exactly what I expected from it. No less, but also no more. It wasn’t thrilling, but it was meh popcorn cinema. Maybe your expectations were too high for this one :)
The best movie he’s done is Postal. It even has the same spirit as the game when you consider it to be a multi-million dollar shitpost.
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.
Although not brilliant either, I thought the Tomb Raider films were better.
While there are better parts of Tomb Raider, I think they deserve to lose a few points for trying to be a serious movie and failing, whereas Doom was very much a dumb action movie and knew it during filming.
It had the same amount of plot as the games, honestly.
there was a ton of plot, though not really implemented in game so much due to the decision that games need plot like a porno needs plot.
What you’ve described is a movie adaption which stayed true to the source material. Some people are just never happy.
If you think the Doom movie stayed true to the source material, I’m not sure you ever played Doom.
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.
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!”
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 🤷♂️
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.
I didn’t even remember that they made a Doom movie until I read this headline.
Doom is my guilty pleasure. It’s just fun. Like Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift and Pacific Rim. I’m not watching it for the writing.
I think it might have even been better received if they simply named it “Resident Evil in Space,” instead of forcing it to be Doom.
It was not written to be Doom, they just tweaked some generic sci-fi script to sell it with the name and ended up feeling more Resident Evilish than Doom. Aside from the short 1st person action sequence near the end.
Yeah it had a loose association but I loved the first person sequence.
Not like “Return to sender”…
Dexter Fletcher turned into a grotesque pink blob and directed Bohemian Rhapsody.
