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| DarkZero 1257th Post
 
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|  "Re(2):Doom movie trailer" , posted Thu 28 Jul 14:51
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Note to Hollywood: Please stop making video game movies. The only reason we've had good comic book movies (okay not all of them are good) is because you have people who actually read these comic books and loved them and grew up to make movies of these franchises. The genearation that actually played these games and loves them, lives and dies for them is not old enough to make movies of these franchises. Please wait another 10 years for this generation to grow up to make these movies. Every time you guys make another Street Fighter movie or Super Mario Bros. movie a kitten dies.
How is anyone supposed to make a good Doom movie? Unlike Marvel comics, Doom had no characters, no dialogue, no script, and no real story or theme. You're a faceless dude shooting a bunch of demons in what is essentially a Satanic, first-person equivalent of Space Invaders.
The real problem with video game movies is that the source material either has no plot or, like the Metal Gear Solid games, has more story than you could ever fit into two hours. The only games I own that you could really make a decent movie adaption of are Zelda, Devil May Cry 3, and maybe a handful of others.
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| Undead Fred 2455th Post
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| "This is a live-action thrill ride!" , posted Fri 29 Jul 11:52
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How is anyone supposed to make a good Doom movie? Unlike Marvel comics, Doom had no characters, no dialogue, no script, and no real story or theme. You're a faceless dude shooting a bunch of demons in what is essentially a Satanic, first-person equivalent of Space Invaders.
The real problem with video game movies is that the source material either has no plot or, like the Metal Gear Solid games, has more story than you could ever fit into two hours. The only games I own that you could really make a decent movie adaption of are Zelda, Devil May Cry 3, and maybe a handful of others.
OH MY GOD. I knew it'd be a RE knock-off, but DAMN.
Doom 1 and 2 did have backstory, but the overall story was pretty light. Doom 3 however, had a good bit of story going on in the game as you played through it. Even if they were making the Doom 3 movie, that's not the point. This isn't like taking Super Mario Bros and turning it into John Leguizamo fighting Dennis Hopper in Neo-Tokyo or whatever the hell was going on in that movie. There's actually something to go on in Doom (well, specifically, Doom 3), but they don't care. They want some slick, sleek, knock-off of a movie people have already seen to get everyone but the game's fans to watch. I had heard a comment from the writer saying he WANTED to include Hell in the mix, but the studio wouldn't let him... but who knows. I could deal with having to watch the Rock in a movie about one of my favorite games if anything other than "shooting at stuff" was true to the source material.
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| Hungrywolf 3076th Post
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| "Re(1):Re:This is a live-action thrill ride!" , posted Tue 2 Aug 10:54
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Heh, doesn't look like Doom at all, but DEFINATLEY looks better than both the REs (Did anyone else out there think that the second one was worse than the first in terms of story?)
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Not really. I didn't like the end of RE: Apocalypse, but overall I thought it was better than the first, but maybe I thought that since they included Raccoon City and almost-Jill Valentine (I didn't think the characterization of Jill was quite right, but she was hot). I think what I didn't like at the end was all the experiment stuff with Alice and the fact she apparantly gained telepathic or telekenetic powers to kill at some point. I'm still bummed out that they didn't make the movies based directly on the games stories, especially since I don't think I'll ever see Leon in one of the films (though considering how he'd get screwed by the writers, that's probably a good thing). I heard that Romero did a script for the first movie and that it was closer to the first game, but when I read his script that I found online apparantly he made Chris and Jill lovers and though that might not have made it into the final draft if he'd gotten to it, I'm sure if it had I wouldn't have been happy about that either. I didn't read through that whole script yet (if that was the real one he wrote) so maybe later in the script it becomes closer to the game. One day I hope that we will see a video game movie made very close to the source material, if not one that is spot on. I believe that day will come. I'd love an RE movie based completely on the fourth game myself, but it'll never happen.
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