Doom Movie Review

21 Oct, 2005 at 12:22pm ET Article published in Tech

Ars Technica has a review of the new Doom movie starring The Rock and Karl Urban.

On top of all this, after a pretty underwhelming showdown, the movie ends very abruptly and I was left sitting there thinking “that’s it?” or, in my case, “I’m glad I didn’t pay to see this.” In short, I can smell what The Rock is cooking, and it’s not a good movie. On a scale from Robocop to your sister’s church play, it’s a cosplay show with a big budget and lots of squishy noises. If you’re looking to watch it just for the sake of seeing a splatter flick sausage fest, then wait for the DVD. But be prepared for a movie written by the marketing department. And don’t ask us what “SEMPER FI, MOTHERF*****” is supposed to mean. Ask the wiki.

Source: Ars Technica

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21 Oct 2005 ~ 1:07pm primesuspect Wow. I'm shocked. I really expected much more
21 Oct 2005 ~ 2:33pm Camman eh screw them, ars technica shouldn't be writing movie reviews anyway, I'm still going to see it tonight
21 Oct 2005 ~ 4:05pm csimon

primesuspect wrote:

Wow. I'm shocked. I really expected much more

whoa ...another doom disappointment???
So now not only are we not buying Qwake4 but now we aren't even going to see the doomed movie? LOL Oh man what do I have to look forward too this winter????
21 Oct 2005 ~ 4:42pm GnomeWizardd hey i just picked up quake 4!
21 Oct 2005 ~ 9:54pm Qeldroma Hmmmm. I saw Walking Tall and though is was a script by the people who were laid off when Walker Texas Ranger did it's series finale, I thought that The Rock had a good screen presence and an intelligence I think needs to break the WWF stigma. I think I will go see Doom if for no other reason than The Rock reminds me of someone ....

Someone who did a whole string of terrible B movies and also did another B budget movie that was predestined by critics to be just another of a series of toilet flush failures. It was called

The Terminator

It also gives my son and I something to do together.

:: Wonders how much a critic would rewrite the review if he knew Rock was coming by to visit the next day ... ::
22 Oct 2005 ~ 12:08am Camman

Qeldroma wrote:

:: Wonders how much a critic would rewrite the review if he knew Rock was coming by to visit the next day ... ::

Hahaha that's great.

I saw the movie, it wasn't bad, a lot of the stuff is pretty funny and I think the only real audience for this movie is people who played the Doom video games, I don't think it will do that well at the box office overall because people who aren't familiar with the franchise probably won't be interested in seeing it and those who do see it without knowing about the games won't get all the references to stuff in the game. I saw it tonight when it opened and it seemed like a mostly younger crowd and there was a lot of moments of laughter, one I particularly remembered was when they first showed the BFG in the movie.
23 Oct 2005 ~ 2:45am Qeldroma Yeah, went and saw it too. It was pretty chaotic. I think the movie makers spent way more time thinking up creepy dark places for things to jump out from and how gross they can make guts look than they did on the story. There is a twist here that I won't spoil for you, but it didn't help much. One part of it I thought for sure they were going to put up the health and ammo meters.

But if this is your sort of thing, this is your movie.

Well, it was at least brighter than the game storyline but the Rock is going to have to find better material if he's going to find his spot on the big screen. Vin Diesel, don't sweat too much yet.
24 Oct 2005 ~ 8:36am GrayFox I just saw the movie.

It's not as bad as I expected but it was pretty bad.
24 Oct 2005 ~ 10:14am Garg

Qeldroma wrote:

... I think the movie makers spent way more time thinking up creepy dark places for things to jump out from and how gross they can make guts look than they did on the story. ...

Sounds like Doom 3