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