2005-10-20
DOOM Movie Gets Slammed
So a few game journalists have seen the DOOM movie and the reactions are hilarious. In short, it turns out Hollywood still can’t make a decent movie out of a game idea.
My favourite comment comes from this 1Up review;
The release of Doom should be considered to be an act of entertainment terrorism towards not only fans of this beloved franchise, but to anyone who considers themselves a fan of movies.
Zing!
More reviews; IGN, Cinematical.
Props to Joystiq.
In a shameless act of namedropping, I have to say I have met one of the Producers for DOOM, he was a tosser. Everyone at Double Negative hated the movie, in fact that was the impression of just about every movie they worked on. The best line I ever overheard was (about Batman Begins):
“It wasn’t that great a movie, but compared to the crap we normally work on, it seemed like a masterpiece!”
A tosser? Man, that English lingo is getting to you!
I don’t know why people kept saying DOOM was going to be alright. No game movie has ever been good. Even Final Fantasy, which was truly impressive in some regards, had a wishy-washy story.
Honestly, you’d think by now people would have realised that the concept of a video game movie simply doesn’t work.