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evil jimi - Sep 15, 2004 11:16:30 am PDT #3918 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.

I'm hugely skeptical of a movie based on a FPS game.

Especially since the game made no pretence of being anything other than an excuse to shoot lots of zombies and demons. The plot was thinner than soggy rice paper but that didn't matter because the game was so damn fun.

Considering the quality of the Doom III graphics (and ignoring some of the game-play problems), I can't see how a Doom movie could possibly be more fun than playing the game. It'd be like watching over someone's shoulder while they played--iow, boring.

§ ita § - Sep 15, 2004 11:20:19 am PDT #3919 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Me, I want to see a Tekken movie, but only if it's Tekken 3. Or maybe 4. And then they could do the Tag Tournament.

Instead, we may very well get Tetris with explosions sooner.

Nutty - Sep 15, 2004 11:56:46 am PDT #3920 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I'm hugely skeptical of a movie based on a FPS game.

As long as we don't spend the whole movie staring at the backs of people's heads, I will be fine still not in the theatre, but marginally less disapproving.

Thomash - Sep 15, 2004 12:19:37 pm PDT #3921 of 10001
I have a plan.

Hee, talk about video game movies. I just saw RE: Apocalypse. It was no tour de force but fun enough for me to enjoy.

And of course, Milla!

bon bon - Sep 15, 2004 1:27:54 pm PDT #3922 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

A movie based on a first person shooter is almost as doomed to fail as a movie based on a Disneyland ride!

§ ita § - Sep 15, 2004 1:50:12 pm PDT #3923 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, Haunted Mansion was a rollicking success.

Gris - Sep 15, 2004 1:53:02 pm PDT #3924 of 10001
Hey. New board.

A Half Life movie could work. IJS. And the storyline of Jedi Knight (and all the sequels of that game, for that matter) is about 20 times as good as the actual prequels. It could make a decent flick.

Polter-Cow - Sep 15, 2004 2:03:02 pm PDT #3925 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Instead, we may very well get Tetris with explosions sooner.

Dude, I don't remember where it was, but someone did make a movie poster to that effect. Might have been Something Awful, might have been somewhere else. But it was funny.

Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 15, 2004 2:18:08 pm PDT #3926 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

It could make a decent flick.

Not if Lucas were the one making it.

The principal appeal of Doom to me was watching Mike Nelson take on all challengers in 1996. In a convention full of 3,000 MST3K geeks, only one person was able to beat him.

Frankenbuddha - Sep 15, 2004 6:08:44 pm PDT #3927 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

The principal appeal of Doom to me was watching Mike Nelson take on all challengers in 1996. In a convention full of 3,000 MST3K geeks, only one person was able to beat him.

And yet, he still paid to go see CORKY ROMANO. Go figure.

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