But...Karl Urban. And The Rock.
Yeah, it's gonna suck.
Yes, there is. There's a hurry, Xander. I'm dying...I may have as few as fifty years left.
Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Dana - Sep 26, 2004 3:50:14 pm PDT #4120 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
§ ita § - Sep 26, 2004 3:52:36 pm PDT #4121 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What, game-wise, sets Doom aside from any other first-person-shooter games? I mean, aside from the fame of the game, why pick that one? Is there anything we have to worry about them actually translating to screen? What are you going to carry through, except for shooting people, and you don't need a joystick for that.
Tom Scola - Sep 26, 2004 3:55:52 pm PDT #4122 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
What, game-wise, sets Doom aside from any other first-person-shooter games?
Doom is one of the most profitable video games of all time, and Hollywood wants a some of the BIG PILES OF MONEY that it's earned?
Dana - Sep 26, 2004 3:56:30 pm PDT #4123 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Doom 3 also just came out to big hype. But the movie's gonna be a while.
§ ita § - Sep 26, 2004 3:58:52 pm PDT #4124 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Doom is one of the most profitable video games of all time, and Hollywood wants a some of the BIG PILES OF MONEY that it's earned?
Which is why I said "aside from the fame of the game."
You couldn't have Mortal Kombat without Raiden, or Resident Evil without zombies.
What does Doom need?
Steph L. - Sep 26, 2004 4:20:13 pm PDT #4125 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I finally saw Garden State today. It really is a lovely movie. Funnier than I thought it would be. Zach Braff has lips like James Franco -- the kind that I just want to bite. It was really distracting, actually.
I had a few minor pharmacological issues with it, but overall, I really enjoyed it.
Mr. Broom - Sep 26, 2004 4:21:13 pm PDT #4126 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
You couldn't have Mortal Kombat without Raiden, or Resident Evil without zombies. What does Doom need?
Demons. A Doom movie will pretty much be Resident Evil with demons in space. Scientists on a Mars colony do Something Really Stupid and open a portal to Hell. The lead guy comes upon the devastation and blasts his way through armies of infernal evil while trying to figure out what happened and how to stop it. ...exactly the same premise, now that I think of it, but it predates RE, so I'm going to say that RE is Doom with zombies.
§ ita § - Sep 26, 2004 4:26:13 pm PDT #4127 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Scientists on a Mars colony do Something Really Stupid and open a portal to Hell.
Well, it's not original, but suck isn't tied irrevocably to it.
I still want a Tekken 3 movie.
I saw Wimbledon today. Oh, there's a movie made to make ita cry. Kirsten Dunst didn't bother me as much as she did in Spiderman, and Bettany was amazingly charming. The best friend was hot.
Alibelle - Sep 26, 2004 8:35:51 pm PDT #4128 of 10001
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
I saw Wimbledon today. Oh, there's a movie made to make ita cry. Kirsten Dunst didn't bother me as much as she did in Spiderman, and Bettany was amazingly charming. The best friend was hot.
I totally agree. And I think Kirsten was less irritating because she was, in a sense, rather incidental to the plot. The movie was all about Paul. And that brief shot of his abs. And, designed for ita: playing tennis through pain. And while Paul was incredibly charming in the scene where Kirsten is hiding behind the pillar from her father, I think the more emotionally real relationship was the one he had with his best friend. Who was, indeed, pretty.
I could care less about a Tekken 3 movie, though, as I've never seen 1 or 2, and I'm not really feeling the lack. I did see Mortal Kombat, but I think that was just visuals attached to a soundtrack that was designed to sell to people with high intensity aerobic exercises in mind. And I've seen Tomb Raider, 1 and 2. They were fine. But pretty much pointless. The pirate movie based on the ride, rather than some lazy sitting down games, was so much more fun.
Of course, I've never been a huge video game fan. Or a comics fan. Hmm.
evil jimi - Sep 26, 2004 9:27:27 pm PDT #4129 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
What, game-wise, sets Doom aside from any other first-person-shooter games?
Nothing that is immediately translatable to the film format. Doom & Doom II had some of the best designed levels of any game ever, along with great monster design but that's really it. The fame of the game lies with the sheer fun of running around shooting zombies and demons.