DOOM Movie Update

this is total bullshit. The only thing i am very pissed off about is that it has nothing to do with HELL. i mean wtf, its doom not fucking resident evil right, do they want to make money off of this movie?

I know this has been debated to death but...

from wikipedia.com (I'm addicted!):

The abbreviation BFG stands for "Big Fucking Gun", as explained in Tom Hall's original Doom design document (Section 14). Other explanations of the name that circulated before the document was made public include "Big Fragging Gun" and "Big Fun Gun". In the paperback novelization of Doom published in 1995, the characters refer to the BFG as a "big freaking gun".

So yeah. Big Fucking Gun. As the god of Dopefish (Tom Hall) says.
=P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFG9000

Doom didn't have much plot to begin with...

On Mars, a lone Space Marine must battle Demons after a teleportation experiment goes horribly wrong, opening a portal to Hell.

And for this movie?

On a remote non-Mars planet, a squad of SWAT team members must battle mutants after a virus goes horribly wrong, infecting the staff of the base.

How about Resident Evil?

On the grounds of a mansion, a squad of STARS team members must battle mutants and zombies after a virus goes horribly wrong, infecting the staff of the mansion/secret lab.

Much more in common with the latter, no?

regular joe gamer that thinks EA games are the best shit ever enjoy movies that always have the same plot/ending a la hollywood, and this is who this movie will target

same people who thought HL2 had a bad ending

hay guys the Bio Force Gun does appear!


(???)

You know, I've seen movies with a great plot setup that turned out to be shit. On the other hand, I've seen movies that sounded really dumb that turned out to be excellent. I don't think we should be basing our entire opinion of the movie on the details revealed so far.

Besides, if they actually conformed more to the original doom "story", it could suck just as bad.

My problem with the plot is that it isn't Doom. Ok you say "So What?" well why bother buying the fucking Doom franchise then? And no that isn't a rethorical question. The answer is the producers want to capitalize on the name and get people to go see who think "Hey a Doom movie, cool." and then when they get there ."This is nothing like the game!"

So if you want to be a sucker go see it.

I just realized why this movie will fail. If they are calling it the Bio Force Gun and not the BIG FUCKING GUN 9000 then they are going for a PG rating... :_(
T.T
Doom the Movie = Loss of money hats...

All this talking makes me wanna play some Jdoom. anybody down for it?

good god ... why?

:(

So, any theories as to why the hell angle was dropped? Pressure to make sure it conforms with the new "morality" in film and TV?

how about producing "finding nemo 2" and just clling it doom?

Why was Hell dropped?

My thought is that it would be too similar to Event Horizon. Basically same concept: ship goes to Hell and returns demon possessed. Saying that there is a Hell also insinuated a Christian like world view, since Heave/Hell are Christian based (unless I'm missing something, I'm not ancient historian).

In a nutshell: are society, at least our society in the liberal area that Hollywood is in, is science based and not religious based. It was a natural change for Hollywood to make.

Sounds like another Non-Gamer trying to make a buck off of something they know nothing about. I see another movie to add to the list along with Street Fighter, and Mario Brothers movie.

Im waiting for gamespy to do a top 10 list of great game movies and have this in it without them having even seen it.

Will people be able to bring flashlights into the movie theater?

sometimes I kill myself.

Ok heres how I was thinking it was going down:

1) Many years ago, when a Doom movie was suggested, Id software and John Carmack said they were accepting scripts and such, and had turned down a few, saying they "weren't Doom" and such.

2) Since then, many movies, say like Resident Evil have had little (debatable I know, but bear with me) to do with the orgin of that which they came from. Yet they still manage to make money with the teen audience (the audience that sees the most movies)

3) Id apparently changed their mind however and now we will be left with one of the most influential games turned movie... turned into something barely recognizable.

_{*Then again, look at the track record of video game movies*}_

1) Mortal Kombat <My personal favorite 'video-game-movie,' it still changed things, but remained... IMO true to itself, but no worries --> Remember the name "Paul Anderson" this is the good movie inspired by a game that he forgot all the lessons of>

2) Mortal Kombat 2 <Why please why did they mess this up>

3) Street Fighter <Way too many characters, nearly all of which were nothing like their personality, I mean come on guys, Ken and Ryu were gun smugglers, how do you come up with that anyway? Oh and BTW, just to ruin your life --> The guy that wrote this script publicy expressed a desire TO WRITE HALF-LIFE THE MOVIE a couple years ago... Sleep well>

4) Tomb Raider <Jolie was perfect for part, too bad for the movie>

5) Tomb Raider 2 <Oh man, I was coerced into watching it... My IQ dropped like lemmings leaping to oblivion>

6) Resident Evil <Paul Anderson, vet of the first MK movie, created a divide of fans of the game and fans of the game who liked the movie and people who ONLY watched the movie>

7) Resident Evil <No worries guys Anderson doesn't direct, but his friend does... Oh yeah, but he wrote the script because he was busy wrecking two franchises at the same time. Not every day do you get to do that. Of course Romero seemed to be pretty lazy, and never viewed the tape Capcom sent him of the game being played through from beginning to end to understand the story, he wrote Chris as being Native American or something, so either director you choose, they each wanted to do their own thing>

8) Aliens vs Predator <Well, Anderson actually cemented his reputation to some fans, some of his circle even tried to pass around the blame--Oh and like I mentioned... Hes going to do more in this Dark Horse universe. Enjoy. Oh and yes, this was a comic first, but supposedly he checked out the game too>

9) House of the Dead <Awhile back here on the good ol shack--not sure who it was, but someone said "Please stop giving this guy money" I could not agree more. To paraphrase Clerks "Well played Mr Boll, well played">

10) Alone in the dark <Considered by many to be the inspiration for what is now Capcom's masterpiece: RE, Mr Boll is or has finished filming this movie, few people may remember the game on the PC, this may actually work in the movies favor... No one will know what hes changed>

11) Bloodrayne <Well seriously folks, not too many people care about this one, but so far its a 'prequel' (I think) and thus will have nothing to do with the game, muwahaha, masterfully done Mr. Boll>

--> Just for fun, lets add DOOM 3 to the list ok ?

12) DOOM 3: The Movie

TO DO LIST

A--> Removed any similarities to the after which our movie is named.
B--> Renamed one of the first, and the most famous weapons: the BFG /*Did they really do this!?*/
C--> Forgot publicly that HELL is where the bad guys come from.

Awwww, lists are fun

Carmack has officially SOLD OUT. This is trash.

Bio Virus.......

... yea so basically it's Resident Evil in space.

To everyone pissed off about the Bio Force Gun, just stop and think about it. Would the military develop and build a weapon called a Big Fucking Gun? I would expect that the official name will be Bio Force Gun, but that you can expect a joke somewhere about what BFG "really" means.

Besides, the no mars and no monsters from hell thing are much worse.

wtf.. what a joke. and the leading person will be barney the dinosaur.

So they aren't even keeping the idea that it's HELL anymore?

This isn't even Doom. It's fucking Resident Evil on Mars. As if Resident Evil wasn't already shitty enough.

Jesus Christ, what are they thinking? This will be the worst movie ever. And that it even has 'Doom' in the title is a travesty of the highest magnitude.

has anyone actually READ THE REPORT: http://www.novinky.cz/04/44/23.html

I mean I can't read the language it's in, but just a quick glance at the page does not make it seem like anything even close to something that might even remotly be considered a reliable news source.

Was that a offical government term for a weapon or slang military term that someone came up with?

This sounds totally excelent. lots of monster shooting, and FPS perspective for the end battle! fucking sweet!

What an absolute joke

hehehe, 'Do you want some CHEESE with your WHINE?'

I for one see many movies which have no relation to computer games in them, so if this one happens to mention a few things from doom 1/2/3, then all the better for me :-)

I'd imagine that most the people here would go see it, given the opportunity

-bio

With all movies its all in the execution , at the end if it turns out to be good we all be proud of having a pc game heritage ,or it could suck horrendously for which the odds are much higher and no pc gamer would ever mention it again in broad daylight

This gives me a great idea. I'll make a far cry movie that takes place in the desert.

Well, its just been discovered that they aren't planning a release for this movie. It's now being controlled by the CIA and made into a torture device to interrogate captured Taliban fighters. You'd better just turn yourself in now Osama, your men won't be able to stand up to the power of Teh DOOM!!!11

Wonder if Fred Nilsson is going to work on this movie? Heh heh..

I think it's a christian thing, why they wont have any hell in the movie.

Sadly.

I mean why ELSE!@#$%

Id has no pride in their intellectual property.

You guys are missing on the best part of this movie:

One character is a technician called "Pinky" who has a cybernetic wheelchair thanks to a bad teleporting accident. Pinky later mutates into something remotely resembling a creature from Doom 3. Producers claim that the film will be more of a horror than an action shooter.


How can this movie possibly be bad?

Never has money been wasted faster. Talk about a futile endeavor and a franchise and concept WASTED needlessly on a project doomed to failure.

in a perfect world this would lose money - no one would even go see it for a laugh, no one would even give it a chance, so that maybe there would be a slight possibility the raging 'tards in charge of this project would never work in film again.

Next up, the Deus Ex movie, but it's set in the past, the nanomachines are alien viruses, the enemy is a coven of witches, and it is in fact a sequel to Wild Wild West with Will Smith as JC Denton.

Blame Canada Californians. More specifically Hollywood. F'in yuppies.

No Mars, no hell, no space marines, no demons...

Oh yes... this "Doom" movie will do great justice.

"Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!"