Who's this guy?

[40oz]

??

I noticed it's got the guy from the doom movie behind him, but I don't remember any characters with really long hair, except maybe pinky, but that still doesn't look like him.

[myk]

What about reading the file name? :p

[Ixnatifual]

It's Karl Urban (who plays the main character, wossname, in the Doom movie) as Eomer in Lord of the Rings.

[Reaper978]

Haha! Isn't it kind of a long shot to expect the viewer to realize that without reading the filename?

And even after reading the filename, I had no idea what it was. And I've seen Doom and all the LOTR movies.

[40oz]

myk said:

What about reading the file name? :p

I did, I guess it doesn't help that I was never really interested in Lord of the Rings.

[CODOR]

Are you out of your Vulcan mind?!

[Quasar]

Pretty sure that's the face he makes when he thinks he has discovered both Theoden and Eowyn dead. Eowyn of course ends up being alive.

[printz]

That's really hair? I thought it's a giant spiderweb stuck on him.

I even thought that's a doomguy too.

[Nomad]

Oddly enough that's the page topper that showed up the first time I clicked over to this thread.

[ReFracture]

Nomad said:

Oddly enough that's the page topper that showed up the first time I clicked over to this thread.

Likewise.

[EDEdDNEdDYFaN]

Mike.Reiner said:

Likewise.

[DuckReconMajor]

I got a Mancubus!

P.S. Google

[Devalaous]

Mancubus for me too!

This thread brings my attention to the Doom DVD sitting by my TV that my brother brought home. Maybe I should watch it..

[Woolie Wool]

Don't watch it. It's a terrible movie. It's an hour and a half of your life that you will never get back. I regret ever seeing it.

[wildweasel]

Woolie Wool said:

Don't watch it. It's a terrible movie. It's an hour and a half of your life that you will never get back. I regret ever seeing it.

Whereas I, on the other hand, loved it. While the plot is not 100% identical to the game's, this movie was clearly a labor of love, and they basically nailed the atmosphere.

[chungy]

The movie isn't the smartest around, nor is it as true to Doom (either classic or Doom 3, of which the movie was supposed to be based on the latter) as it should have been, but it's an enjoyable flick nonetheless. Also, if it's a special edition DVD, check out how the special effects and whatnot were made, it's quite fascinating if you're into that sort of thing; it's also a relief to know that some directors/producers still hold the belief that CG is not the answer to everything :-)

[Captain Toenail]

Yeah, the one thing I liked about the Doom movie was that they didn't resort to CGI all the time like other films, and I also liked the first person section, it was quite funny, but in the end it's a pretty bad film, doesn't do Doom justice I'm afraid

[GreyGhost]

DuckReconMajor said:

I got a Mancubus!

P.S. Google

I got a rabbit's head on a stick, followed by a Spider Mastermind.

EDIT - Followed by Karl Urban, followed by a Mancubus.

EDIT #2 - Followed by Doomguy (ouchface), followed by a Cacodemon.

EDIT #3 - Followed by a bald marine, followed by an Archvile.

[Vegeta]

Lol, I thought it was Sabretooth from the first movie of the X-Men (no, I never saw Lord of the Rings).

[kristus]

WildWeasel said:

While the plot is not 100% identical to the game's,

I loled

Doom movie is best seen with friends and beer and lots of mocking comments.

[pavera]

Doom movie didn't have enough pornstar space marines.

[Sporku]

Krispavera said:

Doom movie didn't have enough pornstar space marines.

Might not have, but it did have a random naked female zombie in the unedited version of the movie, it's that's a good enough substitute for you.

[the iron hitman]

The Doom movie was pretty good...but it needed more Impse. :P

[SaladBadger]

I think the removal of demons is what screwed it up. You can do A LOT more with demons than mutations, since demons are backed with "Demon Magic". In Doom 3 there's several scenes where you are walking through a UAC base and then you find a lava pit in the middle of a corrodor with a few tiles floating over it. That's not something you could easily do in a setting involving people who have mutated. (Ok, so perhaps the mutations cause them to rip up tiles, dig pits, fill them with lava, and then put a hover-device on the tiles, but that sounds rather stupid for a mutation to do)

[Nomad]

The Doom movie was crap. Even as a mindless Hollywood film it was crap. I don't understand how out of probably hundreds of scripts they picked that one. They even could have at least had the writer that did id hired to write Doom 3 do the script, but no. They decided on a script about hulked out freaks with extra chromosomes.

Even a good mindless Hollywood flick requires some degree of reality, if only to let you willingly suspend disbelief. Doom had a retarded script with retarded dialog, and retarded acting to go with it.

Even the BFG was stupid. It reminded me of shooting a huge blue corrosive load all over things.

[Woolie Wool]

WildWeasel said:

Whereas I, on the other hand, loved it. While the plot is not 100% identical to the game's, this movie was clearly a labor of love, and they basically nailed the atmosphere.

You mean the atmosphere that Aliens did much better 25 years ago.

[wildweasel]

Having never seen a single Alien movie, let's just agree to disagree here.

[40oz]

You probably should. It makes a hell of a better doom movie than doom does. Especially since at the time, Doom was inspired by the movie "Alien"

Shit man, I would have written the script. And I'd do it for free too, just so I don't have to be shamed to see that the entire movie was wrong save for a few monsters that vaguely resembled those from Doom 3. Just about everything that took place in that movie was wrong. The teleport thing that ripped off pinky's legs, (unless you count the pentagram teleporters in Doom 1 and 2, which I doubt was inspired by that because they didn't even research the recent Doom 3) the weird doors that trap objects inside the matter if it's closed while something is in it's way, the land mines, ALL of the characters, the lack of shotguns, the lack of cacodemons, lost souls, and zombies with guns, which were arbitrarily the standard monsters in doom, the one lonely first person scene, which wasn't even as good as it could have been, what with the stupid head shots which deal no more or less damage in any of the doom games, the list goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.

God i'm getting pissed just thinking about it. Thanks for derailing my thread assholes.

[Nomad]

I think most of us could have done a better script. I've always envisioned it a cross between The Pianist, Alien, and Starship Troopers. The Pianist, because I've not seen any other movie that pulled off having the majority of the movie taking place with only one character and they did it extremely well. Alien is obvious for the atmosphere. Starship Troopers because of the idea of overcoming a huge invasion with overwhelming odds.

Mix thoroughly, add demons and some hell, and viola.

As a reminder to the empty suits in Hollywood, saying genetic freaks are "like demons" is not the same as them actually being hellspawn.

[myk]

The DOOM movie is silly, but I was amused more than annoyed by it. It even makes some winks at game elements that were interesting. And in its defense, it isn't like the novels. It's more on the level of the DOOM comic, although not as hilarious. Some parts really stick, like when the Rock says doctor Carmack's condition is that he's dead.