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The big screen version of the ultraviolent first person shooter video game appears all but guaranteed to be a big screen stinkbomb. The story of the video game - actually more of a concept than a story since the game itself is mostly nothing more than running around shooting demonic monsters - has the player running around a Martian lunar base where an experiment gone horribly wrong has opened a portal to Hell allowing monstrous hellbeasts to enter our dimension. The plot to the movie will now deal with Marines going to a deep space facility where the staff has become exposed to some sort of virus that causes them to mutate into hideous monsters that will resemble the creatures from the video game. The only thing that really distinguishes DOOM from every other ALIEN knock-off is the whole satanic monsters from Hell aspect of the game and now they've gone and done away with that. Word is the movie won't have quite as much shooting either as the reported emphasis will be more on horror than action. Why do I get the feeling the producers are insisting on a PG-13 movie? After all, what we really need are more PG-13 movies based on R-rated video games. Heck, even HOUSE OF THE DEAD got that much right. DOOM is currently shooting Prague under the direction of Andrzej "CRADLE 2 THE GRAVE" Bartowiak, thus guaranteeing a lot of MTV style editing and annoying tecno/hip hop music on the soundtrack, and stars The Rock, thus proving that The Rock really sucks when it comes to picking projects to star in.
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Now while I wasnt expecting Citizen ****in' Kane here, I was expecting three things: Mars, tons and tons and tons of blood, and unholy armies of Hell Demons. Come on, people........
So, what exactly is the point in turning a video game into a movie, but then throwing out everything that made the game popular? I mean, if I see a Doom movie I better see lots of blood, guns, and action in a dark, satanically inspired space environment. If not that, then it's not Doom! That would be as stupid as say, making a House of the Dead movie and setting it on an island where a bunch of teens go to a rave.