Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Doom: Annihilation









                  Fan of the previous Doom games; even consider those as one of the best first person shooters after my downfall of Call of Duty. And yet out of no where they've already made another movie to the Doom series, and no it doesn't have the Rock because he's already had a colonoscopy, so no more taking a crap on scripts for him. I mean sure, I can blame myself in wanting to watch this with the realization that movies and video games really don't mix today judging with the fact that most writers, directors and producers do really play video games. But since were living in mad, mad world of having to stay in doors I figured why not watch it on Netflix. Now I got to get this out of my system, this movie felt like it was made for just five cents and they just paid the actors free lunches, moreover the demons looked way to beyond the realm of fraudulent. So let's talk about Doom: Annihilation and why you should not watch this on Netflix.
                 The movie centers around a group of marines who wake up from cryosleep (apparently the director has an obsession of Alien), and are tasked to head for moon to secure and investigate the happenings on the Moon. There they discover demons have taken over the base (SHOCKER) and the main doctors have discovered teleportation to another world aka Hell and the head Doctor doesn't want to shut it down. Now if a Doctor doesn't want to shut something down you should make that man play Russian roulette, sorry not sorry. So, all and all this just basically turns into a fight to the death to see who will survive in the end.
                 A side from the filmmakers acquiring some, minor key elements from the game. I still have problems and a lot of has to do with making a good Doom movie then why making a Doom movie, so for starters if I'm being paid to come up with an idea for a possible Doom movie I would just use the same concept id software used in their 2016 game where Doom Guy wakes up from a so called slumber in a disillusioned state where he need to fight off the demon horde where they apparently are robotic for some reason and just go on from there with this all there doing is just referencing all of the Alien and Predator movies out there were its either the man or woman whose the last standing and that is just not how it works anymore I know it good for money purposes but not for those who've played Doom since it was created. Which brings to my other point, why is it so hard to even adapt a video game into a movie, I mean sure games now are becoming more of movies themselves like Uncharted or The Last of Us, but games like Halo or Mortal Kombat or, hell even Street Fighter you can develop your own stories around these characters if you just take the time do some research and for god sake's at least be original too, just because its a video game doesn't mean you get to rehash ideas from other past films. So look deep down if your a fan of the games and have in urge to watch something like this, just stick to games don't waste your time with a movie where they don't care a whole lot of source material just wanting to rehash old movies and try to create something new for once.

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