TheRedGen

I had no clue what I was walking into, yesterday night, but I knew it wasn't Disney so I might have had high expectations. Might have, because I'm not all too sure of they were all that high. (try to follow my logic :p) Anywho, I bought the ticket (took the ride) and the film started with a bang! Action, Desire, .. well, no desire but a lot of action. What started as Lil red riding hood, quickly turned into a crime mystery, with a nice climax. Spiked with great jokes and a witty explanation after wards. The first flashback had some weird inconsistencies and some typical cartoon weirdness, It was Extremely nice to (finally) see all those "coincidences" and weird events explained in the later flashbacks! Genius in its detail and simplicity!

But.. there s always a but :( Some of the jokes weren't THAT great. I had moments of Crazy Uncontrolled Laughter; but other moments.. the jokes just really missed their point! I got them, but they weren't funny enough to actually laugh at. I did have the feeling that If I had been 14 something I would have LOVED it all! .. And, The graphics weren't all that impressive. Having seen Ice Age recently, I was not awed. On the other hand, I didn't mind it all that much and after the first minutes, I was just watching the story instead of the graphics!

In the end, It was a great movie! Weird stuff happened, Some parts could have been a lot better. If it had been longer it would probably have bored, but since it wasn't, thats not an issue, is it. The story was very complete, surprising and it made me laugh. I left a happy man!

Doom is originally a Computer game.

When anyone says doom, I think about pixels, green barrels of ooze standing around, those weird brownish monsters and a shotgun. Yeah, the opening scene of the first Doom game. Next thing I remember is the ending of the second Doom game. Big flying tomatoes with teeth, out to get you and an infinite amount of monsters, spawning every few seconds. A huge room with some weird huge stairs and .. Yeah, the last level.. Then there s also a twinge of Quake. The start of the original quake.. a hand gun and some fallen down walls.

The only thing I expected from this movie was that it d be true to the Doom concept. I at least expected that Doom monster, the Doom 2 tomato, ..

What did we get. It felt like a zombie film. The classical story of experiment gone wrong, everyone dead and trying to get at the living. Doom felt like a recycling of a Resident Evil scenario. Yet it deserves so much more! There were monsters in it, alright. And yes, I admit, they were doom monsters. But only from Doom 3! Why do I care? I grew up with this. If I think Doom, I think the aforementioned. Fair enough I d come to expect some of that stuff. Yet they chose to only incorporate Doom 3. Its sad, its a missed opportunity.

And that quite sums this movie! A missed opportunity. They could get away with a lot, making a Doom movie. All we expected was a Gore fest in the world of Doom. Yet they weren't even able to live up to that. And We would still be forgiving if they d have made a movie based upon Doom with a Good scenario. But even that is crap.

Oh.. & the end sequence, where you get the standard gun in hands view.. That was just cheap! (I like the idea tough.. but .. not after that heap of crap!)

So no respect for the Doom universe AND a crappy scenario? Doom fully deserves the 2 I'm rating it.