DOOM Annihilation

[MuuMuu Bunnylips]

This is what happens when you send a woman to do a man's job.

 

[Commander X]

Look at this garbage, instead of Space Marines they have a SWAT team dressed more like bike cops. Of course, our heroine also totes a BFG that amazingly looks like a it was made not even from a Nerf gun but a cheap Nerf knockoff sold in bargain stores.

This looks like the sort of low-budget film that's shot in an old factory that's supposed to pass for a space station or military base or other sort of high tech facility. It looks like one of those rip-off movies that used to air at 1AM on cable channels in need of time-slot filler.

 

[BrunoMattei]

How hard is it to do a movie where marines shoot demons on Mars? This can't be that difficult of a concept to nail.

Look at this garbage, instead of Space Marines they have a SWAT team dressed more like bike cops. Of course, our heroine also totes a BFG that amazingly looks like a it was made not even from a Nerf gun but a cheap Nerf knockoff sold in bargain stores.

This looks like the sort of low-budget film that's shot in an old factory that's supposed to pass for a space station or military base or other sort of high tech facility. It looks like one of those rip-off movies that used to air at 1AM on cable channels in need of time-slot filler.

It kind of looks like Bruno Mattei's Shocking Dark AKA Terminator 2 (yes, really).

 

[Commander X]

I was thinking of Shocking Dark too, as well as all of those direct-to-video flicks from the 1990s/early Aughts channels like SciFi used as schedule filler.

The big reveal of Doom Annhiliation comes when a member of the crew reveals their treachery. "I'm the most perfect perfect being ever constructed by the Tubular Corporation!"

 

[Judge Holden]

Look at this garbage, instead of Space Marines they have a SWAT team dressed more like bike cops. Of course, our heroine also totes a BFG that amazingly looks like a it was made not even from a Nerf gun but a cheap Nerf knockoff sold in bargain stores.

This looks like the sort of low-budget film that's shot in an old factory that's supposed to pass for a space station or military base or other sort of high tech facility. It looks like one of those rip-off movies that used to air at 1AM on cable channels in need of time-slot filler.

It really is sad when you could replace the actual main character with fucking Space Cop and have the movie look both truer to the game and also 1000% better

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Look at this garbage, instead of Space Marines they have a SWAT team dressed more like bike cops. Of course, our heroine also totes a BFG that amazingly looks like a it was made not even from a Nerf gun but a cheap Nerf knockoff sold in bargain stores.

This looks like the sort of low-budget film that's shot in an old factory that's supposed to pass for a space station or military base or other sort of high tech facility. It looks like one of those rip-off movies that used to air at 1AM on cable channels in need of time-slot filler.

Wouldn't surprise me if they did film this in an old factory and just barely dressed it up.

 

[byuu]

A Doom movie should just follow the "story" of the comic or Repercussions of Evil.

 

[bargen]

I still can't believe how badly movie studios continue to fuck up such a simple concept. Doom is a very simple game: demons come through portal from hell to Mars (or its moons depending on the game), kill everyone except one man, and that one man has to rip and tear his way out. I don't even care if they change the Doomguy to Doomgirl because it doesn't matter at all.

Hell, I'd say this looks worse than the 2005 movie mainly because the demons, what little we see of them, don't even resemble the games' creatures. Even the first movie got that right, shitty as it was.

I dont think theyre trying to get it right. Theyre just shitting out a cheap movie to keep the movie rights.

 

[Aquinas]

Doom movie should be as Hardcore henry as possible

 

[DrearyDoomguy]

I will say this: the idea of having the movie not directly follow the Doomguy makes sense from a conventional movie standpoint. That premise legitimately has potential. A group of marines are sent on what turns into a suicide mission, desperately attempt to hold out against the horrors of Hell, getting picked off one by one, except some mysterious silent murder machine intermittently shows up and dispatches said demons so in such spectacular fashion that the marines wind up more afraid of him than the actual demons. The few survivors walk away with the ambiguous reassurance that there's something out there even scarier than the demons actively working to kill the demons, so humanity should be safe... right?

I don't think it's impossible to make a Doom movie that succeeds as both an adaptation and a movie. I really don't. It's just that whoever it was that gave the greenlight to this project either didn't have the budget, didn't have the motivation, or some combination thereof, to find someone capable of doing that. Which is understandable, but if that's the case why did you even bother in the first place? Because there's no way the movie they're releasing turns a profit, even as a D2DVD title. The 2005 version drew 56 million against a 60 million posted budget, and that was with serious star power in the form of The Rock. The best this iteration can hope for is to become a hit with the MST3K/RiffTrax crowd.

 

[Preferred Penne]

Doom Annihilation vs. Mortal Kombat Annihilation: Which will be worse?

 

[Aquinas]

MK:A was good so doom

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Doom Annihilation vs. Mortal Kombat Annihilation: Which will be worse?

Doom looks like your typical "Shot in Bulgaria/Romania/Insert 3-grade European country here" DTV shlockfest. MK was a special kind of horrible that's considered the worst non-Uwe Boll video game movie.

But objectively, MK is enjoyibly r.etarded with is shitty 90s effects and exceptional leaps in logic and character derailment. Doom just looks like ass and will likely be ass.

 

[Jaimas]

They've been threatening to make this movie a while. They wrapped it up in April back in 2018, so I have no idea why they're releasing it now of all times except maybe praying to god that its proximity to Doom Eternal will give it a sales bump. It's direct-to-video as well, so it being shit is a bygone conclusion.

Don't worry though, they've got everything in place to ensure it makes the 2005 Doom movie look Oscar-worthy:

Take a shot.

 

[SamTheEagle]

Doomworld and the ZDoom Forums have locked their threads about this movie after people got to arguing about the female lead. I have to say, it's hilarious to watch people virtue signal over this particular film.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Can't they just outsource this to SyFy and cut out the middlemen?

 

[BrunoMattei]

They've been threatening to make this movie a while. They wrapped it up in April back in 2018, so I have no idea why they're releasing it now of all times except maybe praying to god that its proximity to Doom Eternal will give it a sales bump. It's direct-to-video as well, so it being shit is a bygone conclusion.

My best guess is that it's a tax write off scheme. If they released it in January it would've been too obvious I guess.

 

[_blank_]

I heard the reason they made this movie at all is so they could retain the Doom movie rights, same reason why Dimension Films decides to grace us with a new "Hellraiser" movie every so many years.

As it is, in a perfect world, I wish people could just all come together, join hands, and in one voice just agree that this is going to be a bad movie. But it's 2019 and we have to have some kind of culture war skirmish over it, don't we? God, this is exhausting.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I heard the reason they made this movie at all is so they could retain the Doom movie rights, same reason why Dimension Films decides to grace us with a new "Hellraiser" movie every so many years.

As it is, in a perfect world, I wish people could just all come together, join hands, and in one voice just agree that this is going to be a bad movie. But it's 2019 and we have to have some kind of culture war skirmish over it, don't we? God, this is exhausting.

That's another possibility. I've done zero research as to who owns the Doom movie IP though but it is something that's happened multiple times before like with Fantastic Four, Hellraiser and the Children of the Corn series.

 

[Tookie]

Is this one of those deals where the studio has to shit out a movie once in a while to keep the film rights?