Doom

Doom Directed by: does it really matter? Starring: The Rock

I was only 11 when Doom came out, but when you saw the news get upset over it's content, you knew it was something special. You'd shoot a demon and it'd explode and you could see it's ribs and stuff. It was really cool. Really different. We didn't really think it could get any better.

Now I'm older and things have gotten better. I haven't played Doom in years, but I still remember it fondly. So when I saw the Doom movie was being developed, I had to say, I got pretty excited. I had no idea how it would ever work as a movie, but, I got excited. It all ended tonight when I screened it for Universal.

Big theatre, big turnout. I wasn't the only one excited for it. People were lined up outside the door and out into the parking lot. Surprisingly, most of them got in. Universal's policy on R-rated movies required parents to sign permission slips for kids. No parent had a problem with that, no matter how young the kid was. Kids who should have been going to see any other movie than this were plentiful.

The movie itself... well... more prefacing.

I wasn't expecting much. I'd heard this and that about the production and all the people who were into Doom a bit too much had problems with the general plot and so forth. Me - I really didn't care if it took place on Mars as opposed to a Moon of Mars and so forth.

So, I went to have fun and that's exactly what I had.

Doom is a fun movie. There hasn't been a really good fun action movie in a long time. Brian Clark went with me and we were cracking up at just about every line. It was just ridiculous the whole way through - and that's why it worked for me. It was a throwback to the old arnold movies where all you wanted to do was to have somebody die in a mildly creative way and for the hero to say something really cool afterwards so you could repeat it for weeks. Sadly, Doom lacks such an iconic phrase (or perhaps it's for the best), but it still has that feeling of the dumb killing movie.

It also feels like Doom, too, tight hallways, low light, etc. Is it really close all the time? No. It takes liberties, it changes things and it just goes off on it's own sometimes. But that's ok. I was looking something remotely like the game that'd be fun and it's what I got. Given a lot of other game adaptations, asking for something that was not just plain awful was asking a lot.

Well, I got it.
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