The Chucky sequels were competent, but that’s because they had the guy making them since the original do everything. They even got some cast from the OGs. A fluke on the studios part.
They should just call their protagonist Guy Dume
"Roll call! ...Dume, Guy"
Even Doom3 had a chainsaw moment. All this needs to be ultra-generic and completely unlike Doom is characters with personalities other than being angry, so check right from the get go, and shit like "your mission: don't die" when it should be "your mission: neutralize all hostiles", followed up by the main character ripping demons apart with his bare hands in the exact opposite of what someone who says what your mission is would expect you to do.
Anybody remember this?-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSZ4tSoumNk
Perhaps they should've taken more cues from it, y'know?
I swear to god I thought this was a fan made trailer.
My ideal Doom movie would be a horror-comedy movie where the demons are trying to escape Doom guy, but he successfully slays each one. A reverse slasher
"I want a DOOM movie with actual demons in it!"
one finger on the monkey's paw curls.
This looks like complete dogshit. The effects and costumes in that trailer were so bad it literally could have been for an episode of Doctor Who.
I'm having flashbacks of the Doom 3 movie.
Need an edit where the Doom Slayer shoves a monitor playing the trailer away
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/476/072/9f5.gif
Doom without the doom guy as the protagonist is like a sonic movie about cream the rabbit. I can’t see this going down well. Besides isn’t it established that pretty much everyone in demonic incursions gets their shit canned pretty hard? Why would they send people in without even helmets or hazard suits, just that basic cheap looking armor? they’re going to die and if they don’t then I’ll be sorely disappointed.
They need to sit the people who made this down, and make them watch it side by side with doom. Because obviously they have no fucking idea what Doom is, and only heard about it being about Mars, Demons, and Muhrines .
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/339507227897626624/554810810585710633/1552345363624.png
is this a month-early april fools joke
nope it's a female protagonist in a creatively-bankrupt hollywood industry trying to appeal to an audience that doesn't watch this shit to begin with
all they had to do was make Hardcore Henry but with demons and shit, extend the premise of the FPS scene from the original movie and all, and they wouldn't even have to make it as hectic and filled with dangerous stunts as HH was. hell, they could've had their female protagonist and had it be sort of like a surprise or something, pull a Samus or simply never make note of it, but instead it looks nothing like Doom and they're advertising this front and center now for the sake of it.
"Our movie is cool!" says actress in low budget direct-to-dvd movie no one asked for.
Christ you guys are pretty damn angry over this.
It's a DOOM movie. DOOM isn't exactly a narrative power house. If the movie has got some good action with a schlocky story pushing us to the next sick sequence, instead of 75% exposition and a gun that fires once with no target, then it sounds exactly like what I'd look for in a DOOM movie.
Plus this is a STRAIGHT TO DVD release. This is a couple of guys wanting to make a cool project not a studio ass fucking the idea to put people in seats.
Just chill out.
You'd think the videogame equivlent to Rambo 2 wouldn't need much though process to be adapted into a 120m action film and yet.
why is it that Hollywood HATES action films so much? its literally the only genre people can watch back and forth without much though process involved in the fucking plot, hell not even in the stunts.
Hell, you can center a movie around gruesome action and still deliver a plot and characters that are solid as hell as demostrated by Mad Max: Fury Road yet here we are,with some asnine adaptation of what I presume is going to be the source of white noise for the sake of it having a female lead.
I don't think many people here are legitimately angry over it, just annoyed that they're wasting all these resources and money on making a shitty film. We've been waiting for a good doom film for decades and the only thing released since the mediocre-but-still-enjoyable film from 2005/2006 is this crap. The thing about reading text comments on the internet, is that emotions are extremely difficult to read accurately, so mild annoyance and hyperbolic "ANGERY" statements can be misread as genuine mind-ripping rage.
Sidenote, I actually did enjoy the first Doom film. It was a lot of fun, especially the first-person sequence, but the story was trash. The story in Doom is historically non-existent so that's fine for me. But this movie fails in every way based on this trailer, to make a good Doom film.
Would have been better if they casted Alex Jones.
Can The Rock and Judge Dredd come back?
this looks like one of those well-meaning but not very good fan movies that takes 5 years to make and nobody actually ends up watching
tbh id doesn't have the rights to the movies iirc, so this is just the other companies cashing in to the fame without caring.
I keep watching the trailer over and over again looking for the 'Syfy Original series' logo and I haven't found it yet. Is it hidden somewhere?
IMO another doom movie apart from going directly over the doomguy stuff would be some lore exploration and expansion. Like the story of the first UAC exploration group that went to hell, following some dude who was only into it for the money, and just pretending to be into the whole occult thing, but got unwittingly and unwillingly sucked into hell. He wouldn't get out of there obviously, but if this was set in the actual game's universe, it would be alright. I think this would be more fun as a short vignette though.
Another one would be following one of the station operators from the Eternal trailer.
Basically some fish out of water, mundane person in this whole hell mess trying to get out. Not a bunch of generic marines doing yet another Alien rip off.
The problem with making Doom Slayer a movie protagonist is the simplicity of his character. Yes, there's a lot of lore to him, but his character in the game expressed in gameplay is basically "I hate demons and bullshit, I like to rip and tear." That wouldn't translate all that well to film, you need more. And trying to tack shit onto that in a movie would probably be considered sacrilege by fans. If doomguy is the protagonist as he is in the games, there is no tension, no personal stakes, and no character development, because he's doomguy.
I could see the story of him losing his son and becoming rage incarnate being kinda fit for screen if adapted well, but it probably wouldn't make for a satisfying character ark and ending.
So yeah, rambling aside, I think in-universe vignettes about some randos could be fun, but doomguy himself doesn't lend himself well to the big screen as a protagonist IMO.
Replace son with pet rabbit.
Though the plot of John Wick is about him going on a rampage because they killed his pet dog and stole his car (though, you could argue over the sentimental value of it due to his wife).
Real talk: if the lead was based on this:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/205174/733bd585-f946-4594-aba7-a9f1c321c448/image.png
I'd be 100 percent okay with it. But we're not getting doomgirl either, so they can fuck off.
doomguy is not a he, doomguy is an it
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