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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Deepblue on August 25, 2005, 07:48:02 pm

Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Deepblue on August 25, 2005, 07:48:02 pm
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/doom.html

Hmmmm...

It actually looks... okay...
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Carl on August 25, 2005, 08:13:01 pm
First Person? weird.

also: PINKY DEMON!!!! :D
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: BlackDove on August 25, 2005, 08:23:27 pm
Oh my god what a piece of ****.
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: WMCoolmon on August 25, 2005, 08:27:03 pm
Rosamund Pike slightly reminds me of the hot girl at CompUSA.
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Martinus on August 25, 2005, 08:27:10 pm
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Originally posted by BlackDove
Oh my god what a piece of ****.

[color=66ff00]Cake?
Beef?
Doom?

I love this game.
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Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: deep_eyes on August 25, 2005, 08:29:20 pm
I WAS 2 SECONDS AWAY FROM SAYING "OLD NEWS IS SO EXCITING!"

then i saw the CHAINSAW..........................................

W00T!
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: achtung on August 25, 2005, 08:46:07 pm
From the looks I think it's gonna be a great idea executed poorly...... I'm gonna be one of the first to see it in other words :D.

Even if it sucks, anything DooM related (other than '95 .WADs) kicks some serious ASS!!!
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Triple Ace on August 25, 2005, 09:20:38 pm
I'm looking forward to seeing it.
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Post by: EtherShock on August 25, 2005, 11:13:12 pm
The first-person view is a nice touch, a tribute to the game, but if it's overused, it will look cheap. It should only be used for a sequence or two. I'm still going to wait for the DVD, good idea gone horribly wrong. Hey, that gives me an idea. ^_^
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Kosh on August 26, 2005, 12:35:20 am
I've either said it before or I heard it before: Doom isn't Doom without hell and demons. The human genome stuff is just garbage.
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Deepblue on August 26, 2005, 01:21:34 am
The Yahoo! site mentioned that a portal would need to be closed... Perhaps there still is hell and demons with Human Genome stuff tossed in 'cause right now it's hot stuff.
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Fragrag on August 26, 2005, 02:09:04 am
Knowing hollywood and my sudden brainwaves, the Genome **** is gonna lead ppl to know where Hells Portal is, and they (Marines) have to close it.
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Post by: MicroPsycho on August 26, 2005, 08:35:14 am
After recently playing through Doom 3 again, I realized that they actually mention working on the genome in the monster museum, albeit comparing imp DNA to human DNA. However it is one of the most obscure pieces of info in the game.
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Descenterace on August 26, 2005, 10:05:09 am
[It will be another train wreck along the lines of AvP and Matrix Revolutions. --PsychicDescenter]
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Flipside on August 26, 2005, 11:28:43 am
The first person looked 'too' gameish for my tastes. It looks interesting in a brainless popcorn consuming kind of way, which isn't always a bad thing ;)
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Kazan on August 26, 2005, 12:03:54 pm
could be worse

"Wing Commander Movie"

'enuff said

/proceeds to shoot chris roberts
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Post by: WMCoolmon on August 26, 2005, 12:20:38 pm
That movie had good music.

At least I liked the theme song the first 150 times I listened to it. Gotten a bit old now, but it's still good. :p
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Post by: Col. Fishguts on August 26, 2005, 02:10:57 pm
Meh... looks like it's gonna be an action-focused slugfest, which keeps it close to the game, but will probably fail as a movie.

IMHO, an interesting approach to a DOOM3 adaption would be to keep the whole movie in 1st persion view....think about it.
The audience only gets what the protagonist sees and hears. You'd hear your heart pumping and the heavy breathing when running away in panic from some hellish nightmare, of which you only saw a glimpse when it leaped out of the shadows.
We'd only see the protagonists face in the bathroom mirror (including the the vision of his zombie-self).

It would be hard to keep it interesting for 90 minutes, and you'd need:

a) a very good director
b) an excellent soundtrack, together with all the creepy noises from hell in true dolby surround (especially the mad laughter)
c) concentrate on suspense, not action (think "Alien"), let the viewer imgaine a lot the horrible things that might be lurking in dark corners, instead of showing everything
d) include the trip to hell
e) to only watch it alone in a dark room (like all good horror movies)

Thinking about it, this might work best as a short movie for a 3D cinema, including an anti-happy end where you get shred to pieces.... :devil:
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Post by: Jetmech Jr. on August 26, 2005, 03:21:00 pm
The First person mode brought up memories of House of the Dead.

On the plus, it looks like they got the Pinky Demon's look right, though, so bravo.
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Post by: Flipside on August 26, 2005, 06:19:05 pm
The thing that strikes me is that for years they have been working on technology in graphics capable of making computer games look like movies. And now they finally get close, the movies start trying to look like computer games. It's ironic really ;)
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Post by: Stealth on August 26, 2005, 07:15:29 pm
is that in-game stuff you're seeing at some points?  just noticed that (was pointed out to me by someone).  there are parts where he turnsa corner (showing from a 1st person view), and the doors, smoke, etc. look just like they're from the game.

or are they just trying to make those parts as game-like as possible?
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Flipside on August 26, 2005, 07:16:38 pm
I think it's as game-like as possible, it was light enough that I could actually see further than 2 feet in front of the marines' nose, which suggests it isn't real in-game footage ;)

Edit : Can I just add that I've just bought Resurection of Evil and it is a lot better than the original for 'Doom-ness', but the story sort of over-compensates for Doom 3's long winded build-up by starting too quickly. That said, it 'felt' more like Doom 1&2 than the original 3 did.
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Mongoose on August 26, 2005, 08:16:25 pm
I've never played so much as a second of Doom, but that trailer looked somewhat better than I expected.  That first-person view could be a cool idea if it's done right.
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: StratComm on August 27, 2005, 01:16:20 pm
It looks aweful.  That said, one of the girls I know said she actually wants to see it, so I may catch it after all.
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Martinus on August 27, 2005, 01:27:39 pm
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Originally posted by StratComm
It looks aweful.  That said, one of the girls I know said she actually wants to see it, so I may catch it after all.

[color=66ff00]You're like putty in her hands. ;)
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Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Carl on August 27, 2005, 01:35:11 pm
The sad part is that they'll probably make a FPS from the movie license. So then we have DOOM: The Movie: The Game. It'll be kind of like how they made the Batman cartoon, then made the batman cartoon comic books.
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Post by: MicroPsycho on August 27, 2005, 06:54:04 pm
Resurrection of Evil was more of an action game than a "horror" (I use that term lightly) game Doom 3 was. And where the hell was the flashlight on the gun?!

back on topic...the first-person sequence is pretty cool except for the fact that it's a fricken G36C and not a Doom weapon. And the BFG fires blue energy, qu'est-ce que f*ck?

btw, the G36 is cool, but Doom weapons are so much cooler and at the very least, way more appropriate.
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Deepblue on August 27, 2005, 06:59:06 pm
The G36(c especially) kicks much booty.
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Post by: Jetmech Jr. on August 28, 2005, 05:20:08 am
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Originally posted by MicroPsycho
Resurrection of Evil was more of an action game than a "horror" (I use that term lightly) game Doom 3 was. And where the hell was the flashlight on the gun?!

back on topic...the first-person sequence is pretty cool except for the fact that it's a fricken G36C and not a Doom weapon. And the BFG fires blue energy, qu'est-ce que f*ck?

btw, the G36 is cool, but Doom weapons are so much cooler and at the very least, way more appropriate.


Maybe that was the Plasma Rifle, not the BFG...
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Flipside on August 28, 2005, 06:19:48 am
Also, I simply downloaded a mod called Duct Tape, and hey presto, I have torches strapped to my Machine and Shotguns :)
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: NGTM-1R on August 28, 2005, 01:25:20 pm
The Duct Tape mod is essential to play the game. Plus, come on now, it just makes sense. Whoever came up with the bright idea (pardon the pun, it was not intentional) of forcing you to chose between flashlight and weapon needs to be shot, particularly when one considers standard modern military training on close quarters combat...
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: achtung on August 28, 2005, 01:31:40 pm
The real stupid thing is the fact that the bullet flashes don't light up the rooms, I mean the game has all of these uber lighitng effects but they forget one they had in the original DooMs.
Title: New DOOM trailer...
Post by: Unknown Target on August 28, 2005, 02:25:59 pm
Doesn't look AS bad now...the first person view is kind of new and original.