Doom: The Movie

[Exmortis]

The trailer is out. Enjoy...

http://ffmovies.ign.com/filmforce/video/article/636/636398/doom_trailer_072505_qthighwide.mov

[Lineage]

nice, cant wait to see the movie
thx alot

[Law]

When i first saw the trailer i thougth it looked like a good action movie.

Too bad it doesnt deal with monsters from hell but meh.

[Mike]

I don't get it, why are they making movies based on video games? I just don't think you can make a movie from a video game.

[Mindfield]

I don't get it, why are they making movies based on video games? I just don't think you can make a movie from a video game.

Super Mario Bros.
Street Fighter.
Resident Evil.
Tomb Raider.
Final Fantasy.
Mortal Kombat.
Wing Commander.
Alone in the Dark
Now Doom, and soon BloodRayne and Silent Hill will be making big screen debuts.

Granted, not all movies based on video games were good -- Double Dragon embarassed hollywood grossing only $2.3m (more than half of that its opening weekend). Alone in the Dark only made $5.1m -- Uwe Boll didn't even make back a quarter of the $20m he spent making it. (Then again, he's a horrible director anyway)

On the other hand, the first Tomb Raider movie grossed $274m worldwide, and Mortal Kombat grossed $70m in North America.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but let's face it -- video game storylines are having an influence on hollywood.

[nightwolf]

i ve seen the trailer it does not look to bad , would have like to see the story based on hell and not some virus human genome stuff

[Law]

I just don't think you can make a movie from a video game.

Oh , well if you dont think so.....

[don4life]

Its just Hollywood being unoriginal and not coming up with their own stuff. Thats why there are so many sequeled, prequeled, remaked films these days and one of the main reasons the box office has been slumping. The current trend is remaking asian films especially Japanese horror and the currently filming Scorsese remake of the classic HK film Internal Affairs. They use piracy as the main culprit when the reality is Hollywood (run by the you know whos) only cares about the money and not the quality of their products they create. The sudden popularity boom in independant filmaking is also a direct result of this.

Hollywood knows that the gaming world has taken over the top sector of the entertainment world globally and in order to attempt to capitalize on the situation they are blowing money on gaming related films. I don't know the exact stats but most are terrible and a fraction of the few barely break even.

[Law]

Well i loved both resident evil movies and the first MK movie and yeah many of the others have blown.

There have been so many movies and all these stories have been told thousands of times before in other movies so it is hard to be original these days. Also hollywood doesnt go near the kind of content that an asian film might do like old boy, look at the subject matter, you wont find a story like that out of hollywood but it was just awesome.

[don4life]

True, you'd never see an american remake of Battle Royale because all those ultra christian Dubya nut-huggers would scream Columbine. I don't mind when studios bring over asian film as long as they don't butcher them with editing and dubbing a la Shaolin Soccer and countless other foreign flicks.

Hollywood can be original but they choose not to. There are so many talented screenwriters and directors out there but Hollywood would rather follow the traditional movie making formula. There is this movie called Primer which I saw earlier this year through a recommendation from a friend who saw it at Sundance a year ago. It was a great original film but I was shocked the dude only spent $7,000 to make it. Also you gotta give props to Canuck guys like David Cronenburg, Atom Egoyan and Vincenzo Natali who can make brilliant films on their own and please us film buffs.