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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:45 pm
by Leisher
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:26 am
by GORDON
Uh oh.
Not a single thing in that trailor made me say, "That looked interesting."
The whole time I was thinking, "Resident Evil: Mars."
Rock's first bomb?
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:37 am
by Leisher
It's funny that you say that as when I watched the trailer I was thinking, "This should be called Resident Evil 3."
I think it'll get some sort of audience since it has the "DOOM" tag and because all of its stars are current pop culture icons. (The Rock - wrestling fans, new action star; Sarah Michelle Gellar - Buffy; Sean William Scott - Stiffler)
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:27 pm
by Malcolm
It's funny that you say that as when I watched the trailer I was thinking, "This should be called Resident Evil 3."
I think it'll get some sort of audience since it has the "DOOM" tag and because all of its stars are current pop culture icons. (The Rock - wrestling fans, new action star; Sarah Michelle Gellar - Buffy; Sean William Scott - Stiffler)
Goddamnit, not Sean fucking William Scott. That makes it a renter right there.
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:58 pm
by Leisher
And again, how many times is he going to work with The Rock?
The Rock has made about 6 films and 3 have had Sean William Scott in them.
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:59 pm
by GORDON
Ca-caw! Ca-caw!
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:43 am
by Malcolm
This looks to be catastrophically, biblically, epicly bad.
Good goddamn. All I wanted was to see was the cyberdemon & the spider mastermind. GODDAMNIT!
Why fucking zombies? No MORE FUCKING ZOMBIES unless your name is Geroge A. Romero.
I could've handled this better. & I'm a drunken, lazy, ex-junkie.
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:48 am
by Paul
Looks terrible.
"Nobody gets out alive." Great, now I know the ending.
I think it should be, "Nobody finishes the movie conscious. Zzzzzzz!"
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:35 pm
by Vince
I kept thinking Aliens.
Not as good, but basic plot elements.
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:43 pm
by GORDON
Which pisses me off... because the Doom game had nothing in common with RE nor Alienses.
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 9:37 am
by Vince
It really doesn't bother me.
Let's be honest... most video games to movie would be mind numbingly boring if they didn't take 90% of the movie from influences outside the game.
The only exception I can recall to that was Phantasmagoria: Puzzle of The Flesh, which was pretty much a short film in which you unlocked the next scene by solving a puzzle.
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:54 am
by Malcolm
Let's be honest... most video games to movie would be mind numbingly boring if they didn't take 90% of the movie from influences outside the game.
Big fucking robot/daemon w\ a rocket launcher for an arm. You'd've to work to make that boring enough not to see at least.
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:55 pm
by Leisher
I'm with Malcolm.
Most video games still might not have great plots, although some blow away even the best Hollywood action scripts, but they do have plot devices, characters, and visuals that only an idiot could make boring.
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 7:33 am
by Vince
but they do have plot devices, characters, and visuals that only an idiot could make boring.
Not from a video game, but what about this.
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:15 am
by Malcolm
but they do have plot devices, characters, and visuals that only an idiot could make boring.
Not from a video game, but what about
this.
That film. Bleh. The visuals were interesting for about three seconds.
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 8:39 pm
by Vince
That film. Bleh. The visuals were interesting for about three seconds.
But no matter how stunning the visuals were (and they were good through out the entire film), the suck ass story just killed it within the first 20 minutes.
I was able to turn off that part of my mind that was looking for an interesting story, and the visual effects were impressive through to the end.
Look at the Tomb Raiders movies. They are (sadly) some of the best "video game to movie" flicks and they took almost nothing from the games other than the character and her profession. And it was the fact that they took almost nothing from the games that made them watchable.
How many bats, tigers, lions, dogs and bears could you watch Laura kill before you got bored?
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:21 pm
by Malcolm
C-Y-B-E-R-D-E-M-O-N. Everyone say it w\ me.
There are certain scenes that I'll actually watch a flick for. Even if the rest of the film sucks ass, it was worth watching for those one or two scenes.
Freddy vs. Jason sucked. I watched it to see two supervillains duke it out. The movie sucked. About two sequences made it worthwhile, though.
NOTHING in Sky Captain made it worth watching.
Even if you hated, & I mean fucking HATED Return to Zork, those first few minutes when you saw the white house & the mailbox were a religious experience if you were anything of a fan.
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:46 pm
by Vince
C-Y-B-E-R-D-E-M-O-N. Everyone say it w\ me.
There are certain scenes that I'll actually watch a flick for. Even if the rest of the film sucks ass, it was worth watching for those one or two scenes.
Freddy vs. Jason sucked. I watched it to see two supervillains duke it out. The movie sucked. About two sequences made it worthwhile, though.
NOTHING in Sky Captain made it worth watching.
Even if you hated, & I mean fucking HATED Return to Zork, those first few minutes when you saw the white house & the mailbox were a religious experience if you were anything of a fan.
Other than cyberdemon (which I'm not familiar with) you've pretty much summed it up with all the others...
They sucked.
There are high points to almost any movie. Even The Blair Witch Project (which I use as the bottom rung upon which I compare all shitty movies) had an excellent gimmick with it's web page and back history before the movie (which was actually fecal matter compressed into celluloid) came out and ruined it.
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:48 am
by mbilderback
Oddly, I agree with Malcom. The Cyberdemon could be like the Balrog from LOTR if they did it right. I mean, even if LOTR sucked, which it didn't, the Balrog scenes would make 1 and 2 worth watching.
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 10:08 am
by Malcolm
C-Y-B-E-R-D-E-M-O-N. Everyone say it w\ me.
There are certain scenes that I'll actually watch a flick for. Even if the rest of the film sucks ass, it was worth watching for those one or two scenes.
Freddy vs. Jason sucked. I watched it to see two supervillains duke it out. The movie sucked. About two sequences made it worthwhile, though.
NOTHING in Sky Captain made it worth watching.
Even if you hated, & I mean fucking HATED Return to Zork, those first few minutes when you saw the white house & the mailbox were a religious experience if you were anything of a fan.
Other than cyberdemon (which I'm not familiar with) you've pretty much summed it up with all the others...
They sucked.
There are high points to almost any movie. Even The Blair Witch Project (which I use as the bottom rung upon which I compare all shitty movies) had an excellent gimmick with it's web page and back history before the movie (which was actually fecal matter compressed into celluloid) came out and ruined it.
Some of the high points ain't high enough to make up for the general crapiness of the film. Others are.