# Anyone looking forward to DOOM? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401 "2005-10-15T22:03:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/21 "2005-10-16T01:40:21Z")
> [@Khan](#): > > Actually, it’s not The Rock that will be the Doom Guy. That role is going to [Karl Urban](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0881631/), previously known as Eomer in Lord of the Rings. He sorta looks the part. Yes. Yes, he does. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/22 "2005-10-16T01:47:01Z")
Will they have mouse look in the movie? Can they jump? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/23 "2005-10-16T02:07:46Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > If they’re really small pages and really big text. The thing is, though, with so little story, you’d think it’d be easy to stay consistent with it. The experiments weren’t in human genetics, they were in teleportation. Following on to this, the monsters aren’t genetic experiments gone wrong, they’re alien demons from another dimension. The hero wasn’t the respected leader of an elite team, he was the low man in his unit, assigned there as a punishment, and only survived the slaughter of his team because he was left outside to “cover their back”. And for crying out loud, everyone knows that the BFG shoots green! Actually, I think we’re being played. There’s a “portal room” in the pre-release hype. I think the genetic mutation angle is just a cover story, and the marines, and hopefully audiences, will be shopcked to discover the monster’s true origins. > [@Tarrsk](#): > > ``` > The trailer had me laughing out loud, and not in a good way. The "helmet cam" just looks stupid... if I wanted a first-person view of shooting monsters, I'd just... y'know... play the god damned game. > > ``` My opinion exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/24 "2005-10-16T02:08:25Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Will they have mouse look in the movie? Can they jump? Will all of the principals subsist entirely on corn chips and Mountain Dew? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/25 "2005-10-16T02:19:15Z")
Will there be any references to IDDQD, IDKFA, and IDSPISPOPD? ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/26 "2005-10-16T02:33:34Z")
The last thing a movie based on “Doom” should do is take itself seriously. I always hoped we’d see Bruce Campbell in a “Duke Nukem” movie. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/27 "2005-10-16T02:44:39Z")
Another vote for they should have used the Doom I/II monsters rather than the Doom 3 monsters. And while there was a really poor novelization of the original Doom games (stretched out to four paperback novels wouldja believe), I myself could write a better Doom-based story longer than four pages. Or… maybe… they should have done it as an animated feature, with graphics based on the original Doom? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/28 "2005-10-16T02:49:26Z")
Nah, just get one of those guys that can speed-play the entire series, vid-capture it, dub it a bit, and release it as a movie. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/29 "2005-10-16T02:57:46Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > I always hoped we’d see Bruce Campbell in a “Duke Nukem” movie. Never was a possibility, considering how much Campbell hates Duke Nukem. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/30 "2005-10-16T03:15:05Z")
> [@cckerberos](#): > > Never was a possibility, considering how much Campbell hates Duke Nukem. Maybe if they’d _asked_ to use so much of his dialogue, he’d feel a little more kindly about it. (I wonder how he felt about the fan mods for Doom with all the _Evil Dead_ and _Army of Darkness_ sounds…?) ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/31 "2005-10-16T03:37:59Z")
Wisecracks? Blonde? Eyeglasses? Drew Carey is Duke Nukem. No, I am not kidding. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/32 "2005-10-16T03:44:22Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > I always hoped we’d see Bruce Campbell in a “Duke Nukem” movie. Kurt Russel. Have the rest of the movie be ridiculous, but Russel plays a Nukem who is dead serious except for his massive ego. (Though there should be a scene where he regains health by breaking a urinal and drinking from the burst pipe) ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/33 "2005-10-16T04:05:49Z")
I saw the Rundown in theaters on accident and it surprised me to no end, he was pretty damn funny in that flick. I think the blue gun in the trailer is the plasma gun not the bfg, cause you know the bfg shoots GREEN! could be wrong and if I am then they suck. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/34 "2005-10-16T04:24:01Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > Wisecracks? Blonde? Eyeglasses? Drew Carey is Duke Nukem. And after he rips off the alien’s head and shits down its neck… hoedown! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/35 "2005-10-16T04:32:22Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Nah, just get one of those guys that can speed-play the entire series, vid-capture it, dub it a bit, and release it as a movie. The LPB better not stand in front of Mrs. Plant in Co-op. I’m just sayin’, baby. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/36 "2005-10-16T04:33:32Z")
All right, it’s time for our favorite game–HOEDOWN! I need a suggestion of something you fear. \ Demons! All right, let’s do the demon hoedown. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/37 "2005-10-16T04:41:14Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > All right, let’s do the demon hoedown. \>Checks charge of BFG\< Bring 'em on, nerdboy. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/38 "2005-10-16T09:24:27Z")
I groaned loudly when I saw the helmet cam on the Doom trailer. Follow the cheesy animated chainsaw as it attacks the cheesy animated thing with no head. Puddle of suckitude. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/39 "2005-10-16T10:22:28Z")
C’mon, you just know they’re gonna rewrite it to include a love interest that has to be rescued, since the charm of Doom was that the whole premise consisted of “if it moves, shoot it. If it doesn’t move, shoot it anyway.” At least Halo has a plot - it’s stolen from Larry Niven, but it’s still a plot - and characters. Though I bet they make the Master Chief take off his helmet _a la_ Judge Dredd. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-looking-forward-to-doom/326401/40 "2005-10-16T10:29:26Z")
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