Yeah, I know, trash at best. But it was fun trash! And I never went in there expecting anything amazing.
I was really pleasantly surprised by the ending. I am totally in love with Karl Urbin. I like most of his roles (especially in Red) but his performance in Star Trek just stole my heart (ex-wife took the whole damn planet!) And I was surprised to see he was the hero, and not THE ROCK who I am actually not all that fond of anyway.
And I thought the FPS portion was awesome and a real love letter to gamers.
Critics panned it but this is why I don’t listen to critics. I want to say, what did you go in there expecting? Wuthering Heights? It’s a simple mindless movie with lots of shooting and lots of people dying, and even the girl was not annoying and not a useless love interest.
So yeah, I have simple tastes. Sure, I like high-brow things, too, but sometimes you just want to see some big bad-ass soldiers mess people up!
The only thing that was disappointing is I didn’t get to see the BFG shoot many times - only three shots, and I believe two were misses.
I was really disappointed in the movie, mostly because of the way they changed the (for lack of a better word) plot of the game. Doom was supposed to be every '80s metal album cover brought to life. The movie ditched all the demons and pentagrams and altars of skulls for some nonsense about Martians and genetic engineering. The thirteen year old metalhead that resides eternally in my heart was crushed.
Like Miller, my only dissapointment was the changing of the script from demon invasion to a ripoff of “Aliens” but the action and actingv was fine…of course my favorite scene was when it switched to First Person mode
It wasn’t a bad movie, but it could have done with some floating eyeballs and big red demons, like the game of the same name.
Indeed, its like a movie which was made, and then they got the rights to call it Doom. I don’t think it happened that way, but its the way it ended up…
With that kind of movie, it depends a lot on your expectations. I saw Ecks and Sever by landing on it after some channel flipping, and thought it was OK. Things blow up really good, more or less coherent plot, and nice eye candy for me (Lucy Liu), and I assume the other team enjoyed looking at Banderas. However, it’s almost universally rated as one of the worst movies ever made. Maybe I’d think that too if I was looking forward to it from trailers and went to see it in a theater.
I haven’t seen Doom, but the main guy … Dwayne Johnson? He’s pretty reliably entertaining in vacuous action roles, right?
As a gamer, I, too, was disappointed by the change of the premise of the game; it just wasn’t necessary. That said, it was still a fun film, and I thought the whole FPS portion was great, and, really, there probably should have been more of it. Knowing the type of movie it is, of course it’s going to get trashed by the critics, the plot and character development left a lot to be desired, but that’s not the reason one goes to see that sort of film. I really wish more critics would evaluate that sort of film in that context, of a mindless film just meant to give us some cool action sequences and explosions. Does anyone really go to see a film like Doom, expecting fully realized characters with complex motivations and interactions and a moving story?
All said, I can’t say I loved it, but I did enjoy it.
Yah. He’s not at all my type, being far too brawny and giganormous to be sexy or very attractive. Karl Urbin is probably as “big” as I like for men, to be honest - I actually prefer my men to be slender.
He (The Rock) does play D&D, which raises my like for him a whole lot.
I was actually pleasantly surprised once it became clear that the Rock would in fact become the main bad guy. I kept waiting for the cliched-hard-bitten-soldier-turns-good-in-the-last-act-trope, and it never happened.
Ballistic was an awful movie in many respects (plot, character, acting), what really drove it home was the fact that it was set in Vancouver. Not just filmed in Vancouver, like every other awful Uwe Boll film, but actually set there, the cops were actually suppose to be the Vancouver Police department, all that shit was actually supposed to be happening in Vancouver. I guess they must have done it because they got a grant from the Canadian/BC/Vancouver government or something but the already laughable premise of the movie was lifted to absurdity. Yeah, I’m sure people regularly have rocket duels in the middle of downtown Vancouver, the mosty boring, souless, horrible city in Canada. What’s next, setting the next Bond villian lair in Portland, OR?
That, for me, was what really set Ballistic apart from a merely forgettable bad film to one of the worst films ever made.
It’s better than a Serious Sam movie would be. At the time I saw it I thought it was the best video game adapted movie out there, but later I watched Resident Evil and then Prince of Persia, so now it’s number 3.
Unless you count Pirates of the Caribbean as a Monkey Island movie.