Doom movie9/20/2023 ![]() ![]() The lack of demons or an actual Hell aren’t even the main issues with the movie. It’s definitely not good, but it isn’t the worst thing I’ve seen either. Honestly, despite the above paragraph, Doom ’05 is fine if you come into it with low expectations. Karl Urban gets injected with a super serum, wrestles The Rock for a while, then the movie ends. After that, it suddenly turns into a race to contain the outbreak and survive a crazy The Rock, who’s now playing Brando in Apocalypse Now. Zombie-mutant things start attacking and the marines are killed off one by one, either by getting their head sliced off or fighting in a hand-to-hand electrified cage match against a giant mutant (because Doom, I guess?). John Carmack, which might be one of the most overt creator nods I’ve seen outside of Metal Gear Solid (though using his name for the Cowardly Scientist character is a bold move). Once all the Predator rejects arrive on Mars, the tension ramps up when they find a single living scientist covered in blood named Dr. These mutants can also create zombies, or something (it’s really unclear). Where Doom 3 ’s martian remains led to creating portals to the demon-filled Hell dimension (which isn’t technically supernatural but whatever), Doom ’05 ’s led to the resurrection of the martians’ own superhuman project, which turns most humans into wild demon-ish mutants. The research station studies and experiments on the remains of a dead martian civilisation, which is very similar to Doom 3 but cuts short of anything supernatural. I can’t imagine anyone cares but SPOILERS for the unicorn who does.ĭoom ’05 follows the movie version of doomguy named John “Reaper” Grimm (played by Karl Urban) as he and the rest of the space marines, the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, are called off leave for a new assignment: to investigate a breach at a Union Aerospace Corporation-run research station on Mars. Also The Rock is in it, because everyone loves The Rock. It’s just mediocre science-fiction, zombies and mutants who look a little like Imps from the games. There aren’t even any shotguns that I can remember (which seems downright immoral for something based on Doom ). Īfter the zombies, though, the filmmakers kind of gave up and dropped any sort of supernatural anything. The low-lit metallic corridors, scientists transforming into straight-up zombies, the focus on its science-fiction elements – all taken from Doom 3. This definitely has something to do with Doom 3 releasing about a year before it, so doubling as a commercial only makes sense. It’s got some of it, like the violence, the BFG and someone named Pinky, but not much else. What Doom ’05 actually is, is a mediocre Aliens rip-off that throws out what made the games so iconic and memorable. It should look like it was fished out of a 20-year-old time capsule. It should take a lot of inspiration from stuff like Evil Dead and Braindead. As the video game version of a metal album cover, where ultraviolence, dark fantasy and science-fiction comes together into visceral, blood-soaked sprints through Hell itself, the Doom Slayer is the perfect symbol for the series.Īs a film – which I’m calling Doom ’05 – it should be an excuse for lots of clearly-people-in-rubber-suit-demons to get hilariously blown apart by shotguns alongside a kick-ass metal soundtrack. He’s the next step in a series that blends the technological and the supernatural, a mythical space marine who’s literally feared by Hell and only communicates in Hulk-like smashing. The Doom Slayer is a mystery unto himself – and an evolution. It even absorbs Argent energy (basically Hell Juice) to make itself even stronger. A green-suited space marine, the Doom Slayer’s futuristic mechanical armour – dubbed the Praetor Suit – is covered in as many demonic runes as factory product codes. Here, Doom ’s archetypal “doomguy” became the “Doom Slayer”, a mute barbarian central to a wide-spanning mythology that underpins Hell as a dimension. With a meatier campaign and varied character progression, it was classic Doom created for modern tastes.īut the second was in the lore and world, mainly through the normally-unnamed player character. This meant a console-friendly shooter that was more like the fast-paced originals than the slower, dimly-lit Doom 3. Series developer id Software modernised what needed it and barely touched what didn’t. ![]() When it released in 2016, DOOM – which I’ll be calling DOOM ’16 – revived the series in two major ways. If you have a suggestion or we missed something, let us know on the socials or in the comments below! Welcome to Press X To Adapt! Every two weeks, we dive into a game-turned-movie or movie-turned-game to take a look at how it turned out, the differences between the two, and anything else worth chatting about. Rip & Tear with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
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