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« Reply #75 on: March 29, 2011, 08:04:55 AM » |
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Couldn't have said it better myself, Catamount.
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« Reply #76 on: March 31, 2011, 02:43:43 PM » |
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My god! does nobody learn from history? resident evil, blood rain, Alone in the dark, Doom, THE MARIO BROTHERS MOVIE...Video game movies will never ever ever work! Is the movie industry that desperate? and who the hell thinks we need another Doom? you play too much to the game-it gets cheesy, play to much away from it-you get the super mario brothers movie... you cant win!
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« Reply #77 on: April 01, 2011, 11:09:30 AM » |
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My god! does nobody learn from history? resident evil, blood rain, Alone in the dark, Doom, THE MARIO BROTHERS MOVIE...Video game movies will never ever ever work! Is the movie industry that desperate? and who the hell thinks we need another Doom? you play too much to the game-it gets cheesy, play to much away from it-you get the super mario brothers movie... you cant win!
Resident Evil has worked though - 4 films, a total of Total of $202,098,407 gross. They may not have been the most artistic pieces of cinema, but they are good for what they are -action-horror-zombie films. (I defend because my wife and I are fans; after getting married, we retired to the honeymoon suite and watched Resident Evil: Apocalypse.) There are some good video game movies, I could name them on my hand though. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Silent Hill, Mortal Kombat 1, Prince of Persia was alright. I enjoyed DOA as a mindless hot-girls-in-bikinis beat-em-up. The web-series Mortal Kombat looks pretty awesome. Not to say that Doom was or would be a good movie, but hey, it's the movie business. Universal is the same company that is making a Battleship (based on the Hasbro game) film for $140 million and a Ouija board film as a family-friendly action-adventure ( http://screenrant.com/ouija-board-film-brad-fuller-benk-56553/). EDIT: So long as profit and the Motion Picture Association of America's film-rating system is a part of film making, the big studios will churn out cheap PG-13 crap. |
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« Reply #78 on: April 01, 2011, 11:15:15 AM » |
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'd be willing to give Doom another shot. Let 'em base it on the story of Doom 3, make it as freaky and heavy-metal-Satanic as they possibly can (instead of the Resident Evil-esque disease route they went with last time), and then give us a badass action guy to spend 90 minutes blowing through demons with a big fuckin' gun.
Surely it can be done. The bare-bones plot of "portal to Hell is opened on a Martian base, big guy has to shoot his way out" is literally made to accommodate lots and lots of horror and gun-shooting action, and that's all the movie needs. They could even bring The Rock back to star in it. Or maybe Henry Rollins.
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« Reply #79 on: April 01, 2011, 01:18:21 PM » |
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I don't really think you will ever see the "portal to Hell" thing in a film any lower on the scale than R Rated, especially if there are demons coming out of it (that are called demons). You lose a ton of religious folks when you start talking about Hell/demons, and as a PG-13 movie, you also lose their kids. So I wouldn't hold my breath for ever seeing a DOOM! film that is loyal to the original storyline.
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« Reply #80 on: April 01, 2011, 04:00:55 PM » |
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'd be willing to give Doom another shot. Let 'em base it on the story of Doom 3, make it as freaky and heavy-metal-Satanic as they possibly can (instead of the Resident Evil-esque disease route they went with last time), and then give us a badass action guy to spend 90 minutes blowing through demons with a big fuckin' gun.
Surely it can be done. The bare-bones plot of "portal to Hell is opened on a Martian base, big guy has to shoot his way out" is literally made to accommodate lots and lots of horror and gun-shooting action, and that's all the movie needs. They could even bring The Rock back to star in it. Or maybe Henry Rollins.
Seeing Henry Rollins with a large plasma cannon blowing away Demons from a Hell Portal would be fun for me, but that's just me... |
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« Reply #81 on: April 01, 2011, 04:04:53 PM » |
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That would be fun for everyone on the planet, catamount.
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« Reply #82 on: April 02, 2011, 12:29:16 AM » |
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I'll watch that, but only if the final boss is played by Maynard James Keenan, Rollins' crew is composed of members from Rage Against the Machine, and any authority figures are previous cast members of The Sopranos.
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« Reply #83 on: April 02, 2011, 04:50:35 AM » |
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In one of my rants about this I asked " Why are movies like Hulk, Punisher, and Doom getting another bite at the apple? What next? Ghost Rider? How silly would that be! Ha ha ha! I made a funny!"
... They started filming back in November...
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« Reply #84 on: April 02, 2011, 01:45:10 PM » |
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has anyone seen Sons of Anarchy season 2? Henry Rollins is a good actor, if the role requires looking at the camera very angry.
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« Reply #85 on: April 02, 2011, 06:38:41 PM » |
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...Henry Rollins is a good actor, if the role requires looking at the camera very angry.
This is the preferred acting method for any professional wrestler turned "actor" nowadays. Also, Rollins isn't acting in his case  |
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« Reply #86 on: April 03, 2011, 11:58:11 AM » |
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I can picture the conversation already: "Yeah, lets not film classic literature, that doesn't sell, the people want brainless videogame and comic adaptations, because we tell them to. Yeah."
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« Reply #87 on: April 03, 2011, 12:10:07 PM » |
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I can picture the conversation already: "Yeah, lets not film classic literature, that doesn't sell, the people want brainless videogame and comic adaptations, because we tell them to. Yeah."
The only way that classic literature get's made into films is if it is "updated" to have a high-school settings so we can have a bunch of unrealistically sexy but somehow relate-able teens running around. That's it! AtMoM shouldn't be about a scientific exploration to the antarctic and the discovery of primordial race of vegetable monsters, it should be about a high school field trip to the barren wastes of Canada, and the discovery of a race of cute tribble-like creatures! |
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« Reply #88 on: April 04, 2011, 08:42:49 AM » |
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I can picture the conversation already: "Yeah, lets not film classic literature, that doesn't sell, the people want brainless videogame and comic adaptations, because we tell them to. Yeah."
and the discovery of a race of cute tribble-like creatures! Which then eat the kids' faces... Bob |
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« Reply #89 on: April 08, 2011, 11:52:18 AM » |
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has anyone seen Sons of Anarchy season 2? Henry Rollins is a good actor, if the role requires looking at the camera very angry.
Love that show. Have seasons one and two on DVD. And Rollins is great, but he has some odd acting choices. |
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