mike01

How does it compare to Resident Evil?

Cinemaddiction

IMO, "Resident Evil" was infintely better. "Doom" is more or less a new age "Aliens". The only difference is that "Doom" is devoid of decent dialogue, charisma, excitement, direction, and virtually anything else that has any semblence of a major motion picture.

Caught the Unrated Director's Cut, featuring a bonus 13 minutes, and it was just a huge, huge waste of time, IMO. The DVD is pretty bland itself, to boot.

Count Dooku

I voted YES. I can always use another coaster.

mzupeman2

You know, I like plenty of films that most people wouldn't even want to go near. A lot of people considered the original Resident Evil to be garbage even though I thought it was a really good popcorn flick that had some good sequences here and there.

I went into Doom sort of expecting the same thing... that is, not much. Even not having high expectations for the Doom film itself, it really was a disappointing movie. Doom really could have been in my personal opinion, a Sci-Fi Channel movie.

As said above, the movie lacks a lot of things that could make a movie good. The thing about older movies like Alien or Aliens, over the course of the film you connect with the characters and feel something when they start getting wiped out... hate 'em or love 'em. But you feel absolutely nothing for anybody in this movie because the movie doesn't take any time to try and make you connect with these characters on any level. I mean, they go into the background of the main character very briefly but his little side history story just seems to be more a distraction than anything since it's touched on so briefly.

asabase

At least it remained true to the game it was based on. No story, just things getting shot.

GIjon213

As asabase said above, if you like the game, you probably would like the movie. And since I like the game.... Yes.

mzupeman2

I like the game as well. And the movie doesn't follow the game. The game you're dealing with demons from some dimension of hell. The movie made it out to be some stupid biochemical testing gone wrong. Weak. That would have made the movie a hundred times more interesting, the places you could go with a story of demons from hell invading a space station on mars...

Holysmoker

I voted "no". I've never played the game. I saw it in the theater with my family because one of my daughters thought the game was cool. None of us were thrilled by it. I agree with mzupeman2 that it could have been a Sci-Fi channel movie.

M Polo

DOOM is really only worth a rent if you like low budget Sci-fi and/or your a fan of the game. I, like others can usually find some coolness is movies a lot of ppl hate but this one left me really wishing I hadn't wasted my money seeing it in the theatre. It was even good in a "campy, b movie sci-fi" way. I prefer AVP over this and that's saying something.

The original Resident Evil movie is HEAD's above this. This one rates somewhere around the RE sequel. It's a shame as this could have been much better.

DJ_Longfellow

So, what was added in the UNRATED version? Blockbuster.com usually has the unrated stuff, but this time, the normal is NOW, and the UR is Coming Soon (which mean it could be a week or month before they get it...happened with American Pie Band Camp)

So, should I just rent the normal version or hold out?

Cinemaddiction

It's the version that was "too violent" for theatres. I didn't see the TE, so I'd imagine just a bunch of added violence, and subsequently, more bad, macho dialogue.

DJ_Longfellow

Thanks...I guess I should've read the review a bit closer. I may just wait for the UR to come to Blockbuster:

Abob Teff

I enjoyed it for the "B" popcorn flick that it was. I had low expectations and was entertained with a typical Rock film . . .

Resident Evil was much better, but Doom does beat out the Uwe Bol crap by a mile!

Giles

yet don't watch this in a room where you can't control inside or outside light - it's a really dark movie - aptly so. for an extra 12min of footage I couldn't tell what the new footage was - and I had seen the theatrical cut before. (maybe I'm just going senile). Too bad Universal didn't include DTS - the Dolby Digital soundtrack is great though.

joshtown

It's worth $14.99 at Circuit City.

JaxComet

It's worth a $1 Redbox rental.........

TheMovieman

I got it for free and I still got gypped, lol.

Sanitarium

I'd only buy it if it was cheaper then a blank disc.

AOD

Boy, I'll tell ya. I think both The Rock and Karl Urban are great, but this movie was terrible. I bought it as a blind buy because I wasn't able to see it at the theater the first time around and it is deffinately one of my top 5 worst ones. In fact, it is so bad, it should have gone straight to the 5.50 bin at Wal-Mart. The only semi-cool part of the movie I thought was the FP shooter sequence. Even still, that short 5-6 minute sequence was not enough to save it. So if the OP is asking opinions on if it is worth anything, my answer is a resounding NO. Man, I knew I shoulda got Wallace and Gromit instead!

ShallowHal

I wish I knew, I'm waiting for a Wolfenstein movie.

Fok

Now that would be cool

matome

That about sums it up.

dhmac

Wow. I haven't seen it because I figured it was pretty bad, but I never figured it would be that bad!

Joe Molotov

If only that were true. They went with "extra chromosome" over "portal to hell". They chose poorly. Also for a Doom movie, there was a pretty disturbing lack of things getting shot. Most of the time, it's just this group of marines wandering around a space station looking for non-demons, and occasionally, briefly, stumbling across one. The FPS scene was really the only part of this movie worth watching.