Somehow, I felt obligated to go see the Doom movie this past weekend… Or, at least that’s the excuse I used to get out of the house ;)

As an action heavy sci-fi movie, I thought it was mostly good (at least better than AVP was). No Oscars, of course, but an overall fun bit of entertainment. Others have certainly been more critical. And, despite the liberal take on the Doom storyline, I felt that it was one of the few game-to-movie conversions that paid homage to its roots (eg, incorporating developer names as characters, the 1st-person sequence, the BFG, handles, drugs=4x booster, the end credits, etc).

The few things that were off for me were:

  • The clunky GameBoy style device that looked 10 years old instead of 40 years ahead
  • The melee fight sequence at the end (ie, when have you ever thrown a punch/kick combo in Doom?)
  • The almost complete lack of credit/thanks to id Software in the credits - didn’t they help out or advise somehow? (hmm, unless I missed credits beyond the “based on the game by id”

Anyway, with an estimated $70m budget, and an opening of only ~$15m does seem to hint at doom and gloom for yet another ill-fated game movie…