doom review

last sunday as i was dragged along with emma "clothes shopping" i decided that a better use of my time other than tagging along whining, was to go see a movie... and what better flick to catch on a sunday arvo but the new DOOM movie.

First a trip down memory lane.....

i still remember the first time i played the game, it was the most amazing thing to ever flicker across my 14inch monitor. I remember we had to upgrade the PC to a whopping 486...

It was sweeeeeet it made me nauseous the first few times the intensity of the gameplay and the smooth scrolling "pseudo" 3D graphics.

So needless to say i was excited about this game being seen on the big screen

UNFORTUNATLY....

the move really didn’t stack up. It really only followed the more recent Doom3 game in plot and look and had way to much plot!

lets face it the Doom phenomena was never about a clever plot... back in those early days, sitting at that computer till all hours of the night, i didn’t care about the monsters extra chromosome or how they came to be. It was all about wasting as many of those beasts as you could while trying to stay alive!

so ok i am being a bit harsh i mean the movie would have sucked even more without the plot... but i would have paid the admission price to see just one thing... one thing that was blatantly missing....

WHERE WAS THE EXPLODING BARREL!!!!!