Doom: Annihilation (2019)

All I know is there’s demons, someone left the gate to hell off it’s hinge and I’m blasting and chainsawing my way through demons from hell to close said gate

Story from the game manual

https://archive.org/details/DoomManualPC/page/n2

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Can anyone say "straight to the SyFy channel"?

What has SyFylys done to you ?

Looks a little better then that first teaser

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Originally posted by Kazenji
There has been some good direct to DVD movies but this movie an't gonna be one of them.

Totally agree with you on this. These days we have so many movies like this.

So I watched this and actually rather enjoyed it despite (or perhaps BECAUSE of?) the low budget, made-for-TV feel of it.

Almost ashamed to admit it, but fu#k it, it's some brainless fun and is actually filmed reasonably well.

I'd say I enjoyed it in the same way I enjoy the Starship Troopers sequels.

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
So I watched this and actually rather enjoyed it despite (or perhaps BECAUSE of?) the low budget, made-for-TV feel of it.

Almost ashamed to admit it, but fu#k it, it's some brainless fun and is actually filmed reasonably well.

I'd say I enjoyed it in the same way I enjoy the Starship Troopers sequels.

How is it compared to the 2004 film?

You mean the 2005 film with The Rock and Karl Urban?

It's lower budget, but not necessarily in a bad way.

And it doesn't try to rely on movie star power because there are no stars in it.

That was 2005? Shit I'm getting all my movie years mixed up lately

I guess with this one it at least has actual demon's.

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Hard pass. This made the BFG in the 2005 film look epic by comparison, and all it pretty much had were Imps and zombies, while the 2005 film had Hell Knights and more other demons. Sure, the Hell bits and Betruger was nice (even if he looked nothing like in Doom 3), but it seems there was more parts in the first film to enjoy, star power aside.

Not quite as bad as I thought going by the review, but still.

Still going to check the film out myself when it's released on dvd

wasn't a fan of the 2005 movie.

Yeah, I initially sort of liked the 2005 film just as sort of a guilty pleasure, but when I tried to watch it again it wasn't so good.

I just remember there wasn't any likeable characters in the 2005 film.

Originally posted by Esau Cairn
I just remember there wasn't any likeable characters in the 2005 film.

That sounds about right. That's likely why I didn't care for it the second time.

IDK, Reaper was cool.

This film is no prize itself though, just like a certain Mortal Kombat movie with Annihilation in the title.

If the Joanna character was really named after/inspired by Joanna Dark, then they may as well have done an attempt of a Perfect Dark film instead.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Still going to check the film out myself when it's released on dvd

Isn’t already on DVD? It was a straight to DVD release

Has that Version with the Female DoomGal been made yet?

They really should've had Joana solo this movie like a real Doom Marine would if we're really gonna be true to the games. I don't like either movie throwing the main character in a group but at least 2005's squad was more fleshed out in comparison to Annihilation's.

You know what else the 2005 film had Annihilation lacked? A good, long fluid first person sequence.

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But you know what would blow both DOOM movies out of the water? If they made an hour and a half long DOOM movie viewed entirely in first person. "Impossible" one will say. "Nobody will sit through that" if they hate fun. It can happen! Hardcore Henry! Look it up!

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime

This film is no prize itself though, just like a certain Mortal Kombat movie with Annihilation in the title.

Well obviously gotta lower your expection's with this movie with it being a straight to dvd movie, That helps with it going by the reviews that i've seen

Isn’t already on DVD? It was a straight to DVD release

Don't get it until Novemeber, I guess i could import it.