***DVD Review DOOM*******

[bobsticks]

...but where were you a week-and-a-half ago when I bought this thing
I read an article that says that while DVD sales as a whole were up last year that new release sales were down. While the absence of several " blockbuster new releases " no doubt contributed to this,I suspect the outpouring of films like this is a factor as well. It gets a little old validating your purchase by declaring it a "reference quality" source for your system. Oh well, I'll get around to watching DOOM again...sometime in 2008. Too bad, because I agree with your assessment of the Rock's potential.
I think I will postpone a few purchases until your input is in. Thanks for your time SirTT

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

...but where were you a week-and-a-half ago when I bought this thing
I read an article that says that while DVD sales as a whole were up last year that new release sales were down. While the absence of several " blockbuster new releases " no doubt contributed to this,I suspect the outpouring of films like this is a factor as well. It gets a little old validating your purchase by declaring it a "reference quality" source for your system. Oh well, I'll get around to watching DOOM again...sometime in 2008. Too bad, because I agree with your assessment of the Rock's potential.
I think I will postpone a few purchases until your input is in. Thanks for your time SirTT

Actually it is of reference quality technically. Artistically it is also of reference quality. Its just a reference that you never want to repeat in life because it is so bad. I never need to validate my purchases, after all, it is my money right? If I don't like it, I just set the DVD out in my next yard sale. I make killer bucks selling DVD's with poor acting in them.

[L.J.]

(LJ pops head in)





(closes door)

[topspeed]

OK, I finally sat down and watched this thing yesterday, and I am completely underwhelmed. This could have been a pretty enjoyable movie, much in the same vein as Aliens, but instead it quickly dissolved into a half-assed, run of the mill, made for tv sci-fi movie with bad language. There were simply too lapses in basic logic such as:

1) An elite military team that doesn't wear helmets, neither moves nor acts with the precision of a response team, doesn't have night vision (Hello? We have that NOW!), and displays the same discipline as an unmonitored kindergarten class.

2) A hottie scientist that refuses to wear a bra (not that it's a bad thing)

3) What? They don't have lights in huge, corporate research facilities?

There's more. Oh boy, is there more...but you get the drift. This could have been decent. This could have been revolutionary (the first person scene is pretty cool), instead it's just bad. Not The Island bad, but pretty close.

[GMichael]

OK, I finally sat down and watched this thing yesterday, and I am completely underwhelmed. This could have been a pretty enjoyable movie, much in the same vein as Aliens, but instead it quickly dissolved into a half-assed, run of the mill, made for tv sci-fi movie with bad language. There were simply too lapses in basic logic such as:

1) An elite military team that doesn't wear helmets, neither moves nor acts with the precision of a response team, doesn't have night vision (Hello? We have that NOW!), and displays the same discipline as an unmonitored kindergarten class.

2) A hottie scientist that refuses to wear a bra (not that it's a bad thing)

3) What? They don't have lights in huge, corporate research facilities?

There's more. Oh boy, is there more...but you get the drift. This could have been decent. This could have been revolutionary (the first person scene is pretty cool), instead it's just bad. Not The Island bad, but pretty close.

What was that second piont again?

[topspeed]

What was that second piont again?

Sorry if I wasn't succinct.

Allow me to be more to the point,

[GMichael]

Sorry if I wasn't succinct.

Allow me to be more to the point,

OK, I see your points now.

Thanks for clearing that up.