DOOM: ANNIHILATION is an Abomination | Cynical Reviews 

I keep forgetting Doom 2019 was a thing. It was advertised for five minutes and then nothing. Thanks for watching this for us. Heaven knows bugger-all anyone else did.

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Wait... They made another Doom movie?

I though that Hardcore Henry proved we could make a first person perspective movie, and why not find and replace with Doom?

No

100% !! It sucks too because Doom Eternal just makes you want a life action film done right even more! The amount of story and action you can portray is vast.

The problem is that they are trying to make DOOM 3 movies. The one that's always forgotten.

John Wick must have Blazkowicz blood

But they fail at even that. Doom 3 had atmosphere and suspense and genuinely decent creature designs. This movie is like a kid friendly version of doom 3 and the first doom movie was just some lame sci fi channel movie with doom slapped on it. I honestly don’t know what’s worse the one that uses more creatures and weapons but fucks up the plot, or the one that keeps the overall plot(demons instead of mutant) but fucks up everything else.

Because it wasn't meant for that. This thing was made for the sheer purpose of maintaining their hold on the movie rights.

I prefer doom stillbirth cause this movie was dead to begin with. Also memo to me that could be a bitchin new doom game title

Doom inebriation is more like it

Let's be honest, Doom is not the best vehicle for a movie franchise. Which makes it fun to imagine adaptations of, but a nightmare to actually adapt. On the other hand, the gratuity of the violence and lack of a traditional plot could actually prove liberating to better filmmakers to make it there own. By which I mean the franchise could (in theory) be turned into a successful gory comedy in the style of army of darkness just as well as into a visceral action movie in the style of john wick or the raid.But for it you'd have to fill in the blanks with something worthwhile.

@@maximeteppe7627 Yeah, there are some video game franchises that just wouldn't make for good movies and are better used as inspiration than a hard adaptation.

@@maximeteppe7627 a Doom movie in the style of Hardcore Henry would be perfect

The only thing to fear is fucking up....that and the Doomslayer.

The closest thing to a horror was DOOM 3 and the pov of a demon as the doomslayer aproaches.

The closest horror aspect of doom eternal would be the slayer gates, those were horrifying and filled me with fear and rage

they wont be when its the Journalist playing as the Doomslayer.

It’s basically like saying American McGee’s Alice is a cutesy bright fun adventure. No, Alice is an actual horror game with a puzzle platformer setting. Yes, there’s action, but there are many horrors as well

my thought xD

"we call them gates" "so, what are they?" "gates" "who invented them" "bill gates" "well that explains the demons". that would have made the movie worth it.

Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out! This is definitely one of those movies where the more you think about it, the worse it gets.

But but.... Timer.. and possible Explosion and sciency- Stuff and thinga-ma-bob and.. Yeah sorry i can't do that with a straight face. Did you really expect a Writer to actually do some research? There are so many movies (especially historical) where there are uncountable numbers of mistakes that could have been avoided with a 5 Minute Google Search.

@@Guderian2 don't you know the rules? If you take the time to do even rudimentary research, none of your work will ever see the light of day, you'll die homeless and alone.

I'd like to see a collaboration with you two one day

Thank you. This was honestly my biggest issue with the movie.

im kinda fine if they decided to go with a DOOM GIRL, just make her wear armor that cover everything, run around killing demons with super arsenal and heavy metal music.

@@duydao8381 So, basically Crash from -Unreal Tournament- Quake?

@@ridhosamudro2199 Crash is from Quake... Wtf dude xD

Hell, even Doom 2005 had a Doomguy!

@@duydao8381 Normally we would be fine with a Doom Girl, but we know what they really meant when they said “who needs doom guy?“.

Why the fuck are people adamant on settling Mars then when it'll face an extinction level event far worse then the meteor that took out the dinosaurs 😂

@@Thiccness_Is_Deliciousbecause by the time it becomes an actual problem, we’ll be able to deal with it easily.

Passion can lead to close minded approach. Just look at last airbender.

For different reasons I did not like castlevania season 3.

Detective Pikachu was able to do its own thing while still working as a Pokemon story. Sonic The Hedgehog was actually kind of fun due to you not needing to be "in the know" on sonic lore to understand it, and knowing the lore just gives you extra bits of enjoyment (like how the tribe that attacked longclaw at the start of the movie was most likely the Knuckles Clan). There just isn't an excuse anymore.

Can we settle for people who are willing to read, and use the source material instead? I've learned over the years, that just because you're passionate, doesn't mean you're going to do right by every other fan out there.

Let's add Dragons Dogma in that mix now haven't watched the series yet on Netflix but hope it's good since I'm a fan of the game

The first was at least enjoyable.

_That was the real plan all along..._

The only thing I remember from the first movie was respecting that one soldier who was trapped in a hole with a hell knight.

Nah, they're both horrendous

@@ruraladventurer1884 He just meant relative to each other, if we did it in comparison to our normal standards, yeah they're both trash.

You should be directing movies with a mindset like that. Love the idea.

@Jeff Bridger But you still need a good idea.

@@omegaretro8907 Hardcore Henry is a first person action film, and it is what a doom film should be like.

Heavy Metal

You forgot to add: Gender/racial diversity Female empowerment Evil straight white male protagonist Anti Trump politics Seizure inducing cgi with a giant laser beam that shoots into the sky Marketing campaign that insults potential viewers and blames them when it flops

this was a problem with the first doom movie, wanna know why? Well it's cheaper to have a bunch of zombies from Sprit Halloween then demons.

Real question there is Who DOESN'T need a Doom Slayer?

Preferably to shoot this movie in the head.

Ironically, the production did not have the rights to the 2016 game. Their license only extended to Doom 3 (and possibly the previous games.) So, even if they'd wanted to, they couldn't have used the Doom Slayer, (and if I remember correctly, the film was already through principle photography before Doom 2016 was announced. This thing sat in the can for years.)

@@StarkeRealm then do DOOM GUY

I honestly have always liked the DOOM movie and still put it on for a stupid good time

It's Karl, you imbecile. How dare you spell Judge Dredd's name wrong?!

Don't forget the awesome first person sequence at the end, it was dope. The fight sequence between the rock and Karl Urban was good too.

Nooo, it was terrible!

@@shinobicl Terrible movie. But a fun movie.

Lol

Seen Bean

He played the keyboard on the corner of that one scene? What a thespian!

Speaking of Sean Bean, it's astounding how the only films where his character doesn't die are Troy, Silent Hill and Silent Hill Revelations.

@@oculttheexegaming2509 Also Ronin, The Martian, Pixels, and Possessor.

It’s a guilty pleasure for me, too. It’s the enjoyable kind of cheese, like a rich queso dip. Annihilation… was clearly the kind of cheese that was left out to age too long… in a swamp… and now there’s weird growths all over it. I’m sure someone out there likes it, but not me.

@Andrew Whiting I hope they do.

Andrew Whiting Stop it doom isn’t a good game to make into a movie the devs themselves have said the story in doom DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER

@@smittywerbenjagermanjensen4737 While yes, doom may be absolute all guns and glory and not about the lore, I'm pretty sure people still would like to see a correctly executed version of a doom movie, and not some syfy bootleg alien movie.

@@KevinTheProto5019 I think the best way to make a good Doom movie would be to have a main cast of regular UAC soldiers doing their best to survive a demon outbreak, then at some point they find themselves facing impossible odds and all of a sudden, a door gets kicked open, heavy metal starts, and that huge buff guy comes in and casually slaughters the fuck out of every single demon before leaving without speaking a single word and the UAC soldiers would be like "what the fuck was that ?" and it would be the best thing ever.

@@smittywerbenjagermanjensen4737 there is plenty of lore like for example doom guy kills demons because they killed his bunny and his great grand father is the wolfenstein guy and his dad is commander keen

In fairness it's more accurate than the 2005 movie

@@lizardlegend42 More accurate , but it's still a piece of shit.

You know you fucked up when the first Doom movie is a better representation of the franchise. “It’s just a zombie movie in space, right guys?”

What's there to understand about Doom? Guns go boom, demon go kaboom and that's about it.

Hamza Shukri This movie is supposed to be like doom 2016 which has a great story

The intern guy from the Doom Eternal DLCs would fit the bill really well.

@@luke_fabis neh we need Isabella from animal crossing

@@Eshtian screw it. Use daisy as the main character and have doomguy ferociously protect them

@@crestothegecko6279 ah yes, the famous actor **bunny**

@@Eshtian animals can show emotions on film if the director knows what they're doing. Plus i think it would just be neat

They could've made this an amazing movie if the main character was more of like a sidekick, they were helping out but at times they went on there own to open up security gates and be like vega, and then through the security system we see the slayer well, slaying

As soon as he appears on screen, “At Doom’s Gate” plays!

The WHAT of Hollywood people again?!?

Intelligence you know that thing that most people in the entertainment industry have to completely give up in order to get ahead. Along side ethics and morals.

The first one with the Rock was almost perfect. AND THEY MADE IT WORSE???

Yeah 2005 was not perfect but they were at least on the right track just had to change the main plot to be closer to the games and drop the main characters sad woe ways me crap

there's a live action trailer called "fight like hell" for Doom 2016, just do that but as a whole movie

It's wet with grease.

both

She's always MOIST!

I thought it was just gel that women use for curly hair hair

@Andrew Whiting you win.

If they added more, these unexperienced soldiers could've died. Then we would've been saved from this movie.

Bro they wasted the whole budget on the demon dimension scene or whatever it was lol

And you know what, they were right.

Yeah but they take ages to relight.

"He said Nukular! Must be dangerous!" - Too fucking many people.

Say It With Me Now! Nuclear Reactors ARE NOT Atom Bombs! XD

@@Novasky2007 they dont even exist

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y_J8bD_Pq_w.html

Vahlir well all of the shit talking they were doing to the doomslayer on Twitter. Might as well have done that.

@@331coolguy they didn't shittalk

@@331coolguy Any... source?

@@parjai97 look up doomgirl on twitter you'll find enough.

@@dragenfire68 plenty of usernames, which one?

I'd give you a laurel crown but I doubt it'll fit over your GALAXY BRAIN

gsmes journalists play flrtnite XD

Lol. Best comment here.

"I wrote a blogpost about this about why I f@cking hate video games. Because this is what it does, it feeds into the...like...male fantasy?"

Polygon, the movie

Director: Dean Takahasi

Tarek Chamas “close to retirement” = dead character

Yeah wouldn't it either just turn into a bigger star/reaction or collapse into a black hole? My knowledge is very basic but how can a ball of hot plasma melt down,into what?

@@dun0790 Hello other Jason. It's important to realize that, as of now, artificial fusion reactors don't exist. They are purely theoretical, and some scientists doubt we could ever produce one. The only natural ones in existence are stars. Fusion is so hard to pull off, that if power to a reactor did fail, the reactor would just turn off and the gas would cool. No meltdown, no explosion. Fission reactors, however, are powered by the fissile materials (uranium, plutonium) themselves. The fuel rods generate the energy naturally and this energy is focused and harnessed by the reactor chamber which is full of things like neutron reflectors and control rods that assist in this process. The heat from the fuel turns water into steam which turns a generator to make electricity. If a reactor loses power, it means the workers can no longer manipulate the core via those control rods, etc. and the fuel can start producing more and more heat unchecked until the fuel is so hot it melts (a meltdown) through the core and into the ground, corrupting it with radiation. This is what happened at Chernobyl, where they intentionally did this to test the reactor at very low power. Unfortunately they went too far, made mistake after mistake, and the fuel became so hot so fast that it vaporized the water causing a steam explosion. The reactor was totally exposed to the open air and the fuel melted down, causing a massive release of radiation. It's a fascinating thing to study, but it's by no means the only nuclear accident. I highly recommend the RU-vidr Plainly Difficult who has a lot of videos on nuclear accidents. This is why fusion reactors are the goldilocks of energy. They are perfectly clean, produce wicked amounts of energy, and are basically completely safe. It's also probably a pipe dream, sadly.

@@wanderinghistorian why am i always the other jason even in my reply anyway thanks for the explanation mate good job my small mind actually understood it.....i think lol shame about it being a pipe dream the thing that always mystified me was how would you control the reaction wouldn't you need enormously powerful magnets that could move stars? By which point if you had that kind of technology wouldn't there be other less complicated methods to create energy.

@@wanderinghistorian Fusion reactor DO exist. They just don't produce a net positive amount of energy.

@@dun0790 Just because the only natural occurrence of a fusion reactor is a star doesn't mean all reactions have to be at that magnitude to work.

I bet it's their secret favorite movie.

@@KiomonDuck no

@@KiomonDuck oh hell naw

Wasn't that also the whole reason why Doomguy was super pissed in that game?

@@cartooncritique6625 One of the reasons, yes. Another one says that Doomguy was stationed at Phobos because he assaulted his officer when he ordered his unit to open fire on civilians.

@@McBadassish Yeah, I had heard about that one as well.

@@cartooncritique6625 second game, daisy died at the end of 1

Also William Blazkowicz is the name of the main hero of Wolfenstein, another incredibly violent shooter by Id Software (and then Bethesda, but now Microsoft).

you are proposing a doom movie NOT about doomguy. you **** **** ** *****

the doom eternal storyline could make at least 3 seasons, with only slayer as the main character

Both!

Yes

The moral of the story is to watch both.

or the original doom movie adaptation

@@RowBlanka NO

I don't think they can. They think journalism is fiction.

You could make a decent teaser for a (FAKE) Doom movie with the live action trailer for the 2016 game, operatic music turning metal, and select scenes of desperation form the two movies with more focus on footage from the 2016 game's trailer. Story about a group of soldiers trying to release Doomguy before they all die and the halfway point is just Doomguy killing every demon in sight.

Plus, friggen Doom doesn't require much story to be good. Doomguy is on Mars when the s**t hits the fan and he kills demons while has to navigate a labyrinthine facility to get to the some place to close the gateway. You don't need a team of soldiers, or a tragic backstory, or a bunch of technobabble.

Wait, Doomguy is the dead dude's descendant?

@@coranbaker6401 That's pretty much the general consesus from the Doom fandom. It all started from the Doom RPGs where the surname of the player character is Blazkowicz which is the same name as the main protagonist of the Wolfenstein games William Joseph Blazkowicz.

@@coranbaker6401 and his dad is commander keen

That would have required effort and it's pretty clear the copyright squatters who made this movie didn't want to expend any effort. But yeah, weathering adds a lot. I briefly was interested in scale model building (dropped that hobby because of how expensive everything was) and just adding some weathering (scorch marks, exhaust burns, dirt trails) really brings a model to life.

@@fattiger6957 copyright sqatters. Good one 👍 Could make a series about that. Fantastic 4, venom etc..

Now was the BFG some super prototype in this movie? Cause if so I'd imagine the condition would be close to pristine

@@SuperSwordman1 when you make something out of metal you burn the metal to shape it leaving marks

@@extrasalt5303 Ah. Well I never worked with metal or prototypes or anything like that. Not saying this whole movie being clean isn't a problem, just wondered if the BFG being clean isn't at least somewhat understandable.

@@Tylerthephantom 🤣🤣🤣

It's almost as if the writers of this movie had no fucking idea what they were on about.

@@rozmarinideas5340 sums up most movies and stories nowdays

It’s almost as like they only know as much science as much as they know DOOM, literally nothing.

Yes

You didn’t have to tell us it was satire...

"This new Sonic movie looks like it's gonna break the pattern of shitty video game movies!" *remembers Sonic flossing* "...well the highest it's getting is an 85 now, assuming everything else is perfect🙀"

@DougtheDonkeyTV just feels like a comment that people would take seriously

@TheCondourOutOfSpace Ah sure, I'll forgive him. I blame backpack boi and Fortnite for the contagion😹

@TheCondourOutOfSpace It's funny watching all the boomers piss and moan about that. And a little sad too.

Also id Software were the original creators of Doom and treat their franchise with care.

year111 that is true

@Christopher Simon Imagine thinking Skyrim is Bethesda's best game. Holy. Fucking. Shit.

@@Largentina. well what do you think is their best? Just wondering

@@quicksilverlacey Probably their most ambitious and experimental game Morrowind. But I'm was just joking with my previous comment. Of course you can like whatever you like, it's just kind of odd to say Skyrim in my opinion because of how many things were stripped from previous iterations and how streamlined it became. From what I've noticed it's usually people that haven't played any other Elder Scrolls game that usually think Skyrim is the best, and if that's the case it's totally fine.

Its the # of "demons" in the "movie".

Reypatine

MaRey Sue

Lol more like Rey sjw woke bitch ain't shit Skywalker...

We call her Rey NeedsT’CeaseT’Exist

maREYsue*

If anything, this movie is more of a bad comedy.

The only compelling plot I could think of would be to revolve it around the efforts of a resistance group on Earth after a Hell invasion trying to shepherd a group of survivors to safety. Doom Guy is present but as a prolific figure that's off fighting his own battles and is hardly even aware of the regular humans in his shadow. He's the eye candy between the struggles of our regular human protagonist to both survive and get the job done. So you have the protagonist be both personally inspired by Doom Guy's willpower, as well as formulate a plan to follow as closely on Doom Guy's heels as possible without drawing too much attention. Cause think of it, the Slayer's missions on Earth in Eternal have him primarily in demon hotzones. Proximity to Doom Slayer is both the worst place you can be as a regular human and the best place. Heavy demon activity but they're all focused on him. He's the one man army taking up all of Hell's attention. So what if some regular soldiers decided to piggyback on that and carry out crucial operations while being indirectly covered by the Slayer's rampage? That way you get a compelling human drama, a horror/thriller experience because even if you make the protagonist pretty capable against demons it'll still be like a "one wrong move and you're dead" situation as they very carefully navigate Hellified Earth, and an action spectacle when the protagonists find themselves directly witnessing Doom Guy's demon genocide for a moment while dealing with their own troubles. But of course such a movie would need a very competent and inspired director, and a really damn good budget.

David Lopez and I’m sure at least a few people would be disappointed that the Doomguy isn’t the main protagonist. He’s a player insert, not a compelling character. It’d be hard to make a movie that’s true to the game and interesting.

el negro that I highly disagree with

@@Wyattporter dude, it's a quote from the actual creator of doom

soLD Is it? I didn’t know. I still heavily disagree

I've literally seen a 20-minute animation here on RU-vid that (in spite of being a parody) is a better adaption of the Doom games than either live-action movie.

Watch hardcore henry

@@cartooncritique6625 dont suppose you have a link? That sounds awesome

But he screwed up deliberately

He assaulted his Commanding officer for ordering his unit to fire on Innocent Unarmed Civilians. He beat the man to death and was stationed on Mars as a punishment. It should be noted though that these are Corporate Marines not government military.

@@sorrenblitz805 his officer survived the attack and is implied to be part of the reason why Doomguy recieved such a severe punishment

@@sorrenblitz805 @Nick Elakon Flynn Taggert.

That’s insulting to shit.

Amber Turd

Story checks out.

She should be called Ember Heard. Cause she is a BURNING pile of shit

Yanno what's even _more_ stupid? The idea that fusion reactors are more dangerous than fission reactors. If something goes wrong with a fusion reactor the absolute worst thing that would happen is a plasma leak, damaging hardware and possibly killing anyone in close proximity to it. And if you switch it off then the reactor will, well, _switch off._

In Doom the games, they were more concentrated on Argent Energy reactors than Fusion Reactors. Which in there was the whole reason they went down into Hell itself, to siphon said energy and make it usable in the world of the living in order to solve an energy crisis, despite it also allowing the spawn of Satan to come rushing through the gateway. Which in that I could see the logic behind that.

@@ablosch2452 Argent energy wasn't a thing until the 2016 reboot. Both the original and the third opened the door to hell via teleportation experiments, with the power source of the base being irrelevant.

@@angrymokyuu1951 and this movie came out in 2019, after the 2016 game.

You can thank Doom 3 for that.

You can also thank doom 3 for the rock doom movie and all it dumb plot

I mean Vader is German for father

@@Christopher-eq1rn yeah but no one really saw that coming even if you knew that as there was no huge hints on the twist aside form that comparing to betruger whom start out the game talking in an obvious ominous voice and intentions.

@@Christopher-eq1rn Vater is german for father, Vader is Dutch.

oh yeah motion sickness John wick

That's like pulling inspiration from a movie to create a Friday the 13th game but you pick the first one that doesn't have Jason.

Also, a lingering joke from 2004, dude's name is literally just German for traitor or betrayer. So, basically, "Dr. Treachery will see you now."

Love your channel

@@drakkenmensch at least the first Friday the 13 movie had Jason's mother as the bad guy. This "movie" just named some random scientist that doesn't even look like Dr.Betruger "DR.BeruGER" as a call back to doom 3.

@@StarkeRealm Betrüger doesn't mean traitor or betrayer lol. I knew that he'd be a villain, because it'S clear that's what they were going for... but Betrüger means more... 'fraud' or maybe 'cheater'. So all the time I was watching for him to be a traitor, because they were clearly going for that, but secretly I wanted him to be a fraud and not actually a doctor at all, but a janitor who just stole the doctor cloak or something like that.

It's a militaristic doom movie made by people who don't know doom and don't know the military, so we honestly can't be surprised at how retarded it turned out.

@@benbanned1381 The failure of Doom: Annihilation is similar to the failure of Hitman: Agent 47. The movie is a reboot of a previous videogame adaptation that flopped, the reboot ended up looking like shit. The way they portrayed the protagonist pissed off the fans and it caused people to say the original was ok. The difference is that the director for Hitman: Agent 47 wanted to make their version of Agent 47 accurate to the original character, but was forced to bastardize him, and it seems like they didn't even try being accurate in Doom: Annihilation.

That's not how it works in the military, they thought they where going to REPLACE a security detail not breach into the facility, it was BS guard detail which is why is was a "punishment". So all the briefings ect would of taken place by the out going unit that was already there. They would do what is called right seat left seat where they first observe the other guys doing their job (right seat) then they do the job while the other team observe and assist if needed (left seat). At this time they would go over that stuff but seeing as they likely didn't expect an invasion as they are on a moon orbiting mars and would be more concerned with inner security that's questionable. What would make much more sense is that they would know about an emergency entrance/exit because it is a space dock and they would be built with those things. You don't need some grand explanation as to how they know something that should be present is present. There is probably even some signs and arrows seeing it is an emergency entrance/exit and those things typically are required to have signs and be lighted so they are easy to find.

They could have done the icon of sin at least

that makes a lot of sense, reminds me of that awful fantastic 4 movie

I got the feeling this was a copyright squatting movie. Like who would take Doom, one of the most iconic video games of all time, and make a no-budget pos direct-to-dvd movie? It's really annoying how these movie licenses just don't expire.