Comment Re:Be careful what you wish for (Score 2, Interesting) 120
I agree with most of your arguments.
But nobody would really expect a one person movie.
Maybe a group of scientists who need rescuing? Or how about some H. P. Lovecraftian myth. Maybe the eternal fight between good and evil? Many old concepts and cliches you could incorporate and maybe also some new things.
Take a look at Soldier, Pitchblack, Predator, Rambo, Octalus, Braindead, Screamers, Tremors, Ghosts Of Mars, The Thing, Bodysnatchers and so on.
They share common ground in which Doom would fit in.
Most of them (if not all) are trashy, but this is really only because of the profit calculation made by studios and the resulting stress on budget, plot, cast, set and crew.
I am thoroughly surprised as how people still seem to react against violence, sex and religion in movies (Exorcist).
May I ask if the majority thinks that movies need to be controlled/censored?
I would have paid to see Doom as an interpretation of Dante's Inferno or even a social- and/or political critical movie (Mars Base, Megacorps, Two or more fractions on Mars, maybe even artifacts and an alien civilization a la 2001 and so on). Maybe even a movie completely about religion (Dogma).
Or an interpretative dialogue (A Boy and His Dog) that (in between the slaughter) "explores the depths" of Mr. Grunt's personality (really). A talented writer could pull that of, maybe.
Avantgarde? Experimental?
But yes something like that will never happen (maybe for the best).
So what remains is to make a movie that will serve as some sort of propaganda? A gadget of political and social manipulation in which Romeros zombies get resurrected to personify the "satanic" nonconformists and nonbelievers, the one, big, evil enemy of society?
Or will it have an aspect of reflection and be open enough?
Because Doom is world wide and not everybody thinks or sees things the same.
The worst case? If it would understand itself as serious work.
Have a nice day
But nobody would really expect a one person movie.
Maybe a group of scientists who need rescuing? Or how about some H. P. Lovecraftian myth. Maybe the eternal fight between good and evil? Many old concepts and cliches you could incorporate and maybe also some new things.
Take a look at Soldier, Pitchblack, Predator, Rambo, Octalus, Braindead, Screamers, Tremors, Ghosts Of Mars, The Thing, Bodysnatchers and so on.
They share common ground in which Doom would fit in.
Most of them (if not all) are trashy, but this is really only because of the profit calculation made by studios and the resulting stress on budget, plot, cast, set and crew.
I am thoroughly surprised as how people still seem to react against violence, sex and religion in movies (Exorcist).
May I ask if the majority thinks that movies need to be controlled/censored?
I would have paid to see Doom as an interpretation of Dante's Inferno or even a social- and/or political critical movie (Mars Base, Megacorps, Two or more fractions on Mars, maybe even artifacts and an alien civilization a la 2001 and so on). Maybe even a movie completely about religion (Dogma).
Or an interpretative dialogue (A Boy and His Dog) that (in between the slaughter) "explores the depths" of Mr. Grunt's personality (really). A talented writer could pull that of, maybe.
Avantgarde? Experimental?
But yes something like that will never happen (maybe for the best).
So what remains is to make a movie that will serve as some sort of propaganda? A gadget of political and social manipulation in which Romeros zombies get resurrected to personify the "satanic" nonconformists and nonbelievers, the one, big, evil enemy of society?
Or will it have an aspect of reflection and be open enough?
Because Doom is world wide and not everybody thinks or sees things the same.
The worst case? If it would understand itself as serious work.
Have a nice day
