With the Doom movie coming out this weekend (capsule review: bloody but unglued) and the recent release "Quake IV," I find myself whisked back to the mid-90s, when I'd sit sit before my roommate's 12-pound laptop playing the original "Doom" while Space: Above and Beyond aired on the TV in the background. All I need is a six-pack of Cap City Pale Rider and a crippling fear of my post-graduate future and it'd be like I was really there.
Much as I liked "Doom" (and "Quake," and "Quake 2"), I obviously wasn't as big a fan as the guys sitting behind me at the screening last night. At first, I felt bad that their effusive exclamations of geek ecstasy were sufficient to insure they would never mate with a human woman.
Then I got a look at them, and realized they didn't care. I've seen Deadheads with better grooming habits.
The following are just a few tidbits:
"I really thought about getting "BFG 9K" for my license plate."
[regarding the demons that, admittedly, all looked the same to me] "Is that a Baron or a Hell Knight?"
[regarding Karl Urban, who plays "Reaper"] "The Lord of the Rings movies were okay, but I liked the universe Doom created better."
There's no shame in being a geek. An ignorant geek, on the other hand...
How do they maintain FPS-o-rama with multiple characters? Split-screen?
Possible Spoiler Ahead...
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By the time they get to the FPS perspective, there's pretty much only one character left.
It's a nifty concept. But I can't see it going over well in the theatres. Didn't they try something similar back in Aliens 3 (from the Alien's persepctive)? As I recall, that gave me motion sickness.
Space: Above and Beyond -- The Complete Series comes out on DVD next week. It's 1995 all over again!