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Episode 679: Doom (The 2005 Movie)
🕑 Added 2025-03-21 07:00:09 +0000 UTCDoom took over the gaming landscape in the early '90s, but emerged just as the first wave of video game movies hit theaters. So when the 21st century was upon us, Hollywood decided to strike while the iron was still kind of warm and delivered us a Doom movie starring none other than Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. But did this silver screen adaptation faithfully translate the white-knuckle, heavy metal, hell on earth vibe of the id Software classic? On this episode of Retronauts, join Bob Mackey, Diamond Feit, and supergreatfriend as the crew looks back on Doom 20 years later to determine whether or not it's a BFG (Beautiful Film that's Good).
Comments
CapNChris
Not going to lie. Even as a Doom fan who purchased both Doom 1, Doom 2, and at least one CD of fan-made Doom levels in the 1990's, this is the first I'm hearing that someone made a Doom movie. Seeing as it was released in 2005, I was overseas at the time, so I must have totally missed it.
Diamond Feit
no one made me watch Doom Annihilation, I volunteered, but I can confidently say that won't get its own episode in the future.
SilverHairedMiddleAgedTuxedoMask
Not mentioned but the Rock somehow redid this with Rampage, yet another video game movie that came WAY too late for its source material (you know nobody cares about a property when they don't even bring back the old games to promote the new one!) Fantastic episode though, I love the Retronauts looking at video game movies since most of them are so bad they're entertaining to hear discussed at least. I'm sorry to hear Diamond also had to watch Doom Annihilation, which to me felt like it was the Asylum knock-off of Doom (2005) at times.
SilverHairedMiddleAgedTuxedoMask
I'm glad SGF continued it despite Bob no-selling it
Christmas Ape
I appreciated supergreatfriend's Doom: Repercussions of Evil reference.
Jason J
Doom (the game) holds a special place for me because it's one of the few games my dad would play. I taught him the cheat codes and he'd blast away demons after work. Sadly he's gone now, but I still play the original game and it totally holds up. The movie made odd and unnecessary changes from the source material, but at least they also experimented a bit. As Bob said, it could have been way worse.
Royce A Murray
Maybe The Rock's Hidden Gems is Pain and Gain or ...Southland Tales
Normallyretro
Bob, Feit, Great...friend. Almost BFG.
Andrew O.
My reaction reading the title of the episode: DOOM... Oh yeah! (The 2005 Movie)... Oh no! Actually, that's basically my reaction to every game to movie adaptation I see announced. To this movie's credit, watching it felt like being in hell.
thatcamjones
Hell yeah, SGF is back Baby.
