Nukes and Knives™: Doom (2005) and Doom: Annihilation

Live action efforts weren't great by any stretch, but classics compared to Alone in the Dark, Double Dragon and House of the Dead.

Best move on before rant ensues about those miserable pieces of shit.

Doom (2005)

Andrzej Bartkowiak sends The Rock's team of space marines to investigate a security breach on Mars.

Mission is based on Doom 3, but reeks of Predator.

Also, running time slices cheese and all that's missing is a loaf of bread.

Sarge vs Master Sergeant Thomas Kelly

Dr. Todd Carmack

Goat stumbles across Dr. Steve Willits (right) and quickly regrets doing so.

Scientists are nods to Todd Hollenshead, John Carmack and Tim Willits.

Monsters

Pickings are slim, but whatever.

Zombie

Imp

Dexter Fletcher's Marcus 'Pinky' Pinzerowski becomes...

Ignoring omission of mechanical hind legs, good job.

Oh yeah.

Semper Fi motherfucker.

FPS

Reaper psyches himself up for a change in perspective.

Chainsaw is briefly used against Pinky.

BFG

Here's when shit gets stupid.

Bio Force Gun

v3.14 is not only Pi, but 314 is the IQ of Commander Keen.

So displaying 'Big F***ing Gun' on computer monitor is apparently too vulgar, right?

But towards the end.

Sarge states 'Big Fucking Gun!'

See the problem here?

I wouldn't mind if film didn't contain expletives, but...

All they had to do was give dialogue responsibility of humorous reveal.

Why is energy projectile BLUE and not green?

Classic Doom

Their choice of course, but still weird.

Miscellany

Beating heart vs id logo

Definitely rings a bell.

Just before Reaper and Sarge lock horns, a lit board is seen.

John Coates, Robert Sutherland, David Reeves, Ying Lee, Alfredo Alvarez, Alan Crow, Lawrence Feldman and Richard Swift.

I haven't bothered going crazy over this, but at the time, David Reeves was the President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and Richard Swift was a singer-songwriter.

Two more.

An imp (later revealed to be Carmack), gets trapped inside nano wall.

This was either done for effect, or a nod to Doom 3's take on the Face of Mars.

This is so random, it's probably coincidence.

A zombified Goat headbutts reinforced glass several times, eventually killing himself.

Please note blood smear.

During automated sequence, fat zombie does the same thing (but doesn't die).

WHAT?

Doom: Annihilation (2019)

This gets a lot of hate, which I think is unfair.

Yes the acting in blatant Aliens knock-off is largely terrible, but direct-to-video reboot is not the load of Phobos people would have you believe.

Although id and Bethesda declined the offer to be involved, they wished the production team godspeed.

Filmmakers weren't allowed to use anything from Doom (2016) and instead of Union AeroSpace Corporation, UAC stands for United Aerospace Corporation.

However, Malcolm Betruger (in name only) was hijacked from Doom 3.

Rather predictably, actor looks fuck all like video game counterpart.