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Two movies, one good one
By Sparky | August 7, 2006
Yesterday involved two new movies being crammed into my skull. The sad thing is that the two movies averaged out to a rather mediocre experience. For my first cinematic experience I drove over to Bellevue to join Scott, Erin, and Mark for A Scanner Darkly, which was simply fantastic. A Scanner Darkly is yet another movie adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel brought to life with a masterful touch. The animation (or rotoscoping if you want to get technical about it) was well done, the dialog left questions dangling in my brain, and the move as a whole meshed nicely.
Sadly the second movie I saw was nowhere near as good. Before A Scanner Darkly I dropped by the mall to pick up some new HD-DVD’s to add to the collection. I saw Doom had come out as an HD-DVD, and figured “Hey - it’s going to be a bad movie, but comon - it’s got chainsaws in space! It can’t be that bad”.
Boy was I wrong. Doom is quite possibly one of the worst movies ever made. The dialog is transparent and annoying, the action is mediocre, and the #@$@ chainsaws in space bit was a mere 20 seconds rather than the redeeming whole movie experience it should have been. To top it all off the cheese FPS view that was so hyped in the trailers was poorly done, and only managed to take up a mere 30 seconds near the end of the movie.
Hey - I guess I should be looking on the bright side of things. Even though I had to endure a nearly space-chainsaw free Doom experience I still had a great day, got out of the house, and saw some good friends.
