So I recently rewatched Annihilation, and am currently rewatching the first Doom movie. I like the leads Dwayne Johnson, Carl Urban and Rosamund Pike, but I enjoyed the newer movie more even though it had lesser known actors and I believe a lower budget. I think it told the actual story better and was more similar to the games.

I saw a post earlier today about video game movies/shows where it was mentioned in the post or the comments that video game movies fail because they try to change too much, which pushes away gamers and doesn’t help a natural marketing base for the first viewers to recommend it to non-gamers.

At this point, I’m finishing Doom: Eternal, but if they made a movie of it, I think the best version would be watching YouTube videos of actual gameplay, with voice actors giving background narratives about all the stuff in the compendium/lore as needed and making jokes/Doom guy comments throughout.

If someone made the movie above and it’s free, I’ll watch that instead right now. I might eventually pay for it (likely keep paying for streaming until it comes on, or start pirating again since everything is going ad supported)

What is your opinion? Both on the two movies and video game movies in general. I think resident evil did ok, but I haven’t played more than 2 & 3 I think. Not sure how cannon they were, but as a different perspective it seems to work.