(movie review, unimportant)
I’m from the Ebert school of movie reviews: a movie must only deliver on its promise given its budget. And there is a place for saturday afternoon sci fi just like saturday evening horror. And Doom Annihilation delivers exactly what was promised: true to the lore, true to the visuals, with decent sets, budget props and actors. Personally I enjoyed it and I wish there were more ‘honest’ productions like this: Low budget but good light, sufficient staging, sufficient props, sufficient acting, a decent story compatible with the lore, decent camera work, better than decent editing, not overly dramatic, or trying to sell chick power. I mean, I wish they’d crank one out a year using the same general theme and approach. They ruined the Alien franchise searching for high concept, but the doom franchise like the alien franchise is better suited to this form than high concept, just as the original star trek was better suited to cheap delivery of high concept. We aren’t going to get people in theatres any longer except for spectacles, so we need to re-learn how to produce movies we’re interested in more on the design and production of plays. I had fun with it. And I appreciate the work that went into it. -Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-27 23:01:00 UTC