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Doom (US - DVD R1)

We have some early details on rated and unrated editions of the recent action flick. The film will be available to own from the 7t...

Title: Doom
Starring: The Rock
Released: 7th February 2006
SRP: $29.98 Each

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Universal has revealed early details on Doom which stars Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Karl Urban and Rosamund Pike. This action adventure film from director Andrzej Bartkowiak, will be available to own in seperate rated (full frame only) and unrated editions from the 7th February. Each should set you back around $29.98. Audio will arrive in the form of English, French and Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks. We are also able to confirm that the unrated edition will have a runtime of around 1 hour 53 minutes, making it around 12 minutes longer than the theatrical cut. Extras on the unrated edition will include a first person shooter sequence, a featurette on the cast training with the SAS, a featurette that explores the locations, weapons and creatures, and another featurette exploring the Doom franchise. Official artwork is attached:

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Fabricio De Zuasnabar

i warched it last night in widescreen, it was horrible, and I'm a fan of FULL SCREEN dvds, so I DO want full sreen movies, you gotta love them, the black bars just irritates me so much... and the film was as bad as the art work, I thought it was gonna be cool, cuz I watched the trailer, but the movie was bad, I rathar like Resident Evil more than Doom "TWO THUMBS WAY DOWN"

Cathelotte Jean-Michel

I just got the DVD and I'm VERY disapointed
When I interviewed The Rock a few month ago he told me about this HUUUUGE explosion of the mars station at the end of the movie (you can actually see it in the trailer wich AGAIN is not on this DVD)
it was removed of the movie at the last minute aparently, and he was quite surprise about it. He told me it was suppose to be in the DVD (as deleted scene) with a making of the explosion...
Well... I smell the double dipp, because nor the sequence, nor it's making of, are in this DVD (the unrated one)...
I am soooo disapointed !

TNAJason

I'll see it a fan of fun dumb action flicks and Rock is classic.

tarantinoman

Entertainment is Good Enough

For some reason, I'm looking forward to buying this movie. It really wasn't a good movie, but it was fun to watch. As long as a movie is fun, with the exception of FANTASTIC 4, then I can buy it. Another thing that sounds good is that this will have an unrated version. No, not just an unrated version, but an UNRATED version. 12 extra minutes should be of interest, since I've seen it twice already. Good thing it's not like DARK WATER, where the unrated version is shorter than the original. Basically, this could be a good DVD.

Matt

Matt Thompson wrote: Is the unrated DVD art stretched a bit horizontally?
Actually, the rated version is squeezed horizontally.

Steven Carrier

Those are some nice menus. The DVD debut of DOOM should really makes its fans happy. Universal Pictures always has decent DVDs.

Matt Thompson

Is the unrated DVD art stretched a bit horizontally?

Mike D

i don't think I could ever watch this movie. also, the cover art is very disappointing, but at least the menus look ok.

Billy Gates

Felix Vasquez Jr. wrote: What an utterly terrible movie. I like what the Rock's done post-Scorpion King, but he was on a roll until this piece of c**p.
Indeed sir indeed. He does have talent, he just needs to showcase it in other movies than this. Like he was pretty surprising in Be Cool. They cast him outside of his stereotypical role. That was ballsy and he played it perfectly......this movie though.......may the Movie Gods have mercy on Dwayne Johnson's soul.

Terminal

What an utterly terrible movie. I like what the Rock's done post-Scorpion King, but he was on a roll until this piece of c**p.

Worst Nightmare

Adrian wrote: Dave Brock wrote:
Who is Carl Urban?! Another bit of proof that to get the once sacred 'name above the title' status you only have to fart into a paper bag nowadays.

I'd say Karl Urban has quite good name recognition at the moment after staring as Eomer in the Lord of the Ring trilogies.Don't forget Vaako in The Chronicles of Ridd**k and Kirill in The Bourne Supremacy

Adrian

Dave Brock wrote:
Who is Carl Urban?! Another bit of proof that to get the once sacred 'name above the title' status you only have to fart into a paper bag nowadays.

I'd say Karl Urban has quite good name recognition at the moment after staring as Eomer in the Lord of the Ring trilogies.

Dark Jedi

Shouldn't the Rock get top billing I mean isn't he the main guy in this? Time to fire the agent methinks, oh wait he's in Doom...nevermind.

David Blackwell

She's a looker, but the DVD art sucks.

John Oaks

I didn't think it was that bad actually.

Billy Gates

This movie was terrible, only reason I saw it was I thought a friend of mine was going with me. He flaked out and I had to sit through this horrid film alone. I might have even nodded off a few times which rarely happens with me in a theater, excpet for maybe High Tension. I was the only one in the theater (saw it during the week) so I just stretched out on a few chairs and relaxed. LMAO. Nothing better! THAT IS THE REAL EXPERIENCE!!! But anyway, Doom sucked, and if those 12-13 extra minutes were deleted they must be for a reason and must not make it any better. If it makes it better, whoopdeedoo 12 minutes to make c**p go to mediocre. Makes me want to go back to the days of Super Mario Brothers and Mortal Kombat 95. Those were Spielberg in excellence compared to this tripe!!!! Waste your time and money on a movie like I dunno, Jarhead. Now that's a great flick!

Kaya Savas

I read that The Rock wasn't even the main character, and that it revolved around Urban's character. I mean, they put his name first. I hate how they sold the film in the trailers like The Rock was the main guy, and the cover art has him in the center.

Tony DeFrancisco

Shaun wrote: Wow. Thanks for the extremely different looking covers, Universal.I know. What took so long, anyway?

Shaun

Wow. Thanks for the extremely different looking covers, Universal.

Fabricio De Zuasnabar

the art work is on my top 10 worst of the year :S
the movie within is cool though

MrFlix

Some of the worst cover art I've seen in a long time. The movie was ok, maybe worth a rent, but not the worst video game adaptation (Alone in the Dark ring any bells?)

iTone

The cover looks bad. I dunno, for some reason when I think of doom I don't see blue, it should have been red or darker colors.

Edward Brock

Haha! Have you guys noticed that the image in regular cover is the exact same as the Unrated one, only it has been STRECHED? I mean, look at The Rocks' face! How hilarious! And how professional...

Severen33

What Happened to the Good Ole' Days When Almost all of Universal's and Dreamworks DVD's Had DTS Tracks?

simply-haley

I really dont like that coverart!

Martin Waldie

As a matter of fact, this comes out here in the UK tomorrow (2nd December). Even though I downloaded it off the internet, the quality was c**p so I think I'll go see it on Saturday night.

Nick Guyer

I was suprised at how fast this movie was filmed and released!!i always check movieweb for the upcoming movies and their posters and they didnt have the artwork of the poster untill two weeks before the film was released. But when it came out I thought it looked cool but I thought it is probably one of those remakes of old tv shows and games gone bad. But I love the artwork of the movie and I think the logo for doom was perfect. I dont really care if the movie is good or bad I can learn to like the movie in its own special ways. But the artwork you cant learn to love if you dont like it already. So I love the artwork so I will be buying it without a doubt.

RhiNoMaximus

Is this a joke?
30 dollars for a stupid ass movie, that wasnt even worth the 5 dollars at the theatre.
Not to mention it bombed in the theatres because it had nothing to do with the actual game just the doom name and the fact that the rock was in it, the only reason they included Mars was because the fans were complaining. You dont even get to see hell in it. Hell, Spawn the movie even had hell in it.
Id software sold out,dont support the movie, support the game.
Sounds to me like hollywood had a script/screenplay for a movie that had nothing to do with doom and needed a name for it.
So they decided to cash in on the DOOM franchise so they called it Doom with ids approval behind it.
It sucks ass, and everyone knows it. The cover art even sucks.
Why should we support sell outs just wanting our money. Its not fair.

Tony DeFrancisco

Muffadal Attarwala wrote: Worst Nightmare wrote: Bob "the film man" wrote: Is it just me? Does anyone else think this cover art looks cheap and tacky? As for the movie itself, I'll probably wait to see it on television.nope - me too.
Again with the rated-full screen or un-rated-wide screen
does anyone really want full screen anymore?

You would be suprised at how may people still don't know the difference between the two. I've known several people who believe that you must have a high-definition widescreen television in order to view widescreen movies otherwise the black bars that appear on regular televisions are cutting off the picture. Also, Walmart sells almost all of their older movies in the fullscreen format so I guess there must be a demand for them.Correct, I still try to tell people why widescreen is better...

Like what Jonny Me You said "Some people just don't deserve to watch movies."

Dave Brock

No humour? GREAT! Does everything horror related have to be oh so knowingly funny nowadays! I blame the 80's.

Who is Carl Urban?! Another bit of proof that to get the once sacred 'name above the title' status you only have to fart into a paper bag nowadays.

Looks like a good 'n' nasty romp...may check this out on the big screen.

Michael Cordwell

I think it looks great and the cover is good too, just wish it was orange and not blue.

Fettastic

It was a piece of c**p. The first 20 minutes or so are ok, but then it just keeps getting stupider. The main problem is that it's just a series of tunnels and no open areas. There's also very few monsters, almost entirely the imps. There's one Death Knight which is featured in a fairly cool sequence, but then he's gone. Other than a couple of seconds with the Pinky in the 1st-person section, that's it. There's also no humor in the film and it's overall way too derivative of Aliens. I've been waiting for this film since it was first talked about 10 years ago and it's a major dissapointment.

Muffalapacus

Worst Nightmare wrote: Bob "the film man" wrote: Is it just me? Does anyone else think this cover art looks cheap and tacky? As for the movie itself, I'll probably wait to see it on television.nope - me too.
Again with the rated-full screen or un-rated-wide screen
does anyone really want full screen anymore?

You would be suprised at how may people still don't know the difference between the two. I've known several people who believe that you must have a high-definition widescreen television in order to view widescreen movies otherwise the black bars that appear on regular televisions are cutting off the picture. Also, Walmart sells almost all of their older movies in the fullscreen format so I guess there must be a demand for them.

Worst Nightmare

Bob "the film man" wrote: Is it just me? Does anyone else think this cover art looks cheap and tacky? As for the movie itself, I'll probably wait to see it on television.nope - me too.
Again with the rated-full screen or un-rated-wide screen
does anyone really want full screen anymore?

Vegeta

^ All this King Kong Madness...I hope in the next King Kong, Godzilla returns and stomps him into obvlivion.

Tigerclaw

The game (Doom 3) is better than the movie...and that's not saying much

Vegeta

Mr. Motola wrote: I'm a fan of Doom and dumb fun action flicks

Well, you're at least going to get half of that.

D. Motola

I like the cover too, hope it stays.

This movie just arrived to theaters in Mexico, about 3 days ago, will see it soon. I'm sure I'll like it, I'm a fan of Doom and dumb fun action flicks

Vegeta

This is by far one of the worst movies I saw all year. The cover looks like one of those straight to the shelves movies you would find at blockbuster.

Bob "the film man"

Is it just me? Does anyone else think this cover art looks cheap and tacky? As for the movie itself, I'll probably wait to see it on television.

rob murray

i thought the movie was fun, and yeah it was even more fun looking at pike.

Fernando G.

Ok Cover. This Movie was a big Flop!

Nqnpipnr Nqnpipnr

The cover looks alright, but I doubt the movie will be anything higher than mediocre.

Tony DeFrancisco

Actually, I like the cover.

Ken Murray

I wish the MPAA would just lighten up. Nudity, the f-word, and blood just scare them far too much.

As for Doom, it was a video game based movie, nothing more. I might rent the unrated version, but other than the first-person shooting scenes, the movie was completely ridiculous, and it could have actually had a lot of potential if it hadn't taken itself seriously.

beckmen

This movie was ruined in post-production. The editing and music were terrible. The FPS sequence lost any suspense it would have had by an awful Nu-Metal kind of song. The movie had some good ideas, and Pike is hot (though not as hot as in DOD), but it failed to impress me at all.

Since it's Unrated, I will give it a second chance and rent it, but I doubt I will change my mind.

tom normandy

this was an alright movie. I\'ll give it another rent. The coverart is pretty cool. Only thing is karl urbans face looks dumb and why did they put AND THE ROCK? Why cant they just put THE ROCK?

Muffalapacus

They should have put Rosamund Pike nude on the cover of the DVD. I'm sure it would fly off the shelves. You would be DOOMED not to buy it.

Neil Thomson

One of the worst movies of the year, laughable at best, they should have shot the whole movie in first person shooter mode, it would have made it more entertaining.

E. Costigan

Artwork looks too... CGI-ish. They should have stuck with the red-dark arts. They need to touch it up too.

Nice work on the picks again Jonny!

sketchartist

Didn't see it at the theater, but will by the unrated DVD. Alhtough the cover is ugly(emphasizes on "early artwork"

Daniel Baldwin

Steven Carrier

that is a pretty ugly looking cover. I wish that they used the poster, simple and pretty cool looking. This just makes The Rock look foolish.

Tom

Early specs and artwork added...

Tony DeFrancisco

Jonny, thanks for making my day with that lovely pic.

simply-haley

this looks like a recent rent.. some good action sequences probably some gore, looks like the resident evil series and I enjoy those so i'll rent this for sure. wouldnt blind buy this one though!

Fake Shemp

Eh, it was decent, worth the $5 I spent to see it in the theater, but I might wait till it hits the $5 bins at Wally World. Not a horrible movie, just not one I'll watch over and over either. Could have been worse, though. It could have been directed by Uwe Boll!

Mark Buchanan

Can't wait to see this - I'm sure it's mindless but the Rock is always good for a fun and diverting popcorn flick.

Max M.

I didn't want to see it in theaters... but, I guess i'll give it a rent.

Lincoln6Echo

DOOM (2005)

Adrian wrote: Steven Carrier wrote: But is anyone else getting sick of all these Unrated Editions? Why dont the studios just release that version in the first place? If they film the scenes why not put them in the film. Every horror film that comes out is getting a Unrated Edition. And its not like that add anything new just some more charecter development. I'm getting tired of this.

I think this is one of the reasons for the abysmal box office this year. Most movies get watered down to get a PG-13 rating, supposedly to attract the largest audience. However, most of the public knows that in 3-4 months there will be the unrated edition available on DVD.

That said, Doom doesn't really fall into that category. It was rated R. Releasing an UNRATED or NC-17 movie to theaters is suicide. Most theaters won't carry them.

Which is why it's looking more and more that the theatrical release is just a sneak peak for the DVD.

Adrian

DOOM (2005)

Steven Carrier wrote: But is anyone else getting sick of all these Unrated Editions? Why dont the studios just release that version in the first place? If they film the scenes why not put them in the film. Every horror film that comes out is getting a Unrated Edition. And its not like that add anything new just some more charecter development. I'm getting tired of this.

I think this is one of the reasons for the abysmal box office this year. Most movies get watered down to get a PG-13 rating, supposedly to attract the largest audience. However, most of the public knows that in 3-4 months there will be the unrated edition available on DVD.

That said, Doom doesn't really fall into that category. It was rated R. Releasing an UNRATED or NC-17 movie to theaters is suicide. Most theaters won't carry them.

Steven Carrier

DOOM (2005)

This looked pretty stupid. I will rent it though because I loved The Rock, he is really cool. But is anyone else getting sick of all these Unrated Editions? Why dont the studios just release that version in the first place? If they film the scenes why not put them in the film. Every horror film that comes out is getting a Unrated Edition. And its not like that add anything new just some more charecter development. I'm getting tired of this.

Jonny "Me You"

She's definately a looker...