[fandom] Doom & Vampire Academy

[escritoireazul]

You know, The Rock is no Vin Diesel, but he's looking pretty hot in Doom. Also, Karl Urban as Reaper is hottie mchot. This movie is much more fun than I expected, down to some of the moral questions and the way various people deal with them.

I'm enjoying this way more than I thought. I mean, I knew I'd have fun, because this combines two things I love, cheesy horror and video game movies, but wow. So much better.

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I started reading Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead today. It's -- well, it's a little odd. I hope to have more thoughts later.

ETA: Watching the bonus features reminds me how sad I am that I can't play first person video games. I blame the vertigo (considering no one can figure out why I have it, it's easy to blame for such things), but I just can't do it. Just watching the brief clips in the extras is making my world spin, and the scenes in the movie which do it almost made me have to shut it off so I wouldn't fall over.

Most of the good horror games I find are first person, and it breaks my heart.

Comments

[resolute.livejournal.com]

I actually liked Doom a lot. Much more than i ever expected. But I could not stop seeing an incesty vibe between Reaper and his sister. Which, you know, not a bad thing, entirely, but distracting.

[escritoireazul.livejournal.com]

There was a completely incestuous vibe between them. I almost want to say it was on purpose; the way it's set up in the beginning, where the dialogue is presented in a way which makes viewers think she's an exgirlfriend or exwife, and then the end, with the way he carries her, make such a strong frame it's hard to believe it was unintentional.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

I can't play first person video games either, or watch hand-held TV. I have benign positional vertigo - the benign bit means that it's not caused by an auditory nerve tumour, but probably by debris in my middle ear. There can also be a heritary deformity of your middle ear that makes it more likely that you will develop BPV - my mother developed it in her 50s, me in my early 20s, but I'd always been car sick.