Waching daily Apr 29 2018

Hey gamers!

This is Gian, host of VGATW.

Whether you were raised in the 90s like myself, then I'm sure you've played the original Doom

video game on PC.

The game series is one of the most iconic game series and even popularized the first-person

genre long before Goldeneye, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty and Battlefield ever existed.

Despite it's popularity, Doom was the target of controversy by angry parents, religious

groups and the infamous Jack Thompson, who blamed the game for the incident at Columbine

High School in Colorado nearly 20 years ago.

The story of Doom was about a group of scientists accidentally opening a portal to Hell on Mars,

and the Space Marine, called by gamers as the Doomguy, would shoot his way through to

put an end to the demons.

Doom got the Hollywood treatment releasing a film in 2005, starring Dwayne Johnson and

Karl Urban.

It stuck to taking place on Mars, but scrapped the Hell thing.

The movie was terrible with a poorly written plot, but the only redeeming factor of the

movie was the famous first-person scene.

Of course, there are some gamers who liked it and some who defend the movie say that

it's for non-gamers who don't play video games.

But now folks, a new Doom movie is in the works and it stars a female lead.

I wonder now, are they making Doom or Metroid?

For the record, I like strong female leads like Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Xena, Aeon

Flux, Clarke Griffin, Captain Janeway, Katniss Everdeen, Jyn Erso, Buffy Summers, Sara Lance

and so on.

Doom with a female lead, when we know that the game series, the lead is a male.

It's kind of like bringing a character that is not even in the games like Alice from Resident

Evil.

So here's the thing.

As it turns out, Tony Giglio (Timber Falls, Extraction, Chaos) will be the next filmmaker

to take a crack at the bat, as he'll be directing a screenplay that he wrote for the

upcoming reboot.

Furthermore, Amy Manson (Once Upon A Time, Being Human, The White Princess) will serve

in the lead role, something normally reserved for males when it comes to Doom.

Now, I'm gonna get a lot of shitstorm for this like James Rolfe got it when he said

why he wouldn't be watching the 2016 Ghostbusters movie.

I don't blame him, I saw it and after ten minutes I thought it was a piece of shit.

I do not agree in some way with this, because it's like you're putting Samus Aran in Doom

and the Doomguy in Metroid.

If it were up to me to make a movie based on a video game, it would be better to create

a brand new character whether it's not one from the games, but it's best to be more faithful

to the source material rather than deviating from it.

Besides, I've seen movies based on video games that were very shitty.

Street Fighter, piece of trash.

Double Dragon, lambasted for being such too.

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, terrible movie.

Wing Commander, piece of shit as well.

The Uwe Boll movies like House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, Far Cry, Bloodrayne, they

all sucked.

Dead or Alive, people didn't like it.

Prince of Persia, people didn't like it.

King of Fighters, nobody saw that.

Tekken, people hated it.

Legend of Chun-Li, people hated it.

And the list goes on and on.

This director might pull a Paul Feig on Doom.

Most people would love it and others would hate it.

So what do you think about this?

Well, just comment, like and subscribe.

This is Gian, host of VGATW.

Have a good one!