ROTTEN TOMATOES: RT Critical Consensus: "Doom" Gloom, "Country" Sounds Sweet Comments

RT Critical Consensus: "Doom" Gloom, "Country" Sounds Sweet

by Tim Ryan | October 20, 2005

Summary

This week at the movies brings stories of marines on Mars ("Doom"), iron miners fighting the man ("North Country"), little girls who love horses ("Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story"), and questions of human identity ("Stay"). Which of these films will score with critics? Back to Article

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JnBa73 writes:
on Oct 20 2005 06:53 PM

[b]suprise, suprise[/b]
anyone suprised that doom is low on the tomatometer? i mean, i still plan to see it this weekend... this movie does not need good reviews to get loads of business. its not the type of movie to get high marks anway

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jeremyd4 writes:
on Oct 20 2005 11:56 PM

It's a tricky situation because when reading the reviews it sounds as though 'Doom' is exactly what it's supposed to be. It has a low score on the Tomatometer but that doesn't reflect the reviews it's getting - most of the bad ones aren't panning the movie, they're just saying it doesn't bring anything new to the table. I for one, like movies like 'Predator' and 'Aliens', and if people can give a movie like 'Land of the Dead' good reviews because it's mindless fun and nostalgic, all the while being predictable, generic and adding nothing significant to the genre - then why not do the same with this?!?! They're both faithful to what they're trying to be. Reviewers who go in there expecting anything more or some deep masterpiece - i wish they wouldn't act so surprised when it's not.

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killthemall4444 writes:
on Oct 21 2005 08:15 AM

well the the doom reviews were as good as i expected them to be. The makers of the movie couldn't have hoped for much better. I am dissapointed that stay got such terrible reviews i like Ewan McGregor.

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dudemovies writes:
on Oct 21 2005 09:03 AM

In reply to this comment (#826899)
[b]Stay[/b]
Didn't the guy who directed Monster Ball and Finding Neverland direct it? Thats kind of shcoking that the reviews were so bad. I like Namoi Watts, Ewan Mcgregor, and Ryan Gosling

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southfrisco writes:
on Oct 21 2005 04:41 PM

In reply to this comment (#826897)
Congratulations JnBa! You will continue to give Hollywood a reason to make crap like this over, and over, and over again. I see a Doom 2 in our future, followed by the end of the world as we know it.

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dudemovies writes:
on Oct 22 2005 06:45 AM

[b]Dreamer[/b]
It up to a 66

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lovelykeira writes:
on Oct 22 2005 10:54 AM

I'm seeing Stay no matter what the critics say.

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AnTy writes:
on Oct 22 2005 07:37 PM

In reply to this comment (#826901)
Oh quit your crying, no one forces you or Millions of other people to go see Doom or other "crap" like this. If you want better movies, make them yourself. Until then stop bitching and let people watch what they want.

THAT being said.....I'll be seeing this on Monday.

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dudemovies writes:
on Oct 23 2005 09:21 AM

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[b]lol[/b]
That was funny.

I don't think the slump is b/c dont want to see movie its b/c they could wait for the DVD and save about 500000000000000000 dollars.

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JnBa73 writes:
on Oct 23 2005 02:27 PM

In reply to this comment (#826901)
who said video game movies are the end of the world? while ill admit doom was terrible, i think that eventually "good" video game movies will come about. think "Halo" (Peter Jackson).

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kfarschman writes:
on Oct 23 2005 08:12 PM

In reply to this comment (#826898)
i wouldn't compare 'Doom' with 'Aliens' or 'Predator'. It looks like it's more 'Alien Vs. Predator'.

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killamike316 writes:
on Oct 24 2005 10:06 PM

alien vs. predator sucked

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