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Are you going to see DOA: Dead or Alive?


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Are you going to see DOA: Dead or Alive?  

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  1. 1. Are you going to see DOA: Dead or Alive?

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I think this was an Australilian movie from a year or two back. There is a hilarious review of it up on youtube somewhere. It's not worthy of comparison with the more mainstream videogame movies like Doom, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, etc. It's more a competitor to Uwe Boll's movies.

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From IMDB.com:

 

The Weinstein Co.'s D.O.A.: Dead or Alive lived up to the other meaning of its initials as it opened in 505 theaters with just $260,713 -- or $516 per theater. Not only did it not make the top ten, it ended up in 17th place behind a Hindi film, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, which opened in only 83 theaters. The movie was not shown in advance to critics. Those who dutifully decided to stand in line with everyone else after it opened said that the movie, based on the video game, was mostly soft porn, or as writer Ken Fox put it in TV Guide: "The action ... is targeted squarely at adolescent boys too young to rent porn and gamers too lazy to yank their own joy sticks."

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I watched some of this and skipped through it. Seems more like an 80's film with cheap acting and fighting scenes. This is really a cheap version of a Mortal Kombat wanna-be movie. And actually, the guy who played Lui Kang in Mortal Kombat also makes a cameo in this as a weak thief-type character.

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While I'm willing to accept the low budget or poor quality of game movies, I'm always disappointed when it's a fighting game movie and none of the actors display a vague knowledge of martial arts! The worst I've seen was "Mortal Kombat", a game I liked a lot at the time. Hell, even Liu Kang didn't perform any moves my kid couldn't do (albeit with CGI and wires). DOA looks the same. With Hong Kong cranking out killer wuxia flicks (also on a budget), I can't figure out why someone with a game license doesn't pay one of those directors to give us a movie worth watching.

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Okay, I saw the whole thing in about 20 minutes.

 

Some nice visuals, mostly having to do with the women.

 

There is one good schtick in the very beginning involving a bra and then it's all downhill from there.

 

If there was anything good about the script, it wasn't in the parts I slowed to normal speed to watch.

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I'm always disappointed when it's a fighting game movie and none of the actors display a vague knowledge of martial arts!

I think in the case of DoA it's particularly unforgivable. One of the coolest aspects of the game is not the jiggle physics, but the fact that each character has his/her own fighting style. You've got the Bruce-Lee type kung-fu, the old guy who relies more on power and smooth moves than speed, the opera singer who uses a style focused on low-powered but constant attacks, an old wrestler who fights like a wrestler (shocking!), a boxer, etc. All the characters demonstrate radically different styles of combat. (Most probably have names, but I'm not well versed enough to know what they are.) That's something you don't see in games like Street Fighter. Most fighting games tend toward more mythical styles based more on attributes of the character.

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One of the coolest aspects of the game is not the jiggle physics

Wait, wait, wait. The jiggle physics may not be the coolest aspect, but they are at least one of the cooler aspects. I mean, c'mon, let's be fair.

 

Though I noticed that the women in the movie are far more realistically proportioned and won't have the same back problems the characters in the game would someday have--y'know, if they actually aged.

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