Doom
Though the 2005 Doom film ended up on our list of best video game adaptations, that was only for one scene. The first-person segment which pays a direct homage to the bloody, demon-hunting FPS games that inspired the film whips ass. The rest of the movie is so paper-thin and uninterested in the pillars of filmmaking like character writing, dialogue, and plot that would make it more substantial than a mock-up you’d see as a proof of concept for a full movie. There were hopes for a second film, but it never came to pass. However, Doom: Annihilation was released in 2019, and that wasn’t a direct sequel, but it was also bad. — Kenneth Shepard
