I'm currently half way through watching an old flick called DOOM, an early actioner for The Rock. Attracted by its label as a creature feature it's based on a computer game, which I've never played [I've never played any]. I'll finish it off another night.
The fixation in the film of descending into levels, walking along corridors and clearing rooms, to then descend further and repeat it all again is clearly based on the game I assume. I know there are other films like this, Alien V Predator springs to mind were Lance Henriksen's team keep descending into a ziggurat.
Who were these films aimed at back then? The very kids who played games like DOOM? Did it work? Do/did gamers like films?
Has this trend continued? Computer-game based movies? What say you readers?
