10 Awesome Movie Scenes Trapped In Awful Movies

4. First-Person Shooting (Doom)

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The amount of decent video game movies can be counted on a single hand, and 2005's Doom definitely wouldn't make the cut. Predictable and drab - both visually, and in terms of its story and characters - it didn't exactly inspire confidence that game adaptations could work, and 14 years later, we're still waiting on the movie that proves everyone wrong.

To give Doom some credit, it was never trying to be a stellar movie, and instead just tried to copy the simplicity of the original game: guys, guns, and beasts. At one point, it even literally copies the game, going all FPS for a single five-minute shot through a base infested with hordes of nightmarish creatures.

Unapologetically cheesy, gloriously violent and shockingly well-crafted for a film that's otherwise quite mundane and workmanlike, this is easily the movie's most (and only) memorable sequence, a moment that appealed to Doom fans, gamers in general, and those who like their action sequences to be executed with a bit of flair.

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