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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Smackpixi" data-source="post: 9518660" data-attributes="member: 7028579">So I happened to watch the first Doom movie last night, with The Rock, may or may have not seen before, it’s not memorable, so hard to tell.  But from the very first scene, it screamed low budget sci-fi, was surprised, thought they would have tried on this one, looked it up, and they did, at least $60MM in 2005.  Real money, but it looks and sounds like no budget.Not talking about acting, or sfx, which are not great, and don’t help, but those are secondary to the the sound, the lighting, the set dressing, the make up, the costuming, the everything making every scene look and sound low production value.But it wasn’t.  They had money.  And yet everything is failing here, not only for content, but for feel and appearance.  Everything looks and sounds like it’s taking place on a set.  Like we got together all the people who make General Hospital and asked them to make a Doom movie.This is a huge fail on lots of levels, but the seems fake one seems the signature, and is a hallmark of low budget sci-fi and fantasy, so what are the key things to focus on when you have a low budget to not look as bad as this movie with a budget?</blockquote>