resident evil: apocolypse by est120

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resident evil: apocolypse

POSTED BY: EST120
UPDATED: Monday, August 23, 2004 08:12
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Saturday, August 21, 2004 11:32 AM

hi! has anyone seen the new trailer for resident evil: apocolypse? i just got my first gander today and it looks pretty good! they certainly had much more $$ to spend this time. plus, the movie seems to be a blend of straight action flick with some sci-fi/horror and not completely one or the other. anyone else heard any reviews of it?

"i can't comprehend the ways that i miss you, they come to light in my mistakes."
-neko case

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Saturday, August 21, 2004 2:39 PM

BLUESUNCORPORATEGOON

Thankfully Paul W.S. Anderson only wrotehttp://

) this movie...oh...wait he worte AVP too...well...that changes the situation.i'm convinced he needs to be stopped or shot in the back of the head...now,he butchered the first one. "The line must be drawn HERE,THIS FAR,NO FURTHER!!"

I'll be in my bunk.-Jayne

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Sunday, August 22, 2004 3:30 AM

GORAMLAW

I agree, he screwed it up, I still kinda liked it though! I read Romero's original script for resident evil and it seemed a lot more what you would've hoped for. I liked the last shot of Alice with the shotgun in Raccoon city. I'm well up for seeing Milla kick deadhead ass again tho!

"That only matters to the people on the rim!"

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Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:43 AM

MOHRSTOUTBEARD

The first Resident Evil was an affront against mankind. I had way more fun reading George A. Romero's original screenplay than I did watching Paul Anderson's "movie." I still have no idea why you would fire the Grand Master of zombie films from your project and instead get. . .the director of Mortal Kombat.

The whole thing just gets on my nerves. It suffered from an overuse of terrible CGI, incompetent writing, poor acting, and terrible directing. But even if you're Paul Anderson and you are going to resign yourself to making a terrible horror movie, you can at least make it an entertaining bad.

If you really want that R-rating, you have to make a compromise. Show me lots of gore (and, really, one would think that gore is a prerequisite of the zombie movie), or show me lots of T&A. Don't give me some cop-out, watered-down bullshit. It's just dishonest.

Don't lie to yourself, Paul: you make a lot of crap films! So at least give us a reason to see them. If you're going to sacrifice gore for a few shots of Milla Jovovich au naturel, make it worth it. I'm sure your audience doesn't mind seeing Milla in the buff; she's attractive, and people like looking at attractive people when they're naked. There's nothing wrong with that! But just be honest with yourself.

Don't tease us with snippets of violence and sex. . .you're not an auteur. You're not making art. You do not have any respectability or integrity, so don't bother playing it safe. To paraphrase Coach McGuirk, "Well, making bad movies is bad to begin with, right? So if you're going to make bad movies, you're already wrong. I mean, you're already at the party, so why not fight dirty?"

If you're not making art, you can at least make entertainment. So entertain, jackass!

"You've just gotta go ahead and change the captain of your brainship, because he's drunk at the wheel."

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Sunday, August 22, 2004 12:01 PM

QUICKSAND

The dilemma:

You want-- a good movie.

The studio wants-- a movie that makes money.

The two are not mutually exclusive.

Did 'Resident Evil' make money? I think it did, and for the same reason AvP opened #1 at the box office last week: water it down, so everyone will come see it. You make an excruciating gorefest that only 18+ kids will go see, you make less money. Hell, on that theory they even got AvP a PG-13 rating. This is a crime, a CRIME... people should go to jail for this. I'm not even kidding.

The complete and utter lack of character development in AvP was so god-awful ridiculous, I caught myself wishing during the movie that just ONE person on the crew had called up Joss Whedon and been like, "I have a problem with Act III. And Act II. And most of Act I."

Even Resident Evil (written by Anderson) had more character development than AvP (mostly written by Anderson). The funny thing about Anderson having walked away from directing RE:Apocalypse so he could do AvP is... DIRECTING is his stronger suit. AvP was stylish to look at, and fun to WATCH (if you turn the sound down)... the writing was just crap.

So now we have a script for RE:A written by Anderson, and directed by his Camera Operator. The trailer makes it look pretty cool, but then again, the studio chose to push it back until September. I am not optimistic.

But I'll see it for a dollar.

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Sunday, August 22, 2004 2:34 PM

EST120

sorry. :( did not mean to touch a nerve. i just thought the trailer for the next movie looked pretty good.

"i can't comprehend the ways that i miss you, they come to light in my mistakes."
-neko case

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Sunday, August 22, 2004 3:11 PM

PALADIN

Don't worry est120, I too believe the trailer loked good. Although it is true that the first film was not quite what it could have been, but I for one still feel that it was at least an adequate representation of the game.

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"If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell, a level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater." -Book

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Sunday, August 22, 2004 5:47 PM

CAPNRAHN

Opinions vary - I was entertained by "Resident Evil" and am looking forward to "RE-A".

And I also agree "AVP" falls WAAAY short. Like it was filmed from an outline instead of a complete script.

Now, on the negative side : IMO "28 Days Later" was a rusty bucket of fetid monkey pus.

Perspective is Relative - Nuff Said!

"Remember, there is only ONE absolute - There ARE NO absolutes!!!"

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Monday, August 23, 2004 8:12 AM

MOHRSTOUTBEARD

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Opinions vary - I was entertained by "Resident Evil" and am looking forward to "RE-A".

Now, on the negative side : IMO "28 Days Later" was a rusty bucket of fetid monkey pus.

Perspective is Relative - Nuff Said!

Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly comin' to a middle.

"You've just gotta go ahead and change the captain of your brainship, because he's drunk at the wheel."

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