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Stars_g36
09-22-2007, 12:34 AM
It was pretty awesome, way more blood and gore then the first two movies, awesome action, definitly a better Resident Evil movie IMO...but hell I love anything Resident Evil...so yea...go watch it!
BLSR1
09-22-2007, 09:23 AM
I'm sorry are you sure you saw the same movie as me?
Jesus Powers = FAIL
Super Zombies = FAIL
Tyrant = FAIL
Birds = ok
New dogs = ok
K-Mart = FAIL
Ashanti = FAIL
No one noticing LJ is infected = PHAIL
Wesker = DOUBLE FAIL
Umbrella being able to make magic water bubbles but not a steady supply of food = FAIL
Clair = FAIL
Carlos = FAIL
Magic Crate = FAIL
Alice Clones = FAIL
"Bub" Rip-off = FAIL
This entire bull shit piece of "cinema" = http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa39/BLSR1/1177874444896.jpg
The writer of the "Resident Evil" movies just takes all of the games, Swallows them, Chews them up, and Craps out these movies that have bits and pieces from the games that FAIL miserably compared to the actual games. So what do they do? They copy what other franchises actually did well :hitler: .
I walked around RE4 last night blowing away villagers with the Hand cannon pretending each of them participated in making this "Movie". And I had far more fun doing that.
Destructoid gave this film a 1 out of 10.
I won't even dignify it by giving it a positive number as it's score. it gets a -1 out of 10
F&#% this movie franchise it needs to die and stay dead.
I want to make a film series called Biohazard and actually make movies based on the game series.
TheSelfishGene
09-22-2007, 10:28 AM
I knew I wasn't watching this as soon as it was announced. I learned my lesson after the first one.
Ridley W. Hayes
09-22-2007, 04:38 PM
Twice they try and twice they fail. What make us thing that the third was going to be better? I'm gonna wait to rent it on dvd... that's all that "thing" deserves u_u.
SinValentine
09-23-2007, 04:01 AM
there were alice clones you say? dear god have mercy on our souls :(
BLSR1
09-23-2007, 09:51 AM
there were alice clones you say? dear god have mercy on our souls :(
Yes and apparently she's jesus now too.
Wesker4ev
09-23-2007, 10:04 AM
I totally agree with you BLSR1 at the end of the movie the one thought that went threw my head was i cant belive i just spend $10 to see this movie. They should pay you to see it not the other way around.
Rancid Cheese
09-23-2007, 02:45 PM
Etc etc . . .
I won't even dignify it by giving it a positive number as it's score. it gets a -1 out of 10
F&#% this movie franchise it needs to die and stay dead.
I'm guessing it's not too good then . . .:lol:
On a similar note (given that you mentioned Bub) anyone looking forward to the Day of the Dead remake?
And can I just mention I actually thought this thread was about a new "Saw" movie, I was all WTF! use the Off Topic section . . .
BLSR1
09-23-2007, 03:04 PM
No, because It's gonna have running zombies again
Project Omega
09-23-2007, 10:59 PM
I was satisfied by the movie. It was quite enjoyable, personally. After the first movie I pretty much gave up hope on a game-plot driven movie, so I just watch them as action-zombie movies with "Resident Evil" similarities and it works wonders...
Walking into a movie theater knowing your gonna hate what your gonna watch because it doesn't hold up to the video games is dumb. Don't waste your time doing something you don't want to do. We've known since the first two movies that the game's plot doesn't apply to the movie franchise, but when you hope and the movies knock you down, you really have no one to blame but yourself. Sure you could blame the director's/producer's but as far as a sci-fi-zombie-action flick goes, I think they did pretty well.
There were a few areas where I had to take what I was seeing with a spoonful of salt, but over all it was fun to watch :)
Stars_g36
09-23-2007, 11:09 PM
agreed ^ :)
BLSR1
09-23-2007, 11:18 PM
I was satisfied by the movie. It was quite enjoyable, personally. After the first movie I pretty much gave up hope on a game-plot driven movie, so I just watch them as action-zombie movies with "Resident Evil" similarities and it works wonders...
Walking into a movie theater knowing your gonna hate what your gonna watch because it doesn't hold up to the video games is dumb. Don't waste your time doing something you don't want to do. We've known since the first two movies that the game's plot doesn't apply to the movie franchise, but when you hope and the movies knock you down, you really have no one to blame but yourself. Sure you could blame the director's/producer's but as far as a sci-fi-zombie-action flick goes, I think they did pretty well.
There were a few areas where I had to take what I was seeing with a spoonful of salt, but over all it was fun to watch :)
Oh no, I walked into that theator expecting to have a little laugh and get a few cheap scares.
But I was wrong. I walked away from that theator angry and ready to Punch a baby in the face. :hitler:
the only thing slightly good with this "movie" is that they got rid of Shaky cam and monster jump at the camera. from Apocalypse
Seriously 85% of movies on Sci-fi channel are better than this
rewak
09-24-2007, 11:33 AM
*SPOILERS, obviously*
Just finished watching it, and i enjoyed it a lot apart from the fairly weak ending. They say this is the last one, it better not be! You can't just leave it there, that's bollocks!
This next section is directed at BLSR1, but read if you want
Quit bitching about Alice being jesus, we knew she had physic powers from the end of the second one. Yeah its corny as hell but its not like we didn't know.
You don't like super zombies, blame Capcom for inventing them
Tyrant is kinda fail yeah, but it could have been so much worse. Being able to talk and being killed so damn easily was weak as hell though.
K-Mart was alright, again could have been so much worse, but its like they cut a lot of her character development from the movie or something, so kinda fail but not so much
Ashanti, yeah, fail, but she has like 10-15 minutes at most and thats is, so at least we don't have to put up with her for long. We get to see her die a painful death, you can't say thats not a good thing.
LJ is fail, i'll give you that hands down
Wesker again, i'll give you. So utterly horrible and wrong
Of course Umbrella has a supply of food etc bla bla, but you think they're gonna send it up above ground for others to find? Er, no!
Claire was good i though, she acted just like i expected
Carlos was fine, i wasn't so much into his whole love thingy with Alice but apart from that it was ok
What magic crates? The things in the LV that Umbrella planted full of zombies as a trap? They were ok, not magic
The clones yes, not great, and kinda hinders there being a 4th if they're gonna have to have an army of Alice's, so fail it is
Not taking a jab at you, just saying a lot of it is based on you're own personal opinion. And im guessing you hated the first two movies so it wasnt likely you'd enjoy this. I loved the first two so it was obvious i'd love this one.
BLSR1
09-24-2007, 03:06 PM
to rewak.
what a friend of mine said sums it up well
I agree with most of this. The plot really lacked. I can see the planning stages "We can't get 2 of the main characters from the beginning? Oh well, we'll just fast forward 5 years later and pretend they never existed." Giving Alice superpowers has pissed me off the second she appeared crashing through the chruch in the 2nd one and easily killing the lickers. Everytime the movie looks like it's going to get interesting(Lickers surrounding Jill and other survivors who are low on ammo) Alice comes in and kills all enemies easily. It happens more often in Extinction. The super zombies(along with them bursting out of that...uhhh little house thing?) was really retarded. The rest of the cast is just kind of there for filler. We recieve really no backstory on Claire, have a useless character named K-Mart and I don't even think the others had names. The only two interesting characters(I won't name them so it's not ruined for anyone going to see it) are killed. Although I was happy the movie did end, I was not happy with the ending. Who thought of that garbage? It truly showed that the other characters were just there for filler.
Capcom did'nt invent the super zombies o_o WTF were you thinking?
Crimson heads are different.
rewak
09-24-2007, 03:17 PM
Crimson heads/Ganado = Super zombie-like-things. Not a huge stretch from them to just have "super" zombies in the film. And remember Umbrella is still messing with these zombies (as you see in the film) making them stronger, hence why they only appear in Vegas when Umbrella set the trap for the convoy.
Oh and as for what happened to Jill and Angela, well, it's kinda explained in the novel. Alice killed Angela under the control of Umbrella, hence why she left the group (very briefly said in the film, although Angelas name isnt mentioned). Jill is now heading her own team of survivors in Baltimore.
And the others had names (or the "main" ones did) you just gotta listen since they're only mentioned once or twice.
Really i do see where you're coming from though, you gotta love the first 2 to like this one. And since i loved them, i like this. Although, i do feel like stuff was cut, hence no real backstory on the characters.
Stars_g36
09-24-2007, 04:29 PM
resident evil extinction got #1 at the box office reaching almost 24 million$ :D it doubled the amount of the #2 movie good luck chuck...must have been pretty good then :)
BLSR1
09-24-2007, 09:03 PM
resident evil extinction got #1 at the box office reaching almost 24 million$ :D it doubled the amount of the #2 movie good luck chuck...must have been pretty good then :)
No it means The OTHER PEOPLE :blargh:
had nothing better to do, Never even heard of the games, actually liked the first 2 movies, or were curious.
Spider Man 3 broke records but it doesn't mean it was good. :nervous:
Arlumit
09-25-2007, 03:49 AM
oh yeah, forgotten it's already 25 sept.
I heard Extinction is on 21/9
Ridley W. Hayes
09-25-2007, 12:05 PM
resident evil extinction got #1 at the box office reaching almost 24 million$ :D it doubled the amount of the #2 movie good luck chuck...must have been pretty good then :)
It doesn't doubled the amount. Apocalypsis had 23 million and Extinction 24 million. It's not a really big diference generally speaking.
Rancid Cheese
09-27-2007, 08:57 PM
And once again the RE Community is split over the newest movie. I really did want to see Jill again but it was pretty obviously becoming the "Alice Show" so I see no reason to have included Carlos or Claire in this one except to name drop for the more casual fans of RE . . .
BLSR1
09-27-2007, 10:05 PM
They totaly misse the boat on Carlos.
In the movie he doesn't have a fony accent that he loses halfway through the film.
Stars_g36
09-28-2007, 01:20 AM
all the babes love my accent...ehahaha
BLSR1
09-28-2007, 08:53 PM
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa39/BLSR1/Donotwant2.jpg
Rancid Cheese
09-30-2007, 05:54 PM
Oh man! Found a questionable source for this and watched it. Ugh I am so glad I did not pay for this! The Alice show through and through and the very idea of a fourth chills me to the bone. Claire was so pointless and Claire Redfield in name only. I liked the bit at the start with the group of people who lured in passing survivors, the convoy I understood the need for but every death went by with a resounding "And?" I had no interest in these characters and did not empathise with their plight in any form. I did like the aggression of the super zombies (?) but only in a "just like DotD:Remake" kind of way. The tyrant was ok if expectantly brief and Wesker was again like Claire in name only. All this movie did was make me appreciate the superior zombie movies out there and in a related note seal my rethink on my view regarding "28 Weeks Later" which I was not keen on at first but have come to really like on further viewings.
BLSR1
09-30-2007, 06:46 PM
How come whenever I see a zombie movie in theaters the volume is waaaaay too high?
SinValentine
09-30-2007, 11:47 PM
i went out with my buds a couple days ago to watch it, i wanted to bash it lol but i decided ah whatever i'll just watch it because i don't expect paul anderson to make it like the games anyway. i pretty much did what omega did. it was alright i guess, still sucked but better than the others. i think what made me enjoy it a little bit more was the theater i went in. the audience yelled out things at the right times which made it freakin hilarious, it reminded me of being in highschool and somebody yells out something stupid :lol:
i didn't understand that water tank thing too, and wesker looked like a fatass guy that just ate something from the dollar menu put some shades on and sits his fatass down acting smart.
i'll admit though, the part with the tyrant reminded me of birkin. but when he started talking i was like >_< you should've shut up LOL it was so tacky.
also how come they made no remark about jill? didn't she leave at the end with them in the car in RE 2? where'd she go lol
BLSR1
10-01-2007, 03:10 PM
also how come they made no remark about jill? didn't she leave at the end with them in the car in RE 2? where'd she go lol
She never existed o_o
It's all about Alice and her magic powers
Scream
10-02-2007, 12:24 AM
I haven't seen it yet, been busy.. I'll try and check it out soon though.
Rancid Cheese
10-03-2007, 05:44 AM
I'm with you on that one Sin we went to see Jeepers Creepers 2 at the cine and what a laugh we had. Mostly due to the group of younger kids about three rows in front of us. The guys laughed at every death and the girls squealed and squirmed at pretty much everything the Creeper did. It was infectious and soon the whole cinema was involved, saw it again on DVD and wasn't impressed at all it needed the cinema experience. Maybe Extinction does too but I don't have the energy to endure it a second time on the hope that the audience will rise to the occasion . . .
SinValentine
10-03-2007, 11:45 AM
lol yea, sometimes i just watch the movie for free ya know? tvlinks so i don't bother paying whatever for it, although it is in bad quality. i hate it when i spend $10 on crap
it'd be annoying if it's a good movie that they start making noise about, like when i went to see 300 they started making all this noise it was annoying. i liked 300 btw :lol:
BLSR1
10-03-2007, 03:56 PM
lol yea, sometimes i just watch the movie for free ya know? tvlinks so i don't bother paying whatever for it, although it is in bad quality. i hate it when i spend $10 on crap
it'd be annoying if it's a good movie that they start making noise about, like when i went to see 300 they started making all this noise it was annoying. i liked 300 btw :lol:
I love tv-links
Darkmoon
10-05-2007, 02:54 AM
Well, the whole reason for the second and third movies failure is fairly simple...Alice. Allow me to explain. The first movie was...underwhelming. The fact more people died via lazer beams than the undead was particularly offensive to me. However, it did stay true to the games. The Hive was never mentioned in the games, true, but it would have made sense to have some kind of extra on the Birkin lab. It simply wasn't big enough to do it's job, really. The explanation for the Lickers and Black Lickers wasn't great, but did fit with what we knew. The actual cause of the outbreak didn't gel, but otherwise the movie could have been inserted into the game storyline. It wasn't very good...but it wasn't offensive unto the eyes either.
Sadly, Anderson then got what, in writting communities, is refered to as Mary Sueism. It is a hideous disease. Anyone who had read fanfiction will, in the end, know what I'm talking about. A Mary Sue is character that is, for one reason or another, forced into a pre-exsisting story, supplanting cannon characters and often getting an increased load of special abilities and powers. Sound familiar? The people who write that crap are, one and all, regarded as 13 year old teens creating there own jerk-off material. And, as can be plainly seen, Anderson is one of them.
Or a zombie. Since the only person who could make the second movie had to have his brains rotting out his ears.
SinValentine
10-05-2007, 04:51 AM
ah i see what you mean, those out of story characters. i hate it when they just throw some random character in the mix and call it a fanfic : /
people argue that the re movies would be boring if it went too linear to the game, but i dunno not everyone's played re. besides what can you do about it now, remake the movies in like 10 years?
Darkmoon
10-05-2007, 09:14 AM
...well, we could kill the guy behind them. That wouldn't do much good but it would make me feel better. Besides, as I said, the man's a zombie. We'd be stopping the zombies!
At this point, really, the movie franchise is a loss creativily but a success financially. I think we all know what's more important to the higher ups. Anderson may well get a fourth movie, although the dark lords alone know what he'll do in it. Possibly Alice will rape a Tyrant.
BLSR1
10-05-2007, 03:23 PM
...well, we could kill the guy behind them. That wouldn't do much good but it would make me feel better. Besides, as I said, the man's a zombie. We'd be stopping the zombies!
At this point, really, the movie franchise is a loss creativily but a success financially. I think we all know what's more important to the higher ups. Anderson may well get a fourth movie, although the dark lords alone know what he'll do in it. Possibly Alice will rape a Tyrant.
Rebecca will be a character and it will have 10 whole minuets of bugspray.
Oh and Alice gets lazer beam eyes. while we get more phony wesker.
Nikovich
10-05-2007, 05:37 PM
Thank you Darkmoon. That's exactly the way I've always described the RE movies; Sue infested fanfics written by 11 year olds.
And I've read a few of those.
SinValentine
10-05-2007, 09:40 PM
when i was in the theater a lot of people behind me were complaining that they wanted to see more action at the quiet parts of the movie. so i thought to myself the audience probably watches it because it's action packed instead of having a good storyline. or maybe it was just those idiots sitting behind me.
chrism3784
10-06-2007, 10:51 AM
Me and Iceddz watched it yesterday. I liked it, even though, why kill the whole earth? So now the virus effects plant life, so the whole earth becomes a desert. I don't think it can effect weather, so when you see the entire earth as yellow, I'm sure its still going to rain in england and in the northeast USA.
BLSR1
10-06-2007, 11:16 AM
I like how alice's powers grow at a geometric rate. :lol:
I also like how all of the water magically disappears. Even if lakes and rivers dried up, it would be flooding somewhere else. The stupid writers don't understand the water cycle.
SinValentine
10-06-2007, 12:18 PM
if all that stuff really was a dessert they're all gonna die pretty soon, i didn't understand how they made some magical sphere of water to contain alice in.. why didn't they just put her in a glass case like a normal experiment
you know what that reminded me of? blitzball from final fantasy x, in the next one they should have alice and wesker doing blitzball. too bad carlos died he would've been a good player :P
BLSR1
10-06-2007, 12:33 PM
if all that stuff really was a dessert they're all gonna die pretty soon, i didn't understand how they made some magical sphere of water to contain alice in.. why didn't they just put her in a glass case like a normal experiment
you know what that reminded me of? blitzball from final fantasy x, in the next one they should have alice and wesker doing blitzball. too bad carlos died he would've been a good player :P
SO THAT'S WHERE THE WATER WENT! :D
Rancid Cheese
10-07-2007, 09:57 AM
I think the major problem was the critical reviews of the first movie's lack of characters from the game. They clearly went ahead and threw in some recognised names and went from there. As a direct result they threw Alice. a copy of RE3 and some recognised shots from Code Veronica into a blender shat on it and under the trance like state brought about by consuming the resulting mix proceeded to write the second and third movies.
As a stand alone film the first one was acceptable, personally I was satisfied by the ending with Matt as Nemesis and so on but now that it part of a three (god forbid four) piece series we must disregard it's existence as a cash-in. If the second movie had run in parallel to RE3 with maybe some Outbreak cast in attendance I would've been far more satisfied. Not only at the inclusion of some RE characters but at them not messing with the canon. As soon as I saw a picture of Nicholi that was it for me. Extinction only served as a vehicle for Milla and a means to dig an even deeper hole for Anderson to get stuck in than the second one did . . .
rewak
10-07-2007, 11:40 AM
There is a small possibility of a fourth film, note the Extinction website no longer says it's the last in the series. I would love another film, but i'd rather it focused on Claire and her group getting to Antarctica, then the obvious plot line would be from CV (and perhaps introduce Chris)
Stars_g36
10-07-2007, 01:23 PM
I thought they were going to Alaska...
rewak
10-07-2007, 01:25 PM
Were they? I can't remember :lol:
Darkmoon
10-08-2007, 02:32 AM
In all fairness, the second movie, at least, didn' have to be the total loss it ended up being. I can think of any number of ways to have improved that movie, without even altering the story that signifcantly. If they'd gone, 'Anderson is a moron, give some random person a hour with the script,' and that random person was me, they'd have been saved!
Well...not saved. I can't work miracles. But it would have been a much better tasting pile of dog shit.
First, Alice has no super powers. No. Fucking. Super. Powers. Should she be infected? Sure. Why not? It could be an interesting plot point, knowing she's infected, but with something different. This means zombies can actually put her in danger. Hah. Not really. I still remember her fighting them in the first movie. But they'd at least attack her. In Apocolpse, zombies won't even fight her. She's too pretty.
That would, automatically, improve every scene where Alice appears and saves everyone. Suddenly rather than the knawing sensation of, 'Eh, Alice will save them,' you have some tension and stress. Other characters will suddenly have to play something other than a bit part, while Alice tap dances through the film, crushing zombies with her thighs and killing Nemesis with her nipples.
The second thing would be to give Nemesis his sack back. He's not gonna turn good, and he's not gonnan die just because a helicopter hits him. He's going to relentlessly pursue them throughout the movie. The last shot of him will be waving a mutated and tenticle wielding arm at them as they escape, before getting nuked. Not only does this make him truer, it makes the movie more scary. Which was the point of Nemesis. You could even have him clip there helicopter so he's why they crashed, not the nuke.
Next, remove some of the high-level stupid. Obviously scenes like Alice driving through the church window to kill the lickers would be gone, because she no longer has god-like death powers. But other, even more stupid scenes exist. Example: Umbrella builds a giant metal wall around a city and no one from anywhere else notices. Umbrella lets a few thousand people out the city...all of whom are quite happy to lie for a company that unleashed zombie hell upon them. And despite all those people and video evidence no one believes they did anything wrong.
Well, the world is gonna end soon anyway, so it's pretty simple. First, loose the giant wall. Have the US army barricading the city, minus a wall, like the games. Then, since people did escape with a tale to tell, and a movie of the damned thing is released as well, have Umbrella caught...just like the games. Since the world is gonna end it makes equal sense. Just have the good message of Umbrella followed by some iffier stuff. 'The beleagured Umbrella corporation today caught a break...' You know the deal.
With those changes, the story is still crap, but it's at least gonna be a better movie. Zombies will be a danger, even when Alice is present. Nemesis will be a figure of fear, rather than someone to point and mock. The sheer stupidity of the stuff with Umbrella would be different.
And that's just off the top of my head. I once wrote a detailed description of how to make the movie better, changing things within each scene to have it make more sense.
On another note, has anyone got a link to Extinction? No hope in hell I'm paying to watch that pile of crap.
rewak
10-08-2007, 12:46 PM
You know, i think it's really funny people bitch to death about Alice having powers after being infected, yet no one give a piss about Weskers powers after he was infected.
And i also think it's really funny you've judged the movie without even seeing it. Really you're saying "I think it's gonna be crap, but i wanna see it. But i'm not paying!"
BLSR1
10-08-2007, 03:16 PM
You know, i think it's really funny people bitch to death about Alice having powers after being infected, yet no one give a piss about Weskers powers after he was infected.
And i also think it's really funny you've judged the movie without even seeing it. Really you're saying "I think it's gonna be crap, but i wanna see it. But i'm not paying!"
Wesker is different. He was infected by an early form of the G-Virus.
Alice was genetically altered by umbrella. And is a Robot that has Jesus powers. Umbrella made alice just to destroy destroy for some reason. Oh and she has electrolytes. It's what plants crave.
Wesker is just physically enhanced by his infection. He is like a tyrant.
This is all based on biased opinion. But Alice is more powerful than Wesker. :nervous:
Darkmoon
10-09-2007, 04:10 AM
Well, personally, I thought the idea of Super-Wesker was crap too. But he didn't come up in the second movie, and, as I said, I haven't seen the third. For me, I feel Wesker would have been better left dead rather than re-animated as a super being. If nothing else it makes the whole idea of bio-weapons irrelevant. Why make a powerful, lethal but unthinking and impossible to control monster when you can make a squad of super-soldiers? Sure, the risk might be great to the troopers, but Umbrella isn't exactly gonna mention that, are they?
You're right, I am judging the movie by what I've read in this thread. And on other sites. And the trailers. I know enough to know it's going to be utter crap. All the water in the world is gone? I can think of several ways in which water could be massively reduced...but they involve the world becomming colder, and plants would have a relatively limited effect. Yes, in lower areas they do effect percipitation, but in upper areas it's gonna rain, plants or no. Yet I knew that about the second movie, too, and I still watched it. Why? Because it's Resident Evil and I'm still an RE fan.
Plus I like to have physical evidence I'm better than Anderson.
Nikovich
10-09-2007, 09:49 PM
My evidence on why the movie will suck?
How about the first and second movies?
Darkmoon
10-10-2007, 03:41 AM
There is that as well, yes.
Darkmoon
10-11-2007, 04:41 AM
Alright, I just watched the movie. It was...not as awful as I anticapated. I won't say it was good. For a horror movie it failed, completely, to do what it was supposed to and scare me. There was nothing in the movie I didn't see happening about ten minutes before it actually did. Oh, not the exact details, but I had a general idea before it happened. I certainly saw all the 'look, scary monster JUMPING AT YOU!' bits before they happened.
It still had a lot of problems, but it was aided by the fact that someone had obviously realized some of the problems of the first two movies. I shall explain behind a spoiler thing. Because I'm kind, generous and don't like to hurt people.
HAH, who am I kidding? I love to see you people suffer.
Alright, make no mistake, this is still the Alice show. Carlos and Claire are both there...but replace the names and no one would notice. Savior of the human survivors? Alice. Defeater of zombies and crimson heads? Alice again. Who fight the end boss? MORE ALICE! Whose blood is required for Umbrella's latest evil project? AND to save the world? You guessed it.
Oh, I forgot to mention Wesker. In fairness, so did they. Bar the fact he had sunglasses you could have called him 'Corporate Asshole 23' and no one would have noticed.
All supporting characters do get a bit more screen time this go round, though. Some even are allowed to...develope a little. True, it's only in regard to how they react with Alice, but hey, it's a start. Some of them even look semi-competent in how to survive, which you'd really expect since they have survived for five years in a world of zombies.
Most noticibly of all, Alice's powers have been toned down some. Rather than killing everything with her mind when she does that it actually effects her. She's still stronger and faster than a normal person, with increased agility to boot, but there are moments when you feel she might be in some danger. They even show a major weakness...Umbrella can turn her off. Dun dun dun. I'm also pleased to say they removed the truly crap idea of making it so you, apparently, didn't know if she was good or evil by having her try to help people straight off. That was truly a crappy idea.
The enemies are also somewhat improved. The crimson heads are suitably lethal and the end boss is obviously an attempt to make up for what a pussy Nemesis was. Hell, he WAS Nemesis. Tenticles, one funky eye, serious skin complaint. Completely unstopable and not, most importantly, so impressed by Alice's boobs he changes sides.
This is not to say there aren't problems. Some, like the water thing, just doesn't make any damned sense. Even assuming, somehow, the virus got into to the sea and destroyed all life there water still wouldn't be an issue. Now, oxygen, you might have issues with...but that would make it hard to have Alice naked. Plus, even in the desert, you see damned plants all through the movie. Talk about a 'duh' moment.
Then you have a group of people who have survived five years...apparently by relying on technology, since posting actual gaurds seems beyond them. Wha? I'm sorry, something overheats and you're all dead. But they didn't bother with a single lookout. They don't even recognize when one of there own is infected. I mean, sweet zombie Jeebus, you gotta at least know that.
Then is the eternal flaw of Alice, being everywhere. Basically, Alice does everything bar die. Well, no, that's not true...a few Alice clones do peg it. But the ending? A few hundred Alice clones, being prepared, as Alice and Alice Clone 88 or whatever number she is watches. Yeah, you can see Anderson violently orgasming every time he thinks of that.
BLSR1
10-11-2007, 07:09 AM
What Crimson heads? Oh the Super Zombies :uhh:
I'll spell it out...
T-H-E-Y A-R-E N-O-T T-H-E S-A-M-E.
http://www.jvrpg.com/image_test/image115.jpg Crimson Head
The super Zombies were regular zombies hopped up on serum
Crimson Heads are a natural evolution of a zombie that eventually forms a Licker.
A Crimson Head is formed when a zombie is immobilized and it begins to Rot and mutate.
Crimson Heads have about the same strength of a regular zombie. The are Faster and have claws, they can't rip metal bars off of cars.
I would have put a pic of the super zombies...
but every RE:E pic is all about Alice
Darkmoon
10-11-2007, 02:09 PM
True. I just used the closest term I had for them in comparison to the games. There are more similarities between them than between anything else, and so far the movie hasn't actually done anything origional in terms of monsters. I just figured 'close enough.'
Stars_g36
10-11-2007, 07:58 PM
to bad we couldnt see the evolution of a crimson head into a licker, I so want to see a full mutation of it happening :D you know what hella scared me in RE2 was the licker going across the window real quick then the blood dripping and then seeing the vid of the licker above you was so scary when I was younger...they should have incorperated this more into the movies.
BLSR1
10-11-2007, 09:18 PM
to bad we couldnt see the evolution of a crimson head into a licker, I so want to see a full mutation of it happening :D you know what hella scared me in RE2 was the licker going across the window real quick then the blood dripping and then seeing the vid of the licker above you was so scary when I was younger...they should have incorperated this more into the movies.
In outbreak you see the link between Licker and crimson head.
Stars_g36
10-12-2007, 01:19 AM
yea, I own outbreak, but cant beat it unless I played it online which I never did...the computer always dies and you cant find shit...fuk outbreak.
Rancid Cheese
10-12-2007, 10:03 AM
The NPC's are really just there as zombie chow infact the films must've taken the AI of the Outbreak NPC's as their template for the non Alice characters. As for not finding things try it on Easy where everything is left in front of you anyway . . .
yay, finally saw extinction, god bless 'em bootleggers ..
gotta confess it was a lot more entertaining to watch compared to the previous 2 movies, still awful though. Dear lord what did they do to wesker :( ..
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Dark_Angel14
10-27-2007, 12:11 PM
Hey sume1 know a link where i can read the novel
nemesis_lover
10-28-2007, 05:20 PM
better late then never, saw the movie last tuesday, ok the ending was poor, i don't want to see 1000's of alices running up to weskers door, wanting to fight. plus where's jill, my girl friend loves jill in the game and and didn't mind the movie version, so was sad to see her not in the 3rd. i think the movies are alright, worth watching once or twice a year. wesker needs to get those super powers soon because his weight will slow him down against alice. the super zombiles were gd, but how the hell did they come out of that box, you could see into half of it and it was empty, so all 30 of them were squshed up to one corner or somthing, talk about being smart and planning a surprise attack. BEST SCENE EVER was when they were teaching the old zombile how to use the phone and cam etc, i lov his face when he's doing the things right lol,and why give him such a hard task to do at the end, they should of given him a peice of paper and told to write down a 100 things silly with the storyline of this film that hes in
Mr_Zombie
11-04-2007, 09:33 AM
You know, i think it's really funny people bitch to death about Alice having powers after being infected, yet no one give a piss about Weskers powers after he was infected.
Main difference between Wesker and Alice is: Alice is the main character, Wesker is the main villain. How could horror be scarry, when you know that the main character is able to fight, kill and survive everything that is throw at her.
Also, even though Wesker have super powers, we only saw them several times in Code Veronica (mostly him beating Claire or Chris); and still first form of Alexia could beat crap out of him (DC version needs no comment; in PS2/NGC version Wesker tries to fight with her, but in the end he run away).
I'm going to see the movie today. I really hope that at least this movie could be better than Apocalypse. But I doubt it will be better than the first one (which actually had atmosphere, good characters and was a little scary).
Skunky
11-05-2007, 11:38 PM
I recently re-watched the 1st 2 films on dvd with the intention of going and seeing the new one but something came up and I didn't get around to it.
Now I'm thinking I'll probably just wait for it to come out on blue-ray and I'll see it at home in 1080p (it wont take long before it does).
Since I'm sitting here, at my puta, a bit tipsy... I'll give my views on the 1st 2 movies:
I was very disappointed with the 1st film. My 'main' beef was the zombies. I mean, it's essentially a zombie flick and the zombies looked crap. Compare it to 'Day of the Dead' (probably the best zombie make-up effects ever) that was made Soooo many years ago. Why, with all the advances in technology do the zombies look so piss weak? There were many other things that bothered me... the licker looked okay but when it attacked the traitor dude near the end, why wasn't he torn to shreds? Instead he was shown after the attack with a bit of blood on him and we were told that the creature had 'fed' and now it would grow and mutate. There were some genuine RE elements that stopped it from being a total disaster of a film but overall, meh...
I went to the cinema to see the 2nd film with the lowest of expectations and I was pleasantly surprised. I actually enjoyed it. The Nemesis was pretty cool, I thought. Especially his first few scenes. Yes, it was quite comical but it reminded me of an old, obscure film called 'Raw Head Rex'. I even found myself enjoying the ridiculous hand to hand combat between the Nemesis and Alice. But it sucked when he became 'good'. The lickers in the church were also very cool.
Sienna Guillory was a fantastic Jill, she really stole the show I thought (Grrrrr). I was very disappointed to read that she wasn't to appear in the 3rd film (but who could blame her?).
From the previews I've seen it looks like the 3rd film could be the best (not really a grand title to own). It at least looks like it's a bit gorier...
I think it's a damn shame that the REAL story of RE was treated with such disrespect. It's just a series of films that include a few characters and creatures from the games and completely disregards the real plot.
The Silent Hill film was done so much better. It really captured the look and atmosphere of the games. It even inspired me to go back and play the games again. Jurasic Park 3 had the same effect on me. I remember watching it at a friend's house and I had the sudden desire to go home and blast some dinosaurs on Dino Crisis 2.
As much as I WANT to like the RE films, the horrible truth is that the're a stupid embarrassment to the franchise. They probably do more harm than good.
What a terrible waste of an opportunity! They spent millions & millions of $ on those films...
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