Resident evil Afterlife Un-Delayed. Back on Track For 2010

[Darkmoon]

I'm still waiting, with baited breath, to see if he keeps the whole 'All the plants are dead' thing in the movie. The plot hole so big even the official novel didn't mention it. Because how does a virus that's transmitted by bite to living flesh get into plants? Zombies don't munch them. Zombie cows maybe? Rather than flesh they crave grass still? It can't be the water, because then plant life in the sea would be dead too and the world would have a distinct lack of something. What was it again? Ah yes. Oxygen.

[Stu]

The movies have a lot of plot holes, movie references, and unrealistic even at times ridiculous stunts.

How does ANY of that make it different from the games?!

[Darkmoon]

The ones in the games tend to be a lot smaller. Mixed up dates and bad translations rather than giant plot holes from the second and third movies. The first was actually relatively tight, plot hole wise.

The ridiculous stunts aren't too bad in the games either. In a three hour game you usually have one or two feats which defy gravity, physics and common sense. They are there...any one whose played Code: VERONICA knows that. And RE4 is an obvious exception, with Super Secret Ninja Agent Leon S. Kennedy regularly snapping the rules of reality over one mighty knee. But the movies have them rather more often (again, mostly the second and third ones. The first only had three or four I can think of, such as the dog fight).

And the movie references...well, I have no idea why that's a bad thing, but they're are certainly plenty in both.

[Karui]

It takes away from creativity. Why can't he come up with his own ideas?

[Stu]

It takes away from creativity. Why can't he come up with his own ideas?

What is a Resident Evil movie meant to be without borrowing from the games?

[Karui]

I mean the other movies

[Stu]

Oh right. I hadn't realised you'd conveniently stopped talking about Resident Evil

[BrionIrons]

The fact that whether they use guns or not is irrelevant. The movies have a lot of plot holes, movie references, and unrealistic even at times ridiculous stunts. IF Paul would fix these it would have been a lot better than they were.

Problem is Anderson has a one-tracked mind.This guy doesn't care about plotholes.I really hope this is the last RE movie directed or produced by Anderson.They need to get someone different to direct.I prefer George Romero over Anderson.Romero's script was alot better,yes there was a littlebit of differences with the character's background like chris wasn't a stars member.That could have been changed in a later time.it stood true to RE1.I've read Romero's script over the years.I honostly like Romero's over Anderson's.

[Beanovsky Durst]

Anderson made an epic fail for the times to come when turned Nemesis into a good guy. Seriously, that killed the movies for me. And now he'll put his filthy hands on my favorite RE character: Mr. Albert Wesker.

[BrionIrons]

Yeah I know how you feel.

[Ray]

Although the way he transferred some elements from game -> movie (like ^zomBD said, Nemesis: Wesker) were rather odd and out-of-place, I have to admit that the first movie was really well done (minus the gravity-defying Cerberus ass-kicking, and the funky-ish plot of having such a huge facility underground). The story of the first movie could have done well as a prequel to the first game (if they switched the date form '02 back to '98), imo. *don't get mad at me, people, this is just my thoughts* The Hive storyline could have been incorporated really well into the RE storyline, imo.

But then the second one came out...

[Beanovsky Durst]

Although the way he transferred some elements from game -> movie (like ^zomBD said, Nemesis: Wesker) were rather odd and out-of-place, I have to admit that the first movie was really well done (minus the gravity-defying Cerberus ass-kicking, and the funky-ish plot of having such a huge facility underground). The story of the first movie could have done well as a prequel to the first game (if they switched the date form '02 back to '98), imo. *don't get mad at me, people, this is just my thoughts* The Hive storyline could have been incorporated really well into the RE storyline, imo.

But then the second one came out...

Agreed. I enjoyed the first one, really, but then Apocalypse arrived and screwed everything. Extinction was a complete shitfest, when Alice got Spoiler:

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her Jedi / Psychic Powers

that's when I turned it off and never watched ever since.

[Ray]

^Yeah, I found her telekinetic powers rather unneeded. I liked how she was in the first movie: she was mysterious, and you didn't know much about her. The whole 't-infected' subplot of Apocalypse, while mundanely executed, was an interesting concept, at least.

[Agent_Wong]

I've bashed the movies all I care to at this point. Nothing I say is going to affect the shitty outcome this movie is bound to have. By the end of this dungload Alice the superbitch will be able to turn back time to where none of this ever happened and only she will know about it.

[Karui]

That would be hilarious. xD

[SamuraiEdge]

Indiana Jones 4 and Terminator 4 made a lot of money, too. Does that make them good movies? Who gives a flying fuck about revenue. I will say this, though, it boggles my mind that people still go to the theaters and shell out $10-15 to see those 'Resident Evil' crapfests that you call good movies, so you have a point there.

A lot of people watch American Idol, though, too.

^^This.

I never understood how anyone could enjoy those film's especially hardcore fans.

[Ray]

^ To each their own, I guess. Some watch it for brain-less, popcorn entertainment (like me!). I generally try not to relate them to RE (no matter how hard it is). And maybe the fact I'm in love with Milla, too. But, in the end, it's all opinion, it's just that the majority of people don't like the movies.

[Canas Renvall]

^ It should be easy to not relate them to RE, that's what Paul Anderson was going for. Why go through something that's more fun to go through interacting with it yourself? If he had just done the mansion incident, we would know what happens, where, when, with who and how. He was trying to avoid that. Then people got butthurt and he added a bunch of stuff from the games for Apocalypse. Then people got butthurt because it wasn't a carbon copy of RE3 so he just said "Well, I tried, you just can't be pleased" because he was still trying to keep it from being too close to the games to the point where you know exactly what happens, etc. and made Extinction his own way again.

And now he's making Afterlife, which I'm super-excited for!

[Ray]

^ I agree with you. I guess you're right, if it was a straight-out adaption of RE1, it would be boring. At least he tried to be creative. Excited for Afterlife as well!

Anybody else remember Romero's script for his adaption of RE? No matter how good he is a director, that script was (imo, IMO) pure, utter crap.

[jagger916]

The thing is, why make a RE movie that isn't a about RE. If you're not going to use the plot or characters from the the game, why use the name? It could've been "Shitty Zombie #13" or something of the like.