Lets talk about Resident Evil Afterlife (Spoiler)

[Wesker90]

i liked the movie a lot... Wesker was portrayed well other then his actual background but i really dont think even after what happened to him in the end that hes gone

[DONNIemo]

Lol, I guess these silly arguments just makes us Human after all. I suppose that 26 mil. wouldn't have been made if people hated the movies then. Like I said before, I have been with the Resident Evil games since the beginning, and I still enjoy the movies for a different atmosphere. But every one has their opinion whether is offensive or positive, but at the end of the day we are still who we are. We shouldn't let this hate and love relationship of the movies and games come into what we share in common. People loves most of the games and hate some of the games. I recall RE4 being bashed on and we have had the whole entire situation again now with the movies. But end of the day who cares. Like what you like.

I agree the game story lines are much better, when i watch the movies I don't even really pay attention the story lines.

Very well said I agree.

[Rombie]

Nope. Sony does.

Arch sorry forgot to reply to this earlier - Actually no, Constantine Films does. Paid a pittance for it back in late 96, early 1997. And it now provides most of the funding for the rest of it's Euro-art-house and comedy films. Sony is just the films distributer in the US and other countries.

And what about people who do like them? Obviously there are a lot. And did you really just call me a member of a brainless horde, and did you really just call me a zombie?

Canas, Inferno, etc - Oh... I'm sorry, did I hurt your ego with my comments? :p j/k I enjoy the fact I've somehow pissed off specific people here without actually attacking anyone.

As clearly Inferno has worked out, specficially I wasn't attacking people who like the film... well no direct intent was made to anyone pro or not here. The fact that week-in-week-out people choose movies and most of the time they probably don't deserve the money they make when the majority of reviews pan them. Which is where my brainless horde comments come in, generalisation based on a fickle week to week film viewership.

This isn't the RE films alone, this is a lot of films. People point to metacritic or RT and say "Look, this film was crap - the majority of reviewers said so" but then it makes $30 million on opening weekend. And $100+ million in overall run. And $200+ worldwide. And then it gets sequels. And a mass of people go "Why? The first one wasn't even that great?!" And then go back to the reviews and say "Look, this film was crap - etc."

But that's just that when the bigger thing comes from the people complain afterwards, and not actually the people not like you who liked it and were happy to pay for the ticket. Especially in cases involving sequels, like this one. Half the tickets probably sold because people wanted to see how bad the film was after not liking the last one, but of course seeing the film and paying for the ticket means you're adding to the films profit and ensuring that more will be made.

At the same time I'm not attacking anyone for that, but I do think people who knew they weren't going to like it before they stepped in the doors, and were only going to help the chances of another film being made. And then the people who do like it (and face it or not, attack not intended, but it is a minority - both in this thread and in general online) seem to need some level of hardcore need to defend the film even if the most recent one was better/worse/same as the earlier ones.

If you didn't like the earlier films, you're not going to like this one either by the looks of all the comments around here. Your choice if you see the film still of course (looking at you Inferno) but realise in doing so you're going to help make the next one happen. And then you'll be back next time saying how crappy the damn thing was. Most likely anyhow.

[XCodyX]

As much as i think they took the R.E. characters from the game just to make people wanna watch it, They did a honorable job with putting them in the movie, Jill was ok but look at chris and clair, Chris is in a cell and clair was wondering around the desert and were the hell is leon!!!! I just noticed yesterday that the Axe guy from the movie was in R.E. 5 other then that i do like the movies!

[red-letter.day]

Where can they go from here. They plan on making a RE5 movie. The games were all abotu preventing a global epidemic. The movies did it half way through the series. Now it seems everyone is dead. Nothing but a handful of survivors now. Whats the point of the series now, civilization is lost. Are they going to retcon the whole global epidemic and start making settlements or something. It seems Umbrella is dead and any reason or attempts at global domination is pointless. There are no people to dominate. Way to go Anderson. [sarcasm]

[Prime Blue]

Where can they go from here. They plan on making a RE5 movie. The games were all abotu preventing a global epidemic. The movies did it half way through the series. Now it seems everyone is dead. Nothing but a handful of survivors now. Whats the point of the series now, civilization is lost. Are they going to retcon the whole global epidemic and start making settlements or something. It seems Umbrella is dead and any reason or attempts at global domination is pointless. There are no people to dominate. Way to go Anderson. [sarcasm]

Aliens are the natural progression. Corrupt aliens with viruses.

[Archelon]

Arch sorry forgot to reply to this earlier - Actually no, Constantine Films does. Paid a pittance for it back in late 96, early 1997. And it now provides most of the funding for the rest of it's Euro-art-house and comedy films. Sony is just the films distributer in the US and other countries.

Ah. Thanks for the correction.

At least I was right about Capcom not owning the rights to the films, ha ha.

[Rombie]

Capcom control or lack of control is one thing, by Sony is profiting from these films anyway. Their the second biggest money earner in Sony's releases (Spiderman is the first) and it's the reason they did jump on board with Capcom straight away to be the studio that supported them with Degeneration (and it's upcoming sequel).

I need to check the EPK materials, which I do have a copy of, but for the first couple of films Anderson tried to work with Capcom on them, and Okamoto back when he was still with Capcom was on set for the original film a lot. But I think since then they've had little to do with it other than occasional cross promotions.

[nicksena17]

I thought it was a pretty good movie I would watch it again. I thought it was better than extinction.

[Stars_g36]

there is a sequel to Degeneration coming out???

[Canas Renvall]

That has to do with RE: Afterlife... how? XD

[Robert_Kendo]

i saw the movie last evening at a german cinema...very bad movie.i am very disappointed.The only good scene of this move was the scene with jill but thats all

[kevstah2004]

My review in two words courtesy of the Sheik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ygaxkuCEWo

[xfactor]

there is a sequel to Degeneration coming out???

Yes, it was just announced recently, and will be released in 2012.

[Inferno04]

Canas, Inferno, etc - Oh... I'm sorry, did I hurt your ego with my comments? :p j/k I enjoy the fact I've somehow pissed off specific people here without actually attacking anyone.

As clearly Inferno has worked out, specficially I wasn't attacking people who like the film... well no direct intent was made to anyone pro or not here.

...The fuck are you bringing me into this for? Yeah, you didn't attack anyone who liked the film, you attacked anyone who even went to go see it.

[Rombie]

...The fuck are you bringing me into this for? Yeah, you didn't attack anyone who liked the film, you attacked anyone who even went to go see it.

For obvious and just reason... and considering you replied in direct comment to my original post, seemed fairly fucking obvious to include your name in it;

Hey, did any of you ever think that maybe, even if we know the movie is shit, we want to see it anyway because we, you know, want to form our own opinions with conviction? Or perhaps to find even a moment, a shred of saving grace? Or even to see if it was AT LEAST better than Extinction?

No. No we're not mindless zombies. I'd throw in some very brash direct insults but Darkmoon and Alexia have already made it clear not to throw out personal attacks.

Good work there.

[Alexia_Ashford]

For obvious and just reason... and considering you replied in direct comment to my original post, seemed fairly fucking obvious to include your name in it;

Can't really agree that there's ever a "just reason" to attack anyone simply for going to see a film.

[Erdbeerman]

I saw the movie yesterday at a german cinema.

Beware of MASSIVE spoilers.








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Things I liked:
- The soundtrack (half of it)
- Albert Wesker
- Umbrella corporation still powerful and main antagonist
- The big underground Umbrella HQ in Japan
- The white Umbrella laboratory onboard the Arcadia
- Weskers sunglasses and his RE5 outfit
- Wesker dodging bullets at superhuman speed
- The fight between Wesker, Chris and Claire (even though it looked almost the same as the fight between RE5 Wesker, RE5 Chris and Sheva... but maybe I liked it exactly for that reason)
- The Osprey-like spy planes
- Jill Valentine
- Wesker possibly escaping the detonation of his plane near the end of the movie via parachute
- Flying an airplane low enough to chop massive amounts of zombies to mincemeat utilizing the propeller = win

Because I LOVE the games, especially the old ones, there are some things I am not too sure about as well.

Things I disliked:
- Why was an executioner in Los Angeles? Where did it come from? Who build his axe? Why didn't the zombies in the streets attack him? I mean, those were the mindless zombies created by the T-Virus, not the mind controlled Majinis from RE5.
- What was it with the Majini-like Zombies which could run (the ones in the shower of the prison)? Those tentacles protruding from their mouths aren't a side effect of the T-Virus. Would Crimson Heads have fitted better maybe?
- Tentacles in Weskers mouth? Why?
- While I liked the fight between Wesker, Chris and Claire, the showdown as a whole was imho not as intense as it could have been.
- Despite the portrayal of Wesker was imho good almost all the time, I thought that something was missing. In the movie he was calm, self-controlled, gruesome and arrogant, but not all of his characteristics from the games were shown. He wasn't depicted as a brilliant scientist, a genius with superior intellect. I liked the character from the games also because of those attributes.
- Chris Redfield. I mean, that he wasn't ripped as the Chris from RE5 was a good thing, but somehow... I don't know how to explain it...

Things I wondered about:
- How did Alice survive the plane crash at the beginning of the movie, when she had lost her superhuman capabilities right before the crash?
- What kind of warhead did Umbrella use to purge their facilities in case of an emergency?

The cliffhanger at the end of the movie reminded me of the one at the end of God of War II.

The Wesker we saw in the movie was much younger than the one from the games, but I didn't think that this was a problem.

So, what antagonists are left for future films? Possibly Albert Wesker, Jill Valentine... and what about Alfred and Alexia Ashford, Dr. James Marcus and Ozwell E. Spencer? What do you think?

[A-J]

Afterlife is tearing the community apart

[rewak]

Correction, people who haven't seen the movie yet are ready to rip into anyone that dares even watch it is ripping the community apart, and it's always the same people stirring shit up too, every time.

I saw it and i enjoyed it. I liked the previous movies but i wasn't so sure if i was going to like this one because they went with the 3D gimmick which i'm against and also drew elements from RE4/5 which i didn't like, but i was pleasantly surprised. I actually think it might be the best one so far.

Most of the critics and fans were ready to rip this apart before it even hit theaters and i understand that, all video game movies have that exact same response upon release, but honestly its easy to figure out. If you liked the previous movies you'll like this one, if you didn't then you won't. Simple.