Resident Evil afterlife

[dragon]

So has anyone seen the new RE movie if so how was it?

[JLTucker]

So has anyone seen the new RE movie if so how was it?

Of course it's shit. :p I haven't seen it yet (fuck you Crohn's!) but I am pretty sure I'll like it. Huge fans of the series seem to like it more than the critics, who actually figured the plot would be semi-decent, as if that has happened in any of the previous entries into the series. I've heard the 3D is actually well-administered, so that's cool to me.

[dragon]

Yeah was wondering how the 3d turned out, might have to go see it just for that.

[JLTucker]

Yeah was wondering how the 3d turned out, might have to go see it just for that.

From the trailers, I think has been put to better use than Avatar, which I forgot was in 3D while watching it, thus resulting in me thinking I was even more ripped off.

[Moby Halcyon]

The movie was only really good when they lifted the end fight scene move-for-move from Resident Evil 5. Other than that, the movie isn't worth even the trip up to the rental store. To say characters were out of character would imply this movie could characterize in the first place. To say the movie's plot was worth following would be to imply that the movie was something other than an amalgamation of stolen scenes and plot holes (who can Alice do a flying kick and survive being hit by the Executioner's axe despite having her powers taken away? Why is Wesker now a super-plagas? Why did the roof explosion destroy Alice's repelling line? Why is absolutely no explanation given for the sudden appearance of the plagas zombies, besides the chance for cheap scares?)

The 3D is decent - for some scene's it's amazing, like when Anderson decides to try being a real director and stage a really decent low shot across a beach. For the rest of the movie, it's an exercise in why most people think 3D should die. My friend and I - don't think you can get by with this movie by having lulz with friends and making fun of it - started a drinking game for each time something flew at the screen (credits, quarters, people). We stopped at around twenty, which was to say, in the first ten minutes of the movie. If we had been drinking beer instead of overpriced cinema soda and had continued for the rest of the movie, I'm pretty sure my friend and I would be dead.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Considering I JUST saw the last movie last night with my partner, I have one question for those who have seen it.

Do we REALLY get to see an Army of Alice rush the bad guys? Or is it just a big tease?

[Molyneux]

This series lost me with the very first film. What really makes me angry is that it's also managed to make me dislike Milla Jovovich, who was (after the Fifth Element) one of my favorite actresses.

Do any video-game characters even show up at this point? All I remember from the second film is Alice stealing each and every one of Jill's best scenes from the games.

[JME2]

The franchise is past is peak. I lost any interest in more films after the third one and the reviews have convinced me not to see this.

[Tychu]

I saw Afterlife in 3D. I had yet to see any movie in 3D and I figured that Resident Evil (being live action) was a better choice to test out this 3D technology. I have to say that the 3D is pretty cool.
I didn't really watch the previous entries in the series but I thought it was cool that Chris and Claire Redfield are in the movie.

And yes for the the first 10 minutes there is an Army of Alice

[SylasGaunt]

I saw it on Sunday and thought it was a definite improvement from RE3 and myself put it at about the same level as RE2. Granted that may be generous but on the upside the film did get rid of my biggest complaints from RE3.

1.) That plot point from RE3 about the T-virus somehow drying up the oceans? Completely thrown out the window and ignored, which is good because a.) it was stupid, b.) it was totally unnecessary because they spent the entire fucking movie in Nevada.

2.) Boring Invincible Alice: Alice gets toned back to be much more on the same level as the other major characters (though she still hogs some spotlight due to being the main character).
Spoiler

The first big action sequence involves about a dozen Alices storming the Umbrella base in Tokyo where they kick ass but early on one gets taken out by a lucky mook who shoots her in the back, two more get blown away by a dual-Desert Eagle wielding Wesker, and the rest get blown the hell up when Wesker escapes in a VTOL that looks likes an Osprey and a Firefly got drunk one night and had a kid and and sets off the place's swirly-vortex-nuke-destruct. Also when the original jumps him in the transport he kicks her ass and takes her super powers away.

She also ends up pushed aside for the major battles with Wesker and the Axe-Man leaving the Redfields to do most of the heavy lifting.

[Molyneux]

I saw it on Sunday and thought it was a definite improvement from RE3 and myself put it at about the same level as RE2. Granted that may be generous but on the upside the film did get rid of my biggest complaints from RE3.

1.) That plot point from RE3 about the T-virus somehow drying up the oceans? Completely thrown out the window and ignored, which is good because a.) it was stupid, b.) it was totally unnecessary because they spent the entire fucking movie in Nevada.

2.) Boring Invincible Alice: Alice gets toned back to be much more on the same level as the other major characters (though she still hogs some spotlight due to being the main character).
Spoiler

The first big action sequence involves about a dozen Alices storming the Umbrella base in Tokyo where they kick ass but early on one gets taken out by a lucky mook who shoots her in the back, two more get blown away by a dual-Desert Eagle wielding Wesker, and the rest get blown the hell up when Wesker escapes in a VTOL that looks likes an Osprey and a Firefly got drunk one night and had a kid and and sets off the place's swirly-vortex-nuke-destruct. Also when the original jumps him in the transport he kicks her ass and takes her super powers away.

She also ends up pushed aside for the major battles with Wesker and the Axe-Man leaving the Redfields to do most of the heavy lifting.

If it's about the same level as RE2, it still doesn't pass my "is this worth spending money on?" threshold. As far as I'm concerned, the series has gone steadily downhill since that makes-no-sense cheating laser grid in the first film...or at the very latest, when the T-Virus antidote lets Michelle Rodriguez become a zombie.

[Joviwan]

I saw it when it opened.

It's 97 minutes of Anderson furiously masturbating to slow-motion shots of Milla Jovovich's wooden and unconvincing acting while trying and failing to imitate Zach Snyder's action style. Alice is a horrible Mary Sue, the 3D effects were banal and unimportant (as was predictable), and the entire opening sequence was one of the worst "duplicate a character" scenes that I've ever looked at with my eyes. And I'm not even going to touch the actual cast of the film.

The ending fight scene with Wesker was ripped straight out of RE5, and it was better achieved in the game.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Massive over budget film that looks as if it was done a shoestring, that sort of thing?

If so, it seems we see that more and more in "Big Action" movies were you have to wodner if the SFX crew simply just don't care baout doing a good job.

[Ugolino]

Or that the Resident Evil movies deserve a warhammer crossover for full "kill everyone, crap on the wreckage" effect. Seriously, that's what these films need, seeing as all the interesting people were killed off/reduced to scenery.

And the director's an idiot and a hack.

[Cykeisme]

Aside from the trashy action scenes and music video direction, I also hate franchises where each successive sequel has to shit on all the developments of the movies that came before it.

Within the first twenty minutes (I think), they killed off all the Alice duplicates, depowered Alice, and established that the sanctuary the survivors' helicopter was headed for was an Umbrella trap.. therefore turning all the developments and plot points of the previous movie into crap.
Now, while the previous movie was pretty bad as well (the one in the Nevada desert, I can't recall the exact title), it was still pretty lame.

This, by fact, is usually fine when a plot arc is pre-planned to span multiple movies, but in this case it's one of those things where they don't know if they'll get to make another sequel, so they end the show with that in mind.. thus, the sequel just has to take a dump all over the previous movie.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Within the first twenty minutes (I think), they killed off all the Alice duplicates, depowered Alice, and established that the sanctuary the survivors' helicopter was headed for was an Umbrella trap.. therefore turning all the developments and plot points of the previous movie into crap.

Wow...

See, this is where you find out that writters in hollywood really are talentless hacks. I don't care much for the movies myself, but I did watch the previous one, and I remember thinking just how much potential there was for another movie.

An army of Alices, a MASSIVE underground base that evisdently contains everything she needs to cure the Zombie virus. A computer AI who apparently is nOT insaine and wants to help. Plenty of resources to build and such. And of course the people on the helicopter who, being the whole POINT of the previous movie, should have met up with surivors in an "untouched" Alaska.

But evidently it seems the writters can't deal with any of that. I imagine right off the bat they wanted to kill of all the other alices just because, I mean, it must have just been too hard to try and have made parts for so many people! Poor writters.

And giving us hope about the childern going to Alaska? Nope! All dead in a trap.

And do they even mention her blood being "the cure" again? Cause it sounds as if the first thing she does is leave the base to go attack the evil company. Which, if true makes it even MORE idiotic.

[Oskuro]

It's 97 minutes of Anderson furiously masturbating to slow-motion shots of Milla Jovovich's wooden and unconvincing acting his wife.

It's like the Andersons are showing us their wacky vacation pictures and charging us for it. Man, take her on a cruise or buy her a puppy to make her happy.

[SylasGaunt]

An army of Alices, a MASSIVE underground base that evisdently contains everything she needs to cure the Zombie virus. A computer AI who apparently is nOT insaine and wants to help. Plenty of resources to build and such. And of course the people on the helicopter who, being the whole POINT of the previous movie, should have met up with surivors in an "untouched" Alaska.

To be fair a lot of people were bitching about the Alice army thing because of her increasingly overpowered nature throughout the movies.

That and some of the plot points in Extinction really needed to be ignored due to to massive levels of stupid (the whole 'the t-virus dried up the oceans!' thing for one) and were totally unneeded anyway (i.e. we'll say the whole world's been turned into a desert then set the whole film in Nevada.. brilliant!)

But evidently it seems the writters can't deal with any of that. I imagine right off the bat they wanted to kill of all the other alices just because, I mean, it must have just been too hard to try and have made parts for so many people! Poor writters.

I imagine it had more to do with the fact that:

a.) Multiple alices in one shot means using money on special effectsing it up.
b.) Keeping straight 12 characters with the same appearance and same name would be sort of difficult.
c.) Finding shit for all of them to do without it all getting samey since they all look the same, act the same, and have the same superpowers.

Quite frankly I much preferred the way they were used as is because it let them cut into Alice's seeming invincibility by actually letting them kill her a few times without ending the movie in 10 minutes.

And giving us hope about the childern going to Alaska? Nope! All dead in a trap.

Uhm, they aren't dead.

And do they even mention her blood being "the cure" again? Cause it sounds as if the first thing she does is leave the base to go attack the evil company. Which, if true makes it even MORE idiotic.

Spoiler

Wesker actually wants to get ahold of her in the hopes that using her blood will stabilize his own condition as he continually has to fight the T-virus for control of his body.