The fact that a lot of people go to movies to be entertained, not to pledge fealty to some developing franchise, is the reason why “shit like this” will continue to be produced. The movie set out to be an entertaining diversion, giving people the chance to look at hot women (and men, if that floats your boat) shooting guns and blowing shit up. It succeeded at that.
This was not a genius movie. This wasn’t even a particularly good movie. But it was fun to watch, which is exactly what it set out to be.
And as for “shitting all over the story and concept of the games,” please. These are Resident Evil games. These aren’t insightful treatises on the nature of man’s injustice against fellow man. This is a highly profitable, highly derivative videogame franchise where creatures pop up out of dark corners or jump through windows and you shoot at them (provided you can get the freaking gun aimed in the right direction, considering the horrible control scheme). They rip off countless other games and movies and entire game/movie genres. The only reason it’s novel is that it chose the right combination of stuff to rip off, and it presented it very well.
I’m not sure. I remember seeing some teasers that were in the form of a cosmetics commercial advertising this wonder drug that would keep you young & beautiful forever, but that didn’t make it into the movie. Lately they’ve been advertising the premiere of the first movie on TV a lot, and it would be easy to confuse those commercials with the latest theatrical release.
Anyway, I liked the movie. It was at least as good as I expected it to be. Lots of action. Lots of eye candy. Almost everyone I wanted to live, actually did. Heck, a whole modern day extending family of people survived. How often does that happen? There was a feeling the whole movie was a set-up for the next one though.
It bugged me during the final fight scene with Nemesis when he grabbed a strip of metal off the wall to use as a weapon, and the camera had to focus on the sharp metal thingy sticking out of the wall. As if anyone who watches these movies doesn’t know how the sharp pointy thing sticking out of the wall is going to be used. You had to zoom in on it?
Here’s the bit that pissed me off – everybody knows, and they make it quite explicit that zombies shuffle around and they moan a lot. They don’t have anything else on the brain beside shleping their sorry asses in a beeline for the nearest living human in order to bite them. So, how did the reporter suddenly get surrounded by them? What, did they fucking teleport? Despite all previous evidence, these somehow learned to hide in shadows and stage a surprise party? That was just cheating.
And am I to understand that they were trying out this “Nemesis” in two flavors – one a nasty open sore and the other a hot chick? Because, I’ve got to tell you, I’d have gone ahead and done all hot chicks.
And when the tape surfaced, I’m to seriously believed that they managed to convince people that a couple of cops were just dicking around having people walk around biting eachother for shits and giggles a few hours before the city happened to get nuked? And that nobody would question what must have been a nuclear reaction recognizably different from what you’d get from an actual faulty nuclear reactor? The explanation seems to be that that’s just how powerful a corporation we’re talking about here. Ooooo, scary. If they’re that powerful, why don’t they just come right and tell the truth, then? Yeah, we zombified Racoon City and nuked it when we were done. What the fuck are you going to do about it? You want some?
They only had two subjects to work with and the T-virus mutated them in different ways, one was a dude who therefore turned out to be big and brutish while the other was a chick and therefore hot and fast. Duh.
You remember Alien:Ressurection? You know how tough it is to keep the superhuman chicks-as-weapons in line?
What I wanted to know was how did they erase all of the entries from all of the blogs that all of the teenage girls of Raccoon City were writing about this.
Oh, I dunno. In real life I could totally see someone coming to the SDMB and screaming “did you see that tape!?! It’s proof! They were making zombies!”
And then 50 or so intelligent, educated and well respected dopers would immediately descend on him with cites from Snopes proving that it was thoroughly investigated and proven to be a hoax, and would you please keep your ridiculous tin-foil beanie cap conspiracy theories to yourself please?
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