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Resident Evil: Afterlife - Wesker, Alice clones, more dobermans
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And the physics thing with the armory kind of confused me too. But they came out of the water at a stairway, so maybe they just had to swim under to access it, and it wasn't necessarily down two floors. Either way, it's best not to think about it too much; it was just a plot device to get that girl killed and have swimming zombies.
But, a major complaint from me about the ending:
And a conjecture:
I figure that means Wesker now has the perfect T-virus DNA and had strong enough psychic powers to bubble himself when his helicopter nuked.
Help us, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're our only hope.
Possibly finding a cure or a vaxine to protect the surviving shareholders/employees once you open the gates on your secret super huge subterranian bases/research facilities?
My problem:
Seriously though, it was an entertaining movie. Glad I spent the extra couple bucks for 3-d, though the whole "shit coming straight at you because it's in 3-D!" thing got kind of old.
I think they just want to become rulers of the world at this point. Become superhuman through the T-Virus, wipe out the zombies, and become gods of a new world.
You get to see her naked in the second movie. It's not everything it promises to be.
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That's why 3-D died in the 70's and 80's and pretty sure it had died even in the 60's back then for such stunts, few really implemented it in a creative way.
And hey if you want to see her naked, this is the interwebs, they exist and they are real.
But the internet isn't in glorious imax 3-d. It just isn't the same when her nipples aren't the size of tractor tires.
But it seems like they already have bitching machines that can take care of that, so I figure it's more just trying to become godlike superhumans. Which Wesker did a pretty job for himself; and at that point everyone else at Umbrella stays because the alternative is living in a shithole post-apoc zombie world.
As a sidenote, the Japanese audience was happy to see the movie start in Tokyo, and the movie having premiered in Japan a week before the rest of the world. There's tons of rumours about the next game being set in Japan.
What I liked:
Big, axe-wielding mutant. I named him Clarence. I wish he had a bigger part in there, but it was enough for your usual random "oh, shit" threat out of nowhere.
The music was cool. I want to find the soundtrack. I like the score in this one more than just about any of the other movies besides the first.
What I didn't like:
So much slow-mo action movie bullshit that it made me want to throw something at the fucking screen. I mean it's literally over and over and over a-fucking-gain. During one gunfight, Alice back flips for no reason whatsoever and lands more or less in the same spot she was already standing in. It wasn't like she was dodging anything, either, since the bullets being fired weren't coming close to hitting her at all.
Claire does some more waste-of-time back flips shit during a fight with the axe dude. It's literally one of the most nerve-grating things I've ever seen. She kips up off of the wall, lands behind the guy all "cool", then slowly raises her face up to the camera. I just facepalmed in the theater and silently sighed to myself.
Alice eventually manages to kill the unstoppable mutant guy with a shotgun filled with quarters. Huh. Headshots didn't work earlier, so what's in there that would stop him if the head just kind of blew up?
I can understand that it's a "summer" movie and standards are already set incredibly low with the other films, but most of the script and action scenes are just insultingly bad. There's a ton of crap in there meant to look "bad ass", but it's not bad ass at all, it's just silly -- even for a Resident Evil flick.
In the end, I can't say I'd really recommend that someone pays movie theater prices to watch this. Even if you turn your brain off and take it as a harmless action movie, it manages to somehow reach deep down beneath that numb shell you've placed over your senses in order to lash you, time and again, as punishment for daring to stay seated in the theater.
Yeah, but that's what Natalie Portman or Kiera Knightley would look like too (well, Portman not nearly as much). All 3 are still hotter than the sun mostly thanks to their faces and asses.
They nailed the atmosphere once again, and Wesker's actor hit it out of the park.
Ending stuff:
She was a terrible actress, though, so no great loss.
Oh, and the 3d was pointless. It was only cool during the axe guy stuff.
Shame they didn't get Marilyn Manson back. RE1's film score was awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onmr0Vr0XXs&feature=related
It's by Tomandandy I think?
Also, the first scene had that clinical look that I loved about the first film. Shiny.
Oh this is good... Can you find the music that plays in RE1 in the beginning? It's really creepy sounding.
Ref Alice
(Though it's his own fault, he wrote them both!)
Exactly.
Also I really like your signature.
The two things I liked most about the movie? First would be the soundtrack. Rarely (and I mean rarely) do I pay any attention at all to a movie's soundtrack, but throughout this one I kept thinking to myself, "Man this is a great action song." The second would be axe guy.
In summation, a lot better than I expected.
"I have THIS!"
"What IS it?"
More classic Barry. Heck, he even uses those last two in RE5 (Gold edition Mercenary mode).
Which is another argument those dudes use a lot. "Lord of the Rings had a good adaptation, why can't this? If Peter Jackson did Resident Evil, it would be brilliant!"
If they want a sequel to Dead Alive, they should just say so.