Resident Evil: Apocalypse

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Well, husband and I just got back from RE: Apocalypse, and I thought I would pass along some very interesting information (possible spoiler follows):

Spoiler

Apparently, becoming infected with a freak zombie virus, killed, and resurrected in a weird computer womb allows you to use the Force and murder people with your mind.

Wow. It was worse than I ever could have imagined.

...but, possibly worth my $8-- just for the laughs.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

If a kind moderator out there would slide this on over to the Movies forum, I'd appreciate it...

... sometimes I forget it's there... *whoops*

 

[Gregor]

Ya I dont think you could pay ME to go see that flick. I laughed out loud when I saw the trailer for it. The fact that they use Toronto's Nathan Phillips Square as the location for this zombie-murder-fest makes it even funnier!

Cheers,

 

[Belen]

I really enjoyed the movie. It had a good amount of action and story development. It reminded me a lot of playing the games.

 

[Rackhir]

Well, husband and I just got back from RE: Apocalypse, and I thought I would pass along some very interesting information (possible spoiler follows):

Spoiler

Apparently, becoming infected with a freak zombie virus, killed, and resurrected in a weird computer womb allows you to use the Force and murder people with your mind.

Wow. It was worse than I ever could have imagined.

...but, possibly worth my $8-- just for the laughs.

**********************Warning Possible Spoilers ******************

Nothing too bad, but you are warned.







I'm kinda guessing here that you didn't much like the original movie and/or the games. From my own reactions (I loved both films) and what I've seen of critics and others. If you didn't like the first film/games, you won't like the second film and vice-versa.

I thought that both movies fit extremely well into the game universe and captured a lot of the tension that made the games good. I though the actors especially Milla Jovovich all turned in excellent performances and fit the characters very well.

As to your complaint/mockery. The T-Virus is made to regenerate cells. This has the unfortunate side effect of killing people (through cancer perhaps?) and resurecting dead bodies as zombies. Of course it has also been meddled with by Umbrella's bio-warfare technologies department, probably the source of it's mutative properties.

Alice was also the victim of who knows how much experimentation both before and after the main events in the movie. So having her have some wierd abilities/features is hardly "Bizarre" given the movie's genre. I saw the psychic attack as being more akin to "Scanners". For some reason, probably the nose bleeds in scanners, having people bleed from ears/eyes/nose/mouth has become a hollywood short hand for "Painful mindscan/control".

I also doubt that Alice was really dead after the crash, if the T-Virus can give life to dead bodies and regenerate wounds. I would tend to doubt that a crash that was survivable for the rest of the characters would be fatal for someone like Alice. A better question would be "Why was she left behind?", but there's a host of possible explanations for that.

 

[The_Universe]

My friend, you lend the film more depth with your explanations than I think it has earned.

I liked the games, and I had a passably good time with the original film. As a tribute to a videogame, the movie ain't bad. As a movie, it ain't so good.

Just IMHO, of course.

 

[Rackhir]

My friend, you lend the film more depth with your explanations than I think it has earned.

I liked the games, and I had a passably good time with the original film. As a tribute to a videogame, the movie ain't bad. As a movie, it ain't so good.

Just IMHO, of course.

Quite possibly, but that does seem to be a large part of what it is to be a fan. For some reason people choose different things that they will suspend disbelief for. I have repeatedly seen people speak with starry-eyed admiration of shows and movies that I would regard as something that needed to be scraped off my shoes (for discression and safety's sake I will mention none).

Many years ago at my first WorldCon, I saw a flier for a fanzine about a show that was old in 1986, called the Phoenix ("SUN-POWER"). This was an '81 show that lasted a couple of episodes, starred Judson Earney Scott (Khan's 2nd in command) and was typically awful. It was then I realized that no matter how stupid, illogical, poorly acted, terribly done SFX and just plain awfulness a show suffered from, someone out there was going to love, admire and worship the show/actor/philosophy/etc... and go on to weave detailed elaborate webs of explanation and justification.

So let he/she/it/clone/replicant/robotic duplicate/alien.... with out geeky admiration for something that were we to look at it rationally should be buried deep underground and burned, throw the first pokemon ball.

 

[Laurel]

Okay I haven't seen the movie yet, but not because I haven't wanted to just have to find someone to go with Only one person I know who wants to go....
I liked the first one and dare I say it I think I may just like the next one, but I'll have to report back after I see the movie.

Reason for me even responding: I absolutely love this quote!

So let he/she/it/clone/replicant/robotic duplicate/alien.... with out geeky admiration for something that were we to look at it rationally should be buried deep underground and burned, throw the first pokemon ball.

 

[The_Universe]

Quite possibly, but that does seem to be a large part of what it is to be a fan. For some reason people choose different things that they will suspend disbelief for. I have repeatedly seen people speak with starry-eyed admiration of shows and movies that I would regard as something that needed to be scraped off my shoes (for discression and safety's sake I will mention none).

Many years ago at my first WorldCon, I saw a flier for a fanzine about a show that was old in 1986, called the Phoenix ("SUN-POWER"). This was an '81 show that lasted a couple of episodes, starred Judson Earney Scott (Khan's 2nd in command) and was typically awful. It was then I realized that no matter how stupid, illogical, poorly acted, terribly done SFX and just plain awfulness a show suffered from, someone out there was going to love, admire and worship the show/actor/philosophy/etc... and go on to weave detailed elaborate webs of explanation and justification.

So let he/she/it/clone/replicant/robotic duplicate/alien.... with out geeky admiration for something that were we to look at it rationally should be buried deep underground and burned, throw the first pokemon ball.

Being the final arbiter of the metaphysical concept of cool, I actually don't have to worry about this stuff. [1]

That's right! *I'm* the reason you have to like Empire Strikes Back more than Return of the Jedi! BWHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!

([1] I'm totally just kidding. Glad you liked the flick, but it wasn't my cup of tea)

 

[Tonguez]

Quite possibly, but that does seem to be a large part of what it is to be a fan. For some reason people choose different things that they will suspend disbelief for. I have repeatedly seen people speak with starry-eyed admiration of shows and movies that I would regard as something that needed to be scraped off my shoes (for discression and safety's sake I will mention none).

Many years ago at my first WorldCon, I saw a flier for a fanzine about a show that was old in 1986, called the Phoenix ("SUN-POWER"). This was an '81 show that lasted a couple of episodes, starred Judson Earney Scott (Khan's 2nd in command) and was typically awful. It was then I realized that no matter how stupid, illogical, poorly acted, terribly done SFX and just plain awfulness a show suffered from, someone out there was going to love, admire and worship the show/actor/philosophy/etc... and go on to weave detailed elaborate webs of explanation and justification.

So let he/she/it/clone/replicant/robotic duplicate/alien.... with out geeky admiration for something that were we to look at it rationally should be buried deep underground and burned, throw the first pokemon ball.

Thats beautiful man you brought a tear to my eye


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Haven't seen Apocolypse but loved the first movie BECAUSE it mirrored the game so well - in fact as I watched my thumbs started twitching...