Resident Evil: Apocalypse

[Truth Seeker]

Well, uhm...(hope not to be shouted at), I like it...it was fun.

Well if that was not your taste, DOOM the game, will be making its way to the screen soon. (check out scific news article...in the news section)


Uhm...that was not a plug

 

[Rackhir]

Well, uhm...(hope not to be shouted at), I like it...it was fun.

Well if that was not your taste, DOOM the game, will be making its way to the screen soon. (check out scific news article...in the news section)


Uhm...that was not a plug

Relax, most people don't bite at EN World. Besides, its not like you were claiming that some mythological sequel to Highlander was the greatest movie of all time.

There was a series of Doom novels published about 10 yrs ago. I tried reading one, but it had this

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*censored due to religious content

subplot/slant to things.

Laurel, Tongues - Glad you liked the post.

 

[Jeremy]

I enjoyed the film quite a bit, though find it interesting that

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they reunited the whole team at the end

. I don't see how or why that would occur, but it I guess gives slight hope for a sequel.

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Though what a super smart, strong, fast, telepathic, wirelessly connected, computer enhanced character is going to do in the next movie, I don't know. And I don't think they can make her the bad guy.

In any case, I had a great time watching the movie, and liked a lot of the touches. I thought some of the fight scenes were a little questionable sometimes, though whether they showed off too much bad assness, or not enough is a question unanswered for me. But the end result was a very enjoyable movie.

I do think the writers are working extra hard to find as many situations they can get Milla naked as possible, but I enjoyed it so I can't fault them for that. Who knew a bacta tank would have such an influence on certain parts of anatomy?

But I enjoyed Nemesis, S.T.A.R.S., and even the cliched character with the custom guns. It was just a fun pop corn movie.

 

[TracerBullet42]

If we're going to find the little girl in this place, we'd better split up.

hehehehe....

Obviously never played RPG's before.

This movie was campy fun. I liked it.

 

[Mark]

I think Milla Jovovich has played "strength against all odds" well ever since The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (No gamer should miss the first half of this movie!). I'm sure she secured the role as Joan in a large part because she worked with Luc Besson on The Fifth Element, in which we see enough of Jovovich to "like" her but not enough to truly know if she could hold her own as a movie lead. I caught up with the first Resident Evil on cable, mostly because I had simply missed it when it came through at the theatres (or, more accurately, missed that *she* was in it). I haven't seen Resident Evil: Apocalypse yet but it's currently down at the theatre that has $4 matinees, so it's probably something I should see no matter what anyone says about it.

 

[Mark Plemmons]

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've never played the games, though I know a bit about them, and I didn't really care for the first movie. I enjoyed the sequel quite a bit, though. Had a sort of "Escape from New York" feel thrown in, I thought.

Of course, I could probably just watch Sienna Guillory (who plays Jill Valentine) for a couple hours.

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

I saw it the other day and I enjoyed it. It was a fun action/zombie movie. Pretty much on par with the first one. I definetly it makes enough to get a third one made.

 

[Gunslinger]

I thought that it what it aimed to do well. The movie was fun, nothing more, nothing less. And with this summer being so awful as far as movies are concerned, RE comes out near the top of my list.

 

[Alzrius]

I felt very middle-of-the-road about this movie. Not because I lacked any real feelings on it, but rather I had different ways by which to judge it.

As a sequel, this movie succeeded hands down, since I found it much better than the first movie. The action, plot, characterization, and pacing was all better. The only part of the first movie I liked more was the ending cliff-hanger. However, this one was certainly unexpected, and is interesting.

In terms of how true this movie was to the games, though, I feel it was still, ultimately, a failure, though by a much lesser margin than it's predecessor. For one thing, it just didn't capture the feel of survival horror. The games succeeded in making you feel isolated and alone, and quite overmatched. This, however, felt more like an action film than anything else. This movie made you want to jump in excitement, whereas the games made you want to jump in fear.

Honestly, I don't want to fault the movies for that, but it seems unavoidable. Movies such as this play off of the popularity of the games, so some level of connection is expected. Therein lies the problem. Too much material from the games, and people complain it was nothing new. Not enough, and people say that it wasn't really about the game in the title. I don't think I've seen a movie yet that finds a workable middle ground.

On another note, I strongly recommend the novels Resident Evil: Genesis and Resident Evil: Apocalypse, which are the novelizations of the two movies. They're quite well done, and present a much more holistic view of the entire plotline between the two films than we saw on the screen.

 

[Chun-tzu]

In terms of how true this movie was to the games, though, I feel it was still, ultimately, a failure, though by a much lesser margin than it's predecessor. For one thing, it just didn't capture the feel of survival horror. The games succeeded in making you feel isolated and alone, and quite overmatched. This, however, felt more like an action film than anything else. This movie made you want to jump in excitement, whereas the games made you want to jump in fear.

If the DOOM movie can succeed in this, and that's not an easy thing to do, then it will be a success (at least, as an adaptation). And I think that you've pinpointed the key element in a movie or book adaptation of these shooting games. I've read the DOOM novels, too, and found they weren't particularly DOOM-like in this regard, unfortunately. DOOM should be a horror movie first, action or sci-fi second.

This is why Kill Bill (particularly part 2) stands head and shoulders over, say, any Jet Li movie (and I'm a big Jet Li fan). Uma Thurman, as a female, gets to show fear, terror, anguish and all those emotions that male action stars are only allowed to feel or show for 3 seconds, if at all. If the hero isn't afraid of fighting a giant, unstoppable creature with enough firepower to kill them a hundred times over, why should we be afraid for them? Unfortunately, we don't get much of that from Resident Evil, either (oh well).

I liked RE:Apocalypse well enough, but I came into it with extremely low standards (I never even finished watching the first one). And damn, Sienna Guillory is FINE. She stole the show, as far as I was concerned.