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Resident Evil is a dire film. Overall its a middling action horror hybrid that's light on horror and action. Not sure how they pulled that off. Everyone acts like they gotta fart after every sentence. The best part of the film gets cubed in a hallway. I was more interested to see more of his character and disappointed he died. Oh well I liked the actor. James Purefoy is in this but acts like they paid him in rotten fish so there is no charisma there , he doesn't even get his dick out . SO that was a disappointed. Milla Jovovich is loving awful as Alice . Having Amnesia be a major plot point was kind of dumb. As a fan of the games there's nothing here for fans of the games. Which is weird. However there are all kinds of plot contrivances so I guess on a meta level their just like the games. Still the film satisfies a itch of early 2000s industrial rock and violence. Its not as gory as I liked previously which is disappointing that there's not more gore in a zombie movie. Anyway its a decent enough B Movie. I dunno why I decided to do this but I guess I'm on to the sequel.
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Hollismason posted:Resident Evil is a dire film. Overall its a middling action horror hybrid that's light on horror and action. Not sure how they pulled that off. Everyone acts like they gotta fart after every sentence. The best part of the film gets cubed in a hallway. I was more interested to see more of his character and disappointed he died. Oh well I liked the actor. James Purefoy is in this but acts like they paid him in rotten fish so there is no charisma there , he doesn't even get his dick out . SO that was a disappointed. Milla Jovovich is loving awful as Alice . Having Amnesia be a major plot point was kind of dumb. As a fan of the games there's nothing here for fans of the games. Which is weird. However there are all kinds of plot contrivances so I guess on a meta level their just like the games. Still the film satisfies a itch of early 2000s industrial rock and violence. Its not as gory as I liked previously which is disappointing that there's not more gore in a zombie movie. Anyway its a decent enough B Movie. It’s still just so weird that you have the Resident Evil games which are very much so, based on horror with an emphasis on survival. The first one takes place in essentially an old-school haunted mansion with all sorts of monsters, your character is very vulnerable with limited ammunition, and the whole vibe is all about suspense. So instead of making an actual horror film, or even a zombie film, they made a very generic action movie with a protagonist that is an invincible Mary-Sue and very little suspense. I know if you made a one to one remake of the game it might feel a bit unoriginal since it was very inspired by horror media but it would certainly be better than what we got. And I even have a bit of a soft spot for the movies (mostly nostalgia for that era) but seems like a missed opportunity.
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Jun 15, 2021 22:21
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Friday the 13th's Part V's number-one supporter has now logged into the chat. I love how with most film franchises, people generally agree on the rankings of the films. However, with Friday, no two rankings are the same. Even though this is mathematically impossible, and at least two people in this world have to have the same rankings, it has never happened before. It is a paradox.
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Jun 15, 2021 23:21
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Hollismason posted:Resident Evil is a dire film. Overall its a middling action horror hybrid that's light on horror and action. Not sure how they pulled that off. Everyone acts like they gotta fart after every sentence. The best part of the film gets cubed in a hallway. I was more interested to see more of his character and disappointed he died. Oh well I liked the actor. James Purefoy is in this but acts like they paid him in rotten fish so there is no charisma there , he doesn't even get his dick out . SO that was a disappointed. Milla Jovovich is loving awful as Alice . Having Amnesia be a major plot point was kind of dumb. As a fan of the games there's nothing here for fans of the games. Which is weird. However there are all kinds of plot contrivances so I guess on a meta level their just like the games. Still the film satisfies a itch of early 2000s industrial rock and violence. Its not as gory as I liked previously which is disappointing that there's not more gore in a zombie movie. Anyway its a decent enough B Movie. I'm nobody but I used to be a huge RE nerd. I felt RE1 was the "best," and RE2 and especially 3 are the worst. Probably not a coincidence that these were the only movies not directed by Anderson. I mean, it does make sense Paul WS Anderson was given the reins. Just go look at the MK movie thread, MK 95 is still probably the most beloved video game film ever, or at least way up there, and it was certainly the most beloved one back when RE came out. Anderson's other movie was Event Horizon, another pretty popular film and of course it was Horror. Put his record for success with video game adaptations and horror together and I can see why they chose him. Also even the worst movies have awesome music so that's nice.
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Jun 15, 2021 23:40
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Anyone else having problems with Shudder? Trying to log in from the app just gives the helpful error message 'Something went wrong, try again'. Nothing I've tried has fixed it.
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Jun 15, 2021 23:41
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WeaponX posted:It’s still just so weird that you have the Resident Evil games which are very much so, based on horror with an emphasis on survival. The first one takes place in essentially an old-school haunted mansion with all sorts of monsters, your character is very vulnerable with limited ammunition, and the whole vibe is all about suspense. The original George Romero script was an “adaptation” of the first game https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/resident_evil_romero.html This was rejected by the EP of Constantin. George assumed they rejected it because the studio wanted it to be more of a prestige film and less an adaptation. Real reason is it would be too gory for German audiences which Constantin is a German production company. Read the script to find out why I did the finger quotes on “adaptation”.
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Jun 16, 2021 00:00
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dorium posted:it would be too gory for German audiences Olaf Ittenbach blocks your path
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Jun 16, 2021 00:16
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The first 10-15 minutes of RE2 are good as heck and then it goes straight down the toilet
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Jun 16, 2021 00:32
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I'm finding Resident Evil : Apocalypse more enjoyable than the first film.
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Jun 16, 2021 00:34
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Hollismason posted:I'm finding Resident Evil : Apocalypse more enjoyable than the first film. It's way more like a Resident Evil movie should be, even if it is dumb as hell.
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Jun 16, 2021 01:01
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which ones the one in the city that one was p good
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Jun 16, 2021 01:07
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TOOT BOOT posted:Anyone else having problems with Shudder? Trying to log in from the app just gives the helpful error message 'Something went wrong, try again'. Nothing I've tried has fixed it. Works fine for me. Maybe try restarting your phone or reinstalling the app?
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Jun 16, 2021 01:13
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Kvlt! posted:which ones the one in the city that one was p good Apocalypse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmSxy2JKTPw Anybody watching these movies should also watch the commentaries because they're great. The lady who played Jill in the movies, Sienna Guillory, took the role so seriously she actually had her brother play RE3 Nemesis so she could study how Jill walked and emulate it in the films. Contrast with Milla's and Oded's (Carlos') commentary where they just laugh at everything. RE1 had Jovovich, Rodriguez, Anderson. and the main producer guy (I think) all talk in one commentary track and they realized this was a bad idea because Milla and Michelle just wanted to talk about Milla's vag and laugh at everything while Paul and the other guy tried to talk effects and directing. So Apocalypse had, IIRC, three different commentary tracks. Milla, Oded and Guillory were on the same track but not recorded together, she was off on her down being serious while they joked around. Point being, you get everything you want in the sequel commentaries, one just laughing at the dumb movie or another describing filmmaking.
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Jun 16, 2021 01:18
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Dragonshirt posted:Works fine for me. Maybe try restarting your phone or reinstalling the app? I had already done all that stuff. I think they fixed something on their end after I opened a ticket because it randomly started working again on all our devices.
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Jun 16, 2021 01:26
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REsident Evil Apocalypse was a step up from the first one. If only because it moved from the very boring corridor's set to a "real " locations of Racoon City. The new characters are also more tolerable. There's also a good amount of gore and I personally really liked the Nemesis design. Its still got a incredibly convoluted plot. The action is a lot better with much better set pieces and sequences. There's also a hilarious scene in a graveyard where I think they break the necks of like 20 zombies. I'm not sure why that move specifically kills zombies but in the Resident Evil universe breaking the neck does. It has a bonkers ending but that's to be epected from these films. Overall I liked it a lot more than the first one if only because it wasn't just constant shots of corridors and boring drab concrete walls.
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Jun 16, 2021 01:40
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who else has joined the sisterhood of the needles so far
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Jun 16, 2021 01:42
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Hell yea Housebound is on shudder. I hope The Pact shows up on there.
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Jun 16, 2021 02:09
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AKZ posted:Hell yea Housebound is on shudder. I hope The Pact shows up on there. Both of those are so good. I hope The Pact 2 shows up in the bottom of a well with The Descent 2.
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Jun 16, 2021 02:55
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TOOT BOOT posted:Anyone else having problems with Shudder? Trying to log in from the app just gives the helpful error message 'Something went wrong, try again'. Nothing I've tried has fixed it. It did that to me once on desktop when I was about to play a new release days ago, but that was it. I've had the same experience more frequently with HBO Max
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Jun 16, 2021 03:17
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Kvlt! posted:who else has joined the sisterhood of the needles so far After Gey Muckle Mowser it was Irony.or.Death. Not sure if there were any more.
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Jun 16, 2021 03:58
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i wonder what color Canthan mastery points are gonna be. we’ve done what red-orange, green, blue, purple. maybe they’ll be black or white.
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https://twitter.com/mjsamps/status/1402662223605084162
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Jun 16, 2021 04:50
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Hollismason posted:I'm finding Resident Evil : Apocalypse more enjoyable than the first film. I actually kinda liked that one. Buckle up though because they start getting laugh out loud bad from the third onwards
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CODChimera posted:I actually kinda liked that one. Buckle up though because they start getting laugh out loud bad from the third onwards Afterlife (just like game RE4) becomes self-aware and makes fun of itself, a trend followed by all the later movies, which is to their credit compared to Apoc and Extinction. EDIT: As an "Alien 1 was the best and only truly great Alien film" person, are Prometheus and Covenant worth watching? NikkolasKing fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Jun 16, 2021 |
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Jun 16, 2021 09:54
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NikkolasKing posted:EDIT: I didn't love them, but they're worth watching. I'd rank them below the first two but above everything else
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bitterandtwisted posted:I didn't love them, but they're worth watching. I'd rank them below the first two but above everything else Fair enough, thanks. I see there are these popular "fanedits" called the CHAOS Editions but I guess I should try to watch the regular movies first? Also, continuing to watch these Kill Count vids, I am reminded of the last horror series I watched, Puppet Master. I stopped around...6 I think because it was so bad but I knew this guy elsewhere who loved FM and B-horror and I learned a lot about them from him. Anyway, glancing at Full Moon's wiki, I learned there's a book on them. Not only is there a book on them, I went to Amazon and learned it was made into an audiobook! https://www.audible.com/pd/It-Came-...TNFV6AHN10CDSNK When I have money to spare, I'm definitely getting this. Totally awesome surprise.
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Jun 16, 2021 12:49
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I'm in the Prometheus and Covenant are really good camp. I liked both of those movies David is a loving awesome antagonist.
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Hollismason posted:I'm in the Prometheus and Covenant are really good camp. I liked both of those movies David is a loving awesome antagonist. David is the protagonist of Prometheus. e: and arguably Covenant. The whole genocide thing wasn't cool, and killing Shaw was a dick move (and a bad screenwriting decision) but killing a bunch of false-god colonizers who travel with a pervertedly lobotomized version of yourself is an easy spin. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Jun 16, 2021 |
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Im a weirdo in the Prometheus good, Covenant baaaaaaaad camp. I’m also on the only Alien is good train too so your milage will vary. Opinions! We got em!
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Resident Evil Apocalypse is a catalogue of every tired action movie cliche from the preceding decade. Every creative decision is just wrong. I hated it when I first saw it, but I have a perverse appreciation for it now.
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Prometheus is terrific, Covenent is ambitious but bad. It's my favorite kind of bad, though, which is interesting-bad.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:02
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I don't think Covenant is bad but I do think Prometheus is clearly better. Prometheus is a movie I've seen like ten times and I can still watch it and it flies by, whereas Covenant just doesn't flow nearly as well and I get bored with it by the last act.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:07
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I'd rather rewatch AVP2 over Covenant.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:28
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The thread makes me want to rewatch every Alien including the AVPs, but I know my spouse will not go for anything AVP.
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Jun 16, 2021 15:33
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I'd be curious to see the correlation between folks who like/dislike the Resident Evil movies and folks' preferences on the Alien franchise. I suspect there would be some pretty clear camps.
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Question time - let's dive into the Apocrypha. Which proposed but unmade version of a horror movie do you most wish that you could see? This question was inspired by recent conversations, as I'd be very curious to watch Alien with its mooted original casting of Meryl Streep as Ripley and Harrison Ford as Dallas.
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Jedit posted:Question time - let's dive into the Apocrypha. Which proposed but unmade version of a horror movie do you most wish that you could see? There's another one in the Alien series, the pre-production version of Alien 3 where it was gonna be about technophobic monks living on a world made completely out of wood. Fans have always wanted to see that because obviously Alien 3 turned out to be very divisive.
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feedmyleg posted:I'd be curious to see the correlation between folks who like/dislike the Resident Evil movies and folks' preferences on the Alien franchise. I suspect there would be some pretty clear camps. Greatly dislike the REs I've seen. Not even fun to laugh at. Love Alien, like Aliens a lot, dislike Alien3, hate Resurection, hold both AVPs in contempt, like Prometheus and Covenant ok
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I recently this year rewatched all of the Alien movies and honestly they range from great to just okay. I like Alien 3 and Ressurection. I'm rewatching RE right now and I'm not finding them that terrible. They're bad but I find them at least watchable and engaging. I'm only 2 films in now though.
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Jedit posted:Question time - let's dive into the Apocrypha. Which proposed but unmade version of a horror movie do you most wish that you could see? Rob Zombie's Harold and Maude proposed by Kvlt!
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