Absolutely, dude's got all the horror rules locked down and definitely knows how to use them effectively, he's absolutely on a higher tehnical level
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter | OT | Complete Global Success.
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Absolutely, dude's got all the horror rules locked down and definitely knows how to use them effectively, he's absolutely on a higher tehnical level
Yeah, it seems that everyone thinks it's trash. I was hoping it might be enjoyable trash, but it just sounds awful. :/ Oh well, at least they're done now (hopefully).
cj_iwakura
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Barry was the best part of 5. Ada and Leon weren't awful, but Barry was flawless.
Razgriz-Specter
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The Leon hand thing at the end completely redeemed any faults with Ada and Leon in that movie.
Barry was great.
Literally my only issue with that movie was Chris and Claire just vanishing between movies....
in the same exact scene.
cj_iwakura
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1>4>5>3>2. I'm sad that 2 is the only one besides 1 that I own. 4 is Return of the King for me, 5 is just insane.
Razgriz-Specter
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1>4>5>3>>2>>>>>>>>>6
I enjoyed 4 more than 1 but 1 is definitely a better movie.
Final Chapter should not have gotten past the first 2 pages of the script.
I enjoyed 4 more than 1 but 1 is definitely a better movie.
Final Chapter should not have gotten past the first 2 pages of the script.
ryutaro's mama
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I sawl it yesterday. Not a single one of these is objectively great but RE's extremely curved scale it was slightly above its average.
One thing I don't get. Why do they keep going out of their way to say that Alice is depowered when she still pulls off all the same crazy fighting/agility shit she did before "losing" her powers?
I never got that.
One thing I don't get. Why do they keep going out of their way to say that Alice is depowered when she still pulls off all the same crazy fighting/agility shit she did before "losing" her powers?
I never got that.
Razgriz-Specter
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Why set up cliff-hangers 3-4 movies in a row and hand wave them immediately every single time?
They have no clue other than making a decent action movie in this universe(even that doesn't apply this time.)
Count Dookkake
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She doesn't have telekinesis or other psychic powers.
eternalcircle
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I think I would rank it... 1>5>3>2>6>4.
1>4>6>2>3>5
That's my order. 1 was good alternate timeline RE, 2 was pretty bad and lost me when Nemesis put up his dukes, 3...I should give it another chance but the special powers part ruined it for me. 4 tried to bring it back to normal by removing powers and it looked great in 3D. 5 felt like a waste and felt like it kept reusing scenes, you could probably forget it happened because all the retconning.
That's my order. 1 was good alternate timeline RE, 2 was pretty bad and lost me when Nemesis put up his dukes, 3...I should give it another chance but the special powers part ruined it for me. 4 tried to bring it back to normal by removing powers and it looked great in 3D. 5 felt like a waste and felt like it kept reusing scenes, you could probably forget it happened because all the retconning.
Razgriz-Specter
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One thing that really bothered me.
why would they blow up all the frozen Umbrella people?
I get killing the people in charge but it was literally thousands of them.
No way were they all responsible, the heads would obviously have frozen their families as well.
Just really stupid when you consider there is only 4,000 total humans left on earth.
I get killing the people in charge but it was literally thousands of them.
No way were they all responsible, the heads would obviously have frozen their families as well.
Just really stupid when you consider there is only 4,000 total humans left on earth.
J_Macgrady
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I just saw this movie last night because it was free with RE7 and I was dying at that part. Things don't go right for Leon even in the movies.
Astral Dog
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I liked the first, and third movies,later had an enjoyable change of scenary,smart zombies and an asshole villain.
The second had a few parts i loved as a kid but im sure they won't be as pretty now.
The rest was just forgetteable
The second had a few parts i loved as a kid but im sure they won't be as pretty now.
The rest was just forgetteable
Astral Dog
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ryutaro's mama
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Yeah man, that handwaving of the cliffhanger for RE5 just ending with Alice under some rumble at the start of 6 really pissed me off.
I was legit hyped at the close of RE5 to see how they would get out of that situation...then the opening of RE6 just handwaved it all away.
ryutaro's mama
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If you agreed to be cryogenically frozen, you knew what was gonna happen. Yeah, there probably families in there too but Paul WS Anderson gives zero fucks about all that.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I loved how
they made such a big emotional scene after the short hair girl gets sucked into the turbine but then a minute letter they just off 2 dudes within seconds like it was nothing.
Also, I'm no scientist but wouldn't they need a lot more than just 1 vile of the anti virus to cover the entire globe if it's an airborne transferred thing ?
Science bro. Who knows how it works.
Napalm_Frank
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I wonder if I'm the only one who's favourite is 2. I know it's baaaad but in the best way possible :d.
Ummm you make it sound like Mortal Kombat is a good movie. It's not.
Also, I caught the first RE in the cinema and it was dogshit but I watched the rest on TV and it seems to have got slightly better over time.
Astral Dog
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Poor Alice 😢
Im going to miss them
Im going to miss them
Thats all they had,i guess it would made sense if they used it to fabricate more but Alice is no scientist
shinkai
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Also not sure if anyone has ever pointed this out but...... When/how did
Old Alicia wake up from her cryogenic sleep to upload the recording of the secret meeting that the Umbrella execs had to determine the destruction of humankind to the Red Queen so that the Red Queen would turn on Umbrella and inform Alice of the anti-virus?
Astral Dog
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I think it could have been before her sleep?
AI Alicia mentioned she was programmed to value humans and that the program was uploaded shortly after the Virus got released.
Another quick Q that is probably inconsequential since they didn't care about the logic of this movie
About The Red Queen
Give it another day and the live action Resident Evil series will be a BILLION dollar grossing franchise worldwide
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=residentevil.htm
You got to take out Damnation from that list since it was one of those CG movies, but is listed at only $2.4 million.
Surprisingly, the series won't cross $300 million in the US.
About The Red Queen
The hologram girl is based on the likeness and recordings of REAL Alice when she was young correct? So would that mean that she had a British accent when she was young? When did she lose it? Did the father actor have a British accent?
Give it another day and the live action Resident Evil series will be a BILLION dollar grossing franchise worldwide
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=residentevil.htm
You got to take out Damnation from that list since it was one of those CG movies, but is listed at only $2.4 million.
Surprisingly, the series won't cross $300 million in the US.
According to the first movie's commentary: The Red Queen was originally played by a different girl, who was WAY British in sounding. If I recall, they had to replace her, since it sounded odd and wrong.
Anyways, regardless of that interesting fact, best to really not think too much into the Red Queen being British. Clearly they
Anyways, regardless of that interesting fact, best to really not think too much into the Red Queen being British. Clearly they
only retcon that recently.
Actually the reason they replaced her is because the new girl is Milla Jovovich's daughter.
Has to fit in with the retconned
clone storyline. Though we know it's a case of the tail wagging the dog.
Extremely so, my ears were literally hurting after the movie. Kinda ruined the movie for me.
breadtruck
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This was my feeling as well, except I never even bothered with 3.
At some point Ill watch them, just to say I did it... glutton for punishment i suppose.
family_guy
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This actually wasn't that bad if you take the film for what it was. People hyped up Mad Max Fury Road which was pretty dry on plot and character development as well but had tons of action to back it up. They both were nice popcorn flicks, but nothing that I'm really going to be thinking about years from now.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Yes at times. Sound mixing was awful.
nkarafo
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Yeah. Mainstream audiences love trash.
Jawmuncher
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This was easily the second worst one. My ranking (2,1,5,4,6,3)
The first half drags too long so when the stuff starts happening you don't really care. Then the movie didn't have much in the way of fan service for the games.
Glad these movies are over. Even if I did have my fun with the earlier films. They were just getting too unwieldy and I'm not a fan of the post apocalyptic setting they did.
The first half drags too long so when the stuff starts happening you don't really care. Then the movie didn't have much in the way of fan service for the games.
wesker just dying from a door was dumb. Dr Isaacs being the main bad was pretty dumb as well, felt shoe horned in since he was the biggest actor due to his game of thrones stuff. Then there's a bunch of stuff I just didn't like in general
Glad these movies are over. Even if I did have my fun with the earlier films. They were just getting too unwieldy and I'm not a fan of the post apocalyptic setting they did.
As a fan of Retribution and Afterlife, it's disappointing that W.S. couldn't close the series (
) on a high note. Shame that he chose fast-paced, frenetic editing, thus sacrificing his beautiful symmetrical compositions. At least he proved to be good at it, so it's not all to waste.
Still a fun enough movie. Pity that watching it in 3D was pointless, despite 3D being the highlight of previous two films.
5>4>1>6
though I doubt it's the last one
Still a fun enough movie. Pity that watching it in 3D was pointless, despite 3D being the highlight of previous two films.
5>4>1>6
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
So .. can we safely assume all the characters from the older movies Leon/Ada/Jill etc got killed off ?
At least that's what the line Isaac says to Wesker about making sure he took care of all loose ends sounds like.
Jawmuncher
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Ye
ah, I took it as everyone in the whitehouse died. While Wesker assumed his injection would kill her. Though it apparently did nothing but wipe her memory
parrotbeak
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I think I enjoyed the prior movie the best, but it was everything I expect from an RE movie, with the exception of the story actually wrapping up. I would have preferred something at the end that made the story not make sense anymore, to show that the series could continue, instead of the dragons flying above her. RE is about rambling action scenes strung together so fast they leave no space for coherent plot. So i guess i was good up until that last motorcycle scene and then I thought, wait, this ending kinda makes too much sense.
I still really enjoyed it though and look forward to remarathoning all of it in a few years.
I still really enjoyed it though and look forward to remarathoning all of it in a few years.
Ya, I thought it was the theater I was in. Sounds like the mix was just poorly done, probably on purpose for the cheap jump scares.
Just got back from seeing this.
I'll admit, I definitely enjoyed it but I'm not going to lie, the writing was just utterly shambolic. Not only did Anderson not stay within the rules and more of the world the previous films created, he didn't even stay within the new rules this film established for more than a few minutes.
I think I'd rank the films overall as,
Apocalypse (2)
Retribution (5)
Resident Evil (1)
Final Chapter (6)
Extinction (3)
Afterlife (4)
I'll admit, I definitely enjoyed it but I'm not going to lie, the writing was just utterly shambolic. Not only did Anderson not stay within the rules and more of the world the previous films created, he didn't even stay within the new rules this film established for more than a few minutes.
I think I'd rank the films overall as,
Apocalypse (2)
Retribution (5)
Resident Evil (1)
Final Chapter (6)
Extinction (3)
Afterlife (4)
Oh no no. I was talking about the original movie.
I didn't know the new Red Queen girl was her daughter. That's neat!
cj_iwakura
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Seeing it in two hours. Let's gogovich!
(I'm keeping my expectations low, but at least it's Anderson helming the train wreck.)
(I'm keeping my expectations low, but at least it's Anderson helming the train wreck.)
cj_iwakura
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This is how I felt. Good god, Anderson. Whoever your new editor is('Dookie'!?), fire that hack.
So yeah, this film really is a hot mess... easily the worst of the Anderson REs, still better than 2, marginally better than 3. The villains ham it up so much that they basically save the film, ESPECIALLY Shawn Roberts' Wesker. Give that man the Oscar.
Making his wretched death all the more infuriating, I wanted a final fight with him.
Count me in with the 'I liked the Afterlife Wesker fight' camp, too. Shit was hype.
You should have brought more.
But as a huge Claire fan, I definitely appreciate that
she's the only survivor from the games. Go kick rocks, Jill.
My ranking: 1 > 3 = 6 > 4 > 2 > 5
Good enough, although I feel a lot of things were just retconned (the creator of the T-virus, all about the cure, Wesker's regenerative powers that just disappeared, Red Queen being good after trying to annihilate everyone before etc). I see people over on IMDB boards filling in the gaps/justifying Anderson's writing decisions and while it's really cool that they can make sense of it, I'm not convinced it was "meant to be from the first movie", like Anderson claims now in several interviews.
Still, I appreciate what W.S. Anderson tried to do - deliver a straight-up filthy, vicious, violent, loud and fast-paced 106 minutes. I'm more than OK with that, to be quite honest! I didn't even mind the quick editing save for the scene with the Bloodshot which was chopped to hell.
Good enough, although I feel a lot of things were just retconned (the creator of the T-virus, all about the cure, Wesker's regenerative powers that just disappeared, Red Queen being good after trying to annihilate everyone before etc). I see people over on IMDB boards filling in the gaps/justifying Anderson's writing decisions and while it's really cool that they can make sense of it, I'm not convinced it was "meant to be from the first movie", like Anderson claims now in several interviews.
Still, I appreciate what W.S. Anderson tried to do - deliver a straight-up filthy, vicious, violent, loud and fast-paced 106 minutes. I'm more than OK with that, to be quite honest! I didn't even mind the quick editing save for the scene with the Bloodshot which was chopped to hell.
Freeza Under The Shower
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But it is worse than this
play at x2, basically. I mean, I was going to re-animate the 'worst movie you've seen this year' thread over this one, because holy fucking shit is this the worst edited movie made in 2016. Move over, Suicide Squad, you've been replaced for the top one position.
This movie is straight up vomit inducing that I had to walk out to avoid doing just that. I was surprised to see I had barely lasted twenty minutes either. Felt like an hour.
This thing will need a massive re-cut for home release. Because there is plenty good things in there, it's just that the editing turns everything into a garbled flurry of images that borders on shock-static.
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