[quote]Resident evil’s like batman… you can either make a Batman Begins or a Batman & Robin ( sorry for the stupid comparison ) But theres the camp side to them and then theres the scary/ violent side… mabye i do take them too seriously but i feel that they would have worked better had they gone the other way…
Thats not to say i dont like the other side, but i think if it was going to be a B movie then it should have been more like a feature version of this…
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I fucking love that intro, if the resident evil film was like that then i’d love it to bits… Wesker looks like such a bad ass as well…
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Well, Batman has more of a history, and unlike Resident Evil, the Batman franchise has many stories and characters to choose from. Just look at Batman Begins, the entire movie is a tour de force - it just sucks you in and you’re into it from beginning to end. The tone of the film is darker and just menacing and the story structure is phenomenal, they cover so much character history in the first act.
And then you have Resident Evil. The entire Resident Evil franchise consist of an ensemble of characters who are fighting a corporate giant that has killed many innocent lifes in order to advance their genetic experiments. In the first movie, a lot of that is covered in the scene where Alice and Matt are inside his sister’s office. I think that’s the best line of dialogue that Paul WS Anderson has ever written. They talk how his sister (Lisa) was going to smuggle a sample of the virus in order to expose the extent of Umbrella’s genetic research.
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ALICE
What were you looking for back there?
MATT
Evidence.
ALICE
Of what? You saw the kind of horrors they had in that specimen room. Well that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
ALICE
How could they do all of this without someone knowing?
MATT
Like who?
ALICE
The government.
MATT
(laughs)
Of course the government knows.
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MATT (cont’d)
Just like they know about the genetically modified meat in your burgers, the D.N.A. enhanced corn in your taco shells. They know about all this shit. They just don’t get involved. They leave it to companies like Umbrella. Buy the end product if it works out, deny all responsibility if it doesn’t. We wanted concrete evidence for the press. We were going to smuggle out a sample of their new viral weapon.
ALICE
And?
MATT
(looks around)
We didn’t cause this if that’s what you mean?
ALICE
(accusingly)
Then who did?
MATT
My sister had a contact within the Hive. Someone I never met. They were supposed to help us get samples of the T-virus. think they double crossed us instead.
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The movie is about a lot of things, but it’s just mainly about a group of strong, determined people who will stop at nothing to destroy this powerful corporate machine that has ruined many lifes and will still continue to do so. But on the surface people see the action and the monsters and they just take it for what it is. Because the entire plot revolves around getting out of the hive before they are trapped inside forever - but I still thought it was more than a decent videogame adaptation. He could of made it a bit more grittier and added a few more scares in there, but it’s been done before with films like 28 Days.
Resident Evil also plays like a modern exploitation film, the beginning of the film resembles the Escape From New York opening titles, where we’re basically taking in all of this exposition and the soundtrack is great as well. The only thing that ruins the movie is Michelle Rodriguez with her manly bravado and her annoying one liners, but other than that Resident Evil is a good zombie flick…I can’t say that about RE:Apocalypse.
