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Originally Posted by joshaube
Oh, don't get me wrong. I love the Resident Evil video game series. I love survival horror video games in general (my favourite being Silent Hill, if you could label it so...) I am also not the type to judge a movie just because it's based on a comic book / video game, or if it is a sequel or a remake / re-imagining. I liked the first RE movie, I liked the second RE movie, and I had somewhat imagined that I would at least like this movie... but by god, it was bad. There were some redeeming moments, but those were only redeeming due to the cheese factor and unintentional funniness.
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See, I went into it thinking it would be awful, awful, AWFUL... But my boyfriend is a diehard zombie fan and just HAD to watch the first two movies (in the theater of course), which followed, naturally, that he HAD to see the third one. And, me, being the supportive wonderful girlfriend that I am, agreed to go with him (he's a lucky man... I see the lame action films, and have no interest in the hyper-girly-chickflick films, so there's nothing I can trade in for watching Resident Evil III, Spiderman III, and Ghostrider in the theater. :( )... That being
said, I thought that Resident Evil III honestly wasn't all that bad... I saw it as a simple action, post-apocalyptic zombie film. And I enjoyed it. Mind you, that's without ANY sort of frame of reference whatsoever... No exposure to the video games or the first two movies. Without that frame of reference, I thought that the movie stood up fairly well on its own. She was a pretty badass superhero, and I liked the sort of RoadWarrior themes running throughout... Then again, I have said before that I AM a sucker of the post-apocalyptic... Honestly, I thought that the scene with the crows (which I know that you hated), was really well-done and the concept of
[*SPOILER*] birds eating the rotting meat and becoming zombies definitely made sense... I mean, there were zombie-dogs... Why not zombie-birds?
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So I'm not sure that Resident Evil deserves the bad rep that people give it. It was just entertaining, action gore. I had LOW expectation... And it surpassed them (it helps to have low expectations - I truly try to live my life that way). Oh, and I REALLY liked the beginning. Though the ultimate big bad at the end was kinda lame (as you already noted).
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Originally Posted by joshaube
Chronogirl, I've been wanting to see JUNO for a long time... but living in a small town, it's not coming here. :(
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Oh, Honey... Suck. I
know you've been wanting to see it, too (something I noticed and immediately decided I LIKED about you). Though, I've noticed that Juno's been making it to some major theaters out here (sure, I'm near Boston, but it's moving beyond the Dirty Water)... It's already up for a Golden Globe for Best Comedy; I have a feeling that it'll be up for Oscar-nominations, at which point it should circle the major theaters and even reach out to the po-dunks. :p I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.