Lets talk about Resident Evil Afterlife (Spoiler)

[Alexia_Ashford]

I have no problem paying my hard-earned wages to watch these "smelly pieces of excrement" because I had a good time, I enjoyed the film and personally, I would like the film series to continue. I don't see any reason why I wouldn't want them to. The people in the cinema seemed to enjoy it when they came out as well. I think it's a bit silly for people to get annoyed because other people are funding further production of the RE movie franchise. I mean, I've not posted on here before about people who fund the continuation of films franchises like Saw, for example.

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XD - Obviousy deeming the film as the best this year was a joke. You pessimist are sickening. I completely agree with you Alexia, perhaps they dont know how to have fun. Some of you come off as so miserable, like you're going to die because of how bad the film sucks in your opinion.

Your rants are entertaining.

[A-J]

wait wait wait .

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they kill off ALL the Alice clones at the start of the movie ?

jesus h lol

[Alexia_Ashford]

wait wait wait .

so ..

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they kill off ALL the Alice clones at the start of the movie ?

jesus h lol

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Yup. From what we can see anyway, as there are no other Alice clones other than the very start. Alice's clones all attack the Umbrella HQ and destroy it and everyone in it, but Wesker manages to escape on a plane very reminiscent to the plane at the end of RE5, and sets off a 'purge' which completely destroys the facility, leaving a big hole where the facility, and city, used to be; taking all the Alice clones with it. We then see the real Alice (as evident by the hair, the clones all have a long dark ponytail, real Alice has a bob) is on Wesker's plane with him, and he injects her in the neck with something that he says is neutralizing all the T-cells in her body, thus she is losing her accelerated healing, super strength, and speed. He starts beating her up quite easily and is about to kill her, when he suddenly realises that the plane is heading for the side of a mountain and crashes.

[Darkmoon]

Well, that was slightly annoying...

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They made such a big issue out of the fact Alice had so many clones, and then vaporised them in the intro. Now, I never liked the clone army. I honestly thought it was cluster fuck of fail waiting to happen...and apparently Anderson agreed with me. But to create such a plot point and fail to exploit it for all it's worth is rather irritating.

And no, I will never, ever be happy. I've not felt joy since my birthday was ruined by watching Apocolypse. I was actually looking foward to that one as well...mostly because I had no idea what it was about and thought it would mesh with the game plot as well as the first movie. Hence my hatred of Anderson. He has robbed my life of glee.

[Carnivol]

Well, that was slightly annoying...

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They made such a big issue out of the fact Alice had so many clones, and then vaporised them in the intro. Now, I never liked the clone army. I honestly thought it was cluster fuck of fail waiting to happen...and apparently Anderson agreed with me. But to create such a plot point and fail to exploit it for all it's worth is rather irritating.

Not seen it yet, but...
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If I'd been involved, the whole clone thing would've been exploited to the point of having all clones murdered quickly, thanks to... who gives a damn? Then have an Alice tag around as part of the main cast for the majority of the movie, just to go all Shyamalan on it and reveal that the current Alice is probably about as much Alice as Ellen Ripley was Ellen Ripley in Alien: Resurrection, followed by having her redeemingly slaughtered off in some way near the end and never ever speak of the subject of whether or not the "real" one is still around or died with the rest of the useless clones.

^Closest you'll ever come to me putting any serious thought into this subject.

[Kei_M]

I was thinking about this last night, but the more I think about it...the more it bugs me there wasn't more build up to the Jill cameo. Even a MENTION of her earlier in the film would have been better. With Alice documenting her days on video tape, we could have had her -while commenting that she hasn't seen anyone in however many days- questioning what became of Jill.

[Canas Renvall]

Spoiiiiler tags, m'boy.

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I like how they did it though. When the credits rolled and it said "Jill Valentine - Sienna Guillory" I was like "What? I never saw her in the movie! Where was she?!" then the cameo played and I was like "...That's awesome."

[Archelon]

To me, you have to go into the movies not really expecting Resident Evil, but rather an interpretation that uses elements of Resident Evil. There will always be people who like and dislike something that expands on something already in existence. Some find it an improvement and some see it as degenerate filth. I've always seen myself in the middle ground when it comes to the movies; I do not love them whole-heartedly, but I do actually like them for the most part.

And I'll say again that these movies are an interpretation of Resident Evil. I don't think Anderson lacks understanding of the games, but to him this is what Resident Evil is: Zombies, virus, small group of survivors, Umbrella Corporation, et cetera. If the first game was replicated flawlessly into cinema though, some people would still have problems with it. "OMG! The mansion wallpaper wasn't that shade of white! It was clearly egg shell with specks of ivory."

My ultimate point to what I'm saying is make up your own mind about the movie. If you want to see it, see it. If you think it looks stupid, then don't see it; however, you cannot ridicule something that you have not seen. You have seen clips of it through trailers, but not the actual movie. It's sort of like saying you hate a food based on the color...You won't know unless you actually try it.

Anyway, I thought the movie was average. I didn't really go in with the highest of hopes, but I did like the various homages to Resident Evil 5 scattered about. I thought the Wesker fight could have been a bit better, and I'll agree that the ending was a bit weak.

I thought it was better than Extinction and Apocalypse. And I would recommend going to see it if you have the ability to SEPARATE the game series from the movies. If you hate all the others, then don't waste your time.

|AA|

Well said.

I enjoy the movies for what they are, but maybe I just go into them with the right expectations. If you go into a movie (or anything, really) "knowing" that you are going to hate, then nine times out of ten, you're going to hate it, because you've already predisposed yourself to that particular opinion. It's very difficult to give something a fair chance when you've already made your mind up about it.

In any case, I enjoyed the movie. I would never say that it was a good movie, mind you, but it was a fun excuse to turn my brain off for an hour and a half. I mean, I can understand someone not liking the films, but to complain about things like plot and character development when the games upon which the films are based have never exactly held high standards regarding either seems a little silly to me, but whatever.

I think the only thing that really disappointed me was that, of all the scenes they lifted straight out of The Matrix, there was no Burly Brawl-style battle royale between Wesker and the Alice clones. It seemed like the perfect set up. I mean, you've got Neo (Wesker) and hundreds of Agent Smiths (Alice clones, though there appeared to be far fewer in this movie than there actually were at the end of Extinction). I was really surprised that they didn't include something like that in the opening of the movie.

This was also the first movie I've seen in 3D since Avatar made it the next big thing. I never saw Avatar, either, so I don't really have a point of comparison, but I actually really liked a lot of the 3D effects they used in the movie, particularly the intro with the rain. I thought that was really cool. I also really liked the music in the movie, which is something that I was not expecting at all.

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I actually rather liked Wentworth Miller as Chris. I mean, he was almost nothing like Chris is in the games, but that may be why I liked his portrayal, ha ha. Can I say that he made a good Chris? Well, I'm not really sure that would be fair, because the circumstances surrounding the character are much different in the movies than they are in the games. It's like how Claire was handled in Extinction.

I think it would be fairer to judge, say, Sienna Guillory's portrayal of Jill in Apocalypse or Shawn Roberts' Wesker in Afterlife, because the characters' circumstances are much closer to their respective characters in the actual games. We simply don't know how the game universe Chris and Claire would act under similar circumstances as their movie counterparts, so obviously they're going to be very different, and their names/likenesses were really only used for the recognition, anyway.

Speaking of Shawn Roberts' Wesker, I think he did all right. He really wasn't given a whole lot to work with, but considering how lame Wesker was in RE5, I really wasn't expecting much more from the character in Afterlife anyway. He really should have gone without any accent, though. He had a different one each time he opened his mouth, practically. It was like Halle Berry in the first X-Men movie. Oy.

And I have to admit, I really enjoyed seeing them recreate that fight scene with Wesker from the game in live action. I even liked that they used some of the very same lines from the game in the lead up, though it didn't really make a whole lot of sense how Wesker knew who Claire and Chris were.

And as far as Claire and Chris' interactions, there really wasn't a whole lot done with the brother/sister dynamic. I had assumed that one of the reasons they had Claire have amnesia would be so that Chris could be the one to help her remember who she was, but he never actually helps her remember anything. In fact, we don't even know if she remembered who he was by the end of the movie. She just remembers stuff on her own throughout the movie and barely even acknowledges Chris. Then at the end when she sees the Umbrella logo, she magically remembers everything.

It really makes me wonder what the whole point was of having her lose her memory in the first place and why bother bringing Chris into the picture aside from fan service. He apparently didn't even know who Wesker was, so they could have just as easily written another character into the movie or someone entirely new (or even drop the role from the movie completely). I imagine it really had more to do with the fact that Chris starred in RE5 than anything.

And as far as how Wesker "died" in the movie, it really didn't bother me, because the way he died in the game was pretty lame to begin with. I didn't notice the parachute, so I guess he escaped, but at least it's a more concrete way of offing him (or having him survive, whatever the case may be) than doing it in such a way that people are arguing over whether or not he ducked a couple rockets. If they had him die in a similar fashion in the game, there probably wouldn't still be so many people in denial about his demise as there are.

Oh, and for the record, you can shoot coins from a shotgun. You can shoot just about anything you can stuff into the barrel, really. It's why law enforcement agencies use shotguns for a lot of their non-lethal ammunition. They'll fire bean bags, miniature tasers, etc. The military even has specialized grenade rounds that can be fired from a shotgun.

[Det. Beauregard]

Wow, what a steaming pile of crap of a movie. Better than the previous film, but that doesn't take much, does it? I still think Apocalypse was the most entertaining, as it at least maintained a similar atmosphere to the games.

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Just absolute garbage. From the opening scene I knew I was in for 90 minutes of complete stupidity, in 3D nonetheless. I don't think Anderson knows how difficult it is to accurately wield dual handguns (or machine guns in Alice's case). Wesker with the dual desert eagles just made me giggle. Also, I can believe a lab the size of Birkin's from RE2 underneath a city, but one the size of the Death Star?!

Oh how I wished Alice's shotguns would have blown up in her face after attempting to fire quarters out of the barrels, killing her instantly. Also, the scene where the Umbrella soldiers rushed out of their boats and started placing mind-control devices on everyone's chests almost made me fall out of my chair with laughter for some reason.

Claire actually didn't piss me off too much in this movie, although Anderson typically butchered Chris's character. I actually think the guy who played Chris did a decent job, but he was a bit off at times. And what was with Wesker's randomly-changing accent?! His lines that were recycled from RE5 made me cringe; how can the game (RE5 of all games) be less cheesy than the movie?!

The side characters actually pissed me off far less than the main characters, but I'm sure that has to do with me expecting those characters to actually live up to their canon, video game iterations. The basketball player guy wasn't bad at all, nor were the other random survivors. That obviously Irving-inspired guy was annoying, though - how the hell was he even able to fly that plane with no experience?

I do think the 3D thing got a bit out of hand, though. There were at least ten parts of scenes that were made simply to show off random debris flying in the audience's face; I assure you these scenes would have been less cheesy if the movie was in regular 2D. The whole 3D thing pisses me off - it's like this entire generation of ADD or ADHD-riddled kids need to have every one of their senses stimulated at the same time.

Finally, I was disappointed with the lack of enemy variation. I thought the Executioner was stupid and completely out-of-place (which is how Anderson loves everything, apparently) and zombies have been done to death. The dogs at the end looked like crap, too (before they turned into adjules). When are we going to get hunters? And why would he leave the coolest RE5 enemy - the reapers - out of the film? Way creepier than the Executioner if you ask me.

I would recommend going to see it if you have the ability to SEPARATE the game series from the movies.

I am able to do that, but it's frustrating when other people aren't. For example, I have a friend who loves the movies and just recently got around to playing RE3. He was completely shocked that Nicholai was a bad guy and that Carlos didn't die. My friend thought that was stupid, so I had to explain to him that they are separate storylines that don't overlap or connect at any point, and that the movies are based off of the games, not the other way around.

[Vector]

"Enjoy them for what they are"

"They're different from the games"

"They're fun popcorn movies"

"They're silly action movies"


...I. Hate. The. Movies. I know they're not the games. I still dislike them as movies. Even as lame, cheesy B-movies, they're terrible. They try to be somewhere between a cheesy B-movie and an actual big budget action movie, and the gray area in between is just so full of fail that no matter what, I can't bring myself to enjoy them. I understand that people like them, and I couldn't care less. So why is my view so hard to understand for some people?

Terrible acting, terrible special effects and a stupid story ALL with the once-respected Resident Evil label. That's all I see.

[A-J]

Screened.com review

1/5

Some movies are bad in a fun way. Resident Evil: Afterlife is not one of those films.

http://www.screened.com/resident-evil-afterlife/16-193250/staff-review/

[Det. Beauregard]

Terrible acting, terrible special effects and a stupid story ALL with the once-respected Resident Evil label. That's all I see.

I understand your frustrations. Granted, I'm not as irate as you are about it, but the fact that the movies bring in people who want to be distracted for 90 minutes (as opposed to being told a good story for 90 minutes) does irk me. The movies are action-packed and overly cheesy, and I guarantee you that this leaks over to the games (e.g. RE4 and RE5). These "movie fans" want to play the games after they see the movies, and are disappointed when they discover that the (earlier) games actually require a well-developed frontal lobe and do not contain non-stop action. My hypothesis is that these "movie fans" are partly to blame for why RE4 and RE5 were so action-heavy and contained fewer puzzles than previous games.

You're right; the Resident Evil name used to carry quality with it. If the series continues in the vein of RE5, it will go downhill very fast.

I would be okay with a movie if it was done right. Less action, more horror, better acting, etc. Like perhaps a movie based off the events of the Remake, or maybe even Outbreak. But the weak link here is Anderson - he just doesn't understand the concept or atmosphere of the games. I'm assuming that Capcom has the rights to the RE movies, and they have no incentive to hire a different director to create an Alice-free storyline - the RE movies are a cash cow. And with this new one in 3D, even more money will be raked in.

It's sad to say, but I think this is the future of the series. The Wii-exclusive rail shooters are probably as close as we're gonna get to old-school Resident Evil in a long time.

[Archelon]

So why is my view so hard to understand for some people?

I'm pretty sure it's not so much the fact that you don't like them as it is you were basically attacking people who liked them for liking them.

I'm assuming that Capcom has the rights to the RE movies

Nope. Sony does.

[Vector]

I'm pretty sure it's not so much the fact that you don't like them as it is you were basically attacking people who liked them for liking them.

Like I said, my issue is not with the people who like the movies(for whatever reason). Knock yourselves out. Turn your brain off for a couple hours and enjoy what's on the screen. My issue is with the people who complain about the movies and yet still pay to see them.