Resident Evil: Extinction

[the guyver]

Just wondering if anyone else saw Resident Evil: Extinction and wanted to know what ya'll thought of it.....
I thought it was better than Resident Evil: Apocalypse but not as good as the first. Any thoughts?

[Torgo]

I thought that the 1st 2 were complete crap worthy of having been instead directed by Uwe Boll.

I'll probably see the 3rd one on DVD as I'm a huge Milla Jovovich fan, and not necessarily because of her acting.   

[the guyver]

I hear ya brotha! 

[Mr_Vindictive]

I'm looking forward to it.  The first two were fun films as long as you don't consider them to be true Resident Evil flicks.  Mila is a lot of fun in them and they are so bad that they are good.  The third one actually looks to be the most interesting of the bunch.

[Torgo]

I didn't realize that Russel (Highlander 1 & 2) Mulcahy directed this 3rd installement.

[dean]

I saw the trailer for the first time last week.  I gotta say the second one annoyed the hell out of me, but overall wasn't horrible.  The first was good, I liked it, but like Skaboi said: Just ignore that it's based on the game and you'll survive ok.

The 3rd really does seem to take things up a notch and looks very interesting.  I've been fooled by trailers before but I like the look of it.  Post apoc zombie films are always fun.

[DistantJ]

I'm quite hyped for it. I LOVED the first one, the second had some really fantastic action in it but a lot of it seemed made up on the fly and some stuff was kinda goofy. I'm pretty hyped for the 3rd because I hear it doesn't have the problems of the 2nd.

Apparently I have no choice but to see it because this girl is dragging me to the cinema - I'm not complaining.

[Jack]

I loved the first movie, was really psyched for the second one and was hugely disappointed.  Not gonna make that mistake again.   The trailer they show on TV doesn't make me the least bit interested in part 3.  Maybe if I hear really good things about it I might check it out on DVD in a year or two.

[Torgo]

Some friends of mine and myself saw the 1st one in theaters and by around the 2nd act we just started ripping the movie apart.  Thankfully there weren't people sitting that near to us.

My favorite thing to do was there were parts in the 1st one in which people were turning a circular valve handle thing and I would make the sound effect from the game when you turned one.

Another part was when someone got bit some of the characters came running into this office room and I just shouted out "WE NEED TO FIND A GREEN HERB!"

Talk about an awful movie. Only Milla's way too brief nudity kept me occupied. 

[Jim H]

I saw the trailer for the first time last week.  I gotta say the second one annoyed the hell out of me, but overall wasn't horrible.  The first was good, I liked it, but like Skaboi said: Just ignore that it's based on the game and you'll survive ok.

The 3rd really does seem to take things up a notch and looks very interesting.  I've been fooled by trailers before but I like the look of it.  Post apoc zombie films are always fun.

I don't quite get the whole "Ignore it is based on a game" thing.  The Resident Evil movies in general have FAR more in common with the games than many other video game adaptations out there.  Heck, part 3 introduces two characters from the games, as well as one of the most distinctive monsters (the original Tyrant).  Yeah, the plot is changed significantly, but the basics are there. 

Anyway, 3 is better than two.  It was entertaining.  I'd say I enjoyed the original marginally more, but just marginally.

[Joe the Destroyer]

I like the RE Trilogy, but not for being RE movies at all.  I see them as big budget b-flicks with nonsensical kung-fu laced throughout it. 

Some SPOILERS

As far as Resident Evil: Extinction goes, it had the best action scenes out of all of them, but the worst plot.  I think by this point they just said screw it with any kind of sense and just decided to go all out with the silly concepts.  The idea of a disease drying up lakes and rivers seems a bit wonky to me, not to mention the idea that Nevada started to look like the Sahara Desert in only a couple months complete with drifting dunes?  Doesn't that take thousands of years of erosion?  I know, I was asking myself this question while watching the movie, but then I told myself to shut up because, well, there are zombies and super women who know kung fu and telekinesis running around.  I don't think a huge lapse of the erosion process would be that much sillier. 

The film had pretty much next to no plot, which is fine.  I planned on watching this film for the cheesy action and over the top concepts. 

While I do like the RE movies, I have to agree that Paul WS Anderson needs to just not do anymore films, or learn how to branch out.  I mean, how many times can you essentially write the same script?  Let's also not forget his ability as a director to nerf things a bit.  Too much of the first Resident Evil, and even Alien vs. Predator felt to me like it wanted to go for a much more graphic and disturbing feel, but it also felt like Anderson just didn't have the balls to take it to that level.  Sure, you don't need blood and gore to make a film good, and there is a bit in the newer RE's, but pulling back on something that is pretty much at home with such subject matter just doesn't make sense.  It's like having a Columbo movie without a mystery, or a giallo film without a series of grisly murders. 

All in all, though, RE:E is worth watching for anyone who enjoyed the first two. 

[DistantJ]

I don't know why people complain about the RE series being action movies. I played those games and while the bits you play in are scary, whenever it goes to a cut scene its always cheesy action sequences.

[Jim H]

not to mention the idea that Nevada started to look like the Sahara Desert in only a couple months complete with drifting dunes?

It was more like 5 years if memory recalls.  But yeah. 

[DistantJ]

I just re-watched RE Apocalypse for the first time since my initial viewing last night. It was better than I remembered, actually. I still think that Nemesis thing and his part of the plot are just plain goofy, though - I guess you have that kind of trouble when you want to put in fanservice for fans of a videogame. I hated Nemesis in the game, too, when I played it - so I guess to me he's kinda like the Jar Jar Binks of Resident Evil.

[the guyver]

That annoyed me too.  I didn't think Nemesis was proportional.....*sigh*