Posted by Ozma at px4ar.ed.shawcable.net on March 16, 2002 at 21:20:31:
In Reply to: Resident Evil (Spoilers... I guess) posted by Kiss lt on March 16, 2002 at 18:50:40:
Sweet zombie goodness! How the hell long has it been since a good zombie movie has been made? Other than Children of the Living Dead (which was the worst excuse for a zombie movie I've ever seen. Awful. Just awful), I can't remember seeing any zombie flicks since Dead Alive. And I've NEVER seen a zombie movie in a theater, so that was a treat. The truth is, I think I wanted to see zombies so badly, that it caused me to be completely bias towards R.E. It could have been Soul Survivors 2: Zombie Town, and I would have dug it, so long as it was better that Children of the Living Dead. Anyways, I guess the fact of the matter is I'm not 100% sure if my fondness for the movie was for the entire flick, or just the zombies.
Cus' I looooves me some zombies.
: I never had my thoughts on a flick do a 180. Leave it to a movie that I followed very closely and then dismissed during post as just another Tomb Raider to change all of that. As much as I hated MK, the director did a great job with Resident evil. The prequel-RE1-beginning of RE2 story, as well as the entire development was great. They rested heavily on cheap scares (and after a horrid flick like MK, wouldn't you grasp for anything as well?), but you can look past that... Or maybe you can't. Some people are just people that way. Some weren't as cheap, and when they fired, they hit their mark. The dialogue was a little "Dime-store-Braveheart-ish" at times, but with a zombie every few feet and the male ego being boiled in the process, I'm pretty sure you'd try to talk as much shit as possible as well. Video gamers wil love the nods, and it makes people who haven't played the games even that more pumped to find out. This film implemented the audience knowledge as character memory base structure (discover along with the charcter) nicely. It'll probably get bashed over and over again by both people in and out of the industry, but this was a great zombie film any way you slice it. We see so few of those in this day and age.
: sAm