Honestly, I'd rather stare at that image on the right for two hours than watch a motion picture based on the left anyday. Well, defying good taste yet again, Resident Evil: Extinction, the third (and supposedly final) installment in the series, had a big opening this past weekend and seized the top box office spot with an estimated $24 million in ticket sales. Even besting its previous installment, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, gross, the film has been predictably and deservedly panned by critics and fans of the video game series that spawned them alike. However, director Paul W.S. Anderson has now managed to somehow create a continutity-flawless trilogy, with consistent casting throughout, and married Milla Jovovich to boot.
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*Sigh* Thats the sound you heard the most in the movie theater I was in a month ago when the trailer for this movie premiered. Well, that and laughter. Regardless, I'm less than surprised that it did moderately well on its opening weekend. A) consider it was competing with nothing in its own supposed Horror/Action/Sci-Fi genre. B) Never underestimate the hardcore nerd, no matter how rare the Resident Evil-breed may be, and his/her (her? hahahaha) unwavering commitment to burning truck loads of cash on sub-par liscensed products. That being said about nerds, let me say this about the Resident Evil series (the films, at least): never before have I seen a movie that managed to capture a healthy amount of the video game's aesthetic and ambiance, along with making an effort for multi-volume characters no matter how redundant they may be, and yet STILL manage to suck both balls to the point where the entire film looks like a chipmunk saving testicles for the winter.
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Again, I repeat: *Sigh*. The perfect example of a filmmaker doing everything to the fans' specification, and THEREFORE fucking it all up. Hooray for fans' opinions. They bring us great ideas like this, Alien vs. Predator, and soon RoboCop's Last Stand, which will depict Officer Murphy's dramatic struggle against thousands of Sioux indians. Bah-bum-bum-bah-bum. Bum-bum-bah-bum.