What general film/series have you just seen.. marks out of 5

[grim_tales]

I havent played any of the Resident Evil games either so only vaguely knew the story

[HungFist]

I havent played any of the Resident Evil games either so only vaguely knew the story

Doesn't matter. Apart from a couple of character names and the title, there's no connection. These silly teen movies (well, the first 3, I haven't seen Afterlife) are a disgrace for the games anyway.

[Markgway]

EDGE OF DARKNESS
Huge disappointment from Mad Max and the director of Casino Royale.
Leaden, muddled, barely believeable thriller.
One of those rare films that had enormous potential but just gets everything wrong.

A PERFECT GETAWAY
Slick horror-thriller has a good cast and neat twist - but doesn't seem to mind that said twist negates much of what we've already seen.
Some viewers may not mind such laziness.

SHUTTER ISLAND
Complex, multi-layered, and well-crafted chiller.
Not the sort of film I'd be in a hurry to rewatch but worth seeing once for sure.
This is the Scorcese of Cape Fear.
DiCaprio is excellent, having come a long way as an actor.

THE BEYOND
What a load of pish.
Gore effects (the ONLY reason to watch a Fulci film) range from impressive to downright cheesy.
Still any film in which a little ginger girl's head is blown off is gonna have its' fans.

[bradavon]

"SHUTTER ISLAND
Complex, multi-layered, and well-crafted chiller.
This is the Scorcese of Cape Fear."

Good to hear. It didn't appeal to me during it's cinema run but maybe I was wrong. The last excellent Scorcese film I saw was "Bringing Out the Dead " and a lot of people dislike that, it was also over a decade ago. I hear Aviator is good though. Both Gangs of New York (although certainly flawed) and Departed are good but not excellent.

[romerojpg]

Shutter Island is a pile of wank by the end, nice start, nice middle but the end sections decimatingly shit. I pretty much fell asleep it is such a bore of a film.

The Departed is vastly better.

I havent played any of the Resident Evil games either so only vaguely knew the story

Doesn't matter. Apart from a couple of character names and the title, there's no connection. These silly teen movies (well, the first 3, I haven't seen Afterlife) are a disgrace for the games anyway.

I love the way people who have played the games think they are some sort of masterpiece of story telling, acting and originality and somehow are these hardcore adult games

They ARE teenager games, you could not get more teen orientated games, shit ones at that with absolutely way over complex and badly written storyline, direlogue and voice acting is shocking beyond words, plot and pretty much everything sucks balls. Its a game.

Even the films piss on the games from miles above. Then add in the actual control system for the games and it makes them total and utter garbage.

Next you will be saying how amazing the Mario games plots and characters were

[saltysam]

Don't think Shutter Island is as bad as you make out Romero but it was certainly very disappointing and yes,boring in parts.luckily i sold on my blu-ray at cost on avforums straight away so it worked out as a free rental for me.

[romerojpg]

I am not saying its bad (cannot remember what I gave it, 2.5 or 3 out of 5), I liked it all the way until it fell apart in the last 20 minutes or so, that ending just killed it dead for me sadly. Not bad, just a painful end.

[Shingster]

Resident Evil the film is pure trash from beginning to end with some of the worst "CG" of any contemporary Hollywood film, it's sequel isn't much better either. You'd have to pay me or torture me to sit through the rest! You did the right thing Grim by not checking out the prequels before going to see pt.4.

[romerojpg]

with some of the worst "CG" of any contemporary Hollywood film

Its not even close to the badness of hundreds of others many with far greater budgets.

[grim_tales]

I havent played any of the Resident Evil games either so only vaguely knew the story

Doesn't matter. Apart from a couple of character names and the title, there's no connection. These silly teen movies (well, the first 3, I haven't seen Afterlife) are a disgrace for the games anyway.

Might check out the games on the Wii though, RE4 (the game) is more action based than the earlier games isnt it?

[romerojpg]

Yeah but RE4 is broke, you cannot move and shoot haha joke games, you gotta love em and it has no zombies in it haha

[HungFist]

I havent played any of the Resident Evil games either so only vaguely knew the story

Doesn't matter. Apart from a couple of character names and the title, there's no connection. These silly teen movies (well, the first 3, I haven't seen Afterlife) are a disgrace for the games anyway.

I love the way people who have played the games think they are some sort of masterpiece of story telling, acting and originality and somehow are these hardcore adult games

They ARE teenager games, you could not get more teen orientated games, shit ones at that with absolutely way over complex and badly written storyline, direlogue and voice acting is shocking beyond words, plot and pretty much everything sucks balls. Its a game.

Even the films piss on the games from miles above. Then add in the actual control system for the games and it makes them total and utter garbage.

Next you will be saying how amazing the Mario games plots and characters were

I don't know why you talk about story telling, acting and originality. None of them were ever even attempted in the RE games. Well, the old ones at least. I haven't played the latest one(s).

It was the atmosphere that made those games so great. RE1 remake is a good example. While the movies use rock music and Matrix style action scenes, the game uses silence and details. Shadows, dust falling from the roof, dead bodies lying on the floor, the sound of wind coming outside, crows sitting on a fence and so on. Plus stiff gameplay. There wasn't any martial arts or rock music...

Of course, it's a bit too slow and quiet for teens. They want to move and shoot at the same time

I don't care if they keep doing Resident Evil movies, just irritates a bit that they are calling them Resident Evil when there's almost no relation and the style is pretty much the opposite.

[Shingster]

Its not even close to the badness of hundreds of others many with far greater budgets.

It's easily one of the worst "Hollywood" films of this century, easily. As Hung says it was the tense atmosphere that made the games successful, of which Anderson's moronic action film has not a single iota.

[romerojpg]

If you say so

[gasteropod]

Yeah the Resident Evil games are pretty scary and the films aren't at all.

[HungFist]

Could someone please encode a new feature that displays a picture of white flag every time Romero says "if you say so"

[romerojpg]

I am not giving up at all, I just cannot be arsed with people saying dumb shit like some are obviously. Or they are seriously just blind.

[HungFist]

I am not giving up at all, I just cannot be arsed with people saying dumb shit like some are obviously. Or they are seriously just blind.

But you do realize every time you say it you end up looking very stupid and no one takes you seriously, right?

[romerojpg]

Yeah and saying "It's easily one of the worst "Hollywood" films of this century, easily." is not its not even a Hollywood film for starters

[HungFist]

Zombieland (USA, 2010) – 3/5
Enough written about this self-aware yet funny and gory zombie comedy, hence let me share some off-screen experiences. It was nice seeing Tokyo movie goers are still into zombie films, to the extent that some people were standing in the theatre in the last, sold out screening in Hiyuumantorasuto (fucking hell this took a long time to figure out... Human Trust). Also a nice surprise was the amount of female audience... not only poor victims dragged in by fat bastards, but girls in their 20’s coming to cinema with their friends.

The Expendables (USA, 2010) – 3/5
Satisfying but slightly underwhelming action film. Compared to Stallone’s previous film Rambo the action scenes fall far behind, serving rather basic shootouts and hand to hand fights. The fast editing isn’t quite as bad as some say, but nevertheless a drag. The dialogue and chill out scenes with the all star cast are thoroughly enjoyable. There’s perhaps too many characters for everyone to stand out, though. Dolph Lundgen succeeds the best, managing to do or say something classic in almost every scene he’s in.

- What is he doing?
- Hanging a pirate.
- Don’t be ridiculous. Gunnar! What are you doing?
- Hanging a pirate.

[Markgway]

Shutter Island is a pile of wank by the end, nice start, nice middle but the end sections decimatingly shit. I pretty much fell asleep it is such a bore of a film.

It's got one of those twists that you either accept or feel alienated by. I went with it. It's longish but not boring. At no point does it turn to 'shit'. Even if you don't like the direction the film takes it's still poignant and gives DiCaprio some choice dramatic material. The ambiguous final scene is also interesting.

The Departed is vastly better.

It isn't.

[Shingster]

I am not giving up at all, I just cannot be arsed with people saying dumb shit like some are obviously. Or they are seriously just blind.

That has got to be the biggest case of the pot calling the kettle black in the history of the term!

Yeah and saying "It's easily one of the worst "Hollywood" films of this century, easily." is not its not even a Hollywood film for starters

Which is why I used quotation marks, as although it's a relatively modest European production it was obviously a mainstream action popcorn film designed to take on the big US studios at their own game - hence it's a "Hollywood" film! (Oh I've done it again, is it going to be taken literally this time? ).

You do realise you can never take the piss out of Brad when he doesn't get an obvious post now don't you? He's gonna be bookmarking this page for future use!

[bradavon]

You do realise you can never take the piss out of Brad when he doesn't get an obvious post now don't you? He's gonna be bookmarking this page for future use!

[romerojpg]

Yeah but you forget Brad forgets easy, even if he bookmarks he wont remember where he put it

[Shingster]