Paul Anderson should not be allowed to make franchise movies

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*Note This review of 2 franchises contains heavy spoilers.
I am basicly reviewing the Resident Evil movies and AVP. Not saying they werent "alright" movies, I'm saying they were made half-assed and they took too many liberties with the franchises. And Paul Anderson can't make a decent film. If you want to comment, please don't flame.

Well, Well, Well... I hate Paul Anderson as a producer, director, film maker, just as anything related to movies. He should not be in show business. Every franchise movie hes made, he's crapped on. Resident Evil was crapped on, and yes, face it, AVP was crapped on. I havnt seen RE:A but I just rented it and will watch it later tonight

STOP SHITTING ON MY FAVORITE FRANCHISES >_<

I try and try to like these movies because they are after my favorite franchise games or comics, but this guy cannot make a decent movie. I was liking AVP, until he decided to kill off 2 of the predators at nearly the very beginning, then decided to have Lex and Scar team up, then ride that trolly thing 2000 feet up. No. Just no. Lex was a bland character who decided to "tag along" when the predator should have ripped her spine out. Not saying that he should have, but I'd understand.

The overall acting in the movie (save for Lance Henrickson, who is "the man") was mostly crappy. The italian guy didn't sound right in most of his dialogue, and sounded like he fumbled through most of it.

I will say that the action scenes were great (Celtic swiniging that alien by his leg through the beams was fantastic), but other then that, it wasn't as good as it should have been. Not enough Aliens battling Predators in close quarters combat, and 1 alien succeded in killing off 2 of the predators damn near as soon as they came into contact with eachother. One died without even a fight! Excuse me, but this just REEKS of "no".

And Lex's "One ugly mother..." was the last straw.

Now, I'm not saying that AVP just flat out sucked. It is an enjoyable Pop-corn flick, but I'll be damned if they couldn't have made it a little bit better.

Well enough of that rant, onto the resident evil films.

SLOW MOTION KUNG FU AND ZOMBIES A GOOD MOVIE DOES NOT MAKE! Resident Evil was about horror, survival, flesh eating zombies and monsters... Yet this dumbass can't seem to put any blood or gore or overall adult content matter into these movies (except for some breasts by milla jovovich and a pubic shot of her at the end of the first movie). The first one: Most of the team is killed off by a lazer. LAZERS. Only one guy was mauled by zombies, and everyone else just got bit a couple times, except for spence, who got torn apart by the licker (which was sadly the bloodiest part of the movie), but even THEN, it wasn't as frightning or gory as it should have been.

he lickers graphics were complete crap, and seeing it kill spence on the monitor just proved how cheesy it looked overall. And another thing: You don't learn anyones names. Except for Matt (whom Alice yells to at the END OF THE MOVIE), Spencer, and whats-her-names boyfriend whom I cannot remember, and Kaplin. And Kaplin just "alluvasudden" dies near the end of the movie, after he became probably my favorite character, because hes the only one who knew how to farking suvive. What the hell. Shit, even the MAIN CHARACTER doesn't have a name in the first movie, unless you read the cover or go online or something to learn it.

OK, now thats mostly over, I must say this: I know hollywood takes liberties with certain franchises or so. It must be done, and I can understand it. But what I DON'T understand is when they take a certain franchise, gut it, turn it inside out, and turn it into something else. The only thing that RE had going for it that let you KNOW it was RE was the mention of the T-Virus and overall title. Thats it. I beleive that they could have made a very good movie out of the first game (read George Romero's script, its more true to RE then Anderson's films will ever hope to be), but they wanted to make it more child friendly because "Oh, its based after a veedao game " but hey, whaddya know, they were wrong.

One thing they need to learn to do in movie to game franchises is to at least follow the plot and involve the main characters. I Know RE:A has most of the cast from RE3, but after seeing Anderson's first attempt at an RE movie, my expectations have fallen.

That concludes my rant. Please, don't flame
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Yeah but Uwe Boll shouldn't make movies. Period.

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I didn't necesarily hate the RE's but they just kinda got sidetracked. I wanted see zombies, killing, and guns in it, and I didn't and I was pissed. I think the only decent zombie movie I've seen recently was Dawn of the Dead.

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i completely agree, dawn of the dead and its sister Shaun of the dead ruled

I can't understand how people liked 28 days later. That movie was shitty.
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Village pissed me off once I realized what was going on, It was so stupid.

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I just caught the Henry's Film Corner review of AVP. I think I just witnessed a whole new defintion of "savaged."
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I liked AVP. *Puts hands up to ward off beer bottles and lettuce*

No, it wasn't great, and there's tons of stuff wrong with it. Every time I see it I can't help but rewrite it in my mind to the way I think it should have gone. Maybe that's why I like it, because it had potential to go right and I can ignore the stuff I didn't like. I dunno, it's hard to explain. I do wish they'd just gone with the Ryuushi plot from the novels, it would have been awesome to see Machiko and Dachande on the big screen. But they probably would have gotten Lucy Liu to play Machiko

Anyway, Paul Anderson. I liked the first MK movie, but that's mostly because I'm a shameless MK fangirl. I liked Event Horizon, but that's mostly for the gore. Never saw the RE movies, not being into the games. Heard abyssmal stuff about the second one. I guess I can say I don't hate Anderson, but the bit in the commentary of AVP where he's talking about Predator ages bugs me because it makes it clear he really didn't do his homework. He didn't read Prey or the AVP comic, or he would have known that stuff. It seems like if you're going to make a movie, you should, like, know something about what the movie's about, but maybe that's just me.

Oh, and the rated PG thing. Ugh. I shall say no more.

At least he's not Ewe Boll. Keep yer mits off of my video games, Boll. I swear if you touch Legacy Of Kain, you die.
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Yea i just found out hes making far cry and bloodrayne. after he took a shit on alone in the dark and house of the dead? hes gonna ruin one of the greatest FPS's ever made, and one of the most overrated games ever made.
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There's a great segment on Something Awful by a guy who once tried to work with him-

http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2649

The guy is a fuckwit.
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boll or the guy making the article?

I vote boll.
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Er, yeah, Boll. Sorry.
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Uwe Boll shouldn't be allowed within fifty meters of a script.

At least Anderson TRIES top make it faithful to the source material - Boll just takes the name and runs.

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Anderson should b renamed Anderscum,. He has brought shame to the good names of both Aliens AND Predators!!!

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Asswipe= Anderson, Paul
Asshole= Anderson, Paul
Asshead= Anderson, Paul

DOWN WIV PAUL ANDERSON!!!!!
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[Mr. Z]

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AVP was Andersons more succesfull films.
I haven't seen Res. evil but i heard that it was ok.
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Warning: this post contains gratuitis swearing

Update. I just recently saw Resident Evil: Apocalypse... fuck you anderson. Fuck you. I hope you rot in hell you son of a bitch. You have ruined any and every hope of a decent Resident Evil movie out there. Where did you get it wrong? Well, lets take a peek:

OK. Resident Evil 3 was about Jill Valentine trying to escape this thing called the Nemesis in a zombie infested racoon city. What happens? Nemesis is, for no real reason, dropped into Raccoon city. When he comes into contact with some STARS members, what happens? He is, at that time, instructed to gun down each and every one of them, for absolutely NO reason. In the game, Nemesis was instructed to Kill the stars members because they knew about Umbrella and the T Virus and yadda yadda yadda, but here, theres no logic, no fucking point to it at all. Its "Just because"

Jill saying "I'm good... but not THAT good" was so fucking lame I was tempted to turn the movie off to save my brain, but I had to watch it to prove my hypothesis that Anderson has royally screwed up the RE franchise films. Again, Slow Motion Kung Fu in a graveyard against zombies a good movie DOES NOT MAKE.

The lines in this movie were dumb, the acting was horrid, and I couldn't stand any of the characters. Wanna know what pissed me off more then ANYTHING in the movie though? How Nemesis became a good guy at the end. How he just SAVES everybody and turns on Umbrella.

End of the movie: "Begin Project Alice" was it. That did it in for me, because I know that a third film is further raping what could have been a series of excellent horror films, and anderon ruined it all be wanting to make it flashy.

Think me to be a jackass if you want, I just can't stand how... OFF everything was.
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Bounty, you need to shorten you're messages!
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Behemoth, you forgot something in your sig... I'm missing the following creatures: Critters, Nocturnal Hammerheads, Tremors, Langoliers, Look-at-me-I'm-a-small-green-dino-doggie-and-I'm-gonna-eat-your-fat-ass-in-the-car-like-your-a-drivethrough-dinner Dilophosaur, Sarlacc, Rancor's, Robin Wright Penn, Screamers, Robocop and a Terminator (preferably a T-800)...
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I liked the first Resident Evil; I felt it captured the overall feel of the game very well, particularly the way it starts out creepy and confusing, and ends up being a sort of action game. AVP was fun, but I wonder why he stepped away from the tried and true Marines for fucking archaeologists.
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AVP was okay. But I do have to say that I could have done better, and I'm a damned fourteen year old!

I like RE and RE:A. They weren't what I expected, but they were pretty good.
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