Literally to frick with them anon; what doesn't make sense is that the computer displays a personality at all, but once you accept that (and given the general writing of the movie isn't exactly a stretch), it fits perfectly.
It kinda blows my mind that this movie had 1/2 the budget of something like The Book of Eli. They squeezed every dollar out of that shitty 40 million budget they could.
It's because these movies aren't american productions. Anderson is european and has his own production company, the first movie was filmed entirely in Europe. The other major partners are a german company and one of Sony's subsidiaries. Much harder to steal millions from the budget when the director can oversee the cashflow and you're dealing with a bunch of stingy europeans who don't practice Hollywood accounting.
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homie just say they filmed in a cheap location. No need for all the sperging.
It's fundamentally a metacommentary on videogame boss patterns. Paul W.S. Anderson was always keenly interested in the form and structure of videogames when translating them into film.
That's because it's a practical costume, but sometimes they're using split-screen tricks to make him look bigger. It was harder to employ these tricks when Claire was interacting directly with the stuntman, so he's more normal-sized when she passes between his legs.
room layout is different, the windows aren't the same but i'm a different anon so maybe there's other stuff that anon is talking about too
that's just what i notice at a glance
>He can heal. he can dodge bullets. He has unlimited resources.
He's sick and dying, actually. That's why Claire is able to stab him. And why he's seated in the White House. He only ever moves in sudden bursts, but he's otherwise very fricked up. They plans for him to mutate into a tyrant in the final movie, but settled for giving him a more humiliating death.
The novelization shouldn't be taken as canon. What we do know is that he sprung a trap on the group, and then the film can't say anymore because Capcom characters like Jill aren't allowed to die.
I think that the biggest mistake the final RE movie made was not showing that Wesker is fricked up. There's only very slight hints like him being uncomfortable at the sight of blood, and a trickle of blood from his mouth when he's on the ground. There's a lot of things in the final movie where it reeks of missed opportunity and "you could have made this so much clearer with a few tweaks".
But yea, Wesker is supposed to be a diseased abomination surviving through cannibalism. When the brought Isaacs back into the picture, Wesker was sidelined. That's half the problem. Wesker turning into a Tyrant and trying to kill Alice would have been a retread of Isaacs turning into a tyrant and trying to kill Alice in RE: Extinction. Maybe that's why Wesker vs Alice was cut.
It's actually more of a do-over of the works of Kurt Wimmer. Milla famously hated how the film Ultraviolet turned out. So the attack on Umbrella's HQ was shot in a manner very similar to Milla's character in Ultraviolet fighting her way up the tower. And you'll notice similarities to the film Equilibrium. Alice throwing the two grenades is similar to Preston throwing his magazines down the hallway.
Incidentally, Alice jumping through the window was Milla's idea. It wasn't in the original script. But she felt that the fight scene was missing something. The shot itself (with the little grapple hooks that attach to the underside) is based on a very obscure Hong Kong action film about a female spy whose name escapes me.
Afterlife annoys me a bit because the 3D filmmaking and 3D VFX feels a bit undercooked. Retribution is so much better looking. But I cannot deny that it has some killer scenes.
Why do you say that? I remember being a kid and reading ebert reviews in the papers for movies I couldn't see and found this one particularly disturbing/ intriguing
Ebert and Anderson never clicked. I remember Ebert disliking Event Horizon as well. I sometimes wonder, however, about the difficult choice between staying true to yourself as an artist vs evolving to improve in response to feedback. I think of Albert Pyun, who was turning out absolute trash in his later years because he refused to evolve as an artist.
In the script for the first film, the Red Queen was a pouty sixteen year old, and lines like "I've been a bad, bad girl," were intended to come across as more sexual.
There's a lot of curious oddities about The Final Chapter, but one of them is that Wesker is clearly confused how Alice could possibly be alive. I've always wondered if the "primary" Alice died at the white house and one of the other clones took her place. It seems fanciful at first, but the Alice in this movie is weird. She asks a lot of leading questions. She says that she killed Isaacs, but in the previous films it was one of her clones that killed Isaacs. Alice just cowered while the lasers cut him to bits. And the film goes out of its way to show us that the Alice clones are still in play. Isaacs has a freezer on his transport filled with Alice heads. He's convinced she's the real Alice, but we never actually see any proof she's the same character from Retribution. It feels like a sleight of hand.
It's fundamentally a metacommentary on videogame boss patterns. Paul W.S. Anderson was always keenly interested in the form and structure of videogames when translating them into film.
The lasers increase in complexity like they would in a videogame boss battle. Thing of any bullet hell game. Later films like RE: Retribution basically have "levels" (Moscow, Tokyo, Suburbia, New York) with boss creatures appearing to gate progression. It's a very conscious thing.
First one was still a kinda good zombie horror movie but after that it just turned into ridiculous action slop with very little actual zombies(kind of parallel to how the games went at the same time tbh)
To create a tense scene for the audience to tell their friends about, thus the movie makes more money as it sells more tickets. You can stretch it by saying the machine tries to conserve power at first or it doesn't know how to anticipate human movement until it sees it a few times, but that's very nit picky. Wouldn't a security system made before zombies were accounted for prefer to not clean chunks of humans off the floor? Perhaps be staffed by people and be a strong door? You are wasting a ton of power on the laser grid for a not really a solution and it leave a big mess. A gun turret would have been a better and vastly more efficient choice, if the machine wants to conserve power. And zombie guards with functioning weapons would have been great similar to how the Doom video games handle it.
why didn't he just back up against the wall so he had time to turn it off?
The lasers also don't start till futher from the door, if you watch the movie you'lld see the glass wall startslike 1 feet away
Literally to frick with them anon; what doesn't make sense is that the computer displays a personality at all, but once you accept that (and given the general writing of the movie isn't exactly a stretch), it fits perfectly.
hey by 2023 standards the writing in the Resident Evil movies is oscar worthy
The AI is childish.
Did you watch the movie? The AI was a dick, it liked to frick with people
>cutting this out of RE4 remake
That was the day I knew the shills were bullshitting
They cut out the HALLWAY DEATH TRACTOR and FRICKING STATUE too. Overall it's so fricking boring compared to OG
According to RE: The Final Chapter, the laser sweep patterns are automated, and the laser corridor can function even when the Red Queen is shut down
Holy fricking cuts, my eyes and brain
It kinda blows my mind that this movie had 1/2 the budget of something like The Book of Eli. They squeezed every dollar out of that shitty 40 million budget they could.
It's because these movies aren't american productions. Anderson is european and has his own production company, the first movie was filmed entirely in Europe. The other major partners are a german company and one of Sony's subsidiaries. Much harder to steal millions from the budget when the director can oversee the cashflow and you're dealing with a bunch of stingy europeans who don't practice Hollywood accounting.
homie just say they filmed in a cheap location. No need for all the sperging.
>me beating my high score on beatsaber
It wasn't real? How disappointing.
>Laser is a single line close to the floor
>Guy jumps
>Laser follows him and slices him vertically
The Laser A.I is a godtier troll holy shit.
It's fundamentally a metacommentary on videogame boss patterns. Paul W.S. Anderson was always keenly interested in the form and structure of videogames when translating them into film.
Paul W.S. Anderson's filmography is so relentlessly aesthetic.
In hindsight, I realize this is a homage to the Terminator 3 bathroom fight.
holy kino
Was that an interpretation of pyramid head?
He's absolutely Pyramid Head inspired, but the movie took him from RE5 (because Capcom asked them to add more RE game stuff).
he's like 15 feet tall at 7 seconds then like 6 feet tall at the end
That's because it's a practical costume, but sometimes they're using split-screen tricks to make him look bigger. It was harder to employ these tricks when Claire was interacting directly with the stuntman, so he's more normal-sized when she passes between his legs.
I love the blatant continuity error with the shower in from an earlier scene.
What's the continuity error?
room layout is different, the windows aren't the same but i'm a different anon so maybe there's other stuff that anon is talking about too
that's just what i notice at a glance
He can heal. he can dodge bullets. He has unlimited resources. He is defeated by a door.
>He can heal. he can dodge bullets. He has unlimited resources.
He's sick and dying, actually. That's why Claire is able to stab him. And why he's seated in the White House. He only ever moves in sudden bursts, but he's otherwise very fricked up. They plans for him to mutate into a tyrant in the final movie, but settled for giving him a more humiliating death.
>why he's seated in the white house
Didn't he manage to frick everyone up and kill them all in the novelisation?
The novelization shouldn't be taken as canon. What we do know is that he sprung a trap on the group, and then the film can't say anymore because Capcom characters like Jill aren't allowed to die.
I think that the biggest mistake the final RE movie made was not showing that Wesker is fricked up. There's only very slight hints like him being uncomfortable at the sight of blood, and a trickle of blood from his mouth when he's on the ground. There's a lot of things in the final movie where it reeks of missed opportunity and "you could have made this so much clearer with a few tweaks".
But yea, Wesker is supposed to be a diseased abomination surviving through cannibalism. When the brought Isaacs back into the picture, Wesker was sidelined. That's half the problem. Wesker turning into a Tyrant and trying to kill Alice would have been a retread of Isaacs turning into a tyrant and trying to kill Alice in RE: Extinction. Maybe that's why Wesker vs Alice was cut.
What the frick? Is this supposed to be a matrix parody?
It's actually more of a do-over of the works of Kurt Wimmer. Milla famously hated how the film Ultraviolet turned out. So the attack on Umbrella's HQ was shot in a manner very similar to Milla's character in Ultraviolet fighting her way up the tower. And you'll notice similarities to the film Equilibrium. Alice throwing the two grenades is similar to Preston throwing his magazines down the hallway.
Incidentally, Alice jumping through the window was Milla's idea. It wasn't in the original script. But she felt that the fight scene was missing something. The shot itself (with the little grapple hooks that attach to the underside) is based on a very obscure Hong Kong action film about a female spy whose name escapes me.
In other words, yes a rip off of the matrix. this ain't your Mila fanblog, homosexual.
Afterlife annoys me a bit because the 3D filmmaking and 3D VFX feels a bit undercooked. Retribution is so much better looking. But I cannot deny that it has some killer scenes.
One of Ebert's best reviews.
Why do you say that? I remember being a kid and reading ebert reviews in the papers for movies I couldn't see and found this one particularly disturbing/ intriguing
Review was lol funny.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/resident-evil-2002
Ebert and Anderson never clicked. I remember Ebert disliking Event Horizon as well. I sometimes wonder, however, about the difficult choice between staying true to yourself as an artist vs evolving to improve in response to feedback. I think of Albert Pyun, who was turning out absolute trash in his later years because he refused to evolve as an artist.
Maybe it was trying to conserve power. If one beams is enough, it's a waste to spend the power to create a hundred to create small squares.
I love these movies so much
>gets his foot caught on a door
>dies
common problem for cheeky dexgays
In the script for the first film, the Red Queen was a pouty sixteen year old, and lines like "I've been a bad, bad girl," were intended to come across as more sexual.
SHIT
Why was he made out of watermelon inside?
He's black
Ah ok
She had to get it on.
Could HUNK survive it?
There's a lot of curious oddities about The Final Chapter, but one of them is that Wesker is clearly confused how Alice could possibly be alive. I've always wondered if the "primary" Alice died at the white house and one of the other clones took her place. It seems fanciful at first, but the Alice in this movie is weird. She asks a lot of leading questions. She says that she killed Isaacs, but in the previous films it was one of her clones that killed Isaacs. Alice just cowered while the lasers cut him to bits. And the film goes out of its way to show us that the Alice clones are still in play. Isaacs has a freezer on his transport filled with Alice heads. He's convinced she's the real Alice, but we never actually see any proof she's the same character from Retribution. It feels like a sleight of hand.
It's just poor continuity. No need for r/fantheories.
Maybe you missed the part where the AI was a psychopathic b***h.
Imagine getting filtered by Paul W. Anderson movies.
Honestly, this is the correct answer
The lasers increase in complexity like they would in a videogame boss battle. Thing of any bullet hell game. Later films like RE: Retribution basically have "levels" (Moscow, Tokyo, Suburbia, New York) with boss creatures appearing to gate progression. It's a very conscious thing.
First one was still a kinda good zombie horror movie but after that it just turned into ridiculous action slop with very little actual zombies(kind of parallel to how the games went at the same time tbh)
Writer didn't write it
Red Queen needed to fill her combo meter before using her ult.
To create a tense scene for the audience to tell their friends about, thus the movie makes more money as it sells more tickets. You can stretch it by saying the machine tries to conserve power at first or it doesn't know how to anticipate human movement until it sees it a few times, but that's very nit picky. Wouldn't a security system made before zombies were accounted for prefer to not clean chunks of humans off the floor? Perhaps be staffed by people and be a strong door? You are wasting a ton of power on the laser grid for a not really a solution and it leave a big mess. A gun turret would have been a better and vastly more efficient choice, if the machine wants to conserve power. And zombie guards with functioning weapons would have been great similar to how the Doom video games handle it.
the red queen taunts them by saying theyre all gonna die down here, for no discernible reason. some guy just programmed her to be a petty c**t i guess
Stop obsessing over these shit fricking movies
saving energy. going full 100% would be bad for the electrical bill.
why didnt they just use a mirror to reflect the lasers