Are you asking that because its too expensive or too cheap? My theatre charges $6.50 for a matinee.

My theatre shows non-matinee movies for $6.50....but I live in Podunk

milla has some big nipples. i hope shes in the dvd commentary so we can hear her thoughts on them.

But all she has are the nips.

well i was gonna say too cheap but i forgot about matinees.

Student ID. Regular price is $7.75, student is $6.00. Matinee is also $6.00, but as a student you can go anytime at that price.

Actually, at the theater I normally go to it's $6.50 for Matinee/Student.

No shit, you would figure that they would let the nemesis go after some of the zombies instead of just killing the stars and walking around aimlessly.

Just got back from it. Definitely better than the first, but that's not saying much. The dialogue was very, very cheesy. My friend and I were laughing our asses off at the motorcycle through the stained glass window part. The best part of the movie was seeing Mila's goods, and Mike Epps.

I don't really understand why people liked the first one so much better then the second. They are both mindless action flicks. I thought this one did much better on the fan service and the action. I can understand if people didn't like the first one, I can understand if people didn't like the second one. But I can't really understand how the second one is utter crap when you liked the first one.

i agree w/ you tanman. both sucked. this one actually was somewhat related to the game

my 'local' one is only $6.50 for adult

matinee is $4.00

Here's what I think about 'relating to the game' - I already played the games. I don't need a movie with actors doing all the same stupid shit I already did... "what is it?" "It's blood." "Barry... where's Barry?" It's stupid. The first film was perfectly good - it served as an 'origins' which the games didn't do. The games all started after the outbreak. The first film represented Umbrella well and I think they did a good job with the virus and the zombies. The zombies were a helluva lot better in the first film. They didn't even show any zombies in the second film - apparently, they were all blurry vampire wolves.

It's nice that there was more characters from the games in the second film I guess, except that Valentine wasn't interesting at all and the Nemesis was just stupid the way they resolved his character. Outside of that and the fact that they were in "raccoon city," they didn't really do much else to acknowedge the game. Basically, all they did was nod at it a few times. That's fine by me - I didn't have too many problems with it story-wise and as I said, having a movie that does everything I've already done in a game is dumb.

I think what RE1 haters want is for some S.T.A.R.S. members to be in a forest running from dogs and out of ammo and entering a mansion and having to explore it and encounter scary slow moving zombies and crap etc... I just don't think it would make a good movie. The zombies in the game weren't that slow, they would kinda slowly walk around and then they would lunge at you (just like they did in the film). Also, they were typically by themselves. Rarely were zombies in groups of more than 3 or 4. This would make a really lame movie. The first film was handled perfectly and the second film could've been salvaged with a different director.

How about not assuming what us "RE1 haters" wanted since I don't ever assume what you actually liked about the zombieless piece of shit that was RE1.

You make a movie about PacMan, you better put god damn ghost in it. You also better put Pac Man in it.

Resident Evil was about S.T.A.R.S members. To have them totally lacking in the first film was pretty fuck'n lame if you ask me. Then to toss it all in the back seat. I could understand the set up. Yeah sure, try explaining why exactly the shit in the first game happened.

I want survivor horror. I don't want a piece of shit written by Paul Worthless Scriptwriter Anderson. The zombies were slow. then they saved their energy till they were close so they could lunge at you. Atleast RE2 actually showed them slow and showed why they strike some sort of fear. Because no matter how much guns you have they will over run you with their numbers. That is why zombies are scary. Not because they go "BOO!".

Ha! HA I say. Perhaps you haven't seen the film in some time. But you do realize that the only scenes where zombies were really in they weren't alone. They were in massive numbers in an elevator, in the sewers lunging at the taste of human blood and all in groups. But then they are all gone from the rest of the movie to make way for lasers and other worthless effect circle jerk tricks that P.W.S.A to pull.

The first was terrible. The second was no better, but atleast it did something the first didn't. It paid homage to the actual game even though it took the context of those characters and tossed it's own thing into it. That is how a game to movie translation works better. You say you don't want a video game directly translated to a film because of lame dialouge about jill being the master of lock picking. Well the film wasn't that and it worked out worse since you clearly didn't like it.

What I wanted from the first film was the feeling that the game brought. It could have worked if done correctly and not penned by the worse writer/director around. Anyone could have handled this better. Atleast this one had the name dropping from the ASHFORD family to Jills direct from the game outfit.

All we needed was her to do a 23 hit combo in the cemetary and then hit a Hyper Elbow Tackle before she uses a grenade launcher.


Either way, I'm sure we could expect another film to come out of this. My only hope is chris gets some screen time. But more then likely with Paul W.S. Anderson cranking out the ideals, we'll just see claire get involved and have a three way action between jill, alice and claire.

Worthless video game films.

There's nothing wrong with video game films, or at least the idea of making them. However, they are all created and approached poorly. If you don't take the medium seriously nor make a coherent story then it doesn't matter what your source material is -- it will inevitably suck.

This is coming from someone who never played the video game (with a few exceptions, not a big FPS fan). Maybe this tempered my enjoyment of RE2.

I liked the first movie a lot more than this one. RE2 had some nice moments but, overall, it was a disappointment.

I'm not a big fan of those close-up action shots. It just looks like the director couldn't come up with anything visually interesting so he moves the camera in close. You sorta get a vague idea of what's happening. Just seems like lazy directing, IMO.

I'd say I got half of my tickets worth.


Oh, I went back and read the first post in the thread. Interesting casting rumors back then...

damn you guys are lucky. here its 9.50 regular, 8.00 with student ID. matinee is like 7 i think (i never go so im not 100% sure).

Yeah, I'm going to go watch this (these movies, though not that great, aren't awful awful, so I can deal with them) but it's true that, they play a huge disservice to the video games. They don't show a story with the characters that have always been the leads in these games, they barely have any zombies in them, and worst off...they don't in any way reflect the tone, atmosphere, or style of the games whatsoever. What was a horror action game is now just a techno PWSA action movie with bullet time and shit.

Jack's got it right on the head...besides the idiot style writing Anderson has, with weak characters and silly plots, his films just have no allegiance to the video games. And for a game that was made to mimic what a movie would look like, it would've been one of the easiest games in the world to translate (at least from a stylistic perspective) to the movie world, since the games approximated a movie to begin with.

But oh well. Looks like RE2 had a bigger opening than RE. So...maybe RE3 will be the good one? Three times a charm?

I have to wonder. How the fuck did Alice get on the roof top of the building they were sneaking into so that she could run down and kick some troops asses? More P.W.S.A stupid plot points for the sake of getting a "cool" looking scene which serves no purpose.

RE2 left the door open for RE3.. infact it demanded a 3rd film the way it ended.

Oh yeah, it looked like Umbrella's main HQ looked to be in North America from that space shot. has Anderson really never played any of the resident evil games? I really doubt it. Atleast there wasn't any of that laser grid crap in this one.

I'm not going to be too critical about a zombie movie featuring kung-fu super female cops and mutated super zombies that use rocket launchers.

Overall, I enjoyed it. It was very cheesy, but look at the plot, how could it not be? I thought the directing was weak, but I liked some of the action and I thought Nemesis was cool. I liked it more than the first one, which wasn't anything spectacular anyway.

One question, if the zombies are created with the T-Virus and is spread through bites and scratches, how did all corpses in that cemetery come back to life as zombies? How did they get infected with the virus?

Why I am I asking logic questions about this movie in the first place?

It's best not to question it. Must be something that only made sense to P.W.S.A when he thought it sounded cool and wrote it on paper.

C.H.U.D.

In the first film they establish the virus is constantly mutating. At first it was airborn and then through direct contact (basically it becomes less effective as it mutates). I guess any infected zombies that bleed infect the soil? Still that would take a lot of time to get into bodies buried underground.

Like Jack said, "it's best not to question it".

You're determined to blame P.W.S.A. for everything bad about movies, aren't you

well... he did write it. So I assume he decided "Hmm, lets put alice running down the side of a building" because he thought it would be neat-o and cool to look at with nu metal playing in the background.

Sure, it may have been a little better with a different director and I'm sure P.W.S.A didn't write in "Make zombies movements annoying as all fuck". but still the whole plot of the story stinks.

A decent sequel. Looking forward to another.

By the way, I thought the helicopter shootout/John Woo scene with Alice was nicely translated from the Code Veronica Game.

I wasn't real excited about the plot, but it wasn't that bad. Alice running down the side of a building and crashing through a window can't be automatically pinned on Paul, it could just as easily have been Mr. Second Unit's idea to make his scenes "cooler". I don't think Paul envisioned what we saw, but it's entirely possible. After seeing AvP, I've lost some faith in Paul - but I'm holding out for the director's cut to see if it wasn't actually his fault entirely.