my name is alice. i worked for the umbrella corporation...(RE 1-6 - movies not games...)

the first is tops. economical. visually very cool. paul w.s. anderson begins the series strongly. did he ever think he would make 6 of them and marry the star? who could know that in hollywood? alexander witt-directed second movie is fun and there are memorable moments but the visual flair is muted. maybe it was a money thing. russell mulcahy-directed 3rd film might be my least favorite. though alice is awesome and i like the vegas sequence a lot. it's no highlander though. the 4th movie definitely has its moments and i could have watched the tokyo hive assault forever, but the prison breakout drags at times. still solid though! the 5th might be my fave since the 1st. i love all the various hive simulations of different cities. i could live down there. finally saw the 6th and last and i think it was a fitting over-the-top end. satisfying. alice in old lady makeup. laser hallway. awesome visuals. 106 minutes. cost a mere 40 million to make and box office was 300+ million. that's how you do it. though i do sometimes daydream about what paul w.s. could do with a cameron budget. the sky would be the limit! he's supposed to be planning a series of monster hunter movies. eagerly anticipating if that's the case!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_U-mwwtnrAt0/TI5Kg1QkoKI/AAAAAAAAAEo/QEPfbBwsJrc/s640/vlcsnap-2010-09-13-11h49m59s101.png

these movies are all terrible but i have a weird affection for them anyway

i love them. but i wouldn't recommend them to anyone. or i wouldn't recommend them to adults anyway. i just watched them all again with my 14 year old. he was really dubious about watching them for the longest time. but he enjoyed them. i have a real thing for underground top secret facilities. i was so excited to see stuff in the hive in the last movie that were new. new rooms. the board of directors cryogenic room. loved that.

i will pretty much love any movie set underground. earth's true future.

The second movie went too far in attempting to actually adapt the video games - once they broke free of that, then they were freer to poke around in what you could do in a zombie movie.

Comparisons to the Fast & Furious series - probably intended to wind down after a few, then started making money, then started making more money. Also they both killed off, and then brought back, Michelle Rodriguez.

Budget Total (all films):
$290 million
Box office Total (all films):
$1.233 billion

i don't know how common it is for one person to write the screenplays for every movie in a series this long. it does add continuity. auteurism at its finest. i do love the editing/sound/sound editing in these films. so crazy.

I don't know how many of them I have seen (three? four? all of them?) but they are hugely enjoyable. That continuity element is genuinely impressive. They all blend into one in my mind.

I only watched the first one. On VHS. I remember that the protagonist air-kicks a dog zombie.

The Redlettermedia guys watched them all in one sitting.
https://youtu.be/caKcJ9Jllfc?t=18m15s
good part starts at 18:15 or so

Why the hell would anyone care about what RLM thinks of these movies.

You could probably drop those last three words.

I liked the first and third ones a lot, the second not so much, and packed it in after the fourth (which I think was the only one I saw in a theater). Part of me wanted to watch 1-5 and then go see 6 in a theater, but that didn't happen. (I had a similar plan revolving around the Underworld series, and that didn't happen either.)

i was hoping i could watch 1-5 with rufus and go see 6 at the movies with him but it didn't happen. only a fortuitous trip that the other two people in the house took for a couple of days made this recent marathon happen.

we watched two a night for three nights.

the last one is well worth watching. tons of fun.

these are great movies, paul ws anderson is far and away the most talented paul anderson in hollywood. mortal kombat and event horizon are also tremendous

I've seen more of these than I'd care to admit. They're bad films through and through but I don't find them bad enough to be enjoyable, just extremely mediocre. Apart from the occasional moments of schlocky action there's little that's even memorable about them, certainly not on a character or story level. If any potentially interesting development happens it seems to get overwritten by the time the next one rolls along(cf: the clone Alices).

I am fairly certain I have seen the third and fourth but cannot remember anything about them. In fact when Ali Larter's character appeared in a re-cap at the start of the fourth one I remember thinking, "Hang on, when was she in it?"

PWS Anderson is the hackiest of hacks. I'll give him Event Horizon, but I walked out of his Three Musketeers as it was such bullshit. Even the Chris O'Donnell version is better(well of course it is, it has Tim Curry).

I love the backwards intro to Retribution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXfYlkkuEZI

that and the tokyo intro are the best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI8FGDaZ3Yw

When _did_ Tim Curry become the tasteful face of bad taste?