http://deadhours.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/resident-evil-extinction-2007/ just another cinema weblog Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:37:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://deadhours.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/resident-evil-extinction-2007/#comment-6 Cliff Burns Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:46:32 +0000 http://deadhours.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/resident-evil-extinction-2007/#comment-6 Movies based on video games...and we wonder why the cinema overflows with superficial pap, eye candy for people who have trouble with complex plots, characterization, good scripts...you know, all the elements of timeless cinema. So we get stuck with movies like "Resident Evil" and "300", rubbish that's 99% CGI, created to open big on a long weekend, rook people for as much money as possible and then disappear to the rubbish heap of movie history... Movies based on video games…and we wonder why the cinema overflows with superficial pap, eye candy for people who have trouble with complex plots, characterization, good scripts…you know, all the elements of timeless cinema. So we get stuck with movies like “Resident Evil” and “300″, rubbish that’s 99% CGI, created to open big on a long weekend, rook people for as much money as possible and then disappear to the rubbish heap of movie history…

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