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Post or link to your own review of something you've seen/read/played recently or something you really loved/hated.

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Recently played through these for the first time in over a decade.

I started with 0, which has always been the reason I haven't started a replay of the RE series sooner because that game was always such a chore. Well, it's a bit like The Incredible Hulk movie -- weak first half, 2nd half much better. The big problem with 0 is managing two characters at once, including their health and ammo. The 2nd problem is the inventory system is basically complete butt -- rather than put everything in a chest, you just drop it on the floor and if you want it back you have to come back for it. Making matters worse is there's a limit to what you can just drop on the floor in any given area -- you can only throw so much down in the lobby of the training facility, for instance, at which point you have to go upstairs into the lecture hall (because the game won't actually let you put stuff down in another room on the same floor!)

Some of the enemies are a pain too -- namely the angry zombie monkeys that start to run around about halfway through, but another one are the leech zombies which are almost impossible to kill unless you have molotovs or flame grenades. They do a ton of damage usually before you have the chance to bring them down, too. They suck and I hate them. The bosses aren't much fun either -- namely the giant bat that shows up halfway through the game. However, once you're through with the bat, the game notably improves by a lot, with callbacks to Resident Evil 2 on top of everything else. The final boss is surprisingly not that much of a pain to deal with if you come prepared, as well.

The story, for what it is (RE has always been a bit short on story, hasn't it?) is pretty decent as well, and does a lot to show the ugly secret history of Umbrella.

Now, REmake is by far one of my favorite games of all time. I used to know the mansion from RE '96 better than my own house, so when I first played REmake it was fun seeing what changed. I played through both campaigns (Chris and Jill's) and while the game is ultimately not that different between the two characters, events play out differently (Barry only appears in Jill's campaign, so Wesker often takes Barry's role when playing as Chris, for example leaving supplies for you.)

Probably the biggest difference between REmake and RE '96 are the environments, as they've been completely redesigned to be more realistic as opposed to RE '96's blocky rooms. The house is darker overall, and there's much more of a sinister air. Most of the puzzles have changed slightly and there are a few new additions, most notably a path through the woods leading away from the storage shed in back of the house towards a cabin in the distance.

All in all I feel like the REmake is sort of an exception to the rule about how uglier, blockier graphics tend to be scarier than modern horror games with their fancy polygons and pixel shaders. Even for an early 2000s game, REmake is surprisingly good looking -- the HD version looks fantastic, but even the Gamecube version still looks good (I played my old copy on the Wii.)

By the way, I know everyone is going to bang on the very tired old drum of "omg tank controls sux" but REmake HD is the perfect example of why tank controls are the superior choice for old-school RE -- the camera angles. Thanks to the pre-rendered backgrounds, the camera can't move on-the-fly, only change to another angle -- and there's nothing worse than moving in one direction only to change direction when the camera changes because the button to move north is suddenly the button to move west. Tank controls are straightforward -- up is forward, down is back, left and right are turn, and that remains the same regardless of camera angle. Where tank controls fail is the lack of a quick turn (rectified in RE games as of RE3 -- both RE0 and REmake have it.) Other than that, for the kind of game classic RE is, it's fine and you do get used to it.

I mean, try playing the original System Shock and tell me the controls in RE are terrible.

I review action movies over at my blog... with cookies. I try to do it every Friday... but no guarantees.

So, from these links, possible spoilers for the Expendables:

(Five Gingersnaps)

https://ginny0.wordpress.com/2015/02/14/amf-the-expendables/

And for Red Dawn (2012)

https://ginny0.wordpress.com/2015/02/21/amf-reddawn-2012/

(One Gingersnap)

To see all my movie reviews follow this handy link:

https://ginny0.wordpress.com/tag/movie-review/

Using 1-4 stars.

Suicide Kings: 3 stars. Had some funny moments and a genuinely engaging plot. Enjoyed it way more than I expected.

Timeline: 1 star. Fucking terrible. First movie that I skipped to the end for. Just boring, boring, boring.

The Last Stand: 2 stars. Super cliche movie, but at least most of the acting was good. Plus Peter Stormare was in it. And I love him.

The Legend of the Drunken Master: 4 stars. Amazing fight scenes. The BEST fight scenes. The plot is pretty good to (even if the dubbing can be a bit off). Would definitely recommend.

Leprechaun 4 In Space: 2.5 stars. Suprisingly good! I enjoyed it more than the first one.

Running Man: 2 stars. The most 80s movie ever. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a "snarky" one-liner in every seen.

Oh come on, only 2 stars for Running Man? It's not the greatest Arnie film of all time, but it's miles better than a lot of other 80's films. You gotta judge based on historical context for these things, man. 2.5 stars at least, or you're telling me Leprechaun 4 is better than Running Man and I can not stand for that injustice.

I agree with the LotDM score, though. Any Jackie Chan pre-Hollywood blockbuster 00's era Chan represents some of the best fight choreography you will ever see in your life.

Sorry. :( I mean, I've seen a lot of 80s movies recently. This was one I didn't really enjoy. Total Recall was was better!

I just saw this one recently.

Holy shit was this film amazing. Captain Willard in particular was just really, really well realized. The soundtrack, the cinematrography -- everything about it gave a sense of deepening madness. This movie really got under my skin so much better than any horror film ever has.

My one issue is with Kurtz. There's just something about him I did not like. He felt very "Hollywoodish" -- whereas the rest of the film felt very very earnest to me, he just seemed like a cliché stereotype. Nothing about him felt authentic.

As an example, towards the end, he's ranting about how we teach young men to drop fire on people but won't let them paint the word "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene. And it just felt so FAKE to me. Like they were trying so hard to make him "deep."

It didn't help that earlier in the film, I felt that there was a scene that illustrated this far better -- when Willard shoots the injured Vietnamese woman his men want to get help for. And he talks about how he hates the hypocrisy of gunning people down then offering them a bandaid.

That legitimately felt powerful to me -- Kurtz did not.

I'm glad you liked the movie!

I like Kurtz a lot, but I think I can understand where you're coming from. Brando's definitely very actor-ly in the role. I think, in some ways, he is supposed to be slightly surreal - almost larger than life - rather than necessarily being authentic and just being tied to the specifics of the Vietnam War. That's how I take stuff like the whole montage with the sacrificial cow (IIRC - been a minute since I watched the film). But I can see how that might not work for you.

It is a fantastically well made movie, though - just every element ticking over perfectly. It is absolutely crawling with atmosphere, no doubt.

I love this movie, because it was a virtual and symbolic first for so many things in filmmaking. For realistic portrayals of combat psychology, for having a war film that dared to portray US soldiers in a less-than-heroic light (that was a major Hollywood release), for basically creating the formula so many other war films use now (first ten minutes introduce the cast and make them sympathetic by giving them quirks so the audience cares if one happens to die)...

That said, it isn't perfect. This was one of the first films of its kind, but oddly it suffered from one of the things a lot of films still do today: studio execs trying to change the script to make things more appealing for audiences.

There are a number of iconic scenes that almost didn't make the final cut because they were thought to be too disturbing.

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