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Legion (2010, Scott Stewart)

February 21st, 2010 · No Comments

So is it just a coincidence Legion came out while James Cameron was busy with Avatar’s theatrical release and the Terminator rights were getting sold? I mean, someone’s got to be keeping an eye out for filmic plagiarism, right?
Legion is the first two Terminator movies with an Old Testament God thrown in (I actually do […]

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Tagged: Charles S. Dutton· Dennis Quaid· Peter Schink· Scott Stewart· Screen Gems· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007, Russell Mulcahy)

August 15th, 2007 · No Comments

I wonder how Paul W.S. Anderson writes his screenplays. Does he actually write in all the references–think The Birds here, or a tanker like in The Road Warrior or even the Statue of Liberty shot out of Planet of the Apes–or do they come up later? Resident Evil: Extinction is an amalgam of, I imagine, […]

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Tagged: Milla Jovovich· Paul W.S. Anderson· Russell Mulcahy· Screen Gems·

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004, Alexander Witt)

April 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Trying to figure out how to start this post was incredibly difficult. As far as sequels go, Resident Evil: Apocalypse is, tonally, a terrible sequel to the first film, but it’s still a perfectly reasonable b-movie. The first film, visually, is classy compared to this one, which has lots of quick cuts during fight scenes. […]

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Tagged: Alexander Witt· Milla Jovovich· Paul W.S. Anderson· Screen Gems·

Resident Evil (2002, Paul W.S. Anderson)

March 30th, 2007 · No Comments

I have a mild affection for Paul W.S. Anderson–or, at least, I think he gets a bad rap. I’ve never been able to easy prove it before, but Resident Evil certainly helps my argument for Anderson’s effectiveness as a director. The film opens with a nine or so minute tease, establishing the situation, then goes […]

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Tagged: Alan McElroy· Milla Jovovich· Paul W.S. Anderson· Screen Gems·

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