I've just read your original post praising Resident Evil: The Movie.

And I cannot agree more. It was an excellent film.

I've just been onto IMDb.com to have a look at the trivia related to Resident Evil: Apocalypse

The third item is:

"Milla Jovovich tore her dress right down the middle on set exposing all and they had to postpone the entire shoot that day to get her a new dress."

Now who has the film of that, I wonder....

Battling the Monbiots of the world has clearly sent Perry insane.

If you'd shoved a DV camera up a monkey's rectum you would have ended up with a better movie than Resident Evil. It's one of the most hideously bad pieces of gunk I've ever seen.

Dunno about "hideously bad piece of junk" but I doubt if it comes anywhere near the glorious standard set by "Chopper Chicks in Zombietown" on C4 last night - my kinda movie...

Tex clearly does not get B-movies, nor does he really have a coherent way of expressing himself.

B-movies are just fine by me.

Resident Evil barely qualifies as an "F".

Tex, you are leaving graffiti, not comments. I thought Resident Evil: The movie, was adequately scripted, rather well shot, very well paced and whilst the whole thing was rather derivative, it achieved exactly what it set out to do. Although certainly not in the league of superb examples like Alien, Aliens or Pitch Black was notably better that the vast majority of 'monster-chaser' genre of movies.

I thought Milla Jovovich was well cast as the somewhat dazed heroine with just the right amount of bafflement and machisma... and she is one of the few actresses who can hold a weapon without looking as if it is about to bite her.

I liked it too, but I'm still wondering why someone would try to develop a gas which turns the recent dead into zombies. They said something about using it as a weapon, but I'm not clear on how turning enemy dead into zombies fits into modern Air/Land Battle doctrine. It just seems like a solution in search of a problem.

"Why? It's what we scientists do!"

John, because it makes for a good videogame! Jeesh, like you expect it to make SENSE or something.

" "Milla Jovovich tore her dress right down the middle on set exposing all and they had to postpone the entire shoot that day to get her a new dress."

Now who has the film of that, I wonder...."

The lovely Milla was also in the another B movie with Bruce Willis called The Fifth Element where she's wearing probably less than that ripped dress for some time.

In case you missed it.

Fred

"The lovely Milla was also in the another B movie with Bruce Willis called The Fifth Element where she's wearing probably less than that ripped dress for some time."

Heh heh! I remember it. She was wearing a few bandages in strategic places. It was the memory of that film which encouraged me to watch Resident Evil.

Oh, trust me -- I'm being tongue-in-cheek here. It's just that I'd love to see a film where a mad scientist tries to get DARPA interested in his work and tries to explain exactly how his Mad Plan could be used.

"Well, you could spray the gas on a city, and then the zombies would kill everyone in the city indiscriminately."

"But we already can kill everyone in a city indiscriminately."

"Well, the zombies would eat anyone coming into the city!"

"Like our own troops?"

And for that matter, I'm almost sure the Umbrella Corporation would run afoul of anti-trust legislation. Ruined the film for me. Really.

Actually Fred, I think Fifth Element was straying into A-movie territory... and yes, Ms Jovovich was rather splendid in that one too.

I didn't see the original Resident Evil. I will have to hope the Prince Charles has a screening or two - they seem to from time to time - or as a minumum see if I can get hold of the DVD. Do you have it, Perry?

That picture doesn't look like Miss Jovovich, is she going to be in the 2nd one too? Nothing is definitive from the comments either.

Having examined every Serbo-Ukranian pixel of the picture, I am confident it is indeed the divine Ms. Jovovich

And, as usual, Sony can't manage to put up streaming right...