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• 9/14/2010 11:45 PM Kier wrote:
  I hated this movieeee
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• 9/15/2010 12:24 AM Chuck Barsing wrote:
  Good review Brad. Phelous also did a nice Vlog now I only see Spoony to complete the holy trinity.
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• 9/15/2010 12:34 AM REfan wrote:
  in victoria Bc Canada i pay roughly 15 bucks to see a 3D movie and 11 bucks for a normal 2D. it fuckin blows!!!
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• 9/15/2010 12:48 AM Tapeworm121 wrote:
  Fan of the games, knew it would suck horribly. After what they did to Nemesis, nothing this has can piss me off more... However I'm tempted to see it just to mock it with some friends, looks like there's quite a lot to mock here.
  
  Great review as always, looking forward to the next video.
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• 9/15/2010 12:50 AM ProfessorB wrote:
  Fuck this movie. I wanna come up with something better than that, but as a fan of the games (except for RE5) I'm just too pissed off. Seriously, fuck this movie.
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• 9/15/2010 1:03 AM Alexander wrote:
  I really liked the first Resident Evil, but that's when I was like 10 or something and enjoyed hitting my head on hard things. Now not so much, and the other ones just even worse. So I'll watch this Resident Evil when it comes on HBO. As for ticket prices in Colorado it's worse. $8.50 for a normal showing, $14.00 for 3D.
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  1. 9/15/2010 1:06 AM Alexander wrote:
     I mean $10.50 for a normal showing. $8.50 is the discounted price for before 4 PM.
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• 9/15/2010 1:32 AM charlie burkett wrote:
  i see you bought the 3d release of friday the 13th part 3 too,i loved that the yo-yo scene was the best 3d effect in that movie,lol! also you gotta love jason with a harpoon gun!
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• 9/15/2010 4:20 AM Juan Carlo wrote:
  My Mom even jokingly said "Are we watching Silent Hill?" when the Executioner guy
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• 9/15/2010 5:10 AM Alexander wrote:
  Ha ha, fun review Brad. When someone who loves Hell of the living dead thinks it sucks, you know it is REALLY bad.
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• 9/15/2010 7:03 AM manuel wrote:
  $13 is nothing in australia it's $20
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• 9/15/2010 7:53 AM Fuck Her Head Off wrote:
  Seems everyone hates this "movie" and for good reason! I DESPISE the Resident Evil "movies"(as well as ALL movies that are based from a video game since THEY ALWAYS FUCKING FAIL trying to be original and always fuck up! just stick to the story of the god damn video game your basing your movie on all these video game adaptation movies are just a slap in the fucking face to gamers)they VERYYYY little to nothing to do with the Resident Evil games, Resident Evil is my 2nd favorite video game franchise(1st being the Silent Hill franchise)and I've been playing them since the first PS1 original Resident Evil so I've been playing these games sine I was about 8 anyway I only saw the first Resident Evil "movie" in theaters and I remember walking away from it like "WTF DID I JUST WATCH?! THAT WAS NOTHING LIKE RESIDENT EVIL AND WHO THE FUCK IS ALICE?!" there is no Alice in ANY Resident Evil game and besides that the "movie" was just fucking retarded and since that one I promised never to watch the sequels
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• 9/15/2010 7:55 AM Fuck Her Head Off wrote:
  Seems everyone hates this "movie" and for good reason! I DESPISE the Resident Evil "movies"(as well as ALL movies that are based from a video game since THEY ALWAYS FUCKING FAIL trying to be original and always fuck up! just stick to the story of the god damn video game your basing your movie on all these video game adaptation movies are just a slap in the fucking face to gamers)they VERYYYY little to nothing to do with the Resident Evil games, Resident Evil is my 2nd favorite video game franchise(1st being the Silent Hill franchise)and I've been playing them since the first PS1 original Resident Evil so I've been playing these games sine I was about 8 anyway I only saw the first Resident Evil "movie" in theaters and I remember walking away from it like "WTF DID I JUST WATCH?! THAT WAS NOTHING LIKE RESIDENT EVIL AND WHO THE FUCK IS ALICE?!" there is no Alice in ANY Resident Evil game and besides that the "movie" was just fucking retarded and since that one I promised never to watch the sequels.
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• 9/15/2010 8:27 AM John wrote:
  Holy hell--I haven't seen a $5 movie ticket since the mid-90s. I'm not sure what you guys or Angry Joe are complaining about--tickets in/around Philly are $11-13 for standard, 2D showings in most theaters. ...although at least the Aussies seem to have it worse even (assuming their money is of similar value).
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• 9/15/2010 9:48 AM MisterKeitel wrote:
  Ah Brad....I'm stuck here at work right now...(I'm a happless drone trapped in a cubice in front of a merciless glowing rectangle) but as soon as I get out of here, go the gym and get home, I'll sit down with a mug of hot coco and check this out.
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• 9/15/2010 10:18 AM BlueHighwind wrote:
  I once payed 20 bucks to go see a 3D movie. Not fucking kidding.
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• 9/15/2010 11:13 AM Nerf Ninja wrote:
  I'd say this movie was more 2.5D than full 3D it just didn't seem to pop, after a while I couldn't see it at all and was only wearing the glasses so it didn't blur. The pricing isn't so bad where I am as it's just another couple of pounds added but I didn't get a choice on whether I saw it in 2D as that would have been my preference. I couldn't help but laugh at the gun that shot coins bigger than the barrel of the shotgun
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• 9/15/2010 11:31 AM MikeT86 wrote:
  3d movies in CT cost about $15 on off days $18 on prime movie days.
  
  $10 for regular screenings $12 friday and saturday.
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• 9/15/2010 11:50 AM Cosmo wrote:
  You people paying over 10 bucks for even a regular showing are getting ripped off. The two theaters closest to me don't charge anything more than seven bucks for evening showings and five for matinees. Of course, they're not chain theaters like AMC or Cinemark either.
  
  The closest I've ever come to paying 10 dollars or more is when they add $2.50 to the ticket for 3D movies.
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• 9/15/2010 12:15 PM Rick wrote:
  I just wanted to point out that the games use a lot of Alice in Wonderland references as well. There is an enemy named Bandersnatch in Code Veronica and the Jabberwock in The Darkside Chronicles.
  
  I actually enjoy the Resident Evil films. They're just fun for me to watch! If its any compliment, I enjoy your reviews even when I disagree and you tear the movies apart. You always have valid points and respectable arguments. And they're just a blast to watch.
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• 9/15/2010 12:53 PM CrimsonDusk wrote:
  Wow, Brad get over The Boondock Saints already, you've mention that movie so many times that now you actually made me want to go and get a copy. Now I can say you convinced me to be a Troy Duffy customer by your sheer obsession with that movie. Seriously I stayed away from the second part by what I heard from your review a year ago, but your persistence to keep mentioning that movie is mesmerizing and intrigued me to finally go and get it. Get over it man or you'll make another person a customer if you keep mentioning that movie. Do you really want to do that? It's one thing to say a movie is shit and forgettable but it's another thing to mention it so often like it were Battlefield Earth. People know it's shit but allot of them saw it cause they heard about how shitty it was and the persistence of other to see just for how crap it is. I'm starting to think you actually want people to see the Boondock Saints or you unconsciously are suggesting them to see the movie even if it's crap. Wow, seriously mention that movie again so other people remember it and buy it just out of curiosity. Don't let it die, so Troy Duffy can make another one for us drooling fanboys.
  
  Now for your Resident Evil 4 review. Yeah all of them are shit. Saw the first 2 on TV, 1 year or 2 after their theater release so you can imagine how fast these movies fall in the bargain bin. The 3rd I never saw because the story was getting really nowhere. Anderson made Mad Max and showed of how hot Jovovich, his wife is. I had some respect for her seeing her in Chaplin, 5th Element or Joan of Arc, but now she seems she only likes to please her husband or wants to do this Z-grade action movies, although I'm keeping an eye on her in her next movie Stone.
  
  Also Anderson directed one of my favorite horror movies Event Horizon, but probably that was a fluke or he had a pretty good script that he couldn't fuck up.
  
  Again stop mention Boondock Saints man because you'll only get people interested, like that shit of a movie called The Room.
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  1. 9/15/2010 4:43 PM Brad wrote:
     I wasn't the one who brought it up in this video, and I'll give my opinion on any damn movie I want if it's brought up to me. I'm not going to censor my opinion on a movie just because someone disagrees with it.
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     1. 9/16/2010 3:07 AM CrimsonDusk wrote:
        Chill out man, I was just making a point. Mentioning the Boondock Saints in your recent movie reviews has become a recurring element and you weren't always reviewing a movie with someone. I just mentioned this "obsession" of yours in this review when it was Brian who first talked about it. Still once in a while in your recent movies reviews you mention that movie like it was Battlefield Earth. Do you really want people to get interested in that movie? Just saying. If it's shit forget about it, if it's unforgettable shit then get it. That's what you are indirectly insinuating.
        
        Oh and you are correct, it's your right to express your own opinion and not censor it, but for the life of me I'll never understand why you were so apologetic in your Scott Pilgrim review explanation in your Piranha 3D review. Was it because that review got more negative responses than your Boondock Saints review, that you thought you should address it in an apologetic manner, so people didn't get pissed on your opinion.
        
        Still glad you responded to one of my comments, although I admit I'm kind off angry on myself that you felt compelled to answer to one of my more negative replies. Cheers
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        1. 9/17/2010 8:56 PM Tyler wrote:
           Let it go, man. Just let it go.
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• 9/15/2010 2:02 PM LordSchmee wrote:
  It only cost an extra £1 over here for the 3D screening. If you didn't have your own glasses, that's an extra £1, but you get to keep 'em.
  
  That's at the world's Largest Cinema - Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Scotland.
  
  Wonder why it was so cheap? :S Only £6.
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• 9/15/2010 3:53 PM Dale Elie wrote:
  The game Resident Evil4 is a better action movie then any of the movies will ever be.
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• 9/15/2010 3:55 PM Dale wrote:
  The game Resident Evil4 will always be a better action movie then any of the movies.
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• 9/15/2010 3:57 PM glenn wrote:
  I'm fed up with Zom Coms, speed zombies, desease zombies and CGI zombies.
  I want proper zombie gut buster films and I want them dubbed. No one watching stuff like Resident Evil or the crappy Dawn remake appears to see how tepid this stuff seems to people who grew up with proper slow moving, entrail munching. limb lopping, eye mutilating zombie films in all their glory. Personally, I would take even the worst 70s or 80s zombie films over even the best new ones. They have no punch.
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• 9/15/2010 5:21 PM Lindsey wrote:
  I am a die hard fan of the games. I own all of the games including two copies of RE 4, one for the Gamecube and the other for the PS2. The only movie I've seen was the first one and I will admit I thought it was okay.
  
  Not good not bad, just okay. I saw bits and pieces of Apocalypse and couldn't stomach it.
  
  The trailer to Afterlife looks fucking horrendous. I'm glad I stayed away from it.
  
  I love Milla Jovovich but I do not think she's right for Resident Evil.
  
  I'm sorry but the producers should have stuck with George Romero... that is all.
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  1. 9/15/2010 5:45 PM Oneinamil wrote:
     Yeah, i've read about Romero's script and it sounded a lot more faithfull, with changes i personaly find okay, like Chris being a security guy in the mansion (would have made it easier to show the events that lead to the outbreak).
     
     However i think the only way you could have ever made a resident evil addeption for the screen would have been a four part 1 hour mini series ala the Battle Star Galactia Reboot.
     
     Enough time to establish characters and the overall backstory (Racoon City, the mountain murders, the one team going missing, etc.).
     I would also allow enough padding time to increase the feeling of those poor guys being trapped in the mansion, deciding what to do, slowly uncovering more and more parts of the building and especialy allow both Chris's and Jill's event to act at the same time (basicly Chris enters and meets Rebecca at the opposing end of the building as Jill, Wesker and Barry enter).
     
     Hell this way you could even give Brad screen time, by showing him return to the police station, refuel his chopper and violating the Chiefs order by not only taking the copter for another round searching for his team, but also stocking up the rocket launcher from the police's evidence locker (being mentiod at the beginning to have been found in a mad guys home).
     
     It could work far more faithfull to the games this way, since it doesn't requires so much backstory to be crammed into 2 hours and reduce characters to random victims.
     
     By the way for some strange reason i would like to see Michel Rodrigez (i bet i wrote her name wrong) to play a Rebecca Chambers, just to see her having to act like someone near defenseless (yeah, yeah, i know she was more worn out than defensless because of the events of Zero).
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• 9/15/2010 5:32 PM Oneinamil wrote:
  I still don't get why they even bothered to randomly throw in the game characters.
  
  To be honest, i think the first one was kind of okay. Sure the Laser Grid thing was just a cheap way to decimate the soldiers team, with the game doing a better job at offing most of the original STARS members and i actualy liked the Rodrigez character (Rain) and the computer guy (Kaplan, seriously him fighting his way back the train station was the best damn thing in that movie) enough to dislike the movie for offing them so stupidly at the end, but it was in itself okay.
  
  I actualy appriciated the movie makers intetion on making it different while using important elements from the games backstory.
  
  The problem came when they suddently wanted to please the video game fans by bringing in characters and elements from the game, but without any clue how to put those in.
  
  So they pissed of the movie fans by suddently bringing in these characters the viewer is supposed to link to or like, without an attempt to explain them or make them likeable and at the same time pissed of the video game fans, by making them different or throwing them in without the meaning they had in the games.
  
  Of course offing basicly every characters in the first movie except Alice, actualy kind of destroyed the chance of creating a independent movieverse, since unlike the games, there was now only that single first incident survivors to link the first movie with any sequel, which i think kind of explains why they thought it would be smart to give her super powers (which it wasn't), because it would make her important to stay around.
  
  Had they left off more characters from the special forces team, they could have created several different angles for sequels and made them the "main cast" for the following movies.
  
  And this is just the rant as a player (not even fan) of the games. The biggest insults these movies make to the general viewer, is by throwing matrix style action scenes into what is supposed to be a zombie/monster horror movie or better based on a story of such. When you see ninja/matrix battle scenes at the beginning you can't take the zombies as treats serious anymore. You could remove the zombies and replace them with giant bunnies and it would have the same effect.
  
  Oh and by the way the Executioner (BFA guy) is a so called mid-boss in 5, not a boss but harder than the general enemies. I haven't played the game, but appears in the demo.
  
  Anyway thanks guys for proofing why i find this whole movie series depressingly stupid.
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• 9/15/2010 6:06 PM Carlos wrote:
  To add more fuel to the fire, the guy that plays Albert Wesker played one of the main characters in Diary of the Dead. Coincidence or irony? Ha Ha Ha!!!!
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• 9/15/2010 6:53 PM RonaldBennase wrote:
  Brad should do a Let's Play of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I would love to see his reactions.
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• 9/15/2010 7:54 PM Timerider wrote:
  My local IMAX theater got taken over by AMC. We went to see Inception in IMAX and the price was up to $16 a ticket. We ended up just watching it in the standard theater. The food prices also went up, and now there are only free refills on large. It was free refills on all sizes before. AMC sucks.
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• 9/15/2010 8:11 PM Rechtabrac wrote:
  Well this movie did indeed suck. but when it comes to 3d that realy looks in your face I would have to say that the IMAX 3d in chattanooga was the best I have ever seen the IMAX movies in there had people jumping back from the molten metal a guy was pouring in a mold. and it really did loo like it was going to drip in your lap. Havent seen anything that compares to that in the 3d area.
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• 9/15/2010 10:37 PM Wolfie wrote:
  This film is so spectacularly awful that it's actually awesome. I've never seen a movie suck like this before and to be honest it entertained me because of that. It was just so stupid that it went far enough for it's dumbness to become an artform
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• 9/16/2010 3:26 AM beelz wrote:
  I hated Resident Evil: Afterlife so much that I'm not even going to watch your review.
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• 9/16/2010 4:38 AM Not amused wrote:
  Paul W.S. Anderson can't direct movies for shit- they're bland, boring, poorly paced, shit forgetable actors, dull script (I cannot remember a single line from Alien Vs Predator) and usually rated PG-13 even when the market audience is far older.
  BUT I will say Paul W.S. Anderson has potential because his production values are good, well shot (as Brad said), special effects are pretty good and I can see him directed a good Alien film IF he had the right staff. Otherwise he'll always be a second rate James Cameron/George Ramero.
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• 9/16/2010 8:17 PM Gorlab wrote:
  Quarters won't fit in a shotgun, but dimes will. Check it out:
  
  http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot35.htm
  
  If you have a 12 gauge musket-shotgun, then the coin thing might be usable. The movie's still stupid about it though.
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• 9/17/2010 12:57 AM nick wrote:
  Well quarters would tumble like a mother fucker, making them the most inaccurate ammo ever. You really have to work to make a shotgun unable to hit shit at under 20 yards, but coins would manage it.
  
  Also does Brad still have a favorable opinion of Avatar? That's just one thing I can't agree on man.
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• 9/17/2010 2:18 AM UmmonTL wrote:
  Nice Review but I really don't understand how the cinemas get away with these ridiculous prices for the 3D stuff. Or why people are actually willing to pay that much for it. Must be an american thing, here in germany the 3D is usually only 1€ more and many cinemas allow you to keep the 3D glasses and then you don't have to pay extra again.
  Well okay, the way they rip you off over here is through several other methods.
  a) The base price is 6-7€ depending on the cinema so about 8-9$.
  b) Three quarters of the seats in the cinema are labeled "Logenplätze" (box seats?) which means they cost 1€ more because the view is better (you just sit further back).
  c) Every film that is longer than normal (and apparently normal is 90 minutes because these days it is every damn movie) costs 1€ more.
  
  So you're looking at 8-9€ for most films with a discount on certain days or if you are still in education or apprenticeship. 10-12$, if they ramped up 3D to be three times that much nobody would watch it.
  
  Do they also have pricing models like that in america?
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• 9/17/2010 3:06 PM Bluecho wrote:
  I did a review of Afterlife on my blog, actually. You can find it here:
  http://bluecho.xanga.com/732885828/movie-review-resident-evil-afterlife-2010/
  
  I didn't see the thing in 3D, so my opinion is more leaning towards what the movie was like as a movie, not as a 3D movie. I liked it, it was a fun experience. It wasn't a good movie by any means, but it was awesomely bad and entertaining. Also, this might make some people mad, but I consider this the best of the film series, if only because it dispensed with the "realism" and just had fun making the most rediculous, balls-to-the-walls action-packed thrill-ride it could be, if you pardon my movie-trailer analogies.
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• 9/17/2010 9:44 PM Sharkie wrote:
  What I find strange is that every video I see regarding 3D in the States complains about the high price. Are the non-3D tickets that much lower?
  Where I live, the normal price for movie tickets is like $12.75, so $13 for 3D wouldn't be too bad. LOL Unfortunately it's more like $15.
  
  As for RE, I can't believe they managed to even make 3 movies. Why is it so hard to just take a plot from a game and ADAPT it? If you're going to throw in random references to the games, may as well just take the game plot!
  
  Also, isn't this director the same one who did Silent Hill?
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• 9/18/2010 11:26 AM Anonymous wrote:
  I had no problem with the visuals in Wonderland, I just didn't like the constantly monotone Alice.
  
  But yeah it wasn't muddy at all for me, but then again maybe my vision was enhanced by the schrooms.
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• 9/19/2010 8:05 PM carnosaurfan101 wrote:
  to me, resident evil was the best one, apocalypse was the least good but I didnt hate it, extinction was pretty good, afterlife to me had alot of flaws but I didnt hate it, one of the biggest flaws I remembered was about the alice clones, there were thousands of them and she just used a few, why didnt she just round up all of her clones so that umbrella would be out numbered by the clones and that they would get to whesker on time so that he wouldnt arm the bomb, how did alice know that whesker wouldnt be caught nor killed by her clones, where did the axe man and tunnel zobies come from, how do those robotic spiders cause memory loss, why did kim coates look infected when he wasnt, how did the zombie dogs evolve so quickly and from that desert, where did the desert go, why does the T virus act differently with every person, where did the T virus cure come from, how do you kill whesker, how will the civilians survive that attack at the end from jill valentine when they dont even have weapons, its probably not going to be a happy ending for them at the end, how can you kill whesker, etc, see there are many questions that need to be answered, I did notice all the slow motion in the movie but it didnt irritate me like house of the dead did with its slow motion, and that the guy from prison break ( and macgruber ) who plays as chris redfield does break out of a prison again, what are the chances, and the part where it was an obvious trap by whesker but they just walk into it anyways, and whesker was great in it to, and yeah who are going to see those vlogs alice is making, is she just going to put it up on youtube???, while there are many things that need to be explained, resident evil afterlife was stupid but not terrible, in my opinion.
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  1. 9/19/2010 8:12 PM carnosaurfan101 wrote:
     tunnel zombies not tunnel zobies, my mistake.
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• 9/22/2010 10:10 AM Howard wrote:
  Funny. You know you actually come off as more smug, self-satisfied and (s)nobbish than your snob character?
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• 10/7/2010 5:41 PM The Film General wrote:
  http://blip.tv/file/4218105
  
  Funny review Snob! It is true... pretty much just one mess of a film.
  
  Made a review of this film too. Check it out!
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