It must be the end of the world, we think, since the likely winner of the weekend is yet another zombie movie — and not just any zombie movie, but a Paul W.S. Anderson and Russell Mulcahy zombie movie.
"Resident Evil: Extinction," the third in a trilogy of video game adaptations, makes its way to the big screen this Friday (see " 'Resident Evil: Extinction' Takes Milla Jovovich — And, Of Course, Zombies — To Vegas")
Not to sound like old fogeys, but it used to be that zombie classics like the ones made by George Romero were satires of life in America, digs at soulless, commercialistic, like-minded, bland people and the equally uniform culture that spawned them. Now zombie movies have become the very thing they once railed against: slick video game adaptations in which zombies represent nothing more than moving targets — the better to have Milla Jovovich fight against, of course. Alas, we think we're fighting a rising tide: Opening in 2002, the first "Resident Evil" made $17.7 million in its opening weekend, while the 2004 sequel, "Resident Evil: Apocalypse," scored $23 million during its first frame. Expect part three to come down somewhere in the middle.
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1570113/20070919/story.jhtml
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