Hmm...I wonder what the problem could be?

This computer would boot up, run fine for about two minutes and then the screen would freak out. Replaced the video card and letting it run overnight and we'll see how it fares tomorrow.

Resident Evil: Extinction

I went and saw Resident Evil 3 tonight. It was pretty good, all in all and definitely is an awesome zombie movie. I'm a big fan of trilogies and movies that add on the experience of the first movie, such as Spiderman 2 was better than Spiderman because they didn't have to tell the backstory of Spiderman, they could get down to the nitty gritty story.

Resident Evil is different because there have been several games made around this particular storyline. Umbrella Corp. is at it again, except this time, they're the only ones left and most of the world is a zombie. Umbrella Corp. is hiding in underground bunkers and testing on the undead population. Alice, from the first two films and a smattering of others from the second film, make an appearance and add some popularity to the story. The first Resident Evil departed from the games in that the opening scene of the game was the closing scene of the movie. The second was closer to the game, but still deviated somewhat from it. What's interesting to me is that this is the first time we see wildlife being affected by the t-virus. Crows are the villains in this, as well as your usual undead shuffling along. Crows, in fact, are responsible for a delicious slaughter not unlike the one done by Alfred Hitchcock. I find this interesting because normally, where there is a dead body, there are some types of varmints feeding on them. In a major city, I venture that pigeons would be the undead fare, but out in the wild, I would expect to see undead cats, dogs (even though these have been prevalent in all 3 movies, they've all been dobermans), birds, ferrets, skunks, etc.

The movie does enjoy the typical horror film scare, where the camera pulls in close to the actor and then bam, an undead or an AI is behind the character, or in one scene, hanging over the actor. I'm still curious how he got out of that particular entanglement. The movie has some interesting costumes as well. Alice wears a one piece pajama? and a tank top, and some very interesting boots, as well as a trench coat. The film listed her clothing company (I believe) as the provider of her costumes so that may be why they are so revealing. I'm just curious why all 3 have to have her naked. This annoys me and it seems to be a shout out to the geeks in the basement rather than an artistic take on the story. It's worse even, than the 300 scene with the doped up adolescent girl and her nipples bared all for the world (and the pedophile lepers...whatever they were). At least the nudity was contained, for the most part, but it was still there, and still bothers me. I'm all for naked women, but Milla Jovovich has nothing up top. I wouldn't want to see her with double-d's either, because that wouldn't match her body style and would make her almost appear like Seven of Nine's figure e.g., huge bosom, rail thin arms and legs.

Clothing (or lack thereof) rant aside, this was a good movie. The way the Doctor becomes true evil is interesting to say the least and his right arm would make a hentai porn proud. All in all, I give this movie 3 and a half stars out of 4. It would have gotten four if certain people hadn't died, who shall remain nameless, since I don't believe in spoilers, but alas, I'm distressed at the loss of two particular people, mainly because they were rather comedic and entertaining, both in the second movie and in this one.

My new coaster....

In case it's too fuzzy to read (which it is), this is my new coaster, an internet explorer 4 for windows 95 cd. Yay me!