As one of the sensible gamers in this world, I feel a small fragment of shame for threatening death towards someone. It only helps to perpetuate the stereotype that gamers are violent. However, as a courtesy to gamers, surely even Jack Thompson can admit that Paul W.S. Anderson deserves to die. His Hollywood-esque bastardization of the popular survival horror series Resident Evil - along with a few other poor movies made here and there - have caused him to be the more hated man among gamer communities (next to the infamous Uwe Boll).
While Boll made the intelligent decision to retire from movie-based games after the failure of Bloodrayne at the box office, Anderson persists in his efforts to rape and pillage Capcom’s famous series. His first two efforts, Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Apocalypse, were widely viewed in the gamer community as the most destructive method of portraying source material. Paul W.S. Anderson was a child who stumbled upon a stunningly perfect glass sphere and ground it into dust.
Although we all knew the horrible day would soon arrive, today there was an announcement on 1Up.com about an interview with Milla Jovovich in regards to Resident Evil 3: Extinction (formerly known as Resident Evil: Afterlife). Through the brief article, she is constantly singing the praises of the script, and saying how exciting it is going to be.
The entire thought of another movie in which Alice - Jovovich’s character - attains more freakishly non-viral powers is sickening. The saddest part of the whole ordeal is that Resident Evil writer/director/defiler is Jovovich’s husband, and possibly her only link to work. Her character gets increased screen time and awesome action scenes, as long as Papa Anderson gets head every night.
Rumors circulating around the Internet have suggested that the next movie will feature Albert Wesker and Leon Kennedy. While I am not extremely partial to Leon, Albert Wesker is a God among villians. There seems little doubt that - if featured in Anderson’s film - he will be converted from the deviously intelligent British half-man to a snivelling geek researcher who gets stuff at the sight of Alice. He’ll also probably experience a humiliating death like Nemesis or Nicholai.
All in all, Resident Evil: Extinction will be a massive flop for fans of the video game series and a huge box office success for those who love to watch half-naked chicks run around fighting the undead. Apparently, it is the same crowd that made Buffy the Vampire Slayer stay on the air for seven seasons.