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Compared to Tidus, Squall was Mr. Badass. And even still, Squall experienced tremendous character development, and even from the start, he displayed a lot of character strength, even if it was masked by teen angst.

Well, here's the line... A movie is a movie. A mindless action flick can be a great movie. But the storyline is what defines whether the movie is a film or a flick. You take something like District 9, it's a great action film (despite ripping off so many ideas from The Fly), where Commando is a great action flick. They kind of have a different purpose, and in that respect, they're both great movies because they both accomplish what they set out to do.
Comparing them to food is hard, because you can't really say, "Sometimes, I don't WANT nutrition, I just want something to get lodged in my colon for several days."

But with movies, sometimes I don't WANT a deep storyline that makes me think. After a hard day's work, or a stressful day in general, turning off one's brain to enjoy a few mindless explosions can be a GOOD thing.


So you agree... If the Dark Knight actually had a good storyline it wouldn't have dragged?



Well, I don't really bother with THAT remark. I mean, let's face it, if Capcom was going to live up to the original Resident Evil game, then Wesker would've been dead SINCE that game.
As far as I'm concerned, Wesker's main goal was political power, as in owning the company (Umbrella or otherwise), having biological weapons for the purpose of deterrence, etc. etc. etc. Not the, "I'm going to infect everyone and control them through mind control devices, and everyone is just going to be a puppet for ME!" kind of bullshit. Unless he infected himself with T-Veronica Virus, and it gave him the same kind of insane douchebagginess that Alfred and Alexia had.

I'm not crazy about Total Recall. It's an interesting movie, but I didn't like the atmosphere that much... Ironic as that statement might be. I'd consider it on par with Commando, though.
See, Terminator 2 is an action film, it's a lot more epic, its special effects were ground breaking, it had a massive budget, and it told a great story.

And did I ever say it wasn't? No. I just don't consider them great movies. I wouldn't consider the best mindless action movie in the world as good as one with a really good storyline. Just like I wouldn't consider the best burger on any McDonald's or Burger King menu to be on par with my grandmother's homemade cheesy potatoes. Even though I like fast food and might be in the mood for a Big Mac or something every once in a while, I certainly don't consider it fine cuisine. Fast food = no nutrition; Fast action = no substance. That's the best analogy I can come up with. Again, my opinion. And I certainly wouldn't consider Commando on par with something like Total Recall. But that's me.

In regards to The Dark Knight, while I think it's really overrated, I thought it had a pretty good storyline, and it didn't really drag much for me. It was certainly a lot better than The Ring's. I also appreciated the fact that they did Two-Face right this time. Not laughing like clown constantly and re-flipping his coin ten hundred times to get what he wanted, like the Tommy Lee Jones Two-Face. I also appreciated the fact that they did Gordon right for once, and didn't make him a fat, bumbling idiot like in the rest of the movies. Note that there was no Joker nuthugging here. Also, just read Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. It's better than any Batman film could ever hope to be.

And finally, Wesker... well, exactly. Notice I said just like Wesker is in RE4 and CV. Because RE5 Wesker is pretty much the same Wesker that he's been since Code Veronica on. The reason I brought up that quote from the original RE is because Elena basically said she was cobbling together psychological theories to support what they did with Wesker. All I was really doing was giving her ammunition, that isn't a theory, and is something that came straight out of Wesker's mouth in the original game ('cause I know she's never played it. wink ), that she could use to support what they did with Wesker in RE5. And I think you know, I've always thought that them bringing Wesker back in the first place was pretty silly. Cool, but silly. And no, I'm definitely not big on Wesker's whole master plan in RE5 or anything. But I did get the impression that the dude kinda popped his cookies. As in, lost his mind. But then again, he was pretty much programmed, which, I know. a lot of people hated. But again, *shrugs* I thought it helped make better sense of his whole ressurection in the first place (not that it makes much more practical sense...), and it doesn't really contradict anything either, like A LOT of Resident Evil's plot twists. And reading the Wesker Reports, he did kind of have an obsession with Spencer. I don't know, but of all the stupid s**t in RE5's storyline, that one's pretty low on my list.

Haha, WHAT? Fast food is a damn good meal that's extremely satisfying? What fast food joints have you've been eating at, because I'd really like to know.

The Dark Knight Returns is what got me more into Batman. It is incredible. Sadly, the few batman comics I collected afterwords just couldn't live up to the hype; although, they were still phenomenal in their own regards.

lol Those places are obviously Canadian because I've never heard of them.

lol. Oh my god, dude. You are missing the point completey. For one, that's not like saying that McDonald's and Burger King are the best burger joints around. I didn't imply anything other than that they were fast food. They're tasy, they're fast, they're convenient, and they're everywhere. But at the end of the day, it may have been tasty, and it may have gone down easy, but it's still just junk food. It is not nutritious. I've never heard of any of the burger joints you've mentioned, but they do not fit into my analogy. In my analogy, you don't choose your own toppings on your half pound burger at your fast food joint. You just order the number 5 with a large coke. Commando is McDonald's to me. I realize that it is more to you, but that is the way I look at it, and you're not going to change my opinion on the matter, not matter how much you try replace the chains I listed with your own, and try to argue that fast food is actually nutritious. xd It's just not gonna happen, dude. Give it up.

The Ring didn't scare me. I thought the movie was a complete piece of s**t, to be perfectly honest. I think the last newer horror movie that I saw that I actually considered good was the original Saw.

And Two-Face wasn't just some side plot device. He was a BIG part of the main story. And Two-Face has never really BEEN a central villain ever. Because he's ******** Two-Face. Depending on the coin, he might fight on Batman's side today.

Well, that may have been the way you felt, but I think Wesker made it pretty ******** clear in Code Veronica that he was quite in love with the "POWAH HE GAINED"!!! MUHAH!!! And seemed perfectly happy with the fact that he traded his "HUMANITY" for it, so he did put powah over some stuff, his own humanity of all things being one of them, and so I really don't see why it's SUCH a travesty that Wesker mutated into (more of) a monster of some sort, or how you didn't see that coming to begin with. And he hated Chris. Hey, just like RE5. I really don't see what's so different about his character here.

Well, *shrugs*, that aspect wasn't a huge deal to me. In fact, I'd say that whole deal was very Resident Evil-like, from Code Veronica to RE0 and on. WESKER is not the scope of Resident Evil. I think the reason Wesker turned out to be the main villain in RE5 was because RE4 KILLED UMBRELLA. So all we really had LEFT was Wesker and Spencer (and Sherry and Steve which they pretty much just threw out the window). So I'd say the scope of what the franchise was supposed to be about was ruined in RE4. RE5, while it did have a pretty shitty storyline, actually brought what was left of the old plot back and brought it to a close. And while I too would have liked to have seen Wesker actually have an intelligent, non-cliche plan of some sort, *shrugs*, it's Resident Evil, dude. It's never exactly been brilliant storytelling.