QuoteIts a little unfair to judge a late episode of a film series in seclusion when they all form a single narative.... not that they are good.
I'm judging the first one too.
It's problem - along with Musketeers and Soldier for that matter- is that everything looks so fake. It's such an obvious movie set, and not a terribly convincing one.
However then you get Event Horizon or AvP or even Death Race, where the sets look infinitely more 'real'. I don't get the inconsistency of one film looking expensive and another looking so cheap.
QuoteIn answer to your question: They make money because they are cheap to make (Resident evil actually exploited tax loopholes and goverment grants to the point it would have made a profit even if it had utterly flopped) hang themselves on a recognisable name, have action packed trailers and your average cinema goer these days is a heavy TV watcher who has already had taste and their ability to pay attention to what is on the screen (and any awareness of subtext) hammered out of their tiny minds. They don't care if the film is good, they see it because it was advertised and had action scenes, and forget about it in a few months to be freshly excited by the DvD release.
I get how they make money - I don't get how they make
so much, even being based off a popular video game. Each has made more than the previous installment up to the fourth that made nearly $300m and then the fifth nearly $250m. And yet it seems hard to find someone who'll say a good word about them.
