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WoW! I can't believe the masterpiece that was REC turned into this filth

posted 12 years ago by wuhugm
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the quality degrades so much from the prequels

i get the feeling of watching some mediocre zombie movie when watching this *failed* REC

not only they discarded the shaky cam which was trademark of REC, but also showed us this .... er... crap which has little to do with the series

the movie just failed when the possessed people showed up

me, a zombie lover, actually liked the first part of the movie only, the wedding part.

the end scene - is that their idea of "quarantine"?

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[–] wuhugm 12 years ago

what's with the one liner?

elaborate your opinion please

why don't you enlighten me about the good points of this movie?

what makes this movie a [REC]? since they abandon the [REC] found footage style at the beginning of the movie, it feels like a different movie altogether

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[–] wuhugm 12 years ago

Please do so

I eagerly wait for it

[–] suckerforhorror 12 years ago

My feelings are exactly same. Expected so much from this film(prequels were super awesome and i have watched them many time) but thoroughly disappointed when I actually I seen this one.

Why would the makers of this series destroy such a superb franchise into a just another s-h-i-t-t-y run of the mill zombie flick is beyond my small brain.

[–] CasseroleWorshipper 12 years ago

What's most bothersome is that Paco Plaza has been the creative force behind all three films. The sequel may have been underwhelming but at least there was an attempt to emulate the ferocity and fright of the first installment with some added action elements. I guess he wanted to take the third one into a whole new direction and failed miserably. The name [Rec] is obviously highly profitable so I figure that's why he keeps making them.
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[–] bradydm2001 12 years ago

Completely agree! I literally watched the movie at 4x the speed and it still wasted my time. Boring, predictable, off tone, exceptionally idiotic central casting characters, the defiance of its own logic, the coincidences, the corny dialogue. I could go on. Especially with that chainsaw bride scene begging to be an instant classic horror movie moment except it isn't. Not to mention this couple reminds me of another stupid couple from another gigantic misstep, the *beep* from the worst episode of ABC's Lost, "Expose." Yikes.

I hope Rec 4 is good enough to right the ship. Not so it can turn a profit and guarantee us more Recs in the future (I think this installment proves both that we don't need any and that the creators certainly don't seem to have much story left in them else they could have moved the series forward instead of concurrent--or at least given us actual 'genesis' information!), but because I want this good series to go out as strong as it came in. Which rarely happens with sequels, especially in this genre.

Good night!

Oh, and I took a few screen captures of the Madieras girl's appearances in the film in case anybody wanted to see them. Will put them on my blog. In fact, if I had seen those stills maybe I wouldn't have bothered with the rest of it!

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[–] wuhugm 12 years ago

The bride went Jill Valentine in the end totally gave it the finishing blow

lame-o-lame

[–] shanayneigh 12 years ago

I wish the bride would give me a finishing blow.

Hey-ooh!

[–] drgreenthumb1001 7 years ago

I cant wait for the 120lb soaking wet girl playing the hero while 180lb men stand idly by watching genre, to fall to the wayside.

Unfortunately, Hollywood and its counterparts, are so PC obsessed to the point it can be ludicrously misandrist, and while most of us have no problem playing/enjoying Lara Croft, as well as watching Milla Jovovich kick ass in all the Resident Evil movies, this girl next door type, being forced to play the strong hero while the men are weak and do nothing, is GETTING OLD fast.

[–] ilon 12 years ago

When I heard about the movie, I though that Medeiros would be one of the guests at the weeding. That the genesis of her "zombification" would be seen there. I'd love to see that Genesis. They came with another zombie flik... as you said another from the pile. Not the worst ever, but... this woudn't be [REC] if it wasn't called [REC].

[–] Beatnation 9 years ago

REC 4 was pretty terrible aswell... way to kill a franchise. Rec 3 sucks big elephant dick, and rec 4 sucks big dick, both terriblr films, Rec 3 it's the worst tho.

[–] aleksandarsk 12 years ago

"Mediocre" is very generous for this crap.

I just can't believe that it is the same director. As unbelievable as his zombies in this movie. How do you go from being so good to being so bad?

Inexplicable...

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[–] Lefter 12 years ago

Hear, hear.

I was highly disappointed by this third movie. REC was a great movie, REC2 was a solid one but this was pretty much like watching another Resident Evil -movie.

Don't watch this if you are fan of the previous movies.

[–] maradona_259 12 years ago

While watching this horendous piece of garbage at times I caught myself just staring at my tv with my mouth open, in shock, because of what Paco Plaza did to this brilliant series. After having watched the movie it seems like he deliberately intented to destroy everything they had accomplished with the first two movies.

From the very first 5 seconds after the camera was destroyed by Koldo and they switched to the "hollywoodstyle" filming I knew this was going to be awful. He even changed the way the possessed moved around. Instead of running like furious demons they just stumble about like retarded dopeheads. And don't even get me started about the "lets suit up in medieval armour" sh*t because at that moment even my dog looked up to me thinking "dude, what the hell are you watching?"

And why name the movie "Genesis" when the events in the movie happen almost simultaneously with the ones in the second movie and it didn't explain anything about the origins of the demonic virus, or the medeiros girl or anything else story-related for that matter.

This movie or whatever you wanna call it was just a 90 minute insult to the fans of the series and a complete disgrace as to what they had accomplished and built up with the first two movies. Paco Plaza was given a great chance to make a legendary "prequel" to a fantastic series, wich could explain a lot of the mysteries in the films and make the story even more intriguing then it already was. Instead we got an unbearable childish idiotic zombie flick that is unworthy to have the name Rec in it's title. If Paco Plaza wanted to make a movie like this one he should've done so but as a stand alone project, with absolutely nothing related to the Rec series. I really wonder what Jaume Balaguero was thinking when he watched this film. Hope he can restore this series with Rec: Apocalypse.

[–] sagan900 12 years ago

dude i feel your pain
i just watched REC3 and i cant believe this *beep* paco plaza sabotaged the series big time

WTF just happened, movie was so stupid and mediocre
as has been said: as a standalone zombie flick is bad, as part of the rec franchise its awful

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[–] Karneda92 11 years ago

REC 1 was great although a little overrated IMO, REC 2 was decent too, REC 3 is just a generic zombie flick pretty boring

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[–] Spamified69 11 years ago

Have to agree, I actually liked the setup and thought the wedding footage was well done. I was surprised to see the people behind the original were involved in this mess though. It's like the filmmakers got bored with the concept and decided to throw in a homage to any film/filmmaker they presumably liked. "The Exorcist" or likely some more recent update. Tarantino or Rodriguez when the leading lady goes mid-evil, "Titanic" for how stupid the couple acts when reunited and most obviously "The Evil Dead" trilogy. Maybe they had a contractual obligation to deliver a trilogy themselves and thought they'd kill the franchise but go out with some style? Sigh...Rec4...I guess not.

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