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4 making-of featurettes: Alice Vision/Pre-production; The Big Bang/Shooting Re:E; Bigger, Faster, Stronger/The Undead Evolve; Vegas Visual Effects/Miniatures Nothing new, but who WANTS something new? Simply a standard look behind-the-scenes into how they made the 3rd Resident Evil. "This is not a conventional zombie movie." How many times have I heard that before? Wish to learn more about the history of zombie films? Here's where. "Kids loved zombie movies." Inspiration from the post-apocalyptic movie. "When we did number two . . ." If you want to hear how he finished that sentence, you'll have to watch this short. How different is this Resident Evil from the others? Watching the old flicks with a 14-year-old. "We want a real director, not some video kid." Can horror happen in broad daylight? Shooting a flick in 135 degrees! They're just gonna tear down Las Vegas when they finish shooting the movie--that's so sad. (No, not to me.) "And it's all made of wood." "High-tech but soulless." "We had a lot of fun making the cars." "I've spent a month of my life playing the games." "I got to blow one of the zombies out the window. It was a blast." "We have two types of zombies in this movie." "The challenge of putting together 300 zombies in 145o desert heat is astounding." "Zombies with Jobs." The fear of being an actor running away from a full-speed stunt zombie. Fan of tentacle-handed zombie. Models vs. CGI. If this sounds like it'll be fun, it'll be fun. But don't expect to see anymore of Milla's nips. 'Sorry.

Not simply the histories of several old roads but also why those histories are interesting. Tom Bodett shares the cultures found stretched across America's Southwest with us showing us little bits of stuff all over. For either those looking for a preview of what their own vacation drive may be like or more likely for those like me who never came closer to exploring those trails than my VHS player. Why the travelers were there. What they did there. What effects they had on their surroundings. What effects their surroundings had on them. As much as can be covered in half an hour. How various rivers figured in. And the mountains of the Continental Divide. And even the story of the Gold Rush, too.

There are two types of these behind-the-scenes bonus features that get added onto videotapes & DVDs. There are ones where the director really puts out an effort to explain a bit about the movie-making process, what they were trying to accomplish with the feature film's project, and showing you a bit of what you didn't absorb from simply watching that feature film itself. And then there are those where they simply splice together a few minutes of footage showing the crew actually shooting that feature film, just created to give them something to taut as a bonus feature. This "Walking the Mile" is one of that second kind. And that's why I'm afraid this "review" of it is so "blah". What is there to say about such an unimaginative, unoriginal short? 'How ironic that the feature film that this was behind the scenes of was such a creative science fiction assault on religion.