It seems Hollywood just can't get Resident Evil right, and Welcome to Raccoon City is another movie that totally misses what should be the easiest mark ever. Order your Critical Drinker plush: www.makeship.com/products/the...
That "we made if for the fan" thing has become a redflag for me since SO MANY time it was used by hacks trying to peddle their shit onto fans. Real "made for fan" stuff don't need to say it, it instantly shows.
Anytime I hear directors or producers say shit like an intellectual property was made for the fans, or about how they're huge fans, my shit-o-meter is at 10 out of 10.
Quick note: the Redfields have always been orphans. That was part of the reason Claire dropped everything to go look for her brother: he was all she had left. But Chris was old enough to look after his sister as a legal guardian when their mother died. So putting them in an orphanage was still very much out of place
Right? Like of all the stupid reasons to put him in Raccoon City. "Yeah I shot my partner in the butt but because my daddy is a police chief, he pulled some strings and got me a new cop job here!"
Yeah in the games Leon isn't and idiot he's actually competent the only time you see Leon be competent is at the end with a rocket launcher. Which his casting was bad also
Exactly. Like when he was sleeping and a explosion plus a burning zombie didn't wake him up? Like what? He was a hero in the games. Literally was a special agent sent to protect the presidents daughter.
@@zvonkothebronco1070 My point exactly, I had to explain to my missus - who never played resident evil and only knew of the Milla Jovavich films - that in actuality, Leon is a badassed muthafucka, not this waste of shit in the film.
Yeah Leon was made to look like more of a Kevin Ryman of Resident Evil Outbreak but Although like a blacksheep Ryman was still a badass. Leon here is just so bad hes even so bad than Brad Vickers. This leon failed to capture the original Rookie Cop who albeit knows less about weapons and fighting is still a serious, dedicated, quit witted smartass whos experience in surviving RC led him to oppose umbrella and join government agencies to this effect becoming a super agent close to the president. Leon rookie or matured version always has the sophisticated feel about him.
When I first saw the movie and got to the part where Wesker appears for the first time, I was like "THAT is Wesker? Seriously?! Are you fking kidding me?!" And Leon was just atrocious and straight up horrible in this movie. They did our agent boi dirty.
Fair point, but keep in mind that this isn't government agent Leon S. Kennedy. This is stil rookie cop Leon, when he was a boy in blue during his first day.
@@MasterJunior93 Leon in RE2 REemake is a rookie, inexperienced boy in blue, but he's also not a useless fucklng idiot. Likewise, Claire is a capable, smart and resourceful young woman in the games without being a rude, arrogant beach. These modern writers don't know how to do one without the other.
I remember binge watching the original 6 movies and thinking to myself "there is no way the next one can be worse than this one" and I was wrong EVERY. SINGLE. TIME
That's the major thing with survival horror adaptations. They suck because survival horror is pretty much tied to the gaming experience,you have to play the game. That's what made Resident Evil famous,the games. The movies are garbage because they can't nail down the survival horror experience.
@@juanluismendoza8655 right? in what world could you not hear it? like that's some next level noise cancellation headphones. even then, you could feel the vibrations
Leon's casting sucked, so did Claire's. And their reactions and mannerisms were completely altered for the worse. I wonder if it's possible to unsee a movie.
I liked the actress who played Claire in that alligator movie but the character was just written atrociously here. In fact, did anyone else notice that the Claire of this movie is closer in personality to Jill of the games, and Jill in this movie is closer in personality to Claire in the games? 🤔
I would argue he wasn't confident. He was COMPETENT, strong, and once he made up his mind, focused. But he dod have some hangups about not being there for the initial attack, leaving people behind, dealing with Ada, Birkin, and Irons. But you know what, it made it even better because it was believable.
The word 'fan' is a dirty word for Hollyweird, whenever they say its for the fans they have no interest in using established characters unless they are changing them beyond recognition. Its basically them telling you; "You better like this movie or your not a real fan and this is how I envisage it!" Followed by the usual name calling for anyone daring to criticize their awful adaptation.
If what I heard lately about Disney is true, H-wood disdains its own customers/audience. The place is made up of so many entitled and elitist morons, they think we need to love them and do as they preach no matter what. Is it any wonder so many times we don't like a crappy show or movie they make, they say, "YOU'RE the problem." Or they'll be really stupid and say, "If you don't like it, don't buy it." Sooner or later, they need to realize it's their audience -- and I mean the overwhelming unwoke majority of us -- who are right.
This movie is clearly made for fans of the games. It's in every way screaming "look, it's so much like the games!" The problem is that they don't care enough to bother writing a good script or putting any effort into the production. They just want to make a bit of scratch off the fans. The problem is that this lackadaisical effort usually makes them money, which is what they care about. If it makes money they'll pump out more until they no longer make money.
@@charlesws7825 I know someone who worked in Hollywood for over 25 years. And about 15 years ago or so he mentioned that movie people, when adapting any kind of existing property, almost universally hold both the property and fans of it in contempt. Fans, after all, will buy anything with their beloved IPs name on it, so who gives a crap about them? And the authorial intent of the original work? Well, if that hack had any talent, he'd be making movies in Hollywood, not writing content in another medium. About the only reason anyone lowers themselves to make a movie adaptation is to get a profitable movie under their belt so they can use that as leverage to make the movies they really want to make. "My last movie made $600 million, so give me money!" So unless the actual owners of an IP (like Marvel) make their own movies, the movie is going to at best bear a very loose resemblance to the source material.
I genuinely hate that they did that. The games have a diverse cast. Don’t rewrite characters. If you want to push sheva or Carlos to be more prominent characters do that, don’t change the staples of the series to tick a woke box
I think the best part of the movie was when Chris was in the dark and using the light from his gun to make out the zombies, and then running out of ammo to use his knife. Who ever wrote that part deserves to be recognized. If this flick was mostly like that; it would've been such a great film.. bummer.
Whose brilliant idea was it to cram two whole games into one movie? Because I'd love to get off whatever that person is smoking. Must be some top shelf shit.
@@Hellcaiser4 Well, yeah but no. The Hobbit. 3 movies out of one novel shorter than any LOTR novel. They could have made a far better single film with half the total trilogy budget at most.
@@mnomadvfx yes. It always surprise me that they dont take fans criticism more at heart, like Sonic did. You see they want to follow the games in term of story, which is great. But the casting, cheap animations, decors, 2 films in one etc. really kills it
The weirdest thing is that the Resident Evil story, especially in the first three, is actually really solid. You could make that three movies just by going beat by beat through the games and just showing the things as they happened. You could streamline some of the running back and forth, but just going through the main parts, showing some puzzles, etc. would be awesome.
This movie gets even worse when you compare it to the remake of RE 2, which was excellent btw, and the recently released RE Village. Also now that I think about it, RE 7 basically is a playable horror movie. They can't make a movie for the cinema out of it though, unless they manage to find some way to never show Ethan's face :)
@@carljohan9265 I thought Hollywood already made a movie where you don't see the protagonist's face. Wasn't it called Hardcore Henry? Did I hallucinate that whole movie?
I just don't understand what is so hard about making Resident Evil 1 and Resident Evil 2 into a movie duopoly. The first movie can be a tense, atmospheric horror movie set in the Spencer Mansion and creepy surrounding woods. The second movie is more action orientated in Racoon City, ending with exposure and collapse of Umbrella and an end to the crisis. It's like a game of 'the floor is lava' but it's 'the floor is success' that these writers, directors and execs play.
"It's like a game of 'the floor is lava' but it's 'the floor is success' that these writers, directors and execs play" - Is probably the funniest and most accurate description of the current state of both movies and video games that I've seen.
Maybe there are just too many bored viewers, who just need junk food shows to kill time, will selected any show as long as well-known. In this situation, production don't even care. They're just ticking checkboxes.
Yeah, I really liked the first two movies. The first one is short snappy horror the second is a fun silly gun-run. Then when the third one came along: I was like WTF was that? But for some reason I kept going out and watching the next one and the next one, even though they got progressivly more rubbish. I am starting to think that maybe I am the problem here 8-)
Where's Barry? Why's Leon a dummy? Why is Leon not Leon? Why is Wesker an aloof peon? What's with Claire's demeanor? Who was that S.T.A.R.S guy who died? Why?
@@Counterbalance_ Honestly anyone that would think combining the first and second games together into a single incoherent poorly written movie is a complete idiot.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Right. Combining any of them isn't a great idea because the games each have enough story to carry a movie by themselves but if they're going to do the combination thing they should have done it with the second and third games since those do basically take place at the same time.
Pretty much considering how Lisa Trevor is just there and none of her backstory is there to flesh out her character. Literally there is a reason why she has a face strapped over her head that the movie never bothers to mention and how Wesker and Birkin are just strangers to each other.
I love how this “movie for the fans” basically combines the plots of RE1 and RE2 for no reason, makes the characters look almost unrecognizable to the source material, has CGI that makes the original 2002 film look good, and practically treats Leon like a bumbling moron. Those critics don’t get what the real fans want.
That's what they always do King Bash. It's like the Friday the 13th remake a few years ago lets crap the 3 original films all into 1 movie the fans will love it. How did that film turn out like crab. They don't get it to let the film breath make each movie a compelling movie with a great story and the rest takes care of itself. You know in horror movies that big characters should die make it impactful and have some depth and meaning. It's like SW Phantom Menace giving Darth Maul 2 lines of dialog who comes up with this bullshit. Oh wait that one was all George.
I can forgive the bad CG because of their low budget. What I can't forgive is the plot and characters. They basically made all the men bumbling idiots, especially Leon, and the girls into badasses that always had to save the idiot guys from trouble. I could've forgiven that if they gave Leon any redeeming moments but he was basically there to be everyones punching bag
It isn't about making something creative, or great. It's about crushing everything that you love and enjoy. It's about destroying the characters that you love, draining the joy out of each and every escape that you've ever loved.
You know, I've been a huge RE fan ever since the first game came out on PS1. When the first Resident Evil movie came out, I was stoked, only to watch it and walk out the theatre scratching my head wondering how the fuck did the writers and the director fuck that up so bad. Every RE movie since then was just an even worse adaptation of the series. Only the animated Capcom movies were decent so far. Then there was this new Resident Evil that came out. After seeing the trailers I was thinking we might finally get a real RE movie...sorta, because I noticed certain actors didn't fit any characters that I knew. Well this welcome to raccoon city movie sucked major monster balls to say the least. Leon was an idiot and a moron throughout most of the movie and he's played by that damn hippie from zombieland, which makes no fricken sense. Leon is supposed to be a bad ass and from playing the RE2 remake, he's even more of a bad ass than he was in the original RE2. Claire's character just had one kind of reaction and mood throughout the whole movie. Then there's Jill, Jill is supposed to be a sexy bad ass cop but instead is played by a non white privileged chick who doesn't even come close to fitting the role by any means, I thought the chick from RE apocalypse who played Jill Valentine was a good match, but I digress. And somehow with a story that's as good as what the first 3 RE games had, they practically crammed all three together minus nemesis to completely fuck it all up and completely ruin the RE name in the movie business. You know, Dead Pool was a low budget film and look how good that was, Evil Dead was a low budget film and Bruce Campbell was a b rated actor and look what came of that series. I can go watch fan made films of Michael Myers and these films are extremely low budget, yet are hundred times better than any of the RE movies to date. I can't believe Sony even put their name on that shit. I'd fire every one of those fricken writers and directors and never look back. What we need is Blumhouse to get John Carpenter and someone from CapCom to come in and write the fricken story, and direct an actual RE movie us fans truly deserve. We also need actors who fit the role to the character they are playing. I think if it had a good story line, fitting actors to the characters, and a decent budget, holy shit, we'd might actually see a real RE that's actually good.
Studio Exec: So you want to make a Resident Evil movie? Director: Yep, I think i can do it justice Exec: OH good. Which game are you going to base it on? Director: what games?
Just watched the film and it was like watching the deleted scenes from a mini series. The set designer had obviously played the games, but I don't think that the writer or director had.
Director actually knew the game and has played it, he does know the franchise, but...not sure why he allowed to have this sort of change, I am really not sure. Writers...those weren't top notch writers for sure, budget question most likely. CGI was probably expensive, but it was what it was, at least wasn't THAT bad. As TV series I think this would've done a better job. Director should've went to Netflix, maybe would've been better.
@@BIOSHOCKFOXX the director was also the writer. It's actually baffling hearing him talk with clear in depth knowledge of the games but knowing THIS is what he produced as his adaptation of it.
I like how they thought that if you questioned the casting of Leon and Jill you'd somehow be a phobe of sorts but no! That didn't happen because the millions of resi fans all felt the same way that it was fucking ridiculous!
The most frustrating part is seeing the places that look almost a 1:1 copy of the locations and monsters in the game with everything around those two things being completely ruined by everything else in the movie
The problem I have with Leon in this film is the actor looks a lot more like Carlos than he does Leon, so all I can think about while watching him is that he's Carlos cosplaying as Leon.
And if this ever gets a sequel they will get an actor that looks nothing like carlos the director already admitted they are doing that on purpose probably get the whitest looking hispanic guy for the part.
@@SPDRM (Knowing you're being sarcastic, too.) Times *have* changed, right? Juicy S: "I'm so enslaved, I can fake a hate crime!" Obama: "I'm so enslaved, I got elected! Twice!" Oprah: *Counting her billions of dollars at the bank...*
@@SPDRM And there's no denying the long ongoing problem and history of racism - as a Filipino I know what our ancestors have gone through with Spaniards and Americans and how unfortunately quite a number of fellow men/women even at the present are insensitive/stereotypical when it comes to race, although that's where you realize racism isn't just black and white period either. However, I have to say that there's also a thin fine line between clamoring for representation authentically or for superficial/brownie points. And unfortunately the film/TV industry has been moving towards the latter. I won't bother to watch this Resident Evil film admittedly, but I've heard enough people make a convincing point that Leon was treated as an idiotic character the whole time in the film, without making it be a sensible undertsandable flaw. Not exactly a good image given the casting change. Or we could point to other franchises as well - Finn is overused as a reference at this point in Star Wars but man, it was considered a landmark for his character to just exist, only for him to be screwed over himself by lack of any proper development even as a technical side character- and Boyega himself seems to be a fan of the Star Wars of old. I could point towards the new Netflix Cowboy Bebop of having Jett be race swapped only to um.. get a joke about being a black male due to black mail (huh?) There are many other examples of this but this comment is too long already and this is just me trying to give perspective.
At this point I've given up on supporting the Hollywood industry, its best we save whatever original movies/shows that are left and to make sure incompetent Directors/Producers/Writers/ etc... can't get their hands on them by making sure they cannot get into positions as film butcher's. Cinematography is dead, to many lazy remakings of someone else's ideas and not much thinking going into making something original.
The funny thing of the games that covered the " Raccon City arc", is that the plot was created by Japanese developers, based from horror and sci-fi american movies.
RE1 was corny B-grade drama with comedic villains. Gameplay is the selling point. Plot and drama are accessory. Even Japanese can't do miracle. They have their own failed game-to-movie adaptations. They are better off starting with fresh material.
@@jonnyguydenton yeah to be honest they better just make a movie that inspired by resident evil game you know a movie that's possessed the horror element and intriguing revelations of the game
Correction. Chris and Claire were orphans, but they didn’t have connections to Umbrella. Hell, I’m not even sure they lived in Raccoon City before Chris became a STARS officer.
Having this come out around the same time as Arcane is like a night and day comparison of what you should and shouldn't do when making a video game adaptation.
@@kordellswoffer1520 yeah I watched three episoides, pretty good, very beatiful art style, I have a bit of issues with the plot and music seguences but everything else is good
I thought Neal Mcdonough was actually a great choice as William Birkin. He looks enough like him and he's got the blonde hair, but more importantly he's really good at unhinged villains. He was just ruined in the writing.
I've watched most of the RE animated series and while I have reservations about some, they're at least faithful to the original story. Now if only we could get a story focusing on Leon and Ada and just what exactly is between the two of them. The games always hint at an underlying trust and affection while the movies never seem to have them interact long enough to get interesting.
As a Leon and Ada fan, I 100% agree with you. It's too bad Capcom soft rebooted the series right after RE6. Leon's feelings for Ada were basically confirmed in that game. We definitely would have gotten more plot with them if RE7 was a direct continuation. I haven't played Village yet so I don't know if any old characters besides Chris shows up, but unfortunately at this point it seems like the best we're going to get is fan fiction lol.
It's bad enough they casted someone who doesn't look like Leon, but to reduce him to an idiot? Who doesn't even know how a shotgun works? Just make Claire look way better in comparison?! That's just so wrong. Leon deserved better.
One thing that really bothered me was that he wasn't clean-shaven or with an appropriate haircut to get a cop job. I can understand him having some stubble after a few days of things going off the rails in that city, but that haircut is not gonna fly.
This movie was so frustrating, it had some cool "it follows" "the guest" and "army of the dead", and the special effects where a hit or miss, no consistency. They should've gotten the director of Overlord...
Resident evil not getting a decent movie is really disappointing. Translating a horror game into a movie is probably the easiest possible game to work with compared to a RPG or any other genre. Yet they always manage to make them not really scary some how. Relying on jokes and quips, but not actually being funny enough to be a comedy. But the main issue always remains they want to do a RE movie, without paying any attention to the plot and characters the setting they are taking over. If they wanted a generic horror movie, make one. Don't slap the RE title on it.
I believe the "translation" error comes from these filmmakers thinking they know what's best and thinking they know what fans want. An analogy for this situation would be like... Imagine a fan of a video game series is a patron of a restaurant and the filmmakers are the chef/waiter. The fans place an order of a 'T-bone steak, streamed broccoli, and loaded mashed potatoes with gravy (which is what we want... a faithful and great adaptation of a video game series). The filmmakers doesn't even confirm the order that you made and places it to the cook/chef. When the waiter return with your food, you noticed that you received chicken nuggets, macaroni and cheese with a 16 oz glass of chocolate milk. Fans who were/are starving for food (i.e. their favorite video game franchise made into a movie adaptation) would eat gobble that food up, regardless to the fact that their food order is incorrect. Those fans are so hungry, they just accept whatever the chef and waiter prepared (i.e. the filmmakers) and eat it up. Hardcore fans of any video game series simply WOULD NOT accept or pander to these failed attempts of video game movie adaptations because they just simply don't get it right. By going to the movie and buying a ticket to see it, that tells filmmakers they have done a great job and should shoot for a sequel.
I keep thinking of the film The Road where they go to the cannibal house and barely escape. That had more gripping intensity and fear than anything in these Resident Evil movies. While the rest of The Road movie is bleak and depressing it gets the tone and feel right. You make a good point it shouldn't be that hard to make some video game translations into movies but they always seem to mess it up. I wouldn't mind seeing a Diablo movie based on the original game but they would probably screw that up as well. Make it all woke and stupid instead of gripping and terrifying.
But that's what both the resident evil video game series from the classic resident evil video games and up, along with it's movie's are a enormous silly b movie type/version, as well as generic in a sub genre categorize under survival/horror aka survival-horror and typical predictable cliche horror tropes. Also With a hugely nonsensical narrative/story plot, with occasional interesting characters now and then. If y'all think about it, resident evil is an convoluted video game series so making an moive probably is difficult to pull off, it's like with making an live action movie for the anime series it would be difficult to pull off, be very expensive etcetera. What do you think? I'm not saying some director couldn't do an live action movie for an anime series or do the resident evil video game series as a live action movie that would work based on it's source material.
Christ this is the funniest content I have had the pleasure to come across in years - goddamn I have seen good delivery but goddamn if every single video isnt uniquely hilarious.
Chris was the only casting choice that I was okay with but nothing will make me be okay with Leon being a dark haired comic reliefs sidekick with a kill score is 2 and 0.
Tom hopper actually imo is actually a good actor and while he doesn’t look too much like uncle Albert I think if they were more faithful to the character he could have pulled it off
@Hydra Force yeah and the first movies were actually kinda good imo the last ones were so bad but lemme tell you all better than thisnetflix trash. Cuz at least those movies didnt race swap a main char like leon!!
They cast an Indian to play Leon for woke points but forgot that women are on top of the 'oppression' pecking order so they just made Leon into an idiot anyway to make Claire good
In my opinion Leon, Wesker and William are miscasted. The women can get a pass and Chris too at least from the pictures at 7:45 But Leon and Wesker are really miscasted...especially Leon.
The Mila Jovovich movies are a guilty pleasure and it's actually a good thing that they didn't follow the RE plot/lore so they're fine as straight-to-DVD, background noise. Interestingly we're living in an era where most content is pro-feminist/strong female movies that fail to recognize the RE series, Underworld and so forth that came out in the past two decades. Makes you wonder what really is going on these days? 🤔
Because Mila is pretty (especially compared to.....those creatures) and isn't espousing feminist BS. Just being a kick ass lady and looking good while doing it. Also the guys aren't emasculated or dumbed down (barring plot for villains to win which affects all the heroes).
Due, if there is one thing you can count on with SJWs is their willfully ignorance of the past. If series like Resident Evil and Underworld were recognized it would completely undermine the narrative that women ne dr got action roles.
Weren't they directed by her husband Paul W.S. Anderson to show case how he married out above his class? BTW, someone pls tell Drinker it's pronounced Yo'vo.vich, not Joe'vo.vich
It is obvious they don't but let's not pretend that he looks like Carlos either. That trash Rumbo wanabee from the garage RE3 remake doesn't count. The real Carlos from the original RE3 looked nothing like that.
I always find it hilarious when people go ape shit about "whitewashing" in movies and the like, but changing a white character to some other ethnicity, often through casting decisions is perfectly fine.
The sad thing is, this is probably the closest we're ever gonna get to seeing as ''faithful'' an adapation of Resident Evil (at least one that attempts to focus on the actual characters from the games as main characters). From the Super Alice movies or the Netlfix one with black Wesker that more or less just used the brand name and a few character names for things that had next to nothing to do with the original source material but it really don't excuse the issues with this film. From race swapping established characters (Jill and Leon) instead of once again creating new characters or ulitzing non-white characters from the actual games, to the attempts of crushing both the plots of RE 1 and 2 together into one film plus no doubt a shit ton of other problems.
Honestly, I can live with Leon here since he is at least a pretty boy. Thing is, they heavily downplayed Leon's competence. FFS, he is a few survivors of Raccoon City who shot his way through countless B.O.Ws. and he is so good that he went on to because POTUS and his family bodyguard. It is noteworthy that this movie has only 25 million dollar budget. Doesnt excuse poor script but should explain production issues
To describe the use of zombie dogs with Mr. Burns quotes... *In the Resident Evil games:* “Smithers, release the hounds.” *In Welcome to Raccoon City:* “You know, -Simpson- Redfield. This has truly been a lovely afternoon. Release… a hound.”
It baffles me how on a regular speedrun it takes you around an hour or so to complete a game, and that's ignoring every cutscene, text, extra stuff you can find. How the hell do they think they can mush together two games at the same time and explain anything about what's going on and why? Specially if it's 1 + 2, instead of 2 and 3 which take place at the same time. What hurts more is that the people who made this film are aware of the source material. Evident by Lisa's design, the poker-shaped keys, the truck driver intro, birkin's mutation (although the cgi for the final scene was horrible), Itchy tasty reference and Jill's stupid question about what's worse, to be eaten by a giant shark or a giant snake just to have Richard die by regular zombies... The ashford twins actually look like they appear in the game however Sherry who didnt have a race change, couldn't bother to actually atleast give her short blonde hair... Leon's casting and portrayal was horrible. It's nothing new at this point for movies to do their dumb inclusion and change racial features of white characters but they made him look like the most laziest stupid dude to ever exist. Leon was a rookie but he wasn't incompetent, surely has a lot of plot armor and cheesy one liners but not stupid/lazy. I really don't get why this film was made. I watched it with my family and they were confused as to what's going on and as a fan of the games im confused as to why they made the movie like this. Some stuff is pinpoint accurate-looking from the games but half of the casting isnt? And putting the casting issues aside combining two games into one story is a bad idea. Like I said if they wanted to combine games so badly they could've done 2 and 3 together.
So one thing I found oddest about the Milla Jovovich films is they make Umbrella out to be this megacorp that runs everything behind the scenes when in the games they didn’t survive past the events of raccoon city, after that it’s all about cleaning up after them been forcefully shut down (it’s almost like needing to nuke a city on mainland USA will attract some negative attention) now yes a lot of the board will likely get off Scott free but the Company, it’s assets and any research will have been Will have been seized by the US government (at leat all that was on the books, this leads to that spending years cleaning up that even by RE8 is still a mess)
I was so excited to see a badass live version of Leon and Jill. But then I was disappointed immediately. If they wanted to be more diverse they could've just added extra characters, but kept the originals the same.
@ ktwenter77 I don’t understand how it’s “woke” in a sense, because they changed Jill’s race. Jill was already a minority (half Japanese), so it wouldn’t have been woke points.
a proper movie adaptation of Resident Evil 1 would be TERRIFYING, the sheer horror you read in the things you pick up honestly make me sick. imagine having a proper cast Jill read aloud what happened to the Trevor family with subtle flashback showing what happened
To be honest i'm not that sure about that. Mainly because one of the biggest reasons as to why survival horror games are so engaging is the interactivity, the feeling that you yourself are epxeriencing everything first hand. I loved the games as a teen and thought the story was amazing - but when I recently went back to them and watched the story synopsis on YT I realized a lot of the plot just don't really make a lot of sense. That's my experience at least. Interactivity is kinda hard to recreate in a movie.
@@IronFreakV um. I apologize but isn't the whole point of movies to make you feel engaged with the characters / story. Just because you aren't physically controlling the characters absolutely should not mean that you're not engaged with them. I get the keyword in your comment was "interacting". But the whole point of a movie is to be interesting enough to make people want to sit down and watch it. Resident evil could have easily done that if Hollywood morons didn't completely evicerate the storyline. They could have actually filled in gaps and made the original story into something greater. Instead, well you know. They turned it into a brain dead nonsensical shooty shooty festival.
That movie was a lot of fun! It took me a little while to realize it was one of those so bad it's hilarious kinds of movies. Sometimes one character is talking a lot, going from topic to topic, and it's like someone is clicking through their dialogue tree! Hilarious.
As SOON as I saw Claire and Chris actually arguing with each other and not getting alone... I was absolutely done. Anyone who bothered to play Resident Evil 2 or Code Veronica, you'd know they have a strong relationship, he climbed a mountain for her! I know, it's not really a big deal, but it proved to me that this movie was also going to be a huge disappointment.
The first RE with Jovovich was really good. Not flawless, but worth watching and even rewatching for all those meme scenes. Too bad Anderson couldn't hold his shit together and draw out sequel plans that at least made some sense.
@Marko Botic What are you talking about? The chick they got to play Jill in those movies was casted perfectly. She even studied the games to get the movements right. Why would Milla play Jill? The face is wrong, and Jill has a noticeable rack...which Milla well, doesn't.
@Marko Botic You just explained exactly why Sienna was good in the part. The casting was fine, the script was the problem. And BTW Jill wasn't really a fighter until RE5. She probably had basic self defense from S.T.A.R.S but she was never a kung fu chick or even brawler in those days. Also, she's 'bigger', dude Jill was like 5'5'' at most during the original trilogy; RE5 retconned her height to be taller for whatever reason.
How did you like amazing depiction of Leon ? I loved the scene where Claire showed him how to use a shotgun. I also enjoyed every scene where he got insulted and fell down on his ass just to be saved by kickass Claire that looks like she could be his mother. Consider my expectations shattered !
I hadn't thought about it before, but you're right: their inability to make a decent Resident Evil movie* is bizarre. Everything they need is already right there. Obviously there are some pacing issues to reconcile as you distill several hours of game down to two hours of movie, as Drinker pointed out, but it's not like building tension in movies is some unknowable secret. For some reason, though, having an IP like Resident Evil to work with causes directors to just have a sudden rush of shit to the brain. *A decent _live-action_ RE movie, anyway. The CGI ones are all right.
I don't think pacing has to be an issue once you get rid of most of the "puzzle" parts of the gameplay to focus on atmosphere, suspense, and action. How hard can it be to send of bunch of special force units into a mansion inhabited by zombies so they slowly uncover the mystery behind the infestation and fight bigger and more disgusting monsters as time passes? Just getting the mood and tension right would be half the job already done. Then you end the film just like the game, with a bunch of twists, revelations, and a big fight with Wesker and Tyrant. Hell, you can even add the family backstories of the mutated girl (the recurring antagonist) and Barry (the wild card) if you really need to. All the elements are already there for fukcs sake :P
The WS Anderson movies were "In Name Only" not entirely due to the director messing things up, but mainly due to Capcom. They banned him from EVER using any plot point or storyline from the games and just allowed him to use a couple of game characters outside of what they did in the game franchise. This is why the movies very quickly veered off from the Franchise's timeline. With all the restrictions placed upon him, I'm actually surprised they were "as good" as they were and just somewhat enjoyable dumb popcorn flicks.
The “go away now” part gets me every time, it’s like I am a 7 y.o. who listens to the drunken ramblings of my emotionally unavailable, alcoholic father.
Lmao I always imagine a bunch of random people gathering around the drinker laid on his bed in his smelly room every day to hear him ranting about a movie and then he tells them to piss of.
To be fair Resident Evil: Damnation was actually a pretty solid movie. The fact that it’s the only good Resident Evil movie I have ever watched, however, is an absolute atrocity…
Just some full of action with boring characters. The first half of the film is ok but later on it’s just nothing but action scene like RE6 makes it feel like a Die Hard movie more than a Resident Evil
Thanks for this encouragement. I own the RE: Damnation DVD, but it's been sitting on the shelf unwatched for a couple of years. Might get around to it now, cheers.
Discovered this channel just now and even though I'm a sad and silent guy - I was fucking laughing my ass off over what the narrator was saying!:))))))) Bravo!
Aside from casting issues I thought the movie was great. The casting of Irons and Birkin was borderline spot on, and I enjoyed the interpretation of the T virus being much more gradual, almost like The Hills Have Eyes 2.
"keep"? Haven't there been only one doom-movie, i.e. Doom (2005)? It was a nice popcorn muncher, but they could have called it "Monster Hunter on Mars" or something.
big budget flashy moving pictures with celeb of some note plus some slight enough reference to other material in the game equals woo shiny objects to lure masses into air conditioned theaters domestic but mostly abroad. heck, similar kept the transformers rolling rolling rolling
In a way I respect the Paul WS Anderson films more than this drivel - at least they were honest about being only a loose adaptation and to be honest they did have some good moments and scenes when taken in isolation from the games. They even had a potentially fun arc going with Super-Alice until they just suddenly course changed and de-powered her.
It also helps with those movies if you go into them expecting not Resident Evil, but rather just a series of Zombie/monster movies with Resident Evil slapped on for a title to draw an audience (which really, was probably the entire purpose). If you look at them like that, they're much more enjoyable.
In my opinion Leon, Wesker and William are miscasted. The women can get a pass and Chris too at least from the pictures at 7:45 But Leon and Wesker are really miscasted...especially Leon.
@@WorldWalker128 Yeah, as long as you don't take the movies seriously and go in just expecting some dumb action without any pretention of it being in any way 'deep' or emotional (or it making any sense), they are quite enjoyable.
I have read comments where people say their favorite scene was in the mansion when everything goes dark and Chris gets mawled by zombies, because it is “the only scene that makes the movie feel like a horror game” and to that I say bullshit, or rather “okay, so your favorite scene is the only one where you can’t see anything… you know what, I can level with that”.
I thought it was pretty good. Yeah the actors could have been better casted but I loved the Easter eggs from the game. I also really enjoyed the sets, the police station and Mansion looked great.
The funniest thing was that the sign for the police department says "RPD Raccoon Police" not "RPD Raccoon City Police Department". Ahhh the good old raccoon police..
