The Resident Evil sequels make no sense 

If it wasnt for Mila, Anderson wouldnt sell a single one of his movies...

I facepalmed when my wife said "which game is Alice in?"

Biggest sin of Apocalypse was how much they made Jill look like a geek next to Alice.

We didn't deserve Sienna. They didn't deserve Sienna. The best Jill depiction ever.

I am convinced that Paul W.S. Anderson wrote the scripts for these movies without even rewatching his own movies. The fact that they not only shit all over the game lore, but can't even be consistent amongst themselves is just astonishing. Resident Evil deserves better, goddamn it!

I accidentally watched the Monster Hunter movie (stuck around for Tony Jaa), I’ve never played the games, but I remember thinking “why the hell is Milla Jovovich always the post apocalyptic Billy badass?” Then I learned who directed it, and it all made sense lol

Anderson: "Ladies and gentlements, my beautiful wife, the goddess of apocalypse"

What's so striking to me is how the stories come off as so incoherent considering Paul W. S. Anderson directed 4 of the 6 films and produced and wrote ALL 6 films. Like, it's entirely on him, he couldn't keep the story straight.

Man the actress of jill Valentine and ada wong were wasted on this trash. These two actors could've had their own bad ass RE live action

Fun fact, each movie also has a novel tie in and those novels have the Herculean task of filling in the gaps between each movie. In particular the penultimate one actually details the entire battle at the White House (which it turns out IS against a rouge AI called the black queen) and details how Leon and Ada get eaten alive by a plant monster

Dude what they did with Luthor was absolutely foul, like legit no secondary character can live one movie without dying or being absent and come back just to die.

While I agree overall and never planning to watch many entries of this series I have some comments: 1. The first Resident Evil movie is actually pretty decent when judged on its own. 2. Alice is a highly trained operative, tasked with a mission of protecting secret underground facility pretty much on her own - jump to "She's literally Trinity" in RE2 is at least somewhat believable.

5:44 Poor Jill only gets one cool scene of headshotting a few zombies then Alice upstages her for the rest of the film.

My favorite theory as to why the movies kept coming out, going off base with lore breaks and ruining canon, was because Paul W. S. Anderson was writing RE fan fiction for his girlfriend/wife/main star Milla Jovovich.

"i was 9 when the second movie came out" uuurgh...be still, old beating heart.

I remember when 1 of my friends came to school excited to tell us he saw Resident Evil. Quickly another friend asked if you really do get to see Milla Jovovichs bush. He answered yes and it was lovely

It still blows me away. How ridiculous this movie series is. And how much more sense the video games make when you dig into lore.

I've always thought it was hilarious that they spent 3 movies setting up the superpowered clones plot, then the 4th movie starts with them blowing up all the clones and taking away Alice's powers. It's like once they got it all set up even Paul W. Anderson realized how stupid that idea was for the RE franchise and had to quickly hit undo in the opening of the next movie.

When Alice's boyfriend/husband is also the director no enemies are gonna kill this person😆😂🤣💯👍

Im surprised one of the movies wasn't about Alice finding the last humans alive who are just more Alice clones fighting against Zombie Alices and rhe big bad ends up being an Alice

When Alice said "This is truly rac city." I stood up in my chair clapping.

The one good thing to come out of this series is the live-action Nemesis. The practical effects and the sound design were absolutely fantastic.

4:56 that guy stumbling on the right gets me every time😂

I totally feel this. It's like they tried to get into a scope. The first movie: The lab, the second movie: The city, the third movie: the world. They essentially threw the plot out the window, created their own story based on Mila's character that had nothing to do with the games, and threw in a few canon characters for fans sake

The transition between the second and third films made no sense.

It took Umbrella 13 hours to build a twenty foot(ish) wall around Racoon City…. That is the first problem. Lol

As far as i remember did Capcom told Constantin film to not copy the game 1 to 1, otherwise they would have told George A Romero to make the movies. You can still find his resident evil demo script online.

Why did the Zombie apocalypse cause fresh water to evaporate? The failure of the human race would definitely be very good for the environment.

Im still mad Alice wasn't even part of the game series AND she was made to upstage Jill in the 2nd movie like wtf? Who are you to insert yourself before STARS.

Part of me wonders if Anderson actually wanted to do any of these past 2, its like watching him realise he cant escape and is desperately trying to get fired

For me there was never any confusion. The movies were simply about large explosions, ridiculous deaths and watching Mila Jojo-whatsher-vich acting cool and kicking ass.

The only good thing this series gave us was the lazer hallway. Because that is a just a neat idea

I still cant get over the sheer _audacity_ of Paul WS Anderson. Taking of one of the most beloved horror franchises, ignoring everything about it, inserting my wife's OC and not giving af the whole time. The audacity....

When you find out that Milla Jovovich and Paul W.S. Anderson are married, you kinda now understand that these movies was just so he could film his wife doing badass things, and make her the center of a series no one wanted her to be the center of.

The fact that Paul WS Anderson got away with this schlock time and time again suggests someone gave him a ….. MultiPass.

ok that ardeth bay comment had me rolling

When I tell you Final Chapter pissed me off so badly. No Chris, no Ada, no Jill, no Leon … nothing… we at least got Claire. But wtf.

The movie with Wesker on the ship and Chris shows up was made purely for re5 references even if they don't make sense lol

At first I didn’t really like these movies but after I accepted them for what they are, I actually really enjoyed them! lol.

I mean we did get about 47 movies of cars doing unpractical behaviour.

The real problem is Mila married Anderson and from then on every movie he makes is only a vanity project for his wife. The Resident Evil series. The 3 Musketeers, the Monster Hunter movie and the Hellboy reboot. He doesn't care about anything else

I bought the final film after seeing the previous movie in theaters with a friend. I was so confused by the beginning that I stopped the film and checked online the order of films to make sure I didn't skip a movie.

As a personal rule I treat anything after the first two as either non existent or completely separate movies. That’s just the only way to make any sense of them and keep one’s sanity in the process. 😞

My wife and I loved the RE movies. We used to catch them randomly on cable. We, too, watched the entire series over a vacation. There's the one where she wakes up at one end of a testing facility made of cityscape pods, but the only exit is at the other end. I know there was a little more than that, but it's the difference between an open world game like Diablo or World of Warcraft and an FPS like Quake that you can speed-run by being faster than the monsters. They take her powers away, they give her powers back. People die and get reborn and cloned and cloned and reborn. Isaacs becoming a religious fanatic. What a story. What a "single, extended, cohesive story".

Got to admit. Soon as they changed the world into a desert i zoned out. Made no sense.

there's no second Wesker. the original was fast enough to escape the explosion of his aircraft. we see a tiny speck that leads some to believe that was him parachuting to safety.

These movies are Oscar winners compared to the Resident Evil Welcome to Raccoon City Netflix nonsense adaptation.

One way of thinking about the RE series is that each chapter takes place in a different alternate universe.

All of the questions about what happened between RE Apocalypse and RE Extinction are answered in the novel for RE Extinction. Yes, we’re required to find and read the novel based on the film. The information in the book would have made a better film than what was filmed…

I have to say, that was an awesome video. Very well put together, and you had me in stitches. I think the best part was the montage of Anderson movies at the end, and I realized how bad almost all of them actually were, even though they had amazing concepts. I think you nailed his writing issue, the lack of a second draft. L. Ron Hubbard style

Every single Resident Evil movie was made in the hopes that everyone who watched the last movie had severe brain damage or got zapped by a neuralyzer.

The only continuity that made sense is the transition from 1 to 2, where at least the first movie provides a catalyst on why Raccoon City gets zombie apocalypse on the second movie. After that, it made zero sense, The most egregious is the plot of the final chapter, when Isaac revealed that the T-Virus outbreak being actually engineered by Umbrella all along in order to purge humanity and build a new global society with a caste of rich and powerful in cryostasis. This is basically completely invalidates all previous movies because: -The first film had shown that the original outbreak was an event that had happened completely outside the corporation's control, as it was released by Spence during his attempt to steal the virus - In the first two films Umbrella's main motivation was genuinely trying to avoid a global disaster, to the point of nuking up Raccoon City in a risky coverup maneuver in order to stop the virus, and the third one showed that the Umbrella board was desperate and clearly not in control of the post-outbreak situation. Even Dr. Isaacs's idea to rebuild the world with zombie workers was just a novelty born from those circumstances -Worst of all, (and in a more litereal display) those caste of rich and powerful are stored in cryostasis, right underneath the place they decided to nuke up in Apocalypse after it suffered a containment break. Good thing it was nuke-proof, becase they took a massive risk given their supposed plan

As a huge resident evil fan, I’ve always held the belief that the movies were good zombie films, but piss poor RE films.

How was the Allan’s 3 opening a disregard to aliens 2 a face hugger could have followed them And each terminator movie takes place in parallel time line. Every time they time travelled created a new time line. The prime time line still exists.

The Underworld series is very similar to this one. That was another vanity project for the director's wife, but at least those weren't adaptations of a source material, so they were free to do whatever they wanted. Plus, the first three Underworld movies were actually entertaining.

There was a novelization of the movie that explains Alice got controlled and killed Angela which led to Jill leaving. And Alice being on her own being away from the satellites.

The only good thing to come out of the PWSA resident evil movies, is the soundtrack from the original movie is insanely good.

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My favorite thing about these movies is how 90% of it is stuff that is supposed to be important or cool, but ends up being over the top and unmemorable. No reason to care about any characters. From what I can tell, the Lickers carried most of the movies.

Another problem I had with these movies is how the video game characters are just.....inserted. And how they try and connect the characters but if you haven't played the games (and even if you had) a lot of it makes zero sense. Like Claire's brother just randomly being in a prison she crash lands into. Leon putting his hand on Ada but she pushes him away when there was literally NO interaction between them prior to this scene. So the interaction felt forced. And Jill hopping in and out at random intervals. So messy.

What also bothered me is that they retcon the origins of the T-Virus. In the second movie the guy in the wheelchair (I think he was called Ashford?) created it, as he was searching for a cure so his daughter. So she wouldn't suffer the same fate as himself. But in Final Chapter it is the father of the original Alice who created the virus now, also to save her. Not to mention that the Umbrella Troops all changed their uniforms during the attack one the ship. In the fourth one they still have the classic soldier outfits and for the fith one they now have the gasmasks and coats - but they do admittedly look cool.

Here, let me explain the creative process, which should illuminate things for you a bit: Anderson: *slams face down into a pile of suspicious white powder and INHALES deeply* "WAHT IF I PUT MY HOT WIFE IN A MOVIE!!!!???" The End.

I like how the special effects got progressively worse after the first couple of movies.

Paul W.S. Anderson is quite possibly the biggest hack in Hollywood, if not he is definitely in the top 5. And his penchant for casting his wife in almost all of his projects should be an immediate red flag. Every property this dude touches turns to shit, and only serves to scare potential financiers away from actually passionate directors/screenwriters who want to make great video game adaptations.

The first RE movie is an actual memetic virus. I've seen the movie half a dozen times over the years, but outside of the laser wall and a couple other scenes, it's a blur. A friend of mine reviewed the movie and had to watch it a second time just to remember what happened.

My take on it was that in RE5:Retribution,they explained it there that movies 1-4 were actually a msimulation of the end of the worñd,thats why they had clones of all the characters which is an ubderstandable concept. The final chapter was actuañly suppose to be everybody against the world of zombies,but unfortunatle got scrapped becuase Mila was pregnate at the time,so they fucked up the ending actually,NEVER bothered to see the final chapter becuase thats NOT what we were suppose to get....

I didn't like what they did with the movies, BUT I don't hate the movies either.

I genuinely liked the first movie, didnt mind the 2nd as it introduced the Nemesis teased at the end of the first movie and also introduced Jill Velentine. The 3rd movie though is where I checked out of this film franchise, I've tried to watch the others but I can't get through them.

I forget which movie at this point ( they all feel like a fever dream ) but right at the beginning Alice says "umbreller" and it just feels like that moment sets the feeling for the whole series

Also, full disclosure: if anyone's new to watching the franchise or a grizzled movie veteran, *take the franchise as is & with a bit of salt* ; especially if you already watched them Blame the powers that be who didn't follow the source material. I hate when Hollywood does that every time

The experience of watching all of these movies in a single week changed my brain, I'm sure of it.

My favorite thing producers and executives always quote is "not everyone has played the games so we want to change the story to make it more approachable to a wider audience" Like what!?!? That's why people love these because the stories they tell.

The first RE film wouldn’t have been bad if they kept Alice as a one and done character just to show what happened in the labs and how the outbreak started…. But they continued with her character.

Paul Anderson wrote movies around his wife and pissed on all RE legacy. All other characters were sidekicks with no value at all. I mean Alice could do everything they did and she was far superior at everything than other characters. Now I'm thinking Alice was inspiration for Star Wars Rey.

How have I just found this channel! Day made good job my guy

1st one: good. 2nd: Great. 3rd: start of the trainwreck. 4: second part of trainwreck. 5: third part of trainwreck. 6: the mercifull end of this trainwreck.

One thing I also disliked about these movies is that they become a gaint ad for BMW motorcycles

I refused to watch another one of these movies after the 2nd one. I refused to fund this travesty

Excluding the first movie, which I loved, the ending scenes are better than the movies. Absolutely ridiculous.

The “eyes up” bit was great cause I mean we all knew what we was looking at.

I saw The Final Chapter in the theater with my sister and they played a trailer for RE7 (game was coming out around the same time) and after the title of the game is revealed on the screen, I hear a girl behind me say "there's Resident Evil games?!"

Alison walked so Pickle Rick could run

The fact that Alice is the main character where Jill valentines stars as the main character of the movie version of her own game is bafffffling!

I wasn't expecting well-deserved shade at Eragon here, but here we are.

In the movie novels prior to Extinction it's says she had killed Ashford's daughter due to program Alice making her and that's why she left the group out of guilt.

T3 actually makes more sense because sending the terminators back would necessitate the creation of Skynet and the future war or the past can’t happen. But yes, the first Resident Evil is the only one worth watching, as a prequel to the games.

i will say i did enjoy the monster hunter movie more than i thought i would

Lifetime Resident Evil l fan here. I approve this message. The movies were absolutely atrocious compared to the video games. I will give Paul Anderson his flowers for the original Mortal Kombat movies. Those actually gave the franchise a massive amount of lore

You can actually hear a face hugger running after the credits in Aliens.

The T-virus turning the earth into a desert in Resident Evil Extinction has never been brought up even once in the later sequels.

You’ve rewatched the whole series of Rwsident Evil movies?! Jesus Christ! You are a mad hero! ;)

Eyes up took me out

One thing I give these movies credit for. Is really feeling like you are watching a video game.

The first movie was a decent start as the first movie adaptation from the games but they screwed everything starting with the second. The first movie and Welcome to Raccoon City are the only live-action Resident Evil movies i actually like as a fan of the games. Don't ask me about the Netflix series. The only good thing about it was Lance Reddick.

The most unforgivable sin of all of this: how they massacred my boy Leon.

This movie series was nothing more other than to force milla jovavich down everyones throat while using the name resident evil.

i remember watching these as a kid and thinking "WHY DOESNT THESE MOVIES CONTINUE LIKE OTHER MOVIES >:("

I'm so glad you're covering the inanity that is the RE series. My brother-in-law was really into the games and as part of a strange tradition we created, would take me to see each film when it was released. I remember from 3 onwards it felt like every film was a different chapter of an entirely new series and I would be completely lost, I saw all of them in cinema and I genuinely couldn't tell you what the individual or overall plot arc is of 4, 5 and 6. They all sort of blend into one fever dream. I thought that maybe I just hadn't bothered to follow the plots close enough but from this video and reading comments it seems I wasn't alone. EDIT - I just finished this video and you have a new subscriber. It was like listening to myself describe how lost I was during the movies, the fact that you went through the pain of sitting through all of the movies to put this together is incredible. I salute you.

God damn it you caught me with the eyes up caption😂😂

In Extinction either main film or extended edition, apparently she separated from the group because she learned of Umbrella’s control of her, and I guess the group split to be harder to find by Umbrella