I'm not saying that Resident Evil made for a bad movie, but I cannot physically bring myself to finish the first one. Something happens inside me where I start to feel legitimately unwell and I have to switch it off. I usually get as far as the guy saying "you'll have to work for your meal" to a group of zombies, and I start convulsing. Apparently, the sequels are worse.
Do we blame Paul W.S Anderson for such an awful film franchise? No, he's from Hollywood, he doesn't know any better. We need to blame his enabler, and according to Anderson, it goes right back to Capcom:
Once again we're doing it completely with the blessing of the videogame company. We got a lot of flack [on the sequels] for, 'Why isn't the movie set in the mansion just exactly like the very first videogame?' That's just not progression for me. As the Resident Evil videogames themselves have developed in leaps and bounds -- it's like when we did the last movie people were like, 'Resident Evil doesn't take place in the desert. What the (expletive) is this?' Well, where does Resident Evil take place? Does it take place in Raccoon City exclusively? Well, I don't think so because the game has been in Antarctica, in Raccoon City, now it's in Africa.
The game is constantly and so is the movie franchise. We're doing it very much in conjunction with the developers of the videogame to give the audience something fresh but something that fits within the world of the videogame.
Yes, because it's the setting that makes Resident Evil movies terrible. Has nothing to do with the Godawful dialog and the feeling that we're watching a slightly more gory episode of Goosebumps. Capcom, why encourage this?
Oh right, dollars.
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9:40 AM on 12.19.2008
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I just accept them for what they are: mindless fluff. I just wish they were gorier and scarier.
Oh and the movies sucked balls for making up shit as they go.
I've always blamed Capcom for the overall quality of the RE movies. Ever since they rejected George Romero's amazingly faithful and genuinely scary script. Fucking idiots...They turned down the godfather of zombie films.
yea and i'm in agreement with most people here saying these movies suck dick, i could stand the first one the others *shudder*
/sarcasm
i guess im an idiot
The first one was decent, the second one was stupid, the third one not much butter... but not that bad, if you want BAD go BOLL!
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Resident Evil: Degeneration is even cooler!
and besides, degeneration more than makes up for it.
It's better this way. I'd be bored to tears if it was exactly like the games.
-Yes, very bad.
Would I be happier if they didn't exist?
-Hell no.
Do I plan on seeing the RE4 movie?
-Absolutely.
Would I pay to see it?
-Not in a million years.
Horrible rubber masks FTW!
"Resident Evil doesn't take place in the desert. What the (expletive) is this?"
Really? You didn't think of that before the movie entered fucking production?
"Ohhh but I'm being all artsy and advancing the plot."
Yeah I could buy that... If the 3rd movie had a single thing to do with the games. I mean the only things the Resident Evil games and movies have in common are zombies and bad dialogue. I'm just glad I've never spent money watching these pieces of trash.
To sum up: Eat shit and die Anderson.
Also Milla is hot.
RE movies are these "Better get wasted/lobotomy before watching" things.
Resident Evil is a series I've always found hard to take seriously. So the movies kind of work in that sense... but they are still awful.
I wish movies had more gore, perhaps an R rating. That would help wash down the rest of the nonsense. Without proper violence, terrible movies are just that... terrible.
It was a terrible action movie, instead of a horror flick.
Shame on capcom for not protecting their licenses better.
Even if I try to take it as mindless cheasy zobie action, I can't watch it.
If they were more like, say, Planet Terror, I would probably like them.
I didn't watch Zohan or the Love Guru expecting to have my life changed after I watched them I laughed so they did their jobs.
I recall seeing the beginning of the first resident evil... and the part with the elevator and the persons head getting squished... But guess what? NO BLOOD! >rolls eyes< I didn't find any similarity with the first game and the first movie.. And I was a fan of the game. 1 and 2 were fun as hell. But they didn't match up with the utterly atrocious movie! I was soo looking forward to seeing a Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield (even Barry and his Jill Sandwich) tear up some zombie ass and fight the Tyrant at the end of the horror/mystery fest that the game was.... Again.. sorely disappointed.
I refused to see any other RE movie after seeing that crap fest.
Zombie films require Blood and Carnage, even bad acting is somewhat acceptable in a zombie flick. what I was presented with in the first film was Unacceptable. As a movie goer and an avid gamer.