Oh yeah that happened
>>218646515why is it impossible for directors to do a straight take on Resident Evil?
>>218646515It never happened in my mind.I'll stick with 1-6. Any one of them are better than this turd.
>>218646515The next one is gonna be shit too. Directed by the guy who did Weapons, which was fucking awful, and STILL doing his own take with original characters and story.
>>218646611Because most writers and directors want to make their own original content donut steel but piggyback off famous franchises even if they completely alter the characters and plot
>>218646515>Spic Leon.Yup never watching this.
>>218646611cursed franchise
>>218646993>spic LeonWorse. Jeet Leon
ALL THEY HAVE TO DOIS STICK SOME FUCKING COPSIN A FUCKING MANSIONAND HAVE SPOOKY THINGS HAPPENWHYIS THATSOFUCKINGHARD?!?!?!?!?!?!!?
It wasn't terrible, they did run out of money though. Turning Leon into a stoner retard was the best part.
>>218646611Because they do not understand that Resident Evil is not about zombies. It is biopunk science fiction. It is Blade Runner set in the 1990s. There is no "zombie apocalypse." Zombies are not that big of a threat in the scheme of things. They are the accidental cast-off industrial waste of a biological weapons black market industry.
>>218646515I thought the Mansion was cool. That was it though.
>>218647206But what about pointless relationship drama?
>>218646913>Because most writers and directors want to make their own original content donut steel but piggyback off famous franchises even if they completely alter the characters and plotResident Evil does this all the time on its own, but it works because the people who make the games understand what the subject matter is. RE7 flipped every aspect of the entire franchise upside down and still made it work. The developers know the zombies and monsters are an aesthetic and not the subject of the plot.
>>218647302You're not wrong but zombies are a core part of RE's identity. The general public see Resident Evil as the zombie survival game so any adaptation needs zombies or at least something close to them.
>>218647923>You're not wrong but zombies are a core part of RE's identity.In a way, but there are RE titles that have absolutely zero zombies. RE4 is effectively Lovecraftian and has nothing in common with zombie films.>any adaptation needs zombies or at least something close to them.Therein lies the trap. When some western retard gets called in to make a Resident Evil the first thing they think is "oh it's a Romero zombie goreporn I can do whatever I want with it."
>>218648102As far as creativity or originality go I'm sure Capcom bean counters don't care about quality control of their dozens of films as long as more get shat out. Maybe if a director or writer approached them with a passionate and lucrative idea we could get a good Resident Evil movie one day.
>>218648102resident evil is george romero throu and throu, just with cops.The closest movie feel to it it's world war z and rec for the first game
>>218648427>RECkinda>world war zno
>>218647302Not a RE fan (not dislike, I simply have yet to engage with it) but from what I gather, Wesker, a Nazi-tier eugenics experiment, is the walking, talking, breathing embodiment of White Man Bad and then they cast Lance Reddick as him. Kek, I feel for you guys, I've seen franchises I am an active fan of get raped too
memory holed movies thread?
>>218648666They cut out all the best parts of the comic.
>>218648427>resident evil is george romero throu and throu, just with cops.Not really. Zombies in Romero are a calamity, a natural disaster that occurs for an unknown reason. In Resident Evil the mechanism by which zombies are created is an pharmaceutically produced bioweapon, and they're not even the product intended to be made. The Tyrants, the actual intended outcome of the T-Virus weapons program, is far more of a threat than the zombies and even it isn't the subject of the plot. It's not about surviving the apocalypse, it's about surviving out of control corporate hubris and potentially even bringing the people responsible for it to justice.>>218648546>Wesker, a Nazi-tier eugenics experiment, is the walking, talking, breathing embodiment of White Man BadWesker never actually did anything racist, he was a radical Darwinist. Didn't care what color you were, if you were weak you died and if you were strong you lived.
>>218648666Why are there two failed attempts at rebooting the franchise vs. giving Del Toro his third movie?
>>218648856because making good shit is second to sticking it to someone, especially when a total box office bomb still means 2 years salary for everyone involved.
>>218646611crapcum wont let them>>218646913what? like the other anon said even crapcum does this with his own fucking games lol
>>218648828you mean like rotld? it all started with a gov.bio chem. and were nuked. and they threw in a frankermonster? oh wow how original
>>218646611>why is it impossible for directors to do a straight take on Resident Evil?Or just about anything else for that matter?
>>218649201>frankermonsterMore like The Hulk: Drone Warfare Edition at the low low cost of $120,000,000
>>218647886Yeah but the changes make sense and fits the tone.
>>218649201P.S. It wasn't a nuke in the games it was a thermobaric warhead.
>>218646515Apparently Romero was gonna make a movie but PWS got the rights to production and made it into matrix shit
>>218649682It did, and even in RE7 it didn't lose the plot. Evelyn is not the antagonist. She is a victim of the antagonist: The Connections bioweapon syndicate was the antagonist.
Cregger's reboot will be better r-right?>Zach Cregger Says 'Resident Evil' Reboot Is “Not A Faithful Adaptation”>"It's an entirely original story," Cregger shares with Entertainment Weekly about the upcoming film, based on the popular video games. "When you watch it, you'll be like, 'This is very Zach.' It's just [that] it takes place in the Resident Evil world."https://ew.com/resident-evil-movie-entirely-original-story-set-game-world-zach-cregger-exclusive-11812968Nevermind.
>>218650789>"I'm not gonna steal Leon and put him in an original story. I think that would be presumptuous," Cregger continues, referring to fan-favorite Resident Evil character Leon S. Kennedy. "But I respect the games enough where I'm gonna like tell a Resident Evil story in the Resident Evil canon that still leaves everything they love intact from the games, you know what I mean?"At least it sounds like he's trying. Resident Evil stories can and should exist outside of Raccoon City and Umbrella. Continuously making media about Raccoon City is like making Batman's origin story over and over again.
>>218650950>Resident Evil stories can and should exist outside of Raccoon City and Umbrella.His movie is set in Racoon City tho. >Zach Cregger’s upcoming Resident Evil film (slated for 2026) is a new reboot focused on a courier, Bryan (played by Austin Abrams), navigating a Raccoon City outbreak to deliver a package.
>>218651551>navigating a Raccoon City outbreakcould it be?
RE canon
>>218647064is this series worth watching whatsoever? like, is the pilot at least good?
>>218652297no
>>218652297Absolutely not it's probably the worst thing the RE name has ever been attached to. So maybe it's worth it if you like watching a train wreck.
>>218648354>As far as creativity or originality go I'm sure Capcom bean counters don't care about quality control of their dozens of films as long as more get shat out.We got lucky with the first two films because they did a really good job. After that it fell apart because, again, somebody just had to go with the Le Zombie Apocalypse trope and immediately fucked up the whole thing.
>>218646515Welcome to Raccoon City was unironically good and I'm tired of pretending it wasn't.
>>218652297Fuck no lol.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF7BHfTe30Q
>>218646611Because like cartoons or other video games, outside of its medium Resident Evil looks embarrassingly stupid and Indian-coded.
>>218646515Leon was the first time I saw women (fujos) upset at a male character getting brownwashed.
>>218655527Did they really use Vegas as advertising for it? The city appears for all of 2 minutes and they didn't even enter a single building.
>>218648856Money. Hellboy is in this weird place where it's not popular enough to justify a large budget (as the boxoffice for Del Toro's second film showed) but it's well known enough for producers to not let the rights lapse. That last movie had fanfilm-level production values.
>>218652297not in the slightest. Lance Reddick was the only thing even remotely good about it
>>218655920>Did they really use Vegas as advertising for it?It was on the DVD covers too lol
>>218656143That whole movie was such a disappointment, all of it was just shit happening in that lab or them driving aimlessly through the desert. Even the whole desert thing was just because Anderson saw Mad Max and wanted to make a desert film, so he made the film series canon that the world turned into a desert just so he could make this one movie.I can appreciate his dedication to making these movies but his retarded and random ideas pissed me off.
The scene with the flaming zombie was fun and Kaya is sexo but overall it wasn't great. The sets were faithful at least.
>>218655557Bro just stop. It was terrible. The only redeemable aspect was the set design and that was nostalgia bait at best.
>>218655813The idea of resident evil has always been better than the execution. I have no problem with that.
>>218656334It's amazing how such a modern movie ended up with sets looking so painfully early 2000s in quality. I wonder if that was the intention or just the low budget?
>>218656334I would also like to add that I liked Chief Irons character in the movie even if he wasn't an irredeemable shitbag like in the games.
>>218656405Budget drives 100% of all creative decisions in these shit shows.
>>218656341>that was nostalgia baitThat's the point of an adaptation, retard. You evoke the feelings and concept of what is being adapted, otherwise there is no point to it.
>>218656445Yeah I looked up the budget and I can see why it looks shitty then kek. Most of the money probably went to the actors then since at least one of them was pretty famous at the time.
>>218656472Ok? Not sure what you're upset about we are talking about the same thing.
>>218646515>Leon SAAR Kennedy>BITCH CLAIRE WHY DID YOU REDEEM?Meanwhile in this negaverse, Chris is doing his utmost to keep Leon away from his sister.
>>218656543>it was good>nu uh, it was nostalgia bait>so it was good>we are talking about the same thing???
>>218656505Sony movies man they get all the cool IP and fuck it up every time
>>218656592Sorry your retardation is confusing me I'm not sure what your point is
>>218656670Genuine question: Were you asphyxiated at birth?
>>218656743>still can't articulate a pointI'm here all night I can wait
>>218656633That's also an adaption issue. I don't know why the current trend is to hire writers that shit on the source material but they keep on doing it and are always surprised when people hate it.
>>218646611>>218646913>>218647302>unironically implying Resident Evil isn't some corny retarded shti for mongoloids
>>218656937Okay so imagine if somebody made Shaun of the Dead 2 and it was nothing but fart jokes and the zombies shat themselves as a running gag complete with a laugh track. Are you watching a comedy that meets your expectations for the original material?
>>218646515It was fine, possibly the most faithful adaptation of RE you're ever going to get
>>218656980Shaun of the Dead is actually good though, the only good thing about RE is the gameplay, story is retarded anime tier shitOne thing about the Anderson movies is that they're exactly that, so as far as adaptations go they aren't that far off
>>218657025Grim
>>218651610No, the outbreak is some The Thing-style parasite that has tentacles and can morph into a single monster from different dead bodies
>>218657113>story is retarded anime tier shitAnd yet many of its adaptations do not meet this bar, nor do they understand the premise of that story to begin with. Let me give you an example:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL40VVdTA58This scene is perhaps one of the greatest and most memorable moments in any live action Resident Evil adaptations. It encapsulates everything the source material is about, and there is not a single zombie in sight.
>>218657241I have no idea what you are talking about nor do I want to. Sounds like a reddit tier obsession honestly.
>>218657300Pretending to not understand is not an argument. If you don't care about the franchise just admit it so everyone can know you are not a good source of information about this topic.
>>218657241>RE trannies look at this slop and unironically think it's serious high arthttps://youtu.be/MY7jMybnsyk?si=nRDMdMMyJE9RJAML&t=264LMFAO, it's on par with the Milla Jovovich movies, get the fuck out of here you dumb autistic faggot
>>218657355I literally just linked you a clip of one of the Jovovich movies as an example of doing it right, you colossal fucking retard.
It's been like this since Code Veronica...
>>218656937You talk like a nigger
>>218657341>he thinks this is a debateYou have shit taste and that's ok no one is keeping score. Deal with it.
>>218657492>no one is keeping scoreYou think that, but you're wrong.
>>218657515Ok I think I'll manage. Want to be friends?>>218657463
>>218657675>Ok I think I'll manage. Want to be friends?If I didn't care what you think I wouldn't be arguing with you. We're as close to friends as we're ever going to be.
>>218647064Still would
>>218657709https://youtu.be/TEmGiebLptM?si=Z_iZ1B-VbtTPs2Z3
>>218657175>some The Thing-style parasite that has tentacles and can morph into a single monster from different dead bodiesLas Plagas could do that, I guess, maybe the Nemesis parasite.
>>218657456>RE>RE2>RE3>Code Veronica Maybe throw in the outbreak games as well. RE4 absolutely killed the franchise and invited in the worst trash fan base ever who have continued to shit all over it so it can never revive.
>>218648666it was the most low budget looking "real" movie I've ever seenlike it had the scope and production value of a SciFi Channel original movie but they just hired a half-decent cinematographer an actual near 0/10
>>218648856Sucks how Del Toro gets good shit taken away from him all the time. He was meant to be involved with Silent Hill as I recall.
