The Resident Evil films created Alice to prevent a Capcom-owned character being the main character of the franchise. There's absolutely no reason to use a character like Jill or Leon or Chris or Leon when you can replace these characters with a character you own.The question is why this decision makes some people so upset. It's not like Leon Kennedy is a deep or complex or interesting character. Why should he get anything more than a cameo?
>>220511660The only way to enjoy these movies is to see them as completely separate from the games and not compare them. They're just fun campy action movies that used the RE brand to get money from investors otherwise they would have much smaller budgets. But some RE gamer autismos just can't accept this and will rage about it till the end of time
Why's it a bad thing if a character in a video game movie is from the video game?Should The Super Mario Bros. Movie not have had Mario in it?
>>220511660Because then you are just shamelessly leeching the IP recognition to plug your own story? At least have the spine to make your own standalone zombie movie instead of hijacking something that built up its own popularity and following
>>220512103 Because Mario is the appeal of Mario, you absolute brainlet.Resident Evil wasn’t popular because Umbrella boardroom lore was so riveting, it was popular because people got attached to the characters surviving that bullshit. Watching Leon go from rookie cop to jaded government lapdog over multiple games is an actual arc, even if it’s pulpy as hell. Same with Jill, Chris, etc. They’re B-movie archetypes, but they’re *our* B-movie archetypes.Alice isn’t just “a new character.” She’s a deviantart OC who shows up, outshines the game cast at everything, and turns them into backup dancers in their own franchise. That’s what pissed people off. It’s not about deep characterization, it’s about adaptation respect.If you’re gonna adapt something, adapt it. Don’t use the logo to sell tickets while sidelining the parts people showed up for. Otherwise just call it “Generic Zombie Apocalypse 3D” and be done with it.
>>220512311>Mario is the appeal of MarioIDK, it doesn't make much difference to me if I'm playing as Mario or Luigi.I haven't played all the Mario games but none of the ones I have played I'd describe as character-driven.
>>220511660>replace these characters with a character you own.Then it's not a resident evil movie but an 'inspired by' movie. I don't give a fuck about some made up self insert char being the star of the fiction i've come to enjoy in one media, now being brought to another. Go try and get your fan fic off the ground without using the crutch of a bought and paid for already established story you hack.
>>220511660>It's not like Leon Kennedy is a deep or complex or interesting character.Neither is Alice, but fans wanted to watch a character they played in a video game. Nobody wants to watch your wife outside of the 5th Element, Paul.
>>220511660Mission Impossible did the same thing, although for slightly different reasons. The characters from the source material were replaced by Tom Cruise's OC.
lol @ anyone who wasted hours of their lives watching these movies
>>220512311>Resident Evil wasn’t popular because Umbrella boardroom lore was so rivetingActually, the movies explored that aspect (the games didn't) because that's the part of RE that is actually interesting. Anderson saw RE as being about the "repression of the individual" in a world controlled by corporations.>it was popular because people got attached to the characters surviving that bullshit. Watching Leon go from rookie cop to jaded government lapdog over multiple games is an actual arc, even if it’s pulpy as hell. Same with Jill, Chris, etc. They’re B-movie archetypes, but they’re *our* B-movie archetypes.The RE movies were two films in, and Leon was just some random cop. His "arc" is an ad-hoc rationalization.
>>220512311They don't own the game characters. RE game characters will never be allowed to be main characters. Why is this a difficult pill to swallow?
