Zach Cregger is keenly interested in the gameplay of Resident Evil, but completely disinterested in the story themes. In interviews, Cregger exclusively talks about his experience playing the Resident Evil games, interacting with the mechanics. He never talks about what any of it means. In a recent off the cuff discussion with Curry Barker, he described Resident Evil as being like "junk food". He has never spoken about the themes of Resident Evil in any of his interviews.This is conspicuously different to how Paul W.S. Anderson spoke about Resident Evil, who constantly argued that Resident Evil was about corporate corruption, government complicity, and the repression of the individual. That zombies were not allegories for consumerism but rather allegories for the loss of individuality in a repressive system. That Umbrella seeks to control the mind, control the soul and this is what makes them evil.This story theme was carried over into the 2022 Netflix Resident Evil adaptation, which used the drug Joy as an allegory for the repression of the individual. Using Joy to make people docile and then coded light pulses to influence their behavior to suppress... undesirable traits.Cregger's take on Resident Evil is a vacuum. It has nothing to say. It has no politics whatsoever aside from a somewhat cringe "Your body, your choice" scene where Bryan affirms his girlfriend's right to have an abortion. Umbrella is barely in the film, and their appearance isn't really... about anything. Because the film has no underlying political thesis, so it has nothing to say about Umbrella. This makes it somewhat unique, but not necessarily in a good way.
>>220696823Retards will be like "cast resident evil movie. Henry Cavill and Isabel moner as every character in the movie"Also the same retards - "resident evil is cheesy garbage for man children. Who gives a shit about the story?"
you can't be that deeply invested in the gameplay of the series when the gameplay has dramatically changed multiple times throughout the seriespeople do care more about the characters and story, and you don't, you're like one of those weird retards who skips all cutscenes in all games and your brain breaks when you find out most people don't do that
>Anderson gets all smart alec and goes on a 2deep4u literary analysis on Resident Evil >movies are a puddle of piss and shit>Cregger talks about how awesome styling on zombies and solving puzzles is>movie actually turns out goodHmmm maybe the secret to making a good RE movie for once is just retardmaxxing
>>220696823>This story theme was carried over into the 2022 Netflix Resident Evil adaptation, which used the drug Joy as an allegory for the repression of the individual. Using Joy to make people docile and then coded light pulses to influence their behavior to suppress... undesirable traits.Something I thought was a little bit clever is that Evelyn Marcus, the one pushing Joy through approvals despite the dangers is a lesbian. She is quite onboard with the idea of using Joy to fix undesirable behavior in human beings when they discover that people who take Joy are vulnerable to commands imprinted via flashing lights. So they can make people vegan. They can do anything they want.
Maybe it will be good? Resident Evil has gone through SO many different phases
>>220696823I don’t know why people overthink this so much. Resident Evil is at its best when it’s a greatest hits mashup of 70s/80s horror/sci-fi/action movies. The games that everyone likes are essentially Carpenter, Raimi, Cronenberg, Cameron, Romero, and Spielberg thrown into a blender. As far as I’m concerned, there are no good Resident Evil movies to be had because if you go too far off the path, you’re essentially making something completely unrelated with some Resident Evil stickers slapped on top, and if you stick too close to the source material, you’re just making an abridged non-interactive version of the game, so there’s no point.
>>220696823Zach kills Trevor then makes a movie about the T-Virus.
>>220697981>The games that everyone likesDo you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
>>220698246the first 4
>>220698246The Raccoon City trilogy and 4. It gets wonky after that, because Capcom refuses to pick a damn lane. Zoomers can go fuck themselves with their revisionist history, I’ve been here since day one.
>>220696823>Umbrella is barely in the film, and their appearance isn't really... about anythingYou mean just how it would be for 99% of racoon city residents during a zombie apocalypse.
>>220697886Anything not made by Paul W. S. Anderson starring Mila jojovich his wife is good.
>>220696823>a somewhat cringe "Your body, your choice" scene where Bryan affirms his girlfriend's right to have an abortion.Zootopia Porn Redux.
I know posters ultimately don't matter but it's still nice to see a good one
>>220697240Speaking of Moner, she's playing Lisa in the Paul W.S. Anderson House of the Dead movie.
>>220698862>laughs in Welcome to Racoon City
>>220698898I just realized I was getting zootopia and Madagascar mixed up. Judy is hot so I’ll give them that one.
>>220698776I'm not sure you really get just how "absolutely nothing like the games" this movie is. Raccoon City was a city whose entire existence was dominated by Umbrella. It basically existed to serve Umbrella's interests. The outbreak was a product or side effect of Umbrella's corporate malevolence. This movie is basically nothing like that. I've no clue whatsoever where some people got the idea this movie was like a film version of Outbreak. If you wanted a film version of Outbreak you'd watch RE: Apocalypse which is about different groups of survivors intersecting during the Raccoon City incident.
>>220698940I dunno, the poster looks so incredibly generic. It feels like they don't actually know what they're doing. Like they're hiding the film's real nature as a balls-to-the-wall Evil Dead 2 chase scene chaos thing.
>>220696823I hate overhyped horror directors so god damn much. This faggot just wants to do his own thing and is using gay semantics to justify connecting it with RE. Sucking dick with resources and weapons is NOT a theme in Resident Evil. That's more Silent Hill's territory and not even that much either. For all intents and purposes, the stories in even the early RE games make it clear that you're playing competent persons, but they are in way over their heads and the victory is that they overcome the adversaries against all odds.Fuck this gay faggot. His movies suck.
