Is Resident Evil the only example of a film adaptation that’s better than the game it’s based on?
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>>736397565This is her now Feel old yet?
>even joking about the RE movies being goodDid you hit your head or something OP?
>>736397565retard thread
>>736397979The films are inconsistent, but the overall story is better. Capcom acknowledged this by borrowing so heavily from The Final Chapter for RE9
the first movie is excellent for an action flick
>>736397565bait needs to at least be a little believable anon
>>736397979no, this is the latest troll fad that's been started up since re9 came out
>>736398372also Mila is stunningly beautiful, and a wonderful mother and wife too.
>>736397771An inferior copy
>>736398731I don’t think she’s a good mother actually. She let her daughter (17 at the time) work with a known predator
only the first movie is somewhat passable. other than that, its really fucking dogshit.
>Movies>Everything is a desert>T-Virus is to blameHow does a virus make rivers disappear?
>>736399562dont think about it. its cheaper to film in a desert, dont think about it
>>736398174Capcom had nothing to do with it, only the writer who only ever watched the movies.
>>736399562Global ecological collapse after nuclear bombs. It’s implied that a bunch of other cities were nuked after Raccoon City
>>736399557The second film is better
>>736400872girlboss: the movie
>>736400872She really should have been the lead
>>736399443good
>>736397979the latest demoralization campaign is faggots pretending shitty games/movies that everyone hated when they released are actually le good
Those movies are ass.This however, is still funny.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qi0JmqRfJM
The movies are absolutely better written than the games, and the fans of the games being in denial about this has always been very strange. I think that it's all rooted in game fans seething about the decision to replace the Capcom-owned characters with Alice. RE fans are eternally pissy about their pet characters from the games being sidelined.
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Capcom sold the film rights to Constantin, but maintained control over their characters. So Capcom characters cannot chip a nail without Capcom's approval. This makes adaptations extremely reluctant to use any game character as a lead character when you can just rename Jill and call her Alice.As part of their contract, Constantin own everything they add to Resident Evil. Capcom have to pay to use it.Since Capcom don't want to pay royalties they can't, for instance, use Alicia, the daughter of James Marcus, founder of Umbrella. So they create Grace, the daughter of Oswell Spencer, founder of Umbrella.The games can't use Becky, the deaf clone girl that the daughter of the founder of Umbrella gets into an argument with Leon Kennedy over.So they create Emily, the blind clone girl that the daughter of the founder of Umbrella gets into an argument with Leon Kennedy over.
>>736403763Paul Anderson worked on this, interesting. Not as a director, but as a producer. And yea, the story, while goofy nonsense, is absolutely better than the DOA game story.
>>736397979There's a new recent schizo that keeps spamming how the games are bad and that the shitty RE movies are literally 10/10 and how Alice is the greatest character in history.So typical mentally ill schizo shit
>>736397771My queen
>>736402446>that everyone hated when they released are actually le good>NOOOOOO YOU GOT TO NOT LIKE IT ALWAYS SHIT EVEN BACK THEN IT WAS BAD>nothing else has come and done it betterremember when bait was worth a damn because I don't glad the shizo lives rent free here kek
>>736404219I like Alice because she isn't a complete Mary Sue like the game characters. She actually fucks up. She has hot, sweaty, naked sex. She doesn't magically solve all the problems in every game/movie. Capcom completely lost the plot when they let those characters from RE1-3 become institutions.
>>736404092oooohthat explains a lot actually
>>736404842>I like Alice because she isn't a complete Mary Sue like the game characters. She actually fucks up.I would call this bait but I know you're genuinely mentally ill and actually believe this
I was watching Game of Thrones and I was like, "Wait a minute... I know that shot." Yea, Game of Thrones reproduces a shot from RE: The Final Chapter. TFC was filmed in 2015. This season of GOT was filmed in 2016. Presumably Iain Glenn told the GOT director about the RE scene and suggested they do something similar.I like how you can actually see what's going on in the RE version.
Aren't these movies widely reviled by the general public too? Like I'm pretty sure the average score in RT is around 50%
https://youtu.be/J58VPpPrmQU?si=xfUAhFl3EfmP_Epk
>>736405098Funniest thing is that so many people thought the Chris actor was one of the brothers from Supernatural but it's actually the Prison Break guy
>>736397565The RE movies are terrible
>>736404935By the end of the film series, something like 4,000 humans are left alive, and it is largely Alice's fault. In the games, the good guys never lose. They always just magically solve the problems. Jill can't die. Leon can't die. Chris can't die. They're invincible, have no actual flaws, and the world conspires to ensure they always win.
>Extinction established the world is fucking desert and dead and there's no gasoline>Final Chapter has them pour barrels of gasoline to fight a zombie horde
>>736405084>Aren't these movies widely reviled by the general public too?If that were true they wouldn't have made 1.25 billion dollars over 15 years. It's largely source material fans seething like with the Transformers films. The Transformers franchise is defined by the first three Bay films. Transformers 3 has a 55% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Nobody takes it seriously because Transformers 3 is fucking awesome.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET9SHYzMz_4
>>736405292Extinction is in Nevada. Final Chapter is in a human stronghold in Raccoon City. Totally different situations. (Also Umbrella have fuel for their infinite supply of VTOLs.)
>>736405084I think it mainly china that liked these movies no? everyone who liked the games just saw them as shitty action movies with hilariously cheesy and bad editing
>>736405292Angela totally disappears from the series after Apocalypse. In fact a bunch of characters just disappear between movies. The last movie only has Claire returning as an ally for Alice, everyone else is just either dead or not present.
>>736405084'widely reviled' is giving these movies way more credit than they deserve. The general public just doesn't really have an opinion about these movies because they forget about them the second they walk out of the movie theatre, until they release the next one and think 'well, i guess theres nothing else right now so i might as well'. It's apathy more than displeasure
>>736404219He's been around for a couple years now.
>>736397565mortal kombat
>*goes nowhere in you're a path*
>>736405429>I think it mainly china that liked these movies no?No. RE: Retribution outgrossed The Avengers in Japan. They made a huge amount of money in Europe.https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr367022597/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt1855325/They're one of the most successful horror film series of all time (although they're really more horror-lite).
>>736405084And it would be lower if it didn't have the RE name attached to it. Those godawful Underworld movies hover around 30%, which is exactly what these flicks would have otherwise
>>736405483>Angela totally disappears from the series after Apocalypse. In fact a bunch of characters just disappear between movies.A proud tradition they learned from the games. I'm sure Helena, Jake, Sheva, Carlos, Natalia, Moira, and the others are gonna return any day now.In practice it was a combination of scheduling issues and budget. Jill was meant to return for Extinction, with a scene set 5 years earlier bridging Apocalypse and Extinction, but the shooting was delayed several months and she had to drop out, and was replaced by Ali Larter as Claire. The Final Chapter had severe production issues and had to write out (but not kill, they aren't allowed to kill them) Jill, Leon, Ada, and so on. Ada's actress was also blacklisted by Sony over some China/Japan stuff.
why I have this felling that there is an exclusive RE movies defense force for /tv
>>736405571I don't really get his existanceNobody actually regards these movies well at all. Hell people now mostly remember these movies for RLM shitting on ithttps://youtu.be/ZPUPaxgIo98?si=yn0MslmsvQgJ927A
>>736405823you mean this one schizo also spamming /tv/? /tv/ specific board schizos are almost as bad as the ones you see here
>>736405590I want to see the director's cut of Retribution. It was significantly longer, had no Red Queen, had no spoon fed exposition, and was a far more surreal and drifting kind of experience. Wesker turning up at the end was meant to be a twist. It was meant to be a "wait, you're not dead?" scene. And he would be like, "Lol, you thought that was actually the real me? You think I would put myself in any danger? Lol." Also, Ada surviving was meant to be a twist, too. She'd just turn up at the White House on her own, and Leon would be like, "this is a good thing". The studio pushed for a lot of dumb alterations to make sure nothing about the plot was mysterious or ambiguous.The studio taking control of Retribution to recut it is what snowballed into The Final Chapter having to be shot in South Africa, the cast having to be written out, the editor being blacklisted and replaced by a new guy, and so on.
>>736405827Does anyone remember RLM for anything other than being the guys who were wrong about the Star Wars Prequels?
>>736405976what are you even talking about schizo? they're still massively popular todaybaffling that you think the RE movies aren't anything but hollywood garbage
>>736405976Currently they're known for being the guys who are completely right about Star TrekWhich is more than can be said about the lasting impact the RE movies have had on anybody lmao
>>736405564>The general public just doesn't really have an opinion about these movies because they forget about them the second they walk out of the movie theatre, until they release the next one and think 'well, i guess theres nothing else right now so i might as well'.That's how Resident Evil has always worked. It's the Kingdom Hearts dynamic. People don't actually care about the Resident Evil games or have opinions on them. They play them, immediately forget about them, and buy the next one when it comes out. That's why the plot being utter nonsense isn't really a deal-breaker.It's also why the new films, assuming Zach Cregger's reboot makes enough money, is abandoning continuity and a continuity story in favor of a random anthology with no real connection between films.
The first movie is actually a really good action flick with some great scenes. The writing is dumb so is the writing in the games. https://youtu.be/W8B-4-xdqaA?si=F_r-MJCmfXVruu1M
>>736406069I think most people would say the first movie was pretty good for what it is. For some reason the schizo can't just leave it at that and thinks that the rest of the shitty slop is worth regarding
>>736406034The RE movies aren't really Hollywood films, though. Maybe the new one is. They were originally more independent German productions with a British director, then a south American director, then an Australian director. They have a very European vibe to them.>>736406043Aren't the new RE games pretty shameless copies of the movies? I guess it's a question of whether RE has any lasting impact.
>>736406141>I guess it's a question of whether RE has any lasting impact.jesus christ nigger, Capcom has been making money with the recent RE resurgence. You don't know shit about them yet autistically lambast them and cling onto some shitty side films that people don't even regard well.
>>736406117Extinction is better because Mulcahy actually knows how to director actors. I think the definitive ranking is probably:1 > 3 > 5 > 4 > 6 > 2In terms of pop culture impact, 5 and 6 are the most important. It's not an accident that the new Naked Gun sequel is based on 5 and 6. It's not an accident that Dead Island 2 is based on 5 and 6. It's not an accident that Requiem is so heavily based on 5, 6, and a little bit of 3. It's not an accident that the Fallout TV show is based on ideas from both 5 and 6. The later films began to get a lot more weird in interesting ways that left a strong impression on people.It's probably safe to say that RE: The Final Chapter is one of the most influential and important post-apocalyptic films. We're never going to be free of it. When even Game of Thrones is copying it, you know we crossed some kind of rubicon.
>>736406185Damn she’s got tard lips. Post an actual hot girl faggot, but you never do.
>>736406298>In terms of pop culture impact, 5 and 6 are the most important. It's not an accident that the new Naked Gun sequel is based on 5 and 6. It's not an accident that Dead Island 2 is based on 5 and 6. It's not an accident that Requiem is so heavily based on 5, 6, and a little bit of 3. It's not an accident that the Fallout TV show is based on ideas from both 5 and 6. The later films began to get a lot more weird in interesting ways that left a strong impression on people.>It's probably safe to say that RE: The Final Chapter is one of the most influential and important post-apocalyptic films. We're never going to be free of it. When even Game of Thrones is copying it, you know we crossed some kind of rubicon.I called you mentally ill before but admitting to some actual psychosis schizophrenic shit like this takes the cake
>>736406276>jesus christ nigger, Capcom has been making money with the recent RE resurgenceYea, Capcom has been making a huge amount of money by copying the films, which also made a huge amount of money. But is that really lasting impact? They've completely rewritten the games to mimic the story, characters, aesthetics, even music of the films. But does that really matter?It's a weird problem. Even Cregger's new RE film is (despite his bullshit claims otherwise) absolutely based on the later films where the director deliberately went in an A to B minimal exposition direction. The new RE is exactly the same kind of film as RE: Retribution and RE: The Final Chapter but a lot gorier. The core identity of RE is so deeply defined by those later films. It's like the opposite of Alien where the early films are the influential ones. Nah, not here.
>>736406406Naked Gun literally has Barry Burton's actor from Retribution and has a whole over the top fight scene parodying Alice kicking the pistol magazine at a zombie where Drebin kicks the magazine, it bounces back so he just keeps kicking the same magazine over and over.It also has a whole storyline about the bad guys building an underground city where they can ride out the apocalypse, mixing the fake environments of Retribution with the apocalyptic cult of The Final Chapter.Barry Burton's actor is also in the vampire film Abigail which is why it has notable similarities to the Resident Evil films with Abigail basically being a vampire version of the Red Queen. But of course it mixes inspirations. It's partially inspired by the games like RE: Village, too. It's a small world, you know.The part I don't get is why some RE game fans are really in denial of stuff that is so easy to verify. It's like they frantically don't want to believe that the RE films are absolutely huge.
>>736406406I accept your concession
>>736406298 You need a smoke because you just typed the most delusional cope in this entire thread.>Final Chapter is one of the most influential and important post-apocalyptic films Influential on what, exactly? Straight-to-Redbox lighting? 300 cuts per fight scene? Orange desert filter stock footage? No one on earth watched Final Chapter and thought “this is redefining the genre.” They watched it on a plane and forgot it before baggage claim.>Naked Gun is based on 5 and 6 You mean it references one goofy action trope? That’s called parodying generic 2010s action movies. RE didn’t invent underground bunkers or clone corridors. That’s been sci‑fi soap opera material since the 70s.>Fallout TV show is based on 5 and 6 Fallout has had vault cult shit since the literal 90s. You’re reverse-engineering connections because you can’t accept that the movies exist in a disposable action franchise bubble.The later films didn’t get “weird in influential ways,” they got louder and cheaper. The only lasting legacy Final Chapter has is being used as an example of seizure-inducing editing on YouTube video essays.I respect liking schlock, but trying to rewrite cinematic history around Paul W.S. Anderson like he crossed some cultural Rubicon is next-level cope.
>>736406679legit you probably should see someone for your schizophrenia, you've revolving everything around these couple of movies that nobody really gives a shit about and making your whole personality around them. You'd be insufferable to talk to IRL since you'd no doubt bring up how some completely unrelated media is actually a subtle nod to Alice and these movies.
>>736406406Anyone who tells that Dead Island 2's storyline -- about a weird facility run by an AI that builds underground environments with artificial skies as part of their scheme because they believe that the world is coming to an end no matter what anyone does and they have to act before that happens, creating a system where the worthy will be saved to ride out the apocalypse -- is not based on the later Resident Evil films is lying to you.
>>736406069That laser scene is literally the only cool part
>>736407065Read more books and watch more (older) movies
>>736407065I think it’s more likely that both are just very derivative
>>736406717I think pretending that TFC isn't an influential film is kind of a cope when Requiem has almost no plot points that aren't copied from it. I don't know if that came from Capcom or the guy they hired to write Requiem. But Requiem copies everything from The Final Chapter, Retribution, and Extinction. The characters, the set pieces, the dialogue sometimes.Resident Evil Requiem is the fastest selling RE game to date, and it rips off The Final Chapter more than any game before it. So what does that tell you about the film's legacy?Also, TFC was clearly an attempted Fallout adaptation. That's why they rewrote Umbrella into The Enclave. But the TV show version of this stuff is clearly retroactively informed by that film. Even the crater scene in the TV show is obviously based on that movie. The Final Chapter has a really weird idea about how nukes work that later projects have this habit of copying. A big hole in the ground with a ring of intact buildings around the hole. The Fallout TV show copying this image is because in between copying the "Corporate heads talk about whether it might be better to destroy the world first before anyone else can do it" scene, they were copying the aesthetics of the film.
>>736407065>The company that owns the rights to RE is called Constantin.>The Red Queen ripoff in Dead Island 2 is called Konstanin.Cute. Very cute.
>>736397565LOOOOOOOLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pk6rRUEseE
>>736407169I'm interested where you think Dambuster got the idea of a crazed techno-death cult run by an AI named after the company that makes the Resident Evil movies.
>>736407452Capcom really doesn't get enough credit for their motion capture and cutscene direction.
>>736407176The RE films are absolutely derivative. You can trace basically every scene in every RE film to something Anderson liked. From Beneath the Planet of the Apes to random Milla Jovovich photoshoots from the 90s. But this doesn't change the fact Dead Island 2 is very blatantly inspired by Retribution and The Final Chapter in the same way Resident Evil Requiem is.This is like someone trying to claim that I Am Legend was not inspired by Resident Evil: Apocalypse despite literally copying scenes from it, or that RE: Retribution was not inspired by I Am Legend despite literally reusing its digital Time Square set.It's like playing Dead Space and coping that it absolutely isn't inspired by Event Horizon. You play Doom 3, and the opening monologue is literally the one from Resident Evil with "Umbrella Corporation" changed to "United Aerospace Corporation" and some people will insist (because they're retards) that this is a complete coincidence.
>>736397979While far from perfect, Milas movies are at least better then that netflix garbage or that welcome to racoon city slop. I can't see how anyone would disagree with unless they're just being a disingenuous faggot
>>736407452It's amazing how much more aura Shawn Roberts has than DC Douglas.>You should have brought more.It's interesting how game fans will just blindly insist that the game version is better even though it's a bunch of floaty, goofy nonsense where Wesker refuses to shut up. The film version is better in every way. Better location, better music, better acting.Capcom have really struggled to capture the aura of film Wesker. They always make him too much of a cackling bad guy. Wesker works better as a subdued, smug, condescending prick. "Besides... I always knew you'd be drawn to your... friends. Loyalty. Highly overrated."
>>736407531>THE RE MOVIES OWN THE NAME CONSTANTINE
>>736407563Capcom's problem is they move the camera too much. This maybe works in a videogame, but a real life movie absolutely needs to remember that the camera occupies 3D space. You see the same problem in a lot of animated Japanese films like Advent Children. They're constantly moving the camera around in ways that are physically not possible instead of letting realistic camera movement dictate the flow of the scene.
>>736407856Not Constantine with an e. Constantin. The company that owns the film version of RE, including stuff like the Red Queen is Constantin. The AI dog (which glows red when it talks to people over TV screens), is named Konstantin (with a K).There's also the reveal in Dead Island 2 that everything that happened in the game, including you being infected was part of an elaborate scheme by the bad guys. This closely maps to the reveal in the later RE films that Alice was manufactured and everything she did, including failing to stop the virus being released, was part of the plan.
>>736407830>>736407934Your opinion literally doesn't matter because you utterly prove how low IQ you are for not only defending shitty schlock like it's the biggest symbol of quality but your own mental state is provably too deluded beyond reason and reality
re movies are literally some of the worst films ive ever seen. the games are kinda bad to great
>>736408091>>736407830Capcom loved that scene so much they stole Alice saying, "I'm not on the menu" and gave it to Leon in Requiem. They don't own these films, technically, but I fully expect Code Veronica remake Wesker to be a lot like this, and maybe even drop a bit of a "I always knew you'd be drawn to your brother" reference or something.
The visual design in the films is so amazing. I like the games, but wish they looked more like this.
It's funny how in Retribution (2nd to last movie if you forgot) the final boss was just Michelle Rodriguez from Fast and Furious. No crazy mutation or anything.
>>736407830Lol that dude sucks he looks like bad cosplay.there's no style and his movement are pathetic.
>>736408426The films were never into the extreme mutations. Cost too much. They originally wanted Wesker to mutate a bit in Afterlife's fight scene but decided against it.in Retribution, Rain injects herself with the plagas and becomes basically invincible. Originally she was meant to fall through the ice and then magically sink to the bottom. Jovovich read the script and told Paul this was retarded and didn't make sense. So Paul, completely on the fly, came up with the shot of her falling through the ice and being dragged down by the zombies. They didn't have enough stuntmen because this was an unplanned script change, so Jeremy Bolt had to get in zombie makeup, and he's one of the underwater zombies that gets kicked in the head.The frequency of Jovovich telling Anderson that his script didn't make sense and also continuity is important (he would frequently not really care about mid-scene continuity) is an interesting wrinkle. She fought very hard for the films to make sense while he was kinda just winging it.
>>736408539Sorry, but the Denise Cronenberg costumes in Afterlife are absolutely fantastic. And his movement is so much better than the goofy, cartoon videogame Wesker. What defines film Wesker is that he's never flustered. He's never in a hurry. He is in control, or thinks he is. So every movement is precise, controlled. This also ties into the theme of the film where he is back from the dead but he is constantly fighting the virus for control of his body. (Which is why he wants to eat Alice to "redress the balance".) So he cannot lose control. He has to move with absolute precision. They originally wanted a fight scene in The Final Chapter where he would finally lose control and attack Alice and they'd both die in the process, but they had to rework that due to budget.Anyway, the problem with game Wesker is that he lacks the calm sophistication of film Wesker. Film Wesker would never scream "CHRIIIIIIS!" He would simply smirk as he stands there in absolute torment and say something cool.Even when he's crushed by a door in The Final Chapter, Wesker never loses his cool. He is very pathetic, but in command of himself. Game Wesker talks way too much. Film Wesker talks very carefully, and only when necessary. So much cooler.
>>736408771>He would simply smirk as he stands there in absolute torment and say something cool.That's gay. You're gay and you have anime brainrot.
Reminder a stunt woman lost an arm during the making of Final Chapter due to negligence from the film crew.
>>736408967And another dude got crushed to death
>>736408967>>736409000lmao imagine dying for a shitty movie
>>736408891To be fair, the RE films do have a very gay mindset. Alice is a gay man's idea of a cool female protagonist. The guy who directed the third movie was also gay.
>>736409231I can admit Alice was a cool role model for young girls in the first 2 movies
>>736408967I heard that Paul WS Anderson tried to walk off The Final Chapter because he was fed up with everything, the cascading interference from Sony, and the stuntwoman being maimed was the last straw. They intimidated him into continuing the shoot, but it's why there's no full director's commentary or anything.
>>736409304>when Anderson heard about the stuntwoman, he chuckled before saying "Good".
>>736397979In case you're unaware let me be the bearer of bad news. Zoomers and tards are trying to push that the RE movies were good now, just like they did with the prequels.
all games are so badly written that even a shitty movie is (marginally) better
I hate that Sony pushed them to bring back the Red Queen for brand recognition. The Red Queen was completely fried in the first movie. They had originally intended to reveal that the "new" Red Queen was actually an avatar of Alicia Marcus (who was evil). But this was scrapped when Alicia Marcus was rewritten from a villain into a sympathetic character.
>>736406298>>736407369>>736407065LOOK SCHIZONIGGER, Paul Anderson aped plot points from the Resident Evil movies, specially the thing about simulation outbreak scenarios.Cope, seethe, and go back to /tv/ where you belong.
>>736408347all look like shit except for the last one
>>736411715>Paul Anderson aped plot points from the Resident Evil moviesFrom the resident evil novels**
what's the feeling when you're too tired to react to bait and just go whatever
>>736397565Why do you keep making this thread?
