I understand not liking it or not being excited about it, but it looks like RE VII mixed with some RE 2. Can't be any worse than most of the RE movies.
>>738047218Some RE games utilize T Virus monsters more than zombies.
>>738046285Gotta say, that Residence looks pretty Evil.
>>738046285People just want Leon to appear on screen and say "I'm Leon"
>>738046285It looks extremely Silent Hill, specifically SH3. It's probably the clothes. I can buy the XYZ-Virus mutating you into some fucked up abomination but I don't accept that you would have custom made dresses with four sleeves made for your new fucked up abomination body.
>>738046285Completely ignoring the IP I really enjoyed both Barbarian and Weapons so I see this being a meh at worst.
Barbarian was so bad I didnt even watch Weapons, this will probably be garbage too
>>738047826>I didnt even watch Weaponsweapons was actually good, barbarian was mid, just give it a shot
Why did they not bring back milla Jovovich? Or her daughter?
>>738047786>Completely ignoring the IPThat's every hollywood adaption and why they're shit.They're not making the movie for existing fans, they're making it for people like them.
>>738047861Her eldest daughter will be cast as Jill Valentine in a spin off that explains how she was sexually psychologically and physically tortured and modified by Albert Wesker
>>738047919People keep saying this but it's not true in the slightest. It's completely provably false. If they ignored the IP intentionally then there would be some good video game adaptations that are good movies but completely inaccurate to the source. But there aren't any, there are zero. Every video game adaptation that is good is good as well as accurate. The reason they're always bad is because they TRY and capture what people liked about the game but completely fucking fail cause they have no idea what makes them work. Besides you fucking moron I said I myself am ignoring the IP when forming my expectation not that the director is. Zach Cregger clearly wants this film to be comparable to the source.
>>738046285I liked it, but find the severe lack of Mila Jovovich disturbs me.
>>738047773It's two mutants merged together at the neck. One that was decapitated with a shotgun, one that was just shot.
>>738046285>it doesn't have to have anything in common with resident evil because the director just made weapons, okay?
>>738046285>Can't be any worse than most of the RE movies.The problem is everyone knows the RE movies stopped being about RE after 2. This is pretending to be the start of a new adaptation and its ignoring the main fucking part of the universe and instead its focusing on random bullshit that fits more with the evil within.If your start to an adaptation of a zombies franchise isnt focusing on the god damn zombies then its fucked from day 1.
>>738046285>Can't be any worse than most of the RE movies.The problem really boils down to this. The original six RE films perfectly capture the spirit of RE and also form the foundation for the modern games. So an RE adaptation that doesn't feel like these movies isn't going to feel like Resident Evil. What does Resident Evil look like? What does it sound like? What does it feel like? It feels like these films. By moving away from that, Zach Cregger is creating something that comes off very generic and doesn't feel connected to Resident Evil. All of the original RE films feel "Resident Evil" but sometimes they have an unfair advantage because the games changed to be like the films. Originally Extinction was a super hard swerve away from the films. But then RE5 came out and it's pretty similar in tone, so now Extinction retroactively feels RE-like. There's scenes in RE4 Remake that directly reference Extinction. The DNA runs really deep.Maybe in 10 years we'll get Resident Evil games that feel like the new Cregger movie. But at the moment the Cregger film feels very generic. It doesn't feel like it has a unique identity. It feels like RE wrapped in prestige elevated horror baggage. The reason the live action trailer for Requiem, Evil Always Had a Name feels like RE is because it's directly based on one of the RE films. That connective tissue is there. Here, it's like, what makes this Cregger film RE? You remove the names of the RE movies and they have the connective tissue of Alice and the evil Umbrella Corporation that seeks to control the human mind and the human soul. Here, and I've read the script, Umbrella is just some bumbling company run by morons who unleash a mutagenic substance that turns people into tentacle monsters.
>>738046285>>738047218>wants to adapt something>doesn't like the original and takes own radically different spin on it why not just adapt something similar to your vision then, like The Forest?
>>738048083Yeah, I misread your comment. Sue me, bitch.>Zach Cregger clearly wants this film to be comparable to the source.>by making it less about zombies and more about special infected with a single snippet straight from silent hillYeah sure.Also you're full of shit if you think they're trying to recapture the originals with no idea of it; it's people who already have a script and no one has watched their previous work or they can't get investors for this idea without slapping a big name onto it as insurance.>Every video game adaptation that is good is good as well as accuratewhat, two whole adaptions to date?Or do you think the super mario brothers movie was accurate.
>>738048525Play your first Resident Evil game you dumb tourist larper.
Explain to me what Resident Evil looks like because it's been radically different things for some time.
>>738048083The director is pretty much ignoring the IP. You can read the script online and everything in the trailer matches up with it. Not that it still cant be fine as its own thing but Zach is being very dishonest when saying it says true to the source material
>People make movies that utilize characters/environments from the games>They complete botch them every single time, butchering the original stories, missing the point of characters, and shoehorn in references 24/7 that brings the whole thing down>New movie coming out where it uses the same world/events, but keeps it away from what already exists so that it's limited in how much it can screw up>Comes up with new mutations of the viruses which has been shown to do absolutely wild stuff in canon >People online see a shot where some arms/legs are coming out of a doorway, probably implying there's some merged together zombie which falls in line with some of the stuff the viruses can do, or a fat looking zombie which is basically just something you saw in RE6>People flip out and say it's nothing like RE and are mad it's not telling a story directly from the gamesI genuinely don't understand the outrage. I don't think it's going to be particularly good considering the track record of RE films, but purposefully avoiding messing up canon events/characters, focusing on wild virus mutations, and still using the same world/general idea of zombies and mutants seems fine? I hate to be the kind of person that says, "Well it's not even out yet," but people saw a teaser of what one or two monsters look like and are ready to say that the entire project is going against what RE is about. Seems like people just want controversy and anger for the sake of it. Be upset when we get another black Wesker or some Mary Sue like Alice dual-wielding machine guns in 3D.
fat guy is full of rats and main protagonist turns into a BOW at the end
>>738046285I liked weapons and nothing can be worse than the previous re movies so I'll at least give it a shot.idk if it'll be good but at least they're trying to do something with it.
>>738046285I doubt Capcom cares if it resembles the games or not, just look at the MH movie.As long as someone paid plenty of money to use their brand they will be happy and the people making the movie might shit anything and it is sure to make money cuz the brand is massively popular, even if they just hate watch it.
>>738048658The script is out. All of the things you are saying have no basis. If this was a side story like Outbreak which still honored the events of the canon games nobody would complain. The script will reveal to you this is a movie they slapped the Resident Evil name on to retain the rights.
>>738048483I also feel that Cregger badly misunderstands the roles of doors in RE. The doorway isn't scary. It's what's behind the door. His version of RE is all about being pitch black. But this just makes it feel cheap and generic. Most of the RE games take place in reasonably well lit locations. This is a dynamic the movies understood. Cregger is IMO prioritizing generic horror tropes over the somewhat odder dynamics of the games where they aren't really that scary for the most part. The scares come not from pitch black rooms but rather the feeling of being trapped.Cregger seems to be a major fan of the games, but it sorta feels like he never fully digested what RE is about stylistically. He just transplants Evil Dead over RE. In his mind, if he makes a film that's like a modern Evil Dead film, it will be a good RE film. And maybe there's truth there, but the RE games are not quite like Evil Dead. They pull inspiration from it. But they are bombastic and over the top and have elements of superhero comic books to them.
The end of Weapons was so fucking funny. I've never seen a spooky movie shift tone so significantly for the final 3 minutes lmao
>>738048395>the trailer didnt have a bunch nostalgia bait shit for me to go "omg I know that thing from the game!!!" So its gonna be bad
>>738048737I guess we'll see then if it sticks to the script that you're referring to. So long as they make a movie where Umbrella made bioweapons and zombies that go around killing people, and don't suddenly make, again, black Wesker or Mary Sue shit like Alice, they're already on track compared to past movies.
>>738048574I've played all of them but the Zombie master clone and 3DS titles, faggot. Can't say I remember any game with the human centipede of hospital patients and a solitary focus on specials.
>>738047218That makes some sense to me. When people always talk about iconic RE enemies from the old games it's always Lickers, Hunters, Nemesis, Tyrants, Birkin. Chimeras are my favorite but they don't get much love. Zombies and the giant animal enemies are just kind of background noise.
>>738048658>>They complete botch them every single time, butchering the original stories, missing the point of characters, and shoehorn in references 24/7 that brings the whole thing downI'm confused by this. I recently rewatched the movies, and their versions of the characters from the games are all much better written than the game versions. I'm not clear on what people are actually whining about.
>>738048835Hence the larper part of my post.
>>738047861Because she's shit
>>738048868Oh, must have been in revelations then.My bad, I love slop.
>>738048737You know, it could be argued the same thing about a bunch of RE games. RE7 and RE8 could've easily been totally separate from the series if you removed a few Umbrella symbols and replaced Chris with some random special agent. I'm really not sure how you make something that has "enough" RE in it to justify the name. Other than being a horror series about monsters created by pharmaceutical companies that you have to survive, RE is kind of a broad thing.
>>738048835I like how you focus on hyper specific details instead of the broader general concepts as if every single fucking Resident Evil game ever doesn't introduce new mutants which by your mind numbingly stupid logic would place them as "not Resident Evil" because they haven't been seen before.
>>738047586>>738048850Those things will not be in this film.
>>738048850There's no BOWs in the movie. All of the "T-Virus mutants" (which the horrific body multiplication stuff is more G-Virus territory anyway) in the movie are all just zombies that have tentacles and fuse themselves together. Dude is a master larper
>>738048858Which movies exactly? All of the Alice ones went around killing off big characters randomly, turning some of them into any other action hero, or completely changing their stories up to fit with the canon they have. Then you have something like the Netflix show or whatever it was that made Lance Reddick Wesker despite not being Wesker, but also kind of Wesker?RE characters aren't exactly winning any awards with their writing, but I don't particularly feel any of the films did a good job with the material.
woahwoa the RCPD *starts cumming uncontrollably*
>>738047861Jovovich returning is being kept as a "break glass in case of franchise collapse" option. As for her daughter, Anderson doesn't like that kind of open nepotism. I'm actually very interested to see how The House of the Dead turns out. Starring Isabela Moner. Was meant to shoot pretty soon, but Moner is doing TLOU Season 3 in a month, I think, so maybe they'll film House of the Dead later in the year.
>>738049040It's genuinely impressive how confidently wrong you are.
>>738049207The script is online for you to read. There are no BOWs in the movie.
>>738048950>I like how you focus on hyper specific detailspot calling the kettle black.You get a single game with the objective of wandering through some floridians home and now RE doesn't need zombies or zombie adjacent enemies anymore, it can become like every other horror IP.>>738049040>>738049207Do either of you have a source to back up your claims?
>>738046285The fuck is this? They're doing a new game already?>>738047218Oh.>>>/tv/ is that way faggots.
>>738049241They're literally zombies you shitposting tourist. Fucking kill yourself.
>>738049278Bot or mentally ill, which is it?
>>738049065>All of the Alice ones went around killing off big characters randomly, turning some of them into any other action hero, or completely changing their stories up to fit with the canon they have.What are you talking about? One of the problems with the RE films for better or worse is that they have to paint within the lines of the storylines. It's why Alice was created in the first place, among other reasons. Anderson told Jovovich, who wanted to play Jill, that if she played Jill, the character's backstory and personality and so on would be beholden to Capcom's whims. So Alice was created.Movie Carlos is much better. Movie Claire is hugely better. Movie Jill is better. Movie Birkin is better (renamed Isaacs). Movie Wesker absolutely mogs the game version.
>>738046285Guys. Stop thinking Hollywood gives a fuck about accuracy about video games. They still think they're crap media only meant to be "cinema" once someone comes in and fucks with it beyond recognition with their own shitty ideas. It's the only medium they openly say that they have no respect for, like the Halo TV showrunners said. Here's a direct quote from the director of the Resident Evil movie: "I think some of the fans are only going to be happy if I tell the story of the games. And I'm not doing that."It's like making a "Great Gatsby" movie adaptation and having it all take place two states over about a paper boy trying to win back his love.
>>738048940RE7 and RE8 (RE8 went Code Veronica territory for me where its stretching it a bit too far) are all their own stories later in the timeline divorced from the Raccoon City incident. If the director was honest about this being his own alternate take instead of running concurrent to the canon people wouldn't care as much. When the press junket is nothing but clickbait that it takes place during the games when the script and trailer itself have tons of contradicting elements, it definitely reeks of we've been through this same song and dance before
>>738049381>Movie Carlos is much better. Movie Claire is hugely better. Movie Jill is better. Movie Birkin is better (renamed Isaacs). Movie Wesker absolutely mogs the game version.kek its the Anderson movie schizo again I was wondering when you'd crawl out of your hole
>>738046285Ethan but in Raccoon city: The movie is doin it for me honestly
>>738049207They're not BOWs in the sense of being manufactured weapons. Nemesis is a BOW. Alice is a BOW. They were made by Umbrella to be weapons they could sell. The monsters in this movie are a complete accident involving a substance that causes rapid evolution. That may have changed in the final script to be completely fair. But this movie's version of Umbrella seems to just be an idiotic drug company. They're not OCP like in the movies or a blatantly Japanese multinational like in the games.
>>738049241The script leaked months ago. It's on scribd
Americans ruin everything from Japan
>>738049448Capcom do seem to agree that movie Jill is better since they've rewritten game Jill into a fuck fucking fuckity fuck knockoff of movie Jill.
>>738049489There's an exception. Still the best in the entire IP
>a resident evil adaptation is gonna be badStop the fucking presses. I've regrettably consumed pretty much every piece of RE media out there, from the live action movies to the CG shows to the OVAs to the novels, and not a single one of them is good. I dont see whats surprising about this one being bad too
weapons and barbarian were great and aclaimed. he could have made ANY original movie he wanted. instead he went for an established ip project that has nothing whatsoever to do with the ip itself. what the fuck is wrong with this retard?
>>738049572>weapons and barbarian were great
>>738049072
>>738049516God nujill is so awful. I'm not even a vothfag but its such a downgrade. Its sad thinking that if we ever get another Jill game its just gonna be nujill again.
>>738049468Almost everything in the trailer lines up perfectly with the screenplay, except for the scene where he calls his girlfriend on the landline phone. There was also some on set footage leaked awhile back that showed a character being chased by pretty mundane fast zombies when the scene in the screenplay described them as more fucked up Cronenberg mutants. So some small things here and there may have changed.
>>738047218Ok but why Mr.X is so fat? Just get a roided bodybuilder and paint him grey
any good horror movies in the last 5 years?
>>738049468Which just shows the director doesn't give a fuck about the series at all and is just pretending.First, the Arklay outbreak happens in the summer.Outside of the infectious viruses, most RE creatures are manmade in laboratories.So if you wanna make a movie set in the RE universe but with a unique story, you need to be set in a forest during the summer and outside of the zombies, the creatures need to look like they escaped from a laboratory even though the MC is in the middle of nowhere.
i just remembered the netflix resident evil show LOL
>>738050128why do you care about the lore? not even capcom does.
>>738048850>Chimeras are my favorite but they don't get much love.They look very spooky in the original, but look cartoony in the Remake.
>>738047218I thought the fat guy was Baron Harkonnen from the Dunc movie when I first saw it.
>>738050175They're also not in either game long enough to make a lasting impression
>>738046285>Twitter niggers posting that doodoo feces Welcome to Raccoon City as the ''faithful adaptation'' and ''let bro cook'' I dont know why Jewwood cant just adapt RE with the actual main cast instead of shitty OCs. I dont think it will be bad just a mid movie with RE in the name
>>738049997Because it's not mr. X
>>738048619Well for starters what you posted is mold related, not t-virus related
>>738050128Holy fuck you are retarded.
>>738049572>weapons and barbarian were great and aclaimed. he could have made ANY original movie he wanted.So it's actually a little more complex. Shay Hatten was hired two write some spec scripts. He wrote a Clue movie and he wrote a Resident Evil movie. Sony flip-flopped on whether they wanted Cregger to do Clue or Resident Evil. They eventually decided that his asking fee was too high for Clue, and that since RE was a proven box office force that was safer.Cregger is constantly talking about this as "his" Resident Evil movie, but the underlying script is Hatten's, and they have to legally acknowledge that. At good 50% of this movie is written by Hatten and then the other half is Cregger rewrites. Now granted, the first RE film is clearly based in part on the Romero and McElroy Resident Evil scripts. But not so much that they had to be credited.Cregger's involvement in this film is weird because it's being framed as this bold auteur thing but it's actually a rather corporate kind of film written by the guy behind Rebel Moon, Army of the Dead, and Ballerina.
>>738050250It's cute seeing the behind-the-scenes of that Ada actor smiling
gonna be a fun movie, the first decent re adaptation>>738048483oh hey it's that retard with bad taste again
>>738048756yeah nohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns2gRWhoE2Y
>>738050383Why are you defending the movie, anyway? The RE fanbase does not care much about it if Leon and quippy lines like "where is everyone going? Bingo?“ or "Jill sandwich” are not even included in it.
why even bother with a resident evil movie in 2026?literally what are you bringing to the table that I can't get out of other zombie movies or the remakes of re2, 3, and 4?
>>738050128Nah, Cregger is absolutely a fan of the games. But his vision for RE is very much about reinventing it for a more prestige elevated horror formula. A lot of the decisions made here are the same kind of decisions made in air quotes "A24" movies.Cregger's biggest mistake is mouthing off about "canon" and stuff in a way that gave people the impression that his film was like WTRC but set across town was a weirdly self-sabotaging movie.Cregger's biggest mistake was trying to position his film as different to the Anderson films. Instead of just saying, "I'm trying to bring a fresh vision to RE" he kept talking about the games, the games, the games. But this vision of RE is less like the games than anything before it. Just be honest about that, Zach.
Actual RE lore question since I'm unsure.Does the t-virus do anything but create regular zombies on its own, which may turn into crimsonheads? Were lickers the next step in the zombie evolution? Zombie > crimsonhead > licker?Outside of this, the t-virus didn't do much without human control. The "monsters", the giant animal monsters like the spider, snake, crocodile were created in a lab, correct?The g-virus was what was used in an attempt to force human evolution and was actually making big mutations (see: birkin). But it never just turned zombies into tentacle monsters or had the capabilities of fusing different monsters together like it's the thing, correct?Outside of those viruses, it's all parasites and mold, right?
>>738048525>it's people who already have a script and no one has watched their previous work or they can't get investors for this idea without slapping a big name onto it as insuranceWarner paid him $10M upfront to get his second movie, one of the craziest Hollywood director bidding wars in recent years. Weapons was overrated but you have no idea what you're talking about.
>>738049551Ninja Theory are british. The game fucking sucked like everything else they ever made and will make.
>>738050380That’s an utterly pedantic gotcha because 1 - no one asks specifically for T virus, th question was “what does RE look like” 2 - that’s not literally a mild mutant, it’s a hallucination, and could have look like anything within the fusion as long as it was scary and dangerous to Ethan 3 - the T virus and all other viruses have and will do literally anything the artists and game designs think looks cool in the moment. Drawing lines about RE canon of all things in a conversation about adapting the spirit of the games is retarded.
>>738048627I don't think he realizes he's being dishonest is the thingMovie people have extremely weird conceptualizations of "true to the source material"Like if you listen to interviews with Christophe Gans he genuinely thought he was making a faithful Silent Hill 2 movie because "that's how he interpreted the game"This movie might genuinely be how Zach Cregger perceives the games based on hazy memories of playing them on his PlayStation as a kid or something
>>738050967I spilled water on my keyboard and autocorrect stroked out but hopefully my cogent points are clear through the textual retardation
>>738051002If a movie was only striving to be 1:1 with its source material, in this case an already audiovisual medium, then it doesn’t deserve to exist at all. Last of us is literally just the game but longer, it serve no point. Movie adaptations should change things to better fascilitate the strengths of the new writer and new medium.
what do you expect brothey hated 7 cause the mold creatures werent zombies like in their old ps1 gamethese are the same people that say their favorite game is resident evil 1 yet they get confused as fucj and stop playing the game 2 hours in due to inventory management
>>738050967>1the movie is literally about the t-virus outbreak>2true, it indeed was a hallucination and not a mold creature>3>bro who cares just make up whatever nothing matters lolalso factually wrong, it has always been about engineered bio weapons, the t-virus outbreak was an accident and it was just normal zombies, not bio weapons on it's own
I found out George Romero couldve done a RE movie if Capcom didnt reject it, yet somehow they were sold on the Mila Chokeoutabitch slop and Kikeflix
>>738050804From what I remember, no, with the t-virus the goal was to create something that could spread wildly and tear apart an area without thought or need for control. You basically throw the virus out there in some format, and watch as a nation tears itself apart.As for the g-virus, it's a bit unclear. Based on what happens to Birkin, the g-virus is capable of mutating someone into a form that more or less creates matter. If you look at Birkin's final form on the train, it can seemingly grow to an endless degree with tentacles, teeth, and more. With how wild the g-virus can get and how the t-virus can spread/actively mutate life (animals, zombies into crimson heads, etc), it's genuinely not a stretch to think it could fuse some zombies together into a mass of flesh if they maybe mutated in close vicinity. Besides that, other viruses absolutely mashed things together or made tentacles. See what Nemesis put on zombies in RE3 Remake, what Simmons turns into during his final phase where he pulls zombies into himself and merges them, things like that.I'm not sure about an exact example of the t or g-virus creating some amalgamation or something with a bunch of tentacles, but it's really not hard to imagine at all based on the insanity you see in the games. Other than those, yes, it's mostly parasites and fungal infections/viruses.
>>738050804The very original lore T-virus, the one from RE1 written by Kenichi Iwao, the T-virus caused modifications to the DNA depending on the host's compatibility, a fully compatible host turns into the T-002 seen at the end of the game. There were different strains to modify the DNA and create things like the Hunters.
>>738051127>the movie is literally about the t-virus outbreakNo it's not. It's never specified exactly what caused it but it happened just 2 hours ago.
>>738051191The G-virus is very 1980s sci-fi movie type virus. In the remake, the G-babies literally built a hive inside the sewers and were absorbing organic matters and reproducing at an exponential rate, in fact I don't even know how their super colony didn't show up in RE9, because they would definitely survive the strike.
>>738051345it literally takes place during the racoon city t-virus outbreak
>>738050834This specific person, maybe, but every other series is exactly what I laid out.
>>738051410Not according to the script it doesn't. It's also set in the present day, not 1998.
>>738051451but raccoon city has been a wasteland since 1998
>>738051109The problem is that the movie just looks like a generic zombie movie set in generic town. I'm completely happy in a movie not having classic characters, but the new character still has to interact with the Resident Evil universe, otherwise it's just using the franchise's name
>>738051191In the concept art Birkin's last form is full of other shit he's absorbed. You can see arms and licker claws sticking out all over the place.
>>738046285>>738047218if you want to be mr cool art guy then it should be about Lisa Trevor
Cregger said it won't be like Weapons or Barbarian, but more like Evil Dead 2. Evil Dead 2 is a comedy. Can a comedy-horror RE movie work? I don't mean unintentional comedy like the Paul WS Anderson films.
>>738051554Ah okay, didn't realize that and I didn't want to say since I wasn't sure. The g-virus then for sure absorbs shit into itself in an ever-growing mass of gore. So I could easily see a couple of zombies getting stuck together as a result of some virus shenanigans.
>>738051598no it should be a drama about the Trevors, not sure RE fans or normies would like it but it would be the best film
>>738051109Nah, fuck off you pretentious twat. A 1:1 from a game to a movie is fine because while they are both audio visual mediums they differ in aspects of interactivity, pacing, and length. Also, making it 1:1 still requires adjustments for pacing and opens the story and setting up to people who don't play video games so they can both develop an appreciation for a different medium and broaden the over all public's shared culture.
>>738051613It's pretty gnarly looking. I guess the Playstation couldn't really do something that complicated so it just looks like a big blob.
>>738051554uh proofs?id be more willing to believe that birkin grew those limbs, since that's what the g-virus does, it grows, quite uncontrollably at that. just look at its final forms in the various games where you come across it
>>738051827Uh, bro, G-virus is RE2 only. RE1-3 didn't have exponential mass growth out of nowhere. The T-002 took a while to mutate to that size, Birkin absorbed a bunch of mass from zombies laying around, Nemesis also absorbed the Tyrant that was destroyed nearby to gain mass. It was only the later sequels that they go completely crazy with massive mutations from thin air.
You wanna know why this RE film "doesn't feel like RE"? The root reason? It's because Cregger doesn't actually understand Resident Evil. His understand of RE is entirely surface level vibes. Anderson was different. He tried to distill the core ideas of Resident Evil into something. He tried to use zombies as an allegory for the individual fighting to remain the individual in a corporate system. This idea of losing yourself in a sea of slaves is a recurring theme, and it's an explicit takeaway from the games. Anderson played the games over and over and the thing he took away was that the Umbrella Corporation's evil lay in their dehumanization and their desregard for the individual. And that the heroes of RE are staunch individualists. The villains want everyone else to be like them. This does lean way more towards RoboCop, to be fair. But it's a really decent assessment of the thematic core of Resident Evil, and it's why the Anderson films feel like Resident Evil despite being brutalist instead of gothic.Zach Cregger has none of this. He has not said a single thing in any interview that gives the impression that he understands anything about the themes of Resident Evil and how these themes interact with the gameplay of the games. Cregger is talented, but he is incredibly superficial, and this film is showing all his worst weaknesses. He can't hide his weak, sauceless writing behind a non-linear story structure. He can't use evasion and vibes to hide the fact his film has nothing to say.
>>738052018he's not even wrong but he doesnt have the balls to shit on the pharmaceutical industry. I mean RE6 is about a virus released in Wuhan and RE3 Remake starts with this for fucks sake:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Qj6DArQOU
>>738051598There's a lot of gross-out gore humor and it's quite mean spirited, in a way that will definitely annoy/anger/filter some people, I mean Raimi's latest movie was top tier in the way it was both heavy-handed and nuanced and it flew over most people's heads, modern audiences are extremely dumb. It's designed as a one-off so the ending is funny and ballsy. If you've seen his previous two movies, comedy skits, and glanced at the script it's easy to see what kind of tone it's going for. It's not structured around vignettes like the other two but the character writing (protags can be unapologetic selfish assholes, a lot of dry comedy and satirical undertones in dialogues) and love for "wtf" shock value twists feel similar. I guess the ED2 comparisons is all the obstacles and monsters protag finds on his way are weird and unexpected, an escalation of nasty set pieces. I can see comparisons to Drag Me To Hell with the sort of horror it's going for, where you're not sure if you want the protag to survive or if you're taking delight in their torment, and the way someone like Raimi twists the meta of serious horror to make it comedic but still full of dread. It's not a movie about a hero trying to save other people.
>>738050498Barbarian is interesting because it's an example of how Cregger really doesn't get RE. His vision of RE is what people online think RE is like.
>>738052018Anderson doesn't even understand cinema
>>738047218Ah, yes. T virus, the one who makes you fuse with other losers and/or makes you fat, old classic T virus
>>738048850What? Do you also think a Left 4 Dead adaptation would also make sense WITHOUT zombies because people only remember the special infected?
>>738051530It doesn't take place within the games' canon. It's a new universe where the RC Incident happens in the modern day.
>>738052018Resident Evil is literally about scientists trying to play God, in the movie a scientist literally slips on a banana and leaks the virus
>>738052378Honestly, this movie looks way more like an adaptation of Left 4 Dead than Resident Evil
>>738048850classic RE template is: zombies in a comfy setting, worse shit happens in tunnels and dirty areas, worse shit happens when you find the secret superlab
unironically where do you start with these games? just the remake of the first one?
>>738052584the first one ya dumbo
>>738051451It is simply not possible for scripts to change
>>738047218that's the woman from Evil Within
>>738052284He was really into George Lucas and his takeaway from Star Wars was that movies need to try pushing the boundaries of how many cuts per second audiences can handle. Information overload. How much can humans take before it becomes a problem?
why does /v/ enjoy being on the losing side of the culture war?
>>738052646The trailer matches the script almost beat for beat. Some things have changed, but overall very little.
>>738052748what culture war? RE movies have flopped for two decades, they just did a Netflix show with a black Wesker that no one watched like 5 years ago
>>738052584Anywhere is fine.>can you stomach fixed camera game? 1 Remake>you can't?2 Remake, 4 Original/Remake, 7Choose whichever looks neatest to youThat would be my recommendation. You can't really go wrong with any of them. Only real direct sequel is 7 > 8. 9 goes hard on calling back to things from previous games, so keep that for last. 1 2 3 take place during the same event, but aren't directly connected in a sequel way.
>>738050834Weapons was phenomenal. It was rated pretty accurately. Calling it overrated is just a subconscious response you picked up by being on 4chan too much and it makes you feel like you fit in because the other zoomers don't like seeing things get praised.
>>738052801RE movies only started flopping after Anderson and Jovovich left. Granted, the franchise was in decline by The Final Chapter, but the last three RE films made 300, 240, and 312 million respectively on budgets of 60, 65, and 40 million.
>>738046285Las plagues story sounds good desu people crying it doesn’t have zombies as if 4 5 6 7 8 had zombies lol the movie is clearly like outbreak
>>738052983ok I didnt know they did that well and I know both of them are actual RE Fans but they didnt do the series justice
>>738052983I still want the director's cut of Retribution.
>>738052983It never made sense to me why the movies did so well at the box office, they just kept getting crazier and crazier, the first one was an ok adaptation, Apocalypse is almost a complete RE3 adaption, then it just goes off the rails
>>738052926What did you find phenomenal about it? It blows its load too early with the Gladys reveal, not a particularly compelling central figure then it becomes predictable and lacks memorable scenes or inspired filmmaking to elevate it. It's entirely carried by the premise mysterybox and POV shift vignette gimmick structure, with a lot of pointless randomness. It's less focused, less horrific and comedic than Barbarian, which did more with less. Enjoyable but felt toothless. RE being single POV is a good thing.
>>738049997That's Mr.XXL
