They are making a new Resident Evil Live Action Theatrical Movie?!

[Agema]

So 2 & 3 are still his movies, he just was not in the director's chair this time. I use to have the first two, but sold them after realizing how boring they were.

Sort of. My general view is that the director has the ultimate creative responsibility, and the film is theirs. I know this is not always true in practice - some directors are thoroughly under the thumb of producers or even an actor. Given Anderson's grip on the series, there's every reason to think he may well have been exerting considerable creative control over the nominal director for those movies.

 

[Marter]

I'll say it: I liked most of the Resident Evil movies. But they seemed like poor adaptations (I've not played the games but they didn't feel like what I've seen of them). Hopefully this new one will be more accurate for the fans.

 

[Hawki]

I'll say it: I liked most of the Resident Evil movies. But they seemed like poor adaptations (I've not played the games but they didn't feel like what I've seen of them). Hopefully this new one will be more accurate for the fans.

I'm more amicable to the RE movies than most (except 5 - bleh) but they stop being adaptations after the second. After that, it's very much a case of "in name only."

 

[SilentPony]

The problem with Resident Evil as a story is that its a really bad story. The setting is great and good for action set pieces and spooky stuff, zombies, monsters, haunted mansions and spooky blood viruses? Sure!
But story?! Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, none of that. At least the first few RE movies were smart enough to realize the only parts of the IP worth taking were some of the names and the zombies, everything else was Hideo Kojima levels of trash.

 

[Samtemdo8]

The problem with Resident Evil as a story is that its a really bad story. The setting is great and good for action set pieces and spooky stuff, zombies, monsters, haunted mansions and spooky blood viruses? Sure!
But story?! Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, none of that. At least the first few RE movies were smart enough to realize the only parts of the IP worth taking were some of the names and the zombies, everything else was Hideo Kojima levels of trash.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh I don't see the comparison with Kojima.

 

[SilentPony]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh I don't see the comparison with Kojima.

Well in that they think the way to continue the story is just to keep adding increasingly magical stuff. First its a virus that reanimates corpses, makes animals big, and horribly mutates humans into weird giant humans. Then it turned into weird cult villages, ancient parasites, giant bugs, mind control, deep sea monsters, humans transforming into 30foot giant flies, Silent Hill monsters covered in a jungle gym's worth of metal, crazy immortal mad scientists and secret government organizations and then eventually just straight up magic powers, shape shifting vampires and giant ladies.
Similar to how metal gear started on cold war era spies and giant robots, then went into cyborgs, AI, super powers, mutants, time travel, alternate realities, plant people, to just straight up paranormal ghosts and psychics. Both started in science and mystery and then just ended up at ghosts and vampires.

 

[Mister Mumbler]

But still the one issue is how will this film trasition from Resident Evil 1 to Resident Evil 2 if its gonna be in one film?

That's easy; Claire Redfield. She's coming to Raccoon City to find Chris at the beginning of 2. Also, if they're doing 2, there's probably a good chance of 3 ending up in too as they both practically take place in the same location (IE, Raccoon City after shit hit the fan).

 

[Agema]

Well in that they think the way to continue the story is just to keep adding increasingly magical stuff.

It's an eternal problem across all media, that later iterations feel the need to up the ante with bigger opponents, bigger threats, bigger risks.

You think that threat to the world was serious, well here's a bigger one for season 2. And you thought that was terrifying, wait until you see the third in the trilogy! And in the sequel to that, you're going to find out they were all tiny reflections of the true Big Bad that's coming.

And everything mounts up to increasingly bombastic stupidity. Save the president becomes save the country becomes save the world becomes save the solar system becomes save the galaxy. Spaceships turn from cruisers that can blow each other up to battleships that can flatten worlds to titans that can destroy stars. Zombie dog becomes zombie human becomes zombie supersoldier becomes house-sized zombie mutant raccon monster. All it really achieves to make the consumer increasingly bored and numb.

 

[BrawlMan]

It's an eternal problem across all media, that later iterations feel the need to up the ante with bigger opponents, bigger threats, bigger risks.

You think that threat to the world was serious, well here's a bigger one for season 2. And you thought that was terrifying, wait until you see the third in the trilogy! And in the sequel to that, you're going to find out they were all tiny reflections of the true Big Bad that's coming.

And everything mounts up to increasingly bombastic stupidity. Save the president becomes save the country becomes save the world becomes save the solar system becomes save the galaxy. Spaceships turn from cruisers that can blow each other up to battleships that can flatten worlds to titans that can destroy stars. Zombie dog becomes zombie human becomes zombie supersoldier becomes house-sized zombie mutant raccon monster. All it really achieves to make the consumer increasingly bored and numb.

Also known as the DBZ power scaling effect. Even No More Heroes 3 suffer from this. In this upcoming game that comes out in August of this year, you'll be fighting aliens. Wasn't this series about fighting assassins and deconstructing about being number one? While the first game had some over the top moments, it was mostly grounded. The second game on the other hand, has some supernatural elements. You fight a ghost at one point and it is a genuine person that already died. Not to mention, Destroy Man comes back as two people. The second game goes full blown anime. With that said, you still see Travis develop as a character, and the second game still has serious moments. This character development goes even further if you bother to play Travis Strikes Again. The story is good, but there's a lot of gameplay issues would that one. I recommend you just watch on YouTube.

 

[Kae]

It's always been nothing but up for Resident Evil.

I have no idea what you're talking about as that is by far the finest acting I've ever seen.