Resident Evil (Films)

[Gooble]

Just finished watching the RE films through again, and wondered whether other people agree with me:

1. The first film was great, and easily the best of the three, as the first in most film series are

2. I didn't really care about any of the characters, apart from Alice to an extent, and Matt in the first film. And LJ was quite cool. But apart from them, I really just didn't give a crap if people lived or died. I wish they'd developed the characters more.

3. The direction they took could have been done better. It was innovative to take the whole zombie genre onto a larger scale, but it seemed to take the horror element out of it, which is why I enjoyed it in the first place.

Dont get me wrong, I did quite enjoy the films, but they just seemed to be missing something.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

i liked the movies a lot, probly one of the best video game to movie translations there is

first one was brilliant and well done
second one was cool cause i got to see them blow up city hall in toronto and i got to play "where in toronto and hamilton is that?" and i got to see how well they danced around showing the csis building in the shots of racoon city from the air
third one i didn't like as much, it was good but definitely could have used more zombies and such

a friend lives in hamilton and was around there when they were making the second one so ran amok around racoon city, said it freaked him out a bit but then knew what was going on and was like "this is so cool"

 

[Spinwhiz]

I saw the movies and really thought all of them were "okay". I will admit for a movie based on a video game they are probably the best out there, but when you are in the gutter, even the sidewalk is a step up.

I will also give them credit for trying to include game specific monsters, weapons, characters, etc etc. There is another one coming out supposedly that will finish the series but as the story has gone on, the whole mental/tk thing kind of turned me off. Humans against zombies would have been good enough for me.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

I thought the first one was really good at "fitting around" the videogame universe, it didn't change to much and amusingly referenced the videogames in several places.

I HATED the second one, a bad rip off of RE's 2 and 3 with stupidity.

I haven't even bothered with the third, maybe when I'm feeling masochistic.

 

[Sgt. Gunlock]

I'v only seen the first one and it was alright no Shuan of the dead (Witch I love No suprise there)

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

I saw RE:Extinction on the weekend and I hated it. Let's just say they give Alice an ability that is so non-RE canon and played out in other movies that I almost threw the remote at the screen. There was only one good part in it and that was a throwback to the first movie, which incidentally I liked quite a lot.

My problem with the RE movies has always been this, they just pick and choose stuff from the RE games and throw them in wherever they feel fit. Nemesis and Jill Valentine were pulled straight from the third game and transplanted in the second movie, but at least that kind of worked. In Extinction it's like "here's Claire Redfield for no particular reason". Maybe it was just a lame attempt to try and placate RE fans like me.

 

[exocel]

1: total crap in my opinion, aside from zombies the final bad guy was a single licker!?!
2: not bad popcorn flick, but more fan-service than an actual movie.
3: my favorite of the series, it might be because it didn't try to imitate a game for once and it was more a "what if umbrella won?" type deal, as a stand alone movie its the most entertaining and it just relied less on pleasing the fans and more on telling a story using the resi mythos as a foundation.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

3: my favorite of the series, it might be because it didn't try to imitate a game for once and it was more a "what if umbrella won?" type deal, as a stand alone movie its the most entertaining and it just relied less on pleasing the fans and more on telling a story using the resi mythos as a foundation.

That's a fair call and definately why I didn't like it; I couldn't divorce it from the games of the same name which I love. If it was a standalone movie I would have been more forgiving. It feels like it suffers from what I like to call "Hellraiser: Deader syndrome" where the script was written as a totally unrelated standalone movie and then someone decided to it needed a bit more oomph and weaved it into an established franchise.

 

[Morderkaine]

Mila is just hot, and there is enough nude or close to parts of it that will keep me watching, buts its no longer resident evil, its a new random zombie series that just took the name. Fun movies, but not as great as I hoped.

 

[PurpleRain]

1st one: Not good.
2nd movie: Very crap with a cherry carved from crap on top.
3rd: Well, the first two are enough to put me off.

 

[jockslap]

i found all three to be very good, amazing even, cuz i dont see alot of good movies, but this series a)translated the game very well(estinction aside) b)the whole psychic thing just pissed me off! i mean at what the f*#* were they thinking when they hired the bum who came up with that one c)not enough chuck norris, it would have been cool to see chuck make like a cameo appearance and like kick one zombie face in, yknow what i mean?

 

[Logan Westbrook]

1st one: Not good.
2nd movie: Very crap with a cherry carved from crap on top.
3rd: Well, the first two are enough to put me off.

My exact feelings sir!

On a side note, am I the only one that wished Milla Jovovich would keep her top on?

 

[poleboy]

The first one was a nice little zombie flick with a few video game references. Not bad, but nothing special either. I'm still amazed how little sense the second one made, seeing as I've played most of the games in the series.
All I recall is Mila beating the hell out of everything with two batons. Apparently they called it a day after shooting the fighting scenes and just threw in random footage of the actors reading from the "manuscript".
I don't plan on seeing the third one. It can only be painful watching them try and salvage the plot from the charred remains of the second movie.
I gotta say, I prefer Mila being an element and not speaking.

 

[Drong]

The first film I actually really liked, especially the laser grid watermelon sequence, that was fucking sweet.

The fight scenes in the second were terrible, kept zooming into inches away to hide the fact that "she know no kung-fu" seriously they looked like they were choreographed by Steven Hawkins or something.

The fight scenes in the third were much better but the story was pretty weak, still it kept me entertained I just hoped for so much more.

 

[tobyornottoby]

I didn't liked the first one but I did like the second for some reason

prolly because the first was in something underground and the second was in the big city ^^; and I liked the divesity of characters some more (meh that all the special forces from the first group got killed)

2: not bad popcorn flick, but more fan-service than an actual movie.

maybe that's why I liked it ^^;

yeah they're nothing special but at least better than other game-to-films. although it's a shame they focused more on high-tech stuff and superpowers than on zombies.

haven't seen the third one yet!

and I thought capcom came with their own CG resident evil starring at least Leon? ^^

 

[crusha_aa]

I though the first one was alright at best.
Second had to be one of the worst films i have ever seen.
Havent seen (or have any desire to see) the third.

 

[Rob Sharona]

I thought the whole series was absolutely crap.

For movie game films, at a push I would recommend Silent Hill, but it would have to be a very hard push.

Why can't people enjoy good films instead? Like The Shining? Or Clockwork Orange? Or sticking with zombies, how about 28 Days Later, or the original Dawn of the Dead? It amazes me how many gamers have a terrible taste in films.

 

[ZenMonkey47]

The whole series seemed like a multi-million dollar Mary-Sue fan fiction.

"The story's about MY original character who can do acrobatic kung fu in a cocktail dress, is a master of every weapon ever made by man or god, and can shoot kamehame-ha's with her mind. And oh yeah, it's set in the Resident Evil universe."

 

[Pebble_Raven]

The movies, or at least 1 and 3 -2 can go off a cliff for all I can care- were pretty good in their own rights. 1 was a good horror flick with iffy special effects and even more iffy acting and Milia Jovovitch getting naked as is mandatory in her films, and 3 was an interesting take on zombie movies, but it had as little to do with the first two movies as it did with the actual game series, which is my point here. The movies were based only extremely loosely on the games, and seeing as the Resident Evil plot was pretty minimalist to start with, veering away from that irradicates any relation whatsoever. Anyways. The series was good, but there seemed to be no real point in having it be Resident Evil except that it allowed the pointless cameos of certain characters to have a little more impact on the viewers.

 

[rebelrey7248]

What I loved about the games was that they had at some point in the game, an "OH SHIT!" moment, where you'd jump out of your seat due to being actually somewhat scared. The first time in Resident Evil, where you're walking down the hallway and the dogs pop through the windows, you can't deny that your heart skipped a few beats, and you were scared.

That being said, the movies all lacked that. However, I do agree that they are fairly well done video game to movie adaptions. The first one was true to the original game: Stuck in a huge maze with a bajillion zombies, fighting your way out. The second one followed Res Evil 2 and 3 with the "city under siege" theme, up til the end, where it just got all wonky. The third movie kinda killed the series for me, since the entire population of the world has been turned into zombies, except for the protagonists and the creepy Umbrella guys, living in bunkers, buried beneath the Earth.

The most important lesson learned from Res Evil: Extinction was that no matter what the circumstances, be it rain, snow, or zombie infestation, the U.S. Postal Service will still deliver a package from Alaska to some po-dunk gas station in the middle of the desert.