Horror ‘Resident Evil’ | Netflix Series

[Teelie]

That did not impress me either.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

There is no buzz at all about this show. Not getting good vibes.

 

[TheVileOne]

Meh to that featurette. Absolutely no interest in a show about "biochemist, loving father" Albert Wesker. "Loving father" is never a quality I would use to describe Albert Wesker in a million years. Albert Wesker is a manipulative scumbag. He's a conspiracist, a narcissist, and a psychopath. The only person he cares about is himself.

Loving father? Barry Burton. That's your loving father in the Resident Evil franchise. Just more garbage, horse manure BS lip service like "we know the Resident Evil lore and mythology!"

Honestly, this footage just looks like the Paul WS Anderson films but on a TV budget. Especially the post-apocalyptic stuff.

Some of the scariest moments in Resident Evil are actually the quiet moments where nothing is happening. You don't know if something awful is around the corner to try and eat you alive or tear you limb and from limb. Yes there are big and giant monsters, but there's an escalation to that in each of the games, or at least the best ones.

This clearly doesn't capture that.

 

[StarLord]

Netflix needs to shake up their executive ranks. They’re quickly becoming the Cannon Films of the new millennium.

That's an insult to Cannon.

 

[StarLord]

Oh my God

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It's Blade!

 

[Pennywise]

Oh my God

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It's Blade!

 

[Daywalker89]

Oh my God

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It's Blade!

 

[Slick]

Oh my God

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It's Blade!

 

[Sithborg]

Oh my God

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It's Blade!

Welp, I'm sold. I know what I'm watching this weekend.

 

[Marvel united]

Oh my God

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It's Blade!

They... Really shouldn't have tried to do it.

 

[Snow Queen]

Don't think this is a spoiler but I haven't seen his so maybe it is.

 

[Teelie]

I may have to have alcohol while watching this.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

I'm 4 episodes in on this and while I'm not hating it and am still committed to finishing it at some point tomorrow, I have to admit that this has been pretty rough to sit through so far.

Outside of Lance Reddick I don't really care for or like any of the other characters, especially the daughters and my god are the villains in this hammy and over the top asf lol.

Anytime the Irish guy or Paola Nunez are onscreen it almost feels like a completely different show with the level of comedy they are trying to force into this which is super awkward at times.

The amount of gore and creature action is actually pretty decent though.

 

[TheFuture]

I watched 2 episodes and there's this comical moment when adult Jade is talking to her husband, and the actress is trying to super emote so hard with the facial movements. It took me right out of it. I do like Reddick and the sister, but by god what an ill conceived main character and casting by the looks of it.

 

[TheVileOne]

Is this an example of what clever dialogue is in 2022?

I'm so glad this exists.

I'm not going to pretend that the dialogue in the games is brilliant and the pinnacle of brilliance...but it wasn't this pseudo hip, smart-alec, imitation Joss Whedon nonsense.

To me what was great about games is how they made you feel. How immersive and engrossed you were into the scenarios.

It's like Cowboy Bebop Netflix "Welcome to the ouch motherf'ers" and "This sounds a lot like blackmail." "You're damn right it is Jet because you are black and you are male!"

 

[TheVileOne]

I mean...ok I guess.

Netflix's Resident Evil Review - Easily The Best Adaptation Of The Zombie Franchise Yet

Gamespot really liked it at least.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

When it’s not trying to be some teen school YA CW network show I’m liking it so far but we’ll see how long that lasts. Nowhere near as bad as many other zombie shows I’ve seen on Syfy and elsewhere. It has the horror and action elements but this is a new story using some familiar elements in a family drama; has quite a bit of production value. Putting the RE/Biohazard games on any kind of pedestal for story is silly (not that precious) considering they were B-movie camp schlock (on purpose especially w/ English localizations) and thin from day 1 so it's not like there's some high bar to achieve deserved here or in movies.

 

[Marvel united]

Why is it so hard for Hollywood to make a good adaptation of this property

 

[Teelie]

Because Hollywood always wants to put a spin on anything they touch and the spin is usually a terrible one.

 

[Sithborg]

Why is it so hard for Hollywood to make a good adaptation of this property

[looks at the RE video games]

Look, its hit or miss if Capcom can do a good RE game.

 

[TheFuture]

I read a piece that compared this to 10 Cloverfield Lane, where this comes across as something already conceived as an original idea, but they purchased the rights to RE and made some faint tweaks to link it to the name value. It really does come across like that after 2 episodes, does it get any better for those who continued? Euphoria with zombies they described it as and I can absolutely believe it that was the original idea before RE IP took over.

 

[KevTravels]

I wanna see zombies and all we got is CW dialogue.

 

[TheVileOne]

I read a piece that compared this to 10 Cloverfield Lane, where this comes across as something already conceived as an original idea, but they purchased the rights to RE and made some faint tweaks to link it to the name value. It really does come across like that after 2 episodes, does it get any better for those who continued? Euphoria with zombies they described it as and I can absolutely believe it that was the original idea before RE IP took over.

Wouldn't surprise me if it was a different zombie/post-apocalytpic show that they shoehorned some Resident Evil names and concepts into it in order for it to be greenlit.

Having an established brand or IP attached to something is always an easier sell to get it made. ALWAYS.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

Finally finished this and yeah, its absolute garbage IMO. I honestly can't decide which is worse between this and that Cowboy Bebop Netflix series, but the biggest positive I can give this show over that one is at least it looked like Netflix actually put some money into this when it comes to the overall production quality.

Granted, everything else about this is pretty awful from the writing, performances, dialogue and even the wonky structure had me scratching my head at times, especially when you get to the second half of the show.

I was hoping it would get better, but it never did, and I still don't understand how the people behind this thought it would be a good idea to have 90-95% of this show be a teen/family melodrama and just a really small percentage of it actually be about zombies, monsters and other Resident Evil related stuff.

This deserves to be cancelled and I hope it is because the failure of this and Welcome to Raccoon City needs to be a lesson to all those execs Hollywood who want to keep pissing all over the source material.

 

[TheVileOne]

OK so my understanding is that the show production is actually pushing that the idea that this series is meant to be canon to the earlier games (I suppose everything up to RE5). So with that in mind here are my questions based on what little I know about the show:

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* So if Umbrella has already been bankrupted and publicly disgraced, how is Umbrella back now, and how is Umbrella able to control a whole city?

* Why would Umbrella name a city they control NEW RACCOON CITY? It's a city they caused to get nuked off the face of the Earth. I would never move to a city called New Raccoon City controlled by Umbrella. Especially after what happened to Raccoon City and Umbrella. Like what happened to Raccoon City was known to the public. And I mean maybe the reasonings behind what happened with Umbrella weren't known to the public, but some people would at least be suspicious. There would definitely be leaks and whistle-blowing. But like literally no one is questioning why an Umbrella-controlled city called New Raccoon City exists? Who would want to live there unless they were forced to?

* So my understanding is Lance Reddick Albert Wesker is a clone of the original from the games, right? So...I guess...why not make him one of the Wesker Children? Umbrella did that eugenics experiment with humans called Project W. There were multiple Wesker children. Wouldn't it make more sense to have made Lance Reddick one of the Wesker Children instead of a clone of the original? I mean if this is canon to the games, you could tie in all that Wesker Children and Project W stuff.