Horror Resident Evil Reboot

[TheVileOne]

Those people probably got invited as they were expected to give strong reactions.

 

[DarkShadow10]

Some spoiler-ific comments on Reddit from a third party who seen it

Spoiler: Spoiler comments on Reddit

 

[Luigi]

Eh, we'll see how it turns out. Dragging my friends along to see it.

 

[Sithborg]

Should be fun to compare it to Mortal Kombat...

 

[Erik20]

Those people probably got invited as they were expected to give strong reactions.

Yeah I haven't forgotten about the early Wonder Woman 1984 reactions...

 

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‘Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City’ : Excels In Some Areas And Fails In Others – Deadline

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I forgot this movie was meant to release yesterday.

@Ryo Jin I'd like to know what you think when (or if) you watch this movie. If you purposefully ignore it, I'm sorry I reminded you of the thing's existence.

 

[Detective Conan]

Looks like the best horror videogame movie this year will still remain Werewolves Within.

 

[Deck Rickard]

29% on RT. Must be a real slam dunk, lol.

 

[Detective Conan]

After this movie inevitably tanks, I hope we get either a game-accurate 2D anime Resident Evil anime series animated by Madhouse or some animated show in the style of Arcane. I don’t need RE to be live action, and I think the series just works best in animated format.

 

[Marvel united]

After this movie inevitably tanks, I hope we get either a game-accurate 2D anime Resident Evil anime series animated by Madhouse or some animated show in the style of Arcane. I don’t need RE to be live action, and I think the series just works best in animated format.

I disagree. I think Resident Evil absolutely can work in live action, be scary as hell, but also a legitimately strong film. It's just that the studio keeps giving these films to the wrong people, the wrong filmmakers.

But an animated show sounds nice. I didn't hate Infinite Darkness as much as everyone else lol

 

[Detective Conan]

I disagree. I think Resident Evil absolutely can work in live action, be scary as hell, but also a legitimately strong film. It's just that the studio keeps giving these films to the wrong people, the wrong filmmakers.

But an animated show sounds nice. I didn't hate Infinite Darkness as much as everyone else lol

All I said was that I think Resident Evil would work best in the medium of animation as I think you get away the goofiness and over-top-nature of the RE movies better than you could in live action. That doesn’t mean a live action RE couldn’t work, but I argue the limits and constraints of live action kind of makes doing a great RE movie harder to do. Of course, if you want to do a budget friendly RE movie one ought to simply just adapt RE 1 which is much smaller in scope compared to later RE games.

But I imagine the reason they choose to sandwich RE 1 and 2 together was simply because they wanted to have fan favorite characters like Leon Kennedy in the first movie as opposed to waiting for a second movie to have him. All and all, I don’t see them doing more RE movies after this. Unless, the movie is a surprise success which I don’t think will happen giving that there’s hardly any prerelease anticipation for it, and it’s marketing has been abysmal.

 

[kguillou]

Its actually getting kind of absurd at this point as to how these studios for some astronomical reason cannot seem to crack the code for video game movies. Especially for video game properties such as this which are so easy to adapt as films. Yeah, if you were to tell me you wanna adapt Mario or Zelda into a live film with real people i can certainly understand why those would be pretty challenging but games like this are derivative from classic Hollywood films themselves ….i dont get it. Whats the problem here, people?

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

I disagree. I think Resident Evil absolutely can work in live action, be scary as hell, but also a legitimately strong film. It's just that the studio keeps giving these films to the wrong people, the wrong filmmakers.

But an animated show sounds nice. I didn't hate Infinite Darkness as much as everyone else lol

Netflix should just cancel the proposed series focusing on Wesker’s daughters and do a series that adapts the games properly

But a CGI series wouldn’t be bad either

It’s just amazing how totally clueless studios are when it comes to adapting video game properties

 

[MOVIELORD101]

29% on RT. Must be a real slam dunk, lol.

Up to 50% now.

 

[DarkKnight88]

lol the best reviewed Resident Evil movie yet!

 

[Detective Conan]

Obviously not saying much, but it can’t be any worse than the last few Paul W.S Anderson movies.

 

[Neno_Kos]

Its actually getting kind of absurd at this point as to how these studios for some astronomical reason cannot seem to crack the code for video game movies. Especially for video game properties such as this which are so easy to adapt as films. Yeah, if you were to tell me you wanna adapt Mario or Zelda into a live film with real people i can certainly understand why those would be pretty challenging but games like this are derivative from classic Hollywood films themselves ….i dont get it. Whats the problem here, people?

Bad directors? Bad scripts. Bad homages? No passion or understanding games in general? Trying to discover hot water? You know the usual.

You recently had director, not video game related who directed reboot of one of most succesful Christmas movies, Home Alone. Basically admitting he didnt give a crap about original and who didnt even understand what made original so good, but still took a shoot to make reboot of it.

Ofcourse movie ended being one of worst if not the worst movie of the year and given we are at beggining of new decade, one of worst movies of this decade.

When talented people who understand video games genre and grow up playing video games start working in Hollywood. Start to direct it, write it etc who are passioned to make something truly special. We are gonna see good video game movies. Like with everything in life finding or hiring or marring key people goes to make your life better, same goes with movies.

 

[TheVileOne]

If you're rebooting with Resident Evil as a film franchise, the ONE place to start is the Spencer Mansion.

The reason you start with the Spencer Mansion is that its isolated and self-contained. You can tell a focused, small-scale survival horror plot. If it works, then you can expand the universe. It's a fixed group of characters in a haunted house setting.

And then make the mansion movie standalone. If it works, then you can do more and get more ambitious.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

The reviews for this are slightly better than what I expected honestly, but we deserve so much better than this and now I just found out that they spent only $25M to make this which actually explains alot IMO.

Sony really played it safe here and it shows with the low quality production values. It's not like this needed to be a $200M blockbuster or anything, but man there's no excuse for them spending less money on this than the first Resident Evil in 2002 which had like a $33 million dollar budget at that time.

 

[Detective Conan]

@TheVileOne: I have two questions for you:

1. When do you see the film?

2. If you were to handpick a person to direct a Resident Evil movie that’s currently alive right now, who’d you pick?

 

[TheVileOne]

@TheVileOne: I have two questions for you:

1. When do you see the film?

2. If you were to handpick a person to direct a Resident Evil movie that’s currently alive right now, who’d you pick?

I have no intentions of ever seeing this film.

If I were to handpick a person, it'd be Edgar Wright. But I highly doubt he'd ever want to direct a Resident Evil movie.

Why Edgar Wright?

This is why.

 

[Marvolo]

Resident Evil needs pulp. Needs to generate some outrage and not be afraid to offend. Needs to make a mess with slime, blood, guts, and braiiiiinnnnssss. Needs to have some fun, but also have genuine moments of tension and fear. I cant think of anyone more perfect to direct than an unrestrained Sam Raimi.

 

[TheVileOne]

I'd love Sam Raimi to direct Resident Evil but I doubt he'd ever want to do it. Same with Edgar Wright, even though he's a Resident Evil fan.

 

[Sithborg]

Spoiled myself on the post credits scene.

Spoiler

Literally giving Wesker his glasses is the credit scene? This is some ASM post credits scene bull**** and I hate it.