Resident Evil movies

[Mikazuki]

No idea how I've never seen either movie before but I have never seen either movie until recently. I tend to enjoy watching horror movies but not movies based on video games (they all tend to be bad) so I guess that why I never saw either movie until recently.

I saw the 2nd movie a few weeks ago but only the last half hour or 45 minutes. Didn't catch it again until a few days ago but again didn't get to see it from the beginning. I saw it from a few minutes before the church scene. Caught the first movie on Scifi today -again didn't get to see it from the beginning, caught the end of the shower scene where Alice woke up in the shower (guess a few minutes into the movie).

I'm not sure if I LIKED the movie(s) or I hate the movie(s). The first one seems to have way more gore and suspense then the 2nd one. Like the laser scene and the team members getting sliced up. The second one was... I don't know, I think I liked it but again I never got a chance to watch either completely.

I can't say I liked either movie more or less then the games since I haven't play RE in years - last one I played was the original game and I never finished it... don't recall why I didn't finish the game but never did.

So, since I know that most of you have probably seen both movies numerous times and/or played the game, what did you make of the movies compared to the video games?

 

[Bolt]

I disliked* both films, frankly. Not because they were different, but just because I thought they were terrible. Definitely not the direction RE should go in... I cringe at the thought of how polar-opposite the movie "RE4" will be when they have this incredibly cinematic game already at their fingertips. Although it's probably for the best that they don't ruin that too.

*Maybe "hated" is a strong word, but I went into the first one thinking it was going to be somewhat like the game, and went into the second one thinking it was going to have somewhat of a story, but was disappointed both times.

 

[Blackbird]

I thought the first was pretty good, but I haven't seen the second yet.

 

[laudre]

I haven't played the games much myself (I've got copies of RE1 remake for the GC, and the RE3 for the Gamecube floating around here, but haven't played much of either), but I know their mythology intensely, since I have a friend who is DEEPLY into it, and we talk about it extensively. (In fact, the only thing he buys the games for is the story -- he hated the RE4 gameplay, and was annoyed by its total lack of connection to the previous' games, plotwise.)

Anyway -- we discussed extensively whether or not the first movie could be fit into canon, and technically, it could, except that it's rather pushing it to have that many secret laboratories in such a small space. We did like it -- it felt right -- and there were a lot of nods to the fans.

The second movie blows the movie continuity completely out of canon -- it takes the RE3 story and completely changes it, by adding Alice to it. I did like that they didn't shaft Jill (and, in fact, kept her a badass) to keep Alice front and center, since Alice is really the main character in the movie.

I'm waiting to see what they do with the next two before I pass final judgment on the franchise (yes, next two -- last I checked, they were producing 3 and 4 more or less concurrently).

 

[sandman54301]

Since I am HJU's number one Nombie* fan, I have to say that I was disappointed in the first film. The second one didnt disappoint simply because I knew what to expect after having watched the first one. One of the things that bothered me about the first movie is that it seemed that the action was less about the nombies* and more about the computer Red Queen. Maybe that's being too harsh, but that's how I feel. Not enough gore in either one, IMO.


*My friend Ben has a 3 year old named Jakob, who refers to me as 'Uncle Matt'. One time Ben and I were watching Land of the Dead, and the kid walked in just as some poor guy got munched. Anyways, he pointed and said 'monter!!!' and I said "Jakob, that's called a zombie." So he said 'Nombies?!?' And from then on, whenever I say the word zombie, he says 'nombies bite!!' I still crack up whenever he says that.

 

[Blackbird]

My friend Ben has a 3 year old named Jakob, who refers to me as 'Uncle Matt'. One time Ben and I were watching Land of the Dead, and the kid walked in just as some poor guy got munched. Anyways, he pointed and said 'monter!!!' and I said "Jakob, that's called a zombie." So he said 'Nombies?!?' And from then on, whenever I say the word zombie, he says 'nombies bite!!' I still crack up whenever he says that.

:laugh:

 

[scikaiju]

Being what they were I thought the movies were decent. Compared to the games, I'm sorry but the game, crappy dialouge an all, were a lot better. I mean I understood that they were treating the first one as a prequel of sort to the games. So I could forgive some of the stuff that went down. The the second one happen. I appreciate the went and cast Jill Valentine for the movie. But some of those characters were needless. and I'm sorry, but topless zombie hookers are not hot

 

[Genocider]

Sienna Guillory was the only good part of Resident Evil: Apocalypse. She looked soooooo good in that Jill Valentine costume. :thumbs:

... that aside though, I thought both movies were kinda lame.

 

[Tenraisenpuujin]

My main beef with the RE movies is that they're basically a Mary Sue vehicle for Milla Jovovich. Screw you, Anderson, for MSing your GF/wife into a perfectly good story. We had four perfectly cool leads, they were called Jill, Chris, Leon, and Claire. Thanks for nerfing them out, kthxdie.

 

[Keith Justice]

I thought the first one was.... alright. Didn't hate it, but it was passible. I thought the second one was absolutely great for what it was. Lots of zombies, shooting, neck breaking, moronic "heroes" walking into death unnecessarily and explosions.

For all that, I felt the nailed it all right. Like if each one of those was a character that one of us was playing over a D&D-like sesson we would've had a fuggin' blast and a half.

I'm sorry to hear Paul Anderson's coming back as the director as I really liked the new guy they got, his assistant director from the first movie, to do the sequal.

I can totally see why the don't do anything that jives with the game continuity or mirrors it... cuz then the video game would be spoiled for those now interested in playing the game. Best to make it a glossy shade of the video game franchise with its own story and stride.