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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City review thread
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I'll see it but it feels like a RE movie should be super simple to do. Group of protagonists stuck in a creepy mansion owned by someone who was obsessed with puzzles and secrets. It's also on top of a lab where zombies and other insane creatures escape.
Like Escape Room crossed with Dawn of the Dead in a mansion.
Like Escape Room crossed with Dawn of the Dead in a mansion.
No that's a separate thing. Starring Lance Reddick as Wesker and based on Weskers twin kids.
Yep, exactly what I was expecting after the first trailer. Luckily, most of my friends are huge fans of the RE games so this'll be a blast to see with them.
So excited. I love RE but also generally think it's B-movie schlock in terms of its storytelling and character writing (or w/e could be called that).
Give me a 90 minute cheesy as fuck b-movie with lots of violence and I'm good.
Give me a 90 minute cheesy as fuck b-movie with lots of violence and I'm good.
Sounds like we garbage connoisseurs are gonna eat with this one!
No. No more garbage. lol
I think a reboot had the potential to be more than just dumb, brainless entertainment. We already did that. The first go arounds were the king of that. So, it's very disappointing that it got so mishandled. In what universe would it have been a good idea to mash 2 games into one movie?
And some of these reviews are even trying to justify it by saying there's not enough story in the games. Uh...what? There's a whole lot of backstory and inner workings behind the scenes. Create some of the scenarios from the files in the first game (because finding all these random detailed journals would clearly not work). They wholesale deleted characters from the first game to bring in characters from the second game. No. Make it cohesive. Especially given that at the baseline, we'd have to weave the separate Chris and Jill paths from the first game together. Make people care about the characters and then slowly make it so that no one can trust each other because there are moles working to sabotage the investigation into a wealthy recluse. There's even a bunch of social commentary there to be made.
And then there's obviously enough material for RE2 to be its own movie and to scale up there. If there was something to combine, then clearly it'd be 2 and 3. But even that would be debatable.
I think a reboot had the potential to be more than just dumb, brainless entertainment. We already did that. The first go arounds were the king of that. So, it's very disappointing that it got so mishandled. In what universe would it have been a good idea to mash 2 games into one movie?
And some of these reviews are even trying to justify it by saying there's not enough story in the games. Uh...what? There's a whole lot of backstory and inner workings behind the scenes. Create some of the scenarios from the files in the first game (because finding all these random detailed journals would clearly not work). They wholesale deleted characters from the first game to bring in characters from the second game. No. Make it cohesive. Especially given that at the baseline, we'd have to weave the separate Chris and Jill paths from the first game together. Make people care about the characters and then slowly make it so that no one can trust each other because there are moles working to sabotage the investigation into a wealthy recluse. There's even a bunch of social commentary there to be made.
And then there's obviously enough material for RE2 to be its own movie and to scale up there. If there was something to combine, then clearly it'd be 2 and 3. But even that would be debatable.
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Bee is always very kind and open minded so yeah.
It is absolutely terrible.
It's s actually embarrassing.
Resident Evil story is the most hackneyed, goofy shit with ridiculous plot contrivances, with motivations that would make a 7 year old suss, characters who have no connection with any sort of human behaviour anyone has ever, ever witnessed, and the most stupid fucking stories you could possibly imagine. How people keep expecting a good film to be made from this source material is BONKERS.
Good films can be made from anything with the right time and effort you also don't have to follow the source material to the letter. If comic book movies can be good then so can RE movies its really not that hard to grasp.
While I agree that a good Resident Evil movie is possible, your comic analogy seems a bit off, since many comics actually tell good stories in the first place. Resident Evil absolutely does not.
Past RE4, it's out of hand. But at the core of the first games, it's a viral outbreak, corporate corruption, and a coverup. Some military-industrial complex and espionage thrown in. That's the makings of a perfectly fine story.
Yep, there was no need to complicate the story. RE has it's crazy moments, but one of its biggest strengths as a series is how focused the locations are.
Sounds like garbage but with more tie ins to the games than the other films. I love Resi, it's my favourite series but i'd rather have a good film than something that's bad but has super obvious nods to fans. Everything i've seen of this sounds like they have crammed in so much shit from 1 and 2 that i can't see how it wouldn't suffer because of it.
Yup, why cram all these characters and locations in one movie? if you want to mix several games within the same movie do it like this:
Movie 1: Resident Evil Zero/Resident Evil1: Starring Rebecca, Jill, Chris, Barry, Wesker and Stars members.
Movie 2: Resident Evil 2/Resident Evil 3: Starring Leon, Claire, Ada, Jill, Carlos, Mikhail.
Movie 3: Resident Evil Code Veronica: Starring Chris, Claire, Steve, Wesker......
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But mixing 1 & 2 is bad.
I've got a weird feeling that I'm going to think the old Resident Evil movies (well a couple of them) are going to be better than this, which is saying something, as they aren't exactly top tier movies lol
Honestly, I don't think any of them lend well to be combined. All of them have their own beginning, middle and end narrative and combining any of them is just going to be messy. Just do one of them if you're dead set on adapting 1:1 the game's story. It's just such an odd thing I can't wrap my head around why anyone would even attempt to do it
I guess the reviewer is only familiar with the Anderson films and thinks this film is set before them?
might as well be a prequel to the anderson movies cause it sucks just as bad.
Land of the Dead - Wikipedia
It's been a long time since I've seen it but don't remember thinking it was much like RE, but that poster may be able to explain more
Land of the Dead - Wikipedia
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It's been a long time since I've seen it but don't remember thinking it was much like RE, but that poster may be able to explain more
Yeah, I only ever saw it once back when it released but remember barely anything it's been so long.
Tempted for a rewatch.
The only bit I could maybe personally agree with here would be combining RE2 and RE3, but having Mr. X and Nemesis in the same movie means undermining each one's presence as general audiences would likely be underwhelmed seeing two giant hulking monsters going after our protagonists. Plus, that's without getting into the disparate tones of those stories and trying to balance the more tense and meticulous pacing of RE2 with the faster, more bombastic pacing of RE3 - especially if they used the remakes as inspiration rather than the original versions of the games which really lays those differences even more bare.
I think combining any of the games into a single movie is really just a recipe for problems in general, especially if the timeline is being condensed to make RE and RE2's events run parallel which it seems like this movie is doing. That's just no good.
Also, ever since the first set of stills dropped I have desperately tried getting used to the idea of Leon with facial hair and it has not fucking worked. What an awful choice.
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Doesn't sound like it gets anywhere near the same quality of b-movie fun though. There are tiers to b-movies.
That'd actually get me to watch the movie. heck, Goggins would get me to watch pretty much anything...
Agreed with all. Absolutely hated the fact that they sandwich RE1/2. Why? What's the point? Why take out two iconic locations in one movie with the mansion/Raccoon City? Why is this series so hard to bring to film?
I don't want this movie to bomb, but if it does… I kinda hope someone tries to buy out the rights and try for a 3rd time. This really isn't that hard of a concept.
I don't want this movie to bomb, but if it does… I kinda hope someone tries to buy out the rights and try for a 3rd time. This really isn't that hard of a concept.
I was trying to say that 1 & 2 are soooooo different story wise and location wise. Zero and 1 almost same locations (Mansions, Labs...), 2 & 3 same city and locations.... ect