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.

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"

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.

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.

The first was awesome. The second fell short with nemisis' death, and the third had some good one liners. Though they fucked up big time on Claire. She was to old, and she was missing her trademark red vest.

My favorite part of the third movie was when Alice meets the queen again and replies to the introduction "I know you. I knew your sister. She was a homicidal bitch"

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

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.

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.

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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.

Liked all three, only loved #1 and #3.

#1 went the horror route, #2 the overblown action, and #3 was just like #2 but a different setting and a better story (albeit not by much).

I don't watch ResEvil for deep plots or great acting. I DO love my Mila, and I love post-apocalyptic shows. 3 wins extra points for the whole mobile convoy idea, looses a couple because the selfish "I know I'm bitten but maybe I'll be spared" routine is old and so fake.

ResEvil movies vs game, I like that the movies went a different direction, makes it new and exciting instead of something rehashed to constantly pick at. Tie-ins from the games make it fun, and Alice is the best part of the series. Also, the games aren't even staying on track these days so who cares about continuity?

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.

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.

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?

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.

My exact feelings sir!

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

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.

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.

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

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? ^^

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

Programmed_For_Damage:

exocel:

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.

yeah i agree it could have been better received if it was sold as a stand alone movie.

First was pretty cool although that Alice chick was a piece of meh.
Second one was complete and utter shit. She ran down the fuckign side of a building and kicked the guy. To me it was just too over the top like RE meets Matrix. Utter crap.
Third was okay I guess. I just wondered where all the oceans went... It said they dried up so okay... Where did it all go ? Plus it bugged me how all those clones that got bitten for some reason didn't reanimate.
They are just moving more and more into BS territory.

All of them are shit in between shit bread to make a humungous shit sandwich.

1. You dont fucking flying kick zombie-dogs. You shoot them, hope you dont miss so you conserve precious ammo, and hope you hit so they dont fucking maul you.

2. YOU DONT FIST FIGHT THE NEMESIS!!!!!!!!!!! MY GOD, TAKE ONE OF THE MOST UNNERVING PARTS OF RESIDENT EVIL AND RUIN IT WHY DONT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Apologies to sane people who hate excessive caps use, but I really did enjoy running for dear life from the Nemesis *THAT* much, and the film mocked it)

3. Im sorry, but Ive gone to Sigil by this point (or more accurately the planes) and have decided its worth a shot to believe now that these films along with other game-to-movie translations dont exist so strongly that perhaps they will cease to exist. Even if they dont disappear, they arent coming anywhere near me ever again.

(And since someone mentioned Silent Hill, I will say I hate that film with a passion. Not only did it reduce poor pyramid head to "stalker monster a", it took the whole "loving father" part and shunted some "mother is god" bullshit in its place. Yeah, I have to put up with annoying progressive bitch heroines now - case in point resident evil films - but the "loving father" Harry Mason just cant cut it in movies)

Xaositect:

(And since someone mentioned Silent Hill, I will say I hate that film with a passion. Not only did it reduce poor pyramid head to "stalker monster a", it took the whole "loving father" part and shunted some "mother is god" bullshit in its place. Yeah, I have to put up with annoying progressive bitch heroines now - case in point resident evil films - but the "loving father" Harry Mason just cant cut it in movies)

I didn't mention Silent Hill in praise. I brought it up to illustrate that if things like Silent Hill are the best we can hope for video game movies, then why do people bother with them in the first place? They will always be shit because directors know that a flock of tards will go and see them regardless of the quality.

Gamers buy Resident Evil, Silent Hill, etc. because of their quality. Why do they throw this sense of judgement out of the window when it comes choosing what movies to praise?

I like The RE movies the third was kind of lame but I still bought it even after watching it at the threatre. Oh well I guess im kind of a fan boy I loved the video games because it was the first game that I played that put me in charge of a situation i thoght i had control over. I blowing zombie heads is always cool.

Rob Sharona:

I didn't mention Silent Hill in praise. I brought it up to illustrate that if things like Silent Hill are the best we can hope for video game movies, then why do people bother with them in the first place? They will always be shit because directors know that a flock of tards will go and see them regardless of the quality.

Gamers buy Resident Evil, Silent Hill, etc. because of their quality. Why do they throw this sense of judgement out of the window when it comes choosing what movies to praise?

I didnt say you mentioned it in praise, just that you mentioned it. That was enough for it to get sucked into my hate filled rant. Game-to-movie films make me very angry, because Im sort of with you, as I ask why cant people stick to experiencing these things for what they are supposed to be. Read the comic book/novel, play the game, watch the film! Any attempt at crossing over is an obvious attempt to funnel even more cash in the maker's lap, the filthy, greedy bastards!

silent hill was great -TILL it got to the end and ,during the creative process, the writer (who had never heard of silent hill) lit up a doobie and watched hellraiser and thought "man, that would make a good movie!"

Rob Sharona:

Gamers buy Resident Evil, Silent Hill, etc. because of their quality. Why do they throw this sense of judgement out of the window when it comes choosing what movies to praise?

then why do they keep getting the 360 if they go for quality :P

as for silent hill, i thought the movie was good, i never expect a movie to be a direct translation of either a game or a comic book, that's just plain stupid and it's gonna fail before it even gets off it's feet

also why it's called an ADAPTATION and not a direct representation, they adapt and therefore change things

on a side note about silent hill it was filmed not too far from where i live, much like re 2, and a bunch of those streets and shops on the street are one way and you can't drive down them the way they are