Resident Evil Movie Rant, or damn that was bad fanfiction I wasted money on
First off, before the rant, I will admit to still liking the first Resident Evil movie. Now that the admission is over with, onto the rant.
So I recently saw a preview for the newest Resident Evil movie "Resident Evil: Afterlife". I found out via IMDB that they are adding in Chris Redfield as well as bringing back Claire Redfield and Albert Wesker. None were mentioned in the preview and you'd only recognize Claire if you had sat through "RE: Extinction". The actors playing Chris and Wesker weren't even seen except for a two second clip with Wesker's sunglasses filling most of the screen (Chris's actor, Wentworth Miller could be seen in the reflection and Wesker's actor between the lenses). I only realized they were there because of a still frame on IMDB that listed the characters shown in it.
This got me thinking about the arc of the movies and I am embarrassed to realize that it took me so long to figure the truth out. The Resident Evil movies are bad fanfiction disguised as blockbuster movies.
First you have amnesiac Alice waking up in a mansion only to be pulled down into its bowels because the Umbella SWAT team thinks she might be one of their agents. Any real life cops/security would have secured her and the other intruder in their cars or helicopter and not taken them with them. They hadn't broken containment yet so they had the time to lock the pair up. This already sounds like a bad fanfiction author insertion plot.
Alice then spends her time demanding answers and bothering the mercenaries while they were trying to work. All the while the men are being attracted to her. The cop, Matt, intruder tells her his real reason for being there, the cold leader, One, thaws out right before being killed, and the guy who caused the virus to escape, Spencer, was doing it so he could run away with her. Meanwhile she manages by luck to survive everything that killed people trained better than she had been.
The situation continues in the sequel. Alice has been experimented on and wakes up alone. She magically manages to pick/short out the electronic keypad with a needle (that should have killed her since it had previously been inserted into her brain) without being electrocuted herself. She is able to avoid the abundant dead and mutated monsters until she can dress and equip herself while the well-known characters can't avoid them once they realize that there are zombies about. Wesker is slightly OOC along with a career change, the Ashfords are completely OOC to the game version, and there is a character running around called Dr. Isaacs who I think was supposed to be William Birkin.
At the end Nemesis refuses to fight Alice, overriding the programming that was supposed to be absolute, because he recognizes her and managed to develop such a strong emotional attachment it could overcome a virus that turns creatures into mindless killing machines. Alice herself had programs inserted into her despite the fact that she is still human and there are no chips in her.
The third movie was even worse. Alice is being cloned and the clones are used to figure out how she managed to survive everything/train for an army. The Umbrella Corporation is still obsessed about capturing her. Suddenly she has very strong psychic powers and no matter what everyone comes to trust her, despite the fact that she's been messed with by the Umbrella Corporation way to many times. Wesker makes an appearance in this movie, but his role is so forgettable that I didn't realize/remember he was there until I checked IMDB to look up a few character names. Claire Redfield makes her OOC debut in this movie as well.
In true fanfiction fashion the men continue to fall for her. Also falling into the fanfic territory is the fact that her blood is the cure to the T-virus. Oh, and Leon S Kennedy won't be appearing. Based on "Apocalypse" promotional media, he's already dead.
So, sitting back and looking over everything: Yes, Resident Evil movie series is really a bad fanfiction story that was given a budget.
So I recently saw a preview for the newest Resident Evil movie "Resident Evil: Afterlife". I found out via IMDB that they are adding in Chris Redfield as well as bringing back Claire Redfield and Albert Wesker. None were mentioned in the preview and you'd only recognize Claire if you had sat through "RE: Extinction". The actors playing Chris and Wesker weren't even seen except for a two second clip with Wesker's sunglasses filling most of the screen (Chris's actor, Wentworth Miller could be seen in the reflection and Wesker's actor between the lenses). I only realized they were there because of a still frame on IMDB that listed the characters shown in it.
This got me thinking about the arc of the movies and I am embarrassed to realize that it took me so long to figure the truth out. The Resident Evil movies are bad fanfiction disguised as blockbuster movies.
First you have amnesiac Alice waking up in a mansion only to be pulled down into its bowels because the Umbella SWAT team thinks she might be one of their agents. Any real life cops/security would have secured her and the other intruder in their cars or helicopter and not taken them with them. They hadn't broken containment yet so they had the time to lock the pair up. This already sounds like a bad fanfiction author insertion plot.
Alice then spends her time demanding answers and bothering the mercenaries while they were trying to work. All the while the men are being attracted to her. The cop, Matt, intruder tells her his real reason for being there, the cold leader, One, thaws out right before being killed, and the guy who caused the virus to escape, Spencer, was doing it so he could run away with her. Meanwhile she manages by luck to survive everything that killed people trained better than she had been.
The situation continues in the sequel. Alice has been experimented on and wakes up alone. She magically manages to pick/short out the electronic keypad with a needle (that should have killed her since it had previously been inserted into her brain) without being electrocuted herself. She is able to avoid the abundant dead and mutated monsters until she can dress and equip herself while the well-known characters can't avoid them once they realize that there are zombies about. Wesker is slightly OOC along with a career change, the Ashfords are completely OOC to the game version, and there is a character running around called Dr. Isaacs who I think was supposed to be William Birkin.
At the end Nemesis refuses to fight Alice, overriding the programming that was supposed to be absolute, because he recognizes her and managed to develop such a strong emotional attachment it could overcome a virus that turns creatures into mindless killing machines. Alice herself had programs inserted into her despite the fact that she is still human and there are no chips in her.
The third movie was even worse. Alice is being cloned and the clones are used to figure out how she managed to survive everything/train for an army. The Umbrella Corporation is still obsessed about capturing her. Suddenly she has very strong psychic powers and no matter what everyone comes to trust her, despite the fact that she's been messed with by the Umbrella Corporation way to many times. Wesker makes an appearance in this movie, but his role is so forgettable that I didn't realize/remember he was there until I checked IMDB to look up a few character names. Claire Redfield makes her OOC debut in this movie as well.
In true fanfiction fashion the men continue to fall for her. Also falling into the fanfic territory is the fact that her blood is the cure to the T-virus. Oh, and Leon S Kennedy won't be appearing. Based on "Apocalypse" promotional media, he's already dead.
So, sitting back and looking over everything: Yes, Resident Evil movie series is really a bad fanfiction story that was given a budget.