From the Gamer's Perspective of Resident Evil [SPOILERS]
I saw the third resident evil movie, and I have to say, before I start insulting it, that it wasn't NEARLY as bad as I thought it would be. I was actually impressed compared to my initial expectations.
Cut for... well... ranting on all three movies and SPOILERS
So unless you REALLY want to know my horribly biased opinion, you don't need to read what's been cut.
Previously, I had two arguments with the resident evil movies.
1) who the hell is this woman they made into the main character? I want MY game characters back
2) Speaking of the Game Characters, where the hell are they?
I imagine the reaction from the fans of the game after the first movie was such that they decided to actually include some of the characters in the second.
But lets start with the first, what does it have going for it?
1) Mansion
2) Underground Facility
3) T-Virus
4) Licker
There is a mansion involved, but not the mansion I know and fear. There were people living in this mansion. In the first game, everyone in the mansions is DEAD and STARS are the main characters.
Okay, it's a movie spin-off of a game, I'll tolerate the changes here. The Hive... okay, it's an underground facility, it's in the wrong spot and it's too big, but for the sake of the movie-ness, we'll allow it.
T-virus! None of the back ground of the virus is given here, but the first game told us next to nothing, so I won't hold it against the poor movie people trying to make plot in a limited time.
Licker... bonus points for including a game monster, but... where are my Hunters and my Tyrant?
The guy gets infected by the licker...
Now, the second movie, where Alice has been experimented on.
Redeeming points of the second movie:
1) STARS
2) It takes place in Raccoon City
3) Nemesis
Bad things
1) Alexia Angela Ashford
2) Dr. Ashford
3) Nemesis
Okay... they put in Jill, and Carlos. Angela Ashford and Dr. Ashford... well, Dr. Ashford didn't make the virus in the game, and it was always supposed to have been intended as a viral weapon.
They came up with their own back-ground for Nemesis, but it's poorly explained and executed, however, I guess they needed to do something for movie-going people wondering about Nemesis.
It looks like RE 2 the game was left out plot-wise. They can't, at this point, abandon Alice as a main character, but my main Resident Evil villains are still waiting in the wings to be utilized. I had honestly hoped they'd stop with the second one.
'That was a great movie to wrap things up with' Only they didn't wrap them up. Alice was captured and experimented upon... and here's where I really lose faith in the game to movie things, in the scene where she looks at the security camera and kills the guy watching the surveilance using her mind.
Suspension of disbelief and all that, but they're really deviating from the games, and it looks like they just made her too powerful. This puts us at the point where we have an amazingly powerful main character who would need even more amazing enemies.
Cue the third movie, several years later. The T-virus has spread through the entire world and infected everything
Good points
1) Wesker
2) ...Claire Redfield and Carlos
3) ....Tyrant....?
Bad Points
1) Alice clones
2) Psychic powers
3) Logical errors in the scripting
4) Claire Redfield
Okay, Wesker did appear in this, and I was overjoyed to see him on the big screen. That said...
Every single Wesker Cosplayer I have ever met at a con would have been a better Wesker... well, given a few years more of age, that is. They could have gotten a better actor, could have done better with his hair, and his suits. This is WESKER people, better suits please next time.
However, I'm moderately pleased with the rest of what they've done with Wesker. I feel that it was within reasonable keeping of his character. The only other bad thing I can say is that Wesker wasn't around to fake his death in the first movie. But I'll forgive them that, because they put him in.
Claire Redfield is next on the list. The actress was too old to be Claire. Yes, she was pretty, but the portrayal of Claire was just... off. Even accounting for the differences in timeline, I think they could've done a better casting job here.
Logical errors. They're minor, but parts of the script just don't make much sense if you've been paying attention and not staring at the hot women the entire time.
Lastly we get to the tyrant (there was a point where I was CERTAIN I was going to see Hunters, but, I was disappointed). We do in fact get a large, dangerous beast with an over-sized arm claw. However, it has tentacles, and it can talk. But we won't hold that against it.
It does however pass the test of being damn near unkillable, even by a main character that has been powered up as much as Alice. In the end it's a Clone of Alice that saves the day.
And we leave off with the promise of a fourth movie that looks like it shall contain hundreds of clones of Alice all going after Wesker.
They get points for keeping Wesker alive, points for the tyrant. And the crows.
PLEASE! MAKE THEM NOT MAKE A FOURTH ONE! Unless, of course, Wesker is going to be awesomely Wesker, Birkin is going to appear and make a G-virus, and Wesker smacks a bunch of main characters around and then makes his escape at the end.
Then they could make a fourth movie with my blessing. And with how many clones there are, Wesker would have to do a LOT of smacking.
It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. That being said, my standards were so low that, had it actually have been as bad as I thought it would be, the only course of redemption for willingly watching it would have been to commit ritual suicide.
Cut for... well... ranting on all three movies and SPOILERS
So unless you REALLY want to know my horribly biased opinion, you don't need to read what's been cut.
Previously, I had two arguments with the resident evil movies.
1) who the hell is this woman they made into the main character? I want MY game characters back
2) Speaking of the Game Characters, where the hell are they?
I imagine the reaction from the fans of the game after the first movie was such that they decided to actually include some of the characters in the second.
But lets start with the first, what does it have going for it?
1) Mansion
2) Underground Facility
3) T-Virus
4) Licker
There is a mansion involved, but not the mansion I know and fear. There were people living in this mansion. In the first game, everyone in the mansions is DEAD and STARS are the main characters.
Okay, it's a movie spin-off of a game, I'll tolerate the changes here. The Hive... okay, it's an underground facility, it's in the wrong spot and it's too big, but for the sake of the movie-ness, we'll allow it.
T-virus! None of the back ground of the virus is given here, but the first game told us next to nothing, so I won't hold it against the poor movie people trying to make plot in a limited time.
Licker... bonus points for including a game monster, but... where are my Hunters and my Tyrant?
The guy gets infected by the licker...
Now, the second movie, where Alice has been experimented on.
Redeeming points of the second movie:
1) STARS
2) It takes place in Raccoon City
3) Nemesis
Bad things
1) Alexia Angela Ashford
2) Dr. Ashford
3) Nemesis
Okay... they put in Jill, and Carlos. Angela Ashford and Dr. Ashford... well, Dr. Ashford didn't make the virus in the game, and it was always supposed to have been intended as a viral weapon.
They came up with their own back-ground for Nemesis, but it's poorly explained and executed, however, I guess they needed to do something for movie-going people wondering about Nemesis.
It looks like RE 2 the game was left out plot-wise. They can't, at this point, abandon Alice as a main character, but my main Resident Evil villains are still waiting in the wings to be utilized. I had honestly hoped they'd stop with the second one.
'That was a great movie to wrap things up with' Only they didn't wrap them up. Alice was captured and experimented upon... and here's where I really lose faith in the game to movie things, in the scene where she looks at the security camera and kills the guy watching the surveilance using her mind.
Suspension of disbelief and all that, but they're really deviating from the games, and it looks like they just made her too powerful. This puts us at the point where we have an amazingly powerful main character who would need even more amazing enemies.
Cue the third movie, several years later. The T-virus has spread through the entire world and infected everything
Good points
1) Wesker
2) ...Claire Redfield and Carlos
3) ....Tyrant....?
Bad Points
1) Alice clones
2) Psychic powers
3) Logical errors in the scripting
4) Claire Redfield
Okay, Wesker did appear in this, and I was overjoyed to see him on the big screen. That said...
Every single Wesker Cosplayer I have ever met at a con would have been a better Wesker... well, given a few years more of age, that is. They could have gotten a better actor, could have done better with his hair, and his suits. This is WESKER people, better suits please next time.
However, I'm moderately pleased with the rest of what they've done with Wesker. I feel that it was within reasonable keeping of his character. The only other bad thing I can say is that Wesker wasn't around to fake his death in the first movie. But I'll forgive them that, because they put him in.
Claire Redfield is next on the list. The actress was too old to be Claire. Yes, she was pretty, but the portrayal of Claire was just... off. Even accounting for the differences in timeline, I think they could've done a better casting job here.
Logical errors. They're minor, but parts of the script just don't make much sense if you've been paying attention and not staring at the hot women the entire time.
Lastly we get to the tyrant (there was a point where I was CERTAIN I was going to see Hunters, but, I was disappointed). We do in fact get a large, dangerous beast with an over-sized arm claw. However, it has tentacles, and it can talk. But we won't hold that against it.
It does however pass the test of being damn near unkillable, even by a main character that has been powered up as much as Alice. In the end it's a Clone of Alice that saves the day.
And we leave off with the promise of a fourth movie that looks like it shall contain hundreds of clones of Alice all going after Wesker.
They get points for keeping Wesker alive, points for the tyrant. And the crows.
PLEASE! MAKE THEM NOT MAKE A FOURTH ONE! Unless, of course, Wesker is going to be awesomely Wesker, Birkin is going to appear and make a G-virus, and Wesker smacks a bunch of main characters around and then makes his escape at the end.
Then they could make a fourth movie with my blessing. And with how many clones there are, Wesker would have to do a LOT of smacking.
It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. That being said, my standards were so low that, had it actually have been as bad as I thought it would be, the only course of redemption for willingly watching it would have been to commit ritual suicide.