Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

[Andrew NDB]

Saw it. Surprisingly good! Much better than the trailers make it seem. Way more like what I thought a Resident Evil movie should be like than the Paul W.S. Anderson movies.

[sdp]

apparently this was done on low budget to keep the movie rights? Explains the lack of marketing, cheap looking and how the RE tv show has more promotion going for it and it's not even coming out this year. Expect a sequel in 5 years so they don't lose the rights to the movie franchise.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by sdp

apparently this was done on low budget to keep the movie rights? Explains the lack of marketing, cheap looking and how the RE tv show has more promotion going for it and it's not even coming out this year. Expect a sequel in 5 years so they don't lose the rights to the movie franchise.

I enjoyed it. The wife did, too, and she's obsessed with the games. It doesn't look like the box office is too favorable, though.

And don't forget, the woke Netflix Resident Evil series is still coming:

https://www.gameinformer.com/e3-2021...dick-as-wesker

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I enjoyed it. The wife did, too, and she's obsessed with the games. It doesn't look like the box office is too favorable, though.

And don't forget, the woke Netflix Resident Evil series is still coming:

https://www.gameinformer.com/e3-2021...dick-as-wesker

Oh see, I thought this movie was the woke $#!(, but I guess that's the confusion when a studio does overall dumb $#!( with their I.P.s.....

I don't think I realized the difference between what little I heard about this movie and what little I heard about the Netflix show.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

Oh see, I thought this movie was the woke $#!(, but I guess that's the confusion when a studio does overall dumb $#!( with their I.P.s.....

I don't think I realized the difference between what little I heard about this movie and what little I heard about the Netflix show.

Netflix is the show with Black Wesker and no white males. New movie is pretty much a straight up adaptation of the first two games... no woke stuff except making Leon pretty incompetent, possibly Indian, and making Jill that lady that played Ghost in Ant-Man 2.

[Turo602]

The movie is hot trash with garbage casting and purposely race swaps the 2 most popular characters. They bit off more than they can chew by cramming 2 stories in 1 despite looking like a direct to DVD film. They just need to kill this franchise on film already if they're gonna keep butchering it like this.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Turo602

The movie is hot trash with garbage casting and purposely race swaps the 2 most popular characters. They bit off more than they can chew by cramming 2 stories in 1 despite looking like a direct to DVD film.

To me it was by far better than any of the Jovovich crapshoots. I know that's not saying much, though.

And not only did they cram 2 stories into 1, but they also skipped over RE3. Given the ending of this movie, the story of RE3 can't be told since there's no Nemesis. So if there's a second movie, they can skip right to RE4, which apparently is what they're saying most interests them (as well as RE7/RE.

[sdp]

Well my point was not the quality of the film, it could be great I dunno haven't watched it. But the conspiracy online seems to be that it was only done so they wouldn't lose the rights of the movie like those marvel movies based on fantastic four, captain america and whatnot from the early 90s.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Turo602

The movie is hot trash with garbage casting and purposely race swaps the 2 most popular characters. They bit off more than they can chew by cramming 2 stories in 1 despite looking like a direct to DVD film. They just need to kill this franchise on film already if they're gonna keep butchering it like this.

Quoted for accuracy and appropriate vitriol.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

To me it was by far better than any of the Jovovich crapshoots. I know that's not saying much, though.

And not only did they cram 2 stories into 1, but they also skipped over RE3. Given the ending of this movie, the story of RE3 can't be told since there's no Nemesis. So if there's a second movie, they can skip right to RE4, which apparently is what they're saying most interests them (as well as RE7/RE.

I saw the first few in the theater and ultimately bought them all on Blu-Ray. They are terrible Resident Evil flicks, but for a while they were anticipated escapism whenever a new one showed up. Also, there was the hope with each one that they'd "finally get it right", which they never did.

I've evolved. Now I don't "hope" and I don't pay for, as Turo put it, hot trash.