Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

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Originally Posted by TigerClaw

Also every time I hear that song, It reminds me of this.

https://c.tenor.com/uJm_ZTk5WGMAAAAC/heman-hey.gif

I don't have the vocabulary to express how much I hate you.

Originally Posted by IMJ

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I straight up think that the first Silent Hill flick was fantastic horror - easily one of the best video game movies ever made and really a great and unique horror flick on it's own merits.

The sequel was trash though. It was like going from Brandon Lee in the Crow right to any of it's watered down "The CW" knockoff sequels.

Can't agree more. First time I saw the movie, I never played the games so the movie was very "eh" to me without any context. Like it was "fine" but I didn't notice lots of things about it which made it great. Some things, you really do need to be completely immersed in the source material to truly "get", and I think that was one of those movies.

Because when I watched it again after I'd played Silent Hill 2, like, a half dozen times, there was SO MUCH to see and appreciate in the film that just went completely over my head the first time I'd seen it. It's such a perfect adaptation in all of the important ways; like yes, it deviates, but it goes to such incredible lengths to capture the spirit and the essence of the games, to the point where it really is the most faithful video game adaptation I've personally ever seen. When I read about how they made it, I couldn't help but be impressed with the director's dedication, to the point where there were people literally playing the games on-set just off to the side of the camera so they could compare things and make sure they were "getting it right".

Making the second film with a different director who was "just" making a horror movie and not trying to make it feel like the games in any significant way really hurt it. They waited too long to make it, and if they couldn't get the original director back they just shouldn't have bothered. I definitely wanted to see where the story went after the ending of the first movie, so that was intriguing, but the execution was botched. Too much humor, the tacked-on love story sh*t really hurt it, and it was just so half-assed compared to the first one. They left it open for Part 3, but I would only want to see it if the original director came back. The sequel was SO disappointing.

Originally Posted by IMJ

Oh geeze man. I forgot the Hellboy flick with Stranger Things guy even existed. I never saw it......

It's okay. I liked it for what it was. I know nobody but me is capable of doing this, for some reason, but you really just have to ignore the Del Toro ones and try and appreciate the reboot on its own merits, and if you can do that it's good. It's not as "slick" as the Del Toro ones and it doesn't aim as high, but it's fun. Anytime someone makes a movie with the mission statement, "We want this one to be more faithful to the source material," I'm in. Was never a huge fan of the Hellboy comics but I can appreciate the approach. Del Toro was basically making a "twisted fairy tale" with a love story tacked on, and the reboot was completely different, so if you're romantically in love with the original movies then the reboot won't sit well. But I thought both versions were good movies for entirely different reasons.

I wouldn't say it was like, a fantastic movie or anything. But I did notice that most of the "criticism" about it was just, "I like Del Toro's better, this one has no right to exist" and I just think that's very unfair. Decent low-budget horror/comedy splatterfest. Lots of dark humor and gore. I can't see how anyone going into it with no expectations would hate it. But that's me.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

nobody actors and way less budgets.

Things like this frankly shouldn't matter. Especially within the horror genre, which basically made its bones on Exactly Those Things.