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nyarlothothep wrote: »Three reasons
1. Milla Jovovich
2. Zombies
3. Explosions
You are forgetting -
1. Crap films
2. Crap films
3. Crap films
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In fairness, the films could have been so much better. They were an oppurtunity wasted.
Resident Evil 1 didn't need much work to make it suitable for the big screen. All the elements were there, mystery, suspense, horror, intrigue, the mansion....& what did we get? All of those elements were discarded & in their place a Hollywood orgy of utter bollox
Res Evil 1 was a bit boring and the pacing was crap but Res 2 was Hell Yeah! An explosion for every scene, how can you beat that? Cheesy dialogue, fast paced action, chainguns...it was full of win. Res Evil 3 didn't change the formula and was also good. What's not to like?
For anyone with rose tinted glasses about Res Evil 1.
Even when I was playing these as a kid I picked up on the extreme cheesiness in this game which was great at the time and still is. The films are just staying true to the spirit of the games.0 -
nyarlothothep wrote: »Res Evil 1 was a bit boring and the pacing was crap but Res 2 was Hell Yeah! An explosion for every scene, how can you beat that? Cheesy dialogue, fast paced action, chainguns...it was full of win. Res Evil 3 didn't change the formula and was also good. What's not to like?
Because when a film is filled with those things it tends to be mindless feces, only appealing to Louisiana residents.nylarothothep wrote:For anyone with rose tinted glasses about Res Evil 1.
Even when I was playing these as a kid I picked up on the extreme cheesiness in this game which was great at the time and still is. The films are just staying true to the spirit of the games.
It certainly had cheesy voice acting & dialogue, no disputing that. That's why I said it didn't need 'much' work to adapt it for the big screen. The game had abundant atmosphere & class in a lot of other ways too, which didn't carry over into the films.
Chain guns & explosions have a place in Resident Evil, but so does atmosphere, horror, & story...the films only took the aforementioned.0 -
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nyarlothothep wrote: »Why does every film need to be serious/dark/intellectual? Sure I like intellectual films but I also like mindless entertainment when its done right and Res Evil meets that criteria. So the films didn't incorporate the tension and atmosphere of the games which were attributable to weird camera angles, an excellent soundtrack and the fact that it was interactive, why should it matter when they work perfectly well as action movies?
Mindless entertainment is all well and good but the Resident Evil films only cover the mindless part. I like my dumb action films as well but **** action films are still ****.
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There's better looking women out there than Milla Jovovich. Better looking women who can act and aren't in **** films. Women that don't look like the pictures in my junior cert history books in the famine section. That woman needs a few steaks.
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nyarlothothep wrote: »Why does every film need to be serious/dark/intellectual? Sure I like intellectual films but I also like mindless entertainment when its done right and Res Evil meets that criteria. So the films didn't incorporate the tension and atmosphere of the games which were attributable to weird camera angles, an excellent soundtrack and the fact that it was interactive, why should it matter when they work perfectly well as action movies?
I never said every film has to be like that, but when the source material already has them, its beyond foolish to disregard them. They don't work perfectly well as action movies either, I find them intensly boring & not engaging in the slightest.nyarlothothep wrote: »But it has explosions and Milla Jovovich with zombies, these reasons are why the franchise is good, google alone isn't enough. Competent means well made in my book.
There are many, many movies with hot girls, explosions & zombies...I take it then they all qualify as good movies? Me thinks your looking for a reaction at this point
Your book is also wrong. Competent means just about making the grade, & those films sadly don't. Die Hard is the perfect example of a solid nuts n bolts action film, the resi's don't hold a candle to it. Oh, no zombies either 0 -
I never said every film has to be like that, but when the source material already has them, its beyond foolish to disregard them. They don't work perfectly well as action movies either, I find them intensly boring & not engaging in the slightest.
There are many, many movies with hot girls, explosions & zombies...I take it then they all qualify as good movies? Me thinks your looking for a reaction at this point
Your book is also wrong. Competent means just about making the grade, & those films sadly don't. Die Hard is the perfect example of a solid nuts n bolts action film, the resi's don't hold a candle to it. Oh, no zombies either
Yes but so what, that's your opinion, the films work well, but you don't happen to see that, I do. Competent means making the grade, a C+ or B-, ergo good but not great. Die Hard wasn't a nuts and bolts film, it was action ballet, it was artful, graceful even in its action and violence.
As for MJ, what?!!!?!?!0 -
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nyarlothothep wrote: »Well at least you're halfway there, in time you'll like Resident Evil films, in time
I'm actually starting to thine you DO live in multi dimensional space 0 -
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I love Guns N Roses, I love Terminator 2, I love guitar rock & have no time for reality tv, no real interest in foreign cinema, jrpg's, rpg's. I love chipper food, hate forced conformity myself & don't wear hipsters. I'm a firm believer in sex, drugs & rock n roll...& I STILL MAINTAIN THE RESIDENT EVIL FILMS ARE SH!TE!
Terminator 2 is American and therefore technically, foreign cinema.
I'm also pretty sure you're fond of a chicken curry. Nothing Irish about that. In fact, one could say it's foreign food.
Damn it dude, of all the people on here, I didn't have you down as a hipster too.
What has the world come to
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Terminator 2 is American and therefore technically, foreign cinema.
I'm also pretty sure you're fond of a chicken curry. Nothing Irish about that. In fact, one could say it's foreign food.
Damn it dude, of all the people on here, I didn't have you down as a hipster too.
What has the world come to
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I'd like to say that Paul WS Anderson is the worst thing to happen to videogame adaptations but then I remember that he nailed the Mortal Kombat film. A schlocky brainless martial arts movie based on a game based on schlocky martial arts movies. I quite enjoyed it. He's since gone on to ruin everything he touches. I weep when I remember Alien vs PRedator
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The Silent Hill film wasn't the worst. You had to respect that the fact that they actually made an effort to adapt the game world.
They got the atmosphere and visuals right, the writing on the other hand was terrible. There were a few scenes in the film where the characters found a mcguffin that told them to go to a certain place in silent hill, they get there and then find another mcguffin that leads them to the next destination. There's adapting a videogame faithfully and then there's being stupid and adding something in that only works within a videogame.
It was just a dumb horror film as well, didn't have any of the psychological horror of the games. It was over the top gory, Silent Hill had it's gory moments but it was more about what you didn't see and most of this was in Silent Hill 3 where the gore had a purpose, the entire game was about pregnancy. The film just completely missed the point of the symbolism of everything in the games right down to the tragically misplaced Pyramid Head, they really missed the point there. In silent hill 2 it was a phallic enemy representing the agressive side of the male. It was just fan service in the film. Saying that the western developers in charge of the some of the later games missed the point in a similar way.
Silent Hill wasn't bad but it wasn't great. A real missed oppurtunity because it could have been something really special.
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I liked Silent Hill a lot, but then I had just finished Silent Hill 2.
Die Hard rewrote the action book but then so did Commando and Last Action Hero.
Stallone had to wait until the last Rambo movie to make a decent one.
The Resi movie are muck, aside, perhaps, for the first one which had that cool laser grid thingy, and that was it.
Your Highness was tragic, yes there were a few laughs but they were very thin on the ground, it reminded me of a more vulgar Men In Tights, another movie that should have been far far better.
The first MK movie was great fun, saw it in the Ambassador when they still showed movies there and it was pretty good for what it was.
Probably my favourite thing with the words "Mortal Kombat" on it!
And yes Mr Ultimate,
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Off topic, but I think I'll try my hand at making Ramen soon. My Katsu curry would have been great if my dad hadn't come along and thrown a load of chilli powder into the pot while I was making it (grr, it's meant to be sweet, not spicy!).
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Jack burton wrote: »Andrew, I'll send ya up a freezer bag sure, Just send me down one of your nomads sure and we'll be even haha
Hehe only have one left I'm afraid.
Sure forget about that Sega lark, buy my boxed A600 and get into some proper gaming.
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