Resident Evil Director: Games Deserve Better Film Adaptations

[JWRosser]

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The Resident Evil films are bad movies (they're not great, but they're not awful), however, as game adaptations...ahem...ALICE.
There was no need to have her as a character. Although I must say I found it funny how they gave her the Force and various other super-powers at the end of Apocalypse, then realised how stupid it was, so got rid of them at the beginning of Afterlife.

In his defense, though, Afterlife was the most loyal to the games yet (or RE5 at least), so here's hoping Retribution does so too....
Also, where is Leon?

 

[Flailing Escapist]

Yeah, games do need better movie adaptations. Games like Resident Evil perhaps.

But I have a friend who gave a good analogy about comic books to comic book movies and I think its kinda relevent.
He said, "When watching a comic book movie you need to take off your comic book hat and put on your movie hat."

I suppose the same could be said about video games?

 

[Random Argument Man]

Hypocrisy: The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform.


It never hurts to know a few words before shooting your own foot.

 

[Mikko Laurinen]

Pot calling the kettle black, no?

Almost more like a black hole calling a kettle black.

 

[TheDooD]

NOW he says something after 4 movies come out...

 

[Roserari]

WHUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hehe

Wow. That was ... just ... wow.

 

[JasonKaotic]

I agree with him, but the films are sometimes good. I thought the Silent Hill film was pretty cool. But then again, I haven't properly played any Silent Hill games.

 

[Sylveria]

Yeah I remember that Resident Evil game where Alice had super strength, telekinesis, pyromancy, and super regeneration.. OH WAIT. For the love of crap Paul, just admit that you only make these movies as some weird big budget fan fiction you wrote about your wife.

 

[William Dickbringer]

In his defense, though, Afterlife was the most loyal to the games yet (or RE5 at least), so here's hoping Retribution does so too....

wait there's another one? oh god why can't they just stop at afterlife I enjoyed extinction but afterlife felt like they dropped the ball (just like resident evil 5 hey they did get something in common with the games)

 

[Broady Brio]

I thought Resident Evil: Degeneration was true to the material it's based on.

And I'm hoping THIS film will be as well. I think I may be cheating by mentioning CG films.
Okay. I'll admit, the name is pretty shit.

 

[Worr Monger]

This was the most painful thing I've read in a long time...

..He's actually being serious??

 

[Battenbergcake]

WHAAAT IS THIS?

 

[Jesus Phish]

He could make the next one about being in outer space and it would have as much in common with the games as the games do with the games.

Out of all the video-game to movie adaptations, he's probably done the best (it's not saying much). I almost enjoy his movies more than the games, because the last few games have wasted more of my time than his movies.

 

[Talvrae]

The guy should have kept some shame... There is no fan of the games amounf the fans of the movies of Resident Evil movie

 

[uzo]

I'm an old school Biohazard fan. Yup, played them all through in Japanese. Friends with the director of Biohazard 3 actually (he also did Onimusha btw). And I gotta say that the movies are a damned sight better than the trash since #4. Fucking hell ... are we making Biohazard or Gears of Fucking War?!

EDIT: I mean to INCLUDE #4. Goddamn. A few vague references to Umbrella, and hey presto! It's Biohazard!! FAAAAAR COUGH. I've coughed up shit more related to Biohazard than that Spanish wankfest.

 

[koroem]

Is this a joke? I'm having a hard time believing this is a serious non-trolling statement he made. His adaptations are so far away from the source material it is criminal. Then his idea of coming back to it is ripping off the Wesker/Chris fight scene almost shot for shot in Afterlife?

I'll stick to the games. The movies are good for a facepalm and a laugh.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

 

[Baresark]

Oh, like you're the one to talk about staying true the material, Anderson.

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say "You are not the person who should be saying this."

I am sure there are lots of other people who said the same thing as these two, and I am not picking you out specifically to be a jerk, just getting my point across. Directors don't have the end say in the content of a movie, the production studio does. They approve the script and then a director has to work with it. And while they may be able to change minor things, the overall content is mostly out of their hands. He is simply stating that the director is the one who has to put across the feelings of the games in how a movie is shot and played out.

OT: He is absolutely correct of course. Video game films now are what comic movies were before the turn of the century, shameless attempts to monetize a product into a different market.

 

[Viral_Lola]

Hahaha... wait. Is he being serious?

 

[Ziggy the wolf]

i like the resident evil movies.
they go from best to worst in my opinion:
2-1-4-3

the third one was crap and the 4th was just a little better but the last two left me unsatisfied. but he is right game movies should get more love but they are just cash ins so i doubt it.