The Resident Evil movies are (mostly) good movies, and their choices around adaptation were good ones. They drilled down into the parts of Resident Evil worth building a film around. They focused on being fun. They focused on cool visuals, great music, entertaining spectacle.
The Resident Evil movies are (mostly) good movies, and their choices around adaptation were good ones...
Yet the first 45 minutes of Welcome to Raccoon City are the best thing the franchise has ever brought to the medium?
Of course the movie reaches some serious depths of cringe after that and its casting failures become egregious but I think the point remains that there hasn't actually be a good adaptation of Resident Evil yet even if you like the PTA movies (1-3 are actually good)
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1 and maybe 2 could be argued that they were almost semi-okay movies. Everything after that should have just gone straight into a shredder.
Even if you peel off the sticker and ignore the "Resident Evil" part, the overall story zigzags into an insane mess, the action scenes are shot like shit, and she even stops getting naked in them.
There are many posters I don't like, but you're the only one that gives me the ick.
Yet the first 45 minutes of Welcome to Raccoon City are the best thing the franchise has ever brought to the medium?
Howso? The opening 45 minutes are just budget wanna Carpenter, complete with the Carpenter font, thrown over a retelling of the mediocre story of the first and second games.
Everything after that should have just gone straight into a shredder.
3 is fantastic. Was directed by the guy who did Highlander, and part of what really makes the film work is that it embraces its own identity, its own aesthetic. The weakest film, creatively, is Apocalypse, the second one. Worse director, lack of creative confidence. Entertaining, but a mess.
I will never hate this series because it's one man shilling his hot ukranian gf
She's Russian, and a cunt
the animated re:vendetta one is good, look at this kino
the other one on alcatraz not so much
yes but it's still based of Anderson to hijack a new nerdshit series to shill his wife.
Howso?
90s style cinematography really, not just aesthetics. The grainy unstable camerawork that doesn't go too far into shaky cam was good. The shot of Claire staring into the forest especially was excellent. It overall is the closest thing that captures the feeling of the games. But like I said, it goes off the rails very quickly and fast becomes one of the worst adaptations after the Netflix shit. What they did to Leon from a writing and casting perspective is fucking criminal.
Did you know that the actress originally approached to play Alice was Sarah Michelle Gellar? That is confirmed. It is rumoured but not confirmed that the reason she declined is that Paul W.S. Anderson refused to remove the nude scenes from the script. So they bring in the European chick (Jovovich) who is comfortable getting naked.
2 is god fucking awful
How is the cinematography of WTRC more "90s" than the other films? RE looks very similar to films actually shot in the 90s. (Because it was made in 2002.) 4 and 5 have completely stable camera work because they were shot in 3D.
3 is shot like an 80s film. Mulcahy's style hasn't really changed since Highlander. That same use of hand-held tracking shots, fast cuts, and close-ups. He even has a scene where he hand-held tracks from a bullet's perspective rushing towards its target.
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The soulless Jew bitch? Big bullet dodged right there. Resident Evil is nothing without Milla.
1 is a good movie with a single genius tier scene. 2 and 3 are watchable, and everything beyond feels like a comedy.
2 is a mess, but it is entertaining. There were issues beyond their control, and Jovovich and the director Alex Witt both gave 110% despite not liking each other at the time. The film has great aesthetics. It has stylish characters. He's cooler in Extinction, but Carlos is already very cool in Apocalypse. The film's script is obviously a mess of subplots, but the ideas it has are strong.
The series was meant to wrap up with 3. So everything after that is kinda just fucking around. However, 4-6 have some great scenes.
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The series got way more experimental after 3. 4's opening scene is a Koyaanisqatsi homage. 5 was originally meant to be even more surreal and mind-bending, but the studio intervened in post-production to dumb it down. 6 is messy, but it has a gritty, grounded feel that is actually a bit of a return to form. People complain about Alice turning into a superhero. That's exactly what 6 was designed to address. And people ignore that.
The problem isn't the cinematography itself, it's the tone shift, i remember a single scene about RE4 and that is when a giant 9 ft tall monster with a giant axe sneaks upon the entire cast to chop some chinese dude in half, i had to leave the cinema because i couldn't stop laughing, straight out of scary movie
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Meanwhile the one genius scene of the OG Resident Evil, being the laser room obviously was so good that it was put on the games years later, and if you look these back to back you can inmediately tell the tonal shift the series had
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Some blame 3D tech but i think the people filming was just following the games and Afterlife was right around RE5 which wasn't remoltedly similar to the PS1 games.
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I can enjoy them, but why the fuck are they edited so schizophrenically?
we could have had buffy bush
It's not fair
No, I don't think that I will. Now fuck off
he’s right tho
Respectfully I got to disagree just based on the fact that RE 1 and 2 especially are quintessential naughties filmmaking techniques where they set up shots with hyper kinetic editing in mind. It's why they allow so many "errors". In the 90s (and even more so for most decades before that) there was a larger emphasis on mise en scene and polish in the frame. There is a particular feel to 90s stuff that is 100% intentionally replicated especially at the beginning of WTRC
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suggesting anyone else needs the rope
Enjoy your Netflix cashgrabs you fucking heathen
Every single one was shit and boring. But for some reason I didn't mind 3. Maybe I was just in a good mood when I went to the kinoplex.
by far the best theme, honestly should be the theme for the entire Resident Evil franchise.
Yet the first 45 minutes of Welcome to Raccoon City
That movie was fine for the first half for me but the second half really rushed things. I have a feeling they cut a lot of shit to keep it under two hours to shit it out.
The TV show they did still feels like a fever dream.
I feel bad for the stunt woman who died on the last PTA movie. Dying for that shit.. oof.
2 was a different team, so it absolutely has a very 2004 feel. 2 is edited very weirdly. It has a lot of dutch angles. It has jitter framed slow motion sections. It has sound effects any time anyone does anything.
But 1 and 3, not so much. While I think you can obviously point to some trends in wider editing, I think that they were attempting to do a modernized version of the so-called "music video editing" of Mulcahy's work in the 80s. Alien vs. Predator is cut the same way, and that film (in its extended cut) literally opens with a Russell Mulcahy hand-held chase shot in "Razorback Point", a reference to the film Razorback, which was also shot this same way.
I do feel the need to point out that Resident Evil 3, 4, 5, Death Race, and In the Lost Lands are edited by Niven Howie, who was the editor on Lock Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels for Guy Ritchie. He also edited the 2004 Dawn of the Dead film. He pioneered speed ramping. (Transitioning in and out of slow motion), which is why it shows up Guy Ritchie, Paul W.S. Anderson, and Zack Snyder films.
It's a shame In the Lost Lands had script issues and didn't do very well. I feel like they should have just bitten the bullet and explicitly made it a Resident Evil sequel set years after the ending of The Final Chapter.
Try harder next time
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The part I find curious is how there's actually a few parallels between the Netflix RE show and In the Lost Lands, especially with the cult stuff. Makes me wonder if they had access to unused PWSA story stuff.
Remind me again why people don't like RE6? I know the editing is aggressive, but it was intentional. It's meant to be disorienting. It takes the franchise back to its gritty, grounded roots. The dialogue is pretty decent.
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I would like to see Boogie Nights set in Raccoon City.
Garbage
these movies are based and red-pilled
just out there, only a shotgun and maybe 6 rounds
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I really enjoy Afterlife and Retribution for what they are. What they do is so fucking strange and gimmicky that it gives the movies a real artistic voice of their own even if you hate what that voice is saying
That said, I find Final Chapter insufferable because it's similar to the previous two installments yet inferior. It's probably just because Guy Ritchie has been mentioned ITT but it feels like how Guy Ritchie now makes shitty ripoffs of Guy Ritchie movies
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Go to bed Milla.
Final Chapter is a film I can't settle on. I like it sometimes but then I remember it's basically just RE Extinction again, but RE Extinction is way cooler.
That's just the Tekken 6 intro
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My argument for Final Chapter being straight trash is that I fucking loved the imaginary fight scene from Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, the concept utterly tickled me and i got 100% invested in it, but when it's rehashed in RE6 it feels so inept