::The Official Resident Evil Movie Discussion::

[Love_da_Dead]

For me, I enjoyed the movies quite a bit. They were pretty awesome. I mean I agree with Biohazard EXTRREME!!!...they still have the RE qualities. And plus I dont think the movies would be that interesting if they were just like the games, it would sorta be like owning 2 of the same thing...idk....lol. One thing though, I would totally like to start seeing more characters from the games in the movies and all....just not the same plot as the games...  

[Biohazard EXTREME]

The thing is, there are various things that make games fun, and there are things that make movies good. What was fun about the first RE? You explore the mansion, afraid of what's behind every corner, or fighting the bosses, but in the movies, that wouldn't work too well, because first of all, movies have a time limit, and second, the audience would get restless. The movies call to have more dialogue and action, whereas in games, the puzzles and exploring are what's fun. That's why the classic RE games were only so much action oriented. That's why if it was based on the games, then you'd have Jill ALONE, Chris, ALONE, Barry ALONE, all exploring the mansion, whereas in the movies we have now, people are most of the time in parties. It just wouldn't work. I mean, would I have fun watching an RE movie that was based solely off the games? Yes. Me, being a Resident Evil fan. But me, being a movie fanatic, I can safely say that if I wasn't into RE, I'd find a movie like that hella boring.  

[Biohazard EXTREME]

British director Paul W.S. Anderson, the man who brought us the Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil movies, has declared that it's no easy task to put games on the big screen - since gamers are a seriously demanding lot.

Speaking at the Hollywood and Games Summit, Anderson began by explaining how he first got into games: "As a nerdy young boy growing up in the north of England, I often contemplated the nerdy future ahead of me. Playing Dungeons & Dragons, the inevitable sexual frustrations afterward, and then playing more Dungeons & Dragons." (Anderson was once engaged to Resi star Milla Jovovich, by the way, so don't feel too sorry for him.)

"In the 1980s, I took shelter from a rainstorm in an arcade in London," Anderson continued.

"There, I saw a dozen boys gathered around what looked like a black monolith out of 2001. That game was Space Invaders. And on that rainy night, I played so long that I had to walk home in the rain because I spent my bus fare playing that game."

So what's a Hollywood director who likes his games to do but start making films based around them? Which is what Anderson did, of course, though it hasn't been an easy path.

"Clearly, it's a minefield. And it's a minefield as a film-maker you'd better learn to navigate," he said.

"If you stray too far from the source material you're doomed, but if you stay entirely true, you're equally doomed."

And that's not your only problem - there's the challenge of working out how to appeal to your target audience. Take Mortal Kombat, Anderson explained: "If it was to be a successful movie, it had to be PG-13 or the kids who actually played the game could not come and see it. Or worse, they would buy a ticket for another movie and sneak in."

Mortal Kombat ended up with a PG rating, of course, much to the displeasure of some fans. "Were there a few complaints that we didn't rip Liu King's heart out then pulped it in front of his eyes? Sure!"

So how do you make a good game movie? Well, "Sometimes you have to break the rules," Anderson reckons, "But in order to break the rules, you have to learn them.

"You have to develop a true love of the IP. You have to love it as much, or even more, than its most hardcore fan base, because really, only when you have that knowledge and you're equipped to not only satisfy the fanbase, but also broaden it to a wider non-videogame playing audience, can you have a successful movie."

It also helps "When the games themselves are cinematically influenced", according to Anderson - hence Resident Evil is Sony's second most profitable franchise after Spider-Man, while the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie failed to perform at the box office.

"I believe that some games weren't meant to be movies," Anderson concluded.

"Movies about plumbers are a genre that has passed us by."  

[Lord Travis]

I liked the Super Mario Brothers movie! gonk  

[Biohazard EXTREME]

Do you also like the Double Dragon movie?  

[Gen_Acid]

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Chris8904

Alice was totally invincible in the movie thats what really pissed me off. Karate fighting zombies...WTF!! stressed

But she wasn't a zombie. She was more of a Wesker-ish character.

Ark who?

Their can only be one wesker. Alice is a discrace.  

[Lord Travis]

Biohazard EXTREME

Do you also like the Double Dragon movie?

Didn't see it.  

[A5116278]

Gen_Acid

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Chris8904

Alice was totally invincible in the movie thats what really pissed me off. Karate fighting zombies...WTF!! stressed

But she wasn't a zombie. She was more of a Wesker-ish character.

Ark who?

Their can only be one wesker. Alice is a discrace.

alice was evil evil i would rape her with a cheese-grater  

[Canas Renvall]

Yikes. o_o; That sounds kinda... owies. >_>;  

[Elliot Salem]

Exodia The Forbidden One

Gen_Acid

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Chris8904

Alice was totally invincible in the movie thats what really pissed me off. Karate fighting zombies...WTF!! stressed

But she wasn't a zombie. She was more of a Wesker-ish character.

Ark who?

Their can only be one wesker. Alice is a discrace.

alice was evil evil i would rape her with a cheese-grater

That kind of talk will probably get you banned.  

[Lord Travis]

Vash Thompson

That kind of talk will probably get you banned.

Doubt it.  

[Biohazard EXTREME]

So, Liam... You're saying that you're into the kinky things and since Alice wouldn't be willing, you'd force her?  

[Elliot Salem]

Lord Travis

Vash Thompson

That kind of talk will probably get you banned.

Doubt it.

Moose got banned for saying similiar things, only about one of the members here.  

[Rue S Cross]

I'm not going to lie, I liked the movies. Reason: I can look past the game, because it ain't easy to make a movie out of any game. Tomb Raider, Doom, hell, I'll even throw the future Halo into the equation. All of them were/will-be horrible (although, the only one I disliked was Tomb Raider), but one can't really be looking at these things from a purely gamer standpoint. That'll get you nowhere fast.  

[Biohazard EXTREME]

Exactly. And someone said this, and described it perfectly... A movie based on a video game is basically a piece of Fan Fiction brought to screen.