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Resident Evil
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:27 pm
by Dimitri
ok I know the games and movies came out a while back but i was wondering how you all thought they were compared to each other, I know the movies hardly had anything to do with the games and books(yes there are books based on the games) but some people LOVED the movies while others didnt, if you would pls post your feeling on this
personaly i liked the games and books far better than the movies, all they did in the movies was take the basic concept and make some completely out there, these are my thoughts, feel free to contradict me or agree
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:43 pm
by KattaK
the movies were OKAY, but i can never forgive them for making the juggernaut, Nemisis, cry in the the second movie; that was completely ridiculous.
Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:57 pm
by bredan
KattaK wrote:the movies were OKAY, but i can never forgive them for making the juggernaut, Nemisis, cry in the the second movie; that was completely ridiculous.
some guy laughed himself to a coma i heard.
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:00 am
by marthwmaster
Were they ever gonna do us a third one? I felt they kinda left us hanging there. I mean, how can the good guys win when the bad guys have space satellites?! That has to be resolved eventually.
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:37 am
by S1lentOp
As far as game-to-movie conversions go, the Resident Evil series isn't too bad. It certainly topped DOOM, Street Fighter I and II, and Blood Rayne. Of course, the game gives the players something the movie can't. Interactivity. The games have more substance in their story. This is probably because it takes several hours to beat a Resident Evil game, whereas the movies are only 2 hours long as most. For what they are, the RE movies aren't half bad, but no movie can top the game it's based on.
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:11 am
by Nenja
in the movie 2 they put 12 s.t.a.r.s menbers which is bull and nemesis was supose to figth jill and he never used hes tentacles but he's' Ganling Gun owned and he's desing rocked
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:37 am
by Wan
RE4 owns all. Id like to see how RE5 will do however.
In terms of the movies...First one is terrible. The whole thing was just...well i wasnt into it. They shouldve just made a RE movie about RE 1. How they do it? Well cutscenes arent that long and most of what you do before 4 is run around in bad camera angles. They couldve made it a 2-3 hour movie. People would come and only thing theyd complain about was how long the movie was.
But thats usually ppl who dont play alot of video games. Like people said Pirates 2 was long. Which to me it wasnt because it had alot of ground to cover and the 2nd one was really making way for the 3rd one.
But about the 2nd movie. It did alot better IMO, but it still had some abstract material that wasnt in game.
RE
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:43 am
by hirsty_89
I'm a long time fan of the RE games they are just plain good and Resi 4 was brilliant. I expected more from the movies maybe horror perhaps however I believe they could have been much worse than they were.
P.S. one thing that pissed me off was the fist fight with Nemesis that was just plain stupid and shouldn't have ever been thought of it just sucked
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:15 am
by KattaK
S1lentOp wrote:As far as game-to-movie conversions go, the Resident Evil series isn't too bad. It certainly topped DOOM, Street Fighter I and II, and Blood Rayne. Of course, the game gives the players something the movie can't. Interactivity. The games have more substance in their story. This is probably because it takes several hours to beat a Resident Evil game, whereas the movies are only 2 hours long as most. For what they are, the RE movies aren't half bad, but no movie can top the game it's based on.
why does everybody hate the doom movie? it was mindless action that had absolutely nothing to do with the game but the FPS sequence was cool! it should get some credit.
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 12:57 pm
by Dimitri
Karma wrote:The movies kind of suck, since they have almost nothing to do with the games at all.

i completely agree. wow it seems people thought the same way i did, the games were cool the books were awsome, but if you make a movie based of a game, it should be about the game, the only thing the first movie had in common with the game was that the masion was outside of Racoon, there were zombies, it was the result of the T-virus, and there was an underground lab, thats were the similarities ended. In the second movie: the zombies were in Racoon, there was a super monster named NEMISIS, and Jill was in it, thats it
Books
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:03 pm
by hirsty_89
Wow i didnt think anyone else had read the books!!! yeah they're well better than the films even the ones about the films lol
Re: Books
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:00 pm
by Dimitri
hirsty_89 wrote:Wow i didnt think anyone else had read the books!!! yeah they're well better than the films even the ones about the films lol
which ones have you read, ive only read the ones based on the games, ive read 0,1,2,3,4,5, code veronica
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:10 pm
by hirsty_89
yeah same here I also read the book based on the first film which was quite good as well but definately not as good as other books (different author)
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:34 pm
by S1lentOp
KattaK wrote:S1lentOp wrote:As far as game-to-movie conversions go, the Resident Evil series isn't too bad. It certainly topped DOOM, Street Fighter I and II, and Blood Rayne. Of course, the game gives the players something the movie can't. Interactivity. The games have more substance in their story. This is probably because it takes several hours to beat a Resident Evil game, whereas the movies are only 2 hours long as most. For what they are, the RE movies aren't half bad, but no movie can top the game it's based on.
why does everybody hate the doom movie? it was mindless action that had absolutely nothing to do with the game but the FPS sequence was cool! it should get some credit.
I could write a book about why the DOOM movie was awful and a complete disappointment to any legitament DOOM fan who was once looking forward to it. It all boils down to four things. Fighting scene, story, monsters, and The Rock.
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 3:35 pm
by hirsty_89
The rock is more than enough to put me off any film he is wihtout a doubt the worst actor EVER!!!
Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:19 pm
by KattaK
hey i only like it because of the FPS scene, i've never seen that done before! and yes the rock sucks
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:36 am
by bredan
i knew it sucked from the begining
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:01 am
by Reon
marthwmaster wrote:Were they ever gonna do us a third one? I felt they kinda left us hanging there.
Ive done a little snooping around..and found that YES there is gonna be a third Resident Evil..entitled Resident Evil:Afterlife. I'll let you know if something changes, whether its the release date or title or anything like that
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:06 am
by marthwmaster
hirsty_89 wrote:The rock is more than enough to put me off any film he is wihtout a doubt the worst actor EVER!!!
Oh there's a doubt. And there will be as long as Willaim Shatner continues to exist.

Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:01 pm
by Dimitri
Reon wrote:Ive done a little snooping around..and found that YES there is gonna be a third Resident Evil..entitled Resident Evil:Afterlife. I'll let you know if something changes, whether its the release date or title or anything like that
hmm, ill probably watch it, mainly because ive watched the other 2 and I'll want to see how this ends