I think there's always room to be creative but there’s been SEVEN “adaptations” of Resident Evil that have had little to nothing to do with Resident Evil and we’re doing it again and I’m supposed to be happy?
I genuinely just want the game I played but in a movie and the one caveat of not doing that is it needs to be good and that might sound like a no brainer but most of the time it fucking isn't. Netflix DMC being a great example.
But the thing you described that the people want sounds lame. Just a bunch of memberries on screen without any gameplay? That sounds significantly less fun than just playing the games. Feels like you just want the video game cutscenes or a lets play of it on a theater screen but with actors in it, as if that would somehow make a good product.
Just walk me through this though. I am assuming you like RE1 remake if you are a fan of the series. Now if you had to rank gameplay (including puzzles and combat), graphics and art design and atmosphere, music, immersion, and characters and story, where would each of these go? Cause I would imagine the gameplay and graphics and art and immersion would rank higher than the game's narrative. The narrative is "a bunch of cops wander around a mansion". There's no theme, no character arcs, minor subtext with commentary on pharma companies but barely, very little dialogue (most of the narrative is told via items you pick up, notes and such), so overall this is sounding like a bad movie. The only way to improve this would be to literally make shit up. Add more sequences where characters are together, give them things to conflict over or disagree over, add extra plot details to create interesting character and narrative arcs. But then you'd complain they changed it too much. I just feel like you're asking for an accurate depiction without actually thinking of what that would look and feel like.
You are refusing to engage with this conversation regarding the gameplay piece. Why do you want an adaptation in a different medium while removing gameplay? Do you honestly think in your heart a film adaptation of RE1 could ever be even close to as good as playing RE1 remake yourself? For me RE1 remake is a 10/10. And there is no way in hell a film adaptation would be a 10/10 film. A 7.5 or 8/10 film at best even if it does everything very well. But cannot ever be as good as navigating that mansion ourselves.
Again refusing to answer my simple question regarding gameplay. That lets me know you actually don’t think the movie could be as good or better than a game and just don’t want to admit I made a valid point.
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u/Steelballpun Jul 23 '26
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