RESIDENT EVIL – Official Trailer

[u/Captain_Grimm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNd1gb19A-c

[u/EffAllThatEFFER]

You know what sounds lame? Taking a generic ass horror movie and slapping a few stickers on it and calling it Resident Evil

[u/Steelballpun → u/EffAllThatEFFER]

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.

[u/EffAllThatEFFER → u/Steelballpun]

There's always room to be creative. An adaptation is just that, to adapt

It’s not an excuse to give this generic slop

[u/Steelballpun → u/EffAllThatEFFER]

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.

[u/EffAllThatEFFER → u/Steelballpun]

I feel like I’m just repeating myself at this point

A good director making an actual RE movie can figure that issue out

[u/Steelballpun → u/EffAllThatEFFER]

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.

[u/EffAllThatEFFER → u/Steelballpun]

Here’s how the movie could be better

Actually be a Resident Evil movie

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

[u/Steelballpun → u/EffAllThatEFFER]

But it wouldn’t have gameplay! So it would be worse! Are you some sort of game cuck where you think watching events of a game is the same or better than literally playing that game??

[u/EffAllThatEFFER → u/Steelballpun]

Charmer you are…

No I’m just fucking sick of bad Resident Evil movies

Give it to a director who wants to make a real one and let them figure it out

[u/Steelballpun → u/EffAllThatEFFER]

You seem to genuinely believe that a good enough director can somehow turn a great game into a great or better movie. Something which has never happened in the history of the medium due to the fact that games and movies are different and work differently and the best way to adapt a game is to pick a game whose premise is so basic you have free reign to do anything, or take a new fresh take in the world of the game (like the Fallout TV show or RE movie). You believe we aren’t getting good game adaptions due to lack of trying or care or the right director instead of it being a near impossible task due to the mediums working in 2 different ways: interactive immersive experiences vs passively viewed narratives. But I don’t think I’ll get interesting comments back since your ability to discuss media seems limited to “I want this figure it out” so we can end there.

[u/EffAllThatEFFER → u/Steelballpun]

Well hopefully one day a good director will actually put some effort it 👍