Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City - ANOTHER Crushing Disappointment
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- čas přidán 7. 12. 2021
- It seems Hollywood just can't get Resident Evil right, and Welcome to Raccoon City is another movie that totally misses what should be the easiest mark ever.
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The disappointment began when they thought Carlos was Leon.
When I first saw the trailer, I thought it was Carlos until I saw the uniform.
@@NinjaCthulhu Me too 😄 🤣
Man with his hair style leon actor. Would've made a great live action carlos 😊.
Lmao man yes!! 😂💀
😂😂😂
“This movie is made for the fans”
Proceeds to change virtually everything about RE1 and RE2.
They always say that for sales purposes.
It's coherent, don't you see it.
That "we made if for the fan" thing has become a redflag for me since SO MANY time it was used by hacks trying to peddle their shit onto fans.
Real "made for fan" stuff don't need to say it, it instantly shows.
Anytime I hear directors or producers say shit like an intellectual property was made for the fans, or about how they're huge fans, my shit-o-meter is at 10 out of 10.
Yeah my friend is a HUGE RE fan and he definitely didn’t like it
Making leon an idiot just ruined everything
Right? Like of all the stupid reasons to put him in Raccoon City. "Yeah I shot my partner in the butt but because my daddy is a police chief, he pulled some strings and got me a new cop job here!"
Yeah in the games Leon isn't and idiot he's actually competent the only time you see Leon be competent is at the end with a rocket launcher. Which his casting was bad also
Exactly. Like when he was sleeping and a explosion plus a burning zombie didn't wake him up? Like what?
He was a hero in the games. Literally was a special agent sent to protect the presidents daughter.
@@zvonkothebronco1070 My point exactly, I had to explain to my missus - who never played resident evil and only knew of the Milla Jovavich films - that in actuality, Leon is a badassed muthafucka, not this waste of shit in the film.
Yeah Leon was made to look like more of a Kevin Ryman of Resident Evil Outbreak but Although like a blacksheep Ryman was still a badass. Leon here is just so bad hes even so bad than Brad Vickers. This leon failed to capture the original Rookie Cop who albeit knows less about weapons and fighting is still a serious, dedicated, quit witted smartass whos experience in surviving RC led him to oppose umbrella and join government agencies to this effect becoming a super agent close to the president. Leon rookie or matured version always has the sophisticated feel about him.
Quick note: the Redfields have always been orphans. That was part of the reason Claire dropped everything to go look for her brother: he was all she had left. But Chris was old enough to look after his sister as a legal guardian when their mother died. So putting them in an orphanage was still very much out of place
The Leon casting alone is unforgivable
They couldn’t even shave him.. that unforgivable!
@MatchaLatte Because he's a white blonde male hero
@MatchaLatte I'd actually say that his casting in Retribution was pretty good. Well, and compared to this one, it's 10/10.
Him and Jill.
Game's Leon - Caucasian
This Leon - Jew.
Me: "Just why?"
The only good Resident Evil movie we’re going to get are the cut scenes in the game. Congrats Drinker on 1 million subs.
Even that's a stretch lmoa
Only good RE movies we gonna get is from R34 creators...
@@Raccon_Detective. CGI movies were cringe.
Resident evil 1 was awesome and a good movie and the best one in fact (atleast for me).
Pretty much lol
I love the fact that Jill & Sherry simply exist for no other reason than fanservice in the movie.
When a movie can't manage something as simple as the casting, you know its gonna be a waste of time.
When Drinker opens with “Jesus wept,” you know you’re going to need a drink.
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Shortest verse in the bible
Yeah, true. And a double STRONG one at that...
classic Drinker quote
More than one.
I remember binge watching the original 6 movies and thinking to myself "there is no way the next one can be worse than this one" and I was wrong EVERY. SINGLE. TIME
The only enjoyable ones for me were 1 and 2. Not saying good movies but at least I enjoy them.
Same lmao
I thought it couldnt possibly get worse after the 3rd one...
That's the major thing with survival horror adaptations. They suck because survival horror is pretty much tied to the gaming experience,you have to play the game.
That's what made Resident Evil famous,the games. The movies are garbage because they can't nail down the survival horror experience.
yeah...
Hack writing finds a way.
When I first saw the movie and got to the part where Wesker appears for the first time, I was like "THAT is Wesker? Seriously?! Are you fking kidding me?!"
And Leon was just atrocious and straight up horrible in this movie. They did our agent boi dirty.
Yup. The moment wesker was playing pranks and Leon was a pussified soy boy I knew the movie was a major flop
Wesker was just as much an idiot as Leon.
lmao fr tho the resident evil on Netflix sucks new raccoon city. Like they havnt even played the game *facepalm*
Fair point, but keep in mind that this isn't government agent Leon S. Kennedy. This is stil rookie cop Leon, when he was a boy in blue during his first day.
@@MasterJunior93 Leon in RE2 REemake is a rookie, inexperienced boy in blue, but he's also not a useless fucklng idiot.
Likewise, Claire is a capable, smart and resourceful young woman in the games without being a rude, arrogant beach.
These modern writers don't know how to do one without the other.
Cracked me up when the tanker exploded right outside the door while Leon was asleep listening to Jennifer Paige and that flaming zombie rocked up.
What was that scene? How did the director looked at it and thought it was good to keep it in the movie?
@@juanluismendoza8655 right? in what world could you not hear it? like that's some next level noise cancellation headphones. even then, you could feel the vibrations
He must've taken some heavy sedatives. Also who leaves the door of their business open?
The casting on jill and leon is a crime.
I genuinely hate that they did that. The games have a diverse cast. Don’t rewrite characters. If you want to push sheva or Carlos to be more prominent characters do that, don’t change the staples of the series to tick a woke box
@@ForzaTerra89 agreed, the cast in lore is enough. Nicholai, Rani, Sheva, Ada, not to mention Jill herself having half French half Japanese ancestry.
Agreed
I dont mind the Jill cast.. she actually is a decent actor
What about Ada 😂
They made Leon so fuqn incompetent, indecisive, and weak. Yes, he was a green-horn-rookie-cop in RE2. But he was confident, strong, and dependable.
The reason he was one of the very few cops that survived from there. If you also count the RE manga and Outbreak Files. 😒
I would argue he wasn't confident. He was COMPETENT, strong, and once he made up his mind, focused. But he dod have some hangups about not being there for the initial attack, leaving people behind, dealing with Ada, Birkin, and Irons. But you know what, it made it even better because it was believable.
@@CapucineNighly 44х
Of course they made him incompetent, he is white and male, so, he should be torn apart so that the women can shine.
He also WANTED to be a cop. Not “I guess I’m a cop?????”. They made him so insufferable in this shitstorm of a movie :(
Everyone involved in the film should have been required to finish all of the RE on high difficulty. Thay would weed out all these issues.
I'd say Chris's actor was an excellent fit, but I can't say the same for virtually any other character.
The word 'fan' is a dirty word for Hollyweird, whenever they say its for the fans they have no interest in using established characters unless they
are changing them beyond recognition. Its basically them telling you; "You better like this movie or your not a real fan and this is how I envisage it!"
Followed by the usual name calling for anyone daring to criticize their awful adaptation.
When they say it's for the "fans" they mean literal fans just blowing air around so they can't smell how much their own movie stinks.
If what I heard lately about Disney is true, H-wood disdains its own customers/audience. The place is made up of so many entitled and elitist morons, they think we need to love them and do as they preach no matter what. Is it any wonder so many times we don't like a crappy show or movie they make, they say, "YOU'RE the problem." Or they'll be really stupid and say, "If you don't like it, don't buy it." Sooner or later, they need to realize it's their audience -- and I mean the overwhelming unwoke majority of us -- who are right.
This movie is clearly made for fans of the games. It's in every way screaming "look, it's so much like the games!"
The problem is that they don't care enough to bother writing a good script or putting any effort into the production. They just want to make a bit of scratch off the fans.
The problem is that this lackadaisical effort usually makes them money, which is what they care about. If it makes money they'll pump out more until they no longer make money.
@@charlesws7825 I know someone who worked in Hollywood for over 25 years. And about 15 years ago or so he mentioned that movie people, when adapting any kind of existing property, almost universally hold both the property and fans of it in contempt. Fans, after all, will buy anything with their beloved IPs name on it, so who gives a crap about them? And the authorial intent of the original work? Well, if that hack had any talent, he'd be making movies in Hollywood, not writing content in another medium. About the only reason anyone lowers themselves to make a movie adaptation is to get a profitable movie under their belt so they can use that as leverage to make the movies they really want to make. "My last movie made $600 million, so give me money!" So unless the actual owners of an IP (like Marvel) make their own movies, the movie is going to at best bear a very loose resemblance to the source material.
Because most fans are men and Hollywood is as feminists as you can get and feminists hate men! Logical really.
''A film that tries to do two movies in one but got budget to sustain neither'' this is the perfect phrase to summarize the movie.
And most modern movies in general unfortunately
Whose brilliant idea was it to cram two whole games into one movie?
Because I'd love to get off whatever that person is smoking. Must be some top shelf shit.
It did look remarkably cheap and low quality from the first trailer.
Right tone, just terrible implementation.
@@Hellcaiser4 Well, yeah but no.
The Hobbit.
3 movies out of one novel shorter than any LOTR novel.
They could have made a far better single film with half the total trilogy budget at most.
@@mnomadvfx yes. It always surprise me that they dont take fans criticism more at heart, like Sonic did. You see they want to follow the games in term of story, which is great. But the casting, cheap animations, decors, 2 films in one etc. really kills it
Leon's casting sucked, so did Claire's. And their reactions and mannerisms were completely altered for the worse. I wonder if it's possible to unsee a movie.
Finally someone said it lol.
I was watching thinking Claire comes off like Bella from twilight. That’s the real horror of this film.
I've heard encouraging things about acute head trauma
I liked the actress who played Claire in that alligator movie but the character was just written atrociously here.
In fact, did anyone else notice that the Claire of this movie is closer in personality to Jill of the games, and Jill in this movie is closer in personality to Claire in the games? 🤔
They wrote Claire as an annoying Yas Queen and Jill was just a show off.
I think the best part of the movie was when Chris was in the dark and using the light from his gun to make out the zombies, and then running out of ammo to use his knife. Who ever wrote that part deserves to be recognized. If this flick was mostly like that; it would've been such a great film.. bummer.
To quote a friend, "it looks like it was made by people who played the games, not by people who loved them."
I've got a feeling that they haven't played the games either.
@@Counterbalance_
Honestly anyone that would think combining the first and second games together into a single incoherent poorly written movie is a complete idiot.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Right. Combining any of them isn't a great idea because the games each have enough story to carry a movie by themselves but if they're going to do the combination thing they should have done it with the second and third games since those do basically take place at the same time.
Or, at best, skimmed the wiki.
Pretty much considering how Lisa Trevor is just there and none of her backstory is there to flesh out her character. Literally there is a reason why she has a face strapped over her head that the movie never bothers to mention and how Wesker and Birkin are just strangers to each other.
Leon changed to be more "dIveRsivE" was already my red flag
I said the same thing. Once I saw Leon is an Arab, I'll pass.
Not just the fact that they tokenised him, but also the fact that... well he doesn't look ANYTHING like Leon and looks way more like Carlos.
Legit makes me grind my teeth when I see movies or video games being altered because of this absolute crap
I was completely baffled as I thought he looked like a perfect fit for Carlos from RE3! Then they called him Leon and I did a literal facepalm.
Believe me his appearance isnt the worst thing about the casting, the entire character was changed too.
In defense of RE Veronica, the cross dressing mad man shooting at me with a rifle was terrifying when I first played it
Where's Barry?
Why's Leon a dummy?
Why is Leon not Leon?
Why is Wesker an aloof peon?
What's with Claire's demeanor?
Who was that S.T.A.R.S guy who died?
Why?
I love how this “movie for the fans” basically combines the plots of RE1 and RE2 for no reason, makes the characters look almost unrecognizable to the source material, has CGI that makes the original 2002 film look good, and practically treats Leon like a bumbling moron.
Those critics don’t get what the real fans want.
That's what they always do King Bash. It's like the Friday the 13th remake a few years ago lets crap the 3 original films all into 1 movie the fans will love it. How did that film turn out like crab. They don't get it to let the film breath make each movie a compelling movie with a great story and the rest takes care of itself. You know in horror movies that big characters should die make it impactful and have some depth and meaning. It's like SW Phantom Menace giving Darth Maul 2 lines of dialog who comes up with this bullshit. Oh wait that one was all George.
I disagree with the CGI remark.
Having seen both of these movies in the cinema.
The zombies and CGI was pretty good except for the last part with Birkin but yeah you are right, everything else wasn't so good.
I can forgive the bad CG because of their low budget. What I can't forgive is the plot and characters. They basically made all the men bumbling idiots, especially Leon, and the girls into badasses that always had to save the idiot guys from trouble. I could've forgiven that if they gave Leon any redeeming moments but he was basically there to be everyones punching bag
Exactly! RE1 has enough material to hold up a movie on its own!
The weirdest thing is that the Resident Evil story, especially in the first three, is actually really solid. You could make that three movies just by going beat by beat through the games and just showing the things as they happened. You could streamline some of the running back and forth, but just going through the main parts, showing some puzzles, etc. would be awesome.
Nah, I wanna see Claire and Leon trying to figure out how to fit 'Hawk shaped emblem' into 'hawk shaped hole' to unlock a gate.
@@Leo___________ Don't forget the epic knowledge quest of Hex Crank and Square Crank in the mansion!
This movie gets even worse when you compare it to the remake of RE 2, which was excellent btw, and the recently released RE Village.
Also now that I think about it, RE 7 basically is a playable horror movie. They can't make a movie for the cinema out of it though, unless they manage to find some way to never show Ethan's face :)
@@carljohan9265 I thought Hollywood already made a movie where you don't see the protagonist's face. Wasn't it called Hardcore Henry? Did I hallucinate that whole movie?
@@thehappydragon9491 was real but it wasn't a hollywood movie, was russian
I cant forgive them for what they do to recast jill valentine , let alone leon
Studio Exec: So you want to make a Resident Evil movie?
Director: Yep, I think i can do it justice
Exec: OH good. Which game are you going to base it on?
Director: what games?
Nice shout-out to Ryan!
The moment I found out the words “Welcome To” were in the title of the movie I knew what it was going to be. Garbage.
Same but for “A Sopranos Story”
Jumanji, welcome to the jungle
Me too! 😄
Welcome to racoon city doesn't even sound good enough to be a tagline let alone a title
The casting in this movie is absolutely unforgivable.
Anthony Starr would make an excellent Wesker.
It isn't about making something creative, or great. It's about crushing everything that you love and enjoy. It's about destroying the characters that you love, draining the joy out of each and every escape that you've ever loved.
The movies were basically the director showing off his wife, nothing else
at least Milla Jovovich is hot.
@@nateamot4951 not really, at least to me. She's... meh
Sienna Guillory in the second one 🔥🔥
Makes sense, she's hot as fuck
Looks like we won't have even that, from now on.
I just don't understand what is so hard about making Resident Evil 1 and Resident Evil 2 into a movie duopoly. The first movie can be a tense, atmospheric horror movie set in the Spencer Mansion and creepy surrounding woods. The second movie is more action orientated in Racoon City, ending with exposure and collapse of Umbrella and an end to the crisis.
It's like a game of 'the floor is lava' but it's 'the floor is success' that these writers, directors and execs play.
"It's like a game of 'the floor is lava' but it's 'the floor is success' that these writers, directors and execs play" - Is probably the funniest and most accurate description of the current state of both movies and video games that I've seen.
Would it be better if RE2 and RE3 were combined because they're happening at the same time?
Maybe there are just too many bored viewers, who just need junk food shows to kill time, will selected any show as long as well-known.
In this situation, production don't even care. They're just ticking checkboxes.
Yeah, I really liked the first two movies.
The first one is short snappy horror the second is a fun silly gun-run.
Then when the third one came along: I was like WTF was that?
But for some reason I kept going out and watching the next one and the next one, even though they got progressivly more rubbish.
I am starting to think that maybe I am the problem here 8-)
@@otherbarry19 I still like the 3rd. 4th is where the series took a nosedive for me.
The most frustrating part is seeing the places that look almost a 1:1 copy of the locations and monsters in the game with everything around those two things being completely ruined by everything else in the movie
I like how they thought that if you questioned the casting of Leon and Jill you'd somehow be a phobe of sorts but no! That didn't happen because the millions of resi fans all felt the same way that it was fucking ridiculous!
I feel like he's been dying to make that Sylvester joke for a long time. Lol.
We all have......
"Frickin Stein, Frickin Stein, Frickin Stein!"
The funny thing of the games that covered the " Raccon City arc", is that the plot was created by Japanese developers, based from horror and sci-fi american movies.
Ironically enough. Lost in re translation. I wonder if Japan could make a better live action?
RE1 was corny B-grade drama with comedic villains. Gameplay is the selling point. Plot and drama are accessory.
Even Japanese can't do miracle. They have their own failed game-to-movie adaptations.
They are better off starting with fresh material.
@@A_CZcams_Commenter mmm now? Maybe? Japan movie industry is getting better in their budget but should it?
Lol..
@@jonnyguydenton yeah to be honest they better just make a movie that inspired by resident evil game you know a movie that's possessed the horror element and intriguing revelations of the game
Many movies considered B-Movies, at the time of their release.
At this point I've given up on supporting the Hollywood industry, its best we save whatever original movies/shows that are left and to make sure incompetent Directors/Producers/Writers/ etc... can't get their hands on them by making sure they cannot get into positions as film butcher's. Cinematography is dead, to many lazy remakings of someone else's ideas and not much thinking going into making something original.
01:54 almost breaking out in laughter when saying "maybe they had learnt from their mistakes" 🤣😂
The problem I have with Leon in this film is the actor looks a lot more like Carlos than he does Leon, so all I can think about while watching him is that he's Carlos cosplaying as Leon.
And if this ever gets a sequel they will get an actor that looks nothing like carlos the director already admitted they are doing that on purpose probably get the whitest looking hispanic guy for the part.
@@Ilovegrunge123 LOL. There's no way this flop is getting a sequel.
Because as we all know, it would be racist to require a white actor for a white character. *SARCASM ALERT
@@SPDRM (Knowing you're being sarcastic, too.) Times *have* changed, right?
Juicy S: "I'm so enslaved, I can fake a hate crime!"
Obama: "I'm so enslaved, I got elected! Twice!"
Oprah: *Counting her billions of dollars at the bank...*
@@SPDRM And there's no denying the long ongoing problem and history of racism - as a Filipino I know what our ancestors have gone through with Spaniards and Americans and how unfortunately quite a number of fellow men/women even at the present are insensitive/stereotypical when it comes to race, although that's where you realize racism isn't just black and white period either.
However, I have to say that there's also a thin fine line between clamoring for representation authentically or for superficial/brownie points. And unfortunately the film/TV industry has been moving towards the latter. I won't bother to watch this Resident Evil film admittedly, but I've heard enough people make a convincing point that Leon was treated as an idiotic character the whole time in the film, without making it be a sensible undertsandable flaw. Not exactly a good image given the casting change. Or we could point to other franchises as well - Finn is overused as a reference at this point in Star Wars but man, it was considered a landmark for his character to just exist, only for him to be screwed over himself by lack of any proper development even as a technical side character- and Boyega himself seems to be a fan of the Star Wars of old. I could point towards the new Netflix Cowboy Bebop of having Jett be race swapped only to um.. get a joke about being a black male due to black mail (huh?) There are many other examples of this but this comment is too long already and this is just me trying to give perspective.
Sylvester Stalone singing was the most horrific thing I've ever seen.
Well, apparently he's also done porn, so...
@@sarasunshinemt4444 That sounds hot not horrific
Never watch hairspray then.
I don't know, we should see the context and the rest, wise ass like Stallone would know better, the big Danish woman took him to the cleaners...
Then you didn't see the train wreck of a movie that it came from, Rhinestone!
The lesbian Jill Valentine version is twice worst than Leon, my god!
Yes!! I've been waiting for this.
It's bad enough they casted someone who doesn't look like Leon, but to reduce him to an idiot? Who doesn't even know how a shotgun works? Just make Claire look way better in comparison?! That's just so wrong. Leon deserved better.
They ALL deserve better
"Look how they massacred my boy...."
One thing that really bothered me was that he wasn't clean-shaven or with an appropriate haircut to get a cop job. I can understand him having some stubble after a few days of things going off the rails in that city, but that haircut is not gonna fly.
@@kvol1668 not every cop is clean shaven. The problem was that his hair was not tight back
Agree. Leon is a total loser in the movie, for no reason
It's amazing how the ps1 live action cutscene is the best movie we have of resident evil
Also the CGI movies and the short Biohazard 4D Executer movie are good.
The shade lmao
Naah. Jovochich RE1 and 2 were fie. and wait what their was more after that?
"Nooo! Don't gooo!"
Especially the uncut gory "colorized" version. Perfection.
You know, I've been a huge RE fan ever since the first game came out on PS1. When the first Resident Evil movie came out, I was stoked, only to watch it and walk out the theatre scratching my head wondering how the fuck did the writers and the director fuck that up so bad. Every RE movie since then was just an even worse adaptation of the series. Only the animated Capcom movies were decent so far. Then there was this new Resident Evil that came out. After seeing the trailers I was thinking we might finally get a real RE movie...sorta, because I noticed certain actors didn't fit any characters that I knew. Well this welcome to raccoon city movie sucked major monster balls to say the least. Leon was an idiot and a moron throughout most of the movie and he's played by that damn hippie from zombieland, which makes no fricken sense. Leon is supposed to be a bad ass and from playing the RE2 remake, he's even more of a bad ass than he was in the original RE2. Claire's character just had one kind of reaction and mood throughout the whole movie. Then there's Jill, Jill is supposed to be a sexy bad ass cop but instead is played by a non white privileged chick who doesn't even come close to fitting the role by any means, I thought the chick from RE apocalypse who played Jill Valentine was a good match, but I digress. And somehow with a story that's as good as what the first 3 RE games had, they practically crammed all three together minus nemesis to completely fuck it all up and completely ruin the RE name in the movie business. You know, Dead Pool was a low budget film and look how good that was, Evil Dead was a low budget film and Bruce Campbell was a b rated actor and look what came of that series. I can go watch fan made films of Michael Myers and these films are extremely low budget, yet are hundred times better than any of the RE movies to date.
I can't believe Sony even put their name on that shit. I'd fire every one of those fricken writers and directors and never look back.
What we need is Blumhouse to get John Carpenter and someone from CapCom to come in and write the fricken story, and direct an actual RE movie us fans truly deserve. We also need actors who fit the role to the character they are playing. I think if it had a good story line, fitting actors to the characters, and a decent budget, holy shit, we'd might actually see a real RE that's actually good.
This movie was so frustrating, it had some cool "it follows" "the guest" and "army of the dead", and the special effects where a hit or miss, no consistency. They should've gotten the director of Overlord...
Just watched the film and it was like watching the deleted scenes from a mini series.
The set designer had obviously played the games, but I don't think that the writer or director had.
Director actually knew the game and has played it, he does know the franchise, but...not sure why he allowed to have this sort of change, I am really not sure. Writers...those weren't top notch writers for sure, budget question most likely. CGI was probably expensive, but it was what it was, at least wasn't THAT bad. As TV series I think this would've done a better job. Director should've went to Netflix, maybe would've been better.
@@BIOSHOCKFOXX the director was also the writer. It's actually baffling hearing him talk with clear in depth knowledge of the games but knowing THIS is what he produced as his adaptation of it.
@@BIOSHOCKFOXX "should've went to Netflix, maybe would've been better".
Sir/Ma'am, I'm from the future and I got bad news for you :^)
@@ghoxxalla 🤣
@@BIOSHOCKFOXX Yeah about that..
Having this come out around the same time as Arcane is like a night and day comparison of what you should and shouldn't do when making a video game adaptation.
Yeah hopefully they will get a hint
@@tommyboman7735 it was pretty good. No where near as bad as batwomen. Clearly he didn't mean it's worse then arcane.
@@tommyboman7735 bad satire
@@kordellswoffer1520 yeah I watched three episoides, pretty good, very beatiful art style, I have a bit of issues with the plot and music seguences but everything else is good
arcane is fucking garbage
My favourite part was when Claire "I will fight unkillable monsters for this child" Redfield abandons a child the moment she realises she's in danger.
You summed up your entire video in the first 33 seconds congratulations. 👏🏻
The worst part is Chris still didn’t get Leon to continue the Redfield lineage
Unacceptable.
Ah, this joke again
@@TheNateRule joke? 🤨
@@theautomator8372 Lots of people want Leon and Claire to hook up
@@TheNateRule Correction : They NEED to hook up, to continue the Redfield lineage
Resident evil not getting a decent movie is really disappointing. Translating a horror game into a movie is probably the easiest possible game to work with compared to a RPG or any other genre. Yet they always manage to make them not really scary some how. Relying on jokes and quips, but not actually being funny enough to be a comedy. But the main issue always remains they want to do a RE movie, without paying any attention to the plot and characters the setting they are taking over.
If they wanted a generic horror movie, make one. Don't slap the RE title on it.
It is easy, it’s just who they get to make them that’s the problem
I believe the "translation" error comes from these filmmakers thinking they know what's best and thinking they know what fans want. An analogy for this situation would be like...
Imagine a fan of a video game series is a patron of a restaurant and the filmmakers are the chef/waiter. The fans place an order of a 'T-bone steak, streamed broccoli, and loaded mashed potatoes with gravy (which is what we want... a faithful and great adaptation of a video game series). The filmmakers doesn't even confirm the order that you made and places it to the cook/chef. When the waiter return with your food, you noticed that you received chicken nuggets, macaroni and cheese with a 16 oz glass of chocolate milk.
Fans who were/are starving for food (i.e. their favorite video game franchise made into a movie adaptation) would eat gobble that food up, regardless to the fact that their food order is incorrect. Those fans are so hungry, they just accept whatever the chef and waiter prepared (i.e. the filmmakers) and eat it up.
Hardcore fans of any video game series simply WOULD NOT accept or pander to these failed attempts of video game movie adaptations because they just simply don't get it right. By going to the movie and buying a ticket to see it, that tells filmmakers they have done a great job and should shoot for a sequel.
I keep thinking of the film The Road where they go to the cannibal house and barely escape. That had more gripping intensity and fear than anything in these Resident Evil movies. While the rest of The Road movie is bleak and depressing it gets the tone and feel right. You make a good point it shouldn't be that hard to make some video game translations into movies but they always seem to mess it up. I wouldn't mind seeing a Diablo movie based on the original game but they would probably screw that up as well. Make it all woke and stupid instead of gripping and terrifying.
But that's what both the resident evil video game series from the classic resident evil video games and up, along with it's movie's are a enormous silly b movie type/version, as well as generic in a sub genre categorize under survival/horror aka survival-horror and typical predictable cliche horror tropes. Also With a hugely nonsensical narrative/story plot, with occasional interesting characters now and then.
If y'all think about it, resident evil is an convoluted video game series so making an moive probably is difficult to pull off, it's like with making an live action movie for the anime series it would be difficult to pull off, be very expensive etcetera. What do you think? I'm not saying some director couldn't do an live action movie for an anime series or do the resident evil video game series as a live action movie that would work based on it's source material.
@@bartsullivan4866 - "Diablo"? As in Blizzard's Diablo with his two brothers Mephisto and Ba'al?
Correction. Chris and Claire were orphans, but they didn’t have connections to Umbrella. Hell, I’m not even sure they lived in Raccoon City before Chris became a STARS officer.
Wait I don't think the games ever elaborated if the Redfields were orphans or not
Christ this is the funniest content I have had the pleasure to come across in years - goddamn I have seen good delivery but goddamn if every single video isnt uniquely hilarious.
The casting for Leon is as accurate as the one for Triss in Netflix’s Witcher
And Yennefer
And Vilgefortz
And Fringilla
@@Jiren261 Yennifer was actually cool. Also she's hot too!
@@wiinterflowers4277 no she wasn't
Honestly, I can live with Leon here since he is at least a pretty boy. Thing is, they heavily downplayed Leon's competence. FFS, he is a few survivors of Raccoon City who shot his way through countless B.O.Ws. and he is so good that he went on to because POTUS and his family bodyguard.
It is noteworthy that this movie has only 25 million dollar budget. Doesnt excuse poor script but should explain production issues
Actually triss is more accurate in Netflix than games..
Oh cool they had Carlos in this.
…that’s leon actually..
THAT’S LEON?! Did you ever SEE a resident evil game wtf?!
It is obvious they don't but let's not pretend that he looks like Carlos either. That trash Rumbo wanabee from the garage RE3 remake doesn't count. The real Carlos from the original RE3 looked nothing like that.
I always find it hilarious when people go ape shit about "whitewashing" in movies and the like, but changing a white character to some other ethnicity, often through casting decisions is perfectly fine.
@Tigole Bitties logic? Lol.
Lejuan Kennedy?
@@meta1152 lol :D
I've watched most of the RE animated series and while I have reservations about some, they're at least faithful to the original story. Now if only we could get a story focusing on Leon and Ada and just what exactly is between the two of them. The games always hint at an underlying trust and affection while the movies never seem to have them interact long enough to get interesting.
As a Leon and Ada fan, I 100% agree with you. It's too bad Capcom soft rebooted the series right after RE6. Leon's feelings for Ada were basically confirmed in that game. We definitely would have gotten more plot with them if RE7 was a direct continuation. I haven't played Village yet so I don't know if any old characters besides Chris shows up, but unfortunately at this point it seems like the best we're going to get is fan fiction lol.
Thanks for mentioning the Capcom animated movies because… well… I thought I was the only person that saw all of them 🤦♀️
I have undying nostalgia for one of the resident evil movies that feels a lot like the beginning of dawn of the dead remake
So RE2?
I have an undying nostalgia for Mila Jovavich under 40.
I enjoyed re1 and 2
@Hydra Force yeah and the first movies were actually kinda good imo the last ones were so bad but lemme tell you all better than thisnetflix trash. Cuz at least those movies didnt race swap a main char like leon!!
@Hydra Force bUt thE raCe doEsn't affect the plot!
The Mila Jovovich movies are a guilty pleasure and it's actually a good thing that they didn't follow the RE plot/lore so they're fine as straight-to-DVD, background noise. Interestingly we're living in an era where most content is pro-feminist/strong female movies that fail to recognize the RE series, Underworld and so forth that came out in the past two decades. Makes you wonder what really is going on these days? 🤔
Because Mila is pretty (especially compared to.....those creatures) and isn't espousing feminist BS. Just being a kick ass lady and looking good while doing it. Also the guys aren't emasculated or dumbed down (barring plot for villains to win which affects all the heroes).
Due, if there is one thing you can count on with SJWs is their willfully ignorance of the past. If series like Resident Evil and Underworld were recognized it would completely undermine the narrative that women ne dr got action roles.
Weren't they directed by her husband Paul W.S. Anderson to show case how he married out above his class? BTW, someone pls tell Drinker it's pronounced Yo'vo.vich, not Joe'vo.vich
@@defenstrator4660 yup it's absolutely mental.
@@DixonLu yes her husband directs them but not sure where marrying above class/stature comes in. 😂
I thought Neal Mcdonough was actually a great choice as William Birkin. He looks enough like him and he's got the blonde hair, but more importantly he's really good at unhinged villains. He was just ruined in the writing.
I needed this, I haven’t had a good laugh I’m a long time.
the anger i felt when they weren't chased into wesker's mansion by zombie dogs
To describe the use of zombie dogs with Mr. Burns quotes...
*In the Resident Evil games:* “Smithers, release the hounds.”
*In Welcome to Raccoon City:* “You know, -Simpson- Redfield. This has truly been a lovely afternoon. Release… a hound.”
How bout the fact that Claire and Sherry don't meet until the very last scene in the movie and have like 12 seconds of screen time together? 😡
That scene was very clearly omitted because of the low budget.
Chris was the only casting choice that I was okay with but nothing will make me be okay with Leon being a dark haired comic reliefs sidekick with a kill score is 2 and 0.
Richard Aiken was a good cast
Tom hopper actually imo is actually a good actor and while he doesn’t look too much like uncle Albert I think if they were more faithful to the character he could have pulled it off
@@robertwolff3580 you think tom hopper acted good in black sails?? He was the worst actor there
he was the worse one. i wouldnt watch this movie mainly coz he sucks and he is really shit actor, about as much acting ability as tom cruise. none. and also clearly thiss film sucks. other than that i would have watched it. and mila was so hot. that is why i watched the others.
@@Matt21andmaria04 lol relax man, I guess you aren't a fan of the franchise, it was enjoyable but you were not able.
the cow lifting off had me on the ground!!! lolol
That movie was a lot of fun! It took me a little while to realize it was one of those so bad it's hilarious kinds of movies. Sometimes one character is talking a lot, going from topic to topic, and it's like someone is clicking through their dialogue tree! Hilarious.
They cast an Indian to play Leon for woke points but forgot that women are on top of the 'oppression' pecking order so they just made Leon into an idiot anyway to make Claire good
I wonder what Woke Olympics would do to Ashford twins, considering their degeneracy.
Story of his life.
While completely missing the fact that Claire is already perfectly capable without those shenanigans.
Yep checkout diversified Jill as well and don't mention it otherwise you get called a razziz for some reason
In my opinion Leon, Wesker and William are miscasted. The women can get a pass and Chris too at least from the pictures at 7:45
But Leon and Wesker are really miscasted...especially Leon.
The WS Anderson movies were "In Name Only" not entirely due to the director messing things up, but mainly due to Capcom. They banned him from EVER using any plot point or storyline from the games and just allowed him to use a couple of game characters outside of what they did in the game franchise. This is why the movies very quickly veered off from the Franchise's timeline. With all the restrictions placed upon him, I'm actually surprised they were "as good" as they were and just somewhat enjoyable dumb popcorn flicks.
Crapcom make some really fucking dumb decisions...
Ironically, they approved this junk. The world makes no sense.
I'll need some sources on that, because even for japanese IP holder, that sounds pretty stupid.
And I never knew about those limitations... no wonder why...
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2:08 There's something poetic about that Leeloo laugh in a Resident Evil movie review
all the chief irons scenes were what made this movie for me. the guy could have been the whole movie. lol
I was so excited to see a badass live version of Leon and Jill. But then I was disappointed immediately. If they wanted to be more diverse they could've just added extra characters, but kept the originals the same.
Or at least respect they respective personalities from the game :(
Or make better focking writing scripts
as someone who really loves RE games sonce 90s, and Jill is one of my favorite RE characters, this movie was middle finger to fans.
Gotta be woke these days!
@ ktwenter77 I don’t understand how it’s “woke” in a sense, because they changed Jill’s race. Jill was already a minority (half Japanese), so it wouldn’t have been woke points.
How did you like amazing depiction of Leon ? I loved the scene where Claire showed him how to use a shotgun. I also enjoyed every scene where he got insulted and fell down on his ass just to be saved by kickass Claire that looks like she could be his mother. Consider my expectations shattered !
He's a little darker than I remember.
Wow, so they made Leon a Mexican only to turn him into a loser? That's fucking racist!
This movie is a perfect example of how casting alone can ruin a movie.
Next merch idea... Critical Drinker Style Bark Box
The Drinker is right. Getting the RE franchise should be like getting handed the "Can't Fail U Build It Movie Kit (horror/thriller edition).
a proper movie adaptation of Resident Evil 1 would be TERRIFYING, the sheer horror you read in the things you pick up honestly make me sick. imagine having a proper cast Jill read aloud what happened to the Trevor family with subtle flashback showing what happened
To be honest i'm not that sure about that. Mainly because one of the biggest reasons as to why survival horror games are so engaging is the interactivity, the feeling that you yourself are epxeriencing everything first hand. I loved the games as a teen and thought the story was amazing - but when I recently went back to them and watched the story synopsis on YT I realized a lot of the plot just don't really make a lot of sense. That's my experience at least. Interactivity is kinda hard to recreate in a movie.
@@IronFreakV um. I apologize but isn't the whole point of movies to make you feel engaged with the characters / story. Just because you aren't physically controlling the characters absolutely should not mean that you're not engaged with them. I get the keyword in your comment was "interacting". But the whole point of a movie is to be interesting enough to make people want to sit down and watch it. Resident evil could have easily done that if Hollywood morons didn't completely evicerate the storyline. They could have actually filled in gaps and made the original story into something greater. Instead, well you know. They turned it into a brain dead nonsensical shooty shooty festival.
yep, the books copied the games pretty close and they are fine.
Almost everything he said about this movie is fucking wrong, but yeah. Let's praise him for being mad just to be mad
The “go away now” part gets me every time, it’s like I am a 7 y.o. who listens to the drunken ramblings of my emotionally unavailable, alcoholic father.
Lmao I always imagine a bunch of random people gathering around the drinker laid on his bed in his smelly room every day to hear him ranting about a movie and then he tells them to piss of.
It's all put on, Don't be so naive .
That is oddly specific?
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Discovered this channel just now and even though I'm a sad and silent guy - I was fucking laughing my ass off over what the narrator was saying!:))))))) Bravo!
First spend 2 hours in the police station doing the most drawn out puzzle ever. 🤣
And an extended gun clip, which is no good because there's no ammo.
Headshots don't even put them down!
To be fair Resident Evil: Damnation was actually a pretty solid movie.
The fact that it’s the only good Resident Evil movie I have ever watched, however, is an absolute atrocity…
Just some full of action with boring characters. The first half of the film is ok but later on it’s just nothing but action scene like RE6 makes it feel like a Die Hard movie more than a Resident Evil
The other animated movie was kinda cool. It was better than the live action shit atleast
Thanks for this encouragement. I own the RE: Damnation DVD, but it's been sitting on the shelf unwatched for a couple of years. Might get around to it now, cheers.
@@MisterLindsay Degeneration and Vendetta are good fun too. Not "high art", but better than THIS nonsense sounds....
@@MisterLindsay You’re welcome! :) I hope you enjoy it!
I hadn't thought about it before, but you're right: their inability to make a decent Resident Evil movie* is bizarre. Everything they need is already right there. Obviously there are some pacing issues to reconcile as you distill several hours of game down to two hours of movie, as Drinker pointed out, but it's not like building tension in movies is some unknowable secret. For some reason, though, having an IP like Resident Evil to work with causes directors to just have a sudden rush of shit to the brain.
*A decent _live-action_ RE movie, anyway. The CGI ones are all right.
I don't think pacing has to be an issue once you get rid of most of the "puzzle" parts of the gameplay to focus on atmosphere, suspense, and action. How hard can it be to send of bunch of special force units into a mansion inhabited by zombies so they slowly uncover the mystery behind the infestation and fight bigger and more disgusting monsters as time passes? Just getting the mood and tension right would be half the job already done. Then you end the film just like the game, with a bunch of twists, revelations, and a big fight with Wesker and Tyrant. Hell, you can even add the family backstories of the mutated girl (the recurring antagonist) and Barry (the wild card) if you really need to. All the elements are already there for fukcs sake :P
Maybe a 4 part miniseries for RE1, then 8 part second season covering RE2/3, since they happen at the same time.
@@JoakimOtamaa I'd watch the hell outta that
We need 70s/80s Ridley Scott on the case.
Just gotta love this one for the "Dunfermline nightclub" thing alone ...
It baffles me how on a regular speedrun it takes you around an hour or so to complete a game, and that's ignoring every cutscene, text, extra stuff you can find. How the hell do they think they can mush together two games at the same time and explain anything about what's going on and why? Specially if it's 1 + 2, instead of 2 and 3 which take place at the same time.
What hurts more is that the people who made this film are aware of the source material. Evident by Lisa's design, the poker-shaped keys, the truck driver intro, birkin's mutation (although the cgi for the final scene was horrible), Itchy tasty reference and Jill's stupid question about what's worse, to be eaten by a giant shark or a giant snake just to have Richard die by regular zombies... The ashford twins actually look like they appear in the game however Sherry who didnt have a race change, couldn't bother to actually atleast give her short blonde hair...
Leon's casting and portrayal was horrible. It's nothing new at this point for movies to do their dumb inclusion and change racial features of white characters but they made him look like the most laziest stupid dude to ever exist. Leon was a rookie but he wasn't incompetent, surely has a lot of plot armor and cheesy one liners but not stupid/lazy.
I really don't get why this film was made. I watched it with my family and they were confused as to what's going on and as a fan of the games im confused as to why they made the movie like this. Some stuff is pinpoint accurate-looking from the games but half of the casting isnt? And putting the casting issues aside combining two games into one story is a bad idea. Like I said if they wanted to combine games so badly they could've done 2 and 3 together.
Doom is another "slam dunk" that they keep fucking up.
Yep, just get a NFL line backer in the suit with Alex Jones voicing over him.
Done.
"keep"? Haven't there been only one doom-movie, i.e. Doom (2005)?
It was a nice popcorn muncher, but they could have called it "Monster Hunter on Mars" or something.
@@giuseppeabate7342 We choose pretend that one never happened.
and doom annihilation is getting a sequel. making me question completely why i ever bothered stopping the demons from killing all of u.
@@invadernik Next time. Let the demons kill us. It would be a mercy.
The funniest thing was that the sign for the police department says
"RPD Raccoon Police" not "RPD Raccoon City Police Department". Ahhh the good old raccoon police..
now Im imagining a remake of RE but all the characters are actually raccoons or even better, humans in raccoon suits.
When I watched this film with my friend (who has also played the games as religiously as I have), we just sat there going "That's wrong.", "That's wrong.", "Why's that happening?" "Is that Leon or Carlos?"
Aside from casting issues I thought the movie was great. The casting of Irons and Birkin was borderline spot on, and I enjoyed the interpretation of the T virus being much more gradual, almost like The Hills Have Eyes 2.
I would have cast Tom as Chris before ever even considering him as Wesker
Why is no one talking about what they tried to do with wesker 😂😂
Ada shows up to give him some laughable looking gas station sunglasses
I legit saw the trailer and was like why is clair running around with Carlos?
i dont understand why they are orpahans
The sad thing is, this is probably the closest we're ever gonna get to seeing as ''faithful'' an adapation of Resident Evil (at least one that attempts to focus on the actual characters from the games as main characters). From the Super Alice movies or the Netlfix one with black Wesker that more or less just used the brand name and a few character names for things that had next to nothing to do with the original source material but it really don't excuse the issues with this film. From race swapping established characters (Jill and Leon) instead of once again creating new characters or ulitzing non-white characters from the actual games, to the attempts of crushing both the plots of RE 1 and 2 together into one film plus no doubt a shit ton of other problems.
Hollywood never learns.
Resident Evil needs a true old school, suspense director. Someone who knows how to take a scene and make it scary or full of suspense without the need for sound effects or music, just the natural sounds coming out of the room making you wonder if there's someone hiding in the corner...
In fact, why does it need to be a story that remakes the original story? Why not have a movie about the Umbrella mansion scientists when the outbreak started?
Tell a story that hasn't been told in the series yet... About survivors in Racoon City... Or the mercenaries trying to contain the spread.
Why do a remake when you can CONTINUE THE STORY?
So you want a movie about either RE outbreak or RE operation racoon city? Those games weren't that good buddy.
James Wan would do a great job imo
Brian dePalma
I think the John Carpenter from the 80‘s would have been a great choice for director.
Mike Flannagan would be great.
The movie had potential and there were moments where I saw that there was something somewhere in this thing, but then it was gone in a cgi splatter.
Lmao at the first line of the video and the clip from RHINESTONE COWBOY😂😂
(I know, it's sad that I know the title) 😶
As soon as I saw "Leon" and some of the "special effects", I knew this movie was going to blow ass.
Everything nowadays is fucking disappointing and tiring.
Except for the plushie, that looks cool.
2:55 "Chris and Claire in the world's worse orphanage, directed by mad scientist William Birkin" AAANND that's where I already know how shitty this going to be.
I’ve always wondered since this and the Anderson films came out why hasn’t shinji mikami or anyone from Capcom who worked on the games been involved with the movies?
That nightclub guy and the scream was pure gold lmao 🤣
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