The Resident Evil sequels make no sense
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- čas přidán 12. 02. 2024
- No joke, the Resident Evil show is garbage but Lance Reddick as the Weskers was top shelf entertainment. RIP.
That boring af article: www.ign.com/articles/2004/08/...
Another one I reference quite heavily: collider.com/paul-ws-anderson...
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I facepalmed when my wife said "which game is Alice in?"
@G.Freeman92 I'm glad I got to enlighten her, now she considers the movies a different Canon to the games
She's a lil confused..but she's got the spirit so least she's interested in the franchise 😅
Shes in Outbreak😉
😮💨
There’s a fan one. lol that’s it.
If it wasnt for Mila, Anderson wouldnt sell a single one of his movies...
Its a shame to make money with this trash imo
If it wasn't for her, they wouldn't exist at all beyond the first and perhaps second movie. As he made them for her.
His later movies absolutely. MK sold itself and AVP sold too.
Not to mention that MK was already inspired by cult movies, so Anderson didn’t really have to try hard.
well they are married after all.
Biggest sin of Apocalypse was how much they made Jill look like a geek next to Alice.
I seriously thought they killed her off to emphasize that, but apparently I got my bland shitty-excuse-for-an-adaptation characters mixed up.
I think that was actually OK as Jill was a much believable character compared to a super human with unrealistic super power. Jill showed real human emotions such as fear and vulnerability while she still kicked ass. And Sienna and Jill are a match made in heaven.
I worked on Apocalypse, long nights for the entire shoot. 😊
Theres literally a scene were she tries to light a gas mane on fire only for the match to go out just so alice can throw her lit cigarette in
@@reptile1687 This is the best example of Alice making Jill look like a geek. She can't even get 1 moment 🤦
We didn't deserve Sienna. They didn't deserve Sienna. The best Jill depiction ever.
She was terrible as Jill. She had the look, she didn't have the performance. Resident Evil deserve way better than her.
@@Wolvie1984 well that's your opinion. She did her job good.
@@saschaberger3212 No
She did her best. Looked the part for sure and with a better script and movie she most definitely could've been a pretty great job as Jill.
She bought a PS1 and RE3 to prepare for the role. Dedication wasted on a Paul WS Anderscon script
I accidentally watched the Monster Hunter movie (stuck around for Tony Jaa), I’ve never played the games, but I remember thinking “why the hell is Milla Jovovich always the post apocalyptic Billy badass?” Then I learned who directed it, and it all made sense lol
And dont forget, the last holo is her daughter as well. So he made these movies not only for his beloved wife, also for his beloved daughter.
@@SukruTurkkanTo be fair, they met while filming the first movie. But yeah, nearly everything after that feels like an exercise of making sure his wife keeps starring in movies and becomes further nepotistic once their daughter became old enough to act.
Cry whiny sexist
Hollywood is nepotism. When i learned that i died a little. @@glennwelsh9784
Don't get me wrong I love Milla Jovovich as an actress. I loved Ultraviolet so much. But her switch up in the RE films without any explanation between them got old and was bad to begin with 😅😅😅
Fun fact, each movie also has a novel tie in and those novels have the Herculean task of filling in the gaps between each movie. In particular the penultimate one actually details the entire battle at the White House (which it turns out IS against a rouge AI called the black queen) and details how Leon and Ada get eaten alive by a plant monster
What the actual fuck lmao
Please do a review of each
i want to see 'this' movie.....
Oh god that sounds stupid.
Are they any good though?
Anderson: "Ladies and gentlements, my beautiful wife, the goddess of apocalypse"
What's so striking to me is how the stories come off as so incoherent considering Paul W. S. Anderson directed 4 of the 6 films and produced and wrote ALL 6 films. Like, it's entirely on him, he couldn't keep the story straight.
I think what might be going on is he wants to make different movies but the IP is such an easy cash cow at the same time that as long as he keeps it vaguely tied to the series he can easily get the films greenlit.
@@zerrodefexHe could have at least kept the origin of the t virus the same from the second movie to the last one. What purpose did it serve to suddenly decide Alice was a clone of someone named Alicia whose father created the t virus when the scientist and his motivation had already been established four movies earlier?
@@zerrodefex He's just a hack.
I've always thought of these as much like their arcade room counter parts. Just good fun in random environments. The story was always secondary
When Alice said "This is truly rac city." I stood up in my chair clapping.
It's Racoon Time
Rac city, b!tch
'there's nowhere to run'
@@UDSFilms Truly a moment of all times
@@UDSFilmscoon😮
My favorite theory as to why the movies kept coming out, going off base with lore breaks and ruining canon, was because Paul W. S. Anderson was writing RE fan fiction for his girlfriend/wife/main star Milla Jovovich.
Next level of simp
*Boyfriend/Husband/Main Star "Mila Jovavich" !*
There u go bud, i helped correct that for you since your auto correct "didn't catch the mistakes" !¡!
😁😁😁
That's not a theory, that's what happened. That's a fact.
The franchise just seemed like a weird money laundering scheme for Paul and his wife
I believe that is the case. In Monster Hunter she basically plays the same role.
I also think the reason why we don't get any more new movies from Anderson, is because everytime he pitches an idea to or get's considered as a director by a studio, he's insisting that Milla MUST be the main-actress in that film. And then the studio-bosses are like "nah thx, we'll find another director who isn't obsessed with his wife!"
@@nerd-mask723I'm not sure they are that based. He made them money after all.
Dude what they did with Luthor was absolutely foul, like legit no secondary character can live one movie without dying or being absent and come back just to die.
I remember when 1 of my friends came to school excited to tell us he saw Resident Evil. Quickly another friend asked if you really do get to see Milla Jovovichs bush. He answered yes and it was lovely
Man the actress of jill Valentine and ada wong were wasted on this trash. These two actors could've had their own bad ass RE live action
Their was the best casting but as you said because of Alice being the main character and Jill and Ada Wong not returning for next movies they were wasted so bad.
Sienna Guillory was dedicated to the role. I remembered reading somewhere that she looked at the in game animations for RE3 as a basis for her movement as Jill. There’s probably more research that she did for the role that probably never got used because Sienna got sidelined in favour of Milla… which made me wonder why Milla wasn’t cast as Jill in the first place
Great casting but crap director
5:44 Poor Jill only gets one cool scene of headshotting a few zombies then Alice upstages her for the rest of the film.
I kinda wish Alice wasn't present until the very end of the 2nd movie. Where the 2ndary new characters can shine for the whole movie and then bring her in in the last bit to save the day. She honestly isn't needed for the first 9/10th of the film. But Anderson is obsessed with Milla.
@@JDeppFan2272 Alice shouldn't have been in the films at all. Anderson made fanfics about his wife that he tried to pass off as Resident Evil films.
Which is why even though the movies were ALL about alice... I still thank the second one(not directed by Paul) for giving us RE3 Jill.
It was simply….someone said this about ray and chewbacca of the star wars sequels….ray deprotagonizing chewbacca. Thing is, mary sues all do that, and Alice ultimately deprotagonizes everything in resident evil.
@@JDeppFan2272I like that her part could pick up where the first movie left off.
"i was 9 when the second movie came out"
uuurgh...be still, old beating heart.
While I agree overall and never planning to watch many entries of this series I have some comments:
1. The first Resident Evil movie is actually pretty decent when judged on its own.
2. Alice is a highly trained operative, tasked with a mission of protecting secret underground facility pretty much on her own - jump to "She's literally Trinity" in RE2 is at least somewhat believable.
Yeah RE1 was pretty good
I was okay with 1 and 2. After that though it wax beyond iffy. The problem for me is I can't stand not knowing the entire story. So I watched them all.
Problem is, the whole franchise is a fanfiction by Mila jovovitschs husband, who always makes his wife op while she's already unlikable af
I am convinced that Paul W.S. Anderson wrote the scripts for these movies without even rewatching his own movies. The fact that they not only shit all over the game lore, but can't even be consistent amongst themselves is just astonishing. Resident Evil deserves better, goddamn it!
amen
Like the games (except for six) are perfectly fine on their own 😭😭
I think its due to Paul and the execs who saw the audiences, who know nothing about the games, just watch to see his wife kick butt with explosions and godawful slo-mo and which is why the story took a back seat and yeah it will never make sense 😆 I'd still thank the movie for giving us Jill Valentine in Apocalypse though that one was not directed by Paul.
@@arvinjay336 I agree. Apocalypse's Jill is borderline perfection. The first half of that movie where she's basically the main protagonist (you know, like it should have been,) was actually pretty good.
@@arvinjay336EVERY movie he makes is to give her a job, she cant get any otherwise
I've always thought it was hilarious that they spent 3 movies setting up the superpowered clones plot, then the 4th movie starts with them blowing up all the clones and taking away Alice's powers. It's like once they got it all set up even Paul W. Anderson realized how stupid that idea was for the RE franchise and had to quickly hit undo in the opening of the next movie.
She got Metroid
The 3rd movie is about Isaacs trying to find the "original" Alice, because "clones are not working". In the Final chapter it is revealed Alice is actually a clone herself.
The worst thing for me was the ending that finally had the Game crew assembled and what promised to be a kick ass battle for Washington, only to get nah, they all died between movies.
@@WhalewraithThat part made me SO MAD
@@phantomlover4520 yeah, apparently Milla got Pregnant before the final film could go into production and everything fell apart in between. I guess the support cast all found something else to do.
Lifetime Resident Evil l fan here. I approve this message. The movies were absolutely atrocious compared to the video games. I will give Paul Anderson his flowers for the original Mortal Kombat movies. Those actually gave the franchise a massive amount of lore
I like the movies for what they are, mindless fun. If you go into them with logic you won’t like them, but if you want cheesy bad action films with touches of horror mixed in then they are pretty good. And I like Alice a lot.
Also, the MK movie inspired the interpretation for a lot of characters
Kano wasn't meant to be a sleazy Australian, but the devs liked that from the movies.
Why did the Zombie apocalypse cause fresh water to evaporate? The failure of the human race would definitely be very good for the environment.
It still blows me away. How ridiculous this movie series is. And how much more sense the video games make when you dig into lore.
Which is saying something considering how wild the games lore can be at times.
SWAT team in a mansion with zombies and traps, how hard is that??!!
@hitmanmonaghan6633 that's the story of a singular game, bro literally said "dig into lore". I bet you don't know what the virus originated from. Heck i bet you don't know that the events in the games take place like 2/3rds into the actual lore.
Have fun with your "superior film" resident evil welcome to racoon city, pal. You wanna complain so bad and yet your "accurate films" are dogshit
@@shalindelta7 fuck that. Just tell a story about the first game. If it’s successful, then think sequel.
It took Umbrella 13 hours to build a twenty foot(ish) wall around Racoon City…. That is the first problem. Lol
it’s doable………..🙄🙄
dip it in gold and make mexico pay for it all
See my theory is that they didn't build it after the outbreak. Remember that Umbrella pretty much runs Raccoon City so the walls were probably already there and they flipped a switch to make them rise
and yet after
7 years
there's still no border wall
@@eureka7km There would be no way for it to be done openly, so my theory is, they were build like it was a road, but with a way to raise them vertically when needed. That, in my opinion, proves that the leak was planned as part of a test.
4:56 that guy stumbling on the right gets me every time😂
ok that ardeth bay comment had me rolling
Part of me wonders if Anderson actually wanted to do any of these past 2, its like watching him realise he cant escape and is desperately trying to get fired
That actually makes a lot of sense. The events taking place between 1 and 2 make sense and the story is actually pretty well kept, but it feels like it derails during/after the third. The third one was still a solid zombie movie, just didn't feel like a RE movie.
I still cant get over the sheer _audacity_ of Paul WS Anderson. Taking of one of the most beloved horror franchises, ignoring everything about it, inserting my wife's OC and not giving af the whole time. The audacity....
find yourself a partner that loves you as much as Paul loves his wife.
Capcom let him do it. That’s the thing, they could have stepped in anytime.
Please review these Resident Evil movies next. We need that
Ayeee it’s Prim, he black , he an all star. He’s a Black All Star!!!🌟
Primm!!!
When Alice's boyfriend/husband is also the director no enemies are gonna kill this person😆😂🤣💯👍
I totally feel this. It's like they tried to get into a scope. The first movie: The lab, the second movie: The city, the third movie: the world. They essentially threw the plot out the window, created their own story based on Mila's character that had nothing to do with the games, and threw in a few canon characters for fans sake
The transition between the second and third films made no sense.
There's a novel
@@koisyneeeIf it had to be explained in another media, thats just bad overall.
@@BradleyMcCloudHah, like Disney Star Wars.
@@JoakimOtamaa I was thinking Final Fantasy XV also
@@BradleyMcCloudThat's how 90% of franchises are, even resident evil by default has movies in between the games to explain how the fuck they got there lol. Resident evil and Godzilla fans are the most complanatory while not understanding their own series
The one good thing to come out of this series is the live-action Nemesis. The practical effects and the sound design were absolutely fantastic.
Yea people hate on the Live action Nemesis but I always appreciate real Practical Effects over CGI
Honestly, it's one of the few things that they deviated from source material a little bit that ended up being actually really good in the series. Nemesis and the backstory on how he came to be was actually pretty well done for introducing an iconic character in a new story.
He looked and sounded absolutely incredible, exactly how I wanted him to be done. The best part of this whole trainwreck series by far for sure. 🫣 I actually really liked Ada look as well. I liked that they gave her the og red dress.
I think they did fantastic with Nemesis. The actor had to wear a couch worth of clothing though
@@marcgranger4786That's what I always say, too. Imagine if instead of a practical Nemesis they decided to go with some terrible mid-2000s CGI Nemesis instead? We'd be cringing at it today. Short Nemesis does look a bit odd, but at least we know we're looking at something real and it doesn't look outdated twenty years later.
Im surprised one of the movies wasn't about Alice finding the last humans alive who are just more Alice clones fighting against Zombie Alices and rhe big bad ends up being an Alice
Dont spoil the next movies plot before the trailers already give away more then half of it.
Every single Resident Evil movie was made in the hopes that everyone who watched the last movie had severe brain damage or got zapped by a neuralyzer.
When I tell you Final Chapter pissed me off so badly. No Chris, no Ada, no Jill, no Leon … nothing… we at least got Claire. But wtf.
So just having the characters from the original source would fix it?
@@billielachatte4841no but it was a bigger disservice that they were just all killed offscreen with no fanfare
@@billielachatte4841 I don't think anything would ever fix it, though I cannot fathom wanting to watch more of these movies (I quit after the second and only saw the third one partially by proxy), but it's a huge slap in the face to whoever the fuck enjoys these movies and has actually gotten invested to just... not use the established characters they've already butchered for their purposes.
I mean first they ruin their characterizations and fucked up the plot and then they don't even bother to keep those characters around for the finale they promised at the end of their last movie. It shows the man doesn't give a shit about even his most devoted fans.
no zombies. These movies have nothing at all to do with the game.
LITERALLY, like there's no way Chris' whereabouts is unknown just because he got into the wrong helicopter and they never see him again. That's some high-tier BS knowing his video game counterpart eats explosion & endures hell for breakfast.
AND when they finally add all of the video game cast, most of them suck, and Chris once again got trashed by getting eaten by the licker immediately, at least Ada carried that entire movie.
Im still mad Alice wasn't even part of the game series AND she was made to upstage Jill in the 2nd movie like wtf? Who are you to insert yourself before STARS.
Alice is a character but nothing like the movie. Alice is in Resident Evil Outbreak
@@NNegativeCreep That's Alyssa, she can wear Alice's unlockable outfit (Red Dress) from the movie.
@@White927 Oh yup you’re right, been quite awhile since I last played it. I remember the dress though.
@@NNegativeCreep
I'm playing that game right now and I'm having a mental breakdown after collecting 260 special items (this is the way you unlock all the outfits in the game).
The European version is ideal because there is no text name and advertisement of the dead multiplayer, except for file 2.
@@White927 multiplayer has still a small but akctive community
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When you find out that Milla Jovovich and Paul W.S. Anderson are married, you kinda now understand that these movies was just so he could film his wife doing badass things, and make her the center of a series no one wanted her to be the center of.
And have their daughter kickstart her own acting career in the sixth movie. It's ironic then that in the final movie Isaacs calls the three Alice's the trinity of bitches, and while I'm not gonna be the one to call a child a b*tch, it's ironic that with Anderson as director, his wife as Alice, and their daughter as young Alice/the Red Queen, the Anderson family is really the TRUE trinity of you know what.
I thought she was amazing and I’ve always loved every one of the resident evil movies
They didn't date until after the first film was released though, so for all intents and purposes, the first film's existence was completely uninfluenced by their relationship. Everything after that.... well, you're likely not wrong about that. But really, what's so bad about a fun movie series based on a video game that's filled with badassery?
@@alexandrovich4447 The problem is that Anderson writes his wife’s character like an insert fanfic that takes a huge dump on all the original RE characters.
Also I thought you weren’t supposed to date your employees.
@@alexandrovich4447 because it has Resident Evil in the title. The game fans have expectation. If these two make a original franchise instead of piggybacking RE name, maybe people would be less hating
Got to admit. Soon as they changed the world into a desert i zoned out. Made no sense.
You’ve rewatched the whole series of Rwsident Evil movies?!
Jesus Christ! You are a mad hero! ;)
Recently, re-watched all six of these movies, I had to jump on CZcams and find a video like this. I just can’t believe the events that happened off screen in between the movies lol
The movie with Wesker on the ship and Chris shows up was made purely for re5 references even if they don't make sense lol
Chris from RE1 and Wesker from code veronica do RE5 thing it's so bad.
Which is just as bad as Welcome to Raccoon CIty which was full of references JUST for the sake of it without having any consistency with the story.
I bought the final film after seeing the previous movie in theaters with a friend.
I was so confused by the beginning that I stopped the film and checked online the order of films to make sure I didn't skip a movie.
Bro. I thought we was about to get the avengers in the final movie and I was also looking for wesker , jill and the others in the opening cinematics
Apparently there's some kind of book that explains what happened between 5 and 6, not that I'll read if of anything, but hey, perhaps it can give a sense of fullfilment or something
The Underworld series is very similar to this one. That was another vanity project for the director's wife, but at least those weren't adaptations of a source material, so they were free to do whatever they wanted. Plus, the first three Underworld movies were actually entertaining.
I mean we did get about 47 movies of cars doing unpractical behaviour.
The real problem is Mila married Anderson and from then on every movie he makes is only a vanity project for his wife. The Resident Evil series. The 3 Musketeers, the Monster Hunter movie and the Hellboy reboot. He doesn't care about anything else
She is a smoke show though
I mean I'm fine with a husband enabling his wife to doing something she enjoys, as long as they're having fun together, I just wish they hadn't chose Resident evil to dumpster on in the process lmao.
@@LilyApus It's not so much as enabling as it is straight up abusing power. For example, when Anderson got the Monster Hunter film, Mila said she wanted to be the main character and he simply said yes. No auditions we're held. Anderson ordered things in the script be changed. Similarly when it was announced Hellboy would be getting a reboot Anderson "chatted" with the producers so that Mila would be in it.
@@dnmz1885 lets not pretend like Hollywood is fair or something! but yeah I can definitely see the problem I didn't say I agree with her constant casting I just understand why he's doing it is all, I've always thought she was a garbage actor but to be fair I don't watch his movies anyway other than the first couple RE films I pretty much got the idea of his "talent" by those alone..
@@dnmz1885 Nepotism is basically the standard of Hollywood, though. It's really nothing new.
But I do agree that at least most of the time nepo babies have parents that make their kids actually learn how to act so as not to embarrass themselves... but I guess writing a good script and having the right actor play the lead isn't a priority for Milo Jojojojovich and her husband.
One way of thinking about the RE series is that each chapter takes place in a different alternate universe.
That def answers the shit storm start on every RE movie
Another way is to think of them as atrocious and poorly thought out cash grabs.
Still crap and everyone is already tired about multiverzZzZzal stuff
As a personal rule I treat anything after the first two as either non existent or completely separate movies. That’s just the only way to make any sense of them and keep one’s sanity in the process. 😞
I have to say, that was an awesome video. Very well put together, and you had me in stitches. I think the best part was the montage of Anderson movies at the end, and I realized how bad almost all of them actually were, even though they had amazing concepts. I think you nailed his writing issue, the lack of a second draft. L. Ron Hubbard style
He still did make Event Horizon... That and the first RE might be his only good films. First AVP was alright, it started out quite strong.
All of the questions about what happened between RE Apocalypse and RE Extinction are answered in the novel for RE Extinction. Yes, we’re required to find and read the novel based on the film. The information in the book would have made a better film than what was filmed…
This is actually crazy. I've never once heard about RE movie book.
@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown Right?! Lots of films got book adaptations in the 1990s-2000s. The RE novelizations for the first three films are by Keith R.A. DeCandido. There are also novelizations for RE Retribution (by John Shirley) and RE The Final Chapter (by Tim Waggoner). I never could find any novelization for RE Afterlife.
There's even a set of novelizations for the games, and you can tell that the author (S.D. Perry) is a big fan of the games. They're practically walkthroughs for RE0 - RE Veronica
@@ImTakingYouToFlavorTown
I felt the same way about Halo having books, but also later found out the first book was released before the first game.
The only good thing to come out of the PWSA resident evil movies, is the soundtrack from the original movie is insanely good.
Hell yeah!
They're all pretty good except for the last one. As they go on, the soundtracks become a bit more 'industrial'.
@@ptonpcI think the words you are looking for are generic and bland. Industrial music is pretty rad and what makes the bulk of 90s/early 2000s. The later soundtracks had generic ambient music were very bland and only Afterlife brought that early 2000s nostalgia with “The Outsider” Apocalypse Remix from The Perfect Circle. But the first soundtrack had a very memorable and distinct main theme as well as rock/industrial heavy soundtrack.
Marilyn Manson did the soundtrack for the original that's why
It's not even that good. It's just the least worst one.
The “eyes up” got me bro 😂
As a huge resident evil fan, I’ve always held the belief that the movies were good zombie films, but piss poor RE films.
Very apt description
I don't know, they kind of fail at being zombie movies too
@@Xenotaris some were, a bunch weren’t. Too bad the movies couldn’t be as good as the games
@@Xenotaris Compared to the vast sea we have of other zombie flicks, the first few movies were actually pretty solid all things considering. Nonsensical at parts, but solid nonetheless. They weren't Dead Snow 2, so that's at least worth something.
Nope
there's no second Wesker. the original was fast enough to escape the explosion of his aircraft. we see a tiny speck that leads some to believe that was him parachuting to safety.
how did you get wesker from what I'd typed about cgi
@@filthymcnasty5625he ain’t talking to you bro
@@lugertelevisioncompany we ain't bros bras, his comment came up in my feed.
Theres not certainly two, one pulling the strings all along?
"Look. I can see his parachute, he's ok."
As far as i remember did Capcom told Constantin film to not copy the game 1 to 1, otherwise they would have told George A Romero to make the movies. You can still find his resident evil demo script online.
The only continuity that made sense is the transition from 1 to 2, where at least the first movie provides a catalyst on why Raccoon City gets zombie apocalypse on the second movie. After that, it made zero sense, The most egregious is the plot of the final chapter, when Isaac revealed that the T-Virus outbreak being actually engineered by Umbrella all along in order to purge humanity and build a new global society with a caste of rich and powerful in cryostasis. This is basically completely invalidates all previous movies because:
-The first film had shown that the original outbreak was an event that had happened completely outside the corporation's control, as it was released by Spence during his attempt to steal the virus
- In the first two films Umbrella's main motivation was genuinely trying to avoid a global disaster, to the point of nuking up Raccoon City in a risky coverup maneuver in order to stop the virus, and the third one showed that the Umbrella board was desperate and clearly not in control of the post-outbreak situation. Even Dr. Isaacs's idea to rebuild the world with zombie workers was just a novelty born from those circumstances
-Worst of all, (and in a more litereal display) those caste of rich and powerful are stored in cryostasis, right underneath the place they decided to nuke up in Apocalypse after it suffered a containment break. Good thing it was nuke-proof, becase they took a massive risk given their supposed plan
You're so spot on. Re-reading the plot makes me realize it feels like trying to enjoy a crappy YA fiction, where the writer doesn't know how to make a good twist so they kill off a character early on just to say "oh he was alive allll along annnd the bad guy, didn't see that coming - i'm so good at twists haha"
And they could have fixed that with a little bit of extra dialogue. Isaacs could have said that he was the one who hired Spence to steal the T-virus and infect The Hive. And Isaacs could have said that he had weakened some of the security around Raccoon City to make sure some of the infected had managed to escape.
What also bothered me is that they retcon the origins of the T-Virus. In the second movie the guy in the wheelchair (I think he was called Ashford?) created it, as he was searching for a cure so his daughter. So she wouldn't suffer the same fate as himself. But in Final Chapter it is the father of the original Alice who created the virus now, also to save her. Not to mention that the Umbrella Troops all changed their uniforms during the attack one the ship. In the fourth one they still have the classic soldier outfits and for the fith one they now have the gasmasks and coats - but they do admittedly look cool.
I don't know if it's a retcon so much as it's Anderson no longer giving a shit and completely forgetting the lore of his own movies.
@@glennwelsh9784 Sooooooo a retcon...? Lol
The game's origin of the t-virus was so much better
Also, we met the girl who was the model for the Red Queen, she was the girl in the second movie. Then they retconned her to be Alice, entirely forgetting the girl already existed.
@@UltimaGabe wait what? I stopped watching Alice in zombieland after the third movie
The last one I watched was the ending with the boat, prison break guy , and them being surrounded by the helicopter
The deliver of the dialog of your review cracked me up, keep the good work, highly entretraining
There was a novelization of the movie that explains Alice got controlled and killed Angela which led to Jill leaving. And Alice being on her own being away from the satellites.
It's stupid they didn't have the movie mention it.
@@cameronbaker97 oh I agree. It’s crazy cause the writer for all the novelizations actually tries to make sense of the gaping plot holes. The novelizations are worth a read tbh
@@josephmorales3478 Where can I read them
Okay that's even worse. Rule no freakin ONE in any media; movie, game, book, whatever. You do NOT kill off a child. Period.
The first RE movie is an actual memetic virus.
I've seen the movie half a dozen times over the years, but outside of the laser wall and a couple other scenes, it's a blur.
A friend of mine reviewed the movie and had to watch it a second time just to remember what happened.
I completely forget the movie after the lasers 😂
To me it was the intro to the movie and the laser room and the first signs of zombies. Grand jewel of the movie was the soundtrack done by Marilyn Manson.
6 missed opportunities, thanks for saving me so much hours.
Another problem I had with these movies is how the video game characters are just.....inserted. And how they try and connect the characters but if you haven't played the games (and even if you had) a lot of it makes zero sense. Like Claire's brother just randomly being in a prison she crash lands into. Leon putting his hand on Ada but she pushes him away when there was literally NO interaction between them prior to this scene. So the interaction felt forced. And Jill hopping in and out at random intervals.
So messy.
Also Wesker’ line to Chris and Claire on the ship is utterly meaningless as he doesn’t know them.
It would have been hilarious if the group had travelled thousands of miles and then stepped into a gun shop; "Oh hey Kendo"
It was hilarious to me how it's the guy from Prison Break being in jail and it feels like he's playing the same character 😂
The “eyes up” bit was great cause I mean we all knew what we was looking at.
Gotcha moment lol
t’s funny how rapists and perverts all think everyone else is a rapist pervert. Go outside kid.
I was mostly trying to figure out why the spider control thing looked so cheap but yeah I was also staring at her boobs, the popup was amusing at least though!
Yeah, it caught me too
It's Jill, of course we would be watching it.
Bro didn't even get to mention how William Birkin just dissapears after the first movie to be replaced by Alex Isaacs.
What a fun video!
It'd be neat if you analyzed the Underworld series. :)
I genuinely liked the first movie, didnt mind the 2nd as it introduced the Nemesis teased at the end of the first movie and also introduced Jill Velentine. The 3rd movie though is where I checked out of this film franchise, I've tried to watch the others but I can't get through them.
Paul W.S. Anderson is quite possibly the biggest hack in Hollywood, if not he is definitely in the top 5. And his penchant for casting his wife in almost all of his projects should be an immediate red flag. Every property this dude touches turns to shit, and only serves to scare potential financiers away from actually passionate directors/screenwriters who want to make great video game adaptations.
What's his face that does all the disaster porn movies like the day after tomorrow and the one where the moon attacks the world with gravity he's the biggest hack
Roland Emmerich!@@strawberrylotlizard
@@quazzon4354 yeah that weirdo "oh no the moons coming"
Yeah I always wondered if he was just really bad and uncreative . Or he was self-aware and purposely made shitty movies
Mortal Combat and Event Horizon are pretty good.
You killed me at the nun comment lmao
Paul Anderson wrote movies around his wife and pissed on all RE legacy. All other characters were sidekicks with no value at all. I mean Alice could do everything they did and she was far superior at everything than other characters. Now I'm thinking Alice was inspiration for Star Wars Rey.
It's not like the characters from the video games are interesting at all.
@@cday131 of course they're not, however Alice is even worse (Except RE1 movie)
My favorite thing producers and executives always quote is "not everyone has played the games so we want to change the story to make it more approachable to a wider audience"
Like what!?!? That's why people love these because the stories they tell.
Not to mention, if someone hadn't played the games, how would they know that the plot of the movie was deviating from the story? And why would that be a factor in the decision to watch the movie?
Yeah , you're right
@ssj2_snake for real
I forget which movie at this point ( they all feel like a fever dream ) but right at the beginning Alice says "umbreller" and it just feels like that moment sets the feeling for the whole series
Mother Mirander
The only good thing this series gave us was the lazer hallway. Because that is a just a neat idea
I would argue it's one of the most iconic things about all of resident evil
The essential truth you must consider is that whatever order you watch the Resident Evil films in, they will NEVER make sense.
The greater the attempt to explain the Resident Evil films, the greater the confusion caused.
One thing I also disliked about these movies is that they become a gaint ad for BMW motorcycles
You can actually hear a face hugger running after the credits in Aliens.
My only question is when did the Queen lay that egg there and she detached from her birthing sack so there be no way she could lay anymore eggs.
@@ryans413 The queen could have carried the egg with her hands or tail.
@@Daxter609 carried that egg all the way to the elevator held onto it on the ship and somehow placed it inside the ship before poking out to split Bishop in half. I don’t think so I could see it if there wasn’t so many questionable road blocks.
I thought it was paper moving..
@@ryans413 She probably doesn't need the sac to lay eggs and it just lets her lay them safely or multiple eggs. She probably stuck it to the wall before the final of aliens.
Never seen any of them, but I like the cut of your jib so I subbed to your channel when you said not to see them. It was then that I knew it was destined that I binge your channel this weekend while doing cleaning and yardwork.
One thing I give these movies credit for. Is really feeling like you are watching a video game.
I think that’s what everyone is forgetting they are made to feel like a video game. I think the first 5 films are pretty solid in my opinion that last film is very weak and I didn’t like it very bad camera work on that one.
Just not the video game they're adapting.
Yeah watching a fucking terrible trash flop of a video game That everyone asked for a refund and shits in every opportunity they get.😂😂
@@ryans413 So, let me get this straight? You think that the fifth movie (you know, that godawful Retribution) is a solid movie?! GODAMN, the things people can hear these days
@@ryans413Lol nah nice try
I wasn't expecting well-deserved shade at Eragon here, but here we are.
Sidenote, their Wesker and Ada casting choices were really good. Leon wasn't too bad either. Just wasted potential imo.
I recall going into the theater for the last one and running a couple minutes late, walking in and theere was a siren that went off and it was remeniscent of the third one. Thinking I missed like, a half hour of the movie and the whole White house "battle" I was kind of pissed for running later than I thought.
Then, about a year later, it was coming on TV and I thought I would catch the battle that I missed. 90 seconds... 90 SECONDS(!!!) IS ALL i missed in the theater. Leaving me more upset than I was that night.
As a huge fan of the original games, none of the movies were any good.
The first RE film wouldn’t have been bad if they kept Alice as a one and done character just to show what happened in the labs and how the outbreak started…. But they continued with her character.
I agree 100%
1st one: good. 2nd: Great. 3rd: start of the trainwreck. 4: second part of trainwreck. 5: third part of trainwreck. 6: the mercifull end of this trainwreck.
I don't think I'd call the 2nd one "great." The editing is trash, the pacing is too slow, there somehow doesn't seem to be enough zombies despite it being a *zombie apocalypse,* Jill Valentine's presence feels almost pointless with Alice around, and they have Nemesis turn into a good guy at the end. But at least it's better than the utter batshit nonsense that follows it in the rest of the movies. The series really falls off a cliff after Apocalypse. You get the feeling that they just stopped giving a shit about making anything make sense and throw stuff onto the screen like a monkey throwing their own crap.
@@glennwelsh9784 In terms of scale & execution of being faithful to the source material it is by far the closest of the movies. That being said I don't disagree with any of your points although I wouldn't say the pace was necessarily slow, more disjointed. It would go from fast to slow to fast to slow like a yo-yo. And unfortunately all of the films were love letters to Alice. (don't get me wrong, Mila is a great actress, but with plenty of great characters from the source material to work with she was completely unnecessary. But yeah. Exctinction was the last one where they were at least pretending to try to keep to a somewhat coherent story. After that it was complete & utter nonsense from beginning to end.
@@glennwelsh9784 Nemesis turning into a good guy did feel like it was set up well, though. The guy who eventually became Nemesis was a friend of Jill's, and the third movie kinda sets up that they do retain their memory ever so slightly. Sure he doesn't become friendly in the games, but I also suspect we weren't going to see a stage 3 Nemesis fight anytime soon, so they had to kill him off somehow.
HARD agree on the series falling off a cliff after Apocalypse, though. I felt like the next movie (or the movie after?) was made for the sole purpose of introducing the executioner boss from Resident Evil 5 so they could do a 3d scene, that one scene where he throws the axe towards the audience. I pretty much stopped caring after that movie. Apocalypse was on shaky grounds for me albeit with a few nods and tie ins that explained the other movies slightly better, but the next one was just a shitshow.
Slight correction: 1st one: medicore. 2nd: okay
@@PikaLink91jeez how many times did you comment on this youtube video
I can imagine Paul WS Anderson sitting down to write a bunch of SciFi Channel original movies where his wife is the biggest badass that ever existed, and being forced by Capcom to include at least some kind of reference to Umbrella at the last minute because he forgot he was writing a Resident Evil movie.
i will say i did enjoy the monster hunter movie more than i thought i would
Eyes up took me out
Guilty 😂😂😂
i remember watching these as a kid and thinking "WHY DOESNT THESE MOVIES CONTINUE LIKE OTHER MOVIES >:("
It's deeply aggravating that there are some semi decent cliffhangers that are just... left
How was the Allan’s 3 opening a disregard to aliens 2 a face hugger could have followed them And each terminator movie takes place in parallel time line. Every time they time travelled created a new time line. The prime time line still exists.
I saw The Final Chapter in the theater with my sister and they played a trailer for RE7 (game was coming out around the same time) and after the title of the game is revealed on the screen, I hear a girl behind me say "there's Resident Evil games?!"
wow😮😂
yes n Alice isn't even apart becuz for 1 the character is lame n 2 she was basically just made up as a primary protagonist much like Mortal Kombat 2023 cole young being young was a made up character for watever reason, but i digress. if they cared enough to play some of the games or hell at least maybe gameplay or animated films based of the game n not Alice maybe, they coulda somethin, but no!!
I blame the parents lol. 😂
In the movie novels prior to Extinction it's says she had killed Ashford's daughter due to program Alice making her and that's why she left the group out of guilt.
That is just insane. Considering Ashford's daughter is also the subject of one of the retcons...
I also always assumed I missed movies even tho ive seen them all
The eyes up got me not gonna lie 😂😂😂
I wasn't expecting the "love of my life" line lol
Still a guilty pleasure of mine.
One I like because it came out when I was 12 and I saw it in theaters. Two is guilty pleasure. I can't excuse the rest of them though fam lol
@@strawberrylotlizard thr action is pretty fun in these movies
Agreed.
Agreed. I own them all. Got the 1 thru 5 on blue ray and unfortunately the 6th just DVD. But I do binge watch them from time to time. It's like a comfort watch cuz I grew up with them pretty much. And seen every single 1 after the first 2 in theaters.
Sienna Guillory is and will always be the best Jill
Tbf for your intro James Cameron’s spin-offs were so amazing he didn’t have anywhere to really go
I worked on resident evil apocalypse. A fun fact is that Mean Girls was shooting right next-door to us for a good portion of the movie.
I still hate how they supposedly killed Leon, Ada and Jill off camera
My headcanon regarding death is, if you didn't see it happen, if it's not mentioned, or if you don't explicitly see a body, then they're alive... somewhere.
@@PikaLink91. I agree.
7:38 how did you know that's where I was looking?😅😂😂😂
Sorcery!
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That giant red bad-cgi bug machine is honestly more distracting than her actual boobs.
My reaction was: There's 6 movies?!?
Like how the next movie doesn't even
Continue what happened on the ending.
The plots keep changing.😂