no, there weren't.

here, let me think of a better way to lay this out for you.

when I walk into a group of people and mention resident evil, they don't start talking about the games anymore. they start talking about how much resident evil sucks, and mention the movies.

you can't look at these things as separate forms of media, you have to look at them as different parts of a franchise.

DarknessDeku wrote:

JEW wrote: here, let me think of a better way to lay this out for you. when I walk into a group of people and mention resident evil, they don't start talking about the games anymore. they start talking about how much resident evil sucks, and mention the movies. you can't look at these things as separate forms of media, you have to look at them as different parts of a franchise. It's popular to hate a movie because it's based off of a game. If it's too much different than the games, it sucks. If it's too much like the games, it sucks. If it has big name actors, it sucks. if it has mostly unknown (but good) actors, it sucks. I could go on all day. For example, Silent Hill was a great movie. It kills most horror movies of today. But no, everybody says it sucks because it's off a video game.

my problems with the resident evil movies don't stem from ANY of that. As standalone zombie action movies they are fine, not a problem. My problem is taking stuff from the games (especially characters) and kind of just doing whatever you want with them, regardless as to whether it makes sense.

I was able to stand the first movie because it had it's own set of characters, and except for the licker at the end not making sense, it could possibly almost pass as either a prequel or a side story to the resident evil mythos.

then resident evil 2 comes along, and alice wakes up, finds herself in raccoon city, there's a disney themed nemesis, and she's introduced to characters from the resident evil mythos that bear little or no resemblance to their videogame counterparts, and it all goes to hell. the icing on the resident evil cake is a trash talking pimp with gold plated guns becoming a serious role.

Why not just use new characters if they're so different? why go out of your way to take your original characters and make them into poor impersonations of someone elses work?

I think a better way to sum this up would be if someone decided to reform guns n roses, but instead of using any of the members of the original band, replaced them all with people pretending to be the band members, who weren't half as good with their instruments, and then had them play all the classic GNR songs, but in a different genre of music entirely.

if you are going to go off in your own direction and not effectively use the groundwork laid for you, at least have the decency to do it one hundred percent. Basically I would see no problem with the RE films if they were standalone movies that weren't part of resident evil, but they aren't.

I was actually trying to find a theater to see this in a few nights ago, but fandango.com is useless.

I hope my store gets this on DVD. we didn't get advent children and I had to go hunting for it.