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They keep making these "Resident Evil" movies...
and they have nothing to do with Resident Evil anymore. Sure, Paul Anderson writes in some video game characters in an effort to say "Hey, look! He's from the games!" But never really uses the video game characters very well. These movies end up always being fan-fiction about his wife, Milla Jonovich.
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That's the fucking point to them.
Resident Evil: Check out my Ridiculously Hot Wife.
Exactly! She's been naked in most of them and in vinyl cat suits as well. Also, Alice is the only one who can do anything of any real use. Plus, her superpowers and she beats up everyone. Wasn't these movies supposed to be about zombies?
Man, even the games stopped being about zombies. Now it's all tentacle aliens and black worms and shit.
Funny how the movies are do inconsistent too. The third wiped out most of the world and in the fifth, there are people and cities again. What the hell, movie?
They were all variations of zombie, largely, including zombie plants! for shits and giggles. It was all that T-virus and stuff. While the Resident Evil game series has always been a certain degree of silly (check out the unedited opening cutscene to the PS1 original if you don't believe me), my introduction to the series was via REmake and RE0, both of which are uniquely sombre and sensible entries in a series otherwise full of silliness. So while the films seem to be stupidly out of place to me, I guess they kind of make tonal sense in the overall scheme of things.
That said, I don't know why the Resident Evil movies even exist. Resident Evil itself is a pastiche of horror movie standards committed to video game format, so taking that back into cinema would theoretically just give us 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s horror again. What we got was some highly forgettable action movies, and RE4 did the whole "stupid action bullshit" thing better than any of the films. Paul Anderson is a good director and by all accounts an awful script writer, which you might notice if you ever watch a film directed by him but not written by him. His ideas for the films are probably going further and further out there because he knows the Resident Evil fanbase probably isn't even paying attention, with most of the money the films make coming from the schlocky action audience.
Very nice analysis, MadnessAlex!
Marketing.
The answer is always marketing.
I wouldn't even be especially surprised to find out that the first one was called something else in early stages of development.
I find it hilarious that Barry Burton is in Retribution and teamed up with Leon Kennedy. Looks like this movie just because a video game character sandwich.
Isn't there a new 3D one coming out about the actual games?
This one!
Funny that the real Resident Evil movies' subtitles sound like one of the fake Resident Evil movie titles.