Post by Gottlos on Sept 28, 2007 10:12:10 GMT -5
I see by the caption below the films category that at least one of you does not like the Resident Evil films. This is fine, that is you're opinion and you have a right to it.
I think out of what I've seen so far (haven't had a chance to make it to the theater to see Extinction yet, unfortunately), The first Resident Evil is best. Why?
I think one of the most important things to remember when writing a film is to make believable characters that stir emotion in the viewer, whether that emotion be love or hatred. Characters in Resident Evil are well thought out (the main characters at least) which keeps the viewer rooting for them one way or another, ultimately making it possible to plant little surprises throughout.
Along with the characters, one of the most memorable things about Resident Evil is it's constrictiveness; the feeling of being trapped somewhere while escaping the undead. This is wear Apocalypse kinda lost me. It was a bit closer to Resident Evil (Nemesis obviously, but we'll try to avoid that since they didn't want to incorporate any ONE game into a film) 4 with it's wide open environments. Okay, cool, whatever. What's wrong with this? Open environments take the fear and horror out of a zombie film. The idea that you can simply run away for most of the story is a little boring. In the first, there was a considerable amount of contact and struggle with the undead, whereas in the second the only big fight was with Nemesis.
One of the things that I would've liked to see was the use of more important characters in the games, such as Wesker (I hear he's in the 3rd). The fact that this game is a prequel brings up good and bad. While it does explain what happened in the beginning, it did so foolishly by not having any of our familiar lead researchers there at least. Also, it introduced Alice, who, in my opinion, was probably the biggest mistake they could've made in the films. I pretty much hate everything about her...but that's just me. Anyway, the choice to do a sequel also gave the creators a fresh slate to work with in order to provide a story that the fans hadn't seen before, a good one by most respects. It also gave people (fans and non) the ability to slowly ease themselves into a genre that they may not have been exposed to otherwise. Overall, it's not an award winning movie, that can be admitted. But even if you didn't like the story or characters, you have to agree that it was an example of good movie making.
I think out of what I've seen so far (haven't had a chance to make it to the theater to see Extinction yet, unfortunately), The first Resident Evil is best. Why?
I think one of the most important things to remember when writing a film is to make believable characters that stir emotion in the viewer, whether that emotion be love or hatred. Characters in Resident Evil are well thought out (the main characters at least) which keeps the viewer rooting for them one way or another, ultimately making it possible to plant little surprises throughout.
Along with the characters, one of the most memorable things about Resident Evil is it's constrictiveness; the feeling of being trapped somewhere while escaping the undead. This is wear Apocalypse kinda lost me. It was a bit closer to Resident Evil (Nemesis obviously, but we'll try to avoid that since they didn't want to incorporate any ONE game into a film) 4 with it's wide open environments. Okay, cool, whatever. What's wrong with this? Open environments take the fear and horror out of a zombie film. The idea that you can simply run away for most of the story is a little boring. In the first, there was a considerable amount of contact and struggle with the undead, whereas in the second the only big fight was with Nemesis.
One of the things that I would've liked to see was the use of more important characters in the games, such as Wesker (I hear he's in the 3rd). The fact that this game is a prequel brings up good and bad. While it does explain what happened in the beginning, it did so foolishly by not having any of our familiar lead researchers there at least. Also, it introduced Alice, who, in my opinion, was probably the biggest mistake they could've made in the films. I pretty much hate everything about her...but that's just me. Anyway, the choice to do a sequel also gave the creators a fresh slate to work with in order to provide a story that the fans hadn't seen before, a good one by most respects. It also gave people (fans and non) the ability to slowly ease themselves into a genre that they may not have been exposed to otherwise. Overall, it's not an award winning movie, that can be admitted. But even if you didn't like the story or characters, you have to agree that it was an example of good movie making.