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- No joke, the Resident Evil show is garbage but Lance Reddick as the Weskers was top shelf entertainment. RIP.
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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 😅😅😅
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.
You're missing the whole point...you are not watching a Resident Evil movie, you are watching Milla Jovovich
Who watches a movie for one actor?
@@robertnelson9599well there's people out there obsessed about Leo DiCaprio 😂
@@robertnelson9599 um well, shes paul andersons wife and he made the movies, so put two and two together
and the sad part is she not even pretty she has no body
@@robertnelson9599 Brad Pit, Ryan Gosling, Jake Gyllenhaal, Matt Damon, Tom Hank, Shet I'll even see a bad movie with Keanu Reeves in it, as long cause he is cause I mean....the #1 goat. Like see how Keanu tried to save a so called bad movie if so cause the #1 actor of all time is well, in it....Chris Pratt??? He basically sold the newest Jurrassic Parks (I think there was 3 new ones, maybe 4 soon) but then again it was already a pretty good movie JP anyways....even if repetitive. The Directors know this lololol you're buying friendly faces, so no harm I guess, unless the movie tanks so so bad *BORDERLANDS* cough cough *Kevin Heart* cough
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.
@@phillip22722 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.
@@phillip22722I like that her part could pick up where the first movie left off.
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.
😆😅
Bryan Singer hiding in the corner.
i was a kid who watched all the RE movies , i never read the originals or played the games
from my perspective its just a cool movie about a genetically modified super soldier battling REALLY BEEFY zombies in awesome ways with cool music and nice guns , i really dont get why ppl hate it but not everyone can like their soup with edible stuff ig
@@mraksoveech Based take
@@mraksoveechnah fr I was a kid when I watched most of them with my mom before I played the games. Now I’m a huge fan of the games, but the movies are clearly worse. Still doesn’t mean they shouldntve been made like some people say
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.
Really??
That explains Jill's sudden change in attitude when Alice shows up.
My favorite of the series
Did it affect your movie? Or did yours affect theirs?
You guys couldn't sit with them.
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?
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
@@NunYaa504That'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.
The way I saw those movies was always like this:
First one - "Resident Evil" in spirit but not in setting
Second one - "Resident Evil Sequel" in setting but not in plot - also someone accidentally gave someone else Jills role.
Third onwards - "The Adventures of Super Alice", a completely unrelated series of movies.
I saw the first one on VHS and I was totally amazed. Also I was 15 years old and a big fan of the games, also I was really into any Mila's movies.
Then the Nemesis came out and I waited so long for it that I just loved it anyway.
Then the third one came out, I saw no connection with the previous and when Alice controlled the fire to kill the crowds I knew... I knew it was fucked up forever....
I still watched them all just because at that point I just had to and I was like "meh..." All the time.... Netflix did something even worse with R.E. tv series and now I'm convinced that someone, somewhere is creating a great R.E. movie, somewhere in the world. I mean, at this point anyone doing even a remotely mediocre movie would just make such a success, but probably I'm just trippin xD
This is actually quite accurate.
😂 pretty much. I still like the first one for what it is. However, it’s a shame not one movie really followed the game and lore and executed it well. It’s wild bc it’s all there, just takes someone with passion about it to make it come to life. Like there’s no need for director’s/writers’s to try and get creative and make it their own while throwing everything we know to be canon out.
@@uruuruis lol 💯. Honestly if any studio wanted a successful RE movie that is canon to the games they would just need to hire some super fans who are passionate about the project. Lol problem is directors are just up their own ass and can’t leave well enough alone and feel the need to add their own ideas, elements, etc and change the original story and lore when any RE fan knows it’s all right there. Just hire solid writers to add to the dialogue for a movie and obviously cast the roles correctly (which is as important as sticking to the original story. Lol for instance I saw a couple days ago a fan video made for RE4 characters using AI and adding real actors and it was crazy good, specially Anthony Starr as Wesker (picture Homelander with wesker shades on, it was perfect down to the last minute detail), then Jensen Ackles looked great as Leon.
@@Seryma86 The CGI movies are at least fulfilling that desire - but then again, Capcom seems to have a hand in those, and they are part of the game canon (albeit telling their own side-stories within)
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
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.
These movies are Oscar winners compared to the Resident Evil Welcome to Raccoon City Netflix nonsense adaptation.
I think I'm one of the 10 people that actually enjoyed welcome to raccoon City.
not netflix. that was sony's reboot attempt. it was released on netflix tho.
I unironically enjoyed the series
Not even just say you didn’t like Leon and be gone
@@ALM1GHTY.PEANUTme too I actually like it and I think if the story make it as another character in know like re outbreak after the destruction of racoon city it might get a more welcome hand from viewer, MIGHT
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.
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.
The fact that Paul WS Anderson got away with this schlock time and time again suggests someone gave him a ….. MultiPass.
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.
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.
The worst part is that there was a decent script for the first film written by George Romero, the guy who made the zombie genre popular, and it was thrown out for the godawful fanfic garbage we got.
Anderson is a much better director than Romero, and most of Romero's zombie films are bad. Even his "good" ones never had good acting or good dialogue or anything like that. He was just very passionate and was doing innovative stuff nobody else was doing at the time. But Anderson's Resident Evil films, Death Race, Event Horizon, Alien vs Predator, etc. Romero couldn't have directed movies like that if you held a gun to his head. Anderson's Resident Evil is better than Romero's draft screenplay, and it's better than the game it's based on. The primary reason people gas up Romero's take on RE is that they wanted the RE movies to be more like the games.
Calcium is the one that made that call. They wanted the movies to be different so people would still play the games to get the story rather than just watch the movies.
Watch the version of George Romero of Resident Evil movie. With William Birkin as the main villain.
@@jacobsoper4708 we get it you have bad tastes and opinions
@@jacobsoper4708 Stop taking drugs or stop talking such looney B.S
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.
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😮
The “eyes up” got me bro 😂
Fr
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
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
Alien and Terminator has only two movies. The rest can be eliminated.
Surely you mean...terminated? 😄
@@StarTrekDoor
"Surely you mean...terminated?"
Yep. Films after T2 are terminated, and films after Aliens are so alien to me.
@@indrapratama7668 😄
The sad thing about the Terminator, is that the last one was shit despite James Cameron returning, because long since he did the original he became as stupid as the rest of Hollywood. Can't have John Connor as the world's hero because according to him now "Testosterone is poison we need to drain from our body".
@@indrapratama7668 The guy in the video loved to point out the obvious that Anderson copied the Newt/Ripley dynamic from Aliens in Resident Evil Retribution (which begs the question, why didn't he just a Resident Evil 2 movie, did he forget about Claire and Sherry?) but seemed to have forgotten that Alice's entire character is copied from what Ripley became in Alien Resurrection.
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 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.
The next biggest issue are all of the off screen deaths. Jill, Ada, and Leon died right before the opening of Final Chapter - Ada and Leon were absorbed and killed by an experimental bio weapon, and Jill was killed by Wesker in the novelization of Final Chapter. Also, Alice killed Angie after the end of Apocalypse while under Umbrella's control, which is why Alice split from the main group.
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 🤦
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.
@@PikaLink91 Welcome To Raccoon City's forced attempts at humor and campiness made it feel more like an attempt at imitating "Slither" (the Nathan Fillion movie) than the game it was supposed to adapt.
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.
You should look into the "lore" of Sawada in the bad Street Fighter movie. Capcom insisted his actor be in the movie & put him in the video game.
Got to admit. Soon as they changed the world into a desert i zoned out. Made no sense.
Anderson: "Ladies and gentlements, my beautiful wife, the goddess of apocalypse"
Anderson is high as fk
He is REALLY into cosplay and somehow convinced a movie studio to pay for his interests. The filming part is their verson of 'Time For Prints' lol
Its wild that he managed to somehow take the Resident Evil IP off of Capcom and basically turn it into fanfic about his wife for THIS LONG.
@@NewMateo
I bet his pitch meeting went something like:
Board: You really think this will sell?
Anderson: Have you seen my wife?
Borad: Sold, here are 300M, king.
We need proper Resident Evil Films that cast actors to play video game characters and follow the original video game stories, a movie about RE1, RE2 and RE4 would be amazing
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.
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.
To be fair, Resident Evil games included cloning. The “Ada Wong” that attacked Chris Redfield’s team in Asia was a clone of the original, the original Ada is the one Leon is usually defending or cooperating with.
What clone? She was another human mutated to be Ada Wong.
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
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."
The only good thing out of the movies was the somewhat okay Nemesis story and the design it had in the movie lmao.
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.
Remember when we were kids in the 90s and were playing with toy soldiers? We would come up with the most ludicrous scene in our head and kept the battle going and when one side is about to win, we put another spin to it where the other faction has a backup plan and are arranging a comeback. The fight will never end. The resident evil movie franchise is like that.
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 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
The first movie alone wasn't too bad. Every movie after was just awful.
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.
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
I was an addict of the og resident evil games as the films started pouring out, and i dont think ive ever been so disappointed by pre existing ip films
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 😂
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 first two were at least fun in a "turn your brain off, it's barely actually Resident Evil" way. Then they went waaaaaaaay tf out of control
"i was 9 when the second movie came out"
uuurgh...be still, old beating heart.
Wow. I was 22 when the 2nd film released
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
There was an interview somewhere with Paul, he said he was allowed free reign because the movies turned a massive profit and helped sell games. He also talked about (I forget the movie) the RE in the prison. RE5 had come out to mega success and that's why Jill went blonde with chest control/Wesker went blond with glasses, Ax Executions was randomly at the prison. Also, RE5 had a large tanker lab they fought Excella on and then later launched a stealth bomber from.
“Eyes up” 7:37 😂
Got me xd
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
@@quazzon1 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.
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.
Not to mention the way he died.... Michelle Rodriguez just punches his heart off.
@@aroyals339and dont forget. Alice get the same hit afterwards with no power and she survivors lmao.
As a diehard fan of RE from the 3rd movie onwards was a mess
It’s doesn’t matter they were great movies. Especially compared to the trash now a days you people watch.
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
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
Resident Evil was one of my favorite movie franchises growing up. Even as a kid i never really understood certain things like, for example, why some characters are missing. This franchise had alot of potential especially because at the time it was very unique. You had a video game based movie (although not entirely), zombies that evolved over time, the matrix type action sequences, and story that could have been really good if delivered better than it was. The tv show that came out on netflix was pretty good although it did lack some good action scenes compared to the movies. I still enjoyed it tho but it sucks that it was cancelled and one of the actors passed away
One thing I also disliked about these movies is that they become a gaint ad for BMW motorcycles
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
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 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.
I agree that by the third it becomes a different franchise entirely. With that said I watched all of them and they aren't that bad, but you'd need to have the mentality that the third movie onwards is not set in Resident Evil anymore, it's set in a dead earth that once resembled Resident Evil but that world is gone. I gotta say the movies are unique in that sense, I know of plenty of poor adaptations but I don't know of anything else starting off as an adaptation of a franchise before taking on a life of it's own and becoming it's own abomination.
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.
all i know is that the movies fucked up and had nothing to do with the games, bringing back fan favorite characters just to kill them in the next sequel, at least the movie was original and second one was based on the games but all that was ruined for Alice to shine ✨
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%
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.
I remember my local post office started renting out DVDs and I saw the second resident evil and was terrified of nemesis XD
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 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.
The T-virus turning the earth into a desert in Resident Evil Extinction has never been brought up even once in the later sequels.
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 was 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
The second one could have been better if they didn't have the police to be like ncp's in games and they had the main characters make more better choices.
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...
First movie was good. Not cinematic or game-accurate good, but as mindless zombie flick good.
Second movie was also not bad. Somewhat worse than the first one, especially because of super-jump-cut fight scenes where 50 cuts are made in 4 seconds.
Everything after the second movie was a mistake and should be completely ignored. RE live-action franchise had 2 movies: first and second. I refuse to recognize any other resident evil movie as part of these movies.
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
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.
Thankfully Netflix got involved
I'm so glad you're covering the inanity that is the RE series. My brother-in-law was really into the games and as part of a strange tradition we created, would take me to see each film when it was released.
I remember from 3 onwards it felt like every film was a different chapter of an entirely new series and I would be completely lost, I saw all of them in cinema and I genuinely couldn't tell you what the individual or overall plot arc is of 4, 5 and 6. They all sort of blend into one fever dream. I thought that maybe I just hadn't bothered to follow the plots close enough but from this video and reading comments it seems I wasn't alone.
EDIT - I just finished this video and you have a new subscriber. It was like listening to myself describe how lost I was during the movies, the fact that you went through the pain of sitting through all of the movies to put this together is incredible. I salute you.
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
Resident Evil 3 Remake is an alien rip off, it has a cafe named after Ripleys actress and nemesis actually turns into a xenomorph half way through the game.... 🤔🤔🤔
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
Hahahahahaha dude WTH !!!!! Straight 7th grade talk !!!!
@@obeyy0urmaster it probably was 7th grade lol
Heh. My housemates and I were all somewhere between twenty four and twenty eight when that movie came out. We discussed that brief, bushy peep for weeks afterwards too.
Just dudes being dudes.
@@stickiedmin6508When do you see it? I don't remember that at all. Lol
@@SlitWristMisfit_
End of the movie, when she falls off the metal trolley.
It's a 'blink and you'll miss it' flash, but it's there. You can take my word for it - I made *_extra_* sure. 😉
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. 😂
For me there was never any confusion. The movies were simply about large explosions, ridiculous deaths and watching Mila Jojo-whatsher-vich acting cool and kicking ass.
i remember watching these as a kid and thinking "WHY DOESNT THESE MOVIES CONTINUE LIKE OTHER MOVIES >:("
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)
I just wanted her to say “multi pass” when walking with her clones.
Eyes up took me out
Guilty 😂😂😂
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.
Ada and Leon being in the 5th movie is hilarious.
was waiting for someone to finally do a video like this. I also wonder how Umbrella is able to get the supplies and logistics work during that chaos. And where the are those top umbrella executives during those hologram meetings. Great video!
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 title is exactly what I have been saying to friends and they are not big enough fans to understand but now I get to watch someone else's thoughts on it👍
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.
I wasn't expecting the "love of my life" line lol
Here, let me explain the creative process, which should illuminate things for you a bit:
Anderson: *slams face down into a pile of suspicious white powder and INHALES deeply*
"WAHT IF I PUT MY HOT WIFE IN A MOVIE!!!!???"
The End.
I cracked lmao
Lmao THIS!!!
God knows what the pile was laced with for the 5th movie. Underground bunker nazi zombie simulation. Umm.. OK?
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
ok that ardeth bay comment had me rolling
4:56 that guy stumbling on the right gets me every time😂
10 years of being a RE fan and never noticed him
I saw the beggining of final chapter and then just stopped and said
"I quit"
And I'm glad someone else understands 😅