supernova8
Banned
People were definitely complaining outright about the diversity, but now we can genuinely complain about the show itself (looks like it would be garbage no matter what skin colours or genitals are involved)
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People were definitely complaining outright about the diversity, but now we can genuinely complain about the show itself (looks like it would be garbage no matter what skin colours or genitals are involved)
Oddvintagechap
Member
Such a shit series story and character wise. Gamers are hella weird.
Still my go to when they have co-op.
Still my go to when they have co-op.
Nickolaidas
Member
"Resident Evil Netflix live action series is nothing like the games, and that's a good thing."
"Resident Evil Netflix live action series is triggering all the right people ..."
"White supremacists can't handle the fact that Wesker is a person of color ..."
"The cast of the Netflix live action series is diverse, stunning, brave and exactly what Resident Evil needs right now."
"Resident Evil Netflix live action series is triggering all the right people ..."
"White supremacists can't handle the fact that Wesker is a person of color ..."
"The cast of the Netflix live action series is diverse, stunning, brave and exactly what Resident Evil needs right now."
Ezquimacore
Banned
All these video games movies and series are made by the Hollywood elite to sabotage the gaming industry
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FingerBang
Member
I explained that already, because the way they're writing female characters sucks recently and the fact they basically went all the way to pick all non white people smell like and agenda.
Did I say it's going to suck? Nope
I just expressed concerns based on the current state of the industry, but keep defending this like Star Wars and Marvel haven't shown us what happens when you prioritize diversity and female empowerment over good fucking stories. I want good stories, not agendas. If the story is good the characters can be all lesbians carpenters.
GamesDontSuck
Member
Watch an episode and see how good or bad it is. That's my plan.
Making a game into a TV show or movie is always a weird thing. You want to have it enough like the games so gamers will like it, but offer more so non-gaming fans will tune in.
Truth be told the resident evil franchise is much bigger than just the games. 6 movies with Milla Jovovich that all made money, so there are resident evil non gaming fans out there who haven't a clue what happened in the games. Then you have the audience of people who watched shows like The Walking Dead who you would want to capture with this show. When you break it down its like gamers are only one segment.
Then there is the reality of challenges faced when writing say a 10 episode season. What do you do to remain faithful? Would having 10 hours of a show all set in a mansion be fun to watch? - it's fun to play re1 - but does going around solving puzzles and killing zombies translate to a show? So I think thats where shows have to be creative.
Making a game into a TV show or movie is always a weird thing. You want to have it enough like the games so gamers will like it, but offer more so non-gaming fans will tune in.
Truth be told the resident evil franchise is much bigger than just the games. 6 movies with Milla Jovovich that all made money, so there are resident evil non gaming fans out there who haven't a clue what happened in the games. Then you have the audience of people who watched shows like The Walking Dead who you would want to capture with this show. When you break it down its like gamers are only one segment.
Then there is the reality of challenges faced when writing say a 10 episode season. What do you do to remain faithful? Would having 10 hours of a show all set in a mansion be fun to watch? - it's fun to play re1 - but does going around solving puzzles and killing zombies translate to a show? So I think thats where shows have to be creative.
fart town usa
Gold Member
Ellery
Member
I am going to watch it. I love Resident Evil and just like most of the other movies/shows/games I at least have to give them a try.
Does it look like it what my nostalgic brain thinks about when envisioning a Resident Evil show? No, my brain thinks about the first Resident Evil from PS1 setting the mansion with Jill, Chris, Barry and Wesker.
If I find it to be underwhelming after 1-2 episodes then so be it and I will move on to the next thing I try out.
Does it look like it what my nostalgic brain thinks about when envisioning a Resident Evil show? No, my brain thinks about the first Resident Evil from PS1 setting the mansion with Jill, Chris, Barry and Wesker.
If I find it to be underwhelming after 1-2 episodes then so be it and I will move on to the next thing I try out.
aliadiere25
Member
I'm guessing there will be some identity politics thrown in there. Maybe the zombies will get it on throughout the series to state that everyone is equal.... or some shit like that.
Zekra Dezivad
Member
what the
Monkeyball
Banned
They made it about a different virus.
(woke mind virus)
(woke mind virus)
ShadowNate
Member
It doesn't look horrifically terrible to me, so I'm starting from there and watching an episode or two.
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
For how great the resident evil video games are the movies, shows, animes don’t hold the same value.
MasterDerico
Member
lughnasadh123
Member
I'm fine with the cast and whatever bullshittery they want to do with the story - I've resigned myself to crappy RE stuff going forward, but ffs make NEW characters.
EDMIX
Member
yea..none of that matters, those same people would say CW shit looks "netflixy". They don't even have a solid quantification of this, any fucking thing looks that way to them based on some lose shit lol
So its the same studio that did the films.
The films being shit and the show being shit are down to that studio
yurinka
Member
It would be a good idea if they wanted a black female co-lead. But the game also had a white, straight, cis, male co-lead, which seems to be problematic, racist, sexist etc. for Netflix.
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
lance reddick is a great actor. i'm sure he will be good. if it's anything like their last resident evil show this will be dogshit.
yurinka
Member
Yes, he is a badass super talented actor. But if I was him I'd have rejected to play a blonde white character.
spookyfish
Member
NetFlix: “Okay — our goal here is to make the Paul W S Anderson movies look like masterpieces.”
TLZ
Banned
tommib
Member
So true, man. RE was about the build-up. A house and some weird zombie-looking guys here and there. You didn’t really know what was going on until the end game and you figure out the virus might be out of control.
They could make a super tense domestic horror series that unravels slowly with a lot of in-doors paranoia (think of The Thing) but no. They start with Armageddon on minute 1 so my interest disappears automatically.
Pejo
Member
Imagine if they made a horror movie that turns into an action/horror movie where a group of officers (sent to check out distress calls) seek refuge from an unknown danger in a giant mansion, only to find that there are undead creatures and many mysteries awaiting inside...
Nah that would never work. Let's do this instead. Yea, this. This is the ticket.
Nah that would never work. Let's do this instead. Yea, this. This is the ticket.
SegaSnatcher
Member
Why can't they just give us a moody and haunting Resident Evil movie/tv show like the original games? Make it actually creepy, not over the top action.
Honey Bunny
Member
Nobody gives a shit about videogame stories in movies. The entire point of a game adaptation is that it's a movie that looks like the game. Thats the entiiiiire point.
What a failure.
What a failure.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
Thank FUCK it seems like two lesbians held hands in the trailer. I was getting worried that there wasnt going to be some sexual orientation going on in Resident evil
Phew, thanks Netflix.
Phew, thanks Netflix.
InfiniteCombo
Banned
Long ass post incoming.
I don't get what the trailer is trying to achieve. There's a "New Raccoon City" that has seemingly been built by Umbrella as some sort of utopia (hence the "I'd Like to Build the World a Home" song choice), then there's an abrupt jump to some sort of post-apocalyptic London.
I have so many questions, but I'll ask just a couple for now.
Is this supposed to be in the same universe as the games? Because in the games, Umbrella was permanently disgraced (maybe even shut down?) after the American government had to nuke Raccoon City at the end of RE3 and people found out it was because of Umbrella. That's why Umbrella no longer exists as an entity by that name after RE3; the most you get is the company named Tricell in RE5 which seems like a spiritual successor to Umbrella. So how can they have Umbrella still around on this show?
Where's this New Raccoon City located? I can't quite tell but it looks like in the scene where Lance Reddick's character says "you'll love it here" he's the one driving. But he's on the right side of the car which means New Raccoon City is NOT in the United States. Maybe it's in the UK (hence the cut to post apocalyptic London halfway through the trailer). Part of the charm of the original RE trilogy is that Raccoon City seems like a small, slightly redneck-y, mountain-surrounded American town, which makes its inhabitants both isolated enough and gullible enough to being exploited by a company like Umbrella. I can't speak for the UK or other countries, but here in the U.S. we have a love/hate relationship with "big pharma" so this show's team can, with good writing, explore topics around that.
It's fine if the show decides to do an "extended universe" thing, but you can't extend a universe that doesn't exist in television yet. If you're gonna use the name "Resident Evil" and a character named "Albert Wesker," with the express purpose of drawing people in to the show with those recognizable names, then you should establish their existence within the original universe first. Because then you'll have what's happening both here and on YouTube (check out the comments in the video, they're absolutely BRUTAL. Also I'm not sure if the video got ratio'd to hell and back, but seems like it). Which is massive fan backlash.
Like others have said here, part of the appeal of the RE lore is NOT that you immediately throw Leon into the RE4 village or throw Chris into RE6. It's the slow burn. It's conspiracy and shadiness that leads to tragedy. It's just a night guard playing cards with his buddy, only to eventually not feel well and write "Itchy. Tasty" scrawled in blood before he loses human consciousness. It's just a dorky gun shop owner who has a good relationship with the police department -- even makes them custom weapons -- whose young daughter's last human conscious thought is to call for her "mommy" as she turns into a zombie in real time. It's a little girl named Lisa Trevor who is just a normal girl who plays with dolls and loves her parents, but is subjected to brutal and tragic experiments, and ends up being the monstrous entity you see in REmake. There's a trillion examples like this, just from the games.
The games have enough lore and material -- you can draw from that and have drama, romance, tragedy, action, conspiracy, and all the other shit that makes for compelling television.
I don't get what the trailer is trying to achieve. There's a "New Raccoon City" that has seemingly been built by Umbrella as some sort of utopia (hence the "I'd Like to Build the World a Home" song choice), then there's an abrupt jump to some sort of post-apocalyptic London.
I have so many questions, but I'll ask just a couple for now.
Is this supposed to be in the same universe as the games? Because in the games, Umbrella was permanently disgraced (maybe even shut down?) after the American government had to nuke Raccoon City at the end of RE3 and people found out it was because of Umbrella. That's why Umbrella no longer exists as an entity by that name after RE3; the most you get is the company named Tricell in RE5 which seems like a spiritual successor to Umbrella. So how can they have Umbrella still around on this show?
Where's this New Raccoon City located? I can't quite tell but it looks like in the scene where Lance Reddick's character says "you'll love it here" he's the one driving. But he's on the right side of the car which means New Raccoon City is NOT in the United States. Maybe it's in the UK (hence the cut to post apocalyptic London halfway through the trailer). Part of the charm of the original RE trilogy is that Raccoon City seems like a small, slightly redneck-y, mountain-surrounded American town, which makes its inhabitants both isolated enough and gullible enough to being exploited by a company like Umbrella. I can't speak for the UK or other countries, but here in the U.S. we have a love/hate relationship with "big pharma" so this show's team can, with good writing, explore topics around that.
It's fine if the show decides to do an "extended universe" thing, but you can't extend a universe that doesn't exist in television yet. If you're gonna use the name "Resident Evil" and a character named "Albert Wesker," with the express purpose of drawing people in to the show with those recognizable names, then you should establish their existence within the original universe first. Because then you'll have what's happening both here and on YouTube (check out the comments in the video, they're absolutely BRUTAL. Also I'm not sure if the video got ratio'd to hell and back, but seems like it). Which is massive fan backlash.
Like others have said here, part of the appeal of the RE lore is NOT that you immediately throw Leon into the RE4 village or throw Chris into RE6. It's the slow burn. It's conspiracy and shadiness that leads to tragedy. It's just a night guard playing cards with his buddy, only to eventually not feel well and write "Itchy. Tasty" scrawled in blood before he loses human consciousness. It's just a dorky gun shop owner who has a good relationship with the police department -- even makes them custom weapons -- whose young daughter's last human conscious thought is to call for her "mommy" as she turns into a zombie in real time. It's a little girl named Lisa Trevor who is just a normal girl who plays with dolls and loves her parents, but is subjected to brutal and tragic experiments, and ends up being the monstrous entity you see in REmake. There's a trillion examples like this, just from the games.
The games have enough lore and material -- you can draw from that and have drama, romance, tragedy, action, conspiracy, and all the other shit that makes for compelling television.
BusierDonkey
Member
Well this turned out just about how I expected it to.
Ezquimacore
Banned
The first three games have the perfect setting and if they want female protagonists those three games already have like 4 female awesome characters, so the inclusiveness is not an excuse.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
SegaSnatcher
Member
My ultimate dream would be to have Mike Flanigan involved in a RE TV series. His work is phenomenal.
Also, perhaps some hope in the future.
Also, perhaps some hope in the future.
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Needlecrash
Member
I will give it one episode to judge. So far....I'm not feeling it. I enjoy Lance Reddick as an actor, but him as Wesker is a bit off to me.
Gavon West
Spread's Cheeks for Intrusive Ads
The movie was so much better than I thought it would be. Some creative choices were suspect but it was fairly entertaining. Real shit
Clear
CliffyB's Cock Holster
The reality is this: You can get away with changing some elements to fit a new format - its mostly understood that its a necessary thing. But when you change the format, and change the characters and content to the extent that its virtually unrecognizable compared to the original IP, why keep the name and all the baggage of prior expectation in the first place?
Attaching the Resident Evil branding isn't going to help this show, its going to hurt it. Because its creating a backlash from the get-go.
Its so colossally stupid I honestly do not know why they bothered.
newtypepilot
Member
you can't possibly fuck up more than the RE live action movies!!
netflix: hold my beer
netflix: hold my beer
GamesDontSuck
Member
Because of money.
While you and I have played the resident evil games the IP is much more than games. Like, people who couldn't tell you the difference between an xbox and a cardboard box, will watch this too.
Remaining faithful vs making new stuff to capture a bigger audience.... latter is gonna win.
Melon Husk
Member
Resident Evil adaptations make money no matter the quality. They see a franchise that can make a quick buck regardless of who is producing it. Netflix is simply honoring the tradition folks. It's a self fulfilling prophecy - they see the franchise as trash, treat it as trash
- and what is the end result? Trash.
edit: To be 100% clear, I think the original games do provide enough potential for more than one quality film if the material were adapted by someone who understood the franchise - they'd have to call it Biohazard to diassociate from Resident Evil movies... Fewer zombies & more "bioterror": Godzilla vs. Biollante minus Godzilla?
- and what is the end result? Trash.
edit: To be 100% clear, I think the original games do provide enough potential for more than one quality film if the material were adapted by someone who understood the franchise - they'd have to call it Biohazard to diassociate from Resident Evil movies... Fewer zombies & more "bioterror": Godzilla vs. Biollante minus Godzilla?
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InfiniteCombo
Banned
YES. The "Haunting" shows on Netflix are some of the better American-produced horror I've seen in a while.
Hill House was a legit awesome piece of horror. Bly Manor was a bit of a step down but still great.
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