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Capcom never wanted a close adaptation of RE games!

posted 7 years ago by MaryEunice
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Don't blame Paul for his vision. George Romero tried to keep the script true to the games, but ended up fired. It all seems to be Capcom's decision:

Capcom producer Yoshiki Okamoto explained to the editors of Electronic Gaming Monthly that "Romero's script wasn't good, so Romero was fired".[8] In February 2000, George Romero revealed in an interview with DGA magazine that "I don't think they were into the spirit of the video game and wanted to make it more of a war movie, something heavier than I thought it should be. So I think they just never liked my script."

[–] whatisthisidonteven2017 7 years ago

Considering the first RE film, which has no game characters in it, was the best, I'd say that was the least of the franchise's problems.

[–] Prince_of_IMDb 7 years ago

Claiming the first RE movie to be the best out of the series is equivalent to saying Stage IV Colon Cancer is better than Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer.

Re: Capcom never wanted a close adaptation of RE games!

That was back then. Now, with Hack Anderson's aftermath...they just might re-consider leasing the Mansion once more ...

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[–] terrorfirmer-ie 7 years ago

The first one is a good entertaining blockbuster with decent ties to the game, same with Apocalypse. They have relatively coherent plots, decent narrative and generally progress quite logically, all of which is just completely absent from the end of Extinction onwards as the whole franchise turns into one giant wafer thin action sequence with nothing to connect the random dots.

Remember in Simpsons when Bart's like "You can actually pinpoint the second his heart breaks"?

With Resident Evil it's "You can actually pinpoint where Paul stopped caring", and it's the opening second of Afterlife.

[–] Prince_of_IMDb 7 years ago

The first one is equally atrocious. It literally looked and felt like a SyFi original movie. The Metacritic score is legit spot-on and I'm not a fan of Metacritic by any means. The cinematography was cheap, the acting was noticeably hammy, the soundtrack sucked and was distracting and idiosyncratic to the tonality of the quiet, omnious Mansion in the first game. What was the budget to it, anyway? It looked so cheap! These movies appeal to the lowest common denominator of people with objectively poor standards in film. Ie: kids in their teens / 20's who indulge for this hammy stuff. Lol.

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[–] redfield-40200 7 years ago

Yet idiots will scream, "I want a reboot!"

Capcom also worked with Paul on all the films. I just wish they worked with Paul ON HIS WRITING. But we won't see a faithful reboot unless someone dies at Capcom.

[–] Prince_of_IMDb 7 years ago

I just wish they worked with Paul ON HIS WRITING.

Keep trolling, shill. Keep parroting about how you've dreamed of seeing the movie over and over again and how you poetically 'teared' at the end of the movie with Alice's sacrifice. My god, young man, could you be even more obvious? 

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[–] redfield-40200 7 years ago

I'm not oblivious to the fact Paul is a horrible writer. But that doesn't take the fact away The Final Chapter was still a fun film. I mean, Retribution was even worse, but I still loved it. It was a colorful film with cool action sequences in new locations.

You do realize I own almost 1,000 Blu-Rays and less than 5 of them I really HATE. I watch movies to be entertained. I don't take them literal. If a movie is so slow and boring, I don't like it. But Resident Evil is fast paced and has tons of actions. What is there to hate about that?