Movies What's your take on the Resident Evil movies?

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I remember catching a glimpse of Apocalypse (the second movie) during a particularly dead party sometime in the early aughts and getting utterly blown away by how... Fun it looked.

It didn't know a damn thing about the Resident Evil games at that point, but the movies made me want to dig deeper and trying them out for myself (which was a HUGE WIN for themselves, since advertising the games was kind of the whole point). I ended up playing --and loving-- Nemesis shortly thereafter exclusively because I had grown really excited by the idea of fighting this one monster across Raccoon City.

Then, many years later, FX did a marathon of all the movies that had existed up to that point and I watched them all with my brother, only really disliking the first and last ones (I found the first one to be limited by choice because they kept it almost universally enclosed on a tiny area and the last one just didn't give a fuck about anything and it showed).

I think these movies are much better than they have any right to be, and are easily elite among the (admittedly rather shallow) pool of videogame-based flicks.

What do you think?

 

[Elwiwi]

Luckily I didn't watch them

 

[NeonKnights]

At least it's not the Monster Hunter movie?

 

[Jon-Patrick-S]

Never actually watched them but I watched that one laser hallway scene on youtube a bunch of times back in high school and clearly Capcom did too because they've reused it in the games like three or four times by now.

 

[Tortuga]

First 2 movies was decent, everything else was terrible nonsense
But at least you can see Paul Anderson played games and maybe even liked it
That other movie after him somehow was much worse, easily worst one

 

[Crashbandi]

I watched everyone of them in theaters and read the novelizations of them. I loved them. Of course they're not Resident Evil in video game terms but they are A LOT of fun. I'll re-watch them from time to time Apocalypse is my favorite one.

 

[PacGuy]

As they strayed more from the source material I was negative at first. But if you look at them in the lense of like a resident evil flavored action movie, they started to grow on me. I like em

 

[IamtheWalrus]

The first two films were pretty okay. Nothing amazing, but I will admit, I did read somewhere that Sienna Guillory (the actress who played Jill Valentine) studied Jill from Resident Evil 3: Nemesis via playthroughs. Rest of the films I didn't watch. And I'm glad I didn't.