@ronniemick Calling it “faithful” doesn’t fix the fact it was badly put together. Fan service isn’t the same as a good movie.
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Sarv
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No shame: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY is the best Resident Evil adaptation to date.
Everyone who wanted a faithful telling of the source material? You got it, and you all did NOTHING but bitch. So all the griping about Cregger’s take means less than nothing to me - it looks great.
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I need this moment to be topped
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@SuperButterBuns Acting like a good director means this will work is a cop out. Good directors make bad films all the time
and resident evil hasn’t exactly earned blind trust.
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I can forgive folks for not knowing who zach cregger is and just discounting the next film as some standard horror movie with the RE name slapped on. But this guy gets horror, humor and camp. Really couldn't be made by a better guy in modern hollywood right now
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@DeathandBeeZ @nuhre_ I tried and couldn’t drag myself to watch th whole thing with how bad it was. Felt like a parody making fun of the whole thing.
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@SarvMyLife @nuhre_ yeah to me i watched it recently and was fully willing to give it a chance. idk why they thought interlacing those two stories like that would work.
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I wonder why the fans didn’t like this adaptation. If only I could pinpoint exactly where they went wrong with this movie.
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Acting like a good director guarantees this will work is a cop out. Great filmmakers miss all the time. Given Resident Evil’s history, skepticism is more than fair.
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I don’t get what Resident Evil fans are complaining about. We got 6 movies that were dumb fun, not great. A Netflix show most people skipped. And a reboot that stayed closer to the games, and still got hated. Now Zach Cregger is taking a different route. Not copying the games scene by scene. Not doing another loose adaptation. Something adjacent. Same universe. New story. It’s the same idea Telltale Games used with The Walking Dead. Original characters. Familiar world. And it worked because it respected the tone instead of repeating the plot. That approach makes sense here. You already know the story of Raccoon City. The characters. The beats. Doing it again does nothing. A new story inside that world has more room to breathe.
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@DeathandBeeZ @nuhre_ I’m being overly generous. Terrible film all around. But that’s what you get with low budget and mediocre director and writers.
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@DeathandBeeZ @nuhre_ Can you read? I said “tried to be” before the word faithful.
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@Moses0507 @TheAdamOfApples @emeriticus Good directors make bad films all the time. So no. Not idiotic.
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Cregger writes whatever he wants and studios pull up dump trucks filled with cash into his driveway. It’s very funny that chuds and whiny babies (redundant) think Cregger is just “using” the Resident Evil IP to make a generic zombie movie, as if the guy would be so desperate. It’s also clear he genuinely enjoys the franchise and is trying to implement key aspects of it into the film. It’s going to be great.
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Resident Evil movie director Zach Cregger reveals a subtle item from the game that he got into the movie:
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@ItsArklay I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt because of his recent successes. But man, it’s been rough for RE fans with movie adaptations.
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@SarvMyLife And I believe Zach Cregger can do just that with Resident Evil. I’m sure when the movie comes out it will still feel like RE with new characters and story. Just my opinion though. Fallout was phenomenal!
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(1/3) So the reason we haven’t gotten a faithful 1 for 1 adaptation of Resident Evil is due to a contract between Capcom and Constantin Film. The contract mandates live-action films to be in a separate continuity from the games #REBHFun #ResidentEvil
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@ItsArklay Even if they keep it separate, that doesn’t mean it has to feel detached…
Fallout is a good example. New story, new characters, still feels like fallout. Thats all people are asking for.
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@ItsArklay Oh please. Even if there’s a separation clause, it doesn’t force them to strip it this far from the source. That’s the part people keep glossing over. The direction is still a choice.
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@darkmcknight93 @SuspendedDoll1 That’s not accurate. RE7 had long-time RE leadership like Jun Takeuchi involved. It’s still the franchise evolving itself, not an external interpretation.
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@SarvMyLife @SuspendedDoll1 And the people working on resident Evil currently are not the same people that originally made the first game there are new artists interpreting these stories and evolving it.
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THEN WHY ARE WE MAKING A MOVIE WITH THE RESIDENT EVIL TITLE?? I give up
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@SarvMyLife @nuhre_ When I was watching it, I got the impression it was just a collection of the director saying: 'look this is from the game!'
But as a movie and story, it was a bad movie.
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people will see this and still tell you “he knows nothing about the games” and “he isn’t even a real RE fan” 🗿
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Resident Evil movie director Zach Cregger reveals a subtle item from the game that he got into the movie:
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@darkmcknight93 @SuspendedDoll1 That comparison doesn’t even work
RE7 is capcom evolving their own series, not someone else trying to interpret it.
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@SuspendedDoll1 Because something being resident Evil doesn't mean retelling the exact same story. Resident Evil 7 is one of the best of the franchise and it has barely any connection to the rest of the series let him cook bro he knows what he's doing
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@demboyz_vt @emeriticus if it’s going to drift this far from what makes resident evil what it is, then what’s the point of using the IP at all. Just tell an original story.
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@SarvMyLife @emeriticus Or maybe you’re just in a little tiny bubble.
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@demboyz_vt @emeriticus Dismissing it as a tiny group is easier than acknowledging the broader reception
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@SarvMyLife @emeriticus Just because it’s not what a very tiny population wants doesn’t mean it’s not done properly
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@madcap412 Gatekeeping doesn’t fix bad adaptations
it just lowers the bar so anything passes.
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