The sad trend about video game adaptations is that they will always be made by people who don’t understand the messages or meaning of the games and will just end up making bad or mediocre fan fiction. Edit: Fallouts a blast ❤️
I don't get it. Why can't they just... Adapt the material? Take out some puzzles, choreograph the fights, make a few other pacing fixes and the like, and just do Resident Evil 1. A SWAT team going through a trap and puzzle filled mansion full of zombies and monsters. How is that not usable?
I mean, even if they were able to just take as much time as they would need to make it " perfect " if the game is not like linear, then, they HAVE to make some " adjustments "...
That's cause they're clueless morons that have never played a single game in their life, grandpa probably saw his son playing resident evil and asked "what game is that? Oh wow it looks spooky and very hip, im gonna make it a TV show, teens will love it!"
Worse, we get a lot of pre-made scripts that Hollywood uses for adaptations and re-skins them. Elvis mentioned "random" stuff not in RE in RE and the weird, choppy issues with the plot. Probably not the case with this, but some movies are made using a completely separate script that ends up being recycled for the ip. Diehard is a famous example, Joker is another. (Though those movies were much better than this mess).
The fact that even a clone of Albert Wesker would be a somewhat good father and person is the least believable thing in the show, like Wesker in the game, is supervillain evil
@@slavatoin8273 That's a good theory! But damn, they literally could have made a green wallpaper if that's the case. Sure, it would be weird if no program is open but it's better than fucking paint lmao
The reason that most zombie related media calls them anything but a zombie is because a while ago like on the 80s-90s marvel had copywrited the word “zombie” so other companies had use find other ways to use the creatures without using the word “zombie” but they lost the right after it became a widely used word, but now a days it’s just kind of a trend to not call them zombies They lost the right in 1996, but it is somewhat of a trend. As a world that take place in a zombie apocalypse doesn’t have any fiction revolving zombies so they have to be more creative that using “zombie”. It also helps marketing bc if they get popular enough more people will know the show by the nickname they gave zombies. Like the walking dead’s “walkers”
When you think about it it sorta makes sense, like irl if it happened we probably wouldn’t call them zombies it’d be more like COVID where we’d call them what there infected with , just a funny thought tho that I’ve overthought
But they are though… They ARE zombies. If zombies actually exist, I’m gonna call them zombies lmao Plus they even say “zombies” quite a LOT in the games, given they are zombies.
@@elliezzz7812 now all I can think about is a group of hipsters arguing over what they should call the zombies to make themselves sound cool. Makes me shudder,
The walking deads walkers were the worst analogy because that is the case for the show the comics which was the source material for the olshow originally called them zombies also the comics are way better than the show so you should read them (the show was awesome in the earlier seasons though)
@@elliezzz7812 I think we would come up with a name for them and not just call them "infected with *disease*" or "*disease* sufferers." If they were out and about and you could easily tell them apart from people without it, we would come up with a nickname for them. They would be different in each country/region too depending on what caught on and what they do. Like, they're called walkers in TWD because that's what they do, they get up and walk. Depending on what they did here, and previous media influences that they didnt have in TWD, we would come up with some easy to use slang name to give them.
Jade is such a terrible person. She doesn't care about anybody, risks other people's life constantly. When in the end she sends her daughter away on her own and forgets about it we just bursted out laughing. But every character seems to like/love her because she is the protagonist I guess? That's how some Hollywood psychos would imagine a "relatable" character.
A classic mark of terrible character writing is having a character be awful to everyone and hope the audience will like them because they _tell us_ the character is good, even though they show us the opposite. It has never, ever worked, but it doesn't stop shitty writers from doing it.
ikr. Almost every outbreak was an isolated incident which made the tension higher because you know there's nobody else coming to help. At least in the older games
yeah thats becasue most people dont really know the games...they just know the movies and think...OH THATS PROBABLY what the games are like...its an ego shooter. ont forget this really isnt a show about the game...its a show in the FILM UNIVERSE...with like...easter eggs of the games for "the nerds"
@@faelger9473 i think people hear "resident evil" and now forget that the name still is about about a house from the first game, but no one thinks about it and makes it about the end of the world.
Basic story is driven by jades life long series of poor judgment and choices. It was hard to feel anything for the protagonist….also these teen girls are fkng brats.
Another problem I have with these shows is that they always portray teens as brats or zoomers Seriously not every awful thing from real life should be in your live action show
Resident Evil is such a lore heavy franchise. It is astonishing how many adaptations don't have anything in common with the games other than name sake. It's almost like these people absolutely hate the games.
The thing about this show is, nothing Jade does in the past has any stakes because we see her as an adult so we know she lives. And the subtitles say "younger billie" so we also know that she's going to live...
The writers most likely didn't know how to hide those kinds of details from the viewer. At least with the horror movie The Thing, the intro wasn't in subtitle so you couldn't understand the helicopter pilot spoiling the whole movie. Unless you understand their language. Here, they said screw it just add everything in and hope it all works.
@@giftedfox4748 More likely the writers wrote the young part and the exec's at Netflix demanded they add the adult portion. Like........the whole adult portion is pointless, it meanders through random subplots to kill time and constantly teases(incorrectly most of the time) outcomes of the young portion. Literally wish there was a cut with all the adult stuff cut out, 100% more watchable.
@@simonausmus Oh! My apologies. I forgot there's a few of you special folks that don't realize teenage drama isn't a part of the Resident Evil formula. Please keep praising this garbage though by all means. Happy Holidays. 🤡
After painfully sitting through the first season of the show, it definitely made me appreciate the movies a lot more now Correction: There was only one season ahaha
Watching a Resident Evil show and hearing "Zootopia Porn" come out of a character's mouth was probably the hardest I have laughed in a while and it gets points for that
It really botheted me how 2 teenage girls got into an Umbrella building with no security because everythings "automated" You know, even tho the show happened in the same universe as the games, you think Umbrella would have more security after Racoon City 1 etc etc
Yeah, "Thanks to Internet" also kind of dumb. How the heck they deactivate the cameras inside building but no alarm blazing upon deactivation. that will cause troubles and investigation troughly due to this incident. And each personel of inside the building will be questioned entirely no matter what. That will work great but this... Is beyond stupid writing, this is Agony and Self Suicide to the show.
It really makes this Umbrella look like a joke, the Umbrella in the Millia RE Saga has an Automated Laser Defense System and the facility that was from is Underground just like every other Facility, Extinction even went as far as to show there is a Underground Facility that is accessed through a little spot found in some normal-looking home in middle of nowhere or a desert.
This is probably one of those pre-made scripts that Hollywood uses for adaptations and just reskins to try to make it fit. Elvis mentioned "random" stuff not in RE in RE and the weird, choppy issues with the plot. Diehard is a famous example, Joker is another. (Though those movies were much better than this mess).
You know the worst part, Umbrella has cloning technology, all Umbrella and Billie would need is for Jade to supply a pint or two of blood and then they could create a clone heart of Jade to pump the special hero blood perpetually.
Fun fact. A german youtuber, named Alberto, made some comedy sketches in which he played multiple characters by himself. His most known characters are Al, Bert and O. He did the same thing that wesker did to name his clones, only he did it like ~10 years earlier. Made me laugh a bit when Weskers clones were introduced and i still wondering if this is a coincidence or if someone behind the scenes took some inspiration.
the weirdest thing about the movie wanting this to be in the "Real World" is that till 2022 yet there appearently are no Movies about Zombies what so ever. Obviously they had no Idea how Zombies could have looked in the "Real World"
To be honest it depends on which type of thing is being referenced, and how well is the referenced capable of aging or has aged or is relevant to the plot and not just a tacky one liner with no bearing on the story.
@@reginaphalange9417 seriously referencing something recent just makes your show all the more outdated Like inside job Good show but it relies way to much on referencing real life events The writers should’ve known that the show will be outdated after many years
Overall I like the idea of it being inserted into the "real world" because on its face the premise is more realistic as well as say multiple parallel timelines where things are different because here we see a completely different version of Wesker taking care of these clearly adopted or otherwise artificially created girls through sperm/egg donation and surrogate mothers which is also an opportunity to present a much more realistic take on the "wesker children" program instead of Umbrella spending all of these resources watching and tracking these children they could just a) engineer them in a lab and b) finance the orphanages and just have Umbrella employees adopt and raise the select children themselves, with the genes they want or who display traits associated with them like high intelligence, faster than normal reflexes,muscle fiber composition, bone density, and better memory which tend to go hand in hand with higher IQ as a general factor they're measuring the speed your brain processes sensory input. They could just have done it that way and raised them themselves and gathered DNA samples from them to splice into the next generation of children born through invitro feetilization with egg donors and surrogates enhancing them in utero with gene splicing and additional gene therapy. The problem is that an Umbrella employee wouldn't be able to threaten a social media company or PornHub employee's job these are the richest entities in the world through exposure and add revenue alone other than Amazon and their IT infrastructure is what makes what Umbrella and other pharma companies do possible especially biotechnology you need that whole technology part and they'd be way more politically and socially influential and powerful than an Umbrella executive and they'd all know about one another's backroom deals and DARPA contracts with the Pentagon/Military. That's the only unrealistic thing I saw flat out here. He'd call PH to whine and get this guy fired they'd just turn into a Tyler the Creator meme be like "Okay?!?" Your daughter got hoed at school and what? then hang up on him and do NOTHING to reprimand the other guy. It's like the creators forgot Umbrella wasn't all powerful did things in secret wasn't in competition with IT companies their Racoon City labs were because they owned that city from the start financed everything and had the Mayor in their pocket from the start and the Spencer mansions lab etc. Was built way before all that and was only connected to the Hive later that was all illegal underground black market deals they made during the construction of Raccoon city that they Umbrella financed. In this show, New Raccoon city implies the events of Re:1-3 have already happened in this timeline or whatever so its like people would have known about BOWS and that Umbrella was no good , likely would have already gone under and Umbrella had equally powerful competition in their own field like TriCell who immediately took over in umbrellas wake along with Wesker's smaller more hidden faction of Umbrellas remnants employing double agents like Ada Wong. That's what happens TriCell and an arms dealer emerge. Supreme with Umbrellas and Osmund Saddlers biotech selling it on the black market to the Highest bidder TriCell, who weaponizes the Ouroboros virus. With the remaining STARS team members and UBCS mercenaries becoming the BSAA running around the world like a BOW related elite black ops commando squad for interpol and the UN clearly funded by the US government and probably China and Russia as well they're probably like "yes please prevent zombie apocalypse in our cities take some weapons and money please as much as you think you'll need" lol. Umbrella collapses and fractionates early on Umbrella collapses into multiple warring underground factions before the rest of this stuff even happens with only their other shady backroom deal created hidden labs remaining and they're constantly being raided and having their pockets run by the BSAA, TriCell mercs, Wesker's faction and probably our spin-kicking, deadshot, quick-time counter attack master , longhaired pretty boy hero Leon and even Ada Wong herself the queen of double crossing and even back stabbing the back stabber.
All the weird outbursts in this show remind me of the time I used AI Dungeon to try to write a novel for fun. Some of the plot elements were surprisingly on-point, but then you'd get some crazy rant or pop culture interjection that would come crashing down. I'm mildly convinced Netflixident Evil was AI-generated.
Holy shit this is so accurate lmao. Like, the fucking giant crocodile being dragged behind the survivor ship??? That's something only an AI, a child, or someone stoned out of their gourd would think is a logical escalation of events 😭
I'm a huge Resident Evil fan, however I went into this show with absolutely zero expectations. With that zero expectation I tried so hard to enjoy it at every instance. I was met with an absolute dumpster-fire of a tv show. I could write an entire Exposé on how this show sucked, but you did everything I had to say toward the show in this video and I cannot explain enough how much I appreciate that. This show was so difficult to sit through.
No little edge Lord, netflix has plenty of good shows and movies, you just focus on the bad ones because you like to cry on the internet while you fill your diaper.
I found it very funny how mild of a reaction Wesker has when finding out his daughters stole his key to murderous supercorpo HQ, freed a lab zombie dog, and one of them got bitten & infected, because free bunnies. I kinda liked the show in so bad it's good kinda way.
If there is one thing I can't stand in horror movies is when you go "Why don't they just do this? Yeah, obviously that's going to... yeah, there you go." If you actually want a story to be scary, you need the characters to do everything right and STILL things went to sh*t. That's how you tell the audience the situation is actually hopeless.
But, here is what I don't get: Why Wesker? The overworked father roll would have been so much more fitting for Birkin. Birkin already has a daughter, so no one would be offended by Sherry having a sister. It was already established in the game, that both William and Annette were neglecting their daughter due to William working on the G-Virus. Birkin had a similar roll to Wesker within Umbrella, so everything they did to Wesker in this dumbster fire of a show, they could have done to Birkin and it would have been so much less... stupid. Heck, I don't even think that people would care all that much about race-swapping Birkin, because, again, the roll would be so much more fitting for him. Yeah, Birkin is not a single dad, but, going with the whole clone nonsense, the Birkin here could have just been a clone of og Birkin (with an accidental dose of cherry cola) and no one would care.
I mean, there's no reason why Birkin would've had to be a single dad. If both parents are overworked and neglectful of their daughter(s), you don't even need to kill off the spouse.
@@sorrenblitz805 Or, since the show is already set in Africa at the the start, just make the entire thing about Sheva and Josh. It could be a sequel to RE5 and focus on them cleaning up the remnants of Tricell, or even an origin story about how the two of them first met and started fighting against Bioterrorism. Heck, they could even end the whole thing with Sheva meeting Chris for the first time, tying it in perfectly with the start of the game.
You can always count on Netflix to do two things; 1. destroying an already well established IP 2. creating there own IP and then cancel it when it starts to gain momentum.
_''In August 2022, the series was canceled after one season.''_ See, that's one of the reasons why I cancelled my subscription to Netflix a year ago - they keep investing in TERRIBLE projects. Absolute dreadful shows and movies. They go for quantity rather than quality, so for every 1 good show or movie, there's 20 bad show or movie. And they continuously raise prices of the subscriptions... Raising prices for a service but the service doesn't improve Netflix, you'd have MUCH better retention if you had better quality stuff.
@@aarondawal9037 Yeah - they'd rather invest in crappy ''Originals'' than invest in publishing license or extending current publishing licenses... So studio movies are fewer & rarer, and don't last as long on the platform. I don't miss Netflix.
And now they will remove shared passwords / IP lock your account and put ads on the lowest tier subscription in early 2023. They’re really killing their own service
I really did love the claustrophobia of the first movie. The second and third movie were still pretty good pretty decent but after that it just goes all downhill.
To be fair, the first 2 movies weren't bad. Hell, I'll go as far as to say RE1 was pretty decent. It had the slow investigating scenes, it had shootouts, a big mutant boss that has multiple phases (welp, the licker evolved only once but I'll count it anyway), and psychic powers.
Regarding Tammi the bully and believability: Had a bully like this in high school actually, straight up sociopath, was a bully to everyone simply because he was a hateful sonofabish. He wasn't around during my junior or senior years because apparently the dude had been killing a bunch of stray animals in his neighborhood and keeping the parts in his shed. Straight up psycho bullies are out there.
@@Plsrateeight I’m gonna assume they did since he says the guy was suddenly gone junior and senior year and they know about the dead animal parts. He was already a bully. He probably got arrested and when they found the dead animals put him in juve.
Since we've already looked at so many RE adaptations on this channel, I think we need a video at some point about the Silent Hill movies too Edit: Since I'm seeing replies about it I want to clarify I'm not suggesting the idea because I think the movies are as bad as the RE ones or bad at all. I would just like to see Elvis review them too since it's another classic horror game franchise adapted into movies like RE.
In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill. You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now... In our 'special place'... Waiting for you...
I stand behind the fact that the first movie is a solid horror experience that remains at least somewhat faithful to the games. The second one on the other hand is a mess and kind of stupid, but still a fun watch. I definitely agree that Elvis should cover these two movies.
yes, these aren't that bad to worth a sarcastic review, but i would like see him talk about movie 2 silly things, like the people burgers, the "They did this to me"and Pyramid carousel spinner...
I think the most important thing Hollywood types misunderstand about Resident Evil is that it’s not a typical zombie apocalypse schlock. In RE zombie outbreaks are like natural disasters localized to specific areas, and life goes on like normal everywhere else. RE is just as much clean labs and science experiments as much abandoned mansions and police stations. I think it lends it a very unique air.
It's what happens when the genwunner fanbase constantly harps on about how Resident Evil is a zombie series even though it always was about B.O.W.s and infectious viruses/plagas/whatever going berserk and not just some stock zombie shit.
The reason Jade’s daughter took the bag and left the boat is because that’s what Jade instructed her to do to escape Umbrella. Then moments later Jade went onto the island, summoned an army of zombies, ran back to the boat, and was like “where’s my daughter?”.
It's a shame really, I really liked the zombies in this show. They are fast and ferocious and genuinely felt like they could pose a threat, especially in large numbers, to even armed soldiers. Much more than I can say to zombies in say, later seasons of Walking Dead, when the zombies are so slow they seem only capable of catching humans when the screenwriters teleport them behind their victims offscreen.
The best way to adapt RE is to make it into a show and take all the great things from the Resident Evil games, comics, novels, cgi films, lore then blend them together with a good writer that understands Resident Evil. This show takes much more inspiration from left4dead, Walking dead, 28 days later, and even has the happy pills from "we happy few"
@@LucinaIRL I think OP is trying to compare them by zombies and the fact that the zombies run. Not the fact that L4D, 28 Days Later, Walking Dead and We Happy Few are clearly superior in comparison to this fan-fic. Lmao
Y'know what's odd?? Lance Reddick Happy Wesker clone was the best part. "They got breadsticks!" And the sad little "I don't like you, you're not nice!"
If there exists a game that gen z kids play, they will. I mean they don't care about us. All these tweaks were to draw younger audiences, who are the major viewing demographic now.
@@BigManDaichi yeah, they don't know what good writing is. Do you know the reason why youtubers like Jake Paul or Logan Paul got popular? Kids. They don't exactly have great taste. Same applies to this as well. That's why the most unintelligent shows or movies make the Netflix top 10. believe it or not, they are the target demographic for everything entertainment nowadays, and their taste is 💩. Not all, but most.
@@Chhjmmkg I guess those previous generations should stop being so greedy and go back to making things they're proud of, so kids learn about some good writing.
@@BigManDaichi and when they all are old enough to understand good writing, then the makers will focus on the even younger audience. Kids and students are the ones with time on their hand to enjoy these forms of entertainment. I guess that's why they try to appeal to them. This is also the major reason why Disney successfully reboots every single animated film they've made (except for Mulan, ofc). Like none of us would choose to watch will Smith be Aladdin when you've seen Robin Williams. I believe this is also the reason why marvel has been falling since end game, and obviously lack of good material. (I wouldn't call the MCU till end game a masterpiece, but it's certainly enjoyable)
The part where they play the Moonlight Sonota is a direct reference to Resident Evil one, where at some point in the game Jill has to play the Moonlight Sonata to open a door.
Makes the original 2002 RE film look like a masterpiece by comparison. At least it was cancelled after just one fail season. Hopefully the same will happen to Paramount's awful Halo show too. Maybe check out the CGI RE films. Their definitely better than any live action adaptation so far.
@@jacobchristopher211 yes leon looks so sexy there oh shi- Also, there is depressed alcoholik leon in damnation. Or was it the other one. The names confuse me.
@@thema1998 But thankfully, there is a new show runner. One whom I actually think is quite good. Perhaps he can salvage the series. I would certainly watch it if the second season turned out good.
The first movie is actually an alright movie. It didn’t insult any of the games and used umbrella in an ok way. Most people who talk about the movies always have at least some praise for the first one.
I'm usually pretty good at shutting my brain off and just enjoying a piece of entertainment regardless of how glaringly awful parts of it are, but man I really struggled with this show.
Its such a dumb trope where people will hack a computer and then the incriminating thing / exact thing they were looking for immediately pops up, like the person using the computer just had it open and all they did was lock their computer
Netflix is such an odd service when you think about it. On one hand, you have these great shows and movies that just make buying a Netflix description worth it, and on the other hand, you have these god-awful shows and movies that make you question why you still have a Netflix subscription in the first place.
You know there is a timeline out there where George Romero finished his script for the first Resident Evil movie and produces it. In this timeline we would have probably one of the best video game to movie adaptations with some good sequels. Instead, we got the Anderson timeline and here we are.
I’ll be honest, I’ve been daydreaming about a Dark Souls show adaptation(written by myself, a young creative writing student), but I would rather never see it happen than see someone with no respect for the base material be in charge of it. I do not understand why producers and writers are so, so, so desperate to remake movies or make movies based off of books or other projects, but then have the audacity to not even respect the material they’re mooching off of. It’s insane.
It's because it'll make a quick buck. They know people like the property, so they'll use the property itself to prop up their horrible ideas. It's incredibly rare to see a halfway decent adaptation, let alone a good one
I haven’t played the games myself only watched play throughs but my younger brother has played some of em and knows the lore pretty well and he is absolutely LIVID about these movies/shows 😭
If you watch the show with subtitles it calls Billie in the past "Young Billie" so the suspense of her possibly dying is basically ruined two minutes in lol
Actually the Infected in L4D are called zombies too by some of the characters and in universe. But they're not really dead undead, and they have an idea that you don't have to be bitten to be infected, it just made more sense for the survivors to call them infected narritavely since they're always trying to talk and discuss the zombies with the government that's trying to contain the infection..
This is why me and my friend really like L4D's zombies. Also a character named Francis calls the infected vampires and another character named Bill, corrects Francis in an elevator, saying. "They're zombies Francis!"
The infected from L4D are also believed to still be capable of being helped if a cure is found, albeit the special infected may be long gone, if not prone to all kinds of issues that'll result from their mutations once they're cured of the Green Flu.
It should be a law that if you’re adapting something from one medium to another, you have to play/read/watch etc and pass a test to ensure you know what you’re doing
A lot of times transferring a game to a movie just doesn’t work very well. The silent hill movie was made by a super fan who was one of the only people in his country to own the game. He even made his crew play the ps2 on the set. But people still didn’t like it.
When I watch the show with subtitles every time the past Billy would talk it would refer to her as young Billie implying there was an older Billie so that kinda gave it away too.
I think the biggest problem when Hollywood attempts to adapt Resident Evil is they focus on this new character and places them in the shoes or place of previously known characters.
If only there was a second season. I would like to see Tyrant working as a high-school teacher, trying to get by, while being harassed by evil Telegram trolls, or something.
Can we talk for a sec about how older jade has the most "I just got out of hairsalon" hairdo ever, despite being supposedly a random outcast in the post apocalypse. Sure, it's a detail, but it's pretty fascinating to see so much effort put into something that should have been done way more simply.
Just too big a generational gap between those that make the movie and those that are portrayed in it. Then add in the typical netflix formula (honestly surprised there wasn't a guy in a wheelchair or sth) and you get some new-gen generic bullshit, with "that's how the kids of today sound, right?" dialogue. I'm probably like 20 years younger than whoever signed off on this garbage show and even I couldn't tell you how the youth of today talks. All I know is that it's hella weird to me, so how the shit would I be able to write authentic dialogue? Netflix just has their MO and if shit works they continue, if it doesn't they just drop it; ad infinitum.
"Why does alber wesker use the same simple password for very confidential work stuff"....Oh Elvis....This is actually the most believable part of the show. Ask anyone who works in corp security. The higher up the chain, the worse their security know how.
Haha yeah it got me too. Like most people wouldn’t notice it causes it’s probably only there for like 1 second but when you actually notice it’s likes wtf. Probably would take 5 min to fix in photoshop too
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 Absolutely - and back in the day, ''zombie'' was related to dying and coming ''back'' in L4D people don't die they just become absolutely rabid when infected
Imagine if season 1 focused on them bumbling around with a "free the test animals" plot which is how the virus is released and they saved the time jump for a second or third season 🤔 And actually had Jade being picked up from the scavenger/human trafficking camp by S.T.A.R.S. and gave us actual RE characters 😭 Could've had Wesker experimenting on Billie like Alice in the Anderson movies and made him gradually lose his sanity amidst grief and desperation and become the Wesker from the games, with Jade having a real arc as she tries and fails to cure Billie being an antithesis to Wesker's way of saving her. And Baxter could have been a higher up that wrestled control of Wesker's research to further weaponize it and create greater bioweapon threats, which would then justify him wanting Jade to transform her into a superior bioweapon to Billie.
I already stated if they made this show and didn't milk the resident evil franchise I would be fine with it. But they took one of my most beloved things and shit on it then presented it to me... then called me a racist when I didn't want to consume it.
The cinematography and set design was great in the show. I loved Umbrella's red/black/white color scheme and how it was strictly used. The design and look of the zombies, and the post-apocalypse world was visually stunning. Lance Reddick was the star of the show, and the most entertaining to watch. And Paola Nunez was having the time of her life playing the role, and she was very easy to watch. Everything about Umbrella was also really cool and fun. They really embraced the evil insanity of the corp. The writing was awful for 80% of the show. When i was watching the show, my enjoyment went up when I started skipping everything about the sister drama in the flashbacks. I recommend everyone just skip ahead when the two girls are on screen together.
so u mean copying most everything look wise from the movie with shiit protagonist and villains and constantly hammering a storyline that makes u fall asleep 😂and ruining wesker and turning him into the phyco from split and making a different storylines with no context that makes sense
How was the dad able to get their blood without them getting suspicious after a while or wondering why he needed to draw their blood ever so often? Like even if he pretended to take them to a doctor for a check up and getting their blood drawn was just part of that, wouldn’t they catch on when they were older that it was a little odd that they had to go so often? I don’t know maybe I’m overthinking it….
No you aren't overthinking it, I literally thought that the whole show and a lot more dumb things I noticed I really just don't understand why they adapted so many different plot points and ways the story could go instead of just making a good RE adaption, they literally just used the RE name and made a completely separate show besides like using umbrella here and there in dialogue and Albert wesker and that's like it lmao
Not to mention that it makes you wonder how he survived the entire time until they were born. You'd think Umbrella was keeping him stable but he was still working for them when tge show starts.....
1:34 ULTRAA ULTRAA ULTRRAAAAA 😂 as a res evil fan who saw his older bro get eaten by a massive snake as a kid (shook kid me to his soul), it's no wonder this show never hit my radar. Ty for your hard work making it through this
A ton of lore to work with, dozens of Characters and a plethora of settings. But in the end they used what is basically a C-Tier fanfiction Plot with a D-Tier Script to work with. I mean the most terrifying in the series wasn't the Zombies or the Apocalypse or even Umbrella, no it was the Dialogue and the Logic errors everywhere.
@@somedogsarecops2354 I'm sure there are more but the ones that pop to my head fastest are Cyberpunk Edge runners and Arcane. Both very very good. I remember others but can't think of them off the top of my head right now. So the OP is right. They can either make gold or shit at infrequent rates.
@@seventeenseventythirteen7465 technically Netflix only threw money at a studio which produced the entire show. They didn't do it, just paid for it to be made and to be exclusive on their streaming site
I loved it in the video games when Wesker contracted revitiligo and adopted Billie Eilish! I’m glad the show runners kept it faithful to the source material.
I don’t mind them using actors and actresses that don’t really look like the game characters as long as they have a good performance. I don’t even think capcom keeps their characters looking the same. Look at re7 Chris.
@Genshi Takahashivera maybe not in RE but they changed the race of mr Morrison in DMC. Like I said designs change. I didn’t like the show but race of a character is the least of the problems.
@@rileykopinski6026 Tbf his race kinda plays a role to his character, most other characters can be race changed but wesker kinda needs to be a tall blonde white guy
@@r3a1itygamezz14 I see where people are coming from but people should also look at the resident evil characters and how drastic some of the design changes were In the games. Chris is the big one. The difference between code Veronica to 5 to 7 then to 8 is so drastic and all over the place. Capcom is bad at character continuity when it comes to designs. I mentioned already but Morrison in devil may cry is a middle aged white man in the anime but a black man in the 5th game. As long as thé performance is good and personifies their character I don’t care what the looks of the actor are.
You can tell this show was made to appeal to the cringy tik tok portion of gen Z and not for genuine fans of RE, at least it makes for good meme potential.
I can tell you that when I was in school there was a bully (actually 2 at 2 different schools) who were just plain old psychos. The kind of people that go and randomly pick fights with anyone and everyone just because.
"She's a big vegan" *Cuts to Nikocado stuffing his face* Oml I can't, my fucking sides And again, Elvis, I appreciate the HELL out of you for watching this so I don't have to. This was another one that I just couldn't will myself to go past episode 1.
Ah yes, Albert Wesker. The caring single father of his two adopted kids who turn out to be science experiments, including himself. It's just like in the video games!(Yeah, I know he *is* a bit of a science experiment in the games, but not really in the way that the show pitches.)
If I recall correctly, he was experimented on to try and create an ubermensch type figure by a eugenicist, but Wesker doesn't believe those principles. Albert Wesker in the games is a social darwinist
The sad trend about video game adaptations is that they will always be made by people who don’t understand the messages or meaning of the games and will just end up making bad or mediocre fan fiction.
Edit: Fallouts a blast ❤️
We can hope
I don't get it. Why can't they just... Adapt the material? Take out some puzzles, choreograph the fights, make a few other pacing fixes and the like, and just do Resident Evil 1.
A SWAT team going through a trap and puzzle filled mansion full of zombies and monsters. How is that not usable?
I mean, even if they were able to just take as much time as they would need to make it " perfect " if the game is not like linear, then, they HAVE to make some " adjustments "...
Agreed
It seems to be suceeding in animation though...
The fact a group of people wrote this and thought "Yeah! This is great!" Is more frightening than anything Umbrellas viruses can create.
Funny how they passed the Art school to write this abomination thing.
They stopped hiring people who actually has skills and started hiring untalented woke puritans
@@fajararsy_saiga9567 That's Cal Arts for you.
That's cause they're clueless morons that have never played a single game in their life, grandpa probably saw his son playing resident evil and asked "what game is that? Oh wow it looks spooky and very hip, im gonna make it a TV show, teens will love it!"
Worse, we get a lot of pre-made scripts that Hollywood uses for adaptations and re-skins them.
Elvis mentioned "random" stuff not in RE in RE and the weird, choppy issues with the plot. Probably not the case with this, but some movies are made using a completely separate script that ends up being recycled for the ip.
Diehard is a famous example, Joker is another. (Though those movies were much better than this mess).
Rest In Peace, Lance. You were the best part of everything you were in.
He was a real one
For real
F
Imma miss him. He was the best part of the show
He was BLACK ... black Albert Wesker ... originally Blond and White guy 🤦🏻♂️
*Ah yes, Albert Wesker. The most feared Vampire Hunter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.*
Yeah the new marvel vs capcom looks wild I must say
Some mother@&#%#= always trying to ice skate up hill
arguably the only adaption of RE i'd sit through a season of.
Yeah, he's daywalker-lab worker type of mix
Lmao
The protagonist of Billie Wesker feels more like a self insert OC in a Resident Evil fanfiction than an actual character
Yes. Someone was like "I really like Billie Eilish so what if we made her like sorta super human and there's resident evil stuff around a little bit."
Why is this so accurate 😂
That's how I've always seen Alice from the PWA movies too lmao
@@elliebingo except those are actually fun to watch.
agreed
The fact that even a clone of Albert Wesker would be a somewhat good father and person is the least believable thing in the show, like Wesker in the game, is supervillain evil
I mean he's managed to keep S T A R S until the mansion. So i guess he would be a somewhat good dad. Or at least the og is
Your pointing out that Jade was videochatting via the Paint app and without internet access physically hurt me 💀
Maybe paint could be a video in the future also capable to drawing a picture.
@@fajararsy_saiga9567 imagine if it draw immature drawings of you while video chatting?
That photograph may be shittier to me.
They probably used Paint to make the computer screen a green screen.
@@slavatoin8273 That's a good theory! But damn, they literally could have made a green wallpaper if that's the case. Sure, it would be weird if no program is open but it's better than fucking paint lmao
The reason that most zombie related media calls them anything but a zombie is because a while ago like on the 80s-90s marvel had copywrited the word “zombie” so other companies had use find other ways to use the creatures without using the word “zombie” but they lost the right after it became a widely used word, but now a days it’s just kind of a trend to not call them zombies
They lost the right in 1996, but it is somewhat of a trend. As a world that take place in a zombie apocalypse doesn’t have any fiction revolving zombies so they have to be more creative that using “zombie”.
It also helps marketing bc if they get popular enough more people will know the show by the nickname they gave zombies. Like the walking dead’s “walkers”
When you think about it it sorta makes sense, like irl if it happened we probably wouldn’t call them zombies it’d be more like COVID where we’d call them what there infected with , just a funny thought tho that I’ve overthought
But they are though…
They ARE zombies.
If zombies actually exist, I’m gonna call them zombies lmao
Plus they even say “zombies” quite a LOT in the games, given they are zombies.
@@elliezzz7812 now all I can think about is a group of hipsters arguing over what they should call the zombies to make themselves sound cool. Makes me shudder,
The walking deads walkers were the worst analogy because that is the case for the show the comics which was the source material for the olshow originally called them zombies also the comics are way better than the show so you should read them (the show was awesome in the earlier seasons though)
@@elliezzz7812 I think we would come up with a name for them and not just call them "infected with *disease*" or "*disease* sufferers." If they were out and about and you could easily tell them apart from people without it, we would come up with a nickname for them. They would be different in each country/region too depending on what caught on and what they do. Like, they're called walkers in TWD because that's what they do, they get up and walk. Depending on what they did here, and previous media influences that they didnt have in TWD, we would come up with some easy to use slang name to give them.
Lots of love to Lance. No matter the material, no matter the script, no matter the direction; whatever he was in, he was great.
Jade is such a terrible person. She doesn't care about anybody, risks other people's life constantly. When in the end she sends her daughter away on her own and forgets about it we just bursted out laughing. But every character seems to like/love her because she is the protagonist I guess? That's how some Hollywood psychos would imagine a "relatable" character.
She was my least favorite 🤦🏻♀️ hated her so annoying I honestly found Billie more interesting
A classic mark of terrible character writing is having a character be awful to everyone and hope the audience will like them because they _tell us_ the character is good, even though they show us the opposite. It has never, ever worked, but it doesn't stop shitty writers from doing it.
typical of recent "strong" female characters...
@@reginaphalange9417 yea
Yup!
One thing I really hate about RE adaptions is that they all insist on going the "Zombie apocalypse" route, even though that never happens in the games
The closest thimg to that happening is that racoon city incident or the re6 one.
ikr. Almost every outbreak was an isolated incident which made the tension higher because you know there's nobody else coming to help. At least in the older games
yeah thats becasue most people dont really know the games...they just know the movies and think...OH THATS PROBABLY what the games are like...its an ego shooter.
ont forget this really isnt a show about the game...its a show in the FILM UNIVERSE...with like...easter eggs of the games for "the nerds"
@@faelger9473 i think people hear "resident evil" and now forget that the name still is about about a house from the first game, but no one thinks about it and makes it about the end of the world.
I wanted to comment on this exact thing. The main cast always contains the threat in every RE game\animated movie.
I'm just casually scrolling through Instagram as I re-watch this and I see the actor who played Wesker, Lance Reddick, died TODAY bro ...wtf 💔💔💔
Basic story is driven by jades life long series of poor judgment and choices. It was hard to feel anything for the protagonist….also these teen girls are fkng brats.
You and me sister.
Fate been sealed, show cancelled 🥳
Another problem I have with these shows is that they always portray teens as brats or zoomers
Seriously not every awful thing from real life should be in your live action show
@@theofficialmascot YES
Literally turned it off SO FAST....jade was making me mad asl
My biggest problem with the show was that all the characters, especially the protagonist, were really unlikeable
Literally wanted Jade to die and get introduced to someone more likeable as a new main character.
That's Netflix for you
Jade sucked, wasn't very funny, references were bad. Left a bad taste in my mouth.
Specially for doing stupid things
It’s like they looked up the worst traits of a person, slapped them into the general shape of a character, and called it a day
Resident Evil is such a lore heavy franchise. It is astonishing how many adaptations don't have anything in common with the games other than name sake. It's almost like these people absolutely hate the games.
Yep
The thing about this show is, nothing Jade does in the past has any stakes because we see her as an adult so we know she lives. And the subtitles say "younger billie" so we also know that she's going to live...
The writers most likely didn't know how to hide those kinds of details from the viewer. At least with the horror movie The Thing, the intro wasn't in subtitle so you couldn't understand the helicopter pilot spoiling the whole movie. Unless you understand their language. Here, they said screw it just add everything in and hope it all works.
@@giftedfox4748 More likely the writers wrote the young part and the exec's at Netflix demanded they add the adult portion. Like........the whole adult portion is pointless, it meanders through random subplots to kill time and constantly teases(incorrectly most of the time) outcomes of the young portion. Literally wish there was a cut with all the adult stuff cut out, 100% more watchable.
@@frebu5379 Wtf how old are you?
@@kreevisful Old enough to not be offended by teenagers existing?
@@simonausmus Oh! My apologies. I forgot there's a few of you special folks that don't realize teenage drama isn't a part of the Resident Evil formula.
Please keep praising this garbage though by all means.
Happy Holidays. 🤡
After painfully sitting through the first season of the show, it definitely made me appreciate the movies a lot more now
Correction: There was only one season ahaha
Lucky for you the show got canceled now you can rest
@@wsmstudio3329 4 real??
@@fatbgmanbg975 yes. I’m pretty sure Netflix said it themselves
the first movie wasnt awful, but i feel like they got a little out of hand
First season? The ONLY season .. lol git fuked
I DONT GET IT... They're given everything and they f**k it up every time. Characters, plot, location... EVERYTHING... never fails to fail.
Woke media 🤷🏻♂️
Watching a Resident Evil show and hearing "Zootopia Porn" come out of a character's mouth was probably the hardest I have laughed in a while and it gets points for that
Imagine if in Rezident Evil 4 Leon said "where did everyone go? To an LGBTQ+ parade for Twitter Charity?"
that kind of line would be so out of place, but my god, would that be so funny because of it@@NiCoNiCoNiCola
Peak writing
What...what is "Zootopia porn" ... Also why did my phone autofill that.. how did it know☹️
It gets minus points for that.
It really botheted me how 2 teenage girls got into an Umbrella building with no security because everythings "automated"
You know, even tho the show happened in the same universe as the games, you think Umbrella would have more security after Racoon City 1 etc etc
Yeah, "Thanks to Internet" also kind of dumb. How the heck they deactivate the cameras inside building but no alarm blazing upon deactivation. that will cause troubles and investigation troughly due to this incident. And each personel of inside the building will be questioned entirely no matter what. That will work great but this... Is beyond stupid writing, this is Agony and Self Suicide to the show.
@@fajararsy_saiga9567 fr a facility like Umbrellas would have security upon security
It really makes this Umbrella look like a joke, the Umbrella in the Millia RE Saga has an Automated Laser Defense System and the facility that was from is Underground just like every other Facility, Extinction even went as far as to show there is a Underground Facility that is accessed through a little spot found in some normal-looking home in middle of nowhere or a desert.
Sup
This is probably one of those pre-made scripts that Hollywood uses for adaptations and just reskins to try to make it fit.
Elvis mentioned "random" stuff not in RE in RE and the weird, choppy issues with the plot.
Diehard is a famous example, Joker is another. (Though those movies were much better than this mess).
Netflix is basically a graveyard of bad ideas with a gem appearing and disappearing as soon as possible.
You know the worst part, Umbrella has cloning technology, all Umbrella and Billie would need is for Jade to supply a pint or two of blood and then they could create a clone heart of Jade to pump the special hero blood perpetually.
um hate to break it to you but its her bone marrow they need. Carry on.
@@sdaniaal whatever they could just clone the girl and use the clone as a blood bag is basically my point because they said they need her blood.
@@sdaniaal that doesn’t change anything.
@@RusticRonnie exactly they have cloning technology just clone the girl and take what you need you had her DNA.
@@sdaniaal ok replace blood with bone marrow….?
Fun fact.
A german youtuber, named Alberto, made some comedy sketches in which he played multiple characters by himself. His most known characters are Al, Bert and O.
He did the same thing that wesker did to name his clones, only he did it like ~10 years earlier. Made me laugh a bit when Weskers clones were introduced and i still wondering if this is a coincidence or if someone behind the scenes took some inspiration.
Huh. o.o Not unlikely
@@ayyylmao101 very likely nothing in this show is original so yeah
Ah jemand mit Klasse ;)
lol
Kinda like Ryan George too.
the weirdest thing about the movie wanting this to be in the "Real World" is that till 2022 yet there appearently are no Movies about Zombies what so ever. Obviously they had no Idea how Zombies could have looked in the "Real World"
That time when she says "It's you! You're the evil resident" i shat my pants
Reminds me of that one time a villain said: "I reside in the evil" almost made me cry.
I'm sorry this happens? 💀💀💀💀
Yes, just like the line in the movie where Wesker said "It's weskin' time!" And then proceeded to wesk all over the bad guys
@@thevelbaetum4118 Yes, it does
It's evilin' time, muh resident.
Everytime a show or movie references real life companies or events I'm completely taken out of it for a second
totally, in science fiction not only does it break the suspension of disbelief but it makes the fiction age horribly
To be honest it depends on which type of thing is being referenced, and how well is the referenced capable of aging or has aged or is relevant to the plot and not just a tacky one liner with no bearing on the story.
Same
Seriously reference the in game products like jill sandwich
@@reginaphalange9417 seriously referencing something recent just makes your show all the more outdated
Like inside job
Good show but it relies way to much on referencing real life events
The writers should’ve known that the show will be outdated after many years
resident evil was absolutely never supposed to be in this specific universe. i refuse to believe elon musk was alive in the RE universe
Overall I like the idea of it being inserted into the "real world" because on its face the premise is more realistic as well as say multiple parallel timelines where things are different because here we see a completely different version of Wesker taking care of these clearly adopted or otherwise artificially created girls through sperm/egg donation and surrogate mothers which is also an opportunity to present a much more realistic take on the "wesker children" program instead of Umbrella spending all of these resources watching and tracking these children they could just a) engineer them in a lab and b) finance the orphanages and just have Umbrella employees adopt and raise the select children themselves, with the genes they want or who display traits associated with them like high intelligence, faster than normal reflexes,muscle fiber composition, bone density, and better memory which tend to go hand in hand with higher IQ as a general factor they're measuring the speed your brain processes sensory input. They could just have done it that way and raised them themselves and gathered DNA samples from them to splice into the next generation of children born through invitro feetilization with egg donors and surrogates enhancing them in utero with gene splicing and additional gene therapy. The problem is that an Umbrella employee wouldn't be able to threaten a social media company or PornHub employee's job these are the richest entities in the world through exposure and add revenue alone other than Amazon and their IT infrastructure is what makes what Umbrella and other pharma companies do possible especially biotechnology you need that whole technology part and they'd be way more politically and socially influential and powerful than an Umbrella executive and they'd all know about one another's backroom deals and DARPA contracts with the Pentagon/Military. That's the only unrealistic thing I saw flat out here. He'd call PH to whine and get this guy fired they'd just turn into a Tyler the Creator meme be like "Okay?!?" Your daughter got hoed at school and what? then hang up on him and do NOTHING to reprimand the other guy. It's like the creators forgot Umbrella wasn't all powerful did things in secret wasn't in competition with IT companies their Racoon City labs were because they owned that city from the start financed everything and had the Mayor in their pocket from the start and the Spencer mansions lab etc. Was built way before all that and was only connected to the Hive later that was all illegal underground black market deals they made during the construction of Raccoon city that they Umbrella financed. In this show, New Raccoon city implies the events of Re:1-3 have already happened in this timeline or whatever so its like people would have known about BOWS and that Umbrella was no good , likely would have already gone under and Umbrella had equally powerful competition in their own field like TriCell who immediately took over in umbrellas wake along with Wesker's smaller more hidden faction of Umbrellas remnants employing double agents like Ada Wong. That's what happens TriCell and an arms dealer emerge. Supreme with Umbrellas and Osmund Saddlers biotech selling it on the black market to the Highest bidder TriCell, who weaponizes the Ouroboros virus. With the remaining STARS team members and UBCS mercenaries becoming the BSAA running around the world like a BOW related elite black ops commando squad for interpol and the UN clearly funded by the US government and probably China and Russia as well they're probably like "yes please prevent zombie apocalypse in our cities take some weapons and money please as much as you think you'll need" lol. Umbrella collapses and fractionates early on Umbrella collapses into multiple warring underground factions before the rest of this stuff even happens with only their other shady backroom deal created hidden labs remaining and they're constantly being raided and having their pockets run by the BSAA, TriCell mercs, Wesker's faction and probably our spin-kicking, deadshot, quick-time counter attack master , longhaired pretty boy hero Leon and even Ada Wong herself the queen of double crossing and even back stabbing the back stabber.
All the weird outbursts in this show remind me of the time I used AI Dungeon to try to write a novel for fun. Some of the plot elements were surprisingly on-point, but then you'd get some crazy rant or pop culture interjection that would come crashing down. I'm mildly convinced Netflixident Evil was AI-generated.
Holy shit this is so accurate lmao. Like, the fucking giant crocodile being dragged behind the survivor ship??? That's something only an AI, a child, or someone stoned out of their gourd would think is a logical escalation of events 😭
I'm a huge Resident Evil fan, however I went into this show with absolutely zero expectations. With that zero expectation I tried so hard to enjoy it at every instance. I was met with an absolute dumpster-fire of a tv show. I could write an entire Exposé on how this show sucked, but you did everything I had to say toward the show in this video and I cannot explain enough how
much I appreciate that. This show was so difficult to sit through.
I already had sub-zero expectations regarding this, and afetr this review those reached absolute zero
i thought it was quite entertaining to binge watch 😂
“My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined” how I reacted to this series
Netflix has a habit of ruining almost anything they touch. This show blew chunks
No little edge Lord, netflix has plenty of good shows and movies, you just focus on the bad ones because you like to cry on the internet while you fill your diaper.
Now, we got lucky that One Piece was actually really damn good.
@@GanondorfsWifealso a series of unfortunate events, as someone who grew up with those books damn that show was good and accurate as fuck
God bless (and rest) Lance Reddick. He deserved a better show.
Jesus, fuck, never thought I'll witness an iconic villain such as Wesker talking about Pornhub. I sure hope that the check was fat enough, Lance
Well albert wesker is a popular character in rule 34 soo...
@@jacobo6652 I'm not THAT big of a degenerate, thankfully so I wouldn't know
@@jacobo6652 oh you'd know *all* about that, wouldn't you?
@@jacobo6652 why do you know that
@@Buckwheat0 isn’t it obvious?
Wesker using the equivalent of a 2003 AOL password is the epitome of the amount of respect the producers had for this show
He was added to Dead by daylight as the mastermind, in this show he is as dumb as old people who are tech illiterate.
Man. RIP Lance Riddick. I loved his work so much.
"And she's attacked by the very hungry caterpillar" killed me good one Elvis
I found it very funny how mild of a reaction Wesker has when finding out his daughters stole his key to murderous supercorpo HQ, freed a lab zombie dog, and one of them got bitten & infected, because free bunnies.
I kinda liked the show in so bad it's good kinda way.
If only they are doing pranks or tried to graffitize the building inside, makes sense.
If there is one thing I can't stand in horror movies is when you go "Why don't they just do this? Yeah, obviously that's going to... yeah, there you go."
If you actually want a story to be scary, you need the characters to do everything right and STILL things went to sh*t. That's how you tell the audience the situation is actually hopeless.
But, here is what I don't get: Why Wesker? The overworked father roll would have been so much more fitting for Birkin.
Birkin already has a daughter, so no one would be offended by Sherry having a sister.
It was already established in the game, that both William and Annette were neglecting their daughter due to William working on the G-Virus.
Birkin had a similar roll to Wesker within Umbrella, so everything they did to Wesker in this dumbster fire of a show, they could have done to Birkin and it would have been so much less... stupid. Heck, I don't even think that people would care all that much about race-swapping Birkin, because, again, the roll would be so much more fitting for him.
Yeah, Birkin is not a single dad, but, going with the whole clone nonsense, the Birkin here could have just been a clone of og Birkin (with an accidental dose of cherry cola) and no one would care.
Or since the show takes place after the original Raccoon City outbreak, Birkin's wife could've simply died in the outbreak.
...Was that a fucking CWC reference in the last bit there? XD
I mean, there's no reason why Birkin would've had to be a single dad. If both parents are overworked and neglectful of their daughter(s), you don't even need to kill off the spouse.
@@sorrenblitz805
Or, since the show is already set in Africa at the the start, just make the entire thing about Sheva and Josh. It could be a sequel to RE5 and focus on them cleaning up the remnants of Tricell, or even an origin story about how the two of them first met and started fighting against Bioterrorism. Heck, they could even end the whole thing with Sheva meeting Chris for the first time, tying it in perfectly with the start of the game.
@@kamikazelemming1552 the show could've just been any of the games or like a bridge between RE1 and 2.
This feels like a Nickelodeon produced resident evil show
What? 😂 thats crazy to think especially after all the masturbation and sex jokes this show makes u put it in the nick category
@@deshawnanderson7777💀
@Deshawn Anderson it feels like dialog written by adults trying to appeal to teens
@@mr.smitherine1913 especially the bully scene. For some reason it just feellllllsss like it wants to be shared on tik tok? And that’s it?
Wrong!
This feels exactly as it sounds, a netflix adaptation.
You can always count on Netflix to do two things;
1. destroying an already well established IP
2. creating there own IP and then cancel it when it starts to gain momentum.
_''In August 2022, the series was canceled after one season.''_
See, that's one of the reasons why I cancelled my subscription to Netflix a year ago - they keep investing in TERRIBLE projects. Absolute dreadful shows and movies. They go for quantity rather than quality, so for every 1 good show or movie, there's 20 bad show or movie. And they continuously raise prices of the subscriptions... Raising prices for a service but the service doesn't improve
Netflix, you'd have MUCH better retention if you had better quality stuff.
Worst of all, they remove good movies for their bad "Netflix Originals".
@@aarondawal9037 Yeah - they'd rather invest in crappy ''Originals'' than invest in publishing license or extending current publishing licenses... So studio movies are fewer & rarer, and don't last as long on the platform. I don't miss Netflix.
Arcane was good... And I like the new series with Guillermo del Toro... There's always that One Good Thing™ that keeps me going
And now they will remove shared passwords / IP lock your account and put ads on the lowest tier subscription in early 2023. They’re really killing their own service
@@ArukiTsukaru edgerunners as well we can’t forget that
The new resident evil stuff is starting to make me appreciate the old ones with Alex and her superpowered T-virus mutant thingies.
The movies have a character named Alice who bonded with the T virus on a cellular level which is how she gets her 'superpowers'
I really did love the claustrophobia of the first movie. The second and third movie were still pretty good pretty decent but after that it just goes all downhill.
Which one?
The first one.
To be fair, the first 2 movies weren't bad. Hell, I'll go as far as to say RE1 was pretty decent. It had the slow investigating scenes, it had shootouts, a big mutant boss that has multiple phases (welp, the licker evolved only once but I'll count it anyway), and psychic powers.
I like that all she had to do to beat her bully was to not interact with her, clearly not letting her sit next to you will just make her leave
Regarding Tammi the bully and believability: Had a bully like this in high school actually, straight up sociopath, was a bully to everyone simply because he was a hateful sonofabish. He wasn't around during my junior or senior years because apparently the dude had been killing a bunch of stray animals in his neighborhood and keeping the parts in his shed. Straight up psycho bullies are out there.
That's literally the start of being a serial killer I hope someone reported this person to the police.
@@Plsrateeight I’m gonna assume they did since he says the guy was suddenly gone junior and senior year and they know about the dead animal parts. He was already a bully. He probably got arrested and when they found the dead animals put him in juve.
unfortunately people like that exist yeah
Since we've already looked at so many RE adaptations on this channel, I think we need a video at some point about the Silent Hill movies too
Edit: Since I'm seeing replies about it I want to clarify I'm not suggesting the idea because I think the movies are as bad as the RE ones or bad at all. I would just like to see Elvis review them too since it's another classic horror game franchise adapted into movies like RE.
The first movie is alright though. It gets so much sh*t but considering all the horrible game adaption movies, it's actually fine.
In my restless dreams,
I see that town.
Silent Hill.
You promised me you'd take me
there again someday.
But you never did.
Well, I'm alone there now...
In our 'special place'...
Waiting for you...
Nah man the Silent Hill movies are fine. Not perfect don't get me wrong but comparing them to this trash here wouldn't be fair at all
I stand behind the fact that the first movie is a solid horror experience that remains at least somewhat faithful to the games. The second one on the other hand is a mess and kind of stupid, but still a fun watch.
I definitely agree that Elvis should cover these two movies.
yes, these aren't that bad to worth a sarcastic review, but i would like see him talk about movie 2 silly things, like the people burgers, the "They did this to me"and Pyramid carousel spinner...
Had Lance played EVERY role in this show it would’ve had a MUCH higher rating!
Oh man let him rest
I think the most important thing Hollywood types misunderstand about Resident Evil is that it’s not a typical zombie apocalypse schlock. In RE zombie outbreaks are like natural disasters localized to specific areas, and life goes on like normal everywhere else. RE is just as much clean labs and science experiments as much abandoned mansions and police stations. I think it lends it a very unique air.
It's what happens when the genwunner fanbase constantly harps on about how Resident Evil is a zombie series even though it always was about B.O.W.s and infectious viruses/plagas/whatever going berserk and not just some stock zombie shit.
The reason Jade’s daughter took the bag and left the boat is because that’s what Jade instructed her to do to escape Umbrella.
Then moments later Jade went onto the island, summoned an army of zombies, ran back to the boat, and was like “where’s my daughter?”.
She is forgettable to her daughter just like her father. Ignorant of danger.
It's a shame really, I really liked the zombies in this show. They are fast and ferocious and genuinely felt like they could pose a threat, especially in large numbers, to even armed soldiers. Much more than I can say to zombies in say, later seasons of Walking Dead, when the zombies are so slow they seem only capable of catching humans when the screenwriters teleport them behind their victims offscreen.
The best way to adapt RE is to make it into a show and take all the great things from the Resident Evil games, comics, novels, cgi films, lore then blend them together with a good writer that understands Resident Evil.
This show takes much more inspiration from left4dead, Walking dead, 28 days later, and even has the happy pills from "we happy few"
Don't disrespect L4D like this
@@LucinaIRL I think OP is trying to compare them by zombies and the fact that the zombies run.
Not the fact that L4D, 28 Days Later, Walking Dead and We Happy Few are clearly superior in comparison to this fan-fic. Lmao
When I heard someone talking about this and mentioned the happy pills I thought, that's straight from We Happy Few.
Thanks, Captain Obvious.
I can't get over the fact that Zootopia porn still exists in the same universe as the T-virus and the Umbrella Corporation.
PLOT TWIST: Disney was Umbrella AAAAAALLLLL along!
@@WorshipperOfKhone that makes way too much sense
Y'know what's odd?? Lance Reddick Happy Wesker clone was the best part. "They got breadsticks!" And the sad little "I don't like you, you're not nice!"
It amazes me how we never had a proper live action Resident Evil adaptation . Even Romero's script had a lot of issues.
If there exists a game that gen z kids play, they will. I mean they don't care about us. All these tweaks were to draw younger audiences, who are the major viewing demographic now.
@@Chhjmmkg Weird jab at an entire generation, gotta say. Believe it or not, they don't like bad writing either.
@@BigManDaichi yeah, they don't know what good writing is. Do you know the reason why youtubers like Jake Paul or Logan Paul got popular? Kids. They don't exactly have great taste. Same applies to this as well. That's why the most unintelligent shows or movies make the Netflix top 10.
believe it or not, they are the target demographic for everything entertainment nowadays, and their taste is 💩. Not all, but most.
@@Chhjmmkg I guess those previous generations should stop being so greedy and go back to making things they're proud of, so kids learn about some good writing.
@@BigManDaichi and when they all are old enough to understand good writing, then the makers will focus on the even younger audience. Kids and students are the ones with time on their hand to enjoy these forms of entertainment. I guess that's why they try to appeal to them. This is also the major reason why Disney successfully reboots every single animated film they've made (except for Mulan, ofc). Like none of us would choose to watch will Smith be Aladdin when you've seen Robin Williams. I believe this is also the reason why marvel has been falling since end game, and obviously lack of good material. (I wouldn't call the MCU till end game a masterpiece, but it's certainly enjoyable)
I miss the days when directors and writers did actual research before producing a movie/ show.
Now they just take something they know has a huge fan base and try to twist it into “theirs” but all they do is ruin things
The part where they play the Moonlight Sonota is a direct reference to Resident Evil one, where at some point in the game Jill has to play the Moonlight Sonata to open a door.
Makes the original 2002 RE film look like a masterpiece by comparison. At least it was cancelled after just one fail season. Hopefully the same will happen to Paramount's awful Halo show too.
Maybe check out the CGI RE films. Their definitely better than any live action adaptation so far.
Resident evil: vendetta is awesome
@@jacobchristopher211 yes leon looks so sexy there oh shi-
Also, there is depressed alcoholik leon in damnation. Or was it the other one. The names confuse me.
"Halo" got renewed for a second season *before* it even premiered! 😅
@@thema1998 But thankfully, there is a new show runner. One whom I actually think is quite good. Perhaps he can salvage the series. I would certainly watch it if the second season turned out good.
The first movie is actually an alright movie. It didn’t insult any of the games and used umbrella in an ok way. Most people who talk about the movies always have at least some praise for the first one.
I'm usually pretty good at shutting my brain off and just enjoying a piece of entertainment regardless of how glaringly awful parts of it are, but man I really struggled with this show.
Same. And this is from me who actually enjoyed Revenge of the Fallen and the 2 Nic Cage Ghost Rider films. I can't even make it past episode 1.
don't forget, they could've just made a miniseries of HUNK adventures, easiest possible show Idea. they didn't even try
@@SonicHedgehog1991 wait do people not like revenge of the fallen?
Its such a dumb trope where people will hack a computer and then the incriminating thing / exact thing they were looking for immediately pops up, like the person using the computer just had it open and all they did was lock their computer
Netflix is such an odd service when you think about it.
On one hand, you have these great shows and movies that just make buying a Netflix description worth it, and on the other hand, you have these god-awful shows and movies that make you question why you still have a Netflix subscription in the first place.
Resident Evil: "Finally the adaptations are over"
Netflix: "Well, yes...but actually no"
You know there is a timeline out there where George Romero finished his script for the first Resident Evil movie and produces it. In this timeline we would have probably one of the best video game to movie adaptations with some good sequels. Instead, we got the Anderson timeline and here we are.
You mean the one where Chris isn’t from STARS. YOU KNOW. HE PLAYS A FAAAAARMER
@@quinnzykir
BUT, he also got with Jill.
So I call this a win-win! 👍👍
Edit: Chris is gonna have himself a piece of that “Jill sandwich” ;)
@@justaguyonyoutube4592 🤣
Really? Romero sucked towards the end of his career bud. Go ahead and check out “Land of the Dead” and get back to me.
@@sean6277 He's miles better then Anderson.
🥱
I’ll be honest, I’ve been daydreaming about a Dark Souls show adaptation(written by myself, a young creative writing student), but I would rather never see it happen than see someone with no respect for the base material be in charge of it. I do not understand why producers and writers are so, so, so desperate to remake movies or make movies based off of books or other projects, but then have the audacity to not even respect the material they’re mooching off of. It’s insane.
It's because it'll make a quick buck. They know people like the property, so they'll use the property itself to prop up their horrible ideas. It's incredibly rare to see a halfway decent adaptation, let alone a good one
I haven’t played the games myself only watched play throughs but my younger brother has played some of em and knows the lore pretty well and he is absolutely LIVID about these movies/shows 😭
Tell him the series RE in Netflix is good to fool him enough then break the news upon the last episode that it was sh$t.
If you watch the show with subtitles it calls Billie in the past "Young Billie" so the suspense of her possibly dying is basically ruined two minutes in lol
0:10 *blinks* what resident evil... Ah, thanks Elvis! *continues the video.*
Actually the Infected in L4D are called zombies too by some of the characters and in universe. But they're not really dead undead, and they have an idea that you don't have to be bitten to be infected, it just made more sense for the survivors to call them infected narritavely since they're always trying to talk and discuss the zombies with the government that's trying to contain the infection..
Nah, he said shows and movies not games.
@@fajararsy_saiga9567 Yeah but he used a special zombie from L4D as an example
This is why me and my friend really like L4D's zombies. Also a character named Francis calls the infected vampires and another character named Bill, corrects Francis in an elevator, saying. "They're zombies Francis!"
I love L4D's zombies due to them being kind of believable, a rabies virus mutating into something worse.
The infected from L4D are also believed to still be capable of being helped if a cure is found, albeit the special infected may be long gone, if not prone to all kinds of issues that'll result from their mutations once they're cured of the Green Flu.
It should be a law that if you’re adapting something from one medium to another, you have to play/read/watch etc and pass a test to ensure you know what you’re doing
They need prescription glasses 5000+ when they read the script like this.
and maybe write an essay on the main idea and give a book report. Only then, if they pass it and get an A can they make an adaptation!
A lot of times transferring a game to a movie just doesn’t work very well. The silent hill movie was made by a super fan who was one of the only people in his country to own the game. He even made his crew play the ps2 on the set. But people still didn’t like it.
@@rileykopinski6026i liked it a lot
That line "apparently when they're video calling, they're using paint, and have no internet access...." Killed me
When I watch the show with subtitles every time the past Billy would talk it would refer to her as young Billie implying there was an older Billie so that kinda gave it away too.
I think the biggest problem when Hollywood attempts to adapt Resident Evil is they focus on this new character and places them in the shoes or place of previously known characters.
3:00 Saving this for future Silver Generations...
**What the, I forgot it existed and HAD to check back**
If only there was a second season. I would like to see Tyrant working as a high-school teacher, trying to get by, while being harassed by evil Telegram trolls, or something.
Don't forget Mr X would be a sad Redditor cuckboy who's mad he can't get laid
And then Nemesis comes to destroy all Zootopia porn
And then Leon Kennedy mentions only fans
@@marcovargas6205 If you meant Leon's Onlyfans, then we actually need that canonized
@@jatoarkanen4435 nah he meant Leon wants Ada’s only fans.
"daughters of wesker" Sounds like concept for someone's OC then actual characters
It literally sounds like a female-only cult that worships Wesker and follows his ideals.
Or a shitty dlc lmao
@Cristo Alba I don't think so. Clone yes, or more like another member of Wesker experiment but not full-on son.
@Cristo Alba wait- I just check it yeah in R6. But it's R6, nobody takes R6 seriously
@@TheBloodGamePL yeah and the strange romantic story between the son (jake) and sherry. God, why couldn't she appear in another game.
Rest in peace Lance Reddick legends never die
Can we talk for a sec about how older jade has the most "I just got out of hairsalon" hairdo ever, despite being supposedly a random outcast in the post apocalypse.
Sure, it's a detail, but it's pretty fascinating to see so much effort put into something that should have been done way more simply.
Jade and Billie dialogue when they're kids is just awful, the cringe was killing me
Their dialogue throughout the entire show is terrible. Even as adults.
@@Mister_Clean true....but that edgy teen thing they were going for really kills me
Just too big a generational gap between those that make the movie and those that are portrayed in it.
Then add in the typical netflix formula (honestly surprised there wasn't a guy in a wheelchair or sth) and you get some new-gen generic bullshit, with "that's how the kids of today sound, right?" dialogue.
I'm probably like 20 years younger than whoever signed off on this garbage show and even I couldn't tell you how the youth of today talks. All I know is that it's hella weird to me, so how the shit would I be able to write authentic dialogue?
Netflix just has their MO and if shit works they continue, if it doesn't they just drop it; ad infinitum.
When will Netflix learn that mentioning trending things or ANYTHING from our reality makes it instant cringe
"Why does alber wesker use the same simple password for very confidential work stuff"....Oh Elvis....This is actually the most believable part of the show. Ask anyone who works in corp security. The higher up the chain, the worse their security know how.
It's believable for the real world, but not for Wesker
@@sev1120 Yeah, Wesker would have multiple different insane passwords just because he can. XD
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The paint and no internet access bit really killed me.
I am dead.
Full on yeeted into the void.
Haha yeah it got me too. Like most people wouldn’t notice it causes it’s probably only there for like 1 second but when you actually notice it’s likes wtf. Probably would take 5 min to fix in photoshop too
very 2019 comment but i agree
The bully being socially awkward and mean for no reason was the most realistic thing of the whole show
That’s what I said while watching. A girl I met last year was the exact same, she’s was just an asshole for no reason
"Also...massive waste of a burrito!" ....thats the worst crime this show committed.
2 minutes in, sounds like they wanted to write fanfiction about billie eilish in a resident evil setting
I am dead.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's something like this on Wattpad
Also featuring:
-Blade from Devil May Cry (Capcom vs. Marvel)
-Furry girl with a Zootopia OC
…As a support cast.
@@Ratscallion_exe lol thats actually funny wanna get laid?
It’s so funny hearing people like Elvis finding out about the current trends like Goat yoga.
Calling a zombie a husk makes a whole damned lot of sense to me especially when their face and head becomes a convenient hoodie.
The zombies in L4D being called infected also makes sense because they aren't entirely lost and can still possibly be saved if a cure is found.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 Left 4 Dead for life.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 Absolutely - and back in the day, ''zombie'' was related to dying and coming ''back'' in L4D people don't die they just become absolutely rabid when infected
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 well they're not dead, they're infected with super rabies.
The other thing is that with L4D there are different types of infections that have mutated and those would need to be identified with different names.
Imagine if season 1 focused on them bumbling around with a "free the test animals" plot which is how the virus is released and they saved the time jump for a second or third season 🤔
And actually had Jade being picked up from the scavenger/human trafficking camp by S.T.A.R.S. and gave us actual RE characters 😭 Could've had Wesker experimenting on Billie like Alice in the Anderson movies and made him gradually lose his sanity amidst grief and desperation and become the Wesker from the games, with Jade having a real arc as she tries and fails to cure Billie being an antithesis to Wesker's way of saving her.
And Baxter could have been a higher up that wrestled control of Wesker's research to further weaponize it and create greater bioweapon threats, which would then justify him wanting Jade to transform her into a superior bioweapon to Billie.
I found the younger girls storyline more interesting then present time🤦🏻♀️
I already stated if they made this show and didn't milk the resident evil franchise I would be fine with it. But they took one of my most beloved things and shit on it then presented it to me... then called me a racist when I didn't want to consume it.
The cinematography and set design was great in the show. I loved Umbrella's red/black/white color scheme and how it was strictly used. The design and look of the zombies, and the post-apocalypse world was visually stunning.
Lance Reddick was the star of the show, and the most entertaining to watch. And Paola Nunez was having the time of her life playing the role, and she was very easy to watch.
Everything about Umbrella was also really cool and fun. They really embraced the evil insanity of the corp.
The writing was awful for 80% of the show.
When i was watching the show, my enjoyment went up when I started skipping everything about the sister drama in the flashbacks. I recommend everyone just skip ahead when the two girls are on screen together.
so u mean copying most everything look wise from the movie with shiit protagonist and villains and constantly hammering a storyline that makes u fall asleep 😂and ruining wesker and turning him into the phyco from split and making a different storylines with no context that makes sense
How was the dad able to get their blood without them getting suspicious after a while or wondering why he needed to draw their blood ever so often? Like even if he pretended to take them to a doctor for a check up and getting their blood drawn was just part of that, wouldn’t they catch on when they were older that it was a little odd that they had to go so often? I don’t know maybe I’m overthinking it….
No you aren't overthinking it, I literally thought that the whole show and a lot more dumb things I noticed I really just don't understand why they adapted so many different plot points and ways the story could go instead of just making a good RE adaption, they literally just used the RE name and made a completely separate show besides like using umbrella here and there in dialogue and Albert wesker and that's like it lmao
His like a mosquito or a little bed bug. He just waits for them to sleep and just like a vampire sips their blood
maybe he collects the blood on their "special days"
@@Humongous_Hongonggolongus pls don't even mention that I truly have lost faith in humanity 💀💀😢😢😭
Not to mention that it makes you wonder how he survived the entire time until they were born. You'd think Umbrella was keeping him stable but he was still working for them when tge show starts.....
1:34 ULTRAA ULTRAA ULTRRAAAAA 😂 as a res evil fan who saw his older bro get eaten by a massive snake as a kid (shook kid me to his soul), it's no wonder this show never hit my radar. Ty for your hard work making it through this
Fucking what
A ton of lore to work with, dozens of Characters and a plethora of settings.
But in the end they used what is basically a C-Tier fanfiction Plot with a D-Tier Script to work with. I mean the most terrifying in the series wasn't the Zombies or the Apocalypse or even Umbrella, no it was the Dialogue and the Logic errors everywhere.
Netflix can either make the best show you’ve ever watched, or the worst show ever, mostly worst
Netflix has never produced anything good.
@@somedogsarecops2354 I'm sure there are more but the ones that pop to my head fastest are Cyberpunk Edge runners and Arcane.
Both very very good. I remember others but can't think of them off the top of my head right now. So the OP is right. They can either make gold or shit at infrequent rates.
@@seventeenseventythirteen7465 technically Netflix only threw money at a studio which produced the entire show. They didn't do it, just paid for it to be made and to be exclusive on their streaming site
@@somedogsarecops2354 Bojack Horseman, Mind Hunter, which they killed...
@@julienpoeschl which show? Both of them. That makes sense I suppose, Netflix is only good as a pocketbook lol
I enjoyed this series from a 'so bad it's good' mindset. It kept dropping from dumb to dumber, so I kept laughing harder and louder 😅
I loved it in the video games when Wesker contracted revitiligo and adopted Billie Eilish! I’m glad the show runners kept it faithful to the source material.
I don’t mind them using actors and actresses that don’t really look like the game characters as long as they have a good performance. I don’t even think capcom keeps their characters looking the same. Look at re7 Chris.
I loved it when this major Umbrella representative started dancing to a Dua Lipa song
@Genshi Takahashivera maybe not in RE but they changed the race of mr Morrison in DMC. Like I said designs change. I didn’t like the show but race of a character is the least of the problems.
@@rileykopinski6026 Tbf his race kinda plays a role to his character, most other characters can be race changed but wesker kinda needs to be a tall blonde white guy
@@r3a1itygamezz14 I see where people are coming from but people should also look at the resident evil characters and how drastic some of the design changes were In the games. Chris is the big one. The difference between code Veronica to 5 to 7 then to 8 is so drastic and all over the place. Capcom is bad at character continuity when it comes to designs. I mentioned already but Morrison in devil may cry is a middle aged white man in the anime but a black man in the 5th game. As long as thé performance is good and personifies their character I don’t care what the looks of the actor are.
You can tell this show was made to appeal to the cringy tik tok portion of gen Z and not for genuine fans of RE, at least it makes for good meme potential.
I can tell you that when I was in school there was a bully (actually 2 at 2 different schools) who were just plain old psychos. The kind of people that go and randomly pick fights with anyone and everyone just because.
"She's a big vegan"
*Cuts to Nikocado stuffing his face*
Oml I can't, my fucking sides
And again, Elvis, I appreciate the HELL out of you for watching this so I don't have to. This was another one that I just couldn't will myself to go past episode 1.
Waiting for a good resident evil adaptation is like waiting for another silent hill game
True. We'll never get one.
Ayo?? 😳
I come from the future... this didn't age well, another 2 new Silent Hill games were announced, along with the remake of Silent Hill 2.
This aged like milk but I’m happy for it
Worse. It's like waiting for half life 3 confirmation
Umbrella rule number one: the lights need to turn red when security has been breached
Ah yes, Albert Wesker. The caring single father of his two adopted kids who turn out to be science experiments, including himself.
It's just like in the video games!(Yeah, I know he *is* a bit of a science experiment in the games, but not really in the way that the show pitches.)
If I recall correctly, he was experimented on to try and create an ubermensch type figure by a eugenicist, but Wesker doesn't believe those principles.
Albert Wesker in the games is a social darwinist