I still remember seeing this in theaters. Just the idea of seeing my favorite game franchise on the big screen blew my mind. I loved feeling like a kid the entire time.
Hilarious moment as a kid in the theater for me. After the Alice kick when the room got kind of silent after how cool it was, some random guy yells out , "THAT'S JET LI AINT IT?!!" XD
All these movies were better than Welcome To Raccoon City. I still remember the secret code you could input on the dvd to get a secret music video of My Plague by Slipknot
Fun fact: I seen it in theaters in 8th grade and about 20 minutes in i started feeling sick. Chills, fever, everything and thought I was dying. Watched the whole movie like that expecting to become a zombie.
Great job Kai! This is also one of my favorite films. The rest of the series dips quite a bit me but I’ll always love this one ❤ Always cool learning behind the scenes info 😎🙌🏻
Not going to lie, I fell in love with your channel because if the RE stuff but I like your other videos regarding other game franchises and movies. Please keep up the good work.
Niche 90s memory here: I remember watching a “behind the scenes” clip of this production. It was on a DVD included with a gaming magazine, probably Official PSM. Side note: DVD stands for digital versatile disc. It wasn’t always just a drinks coaster. You actually used to put them into these machines that used LASERS to play videos. Imagine RUclips was a bunch of frisbees. Frisbees are a disc that you throw. Anyway, on this DVD, Milla Something-vich was claiming she was a fan of the games, referring to Leon as “that guy” who freaks out when “that thing” appears on the ceiling (referring to the licker). That first movie was surprisingly straight forward and concise. The white, pristine lab sets looked good and those visuals seemed to inspire some of the environments that appeared in the games that followed (for better or worse).
Funny part is Sarah Michelle Gellar wasn't the only Buffy star to have almost been a part of the movie. David Boreanaz almost played Matt! I'm sure both stars were busy filming Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel shows at the time, but it would have been so interesting to see how the movie would have played out had they played the roles instesd.
They should've given this movie the subtitle of "genesis" to imply that this movie was a prequel to the game series and Alice could've been introduced as a new character,and also add more backstory to the game's plot
Just in case anyone didn't know the resident evil death island recently released last month have the characters from resident evil 1, 2 and 3 it epic to watch as well funny quotes in it
This was actually the first zombie movie I ever saw and predates my familiarity with RE by decades (my dad tried bonding with me by playing RE2 when I was a kid, but it freaked me out and he didn't get how to play it, so it was quickly abandoned). Although I hate how these movies strayed so far from the games, I can easily see why the first one is a guilty pleasure for John Carpenter and I think it has such a great atmosphere and a killer main theme. ...That said, I am flabbergasted to hear that people working on the movie were required to study the first game, considering even this movie--the one that comes the closest to feeling like the games--doesn't really feel like the games of its time. I still love this movie on its own merits, I'd just never say it reminds me of the games.
I never liked the idea of the "zombie school" because it takes away any fun expression that the extras might be able to do as zombies, as opposed to Romero's films where they all sort of did their own thing (and how we got the grinning and cigar-chomping zombie in Day).
Sounds very juvenile and light-hearted. Not very threatening or menacing 🤷🏻♂️. Paul WS Anderson was adamant that he wanted to avoid influences from 70s and 80s zombie movies. Or that’s what he said in the documentary for the original RE movie. Something tells me he came around in the sequels because the effects seem to have improved slightly
I have this movie memorized back in the day, I just love it so much also yes do the other movies it would be a crime for Sienna Guillory She in my opinion was an excellent Jill 10/10
See I know want to know what her reaction was when "she noticed". I can imagine it being a witty one liner, akin to the campyness of resident evil (movies and original 4) in general
I don’t care if you don’t like the other sequels, this movie as a stand alone is such a well made and unique zombie movie. You can literally take anyone and make them watch this and have it be a top notch sci-fi film. Also I would love to get a video game based on this film. Playing as Alice and having a timer or virus meter/gauge like outbreak would be so badass. Alice and her outfit to this day give me RE3 Jill vibes, two bad ass woman with no control over their outfit face many dangers in them and still prevail because of their skill 💗🔥🔥🔥🔥.
Are these movies worth watching ? Played every mainline resident evil as well as code veronica (consider it mainline) are these any good I saw how nemesis looks in one of the movies and its spot on
"Though her name is never spoken in the entire movie, the main character's full name is Alice Abernathy", correct me if I'm wrong but I think her full name has never been spoken in any resident evil movie, not just the first one, this is actually the first time I ever hear Abernathy lol
Less said about that the better. Him and bunch of RE RUclipsrs reacted to the movie and they walked on eggshells trying to be as honest as possible about how awful it was without upsetting the drooling special needs cases who convinced themselves that they enjoyed it
If anything, this film franchise goes to show, it's that if you are sleeping with the director, you can instantly get the roles in the sequels. It's not due to her "outstanding talent" don't fool yourself.
Its either RUclips or the company who own the film rights so no other youtubers have any rights to review or play any scenes or probably the music in the film. I need to know why.
It's either capcom strike down the video or the company who own this film contact RUclips to take action to strike down the video or the film contains copyright music or maybe youtube take it down
Wait why reuploaded. What happened. Did it got a copyright strike or did youtube request to take down this video or was it RUclips take it down itself or was it some of the film company who own this film contacted RUclips to take this video down?!
The only good one of those films. I actually enjoyed it a lot back in the day and would do the same today. The only thing I remember making me go :-/ was the Nemesis mention.
I personally have always enjoyed this movie even as a huge Resident Evil fan. I see it as whole different take and although there's plenty of things to notice that quote and quote aren't right and the mistakes that were made during the filming, it gives it a lot of character and will always be one of my favorites.
Mistakes in Resident evil 2 ! Please do a re-upload ! I mean mistakes from you guys . Like jill's second reload in the Police building , because she had 2 guns . If you look it up closely , she shared her second firearm with a Survivor in the School ! A peace of advise ❤
The first movie was a good stand alone..but the sequels were just kinda meh...i was kinda sick of milla at that point haha...and then Monster Hunter movie was shown main character syndrome was heavy at that point
I try to enjoy this movie when it came out. But i wasn't really able to enjoy it, simply because there were no cast of the game involved. & now they are saying that it was a prequel to the first game? Should that not be Resident Evil 0? In my own personal opinion, they're saying that now as a defense against the heat & criticism from people like me who feel that the movie should've been candid to the game. & the fact that nothing was similar to the game except for the name of the antagonist (Umbrella), & and the virus, was extremely heartbreaking. I'm not gonna go & take anything away from the cast. It was an all stellar cast, & they're all amazing actresses/actors. But the way the movie is written, i feel is a slap in the face to die hard Resident Evil fans. If it was a prequel to the games, they should've said something during the movie's production, so that fans would know, not to go see this movie ,expecting to see Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, Barry, Rebecca Chambers; & let's not forget Albert Wesker. These are all my personal opinions, of course. But anyone who reads this needs to agree with me; Whenever Hollywood goes ahead, & tries to convert a game to a movie, they ALWAYS, "F" it up. They did it wth Double Dragon, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, & Resident Evil. Hollywood is HORRIBLE at doing game to movie transitions. The best one in my opinion was the very first Mortal Kombat movie from the 90's. That movie was incredible. & Street Fighter's Raul Julia (Rest In Peace, man😔), was simply the best damn M.Bison you could cast. He had that whole...."psychotic" aura to him. He was incredible. Love him. But other than those points, my opinion is as is. Hollywood should let the fans do the game to movie transitions. At least then, they woukd be done correctly.
to #5, then why TF are they so off from the source material PAUL?! WHY? i admit that the first 2 are guilty pleasures, but the following ones range from bad, to absolute dumpster fires
It’s not a challenging role for any decent actor, unless the script somehow permits the character to actually be interesting or unique or worth caring about. We only cared about Jill in the game because we’re in her shoes. When they try to portray this person in a film then they have to create a character from scratch. You can’t throw some hot chick in a blue beret and shoulder pads and make her read AI generated quips and expect to entertain an audience…..Right? 🤨
I just don't understand why she couldn't play Jill and they couldn't just make the first 3 games into film. Stay strick to the games canon. I enjoy somethings about the 1st two films but they ruined them with the Alice character.
I love that he had them play the games so they could stay true to the source material, yet did almost everything in his power to do the opposite.
I still remember seeing this in theaters. Just the idea of seeing my favorite game franchise on the big screen blew my mind. I loved feeling like a kid the entire time.
Hilarious moment as a kid in the theater for me. After the Alice kick when the room got kind of silent after how cool it was, some random guy yells out , "THAT'S JET LI AINT IT?!!" XD
@10:54 oh there's the assault rifle w/ grenade launcher that she was holding in one of the promo pics 😂
I remember watching this in the movie theater with my cousin back then. Can't believe more than 20 years have passed.
Don't let the bastards bring you down! Love you, Kai!
All these movies were better than Welcome To Raccoon City. I still remember the secret code you could input on the dvd to get a secret music video of My Plague by Slipknot
“It came out 20 years ago”
And now I feel ancient 😂
Will you make 50 facts about the Resident Evil CGI movies?
I’d like that
Fun fact: I seen it in theaters in 8th grade and about 20 minutes in i started feeling sick. Chills, fever, everything and thought I was dying. Watched the whole movie like that expecting to become a zombie.
Oof no wonder this was re uploaded. RUclips's being run by the Umbrella Corp and trying to get rid of your vids lol
😂 Their business is life itself!
Damn.
As the youngsters say "the opps be opping yo" 😂
@@antonmilajo Damn Umbrella Corp.
Resident evil was a big part of my childhood and these movies will always be nostalgic for me.
Great job Kai!
This is also one of my favorite films. The rest of the series dips quite a bit me but I’ll always love this one ❤
Always cool learning behind the scenes info 😎🙌🏻
Still can't believe that the Licker was named after Clint Eastwood. Thankfully, watching this again after being reupload still made my day.
Not going to lie, I fell in love with your channel because if the RE stuff but I like your other videos regarding other game franchises and movies. Please keep up the good work.
Gotta do Apocalypse, I actually loved it far more than the first
The best and true RE movie!!!!!
Niche 90s memory here: I
remember watching a “behind the scenes” clip of this production. It was on a DVD included with a gaming magazine, probably Official PSM.
Side note: DVD stands for digital versatile disc. It wasn’t always just a drinks coaster. You actually used to put them into these machines that used LASERS to play videos. Imagine RUclips was a bunch of frisbees.
Frisbees are a disc that you throw.
Anyway, on this DVD, Milla Something-vich was claiming she was a fan of the games, referring to Leon as “that guy” who freaks out when “that thing” appears on the ceiling (referring to the licker).
That first movie was surprisingly straight forward and concise. The white, pristine lab sets looked good and those visuals seemed to inspire some of the environments that appeared in the games that followed (for better or worse).
Hard to believe. When I was younger I would consider this movie a guilty pleasure, kitschy even. So much has been put into making it.
'Guilty pleasure' is a good for it. While I didn't like the later movies, this and the second one are dumb fun I enjoy
It’d be so cool to see facts vids about the rest of the series
You mean the movie sequels?
Couldn’t care less
Excellent video many thanks dude!😎👍
The first movie has a special place in my heart ❤
So Milla’s brother is to blame…
2023 this movie is a good wine and it's deserve the crown now
4:20 - I wonder if it was because of the fact that the core plot of the first RE movie is a copy of the Aliens' plot.
Time to re-watch this video!
Funny part is Sarah Michelle Gellar wasn't the only Buffy star to have almost been a part of the movie. David Boreanaz almost played Matt! I'm sure both stars were busy filming Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel shows at the time, but it would have been so interesting to see how the movie would have played out had they played the roles instesd.
They should've given this movie the subtitle of "genesis" to imply that this movie was a prequel to the game series and Alice could've been introduced as a new character,and also add more backstory to the game's plot
Thank you Kai!!!!!!!!!
The first and the second movie are the my favorite, after that it went down hill.
I was so hyped for this movie
Just in case anyone didn't know the resident evil death island recently released last month have the characters from resident evil 1, 2 and 3 it epic to watch as well funny quotes in it
Oh you have to do the other movies please, plus your commentary is amazing 🥹🥇
This was actually the first zombie movie I ever saw and predates my familiarity with RE by decades (my dad tried bonding with me by playing RE2 when I was a kid, but it freaked me out and he didn't get how to play it, so it was quickly abandoned). Although I hate how these movies strayed so far from the games, I can easily see why the first one is a guilty pleasure for John Carpenter and I think it has such a great atmosphere and a killer main theme.
...That said, I am flabbergasted to hear that people working on the movie were required to study the first game, considering even this movie--the one that comes the closest to feeling like the games--doesn't really feel like the games of its time. I still love this movie on its own merits, I'd just never say it reminds me of the games.
I dnt get why he made them play the games to stay true to the origin content,but yet the movie is nothing like the games..
Funny thing is, people were upset because the movies weren’t exactly like the games
Hey Kai, would love for you to make one for the sequel! Keep up the good work!
I think it'd be sweet to have them make this one into a game.
Please do the rest of the movies
Your fact about Milla ADRing her performance to speak in a lower register is actually about Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Glad I found this
I never liked the idea of the "zombie school" because it takes away any fun expression that the extras might be able to do as zombies, as opposed to Romero's films where they all sort of did their own thing (and how we got the grinning and cigar-chomping zombie in Day).
Sounds very juvenile and light-hearted. Not very threatening or menacing 🤷🏻♂️.
Paul WS Anderson was adamant that he wanted to avoid influences from 70s and 80s zombie movies.
Or that’s what he said in the documentary for the original RE movie. Something tells me he came around in the sequels because the effects seem to have improved slightly
I have this movie memorized back in the day, I just love it so much also yes do the other movies it would be a crime for Sienna Guillory She in my opinion was an excellent Jill 10/10
If they ever followed the original story from the original game series...
If Sarah Michelle Gellar played Jill in a true adaptation of the first game, David Boreanaz would have to be Chris Redfield... just saying
I would have loved that
also James Marsters as Wesker
Just saying
@@Solqueen86 Maybe Nicholas Brennan as Joseph Frost? If not him, perhaps Michael Weatherly
See I know want to know what her reaction was when "she noticed". I can imagine it being a witty one liner, akin to the campyness of resident evil (movies and original 4) in general
I love your videos❤
The best RE movie so far
Will there be a video for Retribution? I believe that's next up in your series.
I don’t care if you don’t like the other sequels, this movie as a stand alone is such a well made and unique zombie movie. You can literally take anyone and make them watch this and have it be a top notch sci-fi film.
Also I would love to get a video game based on this film. Playing as Alice and having a timer or virus meter/gauge like outbreak would be so badass. Alice and her outfit to this day give me RE3 Jill vibes, two bad ass woman with no control over their outfit face many dangers in them and still prevail because of their skill 💗🔥🔥🔥🔥.
Best zombie movie franchise ever!
oh no :o
So what was changed exactly vs the original old video? I hope the information and everything is still intact here.
Are these movies worth watching ? Played every mainline resident evil as well as code veronica (consider it mainline) are these any good I saw how nemesis looks in one of the movies and its spot on
4:35 like David Carradine?
Wow a Zombie boot camp that sounds dope🙌
It’s my favorite movie too!!
Resident evil 1 Is soooo much fun. loving it!!!
Great soundtrack too ❤️🖤
I remember when the first movie came out i used to not be a fan due to it nothing like the game, now i do like it as its noting like the game
So Mila flirting an ultimately marrying the director is why these movies sucked? Yeah that it
Good stuff
"Originally, the whole film was going to be based around Alice in Wonderland".
As opposed to oh, say, Resident Evil 🤔
Do all the movies
Kai will you make Evil Dead content?
"Though her name is never spoken in the entire movie, the main character's full name is Alice Abernathy", correct me if I'm wrong but I think her full name has never been spoken in any resident evil movie, not just the first one, this is actually the first time I ever hear Abernathy lol
Love this film
You are so funny kai
My god Milla was so beauty
Why the re-upload? Anyway I love the 50 facts.
He re-uploaded because of copyright
Last video stopped at Fact 37 for some reason, maybe because of copyright.
The first four films are like a guilty pleasure of mine but if you don't want your brain to melt, don't watch the last two
I was in love with milla for years 🤩
You should cover Welcome to Racoon City.
Less said about that the better. Him and bunch of RE RUclipsrs reacted to the movie and they walked on eggshells trying to be as honest as possible about how awful it was without upsetting the drooling special needs cases who convinced themselves that they enjoyed it
@@CursedWheelieBinI saw it but I prefer this one too.
I've been re-uploaded since I'm still here, in the comments XD.
If anything, this film franchise goes to show, it's that if you are sleeping with the director, you can instantly get the roles in the sequels. It's not due to her "outstanding talent" don't fool yourself.
Why is it a reupload? You get a copyright strike on it?
Its either RUclips or the company who own the film rights so no other youtubers have any rights to review or play any scenes or probably the music in the film. I need to know why.
Yes it was because of copyright
Why re upload?
Because it stopped at 37 facts, and it was probably due to copyright from the previous one.
@@diabetic_sandwich4437 I see…stupid copyright
@@hipsterwriter Yup-
It's either capcom strike down the video or the company who own this film contact RUclips to take action to strike down the video or the film contains copyright music or maybe youtube take it down
@@artisticsolarninja I really hate youtub fucking algorithm
Copyright strike, I suppose?
I am a huge fan of RE. I dont care what anyone says, this was a really good movie.
Oh yea he didn’t want to alienate fans of each game…. So he completely skipped one and two and eluded to the third lol. Idk why they lie.
Reupload? Of course we "rewatch"
no it was copyright strike that is why the original video was taken down for some stupid reasons
Wait why reuploaded. What happened. Did it got a copyright strike or did youtube request to take down this video or was it RUclips take it down itself or was it some of the film company who own this film contacted RUclips to take this video down?!
It was because of copyright always check the description before asking he said why in there
she sleep her way in, both movie and marriage
Please do 50 facts about original xbox
How about some facts on the CGI films?
why reupload
copyright strike by youtube or the company that own the re film
@@artisticsolarninja that's why we need another tube without copyrights
Wish that george romero made resident evil movies
"Brought our favourite game series onto the big screen..."
Did it though? 🤔
I hate this movie and series from the beginning. Zero RE atmosphere. I wish it would never happen.
The only good one of those films.
I actually enjoyed it a lot back in the day and would do the same today.
The only thing I remember making me go :-/ was the Nemesis mention.
Let's go see again!
I personally have always enjoyed this movie even as a huge Resident Evil fan. I see it as whole different take and although there's plenty of things to notice that quote and quote aren't right and the mistakes that were made during the filming, it gives it a lot of character and will always be one of my favorites.
Mistakes in Resident evil 2 ! Please do a re-upload ! I mean mistakes from you guys . Like jill's second reload in the Police building , because she had 2 guns . If you look it up closely , she shared her second firearm with a Survivor in the School ! A peace of advise ❤
The first movie was a good stand alone..but the sequels were just kinda meh...i was kinda sick of milla at that point haha...and then Monster Hunter movie was shown main character syndrome was heavy at that point
I try to enjoy this movie when it came out. But i wasn't really able to enjoy it, simply because there were no cast of the game involved. & now they are saying that it was a prequel to the first game? Should that not be Resident Evil 0? In my own personal opinion, they're saying that now as a defense against the heat & criticism from people like me who feel that the movie should've been candid to the game. & the fact that nothing was similar to the game except for the name of the antagonist (Umbrella), & and the virus, was extremely heartbreaking.
I'm not gonna go & take anything away from the cast. It was an all stellar cast, & they're all amazing actresses/actors. But the way the movie is written, i feel is a slap in the face to die hard Resident Evil fans. If it was a prequel to the games, they should've said something during the movie's production, so that fans would know, not to go see this movie ,expecting to see Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, Barry, Rebecca Chambers; & let's not forget Albert Wesker.
These are all my personal opinions, of course. But anyone who reads this needs to agree with me;
Whenever Hollywood goes ahead, & tries to convert a game to a movie, they ALWAYS, "F" it up. They did it wth Double Dragon, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, & Resident Evil. Hollywood is HORRIBLE at doing game to movie transitions.
The best one in my opinion was the very first Mortal Kombat movie from the 90's. That movie was incredible. & Street Fighter's Raul Julia (Rest In Peace, man😔), was simply the best damn M.Bison you could cast. He had that whole...."psychotic" aura to him. He was incredible. Love him.
But other than those points, my opinion is as is. Hollywood should let the fans do the game to movie transitions. At least then, they woukd be done correctly.
❤
I remember downloading this on limewire lol and it was straight up porn lol my mom seen it and now to this day thinks resident evil is porn lol
to #5, then why TF are they so off from the source material PAUL?! WHY?
i admit that the first 2 are guilty pleasures, but the following ones range from bad, to absolute dumpster fires
vials and music are probably the only good thing to come outta this film...
IMO Sarah Michelle Gellar would have been a great Jill Valentine
She gives me Claire Vibes
It’s not a challenging role for any decent actor, unless the script somehow permits the character to actually be interesting or unique or worth caring about.
We only cared about Jill in the game because we’re in her shoes.
When they try to portray this person in a film then they have to create a character from scratch.
You can’t throw some hot chick in a blue beret and shoulder pads and make her read AI generated quips and expect to entertain an audience…..Right? 🤨
I just don't understand why she couldn't play Jill and they couldn't just make the first 3 games into film. Stay strick to the games canon. I enjoy somethings about the 1st two films but they ruined them with the Alice character.