I subjected a friend of mine to the movie franchise a few years ago, and during the first movie I warned him it's the best one. He didn't believe me. He was not happy realising that I was telling the truth.
Jake Rogers i think thats the second best, it’s the closest to the games, It has the atmosphere, the enemies but every time Alice enters the scene the suspense is gone
@@lukavojinovic7246 It did follow the games a little more closely in terms of looks, but I think they just used that to make up for poor writing. The third one wasn't great, but it did its own thing and didn't make me cringe quite as much. All the other sequels just blend in honestly.
@@jhrogers86 The biggest sin of Apocalypse was making the main character of the game a side character among a group of OCs in the movie. The second biggest sin was changing the origin of Nemesis and removing most of the unique monsters like the worms, spiders, hunters, etc. Granted, I understand that they probably didn't have the budget or screen time for all of the RE3 monsters, but if they cut out some of the ancillary characters who didn't add anything to the story, like the street hustler and the reporter, and reworked a couple of scenes like using the gravedigger and sliding worms in the graveyard scene instead of zombies popping out of their graves like necrotic Jack in the Boxes, it would have been a slightly more faithful and satisfying movie. As it is, it's ... serviceable as a fan fiction but it's not a great REpresentation of the game. And no, that wasn't a typo.
I have a weird taste with these movies. I don't look at them as Resident Evil, but just an action horror movie franchise, but definitely in a guilty pleasure way. That being said, I think the 3rd one, Extinction, is my personal favorite just because it's Mad Max meets Day of the Dead, with a sparkle of X-Men. I mean, come on, it's so out there, over the top and stupid that I can't help but love how serious it takes itself. The first one is cool and ok at best, the second and fourth are entertaining too, but the 5th and 6th are complete trash
If you ignore the fact that it's supposed to be Resident Evil, the third one is a decent post-apocalypse zombie action flick. It's about as close to Resident Evil as World War Z was to the book, which is to say, nothing alike, but as a standalone movie it hits all the right notes. Just watch Extinction and pretend the characters aren't supposed to be the ones from the games... Everything afterward is utter trash though and even as zombie movies go, are awful.
wtf !!do you remember The LEON S KENNEDY in this franchise (movie)or hell...chris?!!lmao!!Ada,Jill...even nemesis!!nemesis in love with that bitch in red dress!!!lol
@@dragonsdream6809 Characters from the original games being there don't make them good movies. Besides, they don't have any character development and just there to make alice look cool.
@@hujeon2149 I think that’s what he was saying; the portrayals of the original characters in these movies was laughable at best lol. The writers/director/producers thought by including them they would help make the movies “good” but they fudged it up horribly!
It's never a good sign when the later stuff is so bad that the scale doesn't go down far enough and you have to raise the earlier terrible stuff to a less terrible status just to accurately reflect how god awful the new stuff actually is.
I mean... when the sequels just end up lowering the bar to levels so drastically low that doesn't make the first movie good. It just means the movies started as "I hated it" and then it just keeps getting worse. Not exactly praise-worthy XD Edit: Looking back on it, this movie was a decent-to-good zombie movie. Just not a good Resident Evil movie. Another bad case of "Don't use the brand if you're not making something good out of it". Could've had any other name not asociated with RE and it could've struck out on its own. Well... the first movie anyway.
"The dead walk" with a picture of a zombie hoard right in front of the camera , what a committed camera man to take that photo and news paper company to continue printing during a zombie outbreak lol even as a teen that made me chuckle
@@BoondockBrony Agree, I enjoy the first 2. Then 3 is so damn boring, the rest are completely forgettable to the point I don't remember any of them at all, save for how they somehow shoehorned Leon and Wesker in.
Dargonhuman Well they don’t work because it’s suppose to be a series of films that follow up with each other and they’re laughable in how bad it spits at continuity, how NPC-driven the characters are and the familiar characters from the game reprise out of convenience to have them back while most of them make cameo-worthy appearances and never to be seen again.
The first Resident Alice film as a standalone works pretty well. But the sequels fail spectacularly as both adaptions of the games and as standalone movies. Why is it that these films remind so much of the Bayformers movies?
@@bronzin1445 The only thing really decent about Apocalypse is how relatively accurate Nemesis was, minus the tentacle attacks anyway, but they ruined it all by making Alice a super powered protagonist who fucking FIST FIGHTS Nemesis. It was pretty lame that he went out to a helicopter crashing into him, in the games he'd tank shit like that and shrug it off. Having him turn good was kind of interesting, but also predictable.
When I saw the video pop up, the first thing that I said slowly. "Oh my God. He's diving into this kettle of rotting corpses." But hey, even I was a sucker for the live action movies, regardless of how ridiculous it gets with each film. Still enjoyed them nonetheless. I wouldn't mind if you review the rest of the Movies Jared. Not like we got anything else going on and besides, even when you do all the movies, that will be pretty much it resident evil content wise till Capcom release the next game. Be safe out there and don't get infected.
Ahhh, I like the first two movies, the second mostly because I love Nemesis but my God these films are such a missed opportunity. They're some of the video game movies that tried in areas that mattered but then they completely ignore other shit like...you know, the characters, the things people want to see fight against the zombies? It's so annoying that the writer just made it a fetishist series for his wife, which is what he does with basically every movie he casts her in. It's especially annoying because Mila is a good actress but she's given the most awful material in a desperate attempt to make her look cool. And oh hey, sometimes they remember these are Resident Evil movies I guess. I can't wait to see Monster Hunter just to see how bad it is.
Would really love to see the rest of this series done. The movies are so incredibly unfaithful to their source, Retribution is just an insane compilation of every character ever, I think we'd all love to see them all covered. Subscribed, by the way
I still love this movie despite its flaws and rewatch it from time to time. Would absolutely love to watch more videos about the movies, though I understand if you don't want to watch them.
I was 11 years old when this Resident Evil movie, and my older brother bought this movie on DVD at Target. The ax zombie walking was, another George A. Romero reference. Stephen/Flyboy was walking awkwardly, on the 1978 version of Dawn Of The Dead. After being brought in, by the elevator zombies. Just like J.D. Michelle Rodriguez's character's name, was Rain on the movie.
I love how you mention how you got excited when the movie said raccoon city. I remember the same as a teen. I told my stepmother "that's the city from the game!" And she was just annoyed I was interrupting the movie like "yeah some things will be like the game."
I actually liked the one where they were a convoy in the desert. It's like they just gave up with Resident Evil and decided they wanted to be Mad Max. I liked the characters in that one. It was totally dumb. That's OK with me because entertainment doesn't have to be artistic it just has to be entertaining.
@@DMCMaster550 When Carlos was about to get blowed up and realized that the other guy was hiding a joint the whole time. Lit it up and blew up. Awesome moment.
I remember reading the news of this movie in between my Resident Evil: Code Veronica play sessions on my Dreamcast. I used my Seganet disc to browse the Net and read hints and pieces on AOL news. I was 23, and completely disappointed with hearing a New Character named Alice was being thrown in. I hated the idea. I seen the movie several times over the years and feel it has its charms, but it still sucks..it’s fun though. 😱🤭😝
I remember a friend having a knock off copy of this, must of been a few years before release (in the UK anyway) and tried to watch this in horrible pixelated, colour swapped dodgey dvd glory!
I enjoyed the entire series, though many of them because of the “so bad it’s good” quality. Would love to see an entire retrospective. Speaking of Resident Evil in different media, have you read S.D. Perry’s novelizations? I read the hell of those back in the day.
Nemesis was kind of cool in that movie, but I really didn’t like that they made him some other dude originally. I liked it way more when it wasn’t clear who Nemesis originally was
I remember being 12 years old when I first saw the trailer to this movie. My brother and I lost our minds with hype knowing there was going to be an RE movie. Saw it on day 1, and I liked it at the time due to creating my own headcanon assuming it was meant to be an "RE Zero" type of movie setting up STARS and whatnot. Saw Apocalypse and essentially gave up after that. More of these reviews! Maybe if the information exists, you can add a little more background on the production of these movies or if Capcom assisted in any way? Keep up these amazing retrospectives!
@@AvalancheReviews Haha, can't wait to see if their any good! 😂. I actually own the bluray set of these movies but i think its still in its wrapping somewhere.
Excited to see you getting to these movies, as I find it fairly... interesting to hear how vastly different opinions on these films can be. To get it out of the way, I DO like these movies, all of them, but at the same time, I'll neither call them "good" movies nor good adaptations of the RE series. I just enjoy them as B horror movies.
I vividly remember this too when it came out. I was 16 and extremely hyped for the same reasons. Long story short, the ticket-taker wouldn't let me in and I waited 3 hours to see the next viewing cause embarrassingly, my mom had to vouch for me. I remember really liking the first third, but the film ended up being really disappointing. Sadly, it's the best live-action film of the series imo.
I was 10 when I watched this, and it scared me for life! As bad as it is I still get the creeps when I see it on TV. At a young age the military captains horrific death so early into the film, leaving the remaining team in over their heads was really terrifying. I'll never forget the trauma... Thanks dad.
Hopefully the RE film Retrospectives end after RE: Apocalypse.... the rest of the films in that line are offensively bad (not that the 1st two were good)!!!! Marilyn Mansons score is banging though, some slappers there. As per usual though, great video Jared!
Great Video Avalanche!!! I actually like the wire work kick, it's my favorite kick in movie history! In the DVD commentary, Milla Jovovich said that it took her a long time just to do that one kick.
I think that's because she's not a very physically capable person. Seems like she wasn't really able to keep herself stable during those shots. They just look so corny to me.
Yeah i remember seeing this at my friends house and I was like ''No.." but it turns out to be over the top and cheesy as all hell with each installment. I guess I will them my guilty pleasures of the set. Thanks Jared looking forward to see the rest of them
As you do. Well, kids are very impressionable, and it lasts for life, what can you do? For all that humans love to harp about free will, we actually have very little of it, if any.
This Resident Evil Saga might not be what we fans expected and might be hated by a lot but...for real, this films gets me back to my childhood and teenage days so vividly that I just cant hate them and simply love them. Hope you keep doin' this sort of analysis for this games (including silent hill). Im seriously considering becoming a Patreon thanks to your videos that bring back cool memories, even from the start with that PSONe music or the music before RE2 stars. Great job AvalancheReviews!
honestly I loved all the movies. The first one's the best! I am huge fan of the games. when I was younger I played resident evil 2 over and over and over. It's still my favorite game to this day. I even read all the books and I have the animation movies too. when I heard about the movie coming out I was excited. I understood it was going to be different and I already accepted it. So when the movie was released I went in not expecting it to be like the game. I separate the games and the movies from each other. I don't see them as the same thing. just characters of the same story in different realities. I can appreciate both. obviously as the movies went on they got more ridiculous I can even agree. But they're my guilty pleasures and I do enjoy them even if they're bad. Just as I love the games I love the movies and the books.
I enjoyed this movie when I was a kid. Went back to watch it a few months ago for a giggle and was surprised how well it all held up actually. By no means a great movie, but it does what it does well.
I'd love to see a retrospective on Apocalypse. Since it's tied directly to the first movie and is the closest to having anything to do with the games. Beyond that, there probably aren't enough us that are that masochistic. Great work!
Zombies are on screen for roughly 11 minutes in a zombie film… but the Xenomorph is on screen for only 4 minutes in a film titled “Alien” with an even longer run time. Screen time isn’t everything, but I agree that Anderson and co. could’ve utilized the zombie threat better. Still a great entry for the series overall 😊
Duuuuude the ending of this movie is what i always imagined how a real Resi movie would begin. My father and i would just go bonkers for those last couple minutes. The whole Nemesis program, waking up in empty hospital (also in 28 days later) lol both released in 2002 oddly. Then slowly creeping the streets to find shit has gone down. With that awesome newspaper showing "The dead Walk" ugh so good. Up next Apocalypse, my personal favorite of the films and just in time for thr RE3 remake!!! Though saying its my personal favorite isn't saying much 😂 lol. Looking forward to what you think of Jill, Carlos, Nikolai and Mikhail's live action portrayal.... yikes!!! 🤣😭
I did like Oded Fehr as Carlos Oliveira though. Maybe it's because he's such a good actor that he can bring even the worst dialogue some charm. I do feel bad for Sienna in some respects. She is a good actress, but wasn't given anything to work with.
All the RE films are terrible, especially as they don’t even respect their OWN continuity in each film let alone the games. Anywayz looking forward to your retrospective on SH: Downpour if that’s your next review. BTW: you should totally think of doing a Dead Space series in the near future.
@@Gruntvc To that, I agree. Too bad Jill was bit underutilized in that one. I do like Mike Epps' character though. Not sure why is Apocalypse the lowest rated RE movie. There are far worse in my opinion.
@CliffFitter89, I think the worst RE movies are the two that desperately want to be Mad Max and not RE. Jill's actress is great and she wore the real classic outfit. I also liked Carlos and the film's UBCS soldiers actually wear uniforms similar to the 1999 game too. It has the correct insignia too, looking at you RE3 Remake...😑 Nemesis also looks pretty good and gets to kill the most STARS any depiction of Nemi has ever done lol. RE Apocalypse is the most RE of the entire franchise. But the cracks were already showing with Alice. Got no beef with Alice's actress, really enjoyed the Fifth Element, but Alice as a character is bland and Op-ed.
Okay, I finished the retrospective. I have been on a marathon and I really appreciate the work you have done here. Very deep discussion and analysis of everything Resident Evil and it is awesome. I need more! I can't wait for you analysis of Apocalypse next. Amazing job!
I'm really curious what Romero's script was. I mean, if this is the good one they went with, then what was so bad that the production crew said "No!" to? I'll admit that this movie was a bit disappointing for me. Aside from Umbrella being named as the corporation involved and that Licker, there really isn't anything here that screams Resident Evil. It feels like a generic zombie movie with a handful of elements thrown in so they could slap a recognizable brand name on it. If you told me that's what it was but they spent a few extra dollars just CGI-ing a bad looking Licker along with ADR-ing in some mentions to Umbrella, I wouldn't be surprised in the least.
The George Romero script was actually recently revealed by his family who did a live script reading recently, you can find transcripts copies online now
@@danielfield1606 Chris isn't even a S.T.A.R.S member, he's an Indian farm boy. Jill is his girlfriend. Barry is a big black dude. Wesker is just some greedy prick. Ada Wong is thrown in for no reason. S.T.A.R.S is a military special forces unit that is completely unrelated to the R.P.D. Everyone but Chris, Jill, Rebecca and Ada die and Raccoon City is destroyed along with the mansion at the very end.
Analyzing Male Slavery Nah, you obviously haven’t seen the leaked plot synopsis for the Resident Evil Netflix series. Makes the Anderson movies look like art.
Have you tried mirroring the movie scenes? I've heard it works alongside the smaller frame, and maybe adding some "Avalanche Reviews" borders to trick the algorithm?
The past two days I've been doing a Resident Evil movie marathon. So far I've watched 1-5. Not having watched The Final Chapter just yet, I can say that the first one is by far my favorite. I geeked out sooooooo hard when I saw this in theaters that when it was over...I went right back and bought a ticket for the next showing! Despite its flaws, it holds a special place in my heart. And that final scene with that gorgeous score! 😍
OHHHHH DUDE you gotta review the novels lol I just finished the first and I’m half way into Caliban Cove. You can mention what is canon and what isn’t lol or like what was changed in the novels. Idk 😂 you can do the mangas next LOLOL I just don’t want the RE retrospective to end.
Dargonhuman same, from what I’ve read thus far it seems like the author understands and might even like RE. I genuinely like the novels more than the Anderson films. Amazing how production money isn’t everything lol
@@Gamer.Instinct It helps that SD Perry is also a talented writer. That was honestly the only reason I picked up the first one at a library book sale; I was familiar with their Star Trek novel work so I gave it a shot. Right afterward I jumped on ebay and got the rest of the series.
The Red Queen was a creation of The live action RE movies, same with the laser defence scene. The Red Queen was later made part of the Game canon in the Resident Evil (either Umbrella or Darkside Chronicles) and the used the laser defence bit in RE4.
After the second movie I gave up on the movies because how they treat the actual characters from the games. I still forced my self to watch em tho, look forward to seeing ya do more!
I stopped watching Karas for this. I honestly love this movie, and same goes for the third one. They’re a guilty pleasure of mind. Only the first one is what I would call a good adaptation. And yes the “shitkickers” (UBCS) & Laser Hallway fit. The other elements of RE you neglect to mention is it’s blend of old school atmospheric horror with modern techno thriller, & action. The techno thriller elements have been there since the beginning. Meanwhile the action has been there since the start and ramping up with each sequel, even before the first movie... to the point where they had become action packed complete with over the top set pieces & cutscenes by the time this came out.
Yeah. They love the games which feature elaborate puzzles and traps in mansions and guest-houses (FFS!) and somehow the advanced traps in THE CORE of the Research Labs of the company dealing with bioweapons is, again "somehow", not justified and unfit. Also, the UBCS. What was this guy thinking?
good adaptation? are you high? Remove the names Umbrella, T-Virus, and Racoon City and this could of been any other zombie movie. No time spent in the mansion, no jill, no chris, no whesker, no barry, little to no back ground of story, it has made up characters just so Paul Anderson could film his hot wife in slow motion... I shall continue.... 11-12 minutes of zombies, the dogs look like shit, lickers where from the second game not the first, no hunters, no tyrant, no mention of lisa trevor, no mention of spencer, over the top sci puzzles that make no sense and dont fit inside the movie, no shark zombies, no plant zombies. A terrible bombastic techno metal soundtrack suited to an action movie NOT a horror movie. A terrible script, terrible acting, poor characters who I couldnt care less about, dull atmosphere with some of the worst lighting ive ever seen in a movie. go read the romero script its not amazing, but its ten times better than this pile of shit.
CPC_RedDawn are you? You literally just said remove the key elements and it would be like any other zombie apocalypse movie. Funny you should mention that, but The same can be said of the games. Remove Umbrella, T-Virus, and Racoon City and it could be any other survival horror game. You may not like it, but The fact that it doesn’t have Jill Chris and Company IS irrelevant. It’s following a different set of characters, but the end result is still pretty much the same... and it still retains iconic elements of the series... zombies, it’s blend of atmospheric horror techno thriller & action, racoon city, the mansion, the super high tech lab hidden beneath the city, the t-virus, bioweapons, and even the goddamn super contrived lethal traps. You may not realize this, but the first movie, unlike the rest of the movies, was written as a goddamn SIDE STORY to show how the outbreak started... even BEFORE the whole Birkin incident. It wasn’t till the second movies where it started to go off rails in terms of the continuity... and the third movie is where it completely jumped the track (and shark) with it’s gloriously absurd premise... mad max with zombies.
One of my guilty pleasures, the RE Movies. I actually really enjoy the first two films (mostly) and the rest are just so bizarre they end up being quite entertaining. Hope we get some sort of remake someday that actually follows the plot of the games.
No matter how lambasted these Paul Anderson-made RE movies were... they still made tons of money... $1.2 billion total gross in 6 movies against $288 million total budget. There's just an audience for these RE movies, and equally strange how Alice is hardly mentioned by the "wahmen" as a shining example for strong female characters.
Hoping to hear more on the rest of the movies. I don't hear a lot of talk about how characters are just dropped too, like Angela or Chris, adding to the jarring nature of each sequel. The first movie is also the best. Traumatized me as a kid. That ending sparked my imagination of things to come and the sequel did not live up to it. Also, I literally just searched RE movie reviews and saw you posted this an hour ago. :D
RE1 is such a classic, i literally have no notes. it’s seriously one of my favorite films of all time. Its inadvertent campiness is like lightning in a bottle-the wall jumping dog kick is nothing short of perfection. It’s smart they didn’t try to be video game accurate-definitely not for a movie. Cheers to the Resident Evil multiverse
Truth time: You tackling these movies is great. I've seen most of the RE live action and man are they...interesting. I can hazily remember a bathroom fight scene in one of the movies (RE3D?) against a monster that i can only describe as Pyramid Head-esque. This shall be a fun ride we embark on!
The crazy thing is how both the game series and films fed each other like RE4 had a laser hallway and of course the increasingly zany action oriented components of each new RE game was like some beacon for Anderson to go nuts.
All the minor cuts and bruises on Milla Jovovich's character are real. No make-up was applied. Milla Jovovich said the real reason she did this movie was because her brother Marko was a huge fan of the video games. The presidents of Capcom Japan and America have cameos as zombies. Capcom created the Resident Evil series. The main actors were told to prepare for the film by getting copies of the games and playing them through. Some of them didn't know if they could complete them in time so they had to get video copies of other people beating the games and then watch it. (at around 1h 30 mins) There is a shot of Alice's eye close up near the end of the film. This is a direct reference to the first game in the series Milla Jovovich's character's name, Alice, is only revealed during the credits. (at around 11 mins) The wedding picture of Alice and Spencer looks similar to the pictures from Resident Evil (1996) and Resident Evil 2 (1998) (with the subjects up close and spliced onto the background image, and always in black and white). Even though they're everywhere, the word "zombie" is never spoken in this film. (at around 1h 27 mins) Near the end, when the underground tram pulls back to the Mansion station, the serial number on the front of the lead car reads "ALEXIA" followed by a string of digits. Alexia Ashford is the final antagonist of Resident Evil Code: Veronica. Also, Underground Trams are a recurring mode of transportation in the Resident Evil games. In the movie, Alice's fake husband is named Spence. This is a reference to the first game which took place in a mansion named the Spencer Estate. Also, one of the three founders of Umbrella Corporation in the game series is named Ozwell Spencer. The makeup department and crew had a hard time dealing with the dogs, who kept licking the zombie makeup, blood and meat off of themselves. The studio, Sony Pictures, had hoped at one time to make the film PG-13 so as to make the film more marketable to the younger video game fans, but director Paul W.S Anderson insisted that to be true to the game, the film must be rated R. Milla Jovovich and Paul W.S. Anderson, who met on the set of "Resident Evil", were married on 22nd August 2009 and (as of January 2019) have two children. Like in the games, after something is switched on/off, something else happens elsewhere. When the Red Queen is deactivated for the first time, all doors elsewhere are opened.
This movie is the first exposure I ever had to the series. Love it or hate it it made me check the games out and I'm now a long time fan of the series.
Please continue with your very deserved critiques of the live action films. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on how much the franchise just falls apart
Saw this one all alone on TV after midnight as a small kid having seen my brother play the games in the past. Then couldn’t sleep till morning. I don’t know what it was about this one that property scared me but it sure did. I remember the sense of isolation and claustrophobia and the zombies moving and looking real as hell.
It's cool to see a review of this. I haven't watched this movie since it came out in theaters. I remember enjoying it as a video game film, but seeing some of the footage again here, a lot of it clearly hasn't held up. Really looking forward to your take on the sequels. I remember thinking the initial follow-up was a train wreck in comparison to the first, but it's another I haven't seen since it came out.
I got as far as him saying that Tom Savini's remake was the best zombie movie ever made.......and then I hit the thumbs up button. Clearly a man of taste!
I watched 1-5 in 2012( I was eleven) and loved them, I didn't know about the games' existence. Until the sixth movie, I had completely changed my mind and enjoyed the final movie for the absolute Trainwreck that it was. The first movie is still kinda good though, especially that soundtrack
Going off about bad movies is a lot of times more entertaining to watch than praising good ones. They are definitely "guilty pleasure" movies for me, likely for others as well. Kind of like the "Fast & Furious" franchise, the RE films get more silly and convoluted with each subsequent release, so I think it would be fun to review them and they could make for some truly interesting content. There's also not much RE material left to cover, unfortunately... Unless you want to cover the S.D. Perry novels, lol.
I subjected a friend of mine to the movie franchise a few years ago, and during the first movie I warned him it's the best one. He didn't believe me. He was not happy realising that I was telling the truth.
True, and even though it's not saying much, re apocalypse is the worst imo.
Jake Rogers i think thats the second best, it’s the closest to the games, It has the atmosphere, the enemies but every time Alice enters the scene the suspense is gone
@@lukavojinovic7246 I'll never forget her riding the motorcycle like Miss Piggy through the stain glass of the church window.
@@lukavojinovic7246 It did follow the games a little more closely in terms of looks, but I think they just used that to make up for poor writing. The third one wasn't great, but it did its own thing and didn't make me cringe quite as much. All the other sequels just blend in honestly.
@@jhrogers86 The biggest sin of Apocalypse was making the main character of the game a side character among a group of OCs in the movie. The second biggest sin was changing the origin of Nemesis and removing most of the unique monsters like the worms, spiders, hunters, etc. Granted, I understand that they probably didn't have the budget or screen time for all of the RE3 monsters, but if they cut out some of the ancillary characters who didn't add anything to the story, like the street hustler and the reporter, and reworked a couple of scenes like using the gravedigger and sliding worms in the graveyard scene instead of zombies popping out of their graves like necrotic Jack in the Boxes, it would have been a slightly more faithful and satisfying movie.
As it is, it's ... serviceable as a fan fiction but it's not a great REpresentation of the game. And no, that wasn't a typo.
First movie: Surprisingly not a bad adaptation, rad soundtrack.
Second: fun, but not good.
The rest: just...don't.
Literally this
Pretty much. The second movie at least felt like it was somewhat trying to be similar to Re3. Everything else after was just terrible.
Pretty much. The second movie at least felt like it was somewhat trying to be similar to Re3. Everything else after was just terrible.
I have a weird taste with these movies. I don't look at them as Resident Evil, but just an action horror movie franchise, but definitely in a guilty pleasure way. That being said, I think the 3rd one, Extinction, is my personal favorite just because it's Mad Max meets Day of the Dead, with a sparkle of X-Men. I mean, come on, it's so out there, over the top and stupid that I can't help but love how serious it takes itself. The first one is cool and ok at best, the second and fourth are entertaining too, but the 5th and 6th are complete trash
If you ignore the fact that it's supposed to be Resident Evil, the third one is a decent post-apocalypse zombie action flick. It's about as close to Resident Evil as World War Z was to the book, which is to say, nothing alike, but as a standalone movie it hits all the right notes. Just watch Extinction and pretend the characters aren't supposed to be the ones from the games...
Everything afterward is utter trash though and even as zombie movies go, are awful.
Seeing how laughably bad the rest of this trainwreck of a serie is, i'd love a complete retrospective.
Same.
wtf !!do you remember The LEON S KENNEDY in this franchise (movie)or hell...chris?!!lmao!!Ada,Jill...even nemesis!!nemesis in love with that bitch in red dress!!!lol
@@dragonsdream6809 Characters from the original games being there don't make them good movies.
Besides, they don't have any character development and just there to make alice look cool.
@@hujeon2149 Even my favourite character in the videogame series (Claire Redfield) was incredibly dull.
@@hujeon2149 I think that’s what he was saying; the portrayals of the original characters in these movies was laughable at best lol. The writers/director/producers thought by including them they would help make the movies “good” but they fudged it up horribly!
When I first saw this movie, I hated it. Then I watched all the other Resident Evil movies and was like “ You know what? That first movie was ART!!!”
Lmao You're not wrong
It's never a good sign when the later stuff is so bad that the scale doesn't go down far enough and you have to raise the earlier terrible stuff to a less terrible status just to accurately reflect how god awful the new stuff actually is.
I mean... when the sequels just end up lowering the bar to levels so drastically low that doesn't make the first movie good.
It just means the movies started as "I hated it" and then it just keeps getting worse. Not exactly praise-worthy XD
Edit: Looking back on it, this movie was a decent-to-good zombie movie. Just not a good Resident Evil movie. Another bad case of "Don't use the brand if you're not making something good out of it". Could've had any other name not asociated with RE and it could've struck out on its own. Well... the first movie anyway.
If the first movie was an actual resident evil game, it would be pretty badass
Fun fact: that crappy “laggy zombie” was the producer doing a cameo.
Its Drewsif which is that? What laggy zom?
@@TheKyle666 the one that got the delayed shot
Yiazmat perhaps that’s why he seemed laggy, forced that to be put in or maybe just forced it to work for the fun of the cameo
That's really cool.
Wasn't expecting to see you here, i know this is 2 years after this comment but anhedonia is one of my fav albums, thx for your incredible music man.
"The dead walk" with a picture of a zombie hoard right in front of the camera , what a committed camera man to take that photo and news paper company to continue printing during a zombie outbreak lol even as a teen that made me chuckle
It was prolly Amanpour who took the photo
You mean, like in wars?
@@4400seriesFAN That's the one
This is a nod to G A Romeros film "Day of the Dead" that started out this way.
The photographer was Frank West, he's covered wars ya' know.
all the live action resident evil movies are my guilty pleasure
fight me
I can see that if you were only talking about the first 2 movies. The rest I can't see that. I won't fight you on them but I will raise an eyebrow.
@@BoondockBrony Agree, I enjoy the first 2. Then 3 is so damn boring, the rest are completely forgettable to the point I don't remember any of them at all, save for how they somehow shoehorned Leon and Wesker in.
Same
mine too
I agree with you. The movies are nice. I watch them all in the movie theater. Loved them, enjoyed them, and sad they are over.
Jared: Well, I've played every RE game. Anything else?
Paul Anderson: *rubs hands together eagerly*
Like a fly
The movies should be called: Resident Evil starring the director's wife.
mind waves The original modern Mary Sue before for some reason, it became a crime to use that word.
but didn't they not get hitched until 2009
My personal hot take on these movies is, if you approach them like really expensive fan fictions, they work better than adaptations of the games.
Dargonhuman Well they don’t work because it’s suppose to be a series of films that follow up with each other and they’re laughable in how bad it spits at continuity, how NPC-driven the characters are and the familiar characters from the game reprise out of convenience to have them back while most of them make cameo-worthy appearances and never to be seen again.
More like "Resident Evil: Here's My Wife".
The only movie franchise to out "worse" each other with each new release...
I just took the liberty to subscribe to your channel.
Well said.
RE Apocalypse is better than this. So, you are wrong.
@@4400seriesFAN thread the needle.
Either be accurate or don't write. This sensationalism you are trying for likes is overdone.
The first Resident Alice film as a standalone works pretty well. But the sequels fail spectacularly as both adaptions of the games and as standalone movies.
Why is it that these films remind so much of the Bayformers movies?
The first one is the best
With each one, things keep getting worse and worse
No characters, just NPCs
I can keep going, but you catch my drift
Apocalypse is pretty decent but every after that just makes you question they were even made
@@bronzin1445 The only thing really decent about Apocalypse is how relatively accurate Nemesis was, minus the tentacle attacks anyway, but they ruined it all by making Alice a super powered protagonist who fucking FIST FIGHTS Nemesis. It was pretty lame that he went out to a helicopter crashing into him, in the games he'd tank shit like that and shrug it off. Having him turn good was kind of interesting, but also predictable.
After this one, Alice becomes a Super Mary Sue.
I actually think the second is pretty decent. Definitely the best of the bunch and at least at a superficial level elements from the games.
When I saw the video pop up, the first thing that I said slowly. "Oh my God. He's diving into this kettle of rotting corpses." But hey, even I was a sucker for the live action movies, regardless of how ridiculous it gets with each film. Still enjoyed them nonetheless.
I wouldn't mind if you review the rest of the Movies Jared. Not like we got anything else going on and besides, even when you do all the movies, that will be pretty much it resident evil content wise till Capcom release the next game. Be safe out there and don't get infected.
Ahhh, I like the first two movies, the second mostly because I love Nemesis but my God these films are such a missed opportunity.
They're some of the video game movies that tried in areas that mattered but then they completely ignore other shit like...you know, the characters, the things people want to see fight against the zombies?
It's so annoying that the writer just made it a fetishist series for his wife, which is what he does with basically every movie he casts her in.
It's especially annoying because Mila is a good actress but she's given the most awful material in a desperate attempt to make her look cool.
And oh hey, sometimes they remember these are Resident Evil movies I guess.
I can't wait to see Monster Hunter just to see how bad it is.
Would really love to see the rest of this series done. The movies are so incredibly unfaithful to their source, Retribution is just an insane compilation of every character ever, I think we'd all love to see them all covered. Subscribed, by the way
Thanks! Good to have ya aboard! I'm currently working on the second movie, so you'll get your wish.
The laser scene is viscerally horrifying and does great justice to the film.
its the only redeeming quality of this movie its the only scene anyone remembers at all.
I know it’s a lot of work... but damn I hope we get a RE:Apocalypse review.
I still love this movie despite its flaws and rewatch it from time to time. Would absolutely love to watch more videos about the movies, though I understand if you don't want to watch them.
I was 11 years old when this Resident Evil movie, and my older brother bought this movie on DVD at Target. The ax zombie walking was, another George A. Romero reference. Stephen/Flyboy was walking awkwardly, on the 1978 version of Dawn Of The Dead. After being brought in, by the elevator zombies. Just like J.D. Michelle Rodriguez's character's name, was Rain on the movie.
I love how you mention how you got excited when the movie said raccoon city. I remember the same as a teen. I told my stepmother "that's the city from the game!" And she was just annoyed I was interrupting the movie like "yeah some things will be like the game."
I actually liked the one where they were a convoy in the desert. It's like they just gave up with Resident Evil and decided they wanted to be Mad Max. I liked the characters in that one.
It was totally dumb.
That's OK with me because entertainment doesn't have to be artistic it just has to be entertaining.
Extinction was the first rated R movie I watched in theaters!
It was hilarious. I remember laughing so hard when Umbrella dropped off the container full of zombies. Too damn funny lol
I've always said that one would have been a decent stand alone zombie flick, even if it was a terrible RE adaptation.
@@DMCMaster550 When Carlos was about to get blowed up and realized that the other guy was hiding a joint the whole time. Lit it up and blew up.
Awesome moment.
Dumb doesnt equal bad
Wow...
I really haven't watched this movie since Middle School, but I totally never thought about how that Plot Twist Never Made Sense 🤦🏻♂️
Ha! Same here. I was hit with all this while watching it for this video.
I turn into regina from dino crisis whenever someone brings up these movies.
"That's disgusting".
I remember that scene! It happens when she and that guy were examining the halfless corpse in the area where you meet with the first raptor
Hahaha, I turn into a Scottish mom, "DISGUSTAAAANG"
I loved the laser scene! I was pretty proud of them for killing off the leader and cool guy straight off the bat, it isn’t that common
I remember reading the news of this movie in between my Resident Evil: Code Veronica play sessions on my Dreamcast. I used my Seganet disc to browse the Net and read hints and pieces on AOL news. I was 23, and completely disappointed with hearing a New Character named Alice was being thrown in. I hated the idea. I seen the movie several times over the years and feel it has its charms, but it still sucks..it’s fun though. 😱🤭😝
Finally! You've arrived at the worst part o resident. Movies
Naah, theres the Manga where God and sayan like Leon are fighting
This movie series is my guilty pleasure, love 'em to bits
They about to get rebooted
No Avalanche, _don't open that door !_
"Avalanche, no. You don't wanna go back out there. "
@@chris_t2020 "it's infested with crappy movie sequels !"
"He's got airpods in, he can't hear us!"
This soundtrack introduced me to Slipknot for the first time when I was 11. And Marilyn Manson score is iconic IMO
Not afraid to admit that I love this movie, it was my first introduction to RE
I remember a friend having a knock off copy of this, must of been a few years before release (in the UK anyway) and tried to watch this in horrible pixelated, colour swapped dodgey dvd glory!
ha i had a copy on vhs.....
@@Fezzy976 I still have my VHS copy recorded from TV.
Damn! I love your retrospectives, but I'm not sure I can survive even the most bearable one of these abominations...
I enjoyed the entire series, though many of them because of the “so bad it’s good” quality. Would love to see an entire retrospective.
Speaking of Resident Evil in different media, have you read S.D. Perry’s novelizations? I read the hell of those back in the day.
This is will an interesting stretch of retrospectives. Look forward to your take on the next movies.
Definitely review Apocalypse! That was my favorite because it was in the City, and Nemesis (a.k.a. Matt) was in it.
APOCALYPSE was my introduction to Resident Evil and it's my favorite just because of how much the concept enamored me.
Nemesis was kind of cool in that movie, but I really didn’t like that they made him some other dude originally. I liked it way more when it wasn’t clear who Nemesis originally was
I remember being 12 years old when I first saw the trailer to this movie. My brother and I lost our minds with hype knowing there was going to be an RE movie. Saw it on day 1, and I liked it at the time due to creating my own headcanon assuming it was meant to be an "RE Zero" type of movie setting up STARS and whatnot. Saw Apocalypse and essentially gave up after that.
More of these reviews! Maybe if the information exists, you can add a little more background on the production of these movies or if Capcom assisted in any way? Keep up these amazing retrospectives!
I would say I'm excited to cover the other movies, but........ Then I have to watch them. HA!
@@AvalancheReviews I wish you the best of luck... 😂
@@AvalancheReviews Haha, can't wait to see if their any good! 😂. I actually own the bluray set of these movies but i think its still in its wrapping somewhere.
The laser scene is like a modern take on the spy mansion with booby traps. It totally fit to be honest. And it's a legendary scene.
It’s memorable and edgy, it fits perfectly.
Excited to see you getting to these movies, as I find it fairly... interesting to hear how vastly different opinions on these films can be. To get it out of the way, I DO like these movies, all of them, but at the same time, I'll neither call them "good" movies nor good adaptations of the RE series. I just enjoy them as B horror movies.
Dude you’re awesome!!!! I would love to see the rest of live action series explored. These are not good movies at all but man they are fascinating
I vividly remember this too when it came out. I was 16 and extremely hyped for the same reasons. Long story short, the ticket-taker wouldn't let me in and I waited 3 hours to see the next viewing cause embarrassingly, my mom had to vouch for me. I remember really liking the first third, but the film ended up being really disappointing. Sadly, it's the best live-action film of the series imo.
I was 10 when I watched this, and it scared me for life! As bad as it is I still get the creeps when I see it on TV. At a young age the military captains horrific death so early into the film, leaving the remaining team in over their heads was really terrifying. I'll never forget the trauma... Thanks dad.
Yes, Anderson made Mortal Kombat (1995)… and he made Event Horizon (1997).
Extremely underrated channel, my god.
Hopefully the RE film Retrospectives end after RE: Apocalypse.... the rest of the films in that line are offensively bad (not that the 1st two were good)!!!! Marilyn Mansons score is banging though, some slappers there. As per usual though, great video Jared!
Great Video Avalanche!!! I actually like the wire work kick, it's my favorite kick in movie history! In the DVD commentary, Milla Jovovich said that it took her a long time just to do that one kick.
I think that's because she's not a very physically capable person. Seems like she wasn't really able to keep herself stable during those shots. They just look so corny to me.
Yeah i remember seeing this at my friends house and I was like ''No.." but it turns out to be over the top and cheesy as all hell with each installment. I guess I will them my guilty pleasures of the set. Thanks Jared looking forward to see the rest of them
I've been waiting to see you dive into these
3:32 And that moment right there as a kid gave me my first celebrity crush. Uagh! This woman. And shes remained my celeb crush all these years later.
As you do. Well, kids are very impressionable, and it lasts for life, what can you do? For all that humans love to harp about free will, we actually have very little of it, if any.
@@LyaksandraB it's not that deep
Simp
This Resident Evil Saga might not be what we fans expected and might be hated by a lot but...for real, this films gets me back to my childhood and teenage days so vividly that I just cant hate them and simply love them.
Hope you keep doin' this sort of analysis for this games (including silent hill). Im seriously considering becoming a Patreon thanks to your videos that bring back cool memories, even from the start with that PSONe music or the music before RE2 stars.
Great job AvalancheReviews!
honestly I loved all the movies. The first one's the best! I am huge fan of the games. when I was younger I played resident evil 2 over and over and over. It's still my favorite game to this day. I even read all the books and I have the animation movies too. when I heard about the movie coming out I was excited. I understood it was going to be different and I already accepted it. So when the movie was released I went in not expecting it to be like the game. I separate the games and the movies from each other. I don't see them as the same thing. just characters of the same story in different realities. I can appreciate both. obviously as the movies went on they got more ridiculous I can even agree. But they're my guilty pleasures and I do enjoy them even if they're bad. Just as I love the games I love the movies and the books.
I enjoyed this movie when I was a kid. Went back to watch it a few months ago for a giggle and was surprised how well it all held up actually. By no means a great movie, but it does what it does well.
I love the re movies despite their flaws. And yeah it would be awesome for you to do all of them
I'd love to see a retrospective on Apocalypse. Since it's tied directly to the first movie and is the closest to having anything to do with the games.
Beyond that, there probably aren't enough us that are that masochistic. Great work!
Imagine if they used Romero's story
Zombies are on screen for roughly 11 minutes in a zombie film… but the Xenomorph is on screen for only 4 minutes in a film titled “Alien” with an even longer run time. Screen time isn’t everything, but I agree that Anderson and co. could’ve utilized the zombie threat better. Still a great entry for the series overall 😊
Duuuuude the ending of this movie is what i always imagined how a real Resi movie would begin. My father and i would just go bonkers for those last couple minutes. The whole Nemesis program, waking up in empty hospital (also in 28 days later) lol both released in 2002 oddly. Then slowly creeping the streets to find shit has gone down. With that awesome newspaper showing "The dead Walk" ugh so good.
Up next Apocalypse, my personal favorite of the films and just in time for thr RE3 remake!!! Though saying its my personal favorite isn't saying much 😂 lol. Looking forward to what you think of Jill, Carlos, Nikolai and Mikhail's live action portrayal.... yikes!!! 🤣😭
I did like Oded Fehr as Carlos Oliveira though. Maybe it's because he's such a good actor that he can bring even the worst dialogue some charm.
I do feel bad for Sienna in some respects. She is a good actress, but wasn't given anything to work with.
Manson's score for this is so good. I remember going to record stores just to listen to it
It really is!
All the RE films are terrible, especially as they don’t even respect their OWN continuity in each film let alone the games.
Anywayz looking forward to your retrospective on SH: Downpour if that’s your next review.
BTW: you should totally think of doing a Dead Space series in the near future.
I'm in the minority that I find some enjoyment in RE: Apocalypse. 🤷♂️
@CliffFitter89, I like the parts that try to be RE3 1999 Nemesis. Everything with Alice is pretty much Mary Sue baloney.
@@Gruntvc To that, I agree. Too bad Jill was bit underutilized in that one. I do like Mike Epps' character though. Not sure why is Apocalypse the lowest rated RE movie. There are far worse in my opinion.
@@Dacho_Shaki the first 2 are ok and everything else is just better forgotten
@CliffFitter89, I think the worst RE movies are the two that desperately want to be Mad Max and not RE.
Jill's actress is great and she wore the real classic outfit. I also liked Carlos and the film's UBCS soldiers actually wear uniforms similar to the 1999 game too. It has the correct insignia too, looking at you RE3 Remake...😑
Nemesis also looks pretty good and gets to kill the most STARS any depiction of Nemi has ever done lol.
RE Apocalypse is the most RE of the entire franchise. But the cracks were already showing with Alice.
Got no beef with Alice's actress, really enjoyed the Fifth Element, but Alice as a character is bland and Op-ed.
Naivete : walking out of this movie unaware it would be the most satisfying of all to follow 🤤
Hope you do the rest of 'em. Or at least Apocalypse because that was the last bearable one (Jill Valentine)
Okay, I finished the retrospective. I have been on a marathon and I really appreciate the work you have done here. Very deep discussion and analysis of everything Resident Evil and it is awesome. I need more! I can't wait for you analysis of Apocalypse next. Amazing job!
It's funny because if you take the resident evil title away, it's actually a fun independent movie
It is! Was going to comment this. As a movie, removed from under the hefty weight of expectations, it's decent fun.
@@LyaksandraB yeah!
Rodriguez's character was called Rain.
Great review as always, the first is my favourite of the bunch followed for some reason by Afterlife 🤷♂️
I can't remember the rest of them very well, but it'll be.......interesting checking out the others. HA!
I'm really curious what Romero's script was. I mean, if this is the good one they went with, then what was so bad that the production crew said "No!" to?
I'll admit that this movie was a bit disappointing for me. Aside from Umbrella being named as the corporation involved and that Licker, there really isn't anything here that screams Resident Evil. It feels like a generic zombie movie with a handful of elements thrown in so they could slap a recognizable brand name on it. If you told me that's what it was but they spent a few extra dollars just CGI-ing a bad looking Licker along with ADR-ing in some mentions to Umbrella, I wouldn't be surprised in the least.
The George Romero script was actually recently revealed by his family who did a live script reading recently, you can find transcripts copies online now
@@danielfield1606 Chris isn't even a S.T.A.R.S member, he's an Indian farm boy. Jill is his girlfriend. Barry is a big black dude. Wesker is just some greedy prick. Ada Wong is thrown in for no reason. S.T.A.R.S is a military special forces unit that is completely unrelated to the R.P.D. Everyone but Chris, Jill, Rebecca and Ada die and Raccoon City is destroyed along with the mansion at the very end.
It’s a lot better than what we ended up with. Like... Infinitely better.
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Nah, you obviously haven’t seen the leaked plot synopsis for the Resident Evil Netflix series. Makes the Anderson movies look like art.
Have you tried mirroring the movie scenes? I've heard it works alongside the smaller frame, and maybe adding some "Avalanche Reviews" borders to trick the algorithm?
The past two days I've been doing a Resident Evil movie marathon. So far I've watched 1-5. Not having watched The Final Chapter just yet, I can say that the first one is by far my favorite. I geeked out sooooooo hard when I saw this in theaters that when it was over...I went right back and bought a ticket for the next showing! Despite its flaws, it holds a special place in my heart. And that final scene with that gorgeous score! 😍
OHHHHH DUDE you gotta review the novels lol I just finished the first and I’m half way into Caliban Cove. You can mention what is canon and what isn’t lol or like what was changed in the novels. Idk 😂 you can do the mangas next LOLOL I just don’t want the RE retrospective to end.
I was honestly impressed with the novels.
Dargonhuman same, from what I’ve read thus far it seems like the author understands and might even like RE. I genuinely like the novels more than the Anderson films. Amazing how production money isn’t everything lol
@@Gamer.Instinct It helps that SD Perry is also a talented writer. That was honestly the only reason I picked up the first one at a library book sale; I was familiar with their Star Trek novel work so I gave it a shot.
Right afterward I jumped on ebay and got the rest of the series.
The Red Queen was a creation of The live action RE movies, same with the laser defence scene. The Red Queen was later made part of the Game canon in the Resident Evil (either Umbrella or Darkside Chronicles) and the used the laser defence bit in RE4.
This movie is the reason Capcom forced shinji mikami to scrap his original re4 and make it more action focused.
Keep going with the movies!
Perfect video to watch right as I get off work! Love your videos!
After the second movie I gave up on the movies because how they treat the actual characters from the games. I still forced my self to watch em tho, look forward to seeing ya do more!
You made my day by mentioning the Algorithm briefly while talking about the soundtrack to this movie. Love their music and love your videos man.
I stopped watching Karas for this. I honestly love this movie, and same goes for the third one. They’re a guilty pleasure of mind. Only the first one is what I would call a good adaptation.
And yes the “shitkickers” (UBCS) & Laser Hallway fit. The other elements of RE you neglect to mention is it’s blend of old school atmospheric horror with modern techno thriller, & action. The techno thriller elements have been there since the beginning. Meanwhile the action has been there since the start and ramping up with each sequel, even before the first movie... to the point where they had become action packed complete with over the top set pieces & cutscenes by the time this came out.
Yeah. They love the games which feature elaborate puzzles and traps in mansions and guest-houses (FFS!) and somehow the advanced traps in THE CORE of the Research Labs of the company dealing with bioweapons is, again "somehow", not justified and unfit. Also, the UBCS. What was this guy thinking?
good adaptation? are you high? Remove the names Umbrella, T-Virus, and Racoon City and this could of been any other zombie movie.
No time spent in the mansion, no jill, no chris, no whesker, no barry, little to no back ground of story, it has made up characters just so Paul Anderson could film his hot wife in slow motion... I shall continue.... 11-12 minutes of zombies, the dogs look like shit, lickers where from the second game not the first, no hunters, no tyrant, no mention of lisa trevor, no mention of spencer, over the top sci puzzles that make no sense and dont fit inside the movie, no shark zombies, no plant zombies. A terrible bombastic techno metal soundtrack suited to an action movie NOT a horror movie. A terrible script, terrible acting, poor characters who I couldnt care less about, dull atmosphere with some of the worst lighting ive ever seen in a movie.
go read the romero script its not amazing, but its ten times better than this pile of shit.
CPC_RedDawn are you? You literally just said remove the key elements and it would be like any other zombie apocalypse movie. Funny you should mention that, but The same can be said of the games. Remove Umbrella, T-Virus, and Racoon City and it could be any other survival horror game. You may not like it, but The fact that it doesn’t have Jill Chris and Company IS irrelevant. It’s following a different set of characters, but the end result is still pretty much the same... and it still retains iconic elements of the series... zombies, it’s blend of atmospheric horror techno thriller & action, racoon city, the mansion, the super high tech lab hidden beneath the city, the t-virus, bioweapons, and even the goddamn super contrived lethal traps. You may not realize this, but the first movie, unlike the rest of the movies, was written as a goddamn SIDE STORY to show how the outbreak started... even BEFORE the whole Birkin incident. It wasn’t till the second movies where it started to go off rails in terms of the continuity... and the third movie is where it completely jumped the track (and shark) with it’s gloriously absurd premise... mad max with zombies.
@@Fezzy976 Funny! Because I play the REmake and for the 12 hours it takes to finish it, zombies are there just for an hour and half.
One of my guilty pleasures, the RE Movies. I actually really enjoy the first two films (mostly) and the rest are just so bizarre they end up being quite entertaining. Hope we get some sort of remake someday that actually follows the plot of the games.
I hear that's the idea. A reboot is supposed to be in the planning phase. According to rumors.
No matter how lambasted these Paul Anderson-made RE movies were... they still made tons of money... $1.2 billion total gross in 6 movies against $288 million total budget. There's just an audience for these RE movies, and equally strange how Alice is hardly mentioned by the "wahmen" as a shining example for strong female characters.
Yeah none of that equates to "good"
Alice is a terrible character and is essentially a Mary Sue.
She's got nothing on Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor.
She’s a Mary Sue ad nauseum and a non-character.
Ohhh man, here we go! Please keep doing these videos Jared, I’ll be right here watching!
I can't stand these movies. They're all bad, and each one is worst than the last.
Nostalgia helps me watch these, I’d love to watch more RE retrospectives
Hoping to hear more on the rest of the movies. I don't hear a lot of talk about how characters are just dropped too, like Angela or Chris, adding to the jarring nature of each sequel.
The first movie is also the best. Traumatized me as a kid. That ending sparked my imagination of things to come and the sequel did not live up to it.
Also, I literally just searched RE movie reviews and saw you posted this an hour ago. :D
RE1 is such a classic, i literally have no notes. it’s seriously one of my favorite films of all time. Its inadvertent campiness is like lightning in a bottle-the wall jumping dog kick is nothing short of perfection. It’s smart they didn’t try to be video game accurate-definitely not for a movie. Cheers to the Resident Evil multiverse
I say you should. I love these movies simply for how insane they get later down the line.
Truth time: You tackling these movies is great. I've seen most of the RE live action and man are they...interesting. I can hazily remember a bathroom fight scene in one of the movies (RE3D?) against a monster that i can only describe as Pyramid Head-esque. This shall be a fun ride we embark on!
I love all of your work and do recommend this channel for all RE fans and SH nostalgists!
Much appreciated for the upload!!!
A guilty pleasure for me. It's one of those movies where you watch it and think about how you would make a Resident Evil movie yourself.
The crazy thing is how both the game series and films fed each other like RE4 had a laser hallway and of course the increasingly zany action oriented components of each new RE game was like some beacon for Anderson to go nuts.
All the minor cuts and bruises on Milla Jovovich's character are real. No make-up was applied.
Milla Jovovich said the real reason she did this movie was because her brother Marko was a huge fan of the video games.
The presidents of Capcom Japan and America have cameos as zombies. Capcom created the Resident Evil series.
The main actors were told to prepare for the film by getting copies of the games and playing them through. Some of them didn't know if they could complete them in time so they had to get video copies of other people beating the games and then watch it.
(at around 1h 30 mins) There is a shot of Alice's eye close up near the end of the film. This is a direct reference to the first game in the series
Milla Jovovich's character's name, Alice, is only revealed during the credits.
(at around 11 mins) The wedding picture of Alice and Spencer looks similar to the pictures from Resident Evil (1996) and Resident Evil 2 (1998) (with the subjects up close and spliced onto the background image, and always in black and white).
Even though they're everywhere, the word "zombie" is never spoken in this film.
(at around 1h 27 mins) Near the end, when the underground tram pulls back to the Mansion station, the serial number on the front of the lead car reads "ALEXIA" followed by a string of digits. Alexia Ashford is the final antagonist of Resident Evil Code: Veronica. Also, Underground Trams are a recurring mode of transportation in the Resident Evil games.
In the movie, Alice's fake husband is named Spence. This is a reference to the first game which took place in a mansion named the Spencer Estate. Also, one of the three founders of Umbrella Corporation in the game series is named Ozwell Spencer.
The makeup department and crew had a hard time dealing with the dogs, who kept licking the zombie makeup, blood and meat off of themselves.
The studio, Sony Pictures, had hoped at one time to make the film PG-13 so as to make the film more marketable to the younger video game fans, but director Paul W.S Anderson insisted that to be true to the game, the film must be rated R.
Milla Jovovich and Paul W.S. Anderson, who met on the set of "Resident Evil", were married on 22nd August 2009 and (as of January 2019) have two children.
Like in the games, after something is switched on/off, something else happens elsewhere. When the Red Queen is deactivated for the first time, all doors elsewhere are opened.
I'd more then gladly watch your thoughts on the other live action RE movies
This movie is the first exposure I ever had to the series. Love it or hate it it made me check the games out and I'm now a long time fan of the series.
Then they can be praised in that sense. Anything that gets people to play RE games, is good.
Please continue with your very deserved critiques of the live action films. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on how much the franchise just falls apart
You made me replay all the games, you made me rewatch the animated movies but i swear you won't make me rewatch this movies!
Saw this one all alone on TV after midnight as a small kid having seen my brother play the games in the past. Then couldn’t sleep till morning. I don’t know what it was about this one that property scared me but it sure did. I remember the sense of isolation and claustrophobia and the zombies moving and looking real as hell.
It's cool to see a review of this. I haven't watched this movie since it came out in theaters. I remember enjoying it as a video game film, but seeing some of the footage again here, a lot of it clearly hasn't held up. Really looking forward to your take on the sequels. I remember thinking the initial follow-up was a train wreck in comparison to the first, but it's another I haven't seen since it came out.
Yeah I don't really remember much of the second movie, but I'm expecting the worst.
Rest In Peace to Paul Haddad, the original voice actor for Leon S. Scott Kennedy.
4:14 This line was perfectly delivered. Cudos, I pissed myself xD.
Please keep on making RE movie reviews, you're nailing it.
Ha! Glad ya liked it. I'm actually working on the second movie right now.
@@AvalancheReviews consider me subscribed. I'm very much looking forward to it.
I definitely want more of these RE movie reviews.
I'm just gonna say it I love the way she kicked the dog I have no idea why but it fills my empty heart to see that bad kick
HA! Fair enough
I got as far as him saying that Tom Savini's remake was the best zombie movie ever made.......and then I hit the thumbs up button.
Clearly a man of taste!
I watched 1-5 in 2012( I was eleven) and loved them, I didn't know about the games' existence. Until the sixth movie, I had completely changed my mind and enjoyed the final movie for the absolute Trainwreck that it was. The first movie is still kinda good though, especially that soundtrack
Love the shoutout for Tom Savini’s Night of the Living Dead remake. 👍🏻 That’s such an under appreciated film.
Going off about bad movies is a lot of times more entertaining to watch than praising good ones. They are definitely "guilty pleasure" movies for me, likely for others as well. Kind of like the "Fast & Furious" franchise, the RE films get more silly and convoluted with each subsequent release, so I think it would be fun to review them and they could make for some truly interesting content. There's also not much RE material left to cover, unfortunately... Unless you want to cover the S.D. Perry novels, lol.
My thoughts exactly
Sweet I didn't even think you were going to do these movies.