Quote from: Local Trouble on Jun 29, 2017, 04:08:18 AM
I would of if it was more like the game. Which it should of been. And it easily could of.
Why? I have over a billion reasons why that line of logic is flawed. "People" don't give a shit about the games. They just want to be - by and large - entertained. And ALL the Resi movie are entertaining (to the vast majority of people).
Honestly - I've never played Resident Evil in my life (then again, I rate A:CM so it shows you how many games I
have played).
Gamers give a shit about games. And, by and large, gamers are never - ever - happy with an adaptation. All the way from Uwe's cheap as chips "House of the Dead", through WS's bigger and bigger budget Ressies, past Angie's Tomb Raiders and on to the gazillion dollar "Assassin's Creed" with super-star Fass in the lead role.
Romero wrote a Resident script that was "just like the games." Honest: "Yet despite adhering to the game's mythology, Sony and Capcom ultimately passed on Romero's draft. Capcom producer Yoshiki Okamoto bluntly stated at the time: "Romero's script wasn't good, so Romero was fired."
http://variety.com/2016/film/spotlight/resident-evil-george-romero-failed-1201942677/is the skinny. (There's a great line there about "you'd be forgiven for thinking that Anderson thought he was adapting "Call of Duty.").
But here we are, fifteen years later and only now has the Resi movie cycle ended. They've rebooted Spider-Man three times in that period, haven't they? Something like that, anyway. Superman twice... WSedient Evil had legs, man. People love that shit. I don't even know why myself, to be honest. They're just glorious in their camp, action-packed, zombie-slaying bollocks. (The first one was a really tight little movie though. The third one is my favourite - not directed by WS interestingly!).
I was reading this this morning (coincidentally):
https://thescriptlab.com/features/main/7152-7152/ which makes for an interesting read.
There are plans afoot for a reboot that IS true to the games:
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/resident-evil-reboot-cannes-film-festival-1202439086/ so maybe that will deliver?
Maybe I should just start a thread called "Russ defends Anderson, Wiseman and Boll" and everyone can throw stuff at me there instead.