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[Markitron]

The RE fanbase has been reading deeply into a whole lot of nothing for nearly 2 decades now. I remember pouring over Wesker's Reports a decade ago and realizing that it was a whole bunch of nonsense... (and that was before RE4 - the biggest evidence yet that the series doesn't care about its mythos) yet many of my fellow fans insist that it adds up to something.

I would have to agree. I am a big fan of both series and, whilst they are both completely mental, at least MGS feels like one larger story with gaps that are slowly being filled in. I love that there are essentially 2 timelines, both pre and post MG1/2, that are slowly being connected.

Resident Evil on the other hand feels completely directionless, since RE3 each game has a completely separate random plot. The only effort they make to connect them are the inevitable Umbrella links to the main bad guy, or how this new virus is the REAL source of the T-Virus etc.

 

[Akahige]

The first is prettg solid, quite a few things wrong with it but solid, the 2nd is kinda bad in fun watchable way, everything after is just bad and not in the fun way.

 

[strafer]

Their attempt to recreate Resident Evil 5's great cutscenes was comical.

Yes. The games version of this fight is sooooooooooooooooo much better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74_gTzYCxeg

 

[AuthenticM]

Yes. The games version of this fight is sooooooooooooooooo much better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74_gTzYCxeg

I was so disappointed in this scene. How could they fuck up so badly ? Christ.

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

You never saw Mortal Kombat Annihiation, did you lol

alternative skin / costume: Transformers 2

only the first movie is any good, the rest is.. well, they exist. Though the raccoon city parts in the second movie (I think?) were ok.

 

[Korigama]

First RE movie wasn't good, but watchable. Everything after that was complete garbage.

 

[Daniel B·]

Like The Matrix, RE1 is elevated to a whole new level with 5.1 surround sound. The sequels are another story...

 

[Extra Sauce]

Unlike most people, I didn't care much for the original but the second one's deliciously over-the-top silliness made it my favorite by far... Extinction was disappointing and Afterlife barely watchable, I haven't seen anything after that.

 

[Cormano]

This is the only thing thats salvageable out of the RE movies:

http://youtu.be/6gQNgh6iSBM

 

[Death Metalist]

I enjoy them, each one had a unique setting as well as the films getting crazier and crazier as they go on. Good ol'stupid popcorn fun. I will have to say though, the last movie, Retribution had a really, really good opening that I still remember it to this day of all films lol, if only the rest of the movie was as good or memorable as the opening scene.

 

[Paper Sparrow]

Both are getting worse, but the games are still more entertaining.

Also, CGI movies > live action movies.

Degeneration was so bad, Leon didn't even bother showing up. Damnation was okay.

As for live action, I only watched the first one and decided they weren't for me.

 

[Broder Salsa]

First was ok and they just get worse and worse, but I can't help but enjoy them anyway, it kind of fits them being really silly.

 

[Treythalomew]

I watched them all this summer for the first time and loved them all. Never played a title and always avoided them because people said they're bad. I caught the second half on Showtime and thought it was so over the top that I had to watch them all.

They're all super corny but worth the time. It made me interested in playing the games and excited for whenever they make the final chapter. It reminded me to not listen to the Internet critics who can't enjoy a movie just for fun and laughs.

 

[TheVampire]

I always liked the second movie the best.
It’s also the closest to the games with things like nemesis, stars, the swat teams and police fighting the zombies, set in raccoon city, nuking the city at the end etc….

 

[Correctomundo]

Where's my sixth RE movie, dammit?

On hold while Jovovich brews another Anderson hellspawn in her belly.

 

[lazybones18]

On hold while Jovovich brews another Anderson hellspawn in her belly.

well as long as it's for a good cause, I'll allow it

 

[Anustart]

The last one is the only good one. All the others range from mediocre to bad.

Afterlife is one of the worst films I have ever seen.

I liked all of them for what they were, but that latest one I walked out of the theater. You're crazy.

 

[Ceebs]

The live action ones are stupid and campy fun movies.

Which is more than I can say for Resident Evil 6. That was a giant turd no matter what the defenders of that game claim.

 

[News Bot]

But the RE mythos is basically a million monkeys with a million typewriters just making shit up.

Not at all. Factually incorrect, actually.

Resident Evil on the other hand feels completely directionless, since RE3 each game has a completely separate random plot. The only effort they make to connect them are the inevitable Umbrella links to the main bad guy, or how this new virus is the REAL source of the T-Virus etc.

Yeah, this isn't true in the slightest. The point about Umbrella is pretty much nonsense and there was only ever one source of the t-Virus, so not sure what point you're trying to make there.

It has retcons and plot additions but they are always at least attempted to fit into an overall storyline. Old plot points are brought back and resolved. There is an interconnecting story there, even if it was built up over time.

Nothing about the plotting of the games leads me to believe that. There is no meaningful explanation of older plot threads in later games. The "continuity" is essentially bringing back old characters, giving them new roles ("Now Leon's a secret agent!"), and new excuses for them to fight monsters.

The RE fanbase has been reading deeply into a whole lot of nothing for nearly 2 decades now. I remember pouring over Wesker's Reports a decade ago and realizing that it was a whole bunch of nonsense... (and that was before RE4 - the biggest evidence yet that the series doesn't care about its mythos) yet many of my fellow fans insist that it adds up to something.

Again, complete nonsense. There are many old plot threads that have been explained over time, and quite a lot of them explained pretty much as soon as they were introduced. The only possible way you couldn't know this is if you didn't pay any attention at all. In reality, BIO has one of the most consistent stories in the industry with an expansive mythology spread across a variety of material that all adds up to a rather comfy whole.

I'd really like to see a list of all these supposed problems with BIO's storyline because I've yet to see many genuine ones.

 

[TAJ]

The last one was as pure a video game movie as you could make without resorting to machinima. It was like watching someone else play a mostly photoreal video game... clearly delineated stages, waves of identical cannon fodder punctuated by bosses, the whole deal.