Resident Evil | Anatomy of a Franchise



Today we are looking at the wild series of action horror films by Paul W. S. Anderson that were based on the hit 90’s game series, Resident Evil. Thank you so much for watching.

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34 thoughts on “Resident Evil | Anatomy of a Franchise”

  1. Mathew Taylor is the actor that played Nemesis. He is 6’6. Definitely not the same height as Milla lol but I get what you mean. He wasn’t 7’3 like the original RE3 game nemesis. They should’ve hired Shaq to play him!

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  2. I'd have to disagree with Mila "carrying" the series. She was fine in the first movie but anything after that, was just trainwreck after trainwreck. The only carrying she did was having a husband shove her in all of the movies as the lead.

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  3. Factual error: The first game to have the Resident Evil film slick action tone was Resident Evil: Code Veronica. The sequence from the beginning of that game is remade 1:1 for Resident Evil 2. I don't think you researched well enough for this AoaF video. I appreciate the attempt, and it's a difficult undertaking, but as a lifelong fan and expert, you've gotten a lot wrong.

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  4. I don't think that it is fair to say that you cannot have a character like wesker in film. I understand that it is hamish role, but a hamish role requires actors and direction that dares to be stupid. An example of this would be Tim Curry in IT or Raoul Julia in street fighter. Both are bad films but neither for the performances, in fact both are only watched because of these performances.

    I think studios forget to have fun with the art, but such is capitalism. Being hammy is fun but not exactly profitable.

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  5. This was an unexpected surprise! Like you, I'm a fan of the third Resident Evil movie, in particular, and it was great to hear you recommending Russell Mulcahy's Razorback too. Underrated little gem of a movie!

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  6. Hey did you ever actually read Romero's script? It's out there, and he actually does change quite a bit of the lore, so I don't think it's fair to say it "sticks too close" to the original game in a detrimental way. He tries to shake it up while condensing a whole lot. His choice to make Chris Redfield a somewhat outdated cliche of a Native American man was strange and distasteful (its handled very schlockily and not fleshed out)

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  7. I disagree over the movies not reflecting the games. Unlike the dry, boring "official" cgi movies, Anderson absolutely understands the games which are cheesy, silly OTT horror camp with tons of action. These were never serious horror games, they're dumb and awesome for it. I loved all 6 movies since release with only the sixth being lesser due to it's quick editing style and always appreciated they did there own thing but incorporated elements from the games.

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  8. I grew up watching these movies.
    I was about 6 or 7 when i saw the first one . I did not grow up watching it with an objective eye .

    It was entertaining and i still watch the movies in the sense of just entertainment and nostalgia.
    (Sometimes i just want to watch a movie and not have to unpack the psychology and philosophical values behind a film.)

    That goes without saying the last Resident evil movie was a clusterf*ck.
    That was a poor film to end the series with.

    The series could never be on par with the Video games, but they were entertaining, ti me at least.

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  9. DUDE!!! You are looking tooooo far into these movies and trying to find meaning where there was none. Reviews like this I have seen from so many younger people who try to over analyze everything they watch or listen too. One extra example other than this: I watch young music reactors giving their thoughts on music videos from the 80's and 90's as if every one of those videos tell a story and some don't fit what the song is saying. Those music videos during those times in the past were mostly made as experimental projects because music videos were a new art form. They didn't always follow the lyrics to the songs they were attached too. Same goes for movies and many of you just see things that aren't there EG:? The Alice in Wonderland take. It's something you made up because it COULD make sense. But nobody and nothing written has have suggested that , not the director or cast or crew or CAPCOM. Sometimes entertainment doesn't have to have a message.

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  10. I think it's worth noting that Sienna Guillory, the actress playing Jill Valentine in these films, studied the way the games animated Valentine for months and did everything she could to emulate that in Apocalypse – apparently she took the film extremely seriously.

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  11. A bit of clarification, though I 100% understand where you were coming from and don't blame you for the point you made.

    Without any specific information about whether the nuclear device used in Raccoon City was a Fusion or Fission bomb, I can't know for certain about the details of the residual fallout upon their return, and subsequent foray into the crater and pool of water inside of it, I can say that even in the event of a Fusion bomb – excluding maybe if it was an intentionally "salted" device – Even just 10 years after the detonation the actual site probably wouldn't be 'that' bad as some may assume, probably not the safest place to be on the planet, but nothing immediately life threatening. Hiroshima and Nagasaki for example are both safe and bustling metropolis' today and those detonations were both fusion bombs.

    If, however, the device was a fission bomb, which is much more likely as fusion bombs were phased out pretty rapidly upon the development of the fission bomb, that type of detonation while much hotter and much more destructive, actually results in an exceptionally 'cleaner' explosion, nearly all of the fissile material is completely incinerated in the explosion, so what you're left with is an incredibly hot and destructive explosion, with very little residual fallout if any.

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  12. Glad you gave Extinction a little bit of praise, makes me feel vindicated. Back when I was a teenager and crazy about zombie media, it was my favorite of the RE movies that were out at the time. While I did feel like it got progressively more disappointing and lame even back then, the first 20+ minutes or so always felt genuinely enthralling to me and promised a way more atmospheric action zombie horror than what it eventually turns into

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  13. Hot take maybe but I think the 2nd film is the ONLY one that's worth a shit in any way at all. There's a few cool moments in the first one but 95% of it is time wasting. That's basically a cold open and a booby trap.

    2 actually felt like it was an adaption of the games. Everything else is bargain bin action movies for people with brains fried by opioids to veg out to. They know their audience and their audience is dumb.

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