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The Resident Evil Netflix show was announced a while back and I think all of us were hopeful. I mean the once survival horror game series seemed to finally be getting the mainstream attention it deserves……. Then aspects of the story started to trickle out and we started hearing rumors of things like “Wesker kids” and “Clones”. Well folks it’s about as bad as we thought. Won’t you join my in a 30 min confirmation of all our fears?
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They didn't even understand the target demographic for this series, but why they still bother with sticking familiar character name into a totally brand new character that have little semblance to the video game version. Also making some reference that clearly meant for the RE game fans, but at the same time throw all the things that make RE games great. With the vast lore of RE world, the potential is really great for a standalone TV show. Maybe they can make a story about the downfall of Racoon City from someone unrelated/loosely related to the main character in games. Or maybe they can go with RE 7 route with introducing a brand new character that didn't even have any relation to OG RE character, in a completely new setting maybe in a smaller scale much like the Baker's estate (or the Village in RE 8) and facing different kind of threat that involves new kind of BOW. I think if they go this route, they can cast whoever they wanted and write whatever story without fans getting mad at them. Just make a subtle hint that ties the event to the video game, e.g. make the reason the incident happens because some leftover from Umbrella's experiment gone wrong and slowly affecting the area, or maybe make a "bombshell" with the reveal of "this was Wesker all along" without even reviving him or making him appear in the series as main characters. But well, we know that this requires someone who really know RE games in and out and what makes that series still running until today despite some misstep in the past.
I made it 4 episodes and quit the show its so freaking boring and stupid why is it so hard to make a slow tense series and not just copy world war z with tean drama mixed in.
I really hope that this thing fails to be successful for Netflix and that there wont be a second season.
Honestly even the original 2 films are better.
27:10 – Is that how smell works??!
Well, when Netflix is most known for race swapping and tripping over them selves to scream I am so woke, what do you expect? Keep in mind this was never for us (40-50 something guys who played the original games) it for todays man bun wearing ticktockers. so the only white guy has to be fat old and die. while the "Mary Sues" of color save the world. filled with content for the 20 somethings (Who by the way are most likely using their parents account) This is the major reason Netflix has hemorrhaging money badly since 2021. Look at their stock numbers Go woke, get broke is happening. Bye Netflix…
The dumbest aspect about the adaptation, and the thing that undermines the whole project, is the editing. Switching from the past to the future forces the audience to follow two separate plots that don't connect organically so it turns into a chore trying to remember all the plot threads. Not that it matters because the editing also dissolves all tension about the plots and reveals answers to many mysteries, some of which weren't even set up yet.
For example, Future Billie tells Jade that she mocked their Dad as he died in her custody. Several episodes later, in the past, the audience is lead to believe that their Dad died in the explosion he triggered yet we already know he dies year later. The same happens with Billie, when the show toys with the idea that she may die but it's already revealed that she's alive in the future by episode 2.
The show is an utter mess. It's as if the writers forgot what info they delivered to the audience. Based off the ending, the show will continue to tell the story in this infuriating manner so season 2 will be as bad if not worse, that is if they get a second season.
Stopped watching at the not so much in the video game department lmao saves time
I defo won’t be watching it I knew from when it was first talked about it was gonna be shit re films and series and most games am shit they nt re
im not one to complain about “woke” shows put out by these platforms, its just terribly written for even something thats loosely based or inspired. i couldnt finish the first episode. i thought the caterpillar looked good, im sure the rest of the monsters will have good presentation but im not going to give anymore of my time to this series.
The Umbrella soldiers look so terrible. Why couldn't they just use the uniforms they use in every other game and movie?
You know how lickers react to sound?
Why would a licker attack a quiet hostage during a shootout istead of, idk, the people with the loud machine guns?!!
Review title is a lie. It's actually much much worse.
Jade: Super smart scientist
Also Jade: Doesn't put a muzzle or gag on a zombie
The people that defend this show on Twitter leading up to it's release really irritate me. They take these streamers who do nothing but shill and use them to generate hype for a show everyone and their mother knew would be dog shit. The "give it a chance guys" can kiss my ass, every resident evil show will be shit until proven otherwise. Why the hell do they make this stuff anyways? Who really needs a show about a game you like? You can see all the people slurping up the last of us show now and I know that's gonna be a dumbsters fire too
So, it's basically capitalizing on The Walking Dead shaped hole coming up?
Stream idea: You could read the comments of the blind fanboys who defend this clown series to their bones. The stuff I read just on Facebook is hilarious. How we are ungrateful fans that destroy future opportunities of having more RE movies and series 🤡
Watched the whole Resident Evil series, it was disappointing, Stanger Things was miles better though
ugh, why does covid exist in RE universe?
A good storyline that is more related to the games would be a prequel drama about the Spanish Village not a full on horror just a drama about the place and the characters who inhabited it and the things they got up to, saddlers arrival, salazar as the ruler and law maker of the village, the introduction of los illuminados leading up to the downfall of the villagers and ending just before Leon's arrival, to get a full series out of it, it may need to get a bit soap opera-ish at times with its side stories but as long as the main storyline was feasible I think it could be good, you could do something similar with the RPD as well a bit of a cop drama featuring Marvin, Ben and the Cheif and maybe ending with Leon's job interview or ending with the first night of the outbreak
You know they have no idea how to make a good Resident Evil live action show/movie when the MOST ACCURATE thing we've gotten is Welcome to Racoon City!
This was ATROCIOUS and the only good Resident Evil shows or movies are the animated ones.
Just show off the “Zootopia Porn” line and that will already convince someone to not watch the show
I used to say, "It's like Live Action Cowboy Bebop…but worse…" but now I'm just gonna say it's more like The Last of Us, but worse lol.
I dunno, I remember someone mentioning a good point where the RE games never going into full apocalyptic with the virus, in most games, the incidences were always covered up until it couldn't leading to the fall of Umbrella and other organizations using a new evolution of the virus which turned into a parasite then a mold/megamycete currently.
In our modern age of diversity and inclusion, I'd rather have a story written about what I mentioned above with original characters because Welcome to Raccoon City just ruined most of the OG characters along with Wesker in the Netflix series. I love Lance Riddick from most of the roles he's been in recently so the original character thing would have been better though they had to connect this series with the past events of the games…which makes no sense to go back to a 30 year old virus when it mutated so much already…
Amazing really. Just make the RE1 story, honestly you get the casting right and the story tells itself.
Wtf did they smoke when they pitched and approved this
I do not understand the hate for this show. As an avid Resident Evil fan I cannot think of much that was particularly offensive apart from some of the monsters being either the greatest predators or the lamest excuses for organic life.
All these live actions lack atmosphere and bad costumes. The 2 most important things that matter most
Only Capcom can do Resident Evil.
Shit show
So anyone can buy a license to RE from Crapcom these days? Can't wait for Costco adaptation!
why cant they just stick to the CGI movies and series
I don't care what gender or color they make a popular character…
But Wesker? Wesker is a jerk. Wesker is happily a jerk. He prides himself on his jerkdom. Of course he calls it something else, but that's not the point. Wesker is a lot of things, but 'family man' is absolutely NOT one of them. Ugh.
as a FL man, im glad we noticed this issue of gator and croc
ngl I actually enjoyed it. I'm a die hard re fan and had a blast with this show. Sure it doesn't make sense and it's stupid but isn't re sometimes that?
I actually didn't mind Welcome to Racoon City (I saw it in the cinema) and would go as far as saying didn't mind it to the point I considered it fairly reasonable for a Resident Evil movie.
They did make Leon out to be a bit of a bumbling idiot and also try to cram in a bit much story and really should have let things breathe… However, if talking about aspects I did not like then I definitely did not like or understand why they made Jill a black chick – its messing with an iconic main character for no real honest reason (for any idiot thinking I am racist, I would feel the same way swapping out an iconic black chick role replacing her with a white chick). I am sure Hannah John-Kamen is a very talented and capable actress, she's definitely pretty etc but I feel she was badly miscast as Jill – It's like the race switch with Wesker in this new series, just why? I understand the theory, best actor for the job (like what happened in night of the living dead)… But movies have a "get out of jail free card" for that as you should primarily be true to the characters and story first and foremost.
Given the excessive fan service that gets dropped throughout the entire movie, why wouldn't they just get Julia Voth, pretty sure she's an actress (or would be capable of acting) and aged appropriate for Jill – she's 5 years older than Hannah.
They just keep dropping the ball with this franchise, its truly sad to see (there is a fan made movie online, just a teaser but it is very good).
I don't know who this Lance Reddick guy is, that's clearly Commander Zavala.