Imagine telling someone a few years ago that Halo, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider, World of Warcraft, Uncharted, League of Legends would all get movie/show adaptations and that League of Legends would be the only really good one.
I think something can be said there. When there is less of an ironclad story or narrative that the creators keep trying to lift from and honour, and when they are forced to be creative and come up with their own storylines and character arcs and developments, they can make something totally original and satisfying but still evocative of what we love. Something to be said there.
Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Tomb Raider already have adaptations from way more than just a few years ago and they aren't that bad, people just love to overreact about everything now
I shit you not lads, the line: "I mostly just read Zootopia porn", is dropped in this show, and that's all you need to hear about this show's quality writing.
I thought the show was okay until the episode where Jade smuggles a zombie onto the ship and barely secures it. And also when Evelyn danced and sang to a Dua Lipa pop song. At that point I literally threw my hands up and said "im done with this shit"
Resident Evil shouldn’t be this hard to adapt. Just do the mansion incident with Umbrella doing creepy stuff in a lab somewhere else in the background and acting as the exposition dump for the audience. You could even cheap out and not have zombies/ monsters for the first 2/3 of a movie and just have it be Chris’ S.T.A.R.S unit, investigating the mansion, maybe they don’t all get along and the first half of their story is just this group of people having to work together and through their arguments and bickering we learn about each character. Maybe because nothing major has happened yet they agree to split up so they aren’t at each other’s throats all the time and then at one point someone opens a door and we get that classic slow turn where we see a zombie looking back at the camera and from there all hell literally breaks loose and the team HAS to work together to survive.
Basically similar to Alien or Aliens... or even the first predator film... we get to know the characters, we get to see the dynamics in the group, and we get to care about them, and become invested, and then shit hits the fan... This show, it basically starts of with introducing two characters that are awful people, that have barely any redeeming or likeable attributes, and as i just started watching episode 4... that doesn't change, these characters are just unlikable, and they're supposed to be the people we're rooting for, the people we're supposed to care about... It fails before it even starts.
The actual first movie is not bad, second movie and beyond deviates far away.. So imo they should stick eith what they did with first movie, then make the original mc doing separate movir wo ruin the canons :(
This show wasn’t too bad stop listening to Jeremy all the time and being so influenced by his mid jokes. I haven’t even watch this review yet an I’m sure He gona tryn an get his trash stand up bit. Just review the movie bro.. I used to like this channel Screen Crush is waaay better
In theory Resident Evil should be super easy to make into a show. Pick a classic haunted house scenario, a SWAT team, add some zombies, some hunters, and a zombie dog that jumpscares through a window. That's half a movie already. It's not rocket science.
Facts! They could just make REC with some mutant animals/monsters basically. There are so many movies that are almost RE already, it should not be this hard.
It's also intriguing how the live action adaptations insist on adding the "apocalypse" element to these stories. The Resident Evil games never had an true apocalypse setting. The 1st 3 games followed the initial event and every game since has followed a main character in an isolated, but still loosely connected bio-terrorism incident. Zombies don't need an apocalypse to be cool.
absolutely. the incidents in most of the resident evil games escalated over time but were still isolated to a specific location. the studios compulsive need to make resident evil like almost every other zombie movie (read: worldwide apocalypse, or at the very least an entire quarantined nation) is ultimately taking away one of the best and most unique aspects of any good resident evil story: the closed circle. a handful of survivors in a place they cant leave dealing with a threat they dont understand. honestly i dont NEED a resident evil movie because the games are great, but i dont think itd be impossible to adapt. it just needs someone who actually understands and loves the series - not just someone looking to make money off of it.
@@chronicbrightside8757 most propably this series is based on Paul Anderson movies rather than on games cuz Netflix idiots didnt done any research and tought games are based on movies XD
This one’s a lot better than Extinction at least. And honestly with how many outbreaks/incidents there have happened across the main games, spin-offs, animated movies, etc. it’s unrealistic for it to not ever have gone global, it’s only done like that so they can make more games in more locales. The only time they ever tried to explain it was with the nuke in RE3, but just look at how absurd Revelations 1 got.
What annoys me the most, is when Netflix was first talking about an adaptation series for Resident Evil, it was going to be called Arklay. It was going to follow some detectives investigating weird shit happening out in the forests and mountains around Raccoon City, and was going to culminate in the Mansion incident of Resident Evil 1. That could have been a really cool limited time series (maybe a movie), leaning for more into horror and suspense. But... alas. We got this.
@@edgar214ER well, they felt the need to race swap Wesker. Can't have too many main characters that are white nowadays. And Crapflix is famous for pulling that bullshit
@@imyoursuperbeast8220 yes buddy because most roles don’t go to white men still and it’s not like most writers and producers and directors are not white lol stop being insecure
I’ve never hated the main characters in any series more. Jade, Billie, even Bea, were all insufferable. Literally everything bad happening was directly due to something they did.
In the 3 episodes I watched, I legitimately hoped they’d die every single time they were in danger, I know it sounds bad, but yeah, I hated their guts.
I have a bad attitude of finishing everything I start. After finishing resident evil on netflix, I feel like I deserve an award for patience, tolerance and surviving torture
See all the 8 episodes of this sh*t is the real survival horror experience... i have PTSD after watch this piece of DOGSH*T! i did it to make a review in a podcast but men... that thing left me angry for 3 days, like i was PISSED!
The thing that REALLY baffles me is... It's so easy to get Resident Evil right, yet none of these adaptations can make it work. The elements of Resident Evil are found in some of the most promising types of fiction; an interesting take on the zombie apocalypse, a virus outbreak thriller, zombie-killing and guns blazing action, detective/mystery/investigation into corporate corruption, a squad of soldiers trying to complete their mission but are met with twists and turns, etc. These are just basic elements that have all proven to work in other franchises on television and in film, yet when combined and funneled through the Resident Evil story, somehow NO ONE can come up with one simple idea; making a faithful adaptation. They always want to change something, they always want to "breathe new life" into the property, they always take liberties, they always change characters or erase them completely, there's legitimately no reason for any of that but they just. keep. doing it.
1st episode and there is an angry black woman talking about race... Gonna be some woke ass bullshit this. Can't even watch anymore. This shit just making me WANT to be racist.
It’s because the director doesn’t care. If the movie is a financial failure, the director could get their money back at the expense of fans. Basically a pump n dump with intellectual property rights.
Here's the thing tho, if it really was so easy, wouldn't they have done a good movie by now? Just think about it, if it was so easy, why do we keep getting bleh movies? I personally don't understand why people are just constantly deviating from the games. Like, we got the games they can literally just use. But if they do that, then people will just get mad at just copying the games probably, so, I feel like the people making them are kinda in a no win situation. Idk, this is just how I see the situation.
Constantin Films is who to blame. They have the rights to Resident Evil and have produced every SINGLE live action Resident Evil film. And because Capcom won't pull their rights to give their franchise to someone worthy of writing it. We are stuck with lifeless movies were they are only made for profit. Constantin Films never cared whether or not the source material is good. Just as long as it makes money
I can always trust Jeremy's reviews because he always tells you EVERYTHING wrong with some of these shows and how they could've easily changed/let go of certain things to make them better with that classic "Why didn't they?" tired and frustrated expression that we ALL feel while watching these shows! Never change Jeremy! And yeah, this adaptation was SO UNNECESSARY AND BORING!
They forgot the main rule of shows or movies: there must be a character that is either a) lovable b) relatable c) evil but so interesting that you want to know about it. They missed hard; those teenager are just unbearable, I almost wanted them dead and replaced. Things like "the company my dad works for is making animals tests, well let's destroy said company and leave dad unemployed in the process but at least I do what a want", pretty realistic huh?
There's a scene in one episode when they say that the lickers hunt by ear, that everyone needs to be quiet or they will kill you. A patrol gets to the place with sirens and people shooting, nothing happens... well actually the lickers get some of the people that were quiet. That was so unsatisfying
Didnt they kill all of em. Are you really asking why they waited for their food to get out the car...to attack them? Petty sure this isn't their first rodeo.
They were just thirsty to get to the chaos. The movie annoyed me too much. The teenage rebellion is senseless. This serie should have left the resident evil name alone
A continuing problem we're seeing with Hollywood's reticence to make anything new & obsession with adapting and rebooting legacy content is that writers seem to live in this state of humiliated frustration where they have unique ideas they want to develop but are continuously told 'no' by cowardly producers who just want to ape Marvel's success. What seems to be happening is writers are resorting to writing whatever story they wanted to initially and just awkwardly skinning that story with whatever legacy content wrapper they're obligated to. As an example, the Halo TV show writers and show runners literally bragged about never playing the games. Seems the only way to get shows green lit is if they're a part of successful existing IP.
its not Hollywood though its netflix problem with streaming services who put out a whole season at once is they dont have to get you hooked with a great first episode that will make you tune in next week to watch it and continue tuning in week after a week like a HBO series or FX for example
Hollywood is desperate to try to kill off royalties. There are mountains of stuff already written, optioned&waiting for a greenlight. But from established writers who want royalties, they want a lot. They know they are worth it. So hollyweird has been trying and failing fir a decade or so now, to just reboot stuff that's already been lawyered. To avoid paying royalties. Hollywood finance is not a problem for the public to deal with it. So here we are, waiting for writers to take shitty deals&rich Hollywood types too loosen their purse strings.
Noah Caldwell-Gervais has a 7 hour long series analysis, and he makes a point about Resident Evil that I, as a longtime fan, always kinda knew but hadn't fully grasped. There's never a threat of a zombie apocalypse until RE6. Zombies and gross monsters just become weaponized commodities that the world has to bend itself around so it doesn't end. And that in its own way is its own kind of horror. RE6 was the only time the series toyed with an actual zombie apocalypse, and the whole point of the game was making sure it didn't happen. Resident Evil turns the horror of zombies and monsters into banality for the world at large, which is something no one ever seems to consider. They go straight to apocalypse, or poorly adapting 1-3. No one takes advantage of what is the equivalent of the Banality of Evil, but for horror and zombies, and that's an absolute shame/failure of imagination.
@@johnathanross6519 And yeah, that's part of what I'm talking about. "Racoon City is overrun with WHAT?! NORRIS! NORRIS, GET ME THE NUKE CASE! WE GOTTA DROP SOME SUN-HOT ANIHHILATION WITHIN OUR OWN BORDERS, STAT!"
@@1337ijs LOL nice military dialogue there. I only mentioned the raccoon city incident because you referred to someone stating that RE6 was the only true threat of an apocalypse which it wasn't really.
@@johnathanross6519 Honestly, RE6 being the one open global apocalypse is my own reading. And yeah, Raccoon City could've been apocalyptic on a nationalnor global scale, but part of the wider horror of Resident Evil is that there's no way the government nor Umbrella would actually let things get THAT bad. Possibly globe-scarring zombie plague? Almost literally, "Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure." That its so bad that the government feels the only recourse is to nuke one of its own cities is terrible, but also that such destruction and containment becomes the norm.
I have a hard time seeing just why Resident Evil has constantly failed in live action adaptations. People have made some horror action films who take a lot of inspiration from RE, yet when directly pulling from the inspiration creators just don't like to stick to what makes the game's story and atmosphere work. Like, just fucking why?
Because if they actually had something good they would make their own thing, but since they dont they just changed a few things probably and called it "resident evil" that way it has to succeed , who cares if it ruins a longtime beloved franchise right
@@kingkoop28 they're campy fun and take itself way too seriously that it's a wacky horror story with evil corporation and monsters w/ zombies. It's not supposed to be amazing. It's supposed to be fun. But then you have shows like this that think bring serious and edgy is what it's all about
@@EpicBlackflame07 Well just play the games cause it does not translate well to live action. Resident Evil haven't been survival horror since really part one because even in part 2 they started going more action based. And don't get me started with all the bad dialogue in the games. The remakes on the games are the best you gonna get in a resident evil movie. Me personally I would never try to make a movie cause it's no pleasing the fan base. Hell Welcome to Raccoon City is the closest you gonna get to a direct adaptation and y'all dogged that one. Damn if you do damn if you don't
It's not hard to figure out? Who has the rights to Resident Evil live action films? And which company has produced every single live action Resident Evil film? Constantin Films again.. They never cared about quality. Just profit. THATS why the Resident Evil movies stay bad.
After the newest film and show, I’m just done with live action resident evil. The CGI movies are quite cool tbf but the games are where it’s at and my favorite is the RE2 Remake. That game was just a chef’s kiss for me.
You should have been done a long time ago. Every SINGLE live action Resident Evil is produced by the same company and the same people in Constantin Films. Very easy to look up. They don't care about the quality of the films. Just the profits. And it should be common knowledge by now based on Paul WS Anderson that Capcom does not take pride in who it hires to handle it's property.
@@SuperMurray2009 I am completely ok with the last film being ok but it's that stage where it never should have been. Sony didn't care and rebooted far too late and then we have this abortion.
The cgi movies are ok. I really liked degeneration but it's still nowhere near the quality of the games. As for the live action stuff the Anderson ones are ok if you just accept that it's not resident evil and instead Mary sue punches zombies. The newest movie welcome to raccoon city was just absolutely horrible and had nothing good in it
They should have named the series "Umbrella" and made it a slow-burn horror thriller based on the events that led to the main RE plotline. Something similar to Dark. I'd watch that.
The same rules apply to Highlander and why the can't seem to make a good sequel to it. Noah Antwiler summed it up perfectly, though I'm paraphrasing: "Why is it so hard to make a Resident Evil movie? Just play Resident Evil, and then do that!"
It makes you wonder if the people involved with these live action projects even know or care about the series. It feels like they took the same approach that Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankal did with the Super Mario Bros. Movie, where they were so ashamed of the original concept, that they basically created an original work of their own design, and called it Super Mario Bros.
Lol similar to Halo writers and directors being like "we haven't even played the games we want this to be its own thing" and it's like ya it can be its own thing but play the games to get what fans would be expecting lol
They obviously didn't care. As soon as I saw that the show focused on 2 teenage girls, I realized what they were doing. They're just trying to capitalize on the success of Euphoria, Stranger Things, and all those other teenage-focused fictions like Twilight, Divergent, Hunger Games, Thirteen Reasons Why, Pretty Little Liars. Thing is the quickest way to guarantee views was to tie it to some established property so that's what they did with no regard for the fans of the games.
The series references lore that 90% of the fan base wouldn’t even know, it’s pretty thorough with its understanding/reverence for the games, it just takes creative liberties like the franchise has been doing since RE4.
@@THE_BEAR_JEW It focuses more on bringing new concepts for Capcom to later leverage like New Raccoon/Umbrella, Wesker clones, Wesker twins, etc. You can tell it was made in collaboration with Capcom and written by game enthusiasts.
A good friend of mine (who’s a big RE fan) and I did the same thing two nights ago. It was soul crushing. Jade is the single most insufferable lead character.
My favorite games are the Outbreak series. So much diversity in the way you can approach each scenario and the scenarios themselves are interesting like the RCU and Zoo all the way to the Arklay mountains in a rundown hospital. Not to mention it had 4 player coop where everyone can split up to cover more ground or stick together and body zombies. The infection gage was also an interesting mechanic, making sure you didn't get to comfortable taking your time as your death was slowly approaching so you had to get out and fast
Yup, its a criminal shame Capcom wont redo them with modern online coop. And would make a fantastic TV series: 8 survivors trying to escape Raccoon City, differing personalities, using their own skills and knowledge to help the team (and plot) along.
@@WaifuEndMyLaifu I think you mean Yoko. It would be interesting to see an episode where Alyssa (the journalist) is the one who interviews Yoko after they survive the Outbreak and Alyssa exposes Umbrella. After all, it is canon in the games that Alyssa survives the Outbreak. The series could follow a side story where the two have to survive the outbreak, and Alyssa uncovers everything that is happening after the death of her friend, which is why she came to RC in the first place. Along the way she runs into Yoko and uses her story as part of the story on the Umbrella coverup.
My favorite part was when Jade Whesker said to her neighbor who is now a zombie, "What are you, some kind of Resident Evil?". Truly one of the series of all time
If their plan was to make the original movies look better, it's working. The whole time I was watching this... i was thinking how I wish I was watching the original ones instead. This is a HUGE mess. 99 % teen drama, and a bad one too.
I made it through all eight episodes and it never shows the beginning of the apocalypse nor gets better. Those girls were infuriating and I was sick of them by the finale. And when the real Wesker showed up, his wig had me dying.
I left with 3 episodes to go, i just got bored by it. I'm glad i didn't waste my time, the girls are the most annoying part to me. The way they're written.
Yeah, that real Wesker was underwhelming. They could have done something different than making someone who looks like a Blade figurine you'd buy off of Wish 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thank you Jeremy for saying what needs to be said about all this recent "content" that is being pushed out. If you cannot do it well, do not do it at all. It is a waste of time and resources
Agreed. We're living in a streaming war where the players are just pump and dumping as much "content" as possible. It's meal after meal of fast food. Nothing memorable.
I wish someone would call Gareth Evans, the director of The Raid movies to make a decent Resident Evil adaptation. He's a fantastic writer and director and I think in the hands of him, the movie would've been great. The sad part is a Resident Evil movie could actually work, as long as they done it right instead of throwing the potential out of the window
idk if you've seen it, but Raid 2 is just as brilliant as the first, & he directed a TV show called Gangs Of London a few years back that features loads of his signature action. Season 2 is coming out soon too, really recommend!
Okay, unpopular opinion - when it came out (that's important for context people) I really enjoyed Operation Racoon City. I liked the idea of getting the perspective of an elite Umbrella special forces team sent in to eliminate key witnesses to the outbreak, and destroy evidence. The game itself did not age well (graphically or mechanically), but that premise would be an easy adaptation into a series I would think. Have a team of Umbrella operatives that you slowly learn more about as they carry out missions within Racoon City. Maybe you see the outbreak itself through surveillance footage that the team needs to recover. Maybe the team gets out in the end, maybe they don't. So much possibility for that kind of show.
The story about a father in the Resident Evil world? The story of George Trevor, the architect of the Spencer Mansion, could be interesting if they put their hearts into it. A man trying to scape from the building he designed with a psychological an claustrophobic feel in it.
I am so happy to see this show getting shit on!!! It’s been time to stop just accepting what they throw in our faces because they think the fans won’t know better. The truth is we do. It’s why Sonic was such a success cause had it not been for the fans speaking out against the design the movie would not have probably even gotten a sequel that improved on the first. The only people defending this shit is Twitter. Even then I don’t know if they are. It wouldn’t surprise me though. I couldn’t even get through episode one because of how FUCKING HORRIBLE the characters are and how much the show feels like CW would shit out. The only saving Grace if this show is Lance Reddick as Wesker and he’s the freaking villain and I can’t root for him. Not only that he’s Wesker in name only. FUCK THIS SHOW and FUCK Constantin pictures for constantly giving us shitty adaption after shitty adaption of RE!!! THANK YOU Jeremy for this amazing video!!!
"the only people defending this shit is Twitter" yeah no surprise, Twitter is love/hate social media, i can't tell if they wanted to be great or not lol
How to do a RE series: Episode 1: Raccoon City is a happy town who loves their local law enforcement. There is a hostage situation, S.T.A.R.S. Alpha and Bravo teams co-ordinate to stop it. Episode 2: Murders in the Mountains? We see Bravo team get sent out, hop between Alpha Team worrying and Bravo team dying. Episode 3: Alpha Team gets sent to Mansion, Chris and Jill get separated. Episode 4: Each member finds their respective back up for rest of season (Rebecca and Wesker, Barry and Richard), explore mansion, Barry and Wesker are sketch and seem to be keeping the team away from one another. Episode 5: Answers Revealed, Betrayals, Deaths, Tyrant revealed. Episode 6: Tyrant fight, escape, stinger where no one believes them. Team splits up. Mid-credits: a woman is seen motorcycling towards Raccoon City. Overlaid is the sound of HUNK's team confronting Birkin. Boom.
Original Resident evil 3 is so good. Giving options as to what to do and branching out small but different enough scenarios that make it feel that your choices have consequences. Pretty good game.
@@f.k.6241 That's true. My first RE was RE2, on the n64. Played it with my Dad. But my favorite RE has always been RE4, mainly because of Leon. And I get that 4 has an insane plot, saving the president's daughter, and she screams alot, and can be annoying, but, despite all that; I love the game, and have played it ever since it first came out on the GCN. Both 2 and 4 are my favorites, but if I could only choose 1, it's still 4. And maybe I'm the only dude here who's favorite RE game is RE4, but, I don't care. Leon's such a cool guy, seeing Ada not being dead, and seeing Wesker too, while the story's crazy, and full of crazy things like a tiny pirate named Salazar, a giant mecha Salazar, which is confusing, but still enjoyably stupid, I also love the unlockable costumes, like the R.P.D. outfit, the 1920's gangster outfit; and even an extra costume that makes Ashley Graham LESS annoying, a suit of armor that literally makes her invincible, unable to be kidnapped by the cult members, or killed; all the collectible things, like the bottle caps, the upgradable guns; the crazy merchant, but; I see why everyone else would pick the OG RE3, and that's cool too. I never had a chance to play it, because I was a kid when RE3 came out, so I had to start with 2 on the n64; and that was enough to get me into the series, playing it with my Dad, playing as Leon, and getting terrified by the zombies, and especially The Licker in the Police Station, and "G", but despite all that, both 2 and 4 will always be my personal favorites. Hell, I mean; I recently got RE4 on the Switch a few months ago, and already beat it again, and I'm thinking about doing a Professional Mode run on it. It's such a great game; but I see why other people prefer 1, 2, or 3, and that's totally understandable. Sorry for the long rambling. It's just, when you love something, saying a few short words isn't always enough; you know? And that's how I feel about the entire series of RE/Biohazard games, that I've played. And I for one, can't wait for the RE4 Remake next year, just saying.
@@shawnfields2369 personally re4 is a great game and has been getting unnecessary Hate recently, personally I think the best re game and my personal favorite is re1 remastered, and I like that, re2 (both og and remake), re3, re4, cv, re5, and both the revelations games, 6 i though was nice and overall the franchise is pretty good Grew up playing re with my uncle and I remember so much good Times we had think I was a couple years old or sm can't remember, but I used to always eat my berries and have that tree looking thing and acting like it was monster and my uncle and I would play resident evil all day every day. Really special franchise.
@@juniorsigala5028 Yeah, I agree, 4 is a great game, but it's too bad it's getting unnecessary hate. But, nice story, about you and your uncle playing RE. me and my Dad loved to play RE2 on the n64, and it was really, really terrifying to play, as a 5 year old kid back in 1998, but unfortunately, my Dad doesn't play games anymore, and my uncle can't even walk anymore either. But I agree, RE is a very special franchise, despite all the bad Netflix shows, and horrendous movies that keep getting the message of Resident Evil wrong, EVERY. Single. Time, and keep trying to add unnecessary things to the lore of the series; like annoying teenagers, or sympathetic zombies, or deus ex machina wives(like the RE movies with Eliis, or Alicia, or Ali, or Alice, or whatever her name was, ruining everything for everyone), but no matter; RE2 and 4, have made Leon the coolest character to me, despite all the movies either trying to make him an idiot who doesn't try to help people, or an incompetent doof, who couldn't find his way out of a bag, let alone a zombie infested police station. But he's always been my favorite character, and the bad Netflix shows or laughably awful movies can't change that.
This is my favorite Jeremy review in a long time. And that's not to say I haven't watched and enjoyed many Jeremy reviews. I just love how he's washing his hands of this series and bailing early. Awesome! 😆
I have no problem with adaptions having a new characters, locations, etc. If they would just stick to the existing canon, you don't have to give us an adaptation that is just shot for shot one of the games. Have this stuff set before or during the Raccoon City events, could be elsewhere, but it's going on, them trying to escape city, whatever. It blows my mind that in all the RE adapations, none of them have even come close to the adaptation "Success" of the first Silent Hill movie. The first SH wasn't perfect, PH shouldn't have been there. But the setting was good, the world apperance, game characters for the most part were respected. It was clear the Director, who claims to be a mega fan of SH, really is. Where as Paul Anderson some how convinced Hollywood to keep letting him cast his wife in a starring role that had little to do with the series, and the movies were 95% vague similarities or direct references that didn't make sense just "Hey look, it's Nemesis, isn't he cool? What's that, you wanted him to be a lost love interest for Alice? Oh.....you didn't. Well, too bad. Watch my wife kick butt through a million cuts." My favorite entry is RE2 btw
Paul Wes Anderson lowkey invented the Disney formula. Cast popular actors in extremely generic/derivative films with direct references that make no since or don’t live up to the original material.
@@improbablyyourdad8458 Literally none of the actors in the new RE series are what you consider to be "popular" what are you on about lol.. Ironically, none of the actors in the PWA RE movies were popular either besides Mia.
I remember an RLM episode where they Mike an Rich talked about how they altered a character in order to avoid paying royalties to the previous writier. Now I'm convinced that part of the reason there are so many unnecesary changes to shows like Halo and this Resident Evil series is in order to avoid paying royalties to the previous writers of the games, books, and animated series we've had itn the past.
That is the only (somewhat) acceptable answer to my anger towards these adaptations. But once again, Greed costs people everything. Just pay the freaking royalties!
The real bs is they don’t want to pay royalties but still want to ride on the brand and as far as this show goes they make the game canon to the show when it pleases them
Dividing the time between pre and post event was something done successfully in The Walking Dead and LOST. The backstory was used to explain relationships, motivations, choices and reactions by the characters in the post zombie outbreak world.
Watching this show is like someone told you they were going to sell you a Ferrari, and when you get there to pick up the car, it's a Honda Civic with a Ferrari hood ornament.
The entire idea behind Resident Evil should be the easiest IP to adapt to the screen... yet every attempt was a done by bumbling idiots that tried their hardest getting out of their way to make it not like Resident Evil. Jesus, give me $5,000 and I'll do it for you.
I've always wanted to see the story of what exactly went down at the Spencer Mansion before the STARS members showed up. From its initial construction to the place being overrun with zombies, the first game left the timeline of events very vague. I'd love to see how Umbrella really got started and how they became the evil organization we know.
i think they are still figuring the start of Umbrella out. Iirc the last game hinted on one of the founders but the motivation doesn't align with the "modern" Umbrella. Aside of that, wasn't Umbrella evil from the start? Just that they were in shadows for a long time (until their products became popular with the governments around the world). P.S. I would also like to see a full origin story about Umbrella, but i don't think it's easy to create a show for your random Joe (who doesn't know anything about RE). Learning more about Umbrella is kind of a reward for itself, so starting with a reward (especially for people that do not understand that) seems almost impossible to me.
@@NoirTenshin What about a story focusing solely on the Spencer X Umbrella situation, wherein the Mansion is designed, built, and utilized for various things before everything falls apart? I think that is the idea the op was going for. We as RE fans would know the outcome, but to new viewers it would be an enthralling introduction and one which could lead into a STARS focused second part. There would likely be some interpersonal drama, but the Mansion could be fleshed out and then altered by all the havoc before Chris, Jill, Wesker, Barry, and a few others (to kill off, of course) get there. Honestly I can't understand why this hasn't been done already.
@@Erasureeraser For reasons that don't define the qualities of the show. It's the only way they can find something to defend. They don't have a lasting impact though, they're loud for a day and forget it, so they're not even fans
@@sultan788 It’s true, they’re the fake fans because they like the show. Only people that hate the show are the real fans. There’s an easy way to tell if someone’s a resident evil fan. Do they hate everything resident evil except for two or three of the games? Then they’re a resident evil fan.
I figured as much. I didn't even bother giving this a look because I know it's gonna be bad. Not even as a Resident Evil thing, but it just looks like a bad show in general. And this isn't even me acting cynical. I'm more than willing to give most of the divisive Resident Evil projects (the CG animated films, RE:6, the remake to RE:3) a shot, but this show is peak "Netflix adaptation" meme. And that seriously means a lot considering their live-action mockery of Cowboy Bebop from last year...
The most unbelievable part of this show is that New Racoon City still has a blatant and publicly known Umbrella presence. Like even the games know that it would be literally impossible for Umbrella regain their clout from the first 3 games. I know umbrella is still active in the game universe but it’s in the shadows.
Yeah but in real life we don't give anyone the justice they deserve so I'll be honest I can see that haha. Just look we still trust the CDC after they've been ragged through court more than once. People don't pay attention. So honestly- I do believe it. Or BP oil.
@@joshhunt4146 It's so weird how most of them just hate the show because they decided to make it about a predominately black family... it's funny how they disguise their racism as "oh we wanted the original characters" but then they turn around and praise the Paul Wes Anderson movies that barely included any of the original characters and butchered whatever character they did include. They also shat on the Welcome to Raccoon City movie that gave them what they are asking for??
@@zaldigr863 yeah, there will definitely be a bit of that. It’s like the new Lord of the rings that’s coming out or game of thrones. Both are having black characters in regal roles and people say that’s not realistic for the time it’s set! They are fantasy shows with elves and Dragons but black kings are too far!!! For me Resident Evil is a very intriguing show with a nice premise and quite interesting characters. Like I say, I’m excited to see where it goes :)
I’d love a Resident Evil series that follows Rebecca Chambers through the events of RE 0 and series 1 ends with her locking herself inside a room in the Spencer Mansion. Then Series 2 picks up with the plot of RE1 and you get reintroduced to Rebecca like a quarter of the way through that season. Series 3 and 4 is the events of RE 2 and Nemisis back and fourth. And series 5, the final season is Code Veronica. And that’s it. Give Code Veronica/Season 5 a real ending where Umbrella is shut down and all the villains die.
Umbrella Chronicles on the Wii showed how Chris and Jill destroyed Umbrella. Albert Wesker kills General Sergei Vladimir, ending umbrella. Code Veronica was the last classic RE game but it didn't end anything. Good ideas though. Obviously the next Season would be 4. Introducing Las Plagas.
@@Dawn_Of_Justice I understand that the games go beyond RE CV. But I think if you made a zombie tv series it’d be too much of a massive change to then jump to Las Plagas and then to say… The Village. The series would have to end somewhere and I think having it end with Code Veronica/season 5 would be perfect. Besides, it may work in the game, but I think a live action RE4 would be too cheesy. The villain and the whole ‘rescue the presidents daughter’ thing is too much and the fact LEON goes from being a rookie cop to a special secret service agent who works directly for the president is way too over the top of a jump from a dark horror tv series. So yeah… I’d end it with Code Veronica and have Umbrella’s secrets and the Racoon City incident all come out to the public and then the final couple of episodes would be all original where they use all the survivors from the series and have them go to the last Umbrella lab to kill Wesker.
I just wanna say that the scene with the Wesker clones was the best scene ever lmao. It was so funny and seeing Lance do all that was just mwah chefs kiss 👨🍳👌 Please people make memes out that scene. And for the Destiny players well you have a lot of funny Zavala lines. Edit: Happens in episode 7 btw for the people just wanting to see that scene. It's cheesy and stuff but it's hilarious imo. So many Lance Reddicks lmao.
Just when we thought Sonic, Castlevania, Detective Pikachu and Arcane FINALLY broke the video game adaptation curse...Seriously. It should NOT be this hard to ADAPT a video game into film or tv. You don't do a 1:1 recreation you take what works, and make something new. Castlevania shows us this. Sonic shows us this. Arcane shows us this. Detective Pikachu shows us this. Film and TV are VERY different from video games and comics. Film can do things those mediums can't, animation can do things live action can't, video games can do things film/tv can't. STOP. TRYING. TO MAKE A THING. NOT. WHAT. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. Film = film, video games = video games, so on and so forth. It's really not rocket science.
@@triple-d2640 this is absolutely bizarre that Sonic is now better in film than his own original medium but hey I have hope for Frontiers to break HIS curse lol Let's be real the last SOLID entry in Sonic was Sonic Unleashed that opening cinematic looks INCREDIBLE for the time it came out in. I'm happy to see that squash and stretch animation return for Sonic Prime.
They will never stop. The only way they will stop is if the overwhelming majority of fans boycott Constantin Films and Capcom for consistently making crappy films.
At a single player stand point I’d say resident evil 2 & remake, but at a co op point of view I think re5 was also a gem. Just me and my friend kicking ass and fighting a bunch of bosses. I watched this series all the way through and I’m like 50/50 on it.
Wesker 's whole design and backstory was deliberately meant to be blonde and blue eyed cause his whole creation came from literal eugenics and the horrifying lengths Spencer went through to produce a super race. Spencer time period, is really really old and thus a blonde and blue eyed during Spencer time was the ultimate super race.
@@PocketZombi I'm not even going to argue the creative liberties, intention of characters blah blah blah I'll preface this with the fact that I'm black since it seems my opinion won't be noted unless I specifically state this fact. Why can't I just see cool, trench coat hair slicked back evil man be an asshole on screen- my main criticism of this Wesker's design is that it seems like they almost intend not to do anything with him by design, I grew up on Marvel VS Capcom 3 Wesker. Shits just whack.
@@Hevenlee First off my guy, I'm black too..your opinion still doesn't matter. Secondly, if MvC3 is where you started with Wesker then we're never going to see eye to eye. I started with Wesker in 1996, different continuity in the show so your idea of what he should look like as well as mine are pointless.
@@PocketZombi Second of all, no- hombre, my opinion DOES matter, that's what you're not getting- EVERYONE's opinion DOES matter if they are a fan of the media that is being adapted. Why shouldn't my opinion matter??? Pointless how? Are you a fan of the character during the 90's? if so- then why is your idea of what he should look like pointless? Do you think the redesign is good, mid or bad? For me it's bad- because it's the exact opposite of the portrayal that I personally LIKE that also happens to be modeled after the source material. and to be clear, I did technically start with MVC3 with Wesker but I later explored the original and follow ups to the original in later games- relative design is still consistent from the 90's.
@@Hevenlee This comment makes it obvious you didn't watch the whole series. Some of your criticism about Wesker's character design is directly addressed in the later episodes. Honestly it's not a good series either as an adaptation or as an original work so I can't really recommend that you finish it. But without spoiling too much, they do fix the problem you're complaining about in a way that is directly reference to the video game, but it comes off as pretty goofy and is bad in a whole different way.
Just from the trailer alone my favorite part is how much time they seem to have during a zombie apocalypse to dedicate to making sure they have a fancy hair style every day
Funny, I also have only seen 2 episodes. This video basically expresses everything I feel about this series. The characters are generic, some of their actions are confusing and the dialouge is weird at times. At times, especially in the future scenario, it feels more like a scifi take on The Last of Us than Resident Evil to me. Umbrella kinda feels like Umbrella, but the only other thing relating to Resident Evil is that there is a character named Albert Wesker. The reason I worded that sentence the way I did is because this Albert Wesker is nothing similar to the one from the game character wise. It's honestly easier to look a him from the lens that he is a totally different character. So far it's kinda disappointing but I (probably unfortunately) will finish the rest of the episodes.
Resident evil 2 remake still stands tall as my favorite but love the path the games are taking and you've saved me the time of watching this RIP that Lance Reddick doesn't even get a shout out
I know no one will ever read this but I'd like to suggest a method of adapting Resident Evil into a television series; Resident Evil is at its best during or in the aftermath of a bioterror attack and the situation is still unpredictable and very dangerous. In light of this, a real-time scenario likened to the show 24 might be ideal for Resident Evil. The first episode is ZERO-hour late evening the attack, where we introduce our smallest group the main story survivors who are our protagonist types, its with this story we find most of our atmosphere and scares for the horror fans. The B-story survivors, a larger group, possibly held up somewhere holding off an escalating series of attacks all night while waiting for rescue ala the start of RE4, the bar in RErev2, the hospital lobby in RE3make, the gun shop in RE6 etc. So much tension, action and drama could be mined from this scenario the action fans would be sated. Finally the cut away C-story of intruging survivors with ambiguous alligences who are trying to recover some unmentioned mcguffin, the HUNK, UBS, operation racoon city types, for the fans who know the franchise lore inside and out. I would suggest these parts be filmed in first person to add to the mystery but I know that could cause issues down the line. When the other stories are busy but time needs to pass, Netflix could include a D-story about Umbrella, Tricell, TerraSave, Wilpharma, the BSAA, FBC, The Connections or the police attempting to investigate and control the situation from outside the quarantine zone. At the conclusion of the eight hours, the survivors make their escape with an iconic RE helicopter scene as the sun rises and the characters escape. The next season, we have a completely different bioterror attack somewhere new with a new cast of characters but retain the real time story telling and sparingly bringing over one or two characters from the previous season as new members of the BSAA or something.
I want a zombie movie that infects every human on the planet and nobody knows when anybody will turn. You could be sitting next to your girlfriend and suddenly, you turn! And eat her! Everyone will know of this possibility. Everyone on the planet becomes paranoid!!!!! Humans aren't fighting zombies,. They are fighting...EACH OTHER!!!!!!!!
@@happypuppy-i4kA manga called Hour of the zombie does something like this. At a certain time of day, people turn into zombies for a certain amount of time and then turn back to humans when its over.
That’s a great idea actually. 24 was amazing with the time line set in real time and that would def work for a resident evil show. Too bad we will never see that lol
My favorite RE game was Resident Evil Outbreak on the PS2. I absolutely loved the slow infection system that it used, and I wish more titles had utilized it.
I like the idea of a secret Resident Evil movie/show. When I saw the trailer for that new movie Beast I thought to myself ''damn, it would be dope if they reveal during the third act that it's an uroboros infected lion and it takes places in Africa during RE5''.
Its always a nice thought. But be real, they will always try to make money first. Especially if they’ve spent a lot of money on a project they wanna get as many viewers as they can from the start. Leave no money on the table
The thing the kills me is that the story of RE isnt that hard to adapt. There are ways to use the spencer mansion. Hell use parts of the game and can lengthen them as we get exposition and possibly build on whats going on. The fact that no one can figure out how to adapt this story proves its in bad hand.
My favorite Reaident Evil was the original. Played it when it first came out. Was it the first survival horror? Don't know. It was MY first survival horror. My friends and I would take turns playing and would scare the sh!t out of each other with low res polygons. Waking up parents at 3am screaming at a barely recognizable giant spider. Good times. You always remember your first.oh and that deep scary name drop at the beginning. Resident Evil, it was so badass back then.
Bro, that room with the portraits and the crows on the top was an absolute nightmare fuel for me. Because when you complete the puzzle the music that plays right after was very unsettling. RE1 is still my favorite because of the overall feel.
This is why I NEVER EVER believe anyone who says "I'm a big fan of the source" OR "we tried to maintain the spirit of the source material!" whenever an adaptation gets made
I'll always remember when one of the actresses for Shaymalan's Last Airbender movie said she was a huge fan of the show, but she portrays the character extremely badly.
As an OG Resident Evil fan, played the 1st Resident Evil game on PlayStation in 1997, fell in love with it instantly, it breaks my heart to see RE get butchered, brought back to life...then tortured slowly to death time and time again in short-sighted attempts to adapt it to movies and TV 👎😭 There's a part of me that has hope that one day, a good adaptation will be made...but that part of me is nearly dead lol. Certainly will not be holding my breath for it, that's for sure
Adapting Resi Evil really isn't that difficult. You could do a pretty faithful adaptation by simply directly filming the game's almost scene for scene with more natural flowing dialogue. This series is yet another example of 'creators' exploiting a brand name and making something that has no real resemblance to that brand (the Rings of Power is another). Remove certain brand identifiers like The Umbrella Corperation, Racoon City, Albert Wesker and this could be any bog standard generic zombie story...... which is why they need the brand name to begin with. I really fail to understand how anyone calls themselves fans of any given lore/universe who then makes so many changes to that universe that it is unrecognisable as the lore it is supposed to represent.
And then they would get criticized for just following the games shot for shot and having no creativity. I mean, Welcome to Raccoon City was the best adaptation we've had yet and people still shit all over it. Given, it was far from perfect, but it was still a competent adaptation and it wasn't all that bad. It's literally a no win situation for anyone trying to adapt it.
@@NeuroticWolf13 I disagree, 300, Sin City and Watchmen where all received favourably for the most part. Three films that literally took the comic page and created the live action version. The reason why Welcome to Racoon City was dumped on was because of the poor 'representation' of key characters like Leon and Jill which was due to the current woke M.O. of Hollywood instead of doing justice to the source material. Plus, it may have been the best adaptation to date, but that's a really low bar to hit considering the god awful film series it followed.
All this needed to be was a medical/research ethics drama set around the characters in a corporate lab, with spontaneous violent accident/test subject escapes etc. And then end of the first season, a whistle-blower gets the word out, T-virus escapes in the lab, carnage ensues... and the call is placed with STARS. Turns out the lab was the one below the Spencer Mansion. Boom. Also -- WHY do all these writers who are CLEARLY bereft of knowledge of the games go straight to an apocalyptic scenario? It never happened. Umbrella never destroyed the world in official canon. Revelations opens up more in terms of factions and socio-political use of BOWs etc, but the world was never cratered or overrun by zombies. Yet to all these writers who are completely brain-dead, what they assume to be genre conventions means "Oh, zombies. It must be like The Walking Dead, yeah?" As a working writer, this series boiled my piss. I stuck it out all the way through, and with the exception of episode 7 giving the always awesome Lance Reddick some fun to have on screen, it was an absolute insult through and through.
I'm really under the impression after this that when it comes to video game adaptations, Hollywood is intentionally making bad adaptations and I feel it is two things that kind of becomes one: 1. It's because they look down on the medium. 2. But this would also imply there is a fear behind why they look down on it (which is where my idea is coming from). I'm not sure, but I am under this impression that there is some underlying fear of allowing video game adaptations to grow and become something worthwhile. For all intents and purposes, it is not hard to make a competent Resident Evil movie especially since there have been many Zombie movies that have come before. Hell, the whole first game pretty much can be movie, and not one with a strong budget behind it.
I know it’s an unpopular opinion but my favorite resident evil is RE5. It was my first and playing coop with my dad in that game gave me some of the best video game memories I have
It was so bad I couldn't get through the first episode. They actually had a decent budget too and instead, they made this trash. Why can't studios just get Resident Evil right.. a Claustorphoic environment, Bioorganic weapons, inside a facility.. actual horror, and jump scares. So much source material to work with and we get this!
I think an amazing idea for an RE series would be initially set the day before the first incident of the outbreak, And we’re introduced to our characters which are cops, firefighters, paramedics/hospital staff, and Journalists And the series would follow them as they cross paths running around the city as each episode gets worse and worse Like first episode would end with them responding to a “cannibal” mugging, and then end with them barricaded somewhere on their last legs and the missile blows up the city
“I survived the entire Netflix Resident Evil series,”; which sounds like it should be a saying on a t-shirt. Btw: it does not get better. I will say the best parts (to be nice); was the dad; though there's one wacky episode where you're like, “huh? What are you doing, dad?.?”: oh, and then there's a big, giant, mutant, zombie alligator, or was it a crocodile in the second and last episode. So..... Anywho, that's my review.
I'm halfway through and so far the only way I can see them salvaging this series is if they pivot to an anthology series like American Horror Story and focus on a new outbreak location each season.
Jeremy I recommend Resident Evil CG films, they're pretty solid and are set in the world of the games proper. One of them initially dropped on Netflix a few years ago
@Gibram Rivera its not a very high bar to clear. Im a huge resi fan since ps1 days and it sucks that all the film media is pretty bad. I dont believe the cgi movies are more faithful to the games either, unless you're just counting the bow appearances but most of the live action films have them too. I think welcome to raccoon city came closest but the direction and production itself was pretty bad, along with some of the choices they made.
@Gibram Rivera i mean specifically things like the mansion, rpd being closer to the games than the settings and stories from the cg movies. Wtrc is bad. Not defending it. I honestly think they are all bad so its really a competition of least smelly pile of shit.
@@ShootNPissUrSelf I'm guessing like me, he just wanted to see. Wanted to see if there was anything anything that we could say redeems it. Nope. There wasn't. 🤦🏿♂️
I agree 10000% . Had this show not been “Resident Evil” I might give it a C+. The actors are good, Ella Balinska is clearly having a great time, the production design is cool, the zombies look good… instead…. Ugh.
It is good people are just holding to high b.c it has the Resident Evil name. They have never went that deep in to Wesker life. They did that part of the show very well. The present part not so much but it wasn’t bad. Jeremy just wants to go against the grain to much
@@hightolerance8728 No, it's genuinely terrible dude. I seperated it from Resident Evil by episode three, and by the time I finished I was just exhausted trying to make sense of how ridiculously dumb the whole thing is.
@@CynicalCharmer I know right bc RE as a whole has always made so much sense 🤦🏾♂️ dude it’s a series adapted from a video game. It’s not trying to be George A Romero movie
@@hightolerance8728 I didn't at any point make the comparison of sense between the two. The difference is, one is an acclaimed franchise with an engrossing story, and the other is a universally panned Netflix show. It's not even the cheesy dialogue and quirks of the show that make it bad. It's the way it treats the audience like idiots. The leads make the most outrageous decisions and get away with an insane amount. It's literally written like "this is where we want the show to go, but we just won't think of how we're getting there, it'll just happen"
Is there a reason we haven't got a Scott Derickson or James Wan, (or any of these surprisingly competent horror directors) directed adaption? Or maybe Peter Jackson - at least we know one director who respects source material
They most likely wanted a director on board as a 'yes man' to Netflix's creative decisions. This show has 'created by a boardroom' written all over it, checkboxes and all.
I know everyone here is in the "just duplicate RE1" camp. I'm a little different - I think you could do something interesting with a slow-burn horror-mystery sort of Resident Evil series. There's something weird going on in these woods, Umbrella's covering something up and only a few cops are really digging for the truth while occasionally encountering horrific and dangerous monsters as they start to realize the true scale of what is afoot. I think that's the genre equivalent of survival horror - slow-building tension mixed with very dangerous action. The REAL problem seems to be that anyone trying to make an RE thing hears that 2.5 of the ~12 games (2, 3 and 6 for the .5) are large zombie outbreaks and so assume that they can just make any zombie apocalypse story with an evil science corp and slap the name on it. Mass zombie outbreak is the LEAST interesting part of Resident Evil, and it's been utterly done to death in film and TV! Until someone involved in one of these products learns about ANY RE game besides 2, this is just going to keep happening.
Yup what you propose is perfect. The whole mystery and uncovering the truth is what i want. This show didn't scream RE at all nor was it entertaining. I may be in the minority on this but i loved RE Zero, and i think that would translate amazingly into live action.
“There’s doing weird going on in these woods, Umbrella’s covering something up and only a few cops are really digging for the truth while occasionally encountering horrific and dangerous monsters as they start to realize the true scale of what is afoot” Ok, you just described the RE1.
@@shalindelta7 After the first Netflix trailer came out, I sat down and thought about what I'd do if I was assigned to make an RE TV show. I went into way too much detail that I won't share here, but the basic idea was that the mountain town of Arklay is having strange murders, people going nuts and animals mutating and being aggressive. FBI agents Chris and Jill arrive in town and team up with Sheriff Barry, Deputy Leon and later paramedic Rebecca to get to the bottom of things and to find Chris's missing sister Claire, who is trapped in the basement of a large house by a mysterious man and who orders her to take care of a girl named Sherry. From there it wasn't that hard to work in a fair number of game concepts (Wesker, Mr. X, a big creepy mansion) into the mix fairly naturally. It isn't that hard - the license-holders just don't want to do it.
So the key to good television (and movies, unless I'm mistaken)... 1) Decent writing (good writing, if you can pull it off!) . 2) Passable or even good actors . 3) Camera work that isn't so bad that it's distracting. 4) If you can't afford good special effect, don't write them in..... That's a pretty high bar you've set =P
Ha! I just had this argument with a friend a few weeks ago. I told her the first Resident Evil movie was decent - not great, not terrible, just decent and watchable - the second was okay and still tolerable, one of the animated films was also decent . . . and everything else, including the new series, have been utter puppy snot. She disagreed. She has all the Milla Jovovich films on blu-ray and loves them, especially the last two. She says she watches them all at least twice a year. I just can't with people sometimes.
I love all those movies only cause of the reason I grew up watching those movies. It's the same reason many people love corny & bad stuff from 70s-80s. I own all of the movies on bluray
Yea the movies kinda suck but i have seen a lot of women like the series because it's an action movie franchise with a female lead .. there weren't too many successful ones till the hunger games .. Residence evil was successful at the box office , the movies have earned $1.280 billion on a roughly 300 million dollar cumulative budget...
I do like the first one quite a lot. I know it's not brilliant, but I still enjoy it a lot. The second one is decent for sure. But yeah, it just gets really rubbish quickly....
Good job on making it through two episodes, Jeremy, i couldn't even get past the ugly looking poster. I keep wondering to myself why i still pay for Netflix and my answer usually was "because i can watch Ozark", but Ozark is over now so.🙄
My notification only had "I made it through 2 episodes of..." and my brain immediately filled the blank with Resident Evil lmao
And you didn't see the thumbnail?
@@larrythegoat5792 It was a pop-up notification on my phone.
I believe you @@35antonio
Lmao my thoughts and exact. How can a game series so beloved be so trash with movies and series? Makes no sense
@@endgameashes357 Reminds me of a certian SCP "It never was there."
Imagine telling someone a few years ago that Halo, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider, World of Warcraft, Uncharted, League of Legends would all get movie/show adaptations and that League of Legends would be the only really good one.
I think something can be said there. When there is less of an ironclad story or narrative that the creators keep trying to lift from and honour, and when they are forced to be creative and come up with their own storylines and character arcs and developments, they can make something totally original and satisfying but still evocative of what we love. Something to be said there.
Silent Hill was pretty good tho.
Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Tomb Raider already have adaptations from way more than just a few years ago and they aren't that bad, people just love to overreact about everything now
You forgot monster hunter
@@zigsteenine8650 WE DONT TALK ABOUT THAT ONE
I shit you not lads, the line: "I mostly just read Zootopia porn", is dropped in this show, and that's all you need to hear about this show's quality writing.
LMFAO
"Y'all want a PS5?" - 🤡
I already had reason not to watch. Now I have reason to outright avoid.
I like Zootopia as much as the next person, but that line is just P A I N
Jeez. I thought I misheard that line. I guess not.
I thought the show was okay until the episode where Jade smuggles a zombie onto the ship and barely secures it. And also when Evelyn danced and sang to a Dua Lipa pop song. At that point I literally threw my hands up and said "im done with this shit"
Resident Evil shouldn’t be this hard to adapt. Just do the mansion incident with Umbrella doing creepy stuff in a lab somewhere else in the background and acting as the exposition dump for the audience. You could even cheap out and not have zombies/ monsters for the first 2/3 of a movie and just have it be Chris’ S.T.A.R.S unit, investigating the mansion, maybe they don’t all get along and the first half of their story is just this group of people having to work together and through their arguments and bickering we learn about each character. Maybe because nothing major has happened yet they agree to split up so they aren’t at each other’s throats all the time and then at one point someone opens a door and we get that classic slow turn where we see a zombie looking back at the camera and from there all hell literally breaks loose and the team HAS to work together to survive.
Basically similar to Alien or Aliens... or even the first predator film... we get to know the characters, we get to see the dynamics in the group, and we get to care about them, and become invested, and then shit hits the fan...
This show, it basically starts of with introducing two characters that are awful people, that have barely any redeeming or likeable attributes, and as i just started watching episode 4... that doesn't change, these characters are just unlikable, and they're supposed to be the people we're rooting for, the people we're supposed to care about...
It fails before it even starts.
@@mattthrower6381 Wasn't the "welcome to raccoon city" movie just that and it also sucked?
The actual first movie is not bad, second movie and beyond deviates far away..
So imo they should stick eith what they did with first movie, then make the original mc doing separate movir wo ruin the canons :(
@@srdjan455 WTRC was ok. I think it was purposely trying to be bad. Remember the original games were based on B movies.
This show wasn’t too bad stop listening to Jeremy all the time and being so influenced by his mid jokes. I haven’t even watch this review yet an I’m sure He gona tryn an get his trash stand up bit. Just review the movie bro.. I used to like this channel Screen Crush is waaay better
In theory Resident Evil should be super easy to make into a show. Pick a classic haunted house scenario, a SWAT team, add some zombies, some hunters, and a zombie dog that jumpscares through a window. That's half a movie already. It's not rocket science.
We are never gonna get that show. Because Capcom will never take pride and who they decide to represent their IPs.
Facts! They could just make REC with some mutant animals/monsters basically. There are so many movies that are almost RE already, it should not be this hard.
But.... You know you have to somehow include the "message" somewhere in a show or it just won't work.
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It's also intriguing how the live action adaptations insist on adding the "apocalypse" element to these stories. The Resident Evil games never had an true apocalypse setting. The 1st 3 games followed the initial event and every game since has followed a main character in an isolated, but still loosely connected bio-terrorism incident. Zombies don't need an apocalypse to be cool.
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absolutely. the incidents in most of the resident evil games escalated over time but were still isolated to a specific location. the studios compulsive need to make resident evil like almost every other zombie movie (read: worldwide apocalypse, or at the very least an entire quarantined nation) is ultimately taking away one of the best and most unique aspects of any good resident evil story: the closed circle. a handful of survivors in a place they cant leave dealing with a threat they dont understand.
honestly i dont NEED a resident evil movie because the games are great, but i dont think itd be impossible to adapt. it just needs someone who actually understands and loves the series - not just someone looking to make money off of it.
@@chronicbrightside8757 most propably this series is based on Paul Anderson movies rather than on games
cuz Netflix idiots didnt done any research and tought games are based on movies XD
This one’s a lot better than Extinction at least. And honestly with how many outbreaks/incidents there have happened across the main games, spin-offs, animated movies, etc. it’s unrealistic for it to not ever have gone global, it’s only done like that so they can make more games in more locales. The only time they ever tried to explain it was with the nuke in RE3, but just look at how absurd Revelations 1 got.
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The series leverages game canon and has a lot of reverence for them with things like the original RE2 menu screen and what not.
What annoys me the most, is when Netflix was first talking about an adaptation series for Resident Evil, it was going to be called Arklay. It was going to follow some detectives investigating weird shit happening out in the forests and mountains around Raccoon City, and was going to culminate in the Mansion incident of Resident Evil 1. That could have been a really cool limited time series (maybe a movie), leaning for more into horror and suspense. But... alas. We got this.
That is too good an idea an not woke enough for today.
@@scottboswell6514 I’m so tired people saying that shit maybe it’s just a shitty story
That Arklay short on youtube is dope as fuck, if they made the R.E series like that it would have been so good!
@@edgar214ER well, they felt the need to race swap Wesker. Can't have too many main characters that are white nowadays. And Crapflix is famous for pulling that bullshit
@@imyoursuperbeast8220 yes buddy because most roles don’t go to white men still and it’s not like most writers and producers and directors are not white lol stop being insecure
I’ve never hated the main characters in any series more. Jade, Billie, even Bea, were all insufferable. Literally everything bad happening was directly due to something they did.
😂I thought I was the only one!! They were unbearable!!
That makes three of us. Holy hell were they insufferable. Terrible characters.
They make this apocalypse happened! And cry a river about it!
In the 3 episodes I watched, I legitimately hoped they’d die every single time they were in danger, I know it sounds bad, but yeah, I hated their guts.
Exactly
Jeremy literally fucking made a better story on the fly than all of this show’s creators did for 8 episodes. My goodness.
he really did, this show was absolutely attrocious
I also quit two episodes in, and I love RE. Just terrible.
seriously, i'd watch the show he described. for this actual show, i couldn't actually get through the entire first episode 🙃
I have a bad attitude of finishing everything I start. After finishing resident evil on netflix, I feel like I deserve an award for patience, tolerance and surviving torture
Agreed
See all the 8 episodes of this sh*t is the real survival horror experience... i have PTSD after watch this piece of DOGSH*T! i did it to make a review in a podcast but men... that thing left me angry for 3 days, like i was PISSED!
With that kind of title, I can only expect an Awesometacular rating.
😂
I already knew resident evil series is not the zombie movie anyone would like to watch.
I already lost the hope of good adaption
😂
The thing that REALLY baffles me is... It's so easy to get Resident Evil right, yet none of these adaptations can make it work. The elements of Resident Evil are found in some of the most promising types of fiction; an interesting take on the zombie apocalypse, a virus outbreak thriller, zombie-killing and guns blazing action, detective/mystery/investigation into corporate corruption, a squad of soldiers trying to complete their mission but are met with twists and turns, etc.
These are just basic elements that have all proven to work in other franchises on television and in film, yet when combined and funneled through the Resident Evil story, somehow NO ONE can come up with one simple idea; making a faithful adaptation. They always want to change something, they always want to "breathe new life" into the property, they always take liberties, they always change characters or erase them completely, there's legitimately no reason for any of that but they just. keep. doing it.
I don’t understand how hard it is to get a competent director
1st episode and there is an angry black woman talking about race...
Gonna be some woke ass bullshit this.
Can't even watch anymore.
This shit just making me WANT to be racist.
It’s because the director doesn’t care. If the movie is a financial failure, the director could get their money back at the expense of fans. Basically a pump n dump with intellectual property rights.
Here's the thing tho, if it really was so easy, wouldn't they have done a good movie by now? Just think about it, if it was so easy, why do we keep getting bleh movies? I personally don't understand why people are just constantly deviating from the games. Like, we got the games they can literally just use. But if they do that, then people will just get mad at just copying the games probably, so, I feel like the people making them are kinda in a no win situation. Idk, this is just how I see the situation.
Constantin Films is who to blame. They have the rights to Resident Evil and have produced every SINGLE live action Resident Evil film. And because Capcom won't pull their rights to give their franchise to someone worthy of writing it. We are stuck with lifeless movies were they are only made for profit.
Constantin Films never cared whether or not the source material is good. Just as long as it makes money
You doing a "nope" on this series is hilarious. Good for you man for sure. Time is valuable in this life.
I can always trust Jeremy's reviews because he always tells you EVERYTHING wrong with some of these shows and how they could've easily changed/let go of certain things to make them better with that classic "Why didn't they?" tired and frustrated expression that we ALL feel while watching these shows! Never change Jeremy! And yeah, this adaptation was SO UNNECESSARY AND BORING!
They forgot the main rule of shows or movies: there must be a character that is either a) lovable b) relatable c) evil but so interesting that you want to know about it. They missed hard; those teenager are just unbearable, I almost wanted them dead and replaced. Things like "the company my dad works for is making animals tests, well let's destroy said company and leave dad unemployed in the process but at least I do what a want", pretty realistic huh?
Unfortunately, it's relatable to the latest Tik Tok generation of brain washed and manipulated middle class lemmings who think they're above it all...
This should have named the children of evil.
The first line is so true and more often than not missed by story writers these days.
Yes, it's so hard to ask your dad for the truth.
Strangers and internet are so trust worthy they were willing to risk everything.
100% agree with you
There's a scene in one episode when they say that the lickers hunt by ear, that everyone needs to be quiet or they will kill you. A patrol gets to the place with sirens and people shooting, nothing happens... well actually the lickers get some of the people that were quiet. That was so unsatisfying
Didnt they kill all of em. Are you really asking why they waited for their food to get out the car...to attack them? Petty sure this isn't their first rodeo.
They were just thirsty to get to the chaos.
The movie annoyed me too much.
The teenage rebellion is senseless.
This serie should have left the resident evil name alone
They literally killed everyone...didn't even matter lol
it's sad, the Quiet Place movies did Lickers better than Netflix Resident Evil did...
Don't they say the zombies are blind and deaf too or am I wrong
A continuing problem we're seeing with Hollywood's reticence to make anything new & obsession with adapting and rebooting legacy content is that writers seem to live in this state of humiliated frustration where they have unique ideas they want to develop but are continuously told 'no' by cowardly producers who just want to ape Marvel's success. What seems to be happening is writers are resorting to writing whatever story they wanted to initially and just awkwardly skinning that story with whatever legacy content wrapper they're obligated to. As an example, the Halo TV show writers and show runners literally bragged about never playing the games. Seems the only way to get shows green lit is if they're a part of successful existing IP.
its not Hollywood though its netflix problem with streaming services who put out a whole season at once is they dont have to get you hooked with a great first episode that will make you tune in next week to watch it and continue tuning in week after a week like a HBO series or FX for example
Hollywood is desperate to try to kill off royalties. There are mountains of stuff already written, optioned&waiting for a greenlight.
But from established writers who want royalties, they want a lot. They know they are worth it.
So hollyweird has been trying and failing fir a decade or so now, to just reboot stuff that's already been lawyered. To avoid paying royalties.
Hollywood finance is not a problem for the public to deal with it. So here we are, waiting for writers to take shitty deals&rich Hollywood types too loosen their purse strings.
Noah Caldwell-Gervais has a 7 hour long series analysis, and he makes a point about Resident Evil that I, as a longtime fan, always kinda knew but hadn't fully grasped.
There's never a threat of a zombie apocalypse until RE6. Zombies and gross monsters just become weaponized commodities that the world has to bend itself around so it doesn't end. And that in its own way is its own kind of horror. RE6 was the only time the series toyed with an actual zombie apocalypse, and the whole point of the game was making sure it didn't happen.
Resident Evil turns the horror of zombies and monsters into banality for the world at large, which is something no one ever seems to consider. They go straight to apocalypse, or poorly adapting 1-3. No one takes advantage of what is the equivalent of the Banality of Evil, but for horror and zombies, and that's an absolute shame/failure of imagination.
Resident Evil 6 was such an awesome game, and the story was great. Especially Ada's story...that was the most interesting part.
Technically, the events of RE2/RE3 was the first threat of an apocalypse hence why the U.S. military turned raccoon city into a crater.
@@johnathanross6519 And yeah, that's part of what I'm talking about.
"Racoon City is overrun with WHAT?! NORRIS! NORRIS, GET ME THE NUKE CASE! WE GOTTA DROP SOME SUN-HOT ANIHHILATION WITHIN OUR OWN BORDERS, STAT!"
@@1337ijs LOL nice military dialogue there. I only mentioned the raccoon city incident because you referred to someone stating that RE6 was the only true threat of an apocalypse which it wasn't really.
@@johnathanross6519 Honestly, RE6 being the one open global apocalypse is my own reading. And yeah, Raccoon City could've been apocalyptic on a nationalnor global scale, but part of the wider horror of Resident Evil is that there's no way the government nor Umbrella would actually let things get THAT bad. Possibly globe-scarring zombie plague? Almost literally, "Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure."
That its so bad that the government feels the only recourse is to nuke one of its own cities is terrible, but also that such destruction and containment becomes the norm.
I have a hard time seeing just why Resident Evil has constantly failed in live action adaptations. People have made some horror action films who take a lot of inspiration from RE, yet when directly pulling from the inspiration creators just don't like to stick to what makes the game's story and atmosphere work. Like, just fucking why?
The story in the Resident Evil games are shit too
Because if they actually had something good they would make their own thing, but since they dont they just changed a few things probably and called it "resident evil" that way it has to succeed , who cares if it ruins a longtime beloved franchise right
@@kingkoop28 they're campy fun and take itself way too seriously that it's a wacky horror story with evil corporation and monsters w/ zombies.
It's not supposed to be amazing. It's supposed to be fun. But then you have shows like this that think bring serious and edgy is what it's all about
@@EpicBlackflame07 Well just play the games cause it does not translate well to live action. Resident Evil haven't been survival horror since really part one because even in part 2 they started going more action based. And don't get me started with all the bad dialogue in the games. The remakes on the games are the best you gonna get in a resident evil movie. Me personally I would never try to make a movie cause it's no pleasing the fan base. Hell Welcome to Raccoon City is the closest you gonna get to a direct adaptation and y'all dogged that one. Damn if you do damn if you don't
It's not hard to figure out? Who has the rights to Resident Evil live action films? And which company has produced every single live action Resident Evil film? Constantin Films again..
They never cared about quality. Just profit. THATS why the Resident Evil movies stay bad.
After the newest film and show, I’m just done with live action resident evil. The CGI movies are quite cool tbf but the games are where it’s at and my favorite is the RE2 Remake. That game was just a chef’s kiss for me.
You should have been done a long time ago. Every SINGLE live action Resident Evil is produced by the same company and the same people in Constantin Films. Very easy to look up. They don't care about the quality of the films. Just the profits. And it should be common knowledge by now based on Paul WS Anderson that Capcom does not take pride in who it hires to handle it's property.
@@SuperMurray2009 I am completely ok with the last film being ok but it's that stage where it never should have been. Sony didn't care and rebooted far too late and then we have this abortion.
Even the CG stuff can get really stupid, but at least it’s a hilarious kind of stupid.
The animated resident evil films were trash aswell.kind of like infinite darkness.
The cgi movies are ok. I really liked degeneration but it's still nowhere near the quality of the games. As for the live action stuff the Anderson ones are ok if you just accept that it's not resident evil and instead Mary sue punches zombies. The newest movie welcome to raccoon city was just absolutely horrible and had nothing good in it
They should have named the series "Umbrella" and made it a slow-burn horror thriller based on the events that led to the main RE plotline. Something similar to Dark. I'd watch that.
That's a cool concept, actually!
Probably because they already have umbrella academy... 😂
There was of concept of tv show called "Arklay" and it was about a detective investigating stuff before mansion incident
It would be hilarious if they made 2 shows, umbrella and umbrella academy, within a month of each other.
I want someone to do a prequel about the start of umbrella with spencer/ashford/marcus as the leads to show how the viruses started
The same rules apply to Highlander and why the can't seem to make a good sequel to it. Noah Antwiler summed it up perfectly, though I'm paraphrasing: "Why is it so hard to make a Resident Evil movie? Just play Resident Evil, and then do that!"
It makes you wonder if the people involved with these live action projects even know or care about the series. It feels like they took the same approach that Rocky Morton and Annabel Jankal did with the Super Mario Bros. Movie, where they were so ashamed of the original concept, that they basically created an original work of their own design, and called it Super Mario Bros.
Short answer no.
Lol similar to Halo writers and directors being like "we haven't even played the games we want this to be its own thing" and it's like ya it can be its own thing but play the games to get what fans would be expecting lol
They obviously didn't care. As soon as I saw that the show focused on 2 teenage girls, I realized what they were doing. They're just trying to capitalize on the success of Euphoria, Stranger Things, and all those other teenage-focused fictions like Twilight, Divergent, Hunger Games, Thirteen Reasons Why, Pretty Little Liars. Thing is the quickest way to guarantee views was to tie it to some established property so that's what they did with no regard for the fans of the games.
The series references lore that 90% of the fan base wouldn’t even know, it’s pretty thorough with its understanding/reverence for the games, it just takes creative liberties like the franchise has been doing since RE4.
@@THE_BEAR_JEW
It focuses more on bringing new concepts for Capcom to later leverage like New Raccoon/Umbrella, Wesker clones, Wesker twins, etc. You can tell it was made in collaboration with Capcom and written by game enthusiasts.
A good friend of mine (who’s a big RE fan) and I did the same thing two nights ago. It was soul crushing. Jade is the single most insufferable lead character.
Jade is fucking horrible. I never wanted to smack a character so DAMN HARD!!!
My favorite games are the Outbreak series. So much diversity in the way you can approach each scenario and the scenarios themselves are interesting like the RCU and Zoo all the way to the Arklay mountains in a rundown hospital. Not to mention it had 4 player coop where everyone can split up to cover more ground or stick together and body zombies. The infection gage was also an interesting mechanic, making sure you didn't get to comfortable taking your time as your death was slowly approaching so you had to get out and fast
Yup, its a criminal shame Capcom wont redo them with modern online coop. And would make a fantastic TV series: 8 survivors trying to escape Raccoon City, differing personalities, using their own skills and knowledge to help the team (and plot) along.
@@timtheenchanter6418 especially a certain student and her ties to a certain pharmaceutical company.
@@WaifuEndMyLaifu I think you mean Yoko. It would be interesting to see an episode where Alyssa (the journalist) is the one who interviews Yoko after they survive the Outbreak and Alyssa exposes Umbrella. After all, it is canon in the games that Alyssa survives the Outbreak. The series could follow a side story where the two have to survive the outbreak, and Alyssa uncovers everything that is happening after the death of her friend, which is why she came to RC in the first place. Along the way she runs into Yoko and uses her story as part of the story on the Umbrella coverup.
My favorite part was when Jade Whesker said to her neighbor who is now a zombie, "What are you, some kind of Resident Evil?". Truly one of the series of all time
I genuinely can't tell if you're joking or not...
Hi you won a Free PS2! lol
God this joke isn’t funny anymore
@@mayonnaise3959
I agree its actually painfully obnoxious.
I don't believe you. You're lying.
Can't believe the quality of shows that Netflix cancels without a second thought (like Altered Carbon) yet gives shows like this more seasons.
Indeed.
Not in this case.
Season 1 fantastic
Season 2 generic crap
If their plan was to make the original movies look better, it's working. The whole time I was watching this... i was thinking how I wish I was watching the original ones instead.
This is a HUGE mess. 99 % teen drama, and a bad one too.
I want PHUB to shred your resume
I made it through all eight episodes and it never shows the beginning of the apocalypse nor gets better. Those girls were infuriating and I was sick of them by the finale. And when the real Wesker showed up, his wig had me dying.
I left with 3 episodes to go, i just got bored by it. I'm glad i didn't waste my time, the girls are the most annoying part to me. The way they're written.
Haha 😂
Yeah, that real Wesker was underwhelming. They could have done something different than making someone who looks like a Blade figurine you'd buy off of Wish 🤣🤣🤣🤣
When Jeremy was talking about the "Hey, you win" Scams I was thinking it was back in 2008-2015, but these scams are STILL going on that's crazy
They Gotta keep trying I guess
Hey, you won a ps4! To claim your Xbox please send me your cashapp info!
Making it through two episodes of that show was an accomplishment I couldn't even last one second.
I made it to one and a half, this just confirmes Jeremy is my reviewer. 😂🤣
Ditto...1 and a half and I was sleep
I finished all 8 episodes. I fucking regret it.
Thank you Jeremy for saying what needs to be said about all this recent "content" that is being pushed out. If you cannot do it well, do not do it at all. It is a waste of time and resources
Agreed. I had high hopes after The Witcher but this is so bad I have no plans to finish it.
Agreed. We're living in a streaming war where the players are just pump and dumping as much "content" as possible. It's meal after meal of fast food. Nothing memorable.
you know the TV series is bad when Jeremy asks you what's your favourite RE game!
You know it's bad when the best line in the series is
*" I want PHUB to shred your resume"*
I wish someone would call Gareth Evans, the director of The Raid movies to make a decent Resident Evil adaptation. He's a fantastic writer and director and I think in the hands of him, the movie would've been great. The sad part is a Resident Evil movie could actually work, as long as they done it right instead of throwing the potential out of the window
Good choice but he almost had it with Godzilla but major dropped the ball
idk if you've seen it, but Raid 2 is just as brilliant as the first, & he directed a TV show called Gangs Of London a few years back that features loads of his signature action. Season 2 is coming out soon too, really recommend!
@@headshot217 dude that's Gareth Edwards, the director of Godzilla, not Gareth Evans. Two different filmmakers with the same first name dude 😂😂
@@headshot217 Gareth Edwards did Godzilla, not Gareth Evans
@@headshot217 Godzilla 2014 was by far the best of the new Godzilla films.
Okay, unpopular opinion - when it came out (that's important for context people) I really enjoyed Operation Racoon City. I liked the idea of getting the perspective of an elite Umbrella special forces team sent in to eliminate key witnesses to the outbreak, and destroy evidence. The game itself did not age well (graphically or mechanically), but that premise would be an easy adaptation into a series I would think. Have a team of Umbrella operatives that you slowly learn more about as they carry out missions within Racoon City. Maybe you see the outbreak itself through surveillance footage that the team needs to recover. Maybe the team gets out in the end, maybe they don't. So much possibility for that kind of show.
"This show did the impossible, it united the internet". I loled at that.
Oh, and yea, I couldn't get past the first 3 minutes.
"It did the impossible, it united the internet!" I laughed way too hard at that
The story about a father in the Resident Evil world? The story of George Trevor, the architect of the Spencer Mansion, could be interesting if they put their hearts into it. A man trying to scape from the building he designed with a psychological an claustrophobic feel in it.
I didn't know how much I needed a Clay Fighter reference. Thank you.
I am so happy to see this show getting shit on!!! It’s been time to stop just accepting what they throw in our faces because they think the fans won’t know better. The truth is we do. It’s why Sonic was such a success cause had it not been for the fans speaking out against the design the movie would not have probably even gotten a sequel that improved on the first.
The only people defending this shit is Twitter. Even then I don’t know if they are. It wouldn’t surprise me though. I couldn’t even get through episode one because of how FUCKING HORRIBLE the characters are and how much the show feels like CW would shit out.
The only saving Grace if this show is Lance Reddick as Wesker and he’s the freaking villain and I can’t root for him. Not only that he’s Wesker in name only.
FUCK THIS SHOW and FUCK Constantin pictures for constantly giving us shitty adaption after shitty adaption of RE!!! THANK YOU Jeremy for this amazing video!!!
Exactly they won't take resident evil serious we shouldn't spend our money or time until they do.. Its almost like COD currently
Ikr... btw do you want a free ps5?
The only good thing about Sonic is Jim Carreys Robotnik apart from that it's shit
@@markpugh6808 doubtful
"the only people defending this shit is Twitter"
yeah no surprise, Twitter is love/hate social media, i can't tell if they wanted to be great or not lol
How to do a RE series:
Episode 1: Raccoon City is a happy town who loves their local law enforcement. There is a hostage situation, S.T.A.R.S. Alpha and Bravo teams co-ordinate to stop it.
Episode 2: Murders in the Mountains? We see Bravo team get sent out, hop between Alpha Team worrying and Bravo team dying.
Episode 3: Alpha Team gets sent to Mansion, Chris and Jill get separated.
Episode 4: Each member finds their respective back up for rest of season (Rebecca and Wesker, Barry and Richard), explore mansion, Barry and Wesker are sketch and seem to be keeping the team away from one another.
Episode 5: Answers Revealed, Betrayals, Deaths, Tyrant revealed.
Episode 6: Tyrant fight, escape, stinger where no one believes them. Team splits up. Mid-credits: a woman is seen motorcycling towards Raccoon City.
Overlaid is the sound of HUNK's team confronting Birkin.
Boom.
It's that simple
I would pay good money to see that and also good casting
My friend the creators of this show have no idea what you are talking about! :/ But good stuff :)
Original Resident evil 3 is so good. Giving options as to what to do and branching out small but different enough scenarios that make it feel that your choices have consequences. Pretty good game.
My first RE game and thus always my favorite... you never forget your first, and it started a love that lives on to this day
@@f.k.6241 That's true. My first RE was RE2, on the n64. Played it with my Dad. But my favorite RE has always been RE4, mainly because of Leon. And I get that 4 has an insane plot, saving the president's daughter, and she screams alot, and can be annoying, but, despite all that; I love the game, and have played it ever since it first came out on the GCN. Both 2 and 4 are my favorites, but if I could only choose 1, it's still 4. And maybe I'm the only dude here who's favorite RE game is RE4, but, I don't care. Leon's such a cool guy, seeing Ada not being dead, and seeing Wesker too, while the story's crazy, and full of crazy things like a tiny pirate named Salazar, a giant mecha Salazar, which is confusing, but still enjoyably stupid, I also love the unlockable costumes, like the R.P.D. outfit, the 1920's gangster outfit; and even an extra costume that makes Ashley Graham LESS annoying, a suit of armor that literally makes her invincible, unable to be kidnapped by the cult members, or killed; all the collectible things, like the bottle caps, the upgradable guns; the crazy merchant, but; I see why everyone else would pick the OG RE3, and that's cool too. I never had a chance to play it, because I was a kid when RE3 came out, so I had to start with 2 on the n64; and that was enough to get me into the series, playing it with my Dad, playing as Leon, and getting terrified by the zombies, and especially The Licker in the Police Station, and "G", but despite all that, both 2 and 4 will always be my personal favorites. Hell, I mean; I recently got RE4 on the Switch a few months ago, and already beat it again, and I'm thinking about doing a Professional Mode run on it. It's such a great game; but I see why other people prefer 1, 2, or 3, and that's totally understandable. Sorry for the long rambling. It's just, when you love something, saying a few short words isn't always enough; you know? And that's how I feel about the entire series of RE/Biohazard games, that I've played. And I for one, can't wait for the RE4 Remake next year, just saying.
@@shawnfields2369 personally re4 is a great game and has been getting unnecessary Hate recently, personally I think the best re game and my personal favorite is re1 remastered, and I like that, re2 (both og and remake), re3, re4, cv, re5, and both the revelations games, 6 i though was nice and overall the franchise is pretty good
Grew up playing re with my uncle and I remember so much good Times we had think I was a couple years old or sm can't remember, but I used to always eat my berries and have that tree looking thing and acting like it was monster and my uncle and I would play resident evil all day every day. Really special franchise.
@@juniorsigala5028 Yeah, I agree, 4 is a great game, but it's too bad it's getting unnecessary hate. But, nice story, about you and your uncle playing RE. me and my Dad loved to play RE2 on the n64, and it was really, really terrifying to play, as a 5 year old kid back in 1998, but unfortunately, my Dad doesn't play games anymore, and my uncle can't even walk anymore either. But I agree, RE is a very special franchise, despite all the bad Netflix shows, and horrendous movies that keep getting the message of Resident Evil wrong, EVERY. Single. Time, and keep trying to add unnecessary things to the lore of the series; like annoying teenagers, or sympathetic zombies, or deus ex machina wives(like the RE movies with Eliis, or Alicia, or Ali, or Alice, or whatever her name was, ruining everything for everyone), but no matter; RE2 and 4, have made Leon the coolest character to me, despite all the movies either trying to make him an idiot who doesn't try to help people, or an incompetent doof, who couldn't find his way out of a bag, let alone a zombie infested police station. But he's always been my favorite character, and the bad Netflix shows or laughably awful movies can't change that.
This is my favorite Jeremy review in a long time. And that's not to say I haven't watched and enjoyed many Jeremy reviews. I just love how he's washing his hands of this series and bailing early. Awesome! 😆
I have no problem with adaptions having a new characters, locations, etc. If they would just stick to the existing canon, you don't have to give us an adaptation that is just shot for shot one of the games. Have this stuff set before or during the Raccoon City events, could be elsewhere, but it's going on, them trying to escape city, whatever. It blows my mind that in all the RE adapations, none of them have even come close to the adaptation "Success" of the first Silent Hill movie. The first SH wasn't perfect, PH shouldn't have been there. But the setting was good, the world apperance, game characters for the most part were respected. It was clear the Director, who claims to be a mega fan of SH, really is. Where as Paul Anderson some how convinced Hollywood to keep letting him cast his wife in a starring role that had little to do with the series, and the movies were 95% vague similarities or direct references that didn't make sense just "Hey look, it's Nemesis, isn't he cool? What's that, you wanted him to be a lost love interest for Alice? Oh.....you didn't. Well, too bad. Watch my wife kick butt through a million cuts." My favorite entry is RE2 btw
Paul Wes Anderson lowkey invented the Disney formula. Cast popular actors in extremely generic/derivative films with direct references that make no since or don’t live up to the original material.
@@improbablyyourdad8458 You're reaching.
@@improbablyyourdad8458 Literally none of the actors in the new RE series are what you consider to be "popular" what are you on about lol.. Ironically, none of the actors in the PWA RE movies were popular either besides Mia.
I remember an RLM episode where they Mike an Rich talked about how they altered a character in order to avoid paying royalties to the previous writier. Now I'm convinced that part of the reason there are so many unnecesary changes to shows like Halo and this Resident Evil series is in order to avoid paying royalties to the previous writers of the games, books, and animated series we've had itn the past.
Wow, never before has a youtube comment made me so sad 😞
That is the only (somewhat) acceptable answer to my anger towards these adaptations. But once again, Greed costs people everything. Just pay the freaking royalties!
When you make something that prioritizes cutting corners and screwing people out of money, you’ve doomed the project before it even gets off.
The real bs is they don’t want to pay royalties but still want to ride on the brand and as far as this show goes they make the game canon to the show when it pleases them
Actually Capcom has a rule you cannot adapt their games one to one...
Dividing the time between pre and post event was something done successfully in The Walking Dead and LOST. The backstory was used to explain relationships, motivations, choices and reactions by the characters in the post zombie outbreak world.
Watching this show is like someone told you they were going to sell you a Ferrari, and when you get there to pick up the car, it's a Honda Civic with a Ferrari hood ornament.
The entire idea behind Resident Evil should be the easiest IP to adapt to the screen... yet every attempt was a done by bumbling idiots that tried their hardest getting out of their way to make it not like Resident Evil. Jesus, give me $5,000 and I'll do it for you.
Yeah considering how the games were literally made to imitate horror movies down to the very use of camera angles
@Magical Chemical Daddy God Doesn't hurt to ask.
I've always wanted to see the story of what exactly went down at the Spencer Mansion before the STARS members showed up. From its initial construction to the place being overrun with zombies, the first game left the timeline of events very vague. I'd love to see how Umbrella really got started and how they became the evil organization we know.
i think they are still figuring the start of Umbrella out. Iirc the last game hinted on one of the founders but the motivation doesn't align with the "modern" Umbrella.
Aside of that, wasn't Umbrella evil from the start? Just that they were in shadows for a long time (until their products became popular with the governments around the world).
P.S. I would also like to see a full origin story about Umbrella, but i don't think it's easy to create a show for your random Joe (who doesn't know anything about RE). Learning more about Umbrella is kind of a reward for itself, so starting with a reward (especially for people that do not understand that) seems almost impossible to me.
Well now it seems Mother Miranda from RE8 was the catalyst for Umbrella forming after Oswald E Spencer spent some time with her, and she inspired him.
I just want to see the Spencer’s Mansion brought to life and not be wasted in a terrible movie.
@@NoirTenshin What about a story focusing solely on the Spencer X Umbrella situation, wherein the Mansion is designed, built, and utilized for various things before everything falls apart? I think that is the idea the op was going for. We as RE fans would know the outcome, but to new viewers it would be an enthralling introduction and one which could lead into a STARS focused second part. There would likely be some interpersonal drama, but the Mansion could be fleshed out and then altered by all the havoc before Chris, Jill, Wesker, Barry, and a few others (to kill off, of course) get there. Honestly I can't understand why this hasn't been done already.
I swear to god, the media covering this show and the people defending it on Twitter gottta be the biggest shills in history.
How can those people defend this show on twitter anyways?
@@Erasureeraser you will be surprised honestly
@@Erasureeraser For reasons that don't define the qualities of the show.
It's the only way they can find something to defend.
They don't have a lasting impact though, they're loud for a day and forget it, so they're not even fans
or not everyone will hate what you hate. and not everyone will love what you love.
@@sultan788 It’s true, they’re the fake fans because they like the show. Only people that hate the show are the real fans.
There’s an easy way to tell if someone’s a resident evil fan. Do they hate everything resident evil except for two or three of the games? Then they’re a resident evil fan.
Thanks for introducing me to Warhammer Miniatures. I think I found a new hobby to decorate my desk with.
I made it through the entire series. It doesn’t get any better
I figured as much. I didn't even bother giving this a look because I know it's gonna be bad. Not even as a Resident Evil thing, but it just looks like a bad show in general.
And this isn't even me acting cynical. I'm more than willing to give most of the divisive Resident Evil projects (the CG animated films, RE:6, the remake to RE:3) a shot, but this show is peak "Netflix adaptation" meme. And that seriously means a lot considering their live-action mockery of Cowboy Bebop from last year...
Why did you do that to yourself?
Thank you for your brave sacrifice
@@mattc2306 I think some of the CG Resident Evil "films" are the best resident evil "films' are ever gonna be. At least they have Leon.
@@zombiebite100 True.
The most unbelievable part of this show is that New Racoon City still has a blatant and publicly known Umbrella presence. Like even the games know that it would be literally impossible for Umbrella regain their clout from the first 3 games. I know umbrella is still active in the game universe but it’s in the shadows.
The tv show literally answers your question in the 2nd episode lol.. did you even watch it or are you just complaining for the fun of it?
Yeah but in real life we don't give anyone the justice they deserve so I'll be honest I can see that haha.
Just look we still trust the CDC after they've been ragged through court more than once.
People don't pay attention.
So honestly- I do believe it.
Or BP oil.
@@zaldigr863 I think that’s what most people are doing…
@@joshhunt4146 It's so weird how most of them just hate the show because they decided to make it about a predominately black family... it's funny how they disguise their racism as "oh we wanted the original characters" but then they turn around and praise the Paul Wes Anderson movies that barely included any of the original characters and butchered whatever character they did include. They also shat on the Welcome to Raccoon City movie that gave them what they are asking for??
@@zaldigr863 yeah, there will definitely be a bit of that. It’s like the new Lord of the rings that’s coming out or game of thrones. Both are having black characters in regal roles and people say that’s not realistic for the time it’s set! They are fantasy shows with elves and Dragons but black kings are too far!!!
For me Resident Evil is a very intriguing show with a nice premise and quite interesting characters. Like I say, I’m excited to see where it goes :)
I’d love a Resident Evil series that follows Rebecca Chambers through the events of RE 0 and series 1 ends with her locking herself inside a room in the Spencer Mansion.
Then Series 2 picks up with the plot of RE1 and you get reintroduced to Rebecca like a quarter of the way through that season.
Series 3 and 4 is the events of RE 2 and Nemisis back and fourth.
And series 5, the final season is Code Veronica.
And that’s it. Give Code Veronica/Season 5 a real ending where Umbrella is shut down and all the villains die.
Well now i want to watch your show
This is exactly what I would want but these studios somehow can’t comprehend how to execute a good adaptation
Umbrella Chronicles on the Wii showed how Chris and Jill destroyed Umbrella. Albert Wesker kills General Sergei Vladimir, ending umbrella.
Code Veronica was the last classic RE game but it didn't end anything. Good ideas though.
Obviously the next Season would be 4. Introducing Las Plagas.
@@Dawn_Of_Justice I understand that the games go beyond RE CV.
But I think if you made a zombie tv series it’d be too much of a massive change to then jump to Las Plagas and then to say… The Village.
The series would have to end somewhere and I think having it end with Code Veronica/season 5 would be perfect.
Besides, it may work in the game, but I think a live action RE4 would be too cheesy. The villain and the whole ‘rescue the presidents daughter’ thing is too much and the fact LEON goes from being a rookie cop to a special secret service agent who works directly for the president is way too over the top of a jump from a dark horror tv series.
So yeah… I’d end it with Code Veronica and have Umbrella’s secrets and the Racoon City incident all come out to the public and then the final couple of episodes would be all original where they use all the survivors from the series and have them go to the last Umbrella lab to kill Wesker.
So is this like a reimagening of the games or whay is it?, just wounding
I just wanna say that the scene with the Wesker clones was the best scene ever lmao. It was so funny and seeing Lance do all that was just mwah chefs kiss 👨🍳👌
Please people make memes out that scene. And for the Destiny players well you have a lot of funny Zavala lines.
Edit:
Happens in episode 7 btw for the people just wanting to see that scene. It's cheesy and stuff but it's hilarious imo. So many Lance Reddicks lmao.
Just when we thought Sonic, Castlevania, Detective Pikachu and Arcane FINALLY broke the video game adaptation curse...Seriously. It should NOT be this hard to ADAPT a video game into film or tv. You don't do a 1:1 recreation you take what works, and make something new. Castlevania shows us this. Sonic shows us this. Arcane shows us this. Detective Pikachu shows us this. Film and TV are VERY different from video games and comics. Film can do things those mediums can't, animation can do things live action can't, video games can do things film/tv can't.
STOP. TRYING. TO MAKE A THING. NOT. WHAT. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. Film = film, video games = video games, so on and so forth. It's really not rocket science.
The irony of is Sonic has shit games now but has a good live action adaptation
@@triple-d2640 this is absolutely bizarre that Sonic is now better in film than his own original medium but hey I have hope for Frontiers to break HIS curse lol
Let's be real the last SOLID entry in Sonic was Sonic Unleashed that opening cinematic looks INCREDIBLE for the time it came out in. I'm happy to see that squash and stretch animation return for Sonic Prime.
They will never stop. The only way they will stop is if the overwhelming majority of fans boycott Constantin Films and Capcom for consistently making crappy films.
Thank you so much for this video, Jeremy!
Now I know NOT to waste my precious weekend time on this show :)
It’s not that bad, I enjoyed it. I’m not a resi super fan though,
At a single player stand point I’d say resident evil 2 & remake, but at a co op point of view I think re5 was also a gem. Just me and my friend kicking ass and fighting a bunch of bosses. I watched this series all the way through and I’m like 50/50 on it.
When you feel like it’s a “mission” to watch 1 episode from a tv show you know it’s bad🤮🤯😣
tried to watch this with my mother and got hit with a zootopia porn joke to the face
@@dik56 I was gonna ask my mom to watch it with me but thank goodness I didn’t 😭
Wesker 's whole design and backstory was deliberately meant to be blonde and blue eyed cause his whole creation came from literal eugenics and the horrifying lengths Spencer went through to produce a super race. Spencer time period, is really really old and thus a blonde and blue eyed during Spencer time was the ultimate super race.
What's funny is this is a different continuity, and if you watched the show they explained this weskers backstory.
@@PocketZombi I'm not even going to argue the creative liberties, intention of characters blah blah blah
I'll preface this with the fact that I'm black since it seems my opinion won't be noted unless I specifically state this fact.
Why can't I just see cool, trench coat hair slicked back evil man be an asshole on screen- my main criticism of this Wesker's design is that it seems like they almost intend not to do anything with him by design, I grew up on Marvel VS Capcom 3 Wesker. Shits just whack.
@@Hevenlee First off my guy, I'm black too..your opinion still doesn't matter. Secondly, if MvC3 is where you started with Wesker then we're never going to see eye to eye. I started with Wesker in 1996, different continuity in the show so your idea of what he should look like as well as mine are pointless.
@@PocketZombi
Second of all, no- hombre, my opinion DOES matter, that's what you're not getting- EVERYONE's opinion DOES matter if they are a fan of the media that is being adapted.
Why shouldn't my opinion matter???
Pointless how? Are you a fan of the character during the 90's? if so- then why is your idea of what he should look like pointless? Do you think the redesign is good, mid or bad?
For me it's bad- because it's the exact opposite of the portrayal that I personally LIKE that also happens to be modeled after the source material.
and to be clear, I did technically start with MVC3 with Wesker but I later explored the original and follow ups to the original in later games- relative design is still consistent from the 90's.
@@Hevenlee This comment makes it obvious you didn't watch the whole series. Some of your criticism about Wesker's character design is directly addressed in the later episodes.
Honestly it's not a good series either as an adaptation or as an original work so I can't really recommend that you finish it.
But without spoiling too much, they do fix the problem you're complaining about in a way that is directly reference to the video game, but it comes off as pretty goofy and is bad in a whole different way.
Just from the trailer alone my favorite part is how much time they seem to have during a zombie apocalypse to dedicate to making sure they have a fancy hair style every day
Funny, I also have only seen 2 episodes. This video basically expresses everything I feel about this series. The characters are generic, some of their actions are confusing and the dialouge is weird at times. At times, especially in the future scenario, it feels more like a scifi take on The Last of Us than Resident Evil to me. Umbrella kinda feels like Umbrella, but the only other thing relating to Resident Evil is that there is a character named Albert Wesker. The reason I worded that sentence the way I did is because this Albert Wesker is nothing similar to the one from the game character wise. It's honestly easier to look a him from the lens that he is a totally different character.
So far it's kinda disappointing but I (probably unfortunately) will finish the rest of the episodes.
Just wait till they introduce AlBlade Wesker
It gets explained why he's like that later, not worth watching the entire show, but still it was a great scene.
@@Alice_Typhon Maybe it isn't worth watching the entire show... but I hate to start things and then leave them unfinished lol
They should have throw the bone who the fuck is our dad in one of the first 2 episodes.
Resident evil 2 remake still stands tall as my favorite but love the path the games are taking and you've saved me the time of watching this RIP that Lance Reddick doesn't even get a shout out
I know no one will ever read this but I'd like to suggest a method of adapting Resident Evil into a television series; Resident Evil is at its best during or in the aftermath of a bioterror attack and the situation is still unpredictable and very dangerous. In light of this, a real-time scenario likened to the show 24 might be ideal for Resident Evil. The first episode is ZERO-hour late evening the attack, where we introduce our smallest group the main story survivors who are our protagonist types, its with this story we find most of our atmosphere and scares for the horror fans.
The B-story survivors, a larger group, possibly held up somewhere holding off an escalating series of attacks all night while waiting for rescue ala the start of RE4, the bar in RErev2, the hospital lobby in RE3make, the gun shop in RE6 etc. So much tension, action and drama could be mined from this scenario the action fans would be sated.
Finally the cut away C-story of intruging survivors with ambiguous alligences who are trying to recover some unmentioned mcguffin, the HUNK, UBS, operation racoon city types, for the fans who know the franchise lore inside and out. I would suggest these parts be filmed in first person to add to the mystery but I know that could cause issues down the line.
When the other stories are busy but time needs to pass, Netflix could include a D-story about Umbrella, Tricell, TerraSave, Wilpharma, the BSAA, FBC, The Connections or the police attempting to investigate and control the situation from outside the quarantine zone.
At the conclusion of the eight hours, the survivors make their escape with an iconic RE helicopter scene as the sun rises and the characters escape.
The next season, we have a completely different bioterror attack somewhere new with a new cast of characters but retain the real time story telling and sparingly bringing over one or two characters from the previous season as new members of the BSAA or something.
I want a zombie movie that infects every human on the planet and nobody knows when anybody will turn. You could be sitting next to your girlfriend and suddenly, you turn! And eat her! Everyone will know of this possibility. Everyone on the planet becomes paranoid!!!!! Humans aren't fighting zombies,. They are fighting...EACH OTHER!!!!!!!!
Email the directors PLEASE I CANT HANDLE ANYMORE DRAMA
Heyyy this is a very nice idea. A bit like Train to Busan where it is compact and we see characters we root for actually got killed off.
@@happypuppy-i4kA manga called Hour of the zombie does something like this. At a certain time of day, people turn into zombies for a certain amount of time and then turn back to humans when its over.
That’s a great idea actually. 24 was amazing with the time line set in real time and that would def work for a resident evil show. Too bad we will never see that lol
My favorite RE game was Resident Evil Outbreak on the PS2. I absolutely loved the slow infection system that it used, and I wish more titles had utilized it.
I like the idea of a secret Resident Evil movie/show. When I saw the trailer for that new movie Beast I thought to myself ''damn, it would be dope if they reveal during the third act that it's an uroboros infected lion and it takes places in Africa during RE5''.
Its always a nice thought. But be real, they will always try to make money first. Especially if they’ve spent a lot of money on a project they wanna get as many viewers as they can from the start. Leave no money on the table
This is the sacrificial lamb that united the internet :) I give this a thumbs up
The thing the kills me is that the story of RE isnt that hard to adapt. There are ways to use the spencer mansion. Hell use parts of the game and can lengthen them as we get exposition and possibly build on whats going on. The fact that no one can figure out how to adapt this story proves its in bad hand.
My favorite Reaident Evil was the original. Played it when it first came out. Was it the first survival horror? Don't know. It was MY first survival horror. My friends and I would take turns playing and would scare the sh!t out of each other with low res polygons. Waking up parents at 3am screaming at a barely recognizable giant spider. Good times. You always remember your first.oh and that deep scary name drop at the beginning. Resident Evil, it was so badass back then.
I think it was the first survival horror game. Pure gold.
'You were nearly a Jill sandwich!'
Bro, that room with the portraits and the crows on the top was an absolute nightmare fuel for me. Because when you complete the puzzle the music that plays right after was very unsettling. RE1 is still my favorite because of the overall feel.
@@xinfr4z893 my little sister has a bird phobia. I have never heard her scream that loud than when I played and failed that puzzle the first time.
@@nicocrestmere9688 that's crazy =D i did the same but with the spiders instead.
This is why I NEVER EVER believe anyone who says "I'm a big fan of the source" OR "we tried to maintain the spirit of the source material!" whenever an adaptation gets made
I'll always remember when one of the actresses for Shaymalan's Last Airbender movie said she was a huge fan of the show, but she portrays the character extremely badly.
@@AzureRoxe actors.. lemme say again… they’re actors… ACTORS… A..C..T..O..R..S
@@AzureRoxe to be completely fair, I'm 99.99% sure that was M Nights fault, EVERY actor in his movies act the same because that's how he wants it
Thank you from saving me two hours. I was going to watch this yesterday and I’m so glad I didn’t get sucked in lol
How would you watch 8 episode in 2 hours? At what speed do you watch stuff?
@@Erlisch1337 2 episodes = 2 hours, which he reviewed…
That makes sense. But still weird saying you were planning on watching 2 eps like that :P
As an OG Resident Evil fan, played the 1st Resident Evil game on PlayStation in 1997, fell in love with it instantly, it breaks my heart to see RE get butchered, brought back to life...then tortured slowly to death time and time again in short-sighted attempts to adapt it to movies and TV 👎😭 There's a part of me that has hope that one day, a good adaptation will be made...but that part of me is nearly dead lol. Certainly will not be holding my breath for it, that's for sure
You scared of change cause your OG Resident Evil? Why did you watch it if you knew it was bad
@@22QXX112 I'm not scared of it, just sad n disappointed lol. I mean as a standalone series, it's passable, just not as an adaptation
Adapting Resi Evil really isn't that difficult. You could do a pretty faithful adaptation by simply directly filming the game's almost scene for scene with more natural flowing dialogue. This series is yet another example of 'creators' exploiting a brand name and making something that has no real resemblance to that brand (the Rings of Power is another). Remove certain brand identifiers like The Umbrella Corperation, Racoon City, Albert Wesker and this could be any bog standard generic zombie story...... which is why they need the brand name to begin with. I really fail to understand how anyone calls themselves fans of any given lore/universe who then makes so many changes to that universe that it is unrecognisable as the lore it is supposed to represent.
And then they would get criticized for just following the games shot for shot and having no creativity. I mean, Welcome to Raccoon City was the best adaptation we've had yet and people still shit all over it. Given, it was far from perfect, but it was still a competent adaptation and it wasn't all that bad. It's literally a no win situation for anyone trying to adapt it.
@@NeuroticWolf13 I disagree, 300, Sin City and Watchmen where all received favourably for the most part. Three films that literally took the comic page and created the live action version. The reason why Welcome to Racoon City was dumped on was because of the poor 'representation' of key characters like Leon and Jill which was due to the current woke M.O. of Hollywood instead of doing justice to the source material. Plus, it may have been the best adaptation to date, but that's a really low bar to hit considering the god awful film series it followed.
All this needed to be was a medical/research ethics drama set around the characters in a corporate lab, with spontaneous violent accident/test subject escapes etc.
And then end of the first season, a whistle-blower gets the word out, T-virus escapes in the lab, carnage ensues... and the call is placed with STARS.
Turns out the lab was the one below the Spencer Mansion.
Boom.
Also -- WHY do all these writers who are CLEARLY bereft of knowledge of the games go straight to an apocalyptic scenario? It never happened. Umbrella never destroyed the world in official canon. Revelations opens up more in terms of factions and socio-political use of BOWs etc, but the world was never cratered or overrun by zombies. Yet to all these writers who are completely brain-dead, what they assume to be genre conventions means "Oh, zombies. It must be like The Walking Dead, yeah?"
As a working writer, this series boiled my piss. I stuck it out all the way through, and with the exception of episode 7 giving the always awesome Lance Reddick some fun to have on screen, it was an absolute insult through and through.
That Clayfighter refrence just got you a follow, sir. 😂
I'm really under the impression after this that when it comes to video game adaptations, Hollywood is intentionally making bad adaptations and I feel it is two things that kind of becomes one: 1. It's because they look down on the medium. 2. But this would also imply there is a fear behind why they look down on it (which is where my idea is coming from). I'm not sure, but I am under this impression that there is some underlying fear of allowing video game adaptations to grow and become something worthwhile. For all intents and purposes, it is not hard to make a competent Resident Evil movie especially since there have been many Zombie movies that have come before. Hell, the whole first game pretty much can be movie, and not one with a strong budget behind it.
I go through these 8 episodes chores and confirm that it really fails spectacularly
Rip 8 hours
I know it’s an unpopular opinion but my favorite resident evil is RE5. It was my first and playing coop with my dad in that game gave me some of the best video game memories I have
Same here. RE5 is my favorite. Very good memories.
All that matters is you had a good time playing it dude
Just saw the title and wanted to congratulate you. That must have been a difficult feat. I only made it through 15 minutes of 1 episode.
It was so bad I couldn't get through the first episode. They actually had a decent budget too and instead, they made this trash. Why can't studios just get Resident Evil right.. a Claustorphoic environment, Bioorganic weapons, inside a facility.. actual horror, and jump scares. So much source material to work with and we get this!
because they dont care about the customers just their agenda and if u dont like it ur the problem
Simple. Cash grab by using the name and writers who never played the games.
I think an amazing idea for an RE series would be initially set the day before the first incident of the outbreak,
And we’re introduced to our characters which are cops, firefighters, paramedics/hospital staff, and Journalists
And the series would follow them as they cross paths running around the city as each episode gets worse and worse
Like first episode would end with them responding to a “cannibal” mugging, and then end with them barricaded somewhere on their last legs and the missile blows up the city
That sounds just as boring and slow burn as they are complaining this show is.
@@officialscottaugusttiktok8509 sounds like you’re a Grumpasaurus Rex
It's like RE Outbreak. They can make RE Outbreak into short series though
@@fantasticbaby6240 man I LOVED outbreak
I'd watch this series. I just wish someone had made it.
“I survived the entire Netflix Resident Evil series,”; which sounds like it should be a saying on a t-shirt.
Btw: it does not get better.
I will say the best parts (to be nice); was the dad; though there's one wacky episode where you're like, “huh? What are you doing, dad?.?”: oh, and then there's a big, giant, mutant, zombie alligator, or was it a crocodile in the second and last episode.
So.....
Anywho, that's my review.
It does get better.
How else will Jeremy get introduced to the new AlBlade Wesker?
@@SuperMurray2009 I too was like Blade? Lol
Next internet challange?
Lance Reddick cosplaying as Blade to look like leather Wesker from Resident Evil 5, had me rolling from laughter!
I'm halfway through and so far the only way I can see them salvaging this series is if they pivot to an anthology series like American Horror Story and focus on a new outbreak location each season.
Jeremy I recommend Resident Evil CG films, they're pretty solid and are set in the world of the games proper. One of them initially dropped on Netflix a few years ago
Aunt. Aunt.
The cg movies are pretty weak as well.
@Gibram Rivera its not a very high bar to clear. Im a huge resi fan since ps1 days and it sucks that all the film media is pretty bad. I dont believe the cgi movies are more faithful to the games either, unless you're just counting the bow appearances but most of the live action films have them too. I think welcome to raccoon city came closest but the direction and production itself was pretty bad, along with some of the choices they made.
@Gibram Rivera i mean specifically things like the mansion, rpd being closer to the games than the settings and stories from the cg movies. Wtrc is bad. Not defending it. I honestly think they are all bad so its really a competition of least smelly pile of shit.
You should've seen episode 7 with the "real" Wesker. 🤣 That was the most I've ever laughed at anything Resident Evil.
Idk who thought that haircut was a good idea given the outfit. He seriously looked like Wesley Snipes as Blade.
It was basically a ten minute interlude into Blade
No idea who you are or why you appeared on my recommendations, but you had me at Warhammer miniatures
I think this was the quickest review I've ever seen Jeremy do. Just long enough to say "Nope. It's bad. Don't watch it. Have a nice day". ✌️
This man is a legend i didn't even make it through the first 5 MINUTES!
I forced myself to watch the entire thing...that's 8 or so hours i'm never getting back.
@@ginocapra8583 I'm sorry
@@ginocapra8583 why would u do that to yourself?
@@ginocapra8583 I did it with ya bud. It was utter gaabage not even garbage 😂🤦🏿♂️
@@ShootNPissUrSelf I'm guessing like me, he just wanted to see. Wanted to see if there was anything anything that we could say redeems it. Nope. There wasn't. 🤦🏿♂️
I agree 10000% . Had this show not been “Resident Evil” I might give it a C+. The actors are good, Ella Balinska is clearly having a great time, the production design is cool, the zombies look good… instead…. Ugh.
It is good people are just holding to high b.c it has the Resident Evil name. They have never went that deep in to Wesker life. They did that part of the show very well. The present part not so much but it wasn’t bad. Jeremy just wants to go against the grain to much
@@hightolerance8728 ....... everyone else says it's generic garbage too.
@@hightolerance8728
No, it's genuinely terrible dude. I seperated it from Resident Evil by episode three, and by the time I finished I was just exhausted trying to make sense of how ridiculously dumb the whole thing is.
@@CynicalCharmer I know right bc RE as a whole has always made so much sense 🤦🏾♂️ dude it’s a series adapted from a video game. It’s not trying to be George A Romero movie
@@hightolerance8728
I didn't at any point make the comparison of sense between the two. The difference is, one is an acclaimed franchise with an engrossing story, and the other is a universally panned Netflix show.
It's not even the cheesy dialogue and quirks of the show that make it bad. It's the way it treats the audience like idiots. The leads make the most outrageous decisions and get away with an insane amount. It's literally written like "this is where we want the show to go, but we just won't think of how we're getting there, it'll just happen"
wow did not expect a Morning glories refference
Is there a reason we haven't got a Scott Derickson or James Wan, (or any of these surprisingly competent horror directors) directed adaption? Or maybe Peter Jackson - at least we know one director who respects source material
James Wan backed out of it
They most likely wanted a director on board as a 'yes man' to Netflix's creative decisions. This show has 'created by a boardroom' written all over it, checkboxes and all.
Your a brave man, I made it through 7 minutes and never looking back. Just like cowboy bebop.
Now Netflix is gonna screw up Yu Yu.
I know everyone here is in the "just duplicate RE1" camp. I'm a little different - I think you could do something interesting with a slow-burn horror-mystery sort of Resident Evil series. There's something weird going on in these woods, Umbrella's covering something up and only a few cops are really digging for the truth while occasionally encountering horrific and dangerous monsters as they start to realize the true scale of what is afoot. I think that's the genre equivalent of survival horror - slow-building tension mixed with very dangerous action.
The REAL problem seems to be that anyone trying to make an RE thing hears that 2.5 of the ~12 games (2, 3 and 6 for the .5) are large zombie outbreaks and so assume that they can just make any zombie apocalypse story with an evil science corp and slap the name on it. Mass zombie outbreak is the LEAST interesting part of Resident Evil, and it's been utterly done to death in film and TV! Until someone involved in one of these products learns about ANY RE game besides 2, this is just going to keep happening.
Yup what you propose is perfect. The whole mystery and uncovering the truth is what i want. This show didn't scream RE at all nor was it entertaining.
I may be in the minority on this but i loved RE Zero, and i think that would translate amazingly into live action.
We almost got what you described.
Look up Arklay, it was a TV pilot for a resident evil series about the murders in the Arklay mountains.
“There’s doing weird going on in these woods, Umbrella’s covering something up and only a few cops are really digging for the truth while occasionally encountering horrific and dangerous monsters as they start to realize the true scale of what is afoot”
Ok, you just described the RE1.
@@shalindelta7 After the first Netflix trailer came out, I sat down and thought about what I'd do if I was assigned to make an RE TV show. I went into way too much detail that I won't share here, but the basic idea was that the mountain town of Arklay is having strange murders, people going nuts and animals mutating and being aggressive. FBI agents Chris and Jill arrive in town and team up with Sheriff Barry, Deputy Leon and later paramedic Rebecca to get to the bottom of things and to find Chris's missing sister Claire, who is trapped in the basement of a large house by a mysterious man and who orders her to take care of a girl named Sherry.
From there it wasn't that hard to work in a fair number of game concepts (Wesker, Mr. X, a big creepy mansion) into the mix fairly naturally. It isn't that hard - the license-holders just don't want to do it.
4:29 - WHAAAAAAT Jeremy Jahns is a minipainter?!?!
I would not have guessed.
Me too, Jeremy, though I don't own any Warhammer.
So the key to good television (and movies, unless I'm mistaken)... 1) Decent writing (good writing, if you can pull it off!) . 2) Passable or even good actors . 3) Camera work that isn't so bad that it's distracting. 4) If you can't afford good special effect, don't write them in..... That's a pretty high bar you've set =P
Lol..maybe..for morons
Ha! I just had this argument with a friend a few weeks ago. I told her the first Resident Evil movie was decent - not great, not terrible, just decent and watchable - the second was okay and still tolerable, one of the animated films was also decent . . . and everything else, including the new series, have been utter puppy snot.
She disagreed. She has all the Milla Jovovich films on blu-ray and loves them, especially the last two. She says she watches them all at least twice a year.
I just can't with people sometimes.
I love all those movies only cause of the reason I grew up watching those movies. It's the same reason many people love corny & bad stuff from 70s-80s. I own all of the movies on bluray
Yea the movies kinda suck but i have seen a lot of women like the series because it's an action movie franchise with a female lead .. there weren't too many successful ones till the hunger games ..
Residence evil was successful at the box office , the movies have earned $1.280 billion on a roughly 300 million dollar cumulative budget...
I do like the first one quite a lot. I know it's not brilliant, but I still enjoy it a lot. The second one is decent for sure. But yeah, it just gets really rubbish quickly....
Good job on making it through two episodes, Jeremy, i couldn't even get past the ugly looking poster. I keep wondering to myself why i still pay for Netflix and my answer usually was "because i can watch Ozark", but Ozark is over now so.🙄
Plenty of other great Netflix shows to watch. Netflix just prefers to hide those.
It’s hard just to pick only one resident evil favorite game because each one has their unique parts to each one