@@stellviahohenheimhe didn't love his first wife who he cheated with Mila on the set of the fifth Element with. He was married to the blue opera singer alien and then he brought Mila on set and started dating her
@CollinGerberding You really need to work on your comprehension skills there buddy, where does it say that I was mad? And I bring up negative things in one's past because that influences your future ya dumb fuck also where did I say that if they make one mistake they have to die
Why did it bomb? Because it's a movie produced by Paul W.S. Anderson who doesn't respect source material and is more concerned about making his wife the star of the show by making her the most Mary Sue of Mary Sues ever.
@@LucasBR702 in MH theres elemental damage types (Fire, Water, Electric, Ice, Dragon). A A big part of the game is killing monsters to take their parts to build weapons that are effective against other monsters. Diablos takes significantly more damage from Ice and almost nothing bonus from Fire. So the idea of bringing a fire weapon to a Diablos fight would get you kicked from the group.
@@LucasBR702 additional context, usually for monster hunter, you would be forgiven if you're using a larger or heavier weapon with neutral/bad elemental match up. But her weapon of choice the dual blades are very element dependent which is an instant fail for any dual blade user.
That's a shame that Milla still does stuff like this. I actually think she could've been a good action star. Put her in a John Wick type movie, she can kickass instead of being in her husband movie forever
It's not just Hollywood. The Isekai genre (Roughly translated into "another world") is pretty much just this trope, your average smug gets transported/reincarnated into another world, where they become the overpowered main character. There's like a bajilion Manga/Anime/light-novels with this set-up.
I dont understand why *every single videogame movie* is an isekai. "The people from the real world go to the game world and visceversa!!" Even the Mario movie, being a 100% animated movie, is an isekai. And now Minecraft is going to be the EXACT SAME THING. I hate it lol
B-but don't you feel related to? We can't expect audiences like a character born in a different setting! They can only grasp a character exactly like them, like...a supermodel or Jack Black
@@BlackKoi321 Not really. Or at the very least is inconsistent. Yoshi's Island establishes that Mario and company were all born in the mushroom kingdom. I think the "Plumber from Brooklyn" was just how they landed on the character design, but the setting was always meant to be fantastical.
@@Ricardo57492No, the original game literally tells you in the manual that they’re going from Brooklyn and came to the Mushroom Kingdom via a magic pipe. Mario has always been an isekai, that’s just the movie staying true to the lore
Exactly, bit of a Mandela effect. I remember seeing a trailer so long ago that it feels like a memory and then it came out 4 years ago? Peculiar to say the least
This is one of those movies that you can tell just won’t work from the very first trailer, and it’s funny and disappointing that this type of terrible adaptation still gets made.
Does anyone else think the core plot sucks too? Why does Mila have to come from a human world into the MH world? Why cant the film just be set in the MH world?
In case you were wondering what the dialogue in the movie is like and what the joke he referred to was specifically: In the scene, two characters are driving together at high speed. “What?” says the first. “Look at my knees!” shouts the second. “What kind of knees are these?” “Chi-nese!” he jokes, punning on the word’s last syllable.
Wasn't a funny joke but After reading the article, they really had to stretch to make it feel like they were being insulted Same energy as hating on Bud Light cause they printed one rainbow can, which wasn't even sold to anyone
I feel like it would actually make a decent animated family film, with a tone like How to Train Your Dragon. Make it about a group of misfits trying to become Hunters, their first hunt against a Kut Ku ends in disaster, but they slowly get better before having to fight one of the flagships. Maybe corny, but I can see that working more than… this
Pandemic or not, this movie was always going to fail. It doesn't have the cool scenery of the games, the human characters are bland, the monsters are generic, and it doesn't have an ending. Worst of all, the plot isn't even original; it steals outright from ENEMY MINE and doesn't even have the decency to get that story right. I'm also saying that as someone who hasn't played the games, so if I'm this disappointed, I can only imagine how ticked the actual fandom must be.
Here's the worst part, the monsters AREN'T generic in the video game. They stripped out all the personality to make them generic in the movie. Nercylla for example, not only did they completely ruin her design but also she's a solitary hunter who very much hunts in the day and has expanding mandibles for her poison bite. They turned her into a generic Hollywood spider!!
@@elk3407 Plus Nercylla isn't even in the New World. (continent were Monster Hunter World takes place, and where the movie seems to be based) And where is its Gypcerouce hide?
@@saphiriathebluedragonknight375 I don't think the movie can even be placed in the monster hunter universe because some parts seem like the new world but yet other parts are clearly supposed to be the old world It's an incoherent mess inspired by the Metal Gear Peacewalker/Monster Hunter collaboration which somehow makes it even worse because now it's not only disrespecting monster hunter but also metal gear.
Of all the failed videogame movies this is the one that stings the most me personally. And I have *never* played even one of the MH games. Just familiar with MH World through a couple letsplayers. Call me a silly biology major but fact they took "researchers and their bodyguards investigate an intricate, wondrous ecosystem" and warped it into military propaganda breaks my heart so thoroughly you could craft armor with the pieces.
Even not being a Monster Hunter fan, I would 100% prefer if an adaptation was set in its world and didn't need to hammer a square peg into a round hole with the inclusion of "relatable" people. You can be all in your fantasy and still be relatable, if you're a competent writer that is
When this came out I remember being absolutely baffled that Capcom seemed to be so happy it existed when just the snippets I had seen of it was definitely "Um, no, this is NOT monster hunter."
I know next to nothing about the Monster Hunter franchise and I still know that the isekai bullshit is not appropriate for it. At the very least don’t use current-era soldiers with guns and tanks. Doing it like that because there was a crossover with Metal Gear Solid is like if the next Punisher movie was based on that time he tried to hunt down Archie.
Speaking as a fan of the games, this movie is insulting. It's not remotely close to the feel of them and replaces everything unique with shallow generic action movie cliches to show off the director's wife being "badass".
All the potential audience turned their noses up because they were tired of the duo of Paul WS Anderson and Milla Joviovich making adaptations that only paid lip service to the source material and we’re just defined by being Paul WS Anderson and Milla Joviovich movies. No mystery.
A film where it's most well known thing was getting removed from China(the place where it was expected to make most of its money) because of an offensive joke said by one of the characters. Really says a lot... ...also can't wait for when you get to cover Borderlands. It's quite a fascinating one...
10:09-10:31 You literally just described what I like to call "early-onset Sequelitis." I'd been struggling to actually define it up until now. Thanks for that.
A lot of actors are now putting theatrical run clauses in their contracts so studios will also do short runs at a limited number of theatres to meet the clause while also being able to say 'see? no one went to see it.' Wonder if that was the case with Monster Hunter and why they pushed the release date forward.
The reason why this movie failed is because it didn’t appeal to anyone. For casual audiences, it just looks like yet another generic action film they’ve seen multiple times. For fans of the series, it barely had anything to do with the games outside of visuals. For both, it looked way too similar to his previous Resident Evil flicks, which people were already tired of at this point. To me, the best video game adaptation should appeal not only to the fans but also to the general audience, a Monster Hunter failed at both.
It looks like it used one of Zach Snyder's go-to tropes where it suddenly goes slo-mo in the middle of an action sequence. I guess this is supposed to allow the audience to see all the elements in a scene and make it look more like a painting than a movie for a brief moment. But not only is is slowing down the action, it also has become a tired cliche and every time it happens the audience thinks "Here we go again..."
I discovered your channel around a week ago and I’ve just been binge watching videos. It has made me come to think. Would you ever think of doing a video on the Golden Compass? It was part of a book series that I absolutely loved and read multiple times growing up. But the movie… the movie was something else. I will admit though, it looked pretty cool.
9:34 Its almost like this movie should have just been about Hunters from the Monster Hunter universe going about their daily lives in the Monster Hunter universe
I totally forgot about this film. I actually remember quite interested in going to watch this but because the trailers to it came out months before the movie came out I forgot about it but also Covid.
You know what else that are also overused in Hollywood movies? 1. Regular protagonist who turned out to be "special" got thrown into a new world to be the savior of said world. 2. Paul W.S Anderson using his wife as the protagonist in his movies. Don't act like you're trying to look for something new and revolutionary Paul, we all know you're a lazy ass director who stick with the same formula.
Paul WS Anderson is like the first and biggest sign that the movie will be bad. I'm pretty sure the whole teenage MC being cut because it was overdone is just BS he made up. "no no, the reason i cast my own wife again after casting her like 6 times is because teenage MC character is so overdone"
MAybe it failed cause it's quite obvious it was just another "my waifu" promoting project by Paul Anderson. And since his waifu's image is tightly connected to the failure of resident-evil-movie-adaptions it doesn't do it any good. Especially since these adaptions do not care much about the source-material or story-coherency, which spells doom to all future adaptions.
If we ever got another run at the monster hunter franchise, it should go the way of Fallout. Having a television series would be better, get used to the world, learn about monsters, etc. It would be great, like maybe a Hunter and scrivener are traveling together and they solve “mysteries” or help a town against monsters, even learning to live with them without outright killing.
It's wild that with the hundreds of hours I put into Monster Hunter Rise during the time of this movie's release that I keep forgetting it ever existed. I never saw it though, the trailers looked rough.
The only good thing that came from this movie was when Monster Hunter World did a collab event with the movie where you got to hunt a comically giant Rathalos.
I'm really enjoying your videos! I'm so happy I discovered your channel. Can't wait to see what other movies come up next; many of the ones you talk about unlock missing memories for me lol.
I cant be alone in believing that Anderson Mila Jovic had burned up all of their Goodwill when it came to Video Game Adaptations after the Resident Evil series
Oh man, what happened to Paul WS Anderson's editing? Something happened during Resident Evil The Final Chapter where it's so choppy and incoherent. Man has made some good shit in the past - not for a long while - and for some reason, I'm always rooting for the guy to do well. But I dunno, maybe this editing style is a way for himself to stay engaged in these lackluster projects
Hollywood action movies/shows in a nutshell: an American from 21th century gets transferred into a fantasy world, therefore he/she is awesome and everyone can be his/her role playing steps toward greatness. also also, featuring a husband as director and a wife as the main character. Tony Stark: *"not a good plan"*
I have never seen this movie and never will. I do like the games and when you mentioned they had the Monsters come "to the real world" I understood what kind of movie this is. That is so stupid I can't believe it was green lighted. Why wouldn't they just make everything in their own world? This ridiculous need to bring this worlds into our own is... i don't know... Childlish. Stupid. Dumb. Anyway, I guess it makes sence when you realize the writter/director is the same as the RE movies. 🤮
If they announced a Final Fantasy movie and set it in the future for no reason and without any of the plot or character from the games it would bomb too! ... Wait...they did...and it did
I have nothing personal angaist Mila Jovovich since she seems like a wonderfull person and is a legit gym freak and can actually kick ass, but goddamit she has the acting range of a spoon and the on-screen charisma of a paperclip. Both her and Michelle Rodriguez are in the same category as "mary sue that just kicks ass with a mean face but with no character or anything likeable"
I think Paul W.S. Anderson needs to go back to both Film School & Writing School. He can make a decent movie, but problem is he never learns from the next film. & sometimes he doesn’t even try, for example Resident Evil: Afterlife, Resident Evil: Retribution, & Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. He’s made good films in the past such as for example: Mortal Kombat (1995) Event Horizon (1997) Resident Evil (2002) Alien Vs Predator (2004) & Monster Hunter feels sort of like it was better than his last films that he’s recently done. I feel like it’s as good as both Resident Evil (2002) & Mortal Kombat (1995)
Having grown up watching 50s monsters on TV and then the era of STWS rip offs, I find the effects in these latest films amazing on some level but never go to see these things as they also seem to have forgotten everything about film making itself. This is why I do enjoy watching todays fans analyze and dissect these mega budget CEO wet dreams. Oh, for the days of the low budget cult classics.
They couldn't even get monster movement right. Like, Diablos, it ALWAYS has to dig to burrow into sand. Why does it just sink back into the dunes like as if it was water!? That is not how sand works and ruins my emersion. The ONLY reason I paid money for this film was to see the monsters in higher graphics and hopeful faithfulness to the ecology. BUT THEY COULDN'T EVEN GET THAT RIGHT!
Like listening to your videos when I’m falling asleep or at work, know there so many shows and movies of failed universes to do so you’ll be around for a longtime shows live Velma,Marco polo, alternate carbon etc. just to think of some quick
I never played the games, but I have friends who LOVE the games. They have proudly showed me what they have done. So I was excited for the movie. They were crushed by the movie, and I was disappointed. This could have been epic, but was just a failure
What gets me is there was a writers strike for the people responsible for MonHun and borderlands to make more money. If it happens again they should all be made to watch these movies and Star wars the acolyte. Then made to apologize for wasting everyones time.
Oh wait now that I've seen some of the video I realised I actually have seen this movie. I just forgot it was a monster hunter film because it was nothing like the games and forgot it existed at all because it sucked.
I got pissed off (or maybe i lost interest? Or was it disappointment?) when i saw her kill FUCKING DIABLO IN A SINGLE SWING. Or was it the Rathalos? Holy crap, it was 2020?
I think this would of been a flop even without the pandemic I’ll never forget the three movies I saw in 2020 during the pandemic onwards New mutants and Freaky you decide what the best pamdemic movie I saw
I'm a huge fan of the Monster Hunter game series, in fact it's my favorite game series of all time - I've been there since 2004 on launch day when 99% of US gamers had no idea what the series was (that only changed relatively recently). The movie was pretty 'meh' and did not reflect the series well at all. So, although it's not horrible that it failed, it is horrible in one specific way: Its failure ensures that this will never be tried again, which kind of pisses me off. I'd imagine a Monster Hunter movie COULD work, but if/when a REAL Monster Hunter movie script is ever brought forward, they are going to point to this movie as the reason why it will not happen. That is pretty BS, 'cuz it was pretty cool seeing prerendered/cinematic versions of the few monsters they depicted. On a side-note, it also pisses me off that the US did not receive any release of the 3D version. For those that didn't know, the movie was filmed and screened in 3D, but I unfortunately missed the opportunity to see it that way. The PSVR1 does display 3D movies if you use it on a PS4 (for some reason a PSVR1 running through a PS5 does not have this capability, which is frustrating). And, when you ask yourself 'What does it take to make a 3D version available' - It's a piece of plastic; They could've included an extra disk for pennies, but they didn't. Then take a second to think about how much it must've cost them to FILM IT in 3D, and it's just such an obnoxious waste of money, it's nothing short of amazing. They failed on so many fronts with this movie - Absolute incompetence.
I like the games, and I like Mila - she *can* be a good actress. But. Almost every single film she makes is Terrible - especially if Anderson is involved, as *all* of his films stink. So, despite liking her, and the Monster Hunter series, I knew to avoid this.
Also, Anderson's mediocre film style simply doesn't evolve, and hasn't. His films always feel exactly the same - he feels like a 90s director sticking with the same approach for one hit film then, but repeating the look and feel in *every* film he makes. There's no evolution, no improvement, no reason to see his latest film - it'll be as shoddy as every last film. Look at someone like the Coen Brothers - every film they make has a different look, tone, style and feel, because they push themselves to evolve and craft each film around the story. Anderson does none of the above - he just churns out another identikit film, while the people who liked his films 20 years ago have all grown up, and moved on, leaving his films failing to engage with contemporary audiences. That's the blunt reality - his dated films just don't inspire audience engagement today.
Just saying... the warcraft movie is sick and I love it. I do plan to watch the MH movie though. As a long time monster hunter, I do plan to give an in depth review
I watched this movie in theaters and I loved it seen it like three different times in theaters and then I bought the Blu-ray version of this movie. I love this movie. I’ll never play the video game so don’t hate me for that, but I liked it because it was different.
Monster Hunter fan here, I hate the movie with a passion, and not just because it's a bad adaptation. This movie has probably the worst editing I've seen in any big budget Hollywood production (The only other scene which comes close to being worse, is probably the fence-jumping scene from Taken 3), the dialogue is cringe, Tony Jaa was wasted on this movie ... and the fewer words are spent on the costume of Ron Perlman, the better. The only good thing about the movie, the monster look good, even if their behaviour doesn't really match their game depictions.
As someone who doesn’t really like the monster Hunter games (I tried them, they’re just not for me). I was honestly surprised with how much I enjoyed the movie. It was an awesome turn your brain off movie with pretty good special effects and cool monster designs. Was it a terrible adaptation? Oh absolutely. I have no idea how the concept of basing a movie on a MGS crossover got past drafting, and from every objective standpoint. It’s terrible, with onedimensional characters and one of the most pathetic excuses of an ending i‘ve ever seen (like, that wouldn’t even have been good if we did get a sequel). But I honestly had a blast with it. I watched it on TV with my dad, and it was just fun watching soldiers and people with oversized weapons kill monsters. It was a bad movie, but a fun waste of 90 minutes.
here's the factors as to why i didn't see it: I've only ever played one (maybe 2 idk) monster hunter game and the one i played barely had any story, so what could the movie possibly be about? 😭monster hunter's fun was in it's gameplay. Secondly, i didn't even like the resident evil's movies, no offense Paul Anderson and whoever liked those movies.
Why an Isekai? I'm a big Monster Hunter fan, and I even enjoyed the first Resident Evil movie for what it was... But I've never this movie because I simply can't wrap my head around why they decided to make it an Isekai story. Just give me a simple movie with one to four people working together to hunt down practically any monster in the roster and I'd happily watch it, but this? Nah, no thanks, I'll just play the game.
Not a fan of the main actress or the director, so didn't bother seeing it. Shame that not a single capcom ip has a good live action adaptation. The animated ones are decent, though.
Because it was made for the Chinese market specifically, but got banned from China because of a racist joke. I'm not even exaggerating, the reason we got so many of those terrible Resident Evil movies is because they were a big hit in China and they didn't particularly care about the western market by the time they were making this movie.
The monsters looked perfect Loved tony jaw and ron pearlman Dont even really mind the isekai ish setting Just think mila looks too old and all hope to go back to home shouldve ended or it shouldve just been set in the mh universe I feel like if this movie hadnt bombed the sequel wouldve been closer to what was wanted.
Knowing what happened to Resident Evil I'm sure the sequel would have Milla's character begin to capture the monsters, then train and enter them into monster battles to become the very best. It would be called Monster Hunter: Monster Kombat and have little to no connection to this film.
Another film by Paul Anderson where he just filmed his wife beating him senselessly and added VFX monsters in post-production.
At least we know how much he loves his wife. Either that or Mila have brainwashed him
@@stellviahohenheimhe didn't love his first wife who he cheated with Mila on the set of the fifth Element with. He was married to the blue opera singer alien and then he brought Mila on set and started dating her
😂
@CollinGerberding You really need to work on your comprehension skills there buddy, where does it say that I was mad? And I bring up negative things in one's past because that influences your future ya dumb fuck also where did I say that if they make one mistake they have to die
@CollinGerberding and the fucking comment that I was responding to was about his wife. So my comment actually relates yours doesn't
Paul W.S. Anderson movies are basically: "My wife is amazing and everything else sucks"
Like Rob Zombie
@@Dru2037 yeah but rob zombies wife is actually amazing, and Andersons wife sucks lol
His movies are just his wattpad fanfics about his wife but with a budget
Why did it bomb? Because it's a movie produced by Paul W.S. Anderson who doesn't respect source material and is more concerned about making his wife the star of the show by making her the most Mary Sue of Mary Sues ever.
the moment they show her fighting Diablos with flame weapon, I know they lost all of the game fans
Never played the games
Could you explain?
@@LucasBR702 in MH theres elemental damage types (Fire, Water, Electric, Ice, Dragon). A A big part of the game is killing monsters to take their parts to build weapons that are effective against other monsters. Diablos takes significantly more damage from Ice and almost nothing bonus from Fire. So the idea of bringing a fire weapon to a Diablos fight would get you kicked from the group.
@@BladeRabbit (facepalm)
@@LucasBR702 additional context, usually for monster hunter, you would be forgiven if you're using a larger or heavier weapon with neutral/bad elemental match up. But her weapon of choice the dual blades are very element dependent which is an instant fail for any dual blade user.
She wasn’t fighting him, she was tickling him to death
Just hearing it’s directed by Paul W.S Anderson and starring Mila Jovovich tells me everything I need to know
Maybe they will finally stop giving that man movies to ruin.
That's a shame that Milla still does stuff like this. I actually think she could've been a good action star. Put her in a John Wick type movie, she can kickass instead of being in her husband movie forever
@@Erasureeraser Agree. I liked her in the RE movies and thought she had a huge potential to be an action star.
@@anyaaa2801 ultraviolet automatically is her best movie because of no nepotism, honestly.
@@Erasureeraser her husband is the only one that hires her.
Why is Hollywood so obsessed with "The hero from this fantasy world is just an everyday guy from the real world"
Because they can't do "Ordinary white guy becomes hero to a tribe of brown people" plots anymore.
Save money and appeal to normies. Same with the Mortal Kombat movie.
It's not just Hollywood. The Isekai genre (Roughly translated into "another world") is pretty much just this trope, your average smug gets transported/reincarnated into another world, where they become the overpowered main character. There's like a bajilion Manga/Anime/light-novels with this set-up.
I dont understand why *every single videogame movie* is an isekai.
"The people from the real world go to the game world and visceversa!!"
Even the Mario movie, being a 100% animated movie, is an isekai.
And now Minecraft is going to be the EXACT SAME THING.
I hate it lol
B-but don't you feel related to? We can't expect audiences like a character born in a different setting! They can only grasp a character exactly like them, like...a supermodel or Jack Black
But in game lore wise, wasn’t Mario an isekai?
Tbf, it makes perfect sense for the Mario given that's always been the backstory.
@@BlackKoi321 Not really. Or at the very least is inconsistent. Yoshi's Island establishes that Mario and company were all born in the mushroom kingdom. I think the "Plumber from Brooklyn" was just how they landed on the character design, but the setting was always meant to be fantastical.
@@Ricardo57492No, the original game literally tells you in the manual that they’re going from Brooklyn and came to the Mushroom Kingdom via a magic pipe. Mario has always been an isekai, that’s just the movie staying true to the lore
I have absolutely no memory of this movie coming out
Exactly, bit of a Mandela effect. I remember seeing a trailer so long ago that it feels like a memory and then it came out 4 years ago? Peculiar to say the least
Keeps it that way it wasn’t good and if you enjoyed the game keep that as your only memory lol
2 reasons why it failed: 1 - Paul Anderson , 2- Zero respect to the videogame franchise from wich it comes from.
This is one of those movies that you can tell just won’t work from the very first trailer, and it’s funny and disappointing that this type of terrible adaptation still gets made.
Does anyone else think the core plot sucks too? Why does Mila have to come from a human world into the MH world? Why cant the film just be set in the MH world?
In case you were wondering what the dialogue in the movie is like and what the joke he referred to was specifically:
In the scene, two characters are driving together at high speed.
“What?” says the first.
“Look at my knees!” shouts the second. “What kind of knees are these?”
“Chi-nese!” he jokes, punning on the word’s last syllable.
I'm glad they put it, they deserved to fail with that kind of humour.
Even if don't know the context, that's such a bad joke
The rest of the article gives a bit of context to the outrage, as it was seen as a reference to an old racist motto. Poorly thought out, really
Not a particularly racist joke in my opinion, but a very unfunny one.
Wasn't a funny joke but
After reading the article, they really had to stretch to make it feel like they were being insulted
Same energy as hating on Bud Light cause they printed one rainbow can, which wasn't even sold to anyone
I feel like they designed this to be unappealing to people who like the franchise. The setting and world of monster hunter is so charming.
I feel like it would actually make a decent animated family film, with a tone like How to Train Your Dragon. Make it about a group of misfits trying to become Hunters, their first hunt against a Kut Ku ends in disaster, but they slowly get better before having to fight one of the flagships. Maybe corny, but I can see that working more than… this
Pandemic or not, this movie was always going to fail. It doesn't have the cool scenery of the games, the human characters are bland, the monsters are generic, and it doesn't have an ending. Worst of all, the plot isn't even original; it steals outright from ENEMY MINE and doesn't even have the decency to get that story right. I'm also saying that as someone who hasn't played the games, so if I'm this disappointed, I can only imagine how ticked the actual fandom must be.
Here's the worst part, the monsters AREN'T generic in the video game. They stripped out all the personality to make them generic in the movie.
Nercylla for example, not only did they completely ruin her design but also she's a solitary hunter who very much hunts in the day and has expanding mandibles for her poison bite. They turned her into a generic Hollywood spider!!
@@elk3407 Plus Nercylla isn't even in the New World. (continent were Monster Hunter World takes place, and where the movie seems to be based) And where is its Gypcerouce hide?
@@saphiriathebluedragonknight375 I don't think the movie can even be placed in the monster hunter universe because some parts seem like the new world but yet other parts are clearly supposed to be the old world
It's an incoherent mess inspired by the Metal Gear Peacewalker/Monster Hunter collaboration which somehow makes it even worse because now it's not only disrespecting monster hunter but also metal gear.
Of all the failed videogame movies this is the one that stings the most me personally. And I have *never* played even one of the MH games. Just familiar with MH World through a couple letsplayers. Call me a silly biology major but fact they took "researchers and their bodyguards investigate an intricate, wondrous ecosystem" and warped it into military propaganda breaks my heart so thoroughly you could craft armor with the pieces.
Even not being a Monster Hunter fan, I would 100% prefer if an adaptation was set in its world and didn't need to hammer a square peg into a round hole with the inclusion of "relatable" people. You can be all in your fantasy and still be relatable, if you're a competent writer that is
When this came out I remember being absolutely baffled that Capcom seemed to be so happy it existed when just the snippets I had seen of it was definitely "Um, no, this is NOT monster hunter."
I know next to nothing about the Monster Hunter franchise and I still know that the isekai bullshit is not appropriate for it. At the very least don’t use current-era soldiers with guns and tanks. Doing it like that because there was a crossover with Metal Gear Solid is like if the next Punisher movie was based on that time he tried to hunt down Archie.
“Look at my knees!” shouts Jin. “What kind of knees are these?” asks his companion. “Chin....... BANNED
I saw the joke and wondered how many great writers never have their work looked at while this is what gets filmed
@@kolonarulez5222 Well, the RE movies did make some money in Asia. Only God knows why. I'm happy that MH is Anderson's last film to date.
How does a pun like that even translate into an offensive joke in Mandarin?
@@DrFranklynAnderson The Chinese love to take offense to things from " The West " to distract them from their own countries woes.
Speaking as a fan of the games, this movie is insulting. It's not remotely close to the feel of them and replaces everything unique with shallow generic action movie cliches to show off the director's wife being "badass".
All the potential audience turned their noses up because they were tired of the duo of Paul WS Anderson and Milla Joviovich making adaptations that only paid lip service to the source material and we’re just defined by being Paul WS Anderson and Milla Joviovich movies. No mystery.
It's like, huge box office success videogame movies kinda have a similar pattern, like, you know, STICKING or RESPECTING THE SOURCE MATERIAL!
A film where it's most well known thing was getting removed from China(the place where it was expected to make most of its money) because of an offensive joke said by one of the characters. Really says a lot... ...also can't wait for when you get to cover Borderlands. It's quite a fascinating one...
10:09-10:31 You literally just described what I like to call "early-onset Sequelitis." I'd been struggling to actually define it up until now. Thanks for that.
A lot of actors are now putting theatrical run clauses in their contracts so studios will also do short runs at a limited number of theatres to meet the clause while also being able to say 'see? no one went to see it.' Wonder if that was the case with Monster Hunter and why they pushed the release date forward.
The reason why this movie failed is because it didn’t appeal to anyone. For casual audiences, it just looks like yet another generic action film they’ve seen multiple times. For fans of the series, it barely had anything to do with the games outside of visuals. For both, it looked way too similar to his previous Resident Evil flicks, which people were already tired of at this point. To me, the best video game adaptation should appeal not only to the fans but also to the general audience, a Monster Hunter failed at both.
It looks like it used one of Zach Snyder's go-to tropes where it suddenly goes slo-mo in the middle of an action sequence. I guess this is supposed to allow the audience to see all the elements in a scene and make it look more like a painting than a movie for a brief moment. But not only is is slowing down the action, it also has become a tired cliche and every time it happens the audience thinks "Here we go again..."
I discovered your channel around a week ago and I’ve just been binge watching videos. It has made me come to think. Would you ever think of doing a video on the Golden Compass? It was part of a book series that I absolutely loved and read multiple times growing up. But the movie… the movie was something else. I will admit though, it looked pretty cool.
It's on the list of video ideas, but I also have a lot of other films I want to cover too so it might be a while
The Golden Compass! I loved that movie and was disappointed that there wasn’t any sequel. Granted, I never read the books.
9:34 Its almost like this movie should have just been about Hunters from the Monster Hunter universe going about their daily lives in the Monster Hunter universe
Just found your channel, and I’ve been binging all your videos. Awesome channel, dude!!
Thank you!
Anderson just wanted to shoehorn his wife and her dying career into this movie like everything else
I totally forgot about this film. I actually remember quite interested in going to watch this but because the trailers to it came out months before the movie came out I forgot about it but also Covid.
You know what else that are also overused in Hollywood movies?
1. Regular protagonist who turned out to be "special" got thrown into a new world to be the savior of said world.
2. Paul W.S Anderson using his wife as the protagonist in his movies.
Don't act like you're trying to look for something new and revolutionary Paul, we all know you're a lazy ass director who stick with the same formula.
Whoever at Capcom that involved in the decision to let Paul W.S. Anderson direct this movie after what he did with RE film series deserve to be fired.
Uwe boll was responsible for most of the bad adaptations. We can thank him for singlehandedly make people not want to make an actual good adaptation.
Paul WS Anderson is like the first and biggest sign that the movie will be bad. I'm pretty sure the whole teenage MC being cut because it was overdone is just BS he made up. "no no, the reason i cast my own wife again after casting her like 6 times is because teenage MC character is so overdone"
As a longtime fan of Monster Hunter, I was out the moment they said it was about some military peeps being transported to another world. WHY?!
Honestly it’s a pretty forgettable movie. Which is not a good thing when your movie has the words “Monster Hunter” in your title.
I’ve been binging this series for 2 days now. Great work & I Love the channel man ❤️
thank you!
MAybe it failed cause it's quite obvious it was just another "my waifu" promoting project by Paul Anderson. And since his waifu's image is tightly connected to the failure of resident-evil-movie-adaptions it doesn't do it any good. Especially since these adaptions do not care much about the source-material or story-coherency, which spells doom to all future adaptions.
Of all the films you have ever reviewed, this is the only one so far that I had never heard of before.
This was so bad the people who made it should be charged with a crime
If we ever got another run at the monster hunter franchise, it should go the way of Fallout. Having a television series would be better, get used to the world, learn about monsters, etc. It would be great, like maybe a Hunter and scrivener are traveling together and they solve “mysteries” or help a town against monsters, even learning to live with them without outright killing.
It's wild that with the hundreds of hours I put into Monster Hunter Rise during the time of this movie's release that I keep forgetting it ever existed. I never saw it though, the trailers looked rough.
The only good thing that came from this movie was when Monster Hunter World did a collab event with the movie where you got to hunt a comically giant Rathalos.
I'm really enjoying your videos!
I'm so happy I discovered your channel.
Can't wait to see what other movies come up next; many of the ones you talk about unlock missing memories for me lol.
Awesome! Thank you!
I cant be alone in believing that Anderson Mila Jovic had burned up all of their Goodwill when it came to Video Game Adaptations after the Resident Evil series
Literally never heard of this movie before lol. That's a first for this channel
Oh man, what happened to Paul WS Anderson's editing? Something happened during Resident Evil The Final Chapter where it's so choppy and incoherent. Man has made some good shit in the past - not for a long while - and for some reason, I'm always rooting for the guy to do well. But I dunno, maybe this editing style is a way for himself to stay engaged in these lackluster projects
The moment they hired Paul W.S. Anderson to write and direct the movie, you just know this movie is going nowhere 😂😂
After how many Resident evil movies that were cranked, It’s surprising Paul WS Anderson wasn’t able to do the same with monster hunter.
10:36 wtf was that Grinch interaction lol
9:59 Zero reason the director should have focused her walking outside and not the giant explosion.
Hollywood action movies/shows in a nutshell: an American from 21th century gets transferred into a fantasy world, therefore he/she is awesome and everyone can be his/her role playing steps toward greatness.
also also, featuring a husband as director and a wife as the main character.
Tony Stark: *"not a good plan"*
You should have known this would be terrible. Milla Jovovich is in it.
Yt is once again showing how you can't actually approach discussion on certain topics about certain places who's name ends with "-ina."
I have never seen this movie and never will.
I do like the games and when you mentioned they had the Monsters come "to the real world" I understood what kind of movie this is.
That is so stupid I can't believe it was green lighted. Why wouldn't they just make everything in their own world? This ridiculous need to bring this worlds into our own is... i don't know... Childlish. Stupid. Dumb.
Anyway, I guess it makes sence when you realize the writter/director is the same as the RE movies. 🤮
Paul W.S. Anderson and wife is a curse to Capcom games.
The first MK still kick ass after decades.
If they announced a Final Fantasy movie and set it in the future for no reason and without any of the plot or character from the games it would bomb too!
...
Wait...they did...and it did
I mean at least Final Fantasy is an anthology series ranging from fantasy to sci-fi so its a little more justifiable
I have nothing personal angaist Mila Jovovich since she seems like a wonderfull person and is a legit gym freak and can actually kick ass, but goddamit she has the acting range of a spoon and the on-screen charisma of a paperclip. Both her and Michelle Rodriguez are in the same category as "mary sue that just kicks ass with a mean face but with no character or anything likeable"
True for both, Michelle is really hot thou, while Mila J is not, and has not been, even in the 90s....
I think Paul W.S. Anderson needs to go back to both Film School & Writing School.
He can make a decent movie, but problem is he never learns from the next film.
& sometimes he doesn’t even try, for example Resident Evil: Afterlife, Resident Evil: Retribution, & Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.
He’s made good films in the past such as for example:
Mortal Kombat (1995)
Event Horizon (1997)
Resident Evil (2002)
Alien Vs Predator (2004)
& Monster Hunter feels sort of like it was better than his last films that he’s recently done.
I feel like it’s as good as both Resident Evil (2002) &
Mortal Kombat (1995)
Having grown up watching 50s monsters on TV and then the era of STWS rip offs, I find the effects in these latest films amazing on some level but never go to see these things as they also seem to have forgotten everything about film making itself. This is why I do enjoy watching todays fans analyze and dissect these mega budget CEO wet dreams. Oh, for the days of the low budget cult classics.
For me the good monster hunter movie was the one on Netflix, Legends of the Guild.
They couldn't even get monster movement right. Like, Diablos, it ALWAYS has to dig to burrow into sand. Why does it just sink back into the dunes like as if it was water!? That is not how sand works and ruins my emersion. The ONLY reason I paid money for this film was to see the monsters in higher graphics and hopeful faithfulness to the ecology. BUT THEY COULDN'T EVEN GET THAT RIGHT!
Like listening to your videos when I’m falling asleep or at work, know there so many shows and movies of failed universes to do so you’ll be around for a longtime shows live Velma,Marco polo, alternate carbon etc. just to think of some quick
It should have taken place in the Monster Hunter world instead of being an isekai.
Wait, so this movie DIDN’T end up direct to streaming?
I never played the games, but I have friends who LOVE the games. They have proudly showed me what they have done. So I was excited for the movie. They were crushed by the movie, and I was disappointed. This could have been epic, but was just a failure
Ah so this is what my brother was sleeping thru during how flight home years back
2017’s The Dark Tower could be a good movie for this series, and another Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep technically killed a franchise.
I did not like The Dark Tower film.
Simply, the movie producers twisted the script & picked the acting team mainly to please the Chinese market at the wrong time🤷♀️
What gets me is there was a writers strike for the people responsible for MonHun and borderlands to make more money. If it happens again they should all be made to watch these movies and Star wars the acolyte. Then made to apologize for wasting everyones time.
Could you do city of ember
Oh damn I remember that movie! It felt so weird to watch! Didn’t even feel like a real film
@@jakilla23 well can find I am the biggest fan of City of ember
I didn't even know it existed and I would have been the perfect target audience
Oh wait now that I've seen some of the video I realised I actually have seen this movie. I just forgot it was a monster hunter film because it was nothing like the games and forgot it existed at all because it sucked.
I got pissed off (or maybe i lost interest? Or was it disappointment?) when i saw her kill FUCKING DIABLO IN A SINGLE SWING. Or was it the Rathalos?
Holy crap, it was 2020?
I think this would of been a flop even without the pandemic I’ll never forget the three movies I saw in 2020 during the pandemic onwards New mutants and Freaky you decide what the best pamdemic movie I saw
Oh yeah, it wasn't the quality of the movie, *it was the pandemic!*
I saw this one in theaters. Good times.
Man, I used to be SUCH a Milia Jovovich fan.
You know, before she married some random ass hack director and teamed up to create trash movies.
There being a real world in this movie ruined it from the start
I'm a huge fan of the Monster Hunter game series, in fact it's my favorite game series of all time - I've been there since 2004 on launch day when 99% of US gamers had no idea what the series was (that only changed relatively recently).
The movie was pretty 'meh' and did not reflect the series well at all. So, although it's not horrible that it failed, it is horrible in one specific way: Its failure ensures that this will never be tried again, which kind of pisses me off. I'd imagine a Monster Hunter movie COULD work, but if/when a REAL Monster Hunter movie script is ever brought forward, they are going to point to this movie as the reason why it will not happen. That is pretty BS, 'cuz it was pretty cool seeing prerendered/cinematic versions of the few monsters they depicted.
On a side-note, it also pisses me off that the US did not receive any release of the 3D version. For those that didn't know, the movie was filmed and screened in 3D, but I unfortunately missed the opportunity to see it that way. The PSVR1 does display 3D movies if you use it on a PS4 (for some reason a PSVR1 running through a PS5 does not have this capability, which is frustrating). And, when you ask yourself 'What does it take to make a 3D version available' - It's a piece of plastic; They could've included an extra disk for pennies, but they didn't. Then take a second to think about how much it must've cost them to FILM IT in 3D, and it's just such an obnoxious waste of money, it's nothing short of amazing.
They failed on so many fronts with this movie - Absolute incompetence.
I like the games, and I like Mila - she *can* be a good actress. But. Almost every single film she makes is Terrible - especially if Anderson is involved, as *all* of his films stink. So, despite liking her, and the Monster Hunter series, I knew to avoid this.
Also, Anderson's mediocre film style simply doesn't evolve, and hasn't. His films always feel exactly the same - he feels like a 90s director sticking with the same approach for one hit film then, but repeating the look and feel in *every* film he makes. There's no evolution, no improvement, no reason to see his latest film - it'll be as shoddy as every last film. Look at someone like the Coen Brothers - every film they make has a different look, tone, style and feel, because they push themselves to evolve and craft each film around the story. Anderson does none of the above - he just churns out another identikit film, while the people who liked his films 20 years ago have all grown up, and moved on, leaving his films failing to engage with contemporary audiences. That's the blunt reality - his dated films just don't inspire audience engagement today.
In defense of the Palico(?) CGI… didn’t Cats have like quadruple the budget and actually worse looking cat people? Lmao
Just saying... the warcraft movie is sick and I love it. I do plan to watch the MH movie though. As a long time monster hunter, I do plan to give an in depth review
I watched this movie in theaters and I loved it seen it like three different times in theaters and then I bought the Blu-ray version of this movie. I love this movie. I’ll never play the video game so don’t hate me for that, but I liked it because it was different.
Monster Hunter fan here, I hate the movie with a passion, and not just because it's a bad adaptation.
This movie has probably the worst editing I've seen in any big budget Hollywood production (The only other scene which comes close to being worse, is probably the fence-jumping scene from Taken 3), the dialogue is cringe, Tony Jaa was wasted on this movie ... and the fewer words are spent on the costume of Ron Perlman, the better.
The only good thing about the movie, the monster look good, even if their behaviour doesn't really match their game depictions.
Because they tried showing abunch of stuff and introduce many characters in 90min movie
As someone who doesn’t really like the monster Hunter games (I tried them, they’re just not for me). I was honestly surprised with how much I enjoyed the movie. It was an awesome turn your brain off movie with pretty good special effects and cool monster designs.
Was it a terrible adaptation? Oh absolutely. I have no idea how the concept of basing a movie on a MGS crossover got past drafting, and from every objective standpoint. It’s terrible, with onedimensional characters and one of the most pathetic excuses of an ending i‘ve ever seen (like, that wouldn’t even have been good if we did get a sequel).
But I honestly had a blast with it. I watched it on TV with my dad, and it was just fun watching soldiers and people with oversized weapons kill monsters. It was a bad movie, but a fun waste of 90 minutes.
I liked the Angelina/Lara Croft movies tho.
here's the factors as to why i didn't see it: I've only ever played one (maybe 2 idk) monster hunter game and the one i played barely had any story, so what could the movie possibly be about? 😭monster hunter's fun was in it's gameplay. Secondly, i didn't even like the resident evil's movies, no offense Paul Anderson and whoever liked those movies.
Why an Isekai?
I'm a big Monster Hunter fan, and I even enjoyed the first Resident Evil movie for what it was... But I've never this movie because I simply can't wrap my head around why they decided to make it an Isekai story. Just give me a simple movie with one to four people working together to hunt down practically any monster in the roster and I'd happily watch it, but this? Nah, no thanks, I'll just play the game.
Me and a friend downloaded it and made a drinking game out of it
Mila Jovovich needs to divorce Paul WS Anderson. Her talent is being wasted.
Not a fan of the main actress or the director, so didn't bother seeing it. Shame that not a single capcom ip has a good live action adaptation. The animated ones are decent, though.
Because it was made for the Chinese market specifically, but got banned from China because of a racist joke.
I'm not even exaggerating, the reason we got so many of those terrible Resident Evil movies is because they were a big hit in China and they didn't particularly care about the western market by the time they were making this movie.
The moment I saw modern military people I was OUT. Now it's just a weird sci-fi.
The monsters looked perfect
Loved tony jaw and ron pearlman
Dont even really mind the isekai ish setting
Just think mila looks too old and all hope to go back to home shouldve ended or it shouldve just been set in the mh universe
I feel like if this movie hadnt bombed the sequel wouldve been closer to what was wanted.
Never heard of it
Knowing what happened to Resident Evil I'm sure the sequel would have Milla's character begin to capture the monsters, then train and enter them into monster battles to become the very best. It would be called Monster Hunter: Monster Kombat and have little to no connection to this film.