A PLEA to Arrow!!

[adamjohnson]

(We need a horror rant section!)

Anyway, PLEASE, my man, ARROW, after the Red Hours is doen, and youre a big fat movie making machine, for the love of God

GO BACK AND REMAKE THE RESIDENT EVIL FRANCHISE

Im sick of this Paul Anderson shit. I just played the game last night again, and i jumped a hell of alot more times than those damn movies.

Im sick and tired of seeing the history all fucked up in the movies.

And dammit, I wanna see all my favorite characers on the big screen! Finally! Ive been waiting to see Chris, Leon, Claire, (I guess Jill IS on screen) Wesker, and all the otehr hoo-has since news of the original RE.

I want Survival Horror! Not 'Call Alice, she'll kick his ass"! I want an establishing shot with a million extras dressed as zombies! I want TEETH tearing FLESH!

Please, dude, youre our ONLY HOPE!

[Matchbox225]

Please, dude, youre our ONLY HOPE!


You make it sound like there is a virus going around that changes us into undead maneaters.

I see where your coming from, but they always f*ck up those video game to movie transitions. Unless Arrow actually goes out and takes care of the problem with his ammo and tequila, there will be more coming.

[X-Nightcrawler]

He loved the first, he wouldn't remake it even if he could.

Better, focus on Red Hours, I want to see that one.

[syxxpac]

Yeah, what a bunch of false advertising.

After learning of Nemesis's kung fu shenanigans a while ago, I was puzzled, since I hadn't remembered anything quite like it in the RE3 game. So I went and played it to see if I was just full of shit for worrying.

Well, I played for awhile until Nemesis showed up, and since you'd be hardpressed to find anybody who knows more about RE than Paul Anderson, I trusted his judgment and stood my ground when Nemmy stomped toward me. When he reached me, I quickly jammed on the action button in hopes of blocking his ninja kick or kicking him square in the chops, but unfortunately Jill just stood there while Nemesis picked her up and tossed her like a fucking rag doll. After being paralyzed on the ground for a moment, I got back up, shocked that Jill didn't go Hong Kong Fooey on that motherfucker. So naturally I tried again, telling myself that it must be a glitch. I stood my ground and this time Nemesis swatted me like an insignificant fly.

Perturbed that my kung fu skills were nil in a game whose fans are supposedly looking for that bullshit in a movie adaptation, I dropped Nemesis with my artillery and quickly escaped into the RPD. I then spent the majority of the game searching for that elusive jive turkey L.J., or at least someone like him. I wanted some stereotypical black comic relief, dammit! But sadly, there wasn't any, just a bunch of characters that I found likable or appealing. Bah! Who wants those in a brainless video game?

Another interesting story: sometime after I had seen the RE movie for the second time (where my opinion of it started to go downhill), I decided to play RE2 again just to make sure the RE movie was supposed to be an adaptation of the series. I thought, "Man, I don't remember playing the game as a mindless shooter with obnoxious rock music blaring in the background, but hey - nobody knows as much as Paul Anderson, so I guess I'm just forgetting what it was like." So I pop it in and am surprised that the opening movie actually attempts to build genuine suspense instead of smashing you in the face with eardrum-shattering Marilyn Manson sounds. After that confusion, I was still confident that those zombies had NO GAME, and started out as Leon beside the exploded tanker. I rushed forward, spraying the undead crowding around me with bullets from my pathetic little pistol and quickly running out of ammo. I thought to myself, "This can't be happening! This is supposed to be a mindless shooter! How come I ran out of bullets so fast?" Once again, I was more than a little concerned at the lack of help the movie had given me, so I quickly tried sprinting away from the horde. No such luck, as I was too late, and they gangmunched me to death.

Then came those Cerberuses found in the basement of the RPD. I thought arrogantly, "Psh! I saw the movie. These pooches are a bunch of sweethearts." So I simply took out my handgun and fired at one of the dogs, confident that it would go down with no problem whatsoever. To my surprise, the little undead bastard was rather unfazed by the bullet lodged within it, and took a jumping bite out of my carotid. I stumbled away, and the second dog jumped me despite the fact that I was firing at it repeatedly with my gun. I said "Fuck this!" and decided to take more...direct action. So I pulled out my boomstick and quickly made mincemeat of those little buggers. Afterwards, with my character limping from heavy loss of blood, I said to myself "Daaaaaamn...how the hell did a scantily clad Milla Jovovich take care of five of these fuckers with just a handgun in a small, enclosed area?" A question I wasn't prepared to dwell over, so I quickly moved on.

Later on as Leon, I meet up with the beautiful Ada Wong, and they gradually start falling for each other. I said to myself, Kyle's Mom-style, "Wha wha whaaaaaaa??!! Character development in a mindless action shooter? Say it ain't so!" I shrugged it off, hoping that I could just get back to mindlessly blasting zombies, seeing as how that's the only thing us RE fans want from this series.

After completing Leon's game, I moved on to Claire's scenario, where even MORE surprises awaited me. Yeah, I know what you must be asking yourself - "But Syxxpac - how could this game POSSIBLY surprise you any more?" Good question, and one that I didn't know how to answer until Claire meets up with a little girl and tries to protect her, forming a strong big sister/little sister relationship amid the chaos sort of like Aliens and its Ripley/Newt connection. I thought, "How dare this mindless video game that's known only for its kung fu and short skirts insert such blatant humanity!" I was sure that was the only surprise that came with Claire's game, but I was shocked when the big, bad Mr. X showed up and proved to actually be, *GASP!* scary! After eluding that guy for a while, I made it to the labs, where I found Sherry's concerned mother and she tells me about the tragedy involving her husband and the G-Virus. Once again I thought "How DARE those bastards give these characters depth! They're supposed to be either zombies or people shooting the zombies! Who wants that "story" stuff? Not meeeeeee." After meeting her, I poked around the labs for awhile, searching for the Red Queen and how neat it would be to jump over her deadly lasers, but unfortunately I found no such thing. Dang.

Anyway, to make a long story somewhat shorter, I made it to the end of Claire's game and finally heard rock music!...

...in the fucking credits where it belongs in this horror franchise.

So yes - someone, ANYONE, please remake this series in about ten or fifteen years.

*cough* Jim Cameron, I'm now looking in your direction...

[C-Desecration-]

Adam's right, arrow--give us Horror RANTS. There are so many angry people here.

[RogueSpear]

Originally posted by syxxpac
So yes - someone, ANYONE, please remake this series in about ten or fifteen years.

*cough* Jim Cameron, I'm now looking in your direction...

Why? People would just find something else to bitch about it then, just like they do now. It seems the only thing that will quell the masses is a scene-by-scene remake of the games.

Oh joy! How exciting would that be! I can just picture it now. Pointless scenes of characters wandering around searching for hidden buttons, traps, gems, etc.

At least Anderson had the balls to try and take the franchise in a new direction instead of doing a boring retread of the game.

Give me a branching story with bits and pieces from the game than a movie that follows the exact same plot of the game, anyday.

Damn, this whole thing is getting old.

[syxxpac]

Originally posted by RogueSpear
Why? People would just find something else to bitch about it then, just like they do now. It seems the only thing that will quell the masses is a scene-by-scene remake of the games.

Oh joy! How exciting would that be! I can just picture it now. Pointless scenes of characters wandering around searching for hidden buttons, traps, gems, etc.

Not necessarily. That seems to be an argument based on little imagination.

Have you by chance read the novelizations? New stuff was added, a lot of things from the games were taken out, and dialogue was pretty much completely overhauled. They bore little resemblance to the somewhat repetitive structure and resembled what would best be described as the novelizations of a series of good to even great action/adventure/horror movies. And best of all - no Kung Fu!

http://www.esreality.com/files/images/11071-stimpy.jpg

Happy happy joy joy. At least for me.

At least Anderson had the balls to try and take the franchise in a new direction instead of doing a boring retread of the game.

Give me a branching story with bits and pieces from the game than a movie that follows the exact same plot of the game, anyday.

Damn, this whole thing is getting old.

What you call "balls", I call "ego", so let's just agree to disagree here.

Well, the series WAS a branching and complicated story, but by revamping the mythos and eliminating countless key characters and replacing them with invincibe kung fu action heroines and bling bling comic relief, it's now a lot dumber and lot emptier IMO (you might think otherwise, and that's cool). If I could use an Arrow-esque metaphor here, the RE series used to be the perfect gal that I couldn't help but fall in love with, but now she's lost much of her appeal so she's nothing more than that dumb, bubbleheaded blonde ditz with no personality that I'd only consider banging once before getting the hell out of there.

And to me, the defending of Paul Anderson is getting old.

[The Arrow]

Originally posted by adamjohnson
(We need a horror rant section!)

Anyway, PLEASE, my man, ARROW, after the Red Hours is doen, and youre a big fat movie making machine, for the love of God

GO BACK AND REMAKE THE RESIDENT EVIL FRANCHISE

Im sick of this Paul Anderson shit. I just played the game last night again, and i jumped a hell of alot more times than those damn movies.

Im sick and tired of seeing the history all fucked up in the movies.

And dammit, I wanna see all my favorite characers on the big screen! Finally! Ive been waiting to see Chris, Leon, Claire, (I guess Jill IS on screen) Wesker, and all the otehr hoo-has since news of the original RE.

I want Survival Horror! Not 'Call Alice, she'll kick his ass"! I want an establishing shot with a million extras dressed as zombies! I want TEETH tearing FLESH!

Please, dude, youre our ONLY HOPE!

LOL! Hey bro, I'm far from your only hope, I'm sure a lot of gore fiends on these boards would be way more adequate than me in remaking the RE series "the right way". I've played 1 - 3 and a bit of Code Veronica but that's as far as I went.

Also going through the "ringer" with "Red Hours' has thought me one thing; making movies is freaking hard. I'd rather put all my energy in original material than a remake. At least I'm fighting for something..."MY OWN MATERIAL". Syxxpac should remake RE, he seems to know his shit.

Just don't touch the prequel (Anderson's RE), I loved it the way it was!

Cheers! Time to go party! ITS THE WEEKEND! YIPPEE!

Have a good one guys!

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by The Arrow
Also going through the "ringer" with "Red Hours' has thought me one thing; making movies is freaking hard. I'd rather put all my energy in original material than a remake. At least I'm fighting for something..."MY OWN MATERIAL". Syxxpac should remake RE, he seems to know his shit.

Just don't touch the prequel (Anderson's RE), I loved it the way it was!
! Yeah, I thought you were going to reply that and I agree 100%. I mean, everyone in this boards are always complaining about remakes. Also, I agree that the original RE is quite awesome 9/10.

Me? I don't think the movies should be remade.

[syxxpac]

Perhaps I should clarify - it's not so much that I'd like to see the RE movies as they are right now remade, but more along the lines of actually adapting the series so they'll be, ya know, Resident Evil in more than name only.

[Shockwave]

Perhaps I should clarify - it's not so much that I'd like to see the RE movies as they are right now remade, but more along the lines of actually adapting the series so they'll be, ya know, Resident Evil in more than name only.

Yeppers.

Making them into movies that can actualy scare something other then a pre-teen helps as well.:(

[adamjohnson]

Originally posted by syxxpac
Perhaps I should clarify - it's not so much that I'd like to see the RE movies as they are right now remade, but more along the lines of actually adapting the series so they'll be, ya know, Resident Evil in more than name only.

Exactly. I never meant remake the MOVIES. I meant make the games into the movies they should have been. In essence, remaking the movies accordig to the games.

If I could make it I would. The first scenes would be like the games. But I have vaiations in mind, mind you. Since my original draft ive made lots of changes, but like Arrow, Im more focused on my original material at the moment.

Thje original wasnt bad, when there were zombies on screen. And Alice was ninja kicking dobermans. But there was just so much missed oppurtunity.

Hopefully some day, I WILL get to mak one. It would be a highlight. I know I could do it justice... friends.

[ChemicalRomance]

Originally posted by adamjohnson
(We need a horror rant section!)

Anyway, PLEASE, my man, ARROW, after the Red Hours is doen, and youre a big fat movie making machine, for the love of God

GO BACK AND REMAKE THE RESIDENT EVIL FRANCHISE

Im sick of this Paul Anderson shit. I just played the game last night again, and i jumped a hell of alot more times than those damn movies.

Im sick and tired of seeing the history all fucked up in the movies.

And dammit, I wanna see all my favorite characers on the big screen! Finally! Ive been waiting to see Chris, Leon, Claire, (I guess Jill IS on screen) Wesker, and all the otehr hoo-has since news of the original RE.

I want Survival Horror! Not 'Call Alice, she'll kick his ass"! I want an establishing shot with a million extras dressed as zombies! I want TEETH tearing FLESH!

Please, dude, youre our ONLY HOPE!

Did you by any chance read my post on Current Movie Talk last night...?

It was me. Groaning how theres no movie about the mansion. The third game is the fucking second movie. AND I NEED, SOME FUCKING, ALBERT WESKER.

[pyscho dude]

Lets face it guys... Anderson screwed up. He took an awesome/suspenseful/scary video game series and turned them into generic/martial arts/hip hop crap. I highly doubt Anderson is a fan. Would a real fan do that to the games movies?

[Shockwave]

I wouldnt "remake" RE as much as id just take my own ideas and form my own zombie movie, thus calling it "Bio-Hazard!"

..with a plot that remarkable resembles the first RE game.:)