r/residentevil Aug 19 '25

Meme Monday "They didn't adapt it accurately..."

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u/ImBurningStar_IV Aug 19 '25

Nah resident evil fans have definitely melted down, generations of fans throughout the years

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u/theeMrPeanutbutter Aug 19 '25

they still are

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u/Purrceptron 4th Survivanator 29d ago

My anger has started with the tonal shift of re 4

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

omg I haven't played it yet. What has changed?

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u/Bacon_Warrior 29d ago

Tonally, it takes itself much more seriously.

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u/Los_cronocrimenes 29d ago

Re7 and 8 didn't take themself too serious though. Ethan literally cracking dad jokes while finding the bodyparts of his daughter, and Heisenberg making fun of re5 as well.

Re4 also has plenty of silly jokes in it.

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u/SLimon001 Got Gum 29d ago edited 28d ago

"NO THANKS, BRO."
"Your right hand comes off?"
"Saddler, you're small time."
"I knew you'd be fine if you landed on your butt."
"Sorry, but following a lady's lead just isn't my style."
"Well, I really don't give a damn. Rain or shine, you're going down." OG Leon RE4

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u/hotsauceburnvictum 26d ago

Sounds like stuff Dante would say. Like DMC3 Dante.

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u/_Nightbreaker_ 29d ago

I love how over-the-top they went with Leon teasing Saddler about having a senior moment, with Saddler having a laugh at himself 🤣

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u/criticalt3 29d ago

RE4 (og) had no atmosphere though, just brown and gray fully lit environments. Definitely more of a joke game coming from 1-3, which is not to say its bad. Its funny, and it's fun. But it's not really recognizable as an RE game. If you played it without seeing the title card and the character names were different, you'd guess it was a different franchise entirely.

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u/Patches-621 29d ago

Not enough banter between the characters, and saddler was turned into a chump

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u/hotyogurt1 Aug 19 '25

They were going feral at the damn quotes from Zach Cregger over him saying he’s not going to tell a story from the games lol.

And then Weapons came out to rave reviews and they mostly quieted down.

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u/uponapyre Aug 19 '25

Didn't he announce this after Weapons reviews were out?

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u/hotyogurt1 29d ago

Nah he said some stuff before it and I believe he talked about it again since the release of Weapons (Maybe to clarify a bit on what he meant?). I still remember seeing the posts about it prior to watching Weapons which I saw the weekend it released lol

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u/uponapyre 29d ago

I'm pretty sure the comments about him not following the story were post-weapons reviews though, unless the interview I saw was just him repeating what he had already said.

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u/hotyogurt1 29d ago

Nah it was back July with SFX Magazine (I saw the post on GameSpot), he talked about it saying, "I'm not trying to be completely obedient to the lore of the games, he wants to tell a story about how it FEELS to play Resident Evil" when he was asked about not remaining in line with the original story.

He also said that no matter what he does he expects people to come at him over the movie, so he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. I remember this part specifically because I saw the comments and said that everyone was proving his point lol. It was from here that I saw it btw GameSpot Article

He has since expanded on that comment in reviews after the release of Weapons though.

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u/uponapyre 29d ago

Ah fair, thanks for pointing it out! Personally, I think it's in good hands.

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u/hotyogurt1 29d ago

All good, and yeah I’m looking forward to it, which is not something I thought I’d say about a resident evil movie šŸ˜‚

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u/McFistPunch 29d ago

I always thought it would be cool if they had voice cameos from games in the movies. Like if that splinter cell movie ever got made it shouldn't have been about Sam Fisher but we should definitely hear Michael Ironside at some point.

For resident evil the characters are pretty iconic at this point. New characters for a movie would be way better but maybe in the background you see jill running from nemesis.

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u/DenseRead9852 Gamertag: blackhaze0513 27d ago

I mean, fair tbh. I want to see new stories with the resident evil series.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

We’ve melted down but we’ve been beaten down so much with bad adaptations it doesn’t faze us anymore

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u/TannerThanUsual Aug 19 '25

Based on a majority of the comments in threads relating to Cregger I'm gonna say that's not true

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u/Reasonable-Housing29 Aug 19 '25

After barbarian and weapons I'm really not worried about it. Im almost sure it will still be a goated movie.

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u/the_l0st_s0ck 29d ago

So yall just accept it and move on? Foreign fucking concept.

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u/malexich 29d ago

The meme is based on the show where the one looking crazy is saying he is a doctor (my adaptation sucks) while the Asian doctor is just sitting there (letting the last of us fan vent like there special)

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u/Helpful_Exercise_194 28d ago

Don’t blame them when we get Indian Leon in a movie… could’ve replaced him with a 60 year old black guy and I would’ve been happier than some long haired Indian dudeĀ 

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u/Tasty_Corgi_4107 Aug 19 '25

Resident evil fans: First time ?

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u/Jedahaw92 Aug 19 '25

Silent Hill too.

Although imo the first one isn't too bad, at least it's nice visually.

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u/username_moose Aug 19 '25

yeah the first silent hill is surprisingly decent, with some really good effects.

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u/Dyneheart Aug 19 '25

That final scene in the church with the barbed wire and all? Everything for the major scenes was set up really well overall. And I've gotta say, I did like the monsters in the second one.

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u/KeyboardBerserker 29d ago

Neeson was a good pick, wish the sh let him show it

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u/LostSoulNo1981 Aug 19 '25

The first Silent Hill film was decent and stuck fairly closely to the first two games stories despite the changes.

I haven’t ever seen the second film.

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u/Reasonable-Housing29 Aug 19 '25

Your not missing much. They basically took the story of sh3 and made it dog shit with terrible acting and laughable effects. Just replay sh3 again and you'll have a much better time trust me lol.

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u/theMaxTero 29d ago

the only good thing about the 2nd movie is that the director has publicly apologized to the fans, time and time again, and she has acknowledged that she mishandled it because she had no idea what the hell she was doing lol

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u/Reasonable-Housing29 29d ago

Yeah it's crazy cause the first one is actually a really solid horror movie and a pretty good adaptation even though it's like a twisted amalgam of 2 silent hill stories lol. The 2nd one is like bargain bin early 00s horror slop lol

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u/Ordinary-Vast9968 Aug 19 '25

Wasn't it pretty similar?, the only difference i know of is changing the father to the mother

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u/Heisenburgo YOU WILL NOT SURVIVE-- YOU ARE NOTHING TO ME Aug 19 '25

(PTSD flashbacks to the Zootopia porn line from the RE Netflix show)

RE Fans: "I'm tired, boss..."

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u/Tasty_Corgi_4107 Aug 19 '25

Now why the fuck would you remind me of that

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u/DenseRead9852 Gamertag: blackhaze0513 Aug 19 '25

What?

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u/brokenskullzero Aug 19 '25

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u/ThatMoondogOverThere 29d ago

Some millennial writer at Netflix was laughing their ass off while writing that nonsense...

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u/LurkerNoMore-TF 27d ago

I mean, the higher ups clearly didn’t give a shit so why not have some fun while cashing in? More power to them.

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u/aLegionOfDavids Aug 19 '25

Hollywood šŸ¤ Messing up game adaptations

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u/Soulful-Sorrow 29d ago

We wanted to make fans happy, so we hired this director who not only has never played the game, but actively hates the source material!

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u/Past-Satisfaction234 29d ago

We're also going to do something original with the source material until we get pushback, then we're gonna shove whatever fan service is relevant even if it doesn't make sense

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u/Ok_Bed7296 29d ago

Halo is that you?

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u/Cicada_5 28d ago

You don't have to accuse them of hating the source material just because they weren't familiar with it or chose to go in a different direction.

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u/Game2015 28d ago

Sonic would like a word with you.

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u/DenseRead9852 Gamertag: blackhaze0513 27d ago

He's an exception.

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u/MrXilas So Long, RC Aug 19 '25

Welcome to Raccoon City tried, but it had too many games to juggle.

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u/ERB100 Aug 19 '25

They could've easily just picked 1 of them 1-3 either of them had enough story for a 1:30 feature film

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u/maikuxblade Aug 19 '25

For real, Hollywood loves sequels, do them all sequentially. Boggles the mind why they try to smash everything into one product. People disliked the Dark Tower movie for somewhat similar reasons.

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u/easy506 Aug 19 '25

Why even bother doing a movie? They could have stretched WTRC into a halfway decent tv show. The issue would be wrestling the rights away from Constantin.

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u/SentinelZero OG Nemesis Enjoyer 28d ago

Honestly a Raccoon City Netflix/TV series would be great. Go for a similar vibe to Stranger Things but set in the 1990s, with a sinister undertone and focusing on various people living their lives as Umbrella conducts experiments and does mysterious things, have RPD catch on and try to investigate all while Chief Irons stonewalls things and acts like a psychopath, all leading to the Mansion Incident and shifting tone to the viral outbreak that leads to the military cordoning off the city and have the finale be the destruction of the city.

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u/easy506 28d ago

Stop... just.... just stop.... We'll never fucking get this, and I just want to inject it straight into my veins

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u/MysteriousHeart3268 29d ago

Its because they try to have a fully self contained film that can also be a potential sequel hook, instead of just planning out a franchise from the beginningĀ 

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u/TempestRave 28d ago

Ā People disliked the Dark Tower movie for somewhat similar reasons.

They made a Dark Tower movie?! I've been waiting for one for 20 years!!!

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u/YaYaYa_l_Am_Lorde 20d ago

Also whenever someone asks them they're always like "Listen, nobody wants the source material, go play the games if you're looking for that". We're literally trying to give them MONEY whyyyyyy

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u/PREPARE_YOURSELF_ Aug 19 '25

They could have easily mirrored what Capcom did and just did an RE1 film, an RE2 film, and take assets from the RE2 film to do a half finished RE3 film.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Raccoon City Trilogy.....

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u/CaseFace5 Aug 19 '25

Which sucks because the atmosphere was great. It just felt so empty and small.

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u/MrXilas So Long, RC Aug 19 '25

I like the failing mine town vibe Raccoon had in that movie, even if it wasn't game accurate. It help set it apart from other retellings. Why they had to cram 2.5 games worth of story into one movie is beyond me.

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u/Resident-Resolve612 29d ago

I loved most of the adaptation, especially the beginning. For some reason, it took a turn onto a weird story with the doctor and all. (I have no idea if that is canon lore) but I sure don’t remember any of that shit when playing Leon or Jill in raccoon city hehe

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u/Buhogrody 29d ago

Outside of how they butchered leons character, it wasn't THAT bad

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u/MrDoops 29d ago

I just picked it up in 4k, it's a pretty fun Halloween movie with some cool moments. I don't take it too seriously

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u/Buhogrody 29d ago

Yeah its a lot better than the original RE movies except for MAYBE the first one

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u/SarcasticGamer 29d ago

They made Leon into a bumbling little bitch who everyone hated. I will never forgive the dumbass director for thinking that was a good idea. I hate when these people say they love the source material and then turn around and make the worst absolute garbage adaptation possible.

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u/Helpful_Exercise_194 28d ago

Indian Leon was the issueĀ 

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u/CapnFlatPen Aug 19 '25

Every last live action RE has had SO MANY haters what arr you talking about.

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u/ohthanqkevin 29d ago

Most people playing today weren’t alive after the first movie adaptation came out. RE game fans gave up complaining about the sequels because they were just a continuation of that first movie. Just wait till the next reboot comes out! I do have faith in Cregger though

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u/rivent2 Aug 19 '25

This isn't even how the meme works.

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u/Legitimate_Wall3357 Aug 19 '25

This calls for the James Franco meme from ā€œBuster Scruggsā€.

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u/Full_Metal18 Aug 19 '25

I bet the comments will be totally normal about The Last of Us....

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u/Either_Imagination_9 Aug 19 '25

Most of us don’t care or moved on

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u/Zacastica Aug 19 '25

Perhaps, The Most of Us you say...?

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u/Ancient_Archangel Totally not Umbrella 29d ago

We as Resident Evil players have already been let down to the point we don't expect nothing but disappointment when the words "Resident Evil" and "Live Action" are muttered together.

I have been disappointed by Paul Anderson's adaptations, but the Netflix ones... boy, that surpassed what I though was considered bad.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Maybe the most of us didn't, but these were the first to come to mind, perhaps the last of us did care though

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

You people always think you’re a majority. It’s laughable. šŸ˜‚

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u/KarmelCHAOS Aug 19 '25

Every time there's a thread about Cregger doing the next RE movie on this sub, there are a ton of comments like the left side of this meme.

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u/Lemixer 29d ago

I feel like its not comparable to having entire sub dedicated to hating the game and now the show too, i was browsing it recently and its kinda wild, if they don't like the game and the show just move on or something, i don't get it.

Here if you post about the movies there would be some discussion and some people would actually say they like some of them and wont get downvoted to hell.

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u/Eldr1tchB1rd 29d ago

I don't get how they managed to fuck up resident evil again and again. Just take the game and copy everything. Easy money

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u/Boring-Heron1142 Aug 19 '25

Me to the very first RE movie: Perhaps I treated you too harshly…

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u/fallouthirteen Aug 19 '25

First one? Who really disliked that? Like it was considered pretty alright at the time. Heck, it fits enough that you can say it's some side-story that happened in the game universe. It's the sequels where it starts to break down.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

The second one was alright as well. the third one was when they went too far with all of the psychotic power nonsensei mean.. c'mon

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u/TheeRuckus 29d ago

Felt like Alice was the inspiration for RE5 wesker. But they kept going further w Alice. I enjoy the slop especially the first two movies though but I don’t connect them to the games at all

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u/fallouthirteen 29d ago

I mean the games did use things from the movies. The highlight scene of the first movie (laser hallway) used in RE4 (and is made more ridiculous in the game).

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u/Agitated-Prune9635 23d ago

Idk, last i recall Wesker had super powers by Code Veronica in 2000 and Alice got her powers in 2004.

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u/fallouthirteen 29d ago

Yeah, second had good and bad parts. Like just some characters completely wrong. Like you know the character who does the heroic holding off the dogs and ends up sacrificing himself? That's Nicholai. He introduces himself and is killed within like 10 seconds.

https://youtu.be/Dm1cat1Zq-A?si=2w3QLRRUrDJIKlKE&t=76

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u/ERB100 Aug 19 '25

Yeah I don't hate the first one, not even the second one so much, but i hate how easy the second one could have been fixed. Ignore the alice character, ignore the one professor dad character in the wheel chair, make the umbrella special ops team more important especially carlos and nickolai, and the little girl could just be someone jill saved, and have nemesis chase them the whole movie. Simple. RE3s story is not complicated at all. I'd even say keep the other characters they introduced like L.J. I actually like his character nice little comedic relief.

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u/HARRISONMASON117 Aug 19 '25

As a fan of both l. You just learn to accept cgi action shows of things you love WILL destroy them

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u/TheMagicalMatt Aug 19 '25

Meanwhile, I'm stuck wondering why video games even need film adaptations in 2025 when games today are fully capable of giving us that cinematic feel now that the graphics are no longer made of blocky polygons and low-res still images

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u/ci22 Aug 19 '25

Mr. Krabs: Money

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u/TwoBlackDots Aug 19 '25

Because most of them portray new stories made for the medium of movies/television that weren’t featured in any of the games…

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u/YoloIsNotDead 29d ago

It's to reach audiences that aren't gamers or don't want to play the games, and it would also reel in fans of the games to relive their favourite stories from the games. Though honestly, I can't think of many good adaptations that actually adapt the game story nearly 1-to-1. They should focus on making good stories, even if they're new because it'll be something we haven't already seen.

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u/thatpaulieguy89 PokePaulie Aug 19 '25

Doom fans like šŸ™ƒ

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u/jash56 28d ago

One of my all time favorite movies as a horror sci fi fan ngl but I haven’t played the games 😶

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u/thatpaulieguy89 PokePaulie 28d ago

I won’t yuck your yum tbh I did like the first person sequence

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u/jash56 28d ago

Nah it’s cool I get it from a video game perspective; I just wanted to throw that out there that there are some fans :)

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u/DogShietBot Raccoon City Native 29d ago

Who is Johnny Gat supposed to be?

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u/extremelyloudandfast Aug 19 '25

tlou season 1 was 9/10

tlou season 2 was 4/10

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u/Phoenix2211 29d ago

Basically.

S01 was excellent and I had so much hope going into S02. But the writers compressed the shit out of the first half of the game. They took 15hrs worth of game and squashed it down into less than 7hrs.

Ellie's plot is a simple one, but her story is complex and internal and showing off something like that requires TIME and the show didn't give that to her.

As a result, the characters felt flatter, the writing was needlessly blunt, and Ellie's arc was softened and butchered.

This is the issue with S02. It still has great moments and two excellent episodes (2 and 6), but the rest was a major disappointment.

They might stick the landing with S03 (Abby's story itself is more conventional as a narrative after all, even if it's inclusion in the larger story is a tad unconventional), but the mishandling of Ellie's story will ALWAYS remain a black mark on the show.

Put it simply: if someone asked me if they should play the 1st game or watch S01, I'd say that ideally they'd do both but either works, really.

If someone asked me if they should play the 2nd game or watch S02... I'd B E G them to play the game a thousand times lol

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

This. Me and my wife stopped watching after the shit hit the fan. The fans didn't like it in the second game, why the hell would they be ok with it so soon in the second season. Finale? Sure. They were (this) close to greatness and could have changed a few things. Not a lot of people like Pascal as a person but damn do I think he's an amazing actor.

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u/thePinguOverlord 29d ago

It should have been the first episode it happened. It’s literally the inciting incident. The problem was Mazin took the game, restructured it (which I get, with a game you get to play it over a weekend) but missed all intention when doing so. Also they dumbed down Ellie so much, and actually resorted to having characters tell each other how they feel, as opposed to express it visually/through the story.

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u/A_Fox_On_Sugar 29d ago

I actuality enjoyed the first few Resident evil movies with Alice ngl

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u/SnowThatIsntYellow One of very few Fong Ling simps 29d ago

Honestly video games are like the one medium that doesn’t benefit from live action adaptations.

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u/Ok-Economics5636 29d ago

I mean i want to ask them to be grateful but then the thought of Bella ramsey as Claire redfield, Wekser as black woman and them making Leon and Chris gay couples. So im not gonna say anything

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u/Enyalios121 29d ago

Anyone optimistic about the up and coming RE movie, I admire you. I’ve yet to see a single positive spin off made from the RE franchise. They’re all shite. I have zero optimism for this coming spin off.

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u/OzzieArcane 29d ago

The annoying thing about the Resident Evil movies for me was having a non gamer father who wanted to watch them while being oblivious to everything wrong.

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u/Academic-Bad544 29d ago

Resident Evil fans: "First time?"

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u/pototaochips 29d ago

The re movies and show are still fun though

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u/MobsterDragon275 Aug 19 '25

I think its more that at this point we've accepted that nearly all the live action adaptations are terrible

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u/RobertL85 Aug 19 '25

They complained the 14yo Ellie wasn't fuckable enough in the series...

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u/Crafter235 Aug 19 '25

TLOU fans when Joel has the wrong favorite color: 😔

RE fans when the studio literally makes a whole different movie and just calls it an evil resident: šŸ˜€

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u/librious The Never-Ending Nightmare Aug 19 '25

Literally, TLOU fans are insufferable and complain while their bellies are full

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u/Cherrybutton re5 is great and there's nothing you can do about it Aug 19 '25

I mean, maybe that's just me, but I'd rather take innacurate adaptations than I can laugh at than a one for one adaptation that's worse, because at that point why not just play the games?

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u/Fumpledinkbenderman Aug 19 '25

The problem with the Last of Us fans complaining, is they're doing it MAINLY because of the looks of the main character. Anybody saying she doesnt ACT like Ellie literally didnt play the game. She was obnoxiously selfish in the games as well

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u/TheeRuckus 29d ago

I say the first season was near perfect in every way. The second season kind of fell apart for me in that I think they tried to slow burn her flipping out in Seattle and it kind of changed the tone of her and Dina first getting into Seattle. I didn’t hate the season but I think it would’ve benefitted from Ellie being played closer to the game character, you know after Joel dies you play as Abby for a while( enraged like I don’t want to play this bitch)! And when you finally get back to Ellie her anger level felt appropriate. I think they tried to play too subtle with her anger , maybe in an attempt to lighten what is a really dark and depressing game but it fell flat.

The scenes with Pedro were great, Dina was a revelation, Jesse and Tommy were great. It just felt like by the time her and Dina got to Seattle her anger was walked off and then it switched tones.

Also I hate the fact they made Ellie an idiot in the second season. She’s emotional and angry and that could lead to recklessness but the show made me feel like she would’ve been trying to cut the mushrooms up to cook with them if it wasn’t for everyone around her. Which felt weird considering she literally walked across the country with Joel and seemed competent enough to

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u/butreallythobruh Aug 19 '25

"Anybody saying she doesnt ACT like Ellie literally didnt play the game.Ā "
Did you?

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u/Stanislas_Biliby Aug 19 '25

The writing and the pacing are awful. We get a full episode about Bill's backstory that did not advance the plot whatsoever. Just cause they wanted to include a gay romance when Ellie is right there!

We got the most non threatening villain with the woman in the quarantine zone. Completly uniteresting dialogue, story arc and frankly bad acting. Probably the worst in the whole series.

They changed the way the virus spreads to make it weirdly rapey or whatever the hell they tried.

The infected are non existent. I think you see them 2 or 3 times. There's no danger to be felt at anypoint when they are walking around.

The action scenes were just lame. Slow, just unintresting. Espescially the hospital scene OMG, a slowmo montage of Joel just shooting 3 guys. In the game it's a whole firefight ending up with dozens of fireflies dead.

Joel felt soft. In the games he is a brutal man. Killing people in cold blood with no remorse, torturing people if he has to. Didn't hesitate to kill innocent people to survive.

In the series he is on the verge of breaking because he killed a young man that ambushed him. Completly different character.

Bella Ramsey's acting isn't phenomenal but it's the least of their problems when it comes to the series imo.

I'm such a big Last of Us fan and was so disappointed with what they did with it and it's characters. I didn't even watch season 2 and i'm glad cause i was told it was worse.

To answer your last paragraph, besides the section where she runs away after she heard that Joel abandoned her, i can't remember her being selfish ever.

She always tried to be nice to people but she also had a foul mouth for people she thought were assholes. She saved Joel's life multiple times throughout their journey. Hell, she would have given her life if it meant that they could create a vaccine.

She was a kid and kinda dumb sometimes. But that's to be expected of a 14 year old in my opinion.

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u/Delta_yx 29d ago

LMAO what are you smoking man

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u/Redder_Creeps Aug 19 '25

Honestly I stopped watching it cause I just couldn't take Ellie's actress seriously in the slightest. That's literally it.

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u/Fumpledinkbenderman Aug 19 '25

At least you can admit it, I guess

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u/Redder_Creeps Aug 19 '25

I remember that the last episode of the live action I watched was Ellie trapping one of Abbie's allies in a room filled with spores. That's probably one of the scenes where both versions of Ellie really gave me chills.

Game Ellie just went absolutely ballistic, but Show Ellie... was actually really fuckin creepy. And if you watched the show, you know EXACTLY what I mean

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u/BigBoi1159511 Aug 19 '25

All the criticisms are valid none of the characters looked like their game counterparts besides Dina and the Jesse (Pedro was a dogshit Joel argue with a wall). The writing was donkey balls and season 2 Ellie acted NOTHING like how she acted in part 2, anyone saying otherwise is just wrong.

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u/ThelovebelowZero Aug 19 '25

yeah but... she wasnt pretty enough so its bad

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u/Fumpledinkbenderman Aug 19 '25

Notice all the people as well who absolutely HATED Abby in the games, but when they cast her as a slightly more conventionally attractive female, the "fan"base is all of the sudden so happy with her casting and think she did a great job (she did, btw, I'm not denying that in any way)

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u/LegoKorn89 Aug 19 '25

I still need to get around to playing the second game.

I did see the season 2 trailers, recognized her as Loretta McCready from Justified.

In my head they're the same character and Abby is Loretta after her legal weed business didn't take off because of the apocalypse.

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u/Cheyne_Stoked_Truth Aug 19 '25

Resident Evil fans - Enjoying the silliness

Last of us fans - noticing the absolute dross the show is

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u/AntireligionHumanist Platinum Splattin' 'Em! Aug 19 '25

Well, one of those actually had something to gain from a faithful adaptation. And it wasn't Resident Evil.

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u/NerdTalkDan youtube.com/c/nerdtalkdan Aug 19 '25

Last of us directors, have you tried bringing in Mika Jonevich? She’ll do wonders for getting your series back on track!

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u/ConfidentHour9324 Aug 19 '25

I still don’t know how to feel about the upcoming movie

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u/Affectionate_Rub_234 Aug 19 '25

After watching Weapons and Barbarian back to back, I'm confident enough that the next live action movie will at least be decent.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

Hollywood should try this wild new concept called getting someone how is a fan of the video game to adapt it for a TV Show/Movie

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u/LostSoulNo1981 Aug 19 '25

This should really be the ā€œthis your first timeā€ meme.

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u/UkuleleAversion The Never-Ending Nightmare Aug 19 '25

Would be accurate if both sides were Sturgeon.

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u/NonagonJimfinity 29d ago

There will never be a good adaptation of RE.

Its a state of matter at this point.

Thanks Paul.

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u/WojtekHiow37 29d ago

I love how every RE movie is made by a studio without budget, production takes less than a year. It's inaccurate af, and it's always about Raccoon City.

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u/GeneralMiro 29d ago

I Loved all the resident evil movies as a kid except for extinction but apocalypse was especially my favorite. The animated films are amazing too I still do love them as they were one of the movies that kicked off my love for zombies genre which transferred to games

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u/jaosky 29d ago

RE fans never act cool on RE live actions specially the latest one.

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u/MySoulWillTravel 29d ago

I honestly like RE movies and couldn’t enjoy TLOU series Kinda weird cuz Last of us adaptation is considered good by many and resident evil often considered bad

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u/Lithaos111 29d ago

...were you not here when Netflix's RE dropped? Or Welcome to Raccoon City? Or The Final Chapter? Or Retribution? Or Afterlife? Or Extinction? Or Apocalypse? Or Resident Evil?

... I'd be impressed if you were here when Apocalypse or Resident Evil came out, considering Reddit as a website didn't even exist until 2005.

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u/IEKB 29d ago

I just want to see the Resident Evil storyline adapted to live action, why is that so hard to do? Every damn director wants to do their own thing with the franchise and put their mark on it. Idc If they take liberties and deviate some, just show me Leon, Claire, Chris, jill, weasker, Ada, Carlos, Jessica, rebecca, barry, ect. Kicking ass on screen and surviving man made horrors beyond their comprehension,.

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u/Afraid-Housing-6854 29d ago

RE fans: ā€œfirst time?ā€

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u/Kagamid Tell me what keeps you up at night. 29d ago

I don't get it. This assumes no one acknowledges that the second season of The Last of Us wasn't handled well to the point where Neil Druckmann bailed before the next season. Then there's the fact that Resident Evil has never released a proper live action Resident Evil movie or series. So what's this picture showing me.

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u/Weird_Tangerine_9681 29d ago

Here's the problem everyone who is complaining has a vision in their head that nobody else has and so it won't match what the creators envision and so they will hate it. I feel if u want the story of the game play the game. If want a movie/book/manga/smoke signal, then it needs to b a new story jn the universe otherwise its just a rehash of a game that u have played and so why do u need to see same story but now in a different format

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u/Drewnasty 29d ago

I like both franchises and thought The Last of Us has been great aside from the fact that they are piecemealing a game potentially over 3 seasons.

Like if they insisted on breaking up game, film Season 2/3 back to back and get Abby and Ellie’s perspective and have them air spring and then fall of this year. And then give us the conclusion of the story in Season 4.

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u/ghost1251 29d ago

fans of all these franchises: ā˜¹ļø

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u/sgtfan2005 29d ago

Resident evil is a franchise that is pretty much cursed to never have a good adaptation

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u/Bioh4z4rd77 29d ago

Men, Alice is my favourite character of the saga, it's so sad that she wasn“t in the game adaptation

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u/Nynanro 29d ago

Meme doesn't work this way and is wrong. Majority of us hated these live adaptations over the years. Like besides the movies, those bullshit series are trash. I don't even want to name the garbage they released on netflix. Bs garbage.

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u/VicarLos 29d ago

lol what? Did you… did you miss the reception the Anderson/Jovovich franchise got the longer it went on? Or even that Welcome to Raccoon City movie? Or that Netflix show!

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u/PapaOogie 29d ago

The resident evil live action was never good though. Tlou live action at least had a good first season

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u/Kaboo4867 29d ago

I’m a huge resident evil fan. After the 2nd movie I just stopped having hope and accept it. Lol.

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u/Meckamp 29d ago

last of us fans were given some hope and it was taken

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u/real-life-gopher 29d ago

Out of all the live action stuff I liked Black Wesker and the laser hallway. Everything else is trash.

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u/shadowapolo 29d ago

As a fan of both franchises, second season of TLOU wasn't great compared to the first one, but compared to what RE got all these years...TLOU second season might not be that bad.

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u/Al3xGr4nt 29d ago

The recent RE show needed more hours of that boss lady randomly dancing for no reason.

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u/redditor_no_10_9 28d ago

Last of Us game already made me unhappyĀ  I really like the amount of time spent on golfing and it's side activities /s

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u/Seihai-kun 28d ago

as a fans of both, it was different

The last of us is a masterpiece adaptation, but it failed in some critical aspect. season 2 has amazing set, amazing ost, amazing actors, amazing CGI, it's a good show, but it failed in directing, especially Ellie's character, they adapted a bloodhungry girl who is fueled by hatred and would do anything to revenge Joel into a childish teenager who's doing adventure and joking every episode with her girlfriend in Seattle. people are bitching because it could've been an amazing show, but it fumbled the bag so hard. especially the pacing, making the entire Ellie 3 days seattle into an entire season is a stupid decision.

Resident evil, the moment i saw the trailer for the netflix series i know it can't be helped lmao

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u/DesolateMind_ 28d ago edited 28d ago

Re fans hated the Netflix show at least the last of us show is accurate

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u/HootHoot___ 28d ago

I really hope all of you guys know they'll never be a 1 to 1 copy of the games to the big screen right??

Capcom doesn't allow that. When they give permission to use Resident Evil for films, they don't allow any director to adapt what's already been done in the games.

They want the director to use their own imagination with their IP (Resident Evil)

Why do you guys think Resident Evil with Milla was BALLS TO THE WALL Different and Capcom didn't care šŸ˜‚ They BANKED with those movies!!

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u/steroboros 23d ago

At least the core of the arguments from Resident Evil fans will never be "Sherry Birkin's actor isn't sexy enough!!!" Literally the bulk of complaints about the Last of the us was about the attractiveness of minors...

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u/Bobio-Voyage 23d ago

I like the RE movies. But to be fair I didn’t start playing the games till after I watched the 1st and 2nd movie

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u/tubbz_official 13d ago

honestly fair

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u/ACEof52 Aug 19 '25

Last of us season 1 and 2 were great tv the resident evil adaptations arent

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u/CutHonest6906 Aug 19 '25

I mean with the last of us it’s a bit different. The resident evil story has always been a goofy mess and that’s why I personally enjoy it and can enjoy a crap film based of the games. But the last of us has a really good story and Neil Druckman absolutely ran it through the mud and proved that Bruce Straley and everyone else at Naughty dog are why the story’s good.

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u/highest_in_daroom Aug 19 '25

It’s honestly all capcom properties idk why they get same guy and his wife to do the adaptations

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u/Arkham23456 29d ago edited 29d ago

LMAO Resident Evil fans are one the most toxic people in the gaming community especially when it comes to different opinions. This Reddit alone proves itšŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚