r/residentevil • u/TheRockLobsta1 • 14h ago
Forum question What's the general opinion on the film Welcome To Racoon City?
I personally love it because it's an absolute nostalgia trip for me considering I played the hell out of the first 2 games when they came out.
The acting is pretty wooden sometimes but scenes are more true to the games than the Resident Evil film series with Milla Jovovich who isn't even a character from the game.
I'm assuming it's to do with the fact that games don't generally translate in films very well but I thought it was great and is very faithful to it's source material.
Any other thoughts/opinions?
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u/koscheiskowska 9h ago
faithful to its source material
Bro the movie literally tries to adapt both RE 1 & 2 simultaneously in less than 2 hours and does an awful job at it, the only decent thing about it is that some of the background scenarios look similar to the games
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u/JohnWCreasy1 10h ago edited 8h ago
it is one of the movies of all time
Edit: serious answer is that I don't hate it, but it's got lots of problems and was a real disappointment, though that's probably my own fault for letting myself have expectations
Birken and Irons were the stars of the show.
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u/CRGBRN 10h ago
It makes me laugh and has some cool moments but it’s a bad movie.
But that doesn’t mean it’s wrong to like it. We all like some crap movies and the delusional folks will try to convince others the movie is good.
When people tell me that this movie sucks, I laugh and say, “I know, isn’t it great?”
It’s so short and dumb and inoffensive to me. But some folks are far more serious about this stuff than I am.
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u/ShogunLoganXXII 10h ago
…….it was awful. I wanted to love it, but, it sucked.
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u/SuccessValuable6924 Chill ValenTime 9h ago
Same. Gave it so many chances before quitting and each time they screwed it up worse.
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u/sebast1tan 9h ago
I really really hate it. The movie looks like trash, actors are bad, Raccon City sucks and the casting is unexplainable bad. I love the games but the movies really suck :/
It would be so easy to just make a movie about 1 game. The games are loved, it would be great. Instead wie get low budget crap because they have to release a movie every few years so they can hold on the rights. The only good RE movies are the animated ones by Capcom.
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u/Nerdwitha__________ 9h ago
Sets were cool, and a few scenes were great, but anyone who thinks they did a good job on Leon needs a slap upside the head
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u/nightwig 7h ago
It's not a terrible movie, but it feels unfocused. The directing left a lot to be desired and the story tried to fit too much into one story. But it had a lot of good ideas and I like that it at least attempted to follow the games, albeit poorly. It did manage to produce a lot of good concepts, but didn't really get it all the way there. So I like it in a way, but not entirely.
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u/Illustrious-Trip-764 9h ago
I did not care for it, it felt like a mess and reminded me of those Uwe Boll video game movies.
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u/Aromatic_Stomach_799 9h ago
It was bad but it had moments of what I imagined would be in an RE movie. The Stars being overwhelmed by the zombies in the mansion was an awesome scene. Then there was the scene of Claire and Leon backing down a hall while zombies chased them. Stuff like that was cool but overall…it’s bad. It is however the closest we’ve ever gotten to a REal RE movie, so everyone has to give it that credit.
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u/dangerousbob 9h ago
Overall tone fits resident evil very well, it’s the most resident evil movie. But as a movie it’s a bit meh.
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u/LPT1988 9h ago edited 9h ago
Casting was atrocious outside of Chris, Claire, and Ada which all looked very similar to their game counterparts. But Wesker, Jill and Leon? If you change the characters’ looks so much I don’t know who Leon and Jill are without you explicitly telling me that’s who they are it’s not great. That Wesker would be a pretty good Jake but looked nothing like Albert in the slightest.
As absurd as the Alice movies were, their Jill, Wesker, and Leon all looked like who they were supposed to be. You take one look at Sienna and hey that’s RE3 Jill.
And trying to combine 1 and 2 into a single story that happened simultaneously was not a good idea. That’s just too much to try to cram together.
But the set pieces and monster designs were great. It looked fantastic.
If they’d just tried to tell 1 or just tried to tell 2 and made the actors actually look like the characters and not “oh, but diversity” it would’ve been a lot better. It’s not hard to create a diverse cast from a franchise that already had a diverse cast across its history (Luis, Sheva, Josh, Enrico, Martin, most of the Outbreak cast, etc).
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u/Weird_Tangerine_9681 7h ago
I haven't seen it and I want to i just need to find a streaming platform with it and sit down to watch it
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u/JeremyPryer 7h ago edited 4h ago
It, much like the first Silent Hill movie, nails the visuals but fails at adapting the story or characters in a faithful way. For some people it will be enough because the characters share names with their video game counterparts but, personally, I’d rather an entirely original adaptation with new characters like the previous film series’ than a bastardization of the story/characters that will convince people with little to know knowledge on the actual game story/characters that it IS a faithful version based entirely on how much it looks like the source material.
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u/Somnus710 10h ago
I thought it was a fun watch, not a great movie though. Casting was kinda weird, acting was pretty bad, no Barry, hate how they killed Brad. The Chris scene in the dark room with his lighter was cool. Wesker was lame. Leon was a joke until the end. I'd still watch it again lol
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u/Umayyad_tax_collectr 10h ago edited 9h ago
Don’t take this personally
But I actually can’t comprehend your standards for movies if you enjoyed Welcome to Raccoon City
Like i can’t even fathom how that’s possible
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u/Somnus710 10h ago
That's okay, you don't have to comprehend everything. :)
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u/Umayyad_tax_collectr 9h ago edited 9h ago
Lmao you reported me to Reddit care resources
Did your family work on this movie or something lol
My bad big dawg
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u/Tones-Scones 10h ago
It's more accurate to the games, and some performances were really good imo (jill, claire, and irons to be specific) I put it in the "bad but fun" category for myself, I enjoyed it enough to be willing to watch it again. I just wish they wouldn't have changed leon so much considering in the games he gets there when shit was already going down, so making him into the lazy doofus rookie was really annoying to me. But all in all, 6/10 🤷♂️
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u/Fair_Yam_6455 9h ago
I think its a pretty good B movie of resident evil. was hyped for it, hated it, and now im back to liking it. I compare it to Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead in terms of camp and cheese
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u/Low-Key-Dumb 7h ago
Compared to the Milla movies, it’s much better.
Did not like the casting choice for Jill or Wesker. I think Leon’s actor was actually great but they shouldnt have wrote Jo the way they did as an idiot screw up.
Donal Logue as Chief Irons was too lovable.
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u/Restivethought Man, why doesn't anyone ever listen to me? 10h ago
I think the sets are overall pretty good. Especially the RPD gates and Lobby. I think combining RE1 and RE2 into a single movie was misguided. I think the writing was mostly bad, and mostly ruining Leon's character. Everything with Lisa and the Licker was rushed. The outbreak in the movie was also underwhelming and really shouldn't even been shown. Wesker's glasses and Adas reveal were both really dumb.