Why is it so hard to adapt the films to the games?

[Iggy Wolf]

I mean, if there's any RE game that's probably the easiest to adapt, it would be this one. Speedruns clock in at 2 1/2 to 3 hours for the S/S+ rating. So it's obviously even a game that could easily fit in within an average movie run time. In fact, seeing as the game has characters backtrack, they wouldn't even have to waste time on that. Take Jill and Carlos being present in Raccon City and then at the police station and show that FIRST, and then halfway through the film, show Claire arriving at the gas station and heading to the police station with Leon. Considering how both games would still fit into a 3 1/2 to 4 hour movie run time, it could easily be done.

Me thinks the current directors/producers are either afraid of being sued by Capcom or simply don't think the general audience would like the game's story and pace. Nevermind the fact that most people wouldn't care for the franchise or games unless they're a fan. Your average movie goer doesn't even know what the games are about, much less what the story entails, so it'd be new to them anyway. That way, you would at least please the fans AND perhaps attract new players and viewers to a series that up until this point, has been marred by adaptions like Paul Anderson's films.

[Cursed Hawkins]

Probably because the pace of a video game can't work with the pace of a movie, a movie has to flow a certain way which is why during production certain scenes that end up breaking the flow of the movie don't make the cut for the final product.
Video games have the same kind of flow but its one that has more flexibility with compared to the kind of flow a movie has.

[2D神]

The only plot that is the easiest to adept would be the outbreak of RCC but don't follow Leon or Claire nor Jill. Either follow Marvin during the siege of RPD or some of the U.B.C.S. members during the recuse mission.

[Velarune]

The problem with video game movies is that they always think they have to put their own spin on it. Usually you've got writers, directors, and whoever else, that have never even played the game. All they do is look up a plot synopsis, and then try to create something based off of it. That can usually work with other forms of media, but video games are an interactive story telling, which can't be portrayed in a written form. Movie makers, even after all these years, still can't seem to grasp that understanding.

There really isn't much going on with the early Resident Evil games. There's been a virus leak that is mutating people, and creatures, and everyone is trying to survive. What makes it interesting is the atmosphere that is created while we are exploring, and it creates a connection between us and the game. When we think back on playing through REmake 2, we are most likely going to have thoughts of certain hallways where we had to deal with zombies, or even encounters with Mr. X. I'm sure the majority of people are not sitting around having memories of the story that took place.

So you've got a game that is entertaining for people to play, but the actual story aspect is non-existent. Movie makers can't exactly have a 2 hour long show about someone just wandering around in hallways. That's where they start to stretch out that non-existent story in order to fill that 2 hour window. Usually they toss in pointless action scenes with terrible music screaming over top of it. A whole lot of dialogue that really doesn't add anything to the plot, or character progression, but they feel it's necessary in order to portray them in some badass way. And of course there is always some deep emotional backstory about why the people are doing what they're doing, which didn't exist in the original game's plot.

By the time you're done digesting that 2 hours of vomit they threw up at you, the only thoughts you tend to have is that it sucked. It had little pieces here and there that resembled the original game, but overall it was garbage. That is why video game movies don't work. The creators of the movies don't know how to portray a video game properly. You can't take a horror game, and turn it into an action movie. A movie about Resident Evil can work, but it has to be kept as a horror movie with atmosphere and tension.

[El Fuerte]

Keep the movies and games separate from each other please: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ertAytTFoA

[Zombie Roger]

Problem is they have to get non-fans on board more so than fans. That’s where the money is. Otherwise you’ll get movies like mortal kombat or street fighter where it’s okay but if you don’t play the game it’s hard to know the characters or really what’s going on.

[talgaby]

Also, speedrunners do it in that time by skipping literally the entire story. I am not a filmmaker, but I would hazard the guess that a movie without a plot or dialogues wouldn't really hold well with the audience. I mean, you can omit the former, that is what every single M. Night Shamalayan and Saw film is, but you need at least some form of an interaction among your characters beyond moving from point A to B.

[Roler42]

Originally posted by Qru$t@hciu:

Keep the movies and games separate from each other please: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ertAytTFoA

That scene is glorious and it's part of the course with most RE games.

[hip]

Originally posted by Roler42:

Originally posted by Qru$t@hciu:

Keep the movies and games separate from each other please: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ertAytTFoA

That scene is glorious and it's part of the course with most RE games.

i don't see Ethan doing any of that in 7/8 fortunately. Leon literally can not appear in a survival horror game anymore unless its a remake. And i want my RE games like survival horror not like the movies.

[talgaby]

Ethan handled military-grade weapons and explosives like a seasoned veteran and he even says he got extensive military training before RE8. Let's be honest, most RE protagonists were pretty highly trained people despite their young age. Leon used to be the one known exception in RE2, then he returned as a US supercommando a few years later…

[Cursed Hawkins]

Originally posted by talgaby:

Ethan handled military-grade weapons and explosives like a seasoned veteran and he even says he got extensive military training before RE8. Let's be honest, most RE protagonists were pretty highly trained people despite their young age. Leon used to be the one known exception in RE2, then he returned as a US supercommando a few years later…

In everyone's defense, no amount of training actually would prepare them for the situations they found themselves in! Take RE0 as an example with Billy and Rebecca, one was a criminal, one was a member of STARS that were used as an experiment to test the BOWs. Also WHY the ♥♥♥♥ did you even forget about Billy? You say Leon was the one KNOWN exception Billy would like to know your current location!

[Lynfinity]

Originally posted by Cursed Hawkins:

In everyone's defense, no amount of training actually would prepare them for the situations they found themselves in!

Remember that RE3 intro movie? Yeah, that's how it all would've ended without excessive amount of plot armor.

[21stCenturySchizoidM@n]

Originally posted by Iggy Wolf:

I mean, if there's any RE game that's probably the easiest to adapt, it would be this one. Speedruns clock in at 2 1/2 to 3 hours for the S/S+ rating. So it's obviously even a game that could easily fit in within an average movie run time. In fact, seeing as the game has characters backtrack, they wouldn't even have to waste time on that. Take Jill and Carlos being present in Raccon City and then at the police station and show that FIRST, and then halfway through the film, show Claire arriving at the gas station and heading to the police station with Leon. Considering how both games would still fit into a 3 1/2 to 4 hour movie run time, it could easily be done.

Me thinks the current directors/producers are either afraid of being sued by Capcom or simply don't think the general audience would like the game's story and pace. Never mind the fact that most people wouldn't care for the franchise or games unless they're a fan. Your average movie goer doesn't even know what the games are about, much less what the story entails, so it'd be new to them anyway. That way, you would at least please the fans AND perhaps attract new players and viewers to a series that up until this point, has been marred by adaptions like Paul Anderson's films.

The concept of resident evil is struggling and surviving based off of your decisions. Once you remove that from the picture it loses it's teeth as a franchise and concept. Take all of the games after 4 up until 7 and you can see why removing the survival from survival horror is a terrible idea. Also to add on from what another guy said resident evil feels satisfying to complete because we are in charge of the character. There isn't any external plot force keeping the player alive. So the endings actually feel legitimate, rather than some B list horror movie where you never worry for the main protagonist.

[talgaby]

Originally posted by Cursed Hawkins:

You say Leon was the one KNOWN exception Billy would like to know your current location!

Billy's backstory is that he is a marine officer who was already serving in a war zone, and who killed his CO because that guy was having already a massive PTSD and ordered the killing of civilians. Billy had more combat experience than half the STARS personnel in RE1, and many of those guys also came from military forces.

[Lord Method Man]

Originally posted by Roler42:

Originally posted by Qru$t@hciu:

Keep the movies and games separate from each other please: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ertAytTFoA

That scene is glorious and it's part of the course with most RE games.

The phrase you're looking for is "par for the course".