Dr. DVD

At the risk of sounding ignorant, I am really only interested in the plots of the RE series. I find them interesting and very similar to the "Living Dead" trilogies of George A. Romero, in fact, some have said that the first one is allegedly a sequel to one of those films. I have no desire to see the crappy film with Milla Jovovich, so I wan wondering if you could give me any explanations or links to plot summaries for the games. Thanks!

Josh H

There's a novel out for each of the games. I haven't read them, but my friend who's a huge RE fan loves them. He says they're basically just more descriptive versions of the game's plots. I've seen them at Waldenbooks and I'm sure you could get them online at Amazon or Barnes and Nobles.

Centurion

It's been a long time since I have played the series, but the plot to the videogame goes something like this.....

SPOILER



I'm not sure of the last installment, since I haven't played that, but from what I've read, it is less story driven. I'm sure someone can add (or correct ) to what I stated above.

Jackskeleton

the last ones actually have more story.

resident evil 2 was the introduction to claire and leon. they are in a police station and find out more about the virus that created this. very story driven.

Resident evil 3 is jills escape from the city now filled with zombies

Code veronica is claires search for her brother chris redfield.

C-Killer Redux

There is no link to Romero's Dea trilogy. However, Romero did direct the Japanese commericals for Biohazard 2(Resident Evil 2 in the states). He also wrote a script for the RE movie before getting fired by the producers for being too violent(amongst not seeing eye to eye with Romero). Which is ridiculous since his script was closer to the game. A shame.

CreatureX

Here is what Capcom's site says about the game:

source:
www.capcom.com


GameSpot also has an article on the history of the Resident Evil series:

http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/video/res_evil/

Centurion

Just wanted to add.....

I saw the commercial on TV, yesterday, for the movie. It looked like the videogame.
I haven't played the game in years, and here I was watching this trailer with short clips. I immediately said to myself that this thing looks and sounds like the premise of the videogame Resident Evil.
I was shocked when I finally saw the title at the end of the trailer. I mean, I knew they were making a movie based on this, but I didn't know when.
I'll be keeping my eye on this one.

Jackskeleton

if it was like the game.. it would be survivor horror movie. not action. the dogs look crappy.. the movie looks crappy.. don't get me started on the red queen further comments are in movie forum.

Centurion

Oh, OK.
Basically, all I was saying was that I was able to guess what the movie was before they mentioned the title, but whatever.

CreatureX

I'm hoping it's a case of bad trailer to a good movie. The trailer sucked. Techno music in a RE movie? However, this shot from the trailer...very nice!

Trigger

You know it's crappy without even seeing it? Have you been talking with Miss Cleo? The trailer looks kick ass to me. Video Game movies are just slightly better than movies based on superheros IMO. This one has Milla in it, so I'm certainly going to be there. I'll reserve judgement until I see it. If I think a movie is going to be crappy based on the trailer, I say "sounds like it will suck"... but I don't think it's fair to say anything is terrible or crappy or sucky if you haven't even seen it. If you've played the first game, you already know that the voice acting was so terrible that it's funny... "what is it?..." "it's blood..." So if the film has cheesy dialogue in it, blame the source material. I mean if you hand me lemons, I can only make lemonade... I can't make Mountain Dew. I'm thinking the movie will be better than the game but without the interactive experience... I doubt it will win any academy awards, but if you're expecting a video game based movie to be the next Apocalypse Now you need to reconfigure your expectations.

Jackskeleton

maybe because the shout Umberllia and give you a general idea of what the RE story is.. but when looking at the trailer, they focus more on the dogs then they do the zombies.... I thought that was a more central idea of it.. the human zombies.. and survivor horror.. not heavy metal action.

the movie just seems off to me. and the red queen hey lets play some rolleyes games since we already have some here






<small>as for you trigger.. i think we had enough of a counter view for one night lets save this one for later</small>

Jackskeleton

now thats what I'm talking about. I want it to be cheesy. I don't want it to be crappy. the way they are showing it with the british accent little super computer (why is it I can see pale white kids?) with the evil intent.. just seems to far for me.

I kinda wanted this to be like the first game. its easy to see.. the bullet time kick to the dog is just weak and pointless.