[quote name='p00p']First, Alice shouldn't have been in it at all (not a big complaint mind you, there were plenty of other things that made me dislike the movie) and second, you know the example you gave is
hugely overexaggerated. I don't expect the movies to be exact replicas of the games, but if you are going to get the license and use the name, then you should at least respect the source material. If not, then just make yourself a high action zombie movie and slap your own original title on it, no harm no foul.
Like I said Resident Evil was okay, and did an okay job at bringing the game to screen (although subsequent viewings make me like it less and less) but Resident Evil Apocalypse was WAY too much, and cliched as all hell.
The Resident Evil games are moody and disturbing, which the RE movies sorely lack.
And as for AvP....the hatching changes were ridiculous, the main character was bland and totally unbelievable, the team up of Predator and man was cheesy, and the movies PG-13 hyperactivity was a total disservice to the classic Alien, Aliens and Predator.
Doom was pretty terrible also.[/QUOTE]
You honestly think its exaggerated? Have YOU even played a RE game?
I never really thought the RE games were moody or scary. They really relied on the BOO! factor of things popping out of no where to get a reaction. A genuinely disturbing game would be Silent Hill 1. The monsters are harder, you have much less ammo and generally need to use melee to get the job done. SH is 10x scarier/creepier/moodier. Now SH is a game that the movie will probably piss even me off. I've always felt that RE was a campy horror game, so the movies didn't bother me much. However, with SH, the game just oozes story, atmosphere and plain fear. It is truely a piece of art. Anything less than perfection for this title would be the grevious insult you guys make every VG movie out to be.
Doom wasn't too bad. Again, the game was a mindless shooter so thats pretty much all I expected from the game. I wasn't fond of the virus aspect, but I can see why they'd want to avoid religion et al by making it about hell.
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I enjoyed Resident Evil 1 a little, though I think a simple change in the style of the Score would have improved it immensely, there are several moments where they could have used the score to play up suspense and tension, but instead they blast generic hard rock destroying the mood. [/QUOTE]
The aim of the movie wasn't meant to be scary. It was intended to be an action movie. I thought Manson did a great job with the music. I agree with you that the music wouldn't be appropriet for a suspense movie, but again, thats not really what the movie was meant to be.