I’m Tired Of Acting Like The Old Resident Evil Movies Aren’t Good

Did you guys hear? There's a new Resident Evil movie. Yeah! They got the guy who made the fantastic horror films Barbarian and Weapons to make it! Zach Cregger is a huge fan of the games, so there’s a solid chance it's a great movie. But you know what else was pretty good? The old Resident Evil movies. Were they faithful to the games? Not in the slightest. Were they kickass Y2K/nu-metal-drenched action films inspired by Hong Kong actioners? You bet, and I’m tired of acting like these movies aren’t enjoyable. Since Resident Evil's inception, Capcom has been trying to turn its hit survival-horror game into a hit survival-horror movie. Shortly after the game's release, several ideas were pitched, the most notable being a never-filmed adaptation from the father of zombie films himself, George A. Romero. His version saw a pretty faithful adaptation of the Mansion incident and Raccoon City outbreak that served as a metaphor for the displacement of indigenous people, and this script is actually very good and easy to find online. Yet it wasn't until Sony hired Mortal Kombat and Event Horizon director Paul W.S. Anderson, based on his work on an unmade script called Undead that was describe…