Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140712065858/@comment-397235-20140714015907

My biggest problems with Romero's Resident Evil film are, in no particular order:

Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield are not in a relationship. THE. END.

Enrico Marini is not a coward.

Rebecca Chambers is just about the only player character in the series who doesn't swear.

Albert Wesker does NOT have tattoos.

Ada Wong is NOT in a relationship with John Marcus. Ew.

I thought the first film worked fairly well in the sense you could see it happening before the first game, which was Anderson's intent initially. Now, since then, he's gotten a little carried away with showing off his wife, but at first the series started off...well, okay anyway.

I'm a huge fan of Resident Evil and have been for six years; I've got most of the RE Wiki memorized from when I wrote fanfiction, I kid you not. There's never been a message in Resident Evil, not really. The games' have never been that pretentious. You can take them at face value, which is something I respect from a writer: Mikami didn't decided the game needed to be anything more than a simple adventure title (something the fandom doesn't quite understand, unfortunately). I've never known Romero to try and sell and environmental message; his usual schtick is "Capitalism is the root of all evil, etc, etc."

I've not read either The Shining or or It though they're both now on my list, once I finish rereading the Jack Ryan series again.