Sunset of the Dead
zombies…. ok, let me start by saying i’m far from a zombie purist. i won’t bore rooms of people with why zombies shouldn’t run, though i have had a rant or two about why piling up living mounds of bodies to reach helicopters might be crossing the ridiculous line. you know what you did, Brad. and i recently watched train to busen, and thought it was great cheesy fun. i think different cultures have interesting takes on zombies, and while sometimes it can be a little too silly (big tit zombies/ dead sushi), movies like that don’t usually take themselves to seriously.
a zombie fights for his right to resist cultural appropriation.
then there’s resident evil… a japanese series, that didn’t follow the whole ‘don’t take yourself to seriously if you’re gonna be silly’. it sets a confusing tone. back in the day, when i played the first few on the original playstation, you might think, ‘well, the graphics are lo res, and the voice acting is bad’, but you let alot of things slide, cause video games were coming into their own. as the series went on, you began to realize, ‘oh… they meant to do some of that stuff… huh’, and with that, the bloom was off the rose.
i really wanted to give resident evil 7 a fair shot. it had a lot to live up to, with all the hype, but it only had to be better than 6 to not be the worst resident evil experience ever, and that’s a low bar. so i came into it with an open mind. the demo was creepy, and cinematic, and tense, and my wife almost got cold cocked sneaking up behind me and saying ‘BOO’. but it was fun, and she ducked, so i was excited for the real game. which as it turns out…. *spoilers* has no zombies.
i think resident evil suffers from the same ailment as all long running franchises. if there’s no where left to go, rip off other IP, and just change ‘everything’. make a cameo or two old characters, and make sure ‘herbs’ are everywhere so we know it’s an RE game, but without the window dressing, i might have just thought it was a silent hill game. or watching the new rob zombie film….
i’m not going to say it didn’t have fun moments. it did, but i think this is not the resurrection of their intellectual property. and i LOVE zombie stuff! i want so much to have my socks knocked off at rocket propelled speeds. but i think zombies, as subject matter is done. for a while at least. we should have a moratorium on them for the next 10 years, at least. let them rest in peace, so we can all drop our guard, and be ready for something shocking. not this tired shambolic regurgitation of overly chewed ideas we have to claw through right now.
Braaaaiiiiinnnnsssss…….
Is it just me or that guy pretty much a futuristic Donald Trump?
ah, there’s only a certain amount of faces in the world…. probably a coincidence…. maybe?
I never played Resident Evil the video game, and I rolled my eyes at the movie trailers. When it was announced that Doom was going to be made into a movie, I and my coworker geeks wondered, what was the point of a movie based on a video game? Would everybody be yelling out, “IDDQD! IDDQD!” (God mode)
The Atlantic has a good article (link) on the history of zombies in culture. I thought 28 Days Later was close enough to what zombies would actually be, i.e., people infected with a mutated disease, like rabies.
People can survive ebola, but practically nobody survives rabies.
i worte a story i meant to draw, but never got past the page planning stage, about a group of mercs tasked with investigating an island. total set up for zombies, and they find some, and you think it’s just a zombie shoot up. but it turns out they are actually historically accurate zombies. people who’ve had their brains rotted out by blowfish toxin, and buried in a field till their wills were broken, and they seems like zombies. but they were being slaughtered all the same. i thought it would be funny to make a story based the origin of zombie culture, while everyone reacted based on what they know of zombies from movies. it would have flopped, so i never followed through. ah well.
i didn’t know there was a doom movie…. it must have flopped. i’ll check out that article when i get a chance, thanks!
I used to be all about Resident Evil (no kidding, with the back tattoo, right?), but haven’t played since four. Not so much because of the change in direction (though I hated that), but because I am left handed and there was no programmable button combination in five that would let me play well enough to get out of the first area. Don’t get me started on the movies and I won’t waste your whole day bitching and moaning. I thought I was just outgrowing things I used to love, so it makes me feel less sad knowing how you feel. Thanks!
oh yeah, i forgot, you said you had a big nemesis or something right?
yeah, i have a lefty friend. life getsw a little more difficult when the world is backwards for you. i remember the big change in RE, i wasn’t into it at first. no just 3rd person to over the shoulder pov, but it seemed they lost their way with the story. it wasn’t the t-virus anymore, but los plagas. i got used to both, but it wasn’t the same as the old style RE zombies. then again, no more giant snakes and spiders for no reason….
i binge watched the last 3 movies the other night while i was working, on in the background. if you’re not ‘watching’ them, you can laugh at the cheese.
Yup! My cute little Nemesis that totally doesn’t take up my entire back and peek out of the tops of my shirts to scare people when I’m in public ~(;°٥°)~
The snake and spiders were always ridiculous to me too! And I will never even attempt to watch the movies again because of what they did to Nemesis. Nonono!
cute little nemesis? hard to visualize since he was an 8 foot tall corpse in an SS looking coat.
with the animals, i get it, the virus got into the sewers, or whatever. but why did it turn people into zombies, and animals just got bigger? they gave up an opportunity to design something cool.