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Resident Evil FINALLY Got It Right? · Ryder Lee

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  Speaker 1: Have there been unexpected challenges in convincing people, like, this
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  Speaker 1: is the way to do this? Yeah, I mean, of course.
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  Speaker 1: I think I was naive when I thought that fans
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  Speaker 1: of these games, like me, would be thrilled that somebody
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  Speaker 1: was coming along and turning Resident Evil into a survival
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  Speaker 1: horror movie.
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  Speaker 2: I am a huge Resident Evil fan, and like every
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  Speaker 2: Resident Evil fan, I believe that we've all been waiting
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  Speaker 2: for a really good Resident Evil movie. We've been yearning
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  Speaker 2: for it, something to capture that Resident Evil survival horror magic.
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  Speaker 2: And did we get it? Well, the box office says yes,
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  Speaker 2: but the Paul West Anderson Resident Evil movies also had
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  Speaker 2: a really good box office as well. That's why they
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  Speaker 2: kept making them. So join me as we explore the
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  Speaker 2: Resident Evil movies and the video game. My first foray
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  Speaker 2: into the Resident Evil universe didn't come from the mainline
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  Speaker 2: Resident Evil games. It actually came from a universally hated
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  Speaker 2: title that a lot of people probably never played or
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  Speaker 2: ever even heard of. And it was the very first
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  Speaker 2: Resident Evil first-person shooter when they've all historically been third-person
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  Speaker 2: up until really recently with Resident Evil 7. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not talking about Resident Evil 7. I'm actually talking about
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  Speaker 2: Resident Evil Survivor for the PlayStation, released on August 30th
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  Speaker 2: in the year of 2000. 26 years ago, this would
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  Speaker 2: be the first Resident Evil spinoff that would launch into
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  Speaker 2: many other Resident Evil spinoff titles alongside the mainline games.
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  Speaker 2: People universally hated this game because of the first-person shooter style.
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  Speaker 2: but I have fond memories of playing this game with
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  Speaker 2: my dad and it took us forever to beat it
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  Speaker 2: with no manuals or online videos to figure out our way.
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  Speaker 2: We just basically free-balled our way through this entire game.
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  Speaker 2: And if I'm remembering correctly, for the last boss, you
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  Speaker 2: had to find a secret switch in this corridor to
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  Speaker 2: unlock the blaster doors to fight the boss. Just like
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  Speaker 2: in true Resident Evil fashion, you gotta kill the boss
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  Speaker 2: like three freaking times and you're running out of ammo
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  Speaker 2: and it keeps coming back. The next Resident Evil game
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  Speaker 2: I played was Resident Evil 3 for the PlayStation. Also
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  Speaker 2: have very fond memories of this game with Nemesis just
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  Speaker 2: coming out of nowhere and knocking my shit back randomly.
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  Speaker 2: So with playing this game, I was highly disappointed in
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  Speaker 2: Resident Evil 3 Remake. It's way too short, very linear gameplay,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely nothing that you could possibly miss in this remake.
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  Speaker 2: The map was super small, which really sucked for me
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  Speaker 2: because Resident Evil 3, again, was the only original mainline
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  Speaker 2: game that I played that has gotten a remake so far.
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  Speaker 2: And I didn't play any other Resident Evil game up
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  Speaker 2: until Resident Evil 5, which some people didn't like because
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  Speaker 2: there was a lot of action and it kind of
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  Speaker 2: got rid of that survival horror-esque that we'd gotten so
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  Speaker 2: familiar with. And we also got this. Yeah, get it, Chris.
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  Speaker 2: Hook that boulder. Grab that boulder. Uppercut that boulder. Get it,
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  Speaker 2: get it, get it. But I really like Resident Evil 5.
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  Speaker 2: It was a really fun game because you could play
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  Speaker 2: a split screen with a friend and it's the most profitable,
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  Speaker 2: most sold Resident Evil game ever made. I am very
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  Speaker 2: excited for a possibility of a RE5 remake, even though
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  Speaker 2: we're getting a Resident Evil Veronica remake instead, which I'm
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  Speaker 2: still looking forward to. And the next game that we
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  Speaker 2: have on this list is Resident Evil 6. Now let
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  Speaker 2: me tell you, if you thought Resident Evil Survivor was
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  Speaker 2: a universally hated game, Resident Evil 6 takes the cake.
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  Speaker 2: It is the most universally hated. Capcom would much rather
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  Speaker 2: just forget that this game even exists. Just completely get
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  Speaker 2: rid of it. It was way too ambitious. They were
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  Speaker 2: trying to combine... Three different storylines, well, really four different
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  Speaker 2: storylines if you think about it, including Ada's storyline into
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  Speaker 2: one game, which didn't work. The storyline took precedent over
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  Speaker 2: the gameplay. And what we got was a very bland...
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  Speaker 2: linear game. I believe that the people that were in
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  Speaker 2: charge of Resident Evil 6 also made Resident Evil 3
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  Speaker 2: remake because the problems are pretty much identical. Any game
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  Speaker 2: that needs remade is Resident Evil 6. Not before you
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  Speaker 2: remake Resident Evil 5. We need that remake first. And
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  Speaker 2: then we get Resident Evil 7 which really reinvigorated the
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  Speaker 2: franchise on the brink of complete and total collapse because
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  Speaker 2: of Resident Evil 6. It really brought us back to
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  Speaker 2: that survival horror roots, and I really enjoyed Resident Evil 7.
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  Speaker 2: And then we get Resident Evil 2 Remake, which I
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  Speaker 2: believe is in the top three Resident Evil games ever made.
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  Speaker 2: It's literally incredible. Everything you'd ever want out of a
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  Speaker 2: Resident Evil game is in this game. I highly recommend it.
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  Speaker 2: It's executed perfectly. If you've never played any Resident Evil
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  Speaker 2: game ever in the history of any of the games,
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  Speaker 2: just pick up a copy of Resident Evil 2 Remake,
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  Speaker 2: and you'll get the full Resident Evil effect with this game. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Resident Evil 8 Village wasn't bad, but it's not my favorite,
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  Speaker 2: and I felt too short. Resident Evil 4 Remake, Also incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Fan favorite game being remade. They knocked it out of
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  Speaker 2: the park with that game. Incredible game. Which now brings
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  Speaker 2: us to the latest Resident Evil game, which I have
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  Speaker 2: just bought and played through recently, which is Resident Evil Requiem.
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  Speaker 2: And this game is now in the top five most sold,
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  Speaker 2: highest grossing Resident Evil games ever made, which is really
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  Speaker 2: crazy when you think about it. That a franchise can
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  Speaker 2: go on for this long and still make games that
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  Speaker 2: do this well. Just shows you the fan base that
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  Speaker 2: is still behind this franchise. I like Resident Evil Requiem,
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  Speaker 2: but in all honesty, I did not like Grace's parts
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  Speaker 2: as much in the game. I felt like she was
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  Speaker 2: really a wimp. And being a wimp on Resident Evil,
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  Speaker 2: in the Resident Evil world, gets you killed. You don't
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  Speaker 2: make it. So with the character being a wimp and
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  Speaker 2: being riddled with anxiety, being placed in the situations that
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  Speaker 2: require you to be a badass just doesn't mix for
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  Speaker 2: me personally as a game player. Not that it was bad.
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  Speaker 2: I still liked it. She just didn't give me the
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  Speaker 2: confidence as a character to be able to navigate and
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  Speaker 2: figure things out with limited ammo and zombies everywhere and
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  Speaker 2: the butcher stalkers and giant creepy lady monsters.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I need to have confidence in the character I'm playing.
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  Speaker 2: You can be a new character and still give me
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  Speaker 2: confidence in that character. But it didn't really have that
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  Speaker 2: with Grace. And you're in really sketchy situations. And I
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  Speaker 2: understood what they were going for. She wasn't supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be a badass. I get that. I understand that. She
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  Speaker 2: was supposed to be more sneaky. Her parts were supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be more sneaky. use your shots wisely and hiding
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  Speaker 2: when needed. And that really contrasted well with Leon's parts
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  Speaker 2: in the game, you know? Leon just being a seasoned
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  Speaker 2: badass out there, blasting them in the balls, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with your shotgun, finish them off with your roundhouse spinning kick.
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  Speaker 2: Fuck yeah, you know? I really liked Leon's parts, if
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  Speaker 2: you can't tell, but maybe I didn't like Grace's parts
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  Speaker 2: because I had just come off of playing resident evil
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  Speaker 2: 2 remake and resident evil 4 remake so i had
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  Speaker 2: been playing leon for a while leading up for me
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  Speaker 2: playing this game and i possibly just need to replay
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  Speaker 2: it and maybe i'll enjoy it more but so far
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  Speaker 2: my top three resident evil games are resident evil 4
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  Speaker 2: remake resident evil 5 and resident evil 2 remake in
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  Speaker 2: that number one spot Now there's a long history here
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  Speaker 2: with the Paul West Anderson Resident Evil movies and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to get into detail about all of them.
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  Speaker 2: But the ones that are near and dear to my
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  Speaker 2: heart are Resident Evil 1 and 2. And I believe
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  Speaker 2: Resident Evil 2 Apocalypse is the best out of the
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  Speaker 2: bunch because it's the closest to the games and actually
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  Speaker 2: involves characters from the games that are based upon Resident
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  Speaker 2: Evil 3 like Carlos and Jill Valentine. even if people
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  Speaker 2: don't like their characters within the movie. It probably got
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  Speaker 2: me because, again, Resident Evil 3 was the first mainline
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  Speaker 2: game that I played, so I have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: nostalgia for that game. And I love that they did
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  Speaker 2: Nemesis in 100% practical effects. This is literally a dude
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  Speaker 2: in a suit, which is crazy. The Paul Wess Anderson
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  Speaker 2: movies progressively got worse with each entry. After two, They
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  Speaker 2: didn't really care about continuity. The storylines didn't pick up
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  Speaker 2: after each movie ended. Every sequel just ended up being
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  Speaker 2: Alice waking up again in an underground umbrella facility that
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  Speaker 2: she needed to fight her way out of, just like
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  Speaker 2: the first one. So much that they basically decided to
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  Speaker 2: remake the first movie for the fifth movie, which has
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  Speaker 2: the same laser hallway. She wakes up in the same mansion.
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  Speaker 2: It's everything. It's crazy. in all honesty but they kept
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  Speaker 2: making money so they kept churning them out and then
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  Speaker 2: netflix thought it was a good idea to make a
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  Speaker 2: tv show called resident evil i didn't watch it it
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  Speaker 2: didn't do well was universally hated then we got resident
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  Speaker 2: evil welcome to raccoon city in 2021 which I also
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  Speaker 2: didn't watch, but was apparently more game accurate, but got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the characters wrong, such as beloved character
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  Speaker 2: Leon Kennedy. So this brings us up until now with
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  Speaker 2: Zack Kreger's adaptation of Resident Evil. Will this revive the
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  Speaker 2: long-dead film franchise that has attempted to be resurrected several
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  Speaker 2: times in the past? How much criticism and controversy will
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  Speaker 2: this movie get from the fans for not being game
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  Speaker 2: accurate with such faithful adaptations such as The Last of
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  Speaker 2: Us on HBO? Much to its detriment on season two,
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  Speaker 2: if any show or film franchise should have changed its
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  Speaker 2: source material, it should have been The Last of Us
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  Speaker 2: season two. They completely botched that entire show. But I
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  Speaker 2: recently watched this new Resident Evil adaptation in the theater,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm going to give you my thoughts. So the
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  Speaker 2: tone was there. Very survival horror-esque. Zack Greger really captured
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  Speaker 2: the Resident Evil world really well. The feeling. Many elements
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  Speaker 2: of this film, such as Finding guns, looking for bullets,
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  Speaker 2: running out of ammo at important times, everything being locked
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  Speaker 2: with a padlock and having to look for the key.
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  Speaker 2: But the main character of the movie didn't really look
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  Speaker 2: for the keys. He just tries to shoot the lock
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  Speaker 2: like we've all done in the Resident Evil games when
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  Speaker 2: searching for a key and can't find it or searching
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  Speaker 2: for an item to unlock a door and you can't
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  Speaker 2: find it. You just end up just shooting the door.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a really good nod to the Resident
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  Speaker 2: Evil game players in that aspect. And then the main
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  Speaker 2: character ends up just finding it when it's right in
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  Speaker 2: front of our faces, like normally it really is within
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  Speaker 2: the Resident Evil games. It's normally right in front of
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  Speaker 2: your face where you need to find the thing that
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  Speaker 2: unlocks the door. So the story is basically about this organ...
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  Speaker 2: courier that gets a delivery to Raccoon City Hospital. He's
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  Speaker 2: essentially a door dasher for human organs in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of a zombie outbreak. Kreger puts the classic typewriter in there,
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  Speaker 2: the med pack, the herbs. There's a lot of zombie
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  Speaker 2: tropes in there that we've all seen before. Driving down
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  Speaker 2: a sketchy road, a zombie walks out in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the road. The guy hits up with the car,
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  Speaker 2: stops the car, gets out to find that the person
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  Speaker 2: is still alive and is trying to kill them and
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  Speaker 2: eat them. It's a seen it before within the resident
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  Speaker 2: evil games themselves but it's done tastefully here and surprisingly
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  Speaker 2: has a lot of humor with some of the people
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  Speaker 2: may or may not like that i didn't mind it
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  Speaker 2: because it didn't really take away from the tension most
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  Speaker 2: of the jokes were done before the tension began or
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  Speaker 2: somewhat after the tension so it didn't really undercut the
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  Speaker 2: story i thought it worked here and i I definitely
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't do it again. Don't give the Marvel treatment to
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  Speaker 2: every horror movie. It's really uncalled for. And the problem
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  Speaker 2: with jokes is that jokes don't age well in movies
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  Speaker 2: unless they're circumstantial to the movie themselves. Unfortunately for this movie,
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  Speaker 2: the comedy is done well and makes sense, which I
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  Speaker 2: believe will hold up long term. We even got the
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  Speaker 2: classic dreaded sewer act in the movie, and I know...
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  Speaker 2: I knew we were close to the end of the
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  Speaker 2: movie when we got that sewer act. We're in the
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  Speaker 2: sewer part of the movie. Just like most Resident Evil games,
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  Speaker 2: you know you're inching closer to the end of the
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  Speaker 2: game when you're in the sewer. But here's the deal.
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  Speaker 2: Did the movie stick the landing? Because everything can be
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  Speaker 2: great and you can still botch the ending. And comparatively
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  Speaker 2: to the other Resident Evil movies, it's definitely the best.
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  Speaker 2: But is it good? I'm lukewarm on it. I really
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  Speaker 2: like I really feel like that they could have done
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  Speaker 2: something else and something more creative with the ending of
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  Speaker 2: the movie. They really could have figured something else out
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  Speaker 2: other than what happened, but I get it. And it's
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  Speaker 2: almost like there's this mirroring effect of the main character
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  Speaker 2: throughout the movie that what has been chasing him the
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  Speaker 2: entire time, he then ends up becoming in the end
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  Speaker 2: and you know that's what i really try and put
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  Speaker 2: together and that i had to really think about whenever
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  Speaker 2: the movie was over i was like you know what
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  Speaker 2: was really going on here and even when there seems
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  Speaker 2: to be no hidden meaning in a movie i really
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  Speaker 2: feel like that there's always a hidden esoteric meaning no
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  Speaker 2: matter what and almost everything and i will find it
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  Speaker 2: and i don't want to really go into that any
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  Speaker 2: deeper because of spoilers and if you guys want to
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  Speaker 2: watch it i would definitely recommend watching it if you're
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  Speaker 2: a resident evil fan you should go to the theater
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  Speaker 2: and watch it if not wait to check it out
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  Speaker 2: on streaming so let me know in the comments what's
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  Speaker 2: your favorite resident evil movie and or game mine is
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  Speaker 2: still resident evil apocalypse i don't know if anything can
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  Speaker 2: beat it i don't think anything can top it because
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  Speaker 2: of my nostalgia and my love for that movie so
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  Speaker 2: uh Let us know what you guys think in the comments.
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  Speaker 2: Did you like the new Resident Evil adaptation? Let us
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  Speaker 2: know what you think, and we'll see you guys next time. Bye-bye.