George Romero’s Resident Evil: It Had Flaws, But At Least It Respected the Game Why is it that The Last of Us can get a faithful, emotional, critically acclaimed TV adaptation—while Resident Evil fans are stuck with garbage movies that only use the title and throw the rest in the trash? Comic book fans are getting more source-accurate films than ever. Video game adaptations are finally leveling up. But for Resident Evil? We’re still watching Hollywood spit in our face.There was one moment of hope. Back in the ’90s, horror legend George Romero wrote a script for a Resident Evil movie based on the first game. Capcom rejected it. Since then, it’s been a never-ending circus of embarrassments, reboots, and fake adaptations that somehow always miss the point. Let’s walk through the wreckage—and remind ourselves that even though Romero’s version wasn’t perfect, it still deserved to exist more than anything we actually got. Paul W.S. Anderson: Resident Evil’s First Betrayal Instead of Romero’s version, we got Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil movies—six of them. He threw out the entire game storyline and replaced it with a brand-new character: Alice. A generic, overpowered, movie-exclusive Mary Sue played by his wife, Milla […] The post George Romero’s Resident Evil: Better Than All the Crap We Got appeared first on PopGeeks.com Forum | Indie Games, Movies, TV, Tabletop & Comics.

George Romero’s Resident Evil: It Had Flaws, But At Least It Respected the Game Why is it that The Last of Us can get a faithful, emotional, critically acclaimed TV adaptation—while Resident Evil fans are stuck with garbage movies that only use the title and throw the rest in the trash? Comic book fans are getting more source-accurate films than ever. Video game adaptations are finally leveling up. But for Resident Evil? We’re still watching Hollywood spit in our face.There was one moment of hope. Back in the ’90s, horror legend George Romero wrote a script for a Resident Evil movie based on the first game. Capcom rejected it. Since then, it’s been a never-ending circus of embarrassments, reboots, and fake adaptations that somehow always miss the point. Let’s walk through the wreckage—and remind ourselves that even though Romero’s version wasn’t perfect, it still deserved to exist more than anything we actually got. Paul W.S. Anderson: Resident Evil’s First Betrayal Instead of Romero’s version, we got Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil movies—six of them. He threw out the entire game storyline and replaced it with a brand-new character: Alice. A generic, overpowered, movie-exclusive Mary Sue played by his wife, Milla […] The post George Romero’s Resident Evil: Better Than All the Crap We Got appeared first on PopGeeks.com Forum | Indie Games, Movies, TV, Tabletop & Comics.

There are a surprisingly large amount of video game adaptions on television these days, but Amazon Prime’s Fallout was one of the best, arriving late last year to strong critical praise and high viewership. It remains to be seen if Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy can keep up that level of quality and polish (their Westworld wavered a bit over the seasons). We can’t spot anything in the new trailer released today that gives us any worries, though. Season One ended with Lucy MacLean’s innocence being truly shattered and her teaming up with the one person she never thought she would: the Ghoul. She lost a finger to this dude; she can’t be happy about the arrangement. Even still, there’s nobody else you’d rather have on your side in the nuked wasteland that is the Fallout world. They’re headed to Las — er, New Vegas to track down Hank, which is lorded over by Mr. House. House was briefly shown in flashback during Season One and will appear a lot more in Season Two — in more flashbacks AND in the present day — played by Justin Theroux. There isn’t that much in the way of new information in this […] The post Amazon Releases Radioactive New Fallout Season 2 Trailer appeared first on PopGeeks.com Forum | Indie Games, Movies, TV, Tabletop & Comics.

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There are a surprisingly large amount of video game adaptions on television these days, but Amazon Prime’s Fallout was one of the best, arriving late last year to strong critical praise and high viewership. It remains to be seen if Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy can keep up that level of quality and polish (their Westworld wavered a bit over the seasons). We can’t spot anything in the new trailer released today that gives us any worries, though. Season One ended with Lucy MacLean’s innocence being truly shattered and her teaming up with the one person she never thought she would: the Ghoul. She lost a finger to this dude; she can’t be happy about the arrangement. Even still, there’s nobody else you’d rather have on your side in the nuked wasteland that is the Fallout world. They’re headed to Las — er, New Vegas to track down Hank, which is lorded over by Mr. House. House was briefly shown in flashback during Season One and will appear a lot more in Season Two — in more flashbacks AND in the present day — played by Justin Theroux. There isn’t that much in the way of new information in this […] The post Amazon Releases Radioactive New Fallout Season 2 Trailer appeared first on PopGeeks.com Forum | Indie Games, Movies, TV, Tabletop & Comics.