{"id":13456,"date":"2011-08-12T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"resident-evil-movie-director-on-why-game-movies-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13456-resident-evil-movie-director-on-why-game-movies-suck","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil movie director on why game movies suck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Game movies. It’s a phrase that strikes cold fear into the heart of anybody who plays games and loves them – and for good reason. You could probably count the number of decent game movies on, like, three fingers. Maybe only two.<\/p>\n

Paul W. S. Anderson, the guy who’s directed every Resident Evil movie thus far (and Event Horizon, which also deserves a mention simply because it’s so awesome), has a theory about why that is – because most game move directors simply don’t know what they’re actually doing.<\/p>\n

“A lot of video game movies are made by directors who don’t know the video games they are based on from a hole in the head,” he tells MCV<\/a>. “They don’t do justice to the games, they don’t immerse themselves in the games, they don’t understand what people liked from the games. And that is the wrong approach and clearly those movies don’t work.”<\/p>\n

He also talks about the differences between games and film, and why something that works in one won’t work in the other.<\/p>\n

“Game narratives and movie narratives are very different, and there are numerous websites and YouTube videos devoted to bad lines in video games,” he explains. “Even the most hardcore fan in the world is not going to really argue that the dialogue in the first Resident Evil game should have been adapted into the film.<\/p>\n

“You, master of unlocking.” It is awful. Really? Is that what you want in your movie? That kind of dialogue? I don’t think so.<\/p>\n

“Also a game which is built around puzzles and unlocking things is interesting when you play it, it isn’t interesting when you’re watching it.<\/p>\n

“Those are the main reasons why the film franchise has deviated from the narrative of the game franchise. But it has stayed true to Resident Evil. In all the sequences we have quoted from, the sets we have recreated, the costumes, the characters who have made an appearance, we have really tried to stay true to the spirit and the world of the video game, while also giving something fresh.”<\/p>\n

Of course, I’m sure some people would say the Resident Evil movies sucked too.<\/p>\n

Discuss movies based on games<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They\u2019re made by people \u201cwho don't know the video games they are based on from a hole in the head\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}