Top ten zombie movies

[weredog]

"The remake just takes the basic concept of zombies and survivors in a mall"

Well there it is. They took that and left everything else. Wich is pretty much everything.

[Marcus]

weredog said:

I wouldnt go as far as calling resident evil a movie based on a game. I mean, even the super mario movie kept something from the game =P

It kept the zombies, the infection, the umbrella corporation, lickers, and several of the characters. What more do you want?

Not that I've ever played the game, but that's what I've been told.

[Werewolf]

Never got far in the game. Spent most of my time jumping and screaming even though i know the bodies are gonna get up!

[weredog]

Yes it did keep some elements of the games. But not the story or the mood(the game is a puzzle solving game with some action elements, not a blast-everything-in-sight game)

[Marcus]

Don't know about that, weredog, as i said never played it.

The couple of times I did see it running, seemed most of time was wandering round shooting things. But I'm guessing I just saw it at the wrong moments

[Werewolf]

weredog said:

Yes it did keep some elements of the games. But not the story or the mood(the game is a puzzle solving game with some action elements, not a blast-everything-in-sight game)

True. I wonder what the movie would have been like if it had had more of the puzzle solving stuff in it. Rather than just walking round the hive shooting zombies.

[Noel]

Computer games make pretty lousy movies. There are several theories as to why. Personally I think it's a kind of downgrading to an inferior medium that's the problem. With computer games the player creates their own narrative, and you can't have that in films so the ones based on games tend to lack narrative altogether.

[Werewolf]

You make a good point Noel.

[Marcus]

I think it's also because, those that are working on the film, tend to take it less serious becuase it's based on a game, and so don't assign the best people or don't make the effort that they would on a script that wasn't.

One mistake I also think they make is they have this bad habbit of taking a game, and then modifying the setting, changing this bit or that bit to "improve" the film. But, in the end tend to just alienate those that have played the game. and end up with a modern verison of a B-movie. For example, the Doom film, altered the monsters from being Demons (due to hell breaking through into the world) to being aliens/artifical mutated beings. So a large part of the underlying story was changed, which effected the setting.

At least with resident evil they got some decent actors, and whoever converted it into the film, made an effort to produce a good quality film, without indulging in doing something stupid like trying to add a feel of the game controls (ie like Doom's 1st person sequance part way through the film - ugh!)

[darkwolfavenged]

admin said:

Computer games make pretty lousy movies. There are several theories as to why. Personally I think it's a kind of downgrading to an inferior medium that's the problem. With computer games the player creates their own narrative, and you can't have that in films so the ones based on games tend to lack narrative altogether.

Yeah - good point, Noel.

I'm not a video game player, and the only movie based on a video game I have really liked is Silent Hill. No idea what the game is like, but I found the film genuinely creepy and weird. Friends who are vid game fans have said it is a pretty good adaptation.

[Marcus]

Silent Hill is a nicely atmospheric film. I loved the scenes of walking along the road with the ash falling.

[Werewolf]

marcus said:

Silent Hill is a nicely atmospheric film. I loved the scenes of walking along the road with the ash falling.

It was quite atmospheric, i just didn'y get the ending. Are they dead or what?

[Marcus]

To answer your question:


SPOILER

Yes, they are dead. They died in the crash near the begining of the film and were trapped in that particular pocket of the afterlife. Which was why the Husband saw the town differently, and couldn't see his wife or child.

At least that's what I understand

SPOILER END

[Noel]

I haven't seen Silent Hill. It's probably good because it's directed by the "Brotherhood of the Wolf" guy.

[Werewolf]

Thank you Marcus. I knew i'd missed something!