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[hector13]

I watched Resident Evil. It was shite.

Why is writing a main character that makes sensible decisions apparently so difficult? I mean, any character really, but it was most egregious with the protagonist in this.

So many inconsistencies (at the end of one episode, the sister of the protagonist brings up something she’s anxious about and is reassured by the protagonist, at the start of the next episode the protagonist is the one worried about it and being reassured by her sister) and so many utterly bizarre decisions made by so many characters that just don’t make sense. It’s hugely frustrating.

Spoiler: spoiler in case you’re bananas and want to watch it (click to show/hide)

like late in the season, episode 5 and 6 I think, you discover The University that Jade has been staying with is based on a boat. She discovers a zombie that can apparently communicate and “control” other zombies, so she works with a colleague on this boat to figure out how that works. Pheromones, apparently. A green one that attracts the virus, and a red one that apparently repels it.

To test this theory, The University apparently have some zombies chained up underwater, which I assume they test things on. She decides to bring one of those back to the boat in secret (she drugs it) and test it on there instead of like… literally anywhere else that isn’t effectively impossible to escape from.

So she’s getting ready to test it in her lab when her 10 year old daughter rocks up with a coffee while she’s strapping it to a pole or something with shitty fabric straps, and elects to test this thing that she has no idea will work while her daughter is in the room.

Zombie inevitably escapes and chases her girl, who runs into the friend the main character was working with, who gets killed by the zombie just before the zombie gets killed by some sort of security guard.

The guy in charge of the boat seems to be quite unfazed by this and listens to her advice later on in regards to releasing a big beastie.

There are a handful of other either shitty decisions she makes around this, or utterly predictable things she somehow misses, all apparently in an effort to manufacture drama to pad the runtime.

[scriver]

(at the end of one episode, the sister of the protagonist brings up something she’s anxious about and is reassured by the protagonist, at the start of the next episode the protagonist is the one worried about it and being reassured by her sister)

Ah yes the Walking Dead character development method.

[McTraveller]

SOME SCENES MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR SOME, REALLY MOST, LET'S BE HONEST ALL VIEWERS. BUT REST ASSURED THAT ANY CONSENSUAL RELATIONSHIPS DEPICTED, BE THEY HUMAN, ANIMAL, SUPERHERO, OR OTHER, AREN'T REAL, HARMED NO ONE, AND IN FACT COST A HILARIOUSLY LARGE AMOUNT IN VISUAL EFFECTS.

[Loud Whispers]

I watched the first episode of that new RE. Loved the film series even when it wasn't taking itself seriously at all. But couldn't get past the god awful editing of episode 1. Glad I didn't stick with it

[hector13]

I really don’t like Paul WS Anderson movies because they tend to have braindead characters in them, and I don’t mean the zombies.

I think I had some level of enjoyment for the first two RE movies despite this, but when the start of the third has a big group in a hugely armored school bus, they stop at a motel for supplies, send only two of their number in who then immediately split up, one of them gets attacked and bitten by a zombie and fails to inform anyone despite the knowledge he’s putting everyone at risk, the other guy doesn’t go “hey you’re looking a bit winded, you good?” when they meet up again, it means my suspension of disbelief has been shaken to pieces already and I need to watch something with more sensible people.

[ChairmanPoo]

I liked the premise of the Resident Evil 1 movie. It was simple yet effective. And I liked that it kind of sticks to the Aristothelian concept of unity of time in playwrights (ie: the duration of the movie roughly matches the time scale of the story within the movie)

[Robsoie]

The first couple of Resident Evil movies played on the nostalgia of the old PSX games the RE1 mansion in the 1st movie and the RE2 city in the 2nd, they worked very well for me for that reason. After that the further movies didn't do much for me as it seemed they had no real idea what to do with the franchise, they even tried a mad max with zombie in one of them only to go back to ultratech scifi in another....

I wonder if there's a zombie themed movie/show in which the characters involved aren't going completely stupid at a point or another and fill one of those :

"My group has survived for years and is so very experienced at dealing with zombies, but main characters arrived, suddenly we all die to zombies !"
"Oh zombies are coming from the right, they're noisy but i'll turn my back to them and look to the left and pretend i don't see them coming !"
"An ominous looking building, let's go inside without absolutely checking every windows or opening first !"
"It's just a nasty-looking wound, no need to treat it or use disinfectant i'll just put a piece of cloth over it, it will go away on its own !"
"Zombies are sensible to noise ? I'll shout as much as i can instead of whispering, what could go wrong anyways !"
"I need to go to my objective in the wilderness, but there is a whole building full of zombie between me and it, let's go right into that building instead of circling around it !"
"We're a huge group, but let's send that guy alone in that building, it's completelty safe for him !"
"Our big armed squad that survived for years, how about we suddenly panic and can't shoot straight anymore or let the zombies come a lot closer before shooting ?"

[Vector]

I'm also watching AJ and the Queen, which is the Logan sequel I never knew I needed

[Loud Whispers]

Better Call Saul is starting to close up, but they did my boy Howard dirty D;

[Il Palazzo]

I wonder if there's a zombie themed movie/show in which the characters involved aren't going completely stupid at a point or another and fill one of those :

Have you seen Fido? They're extremely pragmatic in that one.

[Rolan7]

Better Call Saul is starting to close up, but they did my boy Howard dirty D;

Oh no ):
I should catch up, I think my dad just saw the last season.  Caught me by surprise because Breaking Bad didn't catch his attention at all, but they *are* very different shows.  I did feel like BCS was very good beyond the prequel-factor, but it's nice to have confirmation.  And being able to chat about it my dad as he progressed was fun too!  I couldn't resist hinting that Howard wasn't quite as bad as indicated...  Dad still enjoyed the big reveal.

wholesome~

[ChairmanPoo]

The first couple of Resident Evil movies played on the nostalgia of the old PSX games the RE1 mansion in the 1st movie and the RE2 city in the 2nd, they worked very well for me for that reason. After that the further movies didn't do much for me as it seemed they had no real idea what to do with the franchise, they even tried a mad max with zombie in one of them only to go back to ultratech scifi in another....

I wonder if there's a zombie themed movie/show in which the characters involved aren't going completely stupid at a point or another and fill one of those :

"My group has survived for years and is so very experienced at dealing with zombies, but main characters arrived, suddenly we all die to zombies !"
"Oh zombies are coming from the right, they're noisy but i'll turn my back to them and look to the left and pretend i don't see them coming !"
"An ominous looking building, let's go inside without absolutely checking every windows or opening first !"
"It's just a nasty-looking wound, no need to treat it or use disinfectant i'll just put a piece of cloth over it, it will go away on its own !"
"Zombies are sensible to noise ? I'll shout as much as i can instead of whispering, what could go wrong anyways !"
"I need to go to my objective in the wilderness, but there is a whole building full of zombie between me and it, let's go right into that building instead of circling around it !"
"We're a huge group, but let's send that guy alone in that building, it's completelty safe for him !"
"Our big armed squad that survived for years, how about we suddenly panic and can't shoot straight anymore or let the zombies come a lot closer before shooting ?"

The last two years have proven beyond a doubt that people acting stupid in zombie media is realistic. If anything they overestimate real human intelligence.

[King Zultan]

If something stupid can happen it's gonna happen, especially in a movie.

[hector13]

I am watching Only Murders in the Building on Hulu, and am enjoying it so far.

There is one episode which focuses on a deaf character, and there is no sound (bits of incidental music) which I thought was pretty cool.

Also very funny in that it’s following them surreptitiously lip reading other people and that section ends with them turning to the camera and signing “everyone in this city talks too fucking much”, but you might expect that from Steve Martin and Martin Short.

[Vector]

I'm also watching AJ and the Queen, which is the Logan sequel I never knew I needed

I cannot fucking believe that they canceled this campy monstrosity. How dare they. How dare.