So resident evil degeneration came in through the good old Netflix today. Just in time for my lunch break so I popped it in made a sandwich and...it sucked. That is all.

Ok, ok I'll elaborate, watching the opening of the movie at first had me pumped for the good old-fashioned RE set up of zombie violence and corny dialogue. That was until I realized the controller in my hand only had the power of fast forwarding, pausing, stopping etc. etc. and at no point was I going to be actually playing the game. Which is exactly what it felt like, though the CGI animation and production was top-notch quality it never went above a video game cinematic quality.

But even if it was along the lines of Beowulf it still would have been pretty unwatchable due to the fact that the corny dialogue always maintained a charming feel and was totally acceptable in the games. Doesn't exactly stand as well on its own. It was cool to see Leon and Claire back together and the occasional flashback to resident evil two (my favorite resident evils out of all of them until four) but Jesus Christ if it wasn't altogether stupid.

I especially enjoyed how the English dialogue didn't exactly lip sync properly in good old Capcom fashion. Hell, the fact that it was a Capcom movie should have been enough. A brilliant game production company that will appear to never evolve their story building aspect of games. It's as if they purposely maintained that feel of Japanese awfulness.

And I believe that says it all right there, for on the surface it looks like there was really no reason for this movie to even be made except for the fact it was guaranteed to make a decent buck. They already have the facilities to make a pretty 2 hour cinematic. Why not just slap a movie title on it and save the legions of programmers the work of building an actual video game into it. You would only have to hear the nerdy roar of the crowd at last year's E3 when they premiered the trailer to know that much.

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