Watching the RE movies again.

[silverthorne]

First thought: Alice is just too damned 'special', espcially since she pretty much takes away anything any of the canon characters could be doing to save the day. Someone needed to give her the Mary Sue litmus test, I think, before they approved the script. Or not bother with including canon characters.

Second thought: It should have been Claire and not Alice.

Third thought: Claire and Jill kicking ass together would have been awesome.

Fourth thought: The third movie is so far removed from the original intent of the games that I just don't register it as RE material.

Fifth thought: As it is, I'm not really watching RE, but it does make for good background noise while I work on the computer. Which is really why I keep the DVDs around.

Sixth thought: I need to pop in #1 and get my ass whupped a few times this weekend. :) Anyone want to take bets on how many times I die at the hands of the first zombie before I manage to kill it or run like hell? (Also: Chris or Jill, guys?).

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[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And in this case, not only did they not use the characterization for the few RE canons that showed up, all of them were upstaged by a scriptwriter's original character, who proceeded to basically do all the bad Mary Sue things that drive even people who don't mind Mary Sues up the freaking wall (such as survive a bite and stay more or less human, gain regeneration even though she didn't get any of the downsides of being infected, AND developed telekenesis/telepathy when there isn't even a real case for either in the games other than the Plaga parasites, which were a whole different kettle of fish (and weren't in the movie at all) to begin with.