New Resident Evil Movie Perfectly Recreates Things Every Horror Game Player Knows
We have spent two decades watching Hollywood misunderstand the fundamentals of medium translation. For years, the ‘video game movie’ meant two things: either stripping away every mechanical quirk to turn it into a bland, grey-toned action flick, or winking so hard at the camera that the whole endeavor collapsed under i...
We have spent two decades watching Hollywood misunderstand the fundamentals of medium translation. For years, the ‘video game movie’ meant two things: either stripping away every mechanical quirk to turn it into a bland, grey-toned action flick, or winking so hard at the camera that the whole endeavor collapsed under its own cringe. Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil works because it translates how playing a video game actually feels directly onto the screen.
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