Live Magazine April May 2017 Issue

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RESIDENT EVIL
derson has a lot to thank as to
why these films are successful is
that he made them his own. While
there are commonalities to the video
game series the plots truly go
off in separate directions. He was
never afraid to steer away from
the games. Sticking too close to
the source material can obviously
cause problems, the main example
being 2016’s Warcraft. While it
was loved be fans of the old RTS
games most other people in the
audience seemed to have no clue
as to what was going on. Anderson
just took the bare bones concept
and fleshed it out his own way.
The series continued with Resident
Evil Apocalypse (2004), Resident
Evil Extinction (2007), Resident Evil
Afterlife (2010), Resident Evil Retribution
(2012) and this year we
got Resident Evil The Final Chapter
which saw the end of Alice’s story.
It was the action packed ending
I think fans will be satisfied with. I
certainly was. This film series while
silly does mean something to me. It
was something cool and fun when
I was in high school that followed
me into adulthood. They are great,
fun escapism films. Sometimes it
is nice to get out our pens and critique
a film for its artistic merits, and
then sometimes it’s fun to watch a
chick launch a motor bike through
a church window and kill a monster
with it. I doubt we will ever see another
franchise such as this, one
that embraces its own silliness with
no apologies and exists purely so
you can have a good time. Just remember
to aim for the head.
BY SCOTT F. SOWTER
@SCOTTFSOWTER