Resident Evil top Japanese game-based film series

What a game is Resident Evil 5. Its ok, try to play RE2,3,4. Its better improvement guys.

Agreed. Developing an accurate storyline from the game to the screen would likely help in the film's box office success.

I'll just hope RE5(MOVIE) follows greatly RE4(GAME). I really want to see Leon , Ashley , Ada , Krasuer , Wesker , Regenerator , Del Lago and the spider-like last boss :)!

Still waiting for a good game-based movie, all this movies are try & error I hope one day someone gets it right

Dear Hollywood: Please stop raping our beloved game franchises with these film abominations. Sincerely, The Fans

RE 2 movie had zombies popping out of graves. There not undead its a virus, who writes this crap.

The Resident Evil movies were a lot of fun, although I have yet to see Afterlife as I have no interest in paying the extra money to get a headache from 3D. The other Capcom movies were ok at best IMO. Still, my two favorite game based movies are Final Fantasy The Spirits Within, and Silent Hill. Nonetheless, none of these movies (while still fun to sit through) will ever compare to the Lord of The Rings, Battle of Red Cliff and Patton.

I have them all. There not all gold, but I think there probubly the best game based movies.

The first Resi film was ok, but the others have cheapend the name of the beloved game series.

RE3 movie was really lame with skills such as Mana Shield and Telekinesis. Gamers love the series because of horror and violence elements, not because of chicks who can cast magic with their brains.

RE 1 was the best movie. Have not seen RE 4 yet but looks better than 3 from what i saw of trailers.

How the hell did the resident evil movies make MORE money as new ones were released? They've been getting worse. The first one was really good and then they just went downhill. I guess the second wasn't too bad but the 3rd was a pile of crap. Havent seen the 4th, didnt even know it was out yet.

final fantasy spirits within was awesome, much better than most of the crap that comes to theaters.

actually they are making SH 2 movie it will be in 2011 if imdb is right

i have heard good things about resident evil afterlife, ill watch it wen it comes to dvd! and make silent hill 2

well silent hill was no doubt, the best video game movie made, and i think if they use the same director for clock tower that movie could be pretty freakin cool, onimusha an lost planet, yeah i want to see how those turn out, i actually like watching video game movies, they may not be the best but there fun to watch!

None of this data has any meaning since it doesn't take into account ticket price inflation. Also, the keyword here is Japanese (hence no Mortal Kombat or Tomb Raider hits), which, when you think about it, makes the findings both unsuprising and rather limited. In my opinion, the original Street Fighter movie was a ton of fun and much better than all Resident Evil films combined.

Oh man this movie sucks and even worse there is going to be a RE5!!! D:

Wow people go and watch these movies?

Although I enjoy the RE games, I find the movies quite forgettable.

And there is a Tekken movie on it's way... Yiiikes! Better stay home ....

Only Mortal Kombat, the first Resident Evil and Silent Hill are of the 'better' kind. I loved those movies. For the rest, Street Fighte with JC Van Damme, House Of the Dead,... Awful crap!

To be honest I only ever watched House of the Dead for the zombies. But Uwe Boll even ruined that.

Never seen a RE film outside of Degeneration. That was a perfect video game movie. It had the real voice actors, it was CGI so it eliminated the possibility of an actor not looking like the character, and it stayed true to the story. I would love to see a CGI Dead Space movie, or maybe a Mass Effect movie. There are a lot of possibilities, but I think they should all be CGI.

Someone should make a good game-based movie. I mean some developers have managed to make good games based on licensed material, so someone ought to do video games justice on the big screen.

@ kriptik6 Yeah it was a game first. That's why the headline says game-based film series, meaning the movies are based on games.

Can't wait for the 5th film! Leon Kennedy!

um wasnt resident evil first a game then a movie

Ahh yes, House of the Dead, now THAT is a truly awful, awful movie.Whenever you get all flustered that another video game movie is coming out that will probably not be too good, just remind yourself, there's no way it's gonna be as eye piercingly awful as House of the Dead.

@Emerald_Warrior - The movie industry itself. Not all that long ago the same producers, writers and directors of today's comic and game movies looked "down" on them as beneath any serious top billing consideration. Even to this day despite the game industry overtaking the movie industry in overall revenues it is "still" looked down upon during the transtion process to the big screen. You want to know why the Resident Evil movies are so different from the games? Because most who create the movies have little to no respect for the source material or its ability to hold the attention of the average movie goer as-is.. most still feel that only a passing knowledge of some of the game's notable characterisitics is good enough. For most in the movie industry, comics and games are simply another cow to milk.. nothing more nothing less.

Resident evil afterlife was actually pretty good, actually all of them exept exctinction are ok movies.

Don't let the videogame-to-movie low expectancy appeal sway you. Resident Evil 4 may very well be closest a director (Paul Anderson) could bring a videogame ever closer to a movie. And he really translated it very well. At least, PA gave special attention to action scenes catered to our beloved characters especially Claire's battle with The Executioner. Reassess your expectations--of course, movies made from videogames aren't as favourable to the weak eye and the fan eye alike. I guess you've gone accustomed judging these kind of movies with a thumbs down, that you'd readily say it's crap. This is a definite RE translation, believe me. Nothing else comes close.

@KingofOldSkool Who was resistant of it? I'm a lifelong comic fan and I fully embrace seeing movie and video game versions of my favorite characters. Most people on the comic forum I frequent get excited about comic-related movie and video game projects as well. As for Resident Evil being on top, awesome. I'm a huge horror fan, especially zombies, and as such I've been a Resident Evil fan since the first game. The films aren't quite as good, but they aren't horrible either. I've seen plenty of horrible zombie films.

This list will be completely different in 5-7 years.. because after remaking every damn movie released in the last 30 years(some more than once) and bleeding the novel market dry.. the movie industry has its sights dead set on videogames and comics for the foreseeable future despite all the resistance leading to it.

I thought Mortal Kombat had did better then that. I thought DOA: Dead or Alive was better then House of the Dead. HotD was the worse game to film movie I had ever seen. Only other movie that was worse was Super Mario Bros. Uhgg.. just awful. Hitman was pretty good. I'd watch that one again. I like the Resident Evil series, even though it's predictable.

@xophaser: I wouldn't say it's the direction it's going in, that suggests a slow degradation. I really loved Resi4. No, it's more like a horrifying sharp turn.

I liked the first Mortal Kombat and can still watch it. The only other movie that was bearable to watch was the first Resident Evil....

"Is it just me or are these resident evil movies getting worse and worse. Its like with each movie they focus more and more on action and less on the story" Hey Gontheskylord, doesn't that sounds like how the game series is heading toward too.

I admit I watched each of the Resident Evils..but I waited until it came out on HBO. I would never imagine a situation where I could actually pay 11+ dollars to see on ein the theather. The first one was ok, the second was the same, and the third was god awful. Now that the main girl, I think her name is Alice (played by Mila Jovinich) is like some psychic from the X-Men comics the fourth looks to be even worse

resident evil first movie..the best! Other resident evil movies only action, no story, no excitement, resident evil 4 biggest crap!!!

MOTAL COMBAAAAAT rofl xD

Is it just me or are these resident evil movies getting worse and worse. Its like with each movie they focus more and more on action and less on the story. Afterlife's ending insinuates there will be a 5th movie. They better step it up.

Silent Hill's the best of those movies .. and for nostalgia's sake , Mortal Kombat was awesome haha ..

"Motal Kombat" LMAO

Silent Hill was the most faithful and the best based on a video game. Resident Evil 1 through what are they on now, 100? Stink and need to be erased from history. Where's the re-boot of this on film? Some one please restore RE to it's full glory of film.

I loved Silent Hill and Hitman. RE1 was may favorite and I prefer to imagine number 2 as never happening. Still, Good for them.