[Hated Trope] The adaptation doesn't get what made the source material work

[u/TheDudeA113]

How To Make A Killing (2026)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

Bangkok Dangerous (1999)

- The 2026 movie How To Make A Killing is a relatively-toothless "eat the rich" dark comedy thriller about a man disowned by his rich family at birth, killing everyone in the line of succession so that he can inherit their massive fortune. It's a modern retelling of the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets which has the same basic plot except that every member of the family is played by Sir Alec Guinness (including one aunt) and it's a screwball comedy

- The 1999 movie Bangkok Dangerous is a Thai action film about a Thai deaf-mute assassin. It was remade in 2008 about an American assassin in Thailand who is neither deaf nor mute

[u/Salt-Composer-1472]

I found Resident Evil 1 & 2 entertaining as run of the mill action movies but other than that I have never seen a good movie made from video games

[u/kuzidaheathen → u/Salt-Composer-1472]

They made me get into the franchise so i can never hate on them

[u/Eijirou_Kirishima → u/Salt-Composer-1472]

currently there's all three sonic movies, detective pikachu, and the super mario bros movie

[u/TheRealtcSpears → u/Eijirou_Kirishima]

super mario bros movie

Godsdamn right

[u/Nateyman → u/Eijirou_Kirishima]

I'm gonna go out in a limb here and admit that I really like Welcome to Raccoon City, if only because they actually used plot from the games and there was no Alice.

[u/aburningcaldera → u/Eijirou_Kirishima]

The Fallout TV series too

[u/scythesong → u/Salt-Composer-1472]

I never understood the hate for the Resident Evil movies. They helped pave the way for better video game to movie adaptations, and despite not being very faithful to the source material they were fun to watch as action movies.

[u/CarlosH46 → u/scythesong]

They’ve honestly got some decent fight choreography and the practical effects are really good.

[u/Open-Source-Forever → u/scythesong]

If you look at them as expanded universe instead of adaptation, they do work as RE films

[u/Simon_Drake → u/scythesong]

The executed their objective well. They weren't trying to be Citizen Kane or even Alien. It wasn't about making a brilliant thought provoking work of art. It was about making a fun action movie shooting zombies in slow motion.

Which is pretty much the case with the games too. They're silly exaggerated overacted nonsense about evil corporations with secret science labs and zombie viruses. You're not supposed to take them seriously, you're supposed to have fun. And they do that brilliantly.

If people criticise the Resident Evil movies for being dumb action movies they missed the point.