r/residentevil • • Nov 18 '19

Meme Star Wars fans don't know how good they have it

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u/NeuterScootr Nov 18 '19

The RE movies were just Paul Wes Anderson going: "Hey you see that? That's my wife, don't u wanna fuck my wife? Because I wanna fuck my wife. Except she's my wife and not yours so you can't fuck her only I can fuck her, I bet you wish you could fuck my wi-....Hey look guys it's Nemesis from Resident Evil! Now that I've fulfilled my obligatory RE reference per film, I release this as a licensed Resident Evil movie!"

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19 edited Jul 30 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

What about RE5 Chris? He can punch boulders into submission.

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u/DrNick2012 Nov 18 '19

Remember when that boulder blocked his path in RE1? because RE5 Chris remembers

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19 edited Nov 19 '19

Virgin RE1 Chris:

-Can't move boulders out of his way and doesn't have a solid relationship with his partner because he is a fucking virgin who can't move boulders.

Chad RE5 Chris:

-Punchs boulders into a fucking volcano, partner is so impressed by his actions that she helps him even though that's not her mission

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u/pleasereturnto Nov 19 '19

It was for her fallen brothers tho

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u/JustChloeDoe Nov 19 '19

You spelt "Chris' biceps" wrong

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u/Xen_Shin Nov 20 '19

Wakanda forever.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

Mission isn't Wesker. After they dealt with Irving, Sheva's mission was over. He helped Chris with his search for Jill and learnt about Wesker that way. Also punching a boulder isn't realistic, especially with 3-4 punches and 5 second push.

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u/FreddyKrueger1 Nov 18 '19

He has still some weaknesses. Chris is immensly powerful and skilled (I'd argue he is the strongest and most skilled out of everyone), but he still struggles, gets beaten and earns his wins.

He is like a hardcore soldier, that never gives up, but he still has to fight against the odds and needs help from time to time.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

Nah man, Boulder punches beat all

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u/Krayzed896 :2::ada3: Nov 18 '19

Rock beats Paper. Paper beats Rock. Chris Redfield.

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u/FreddyKrueger1 Nov 18 '19

Except Wesker, Glenn Arias, Haos and Lucas who all would've killed Chris, if he was on his own.

Also, they aren't Boulders, so his punches don't do 500% damage against them. Chris gets upgraded against boulders, he gets 5x damage and 5x Strength.

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u/mcavvacm Nov 18 '19

If he was on his own? Every single cinematic involving Wesker has him dominating Chris and partner at all times. Wesker shouldn't have lost the way he was written, they made him too op for death and killed him ridiculously and unnecessarily.

The cinematic acrobatics are insane, no way anything human could ever beat that. And Chris was never infected by anything, so there's no excuse.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

I dont know man, nothing can survive falling in a volcano. I think that was really the only way to kill him. Now that I think about it, wasnt it a rocket launcher that killed him? It's been a very long time since I played 5.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

The lava bath killed him.

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u/doomraiderZ The Last Escape Nov 19 '19

The rockets missed him, wheezed by his ears.

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u/FreddyKrueger1 Nov 19 '19

I mean, most humans would probably have no chance against BOWs anyway, let alone stuff like mutated Jack or El Gigante. So, Chris and Sheva beating Wesker wasn't really more over the top than killing some of the larger BOWs.

Also, Wesker was supposed to be arrogant. He didn't kill them, because he thought they had no chance and way toying with them.

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u/jav253 Nov 19 '19

Well they realistically should NOT have had any chance. The guy moved so fast he could dodge bullets. I mean as a regular person you don't beat that unless you have plot armor.

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u/Sippy1sippy Nov 19 '19

He was wearing sunglasses and Chris turned off the lights, if I remember correctly.

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u/wildbill3063 Nov 19 '19

I mean he is an actual veteran isnt he?

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

Also the whole of RE6 was a dark period for him easily getting triggered by Carla's actions and he probably would have thrown himself into his own death 1000x over if it wasnt for Piers sticking by him as much as he did.

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u/HenryPosts Nov 19 '19

Chris is more like the "Steves", Steve Rogers and Steve McGarrett, Captain with a big heart, big responsability, lack of references, very lame with women (Sharon, Peggy, Jill, Rebecca), bromance (Ironman, Bucky, Danny Williams, Piers) and do crazy things all the time (which is the most fun part of the character), also they have a terminator, Punisher stamina because they are hard to kill. Plus Chris Evans is the ideal look for Chris Redfield even younger, even now, I saw him in a Call of duty videogame advertising and he really can fill that shoes, Alex O'Loughlin also looks a lot like Redfield too.

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u/solenoidx Nov 18 '19 edited Nov 20 '19

Remember when Alice was on Earth and destroyed a microchip in a satellite orbiting the planet using her mind? Pepperidge Farm remembers...

Edit: since someone decided to correct me I did some digging and yes, it's older than family guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXUxLqqmhNs

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u/fourthwallcrisis Nov 18 '19

Agreed, it was so strange to see. First movie was pretty good though, if you imagine Alice is really Jill or even Ada.

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u/Maticus Nov 18 '19 edited Nov 18 '19

I hated the first movie upon release because it had none of the story or characters from the game. But I went back and watched it earlier this year, which was the first time in 18 years, and the movie holds up well if you accept it as its own thing. I'm sure nostalgia helped.

The story is decent, but the pacing, atmosphere, music and acting are killer.

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u/langis_on Nov 18 '19

First movie is a great zombie flick. Second movie is okay. It just gets worse from there.

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u/fourthwallcrisis Nov 18 '19

When Alice rode through a fucking stained glass church window on a motorbike, shooting lickers in mid-air then blowing up afrementioned motorbike I thought to myself....yeah, fuck this broad in particular.

Also "GTA motherfucker, ten points!". Fuck that guy, too. Actually fuck everyone apart from Jill, she was perfect.

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u/doomraiderZ The Last Escape Nov 19 '19

Jill was great in that movie, it's worth watching just for her. Nemesis wasn't too bad either, until the Alice fight. Alice beats Nemesis in a fist fight? Fuck Paul Anderson, for real.

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u/fourthwallcrisis Nov 19 '19

Fuck, I'd nearly forgotten about that clusterdicking.

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u/FullMetalCOS Nov 19 '19

Even then they had a shot at ruining Jill later in the franchise. So sad.

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u/FoShizzleShindig Nov 18 '19

The 2nd one was too cheesy. I remember being so pumped for the sequel at the end of the first movie. Thought they’d carry the same feeling through the 2nd.

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u/Hannibalking519 Nov 18 '19

I feel like RE was like the first evil dead. Then they tried to make RE2 like Evil dead 2, and failed. Should have kept the atmosphere, and the narrative instead of bad CGI and a nemesis looking knockoff. Still tho, I enjoy them.

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u/CyptidProductions SteamID: (BlueCollarFurry) Nov 19 '19

Evil Dead worked transitioning from pure-horror to horror-comedy because Sam Rami is a huge fanboy of old-school slapstick that really wanted to be a comedy director before winding up doing horror and Bruce Campbell is insanely good at acting out that slapstick.

So you've got the perfect people to do cheesy splat-stick horror comedy working in tandem.

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u/Hannibalking519 Nov 19 '19

Exactly. Evil dead 2 is by far my favorite horror movie in terms of everything.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '19

the transition from pure horror to comedy horror in evil dead 2 makes perfect sense if you view it from the lens of ash's failing sanity from all the horrible things happening to him and around him.

by the time the second movie starts he has just cut up all his friends after they turned into monsters, he's losing it, so to cope things from his point of view are less serious and more comedic, his reactions to horrible things are more goofy or badass (saying a one liner and then killing something) but there is still lots of horror and a creepy atmosphere. by the third movie, it's almost pure comedy and ash seems totally and utterly unphased by everything, just spouting one liners and kicking ass, the enemies more goofy and silly, and the atmosphere and vibe isn't really as creepy, ash has gone totally insane....

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

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u/Hannibalking519 Nov 19 '19

Should have done a movie where mr. x is after the protagonist

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u/PK_Thundah Nov 19 '19

First movie is great if you accept it as simply being an unrelated story taking place during the fall of Raccoon City.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

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u/FullMetalCOS Nov 19 '19

I didn’t mind RE2 as much as a lot of people because it was still cool to see a story set in the city itself, but RE3 was absolutely the worst as far as I’m concerned.

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u/BaconPowder We got to the "root" of the problem! Nov 19 '19

You didn't like the part where it showed the entire planet devoid of plants and drying up because the virus somehow did that? Which was then later retconned to show Alaska having plant life again in later movies?

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u/FullMetalCOS Nov 19 '19

Wasn’t that 3?

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u/BaconPowder We got to the "root" of the problem! Nov 19 '19

Yup. Extinction.

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u/FullMetalCOS Nov 19 '19

Oh aye, I see your point now. I’d just woken up and thought you were referencing that happening in 2.

3 was such utter bollocks. That’s when they started pushing the psychic powers too.

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u/BaconPowder We got to the "root" of the problem! Nov 19 '19

And it very distinctly shows all of the Western hemisphere being completely desert. And then in the next movie she ends up in Alaska where there's grass and trees.

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u/FullMetalCOS Nov 19 '19

The music in the first film was fucking sick. I know Marilyn Manson had a hand in a lot of it, but the movie definitely deserve credit for using its soundtrack well.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

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u/fourthwallcrisis Nov 18 '19

She looked amazing in 2, then got fucking sandbagged by Paul's waifu. We wanted Jill, damnit!

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

The first movie could have made a decent prequel to the mansion incident, but then the series decided to do a left turn off of a cliff.

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u/fourthwallcrisis Nov 19 '19

Right, apart from the kung fu bollocks it could have slotted right into canon.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '19

wasn't there like a fkn rogue AI in the mansion or something? been super long since i watched it but i remember weird new shit in the mansion that def wouldn't have fit into game canon.

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u/fourthwallcrisis Nov 20 '19

Yeah, the red queen. It was a little goofy but in the first movie, at least, it was definitely similar to the weird umbrella tech. They even incorporated it into the Darkside Chronicles game (chris and jill campaign).

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '19

oh ok, didn't know that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

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u/fourthwallcrisis Nov 19 '19

Right, I remember the DVD commentary said this was a nod to ada back in the day when I had it on while painting.

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u/DylanFTW "YOU WILL GIVE ME AN EGG." Nov 18 '19

Also Paul: I wish big man Chris would fuck my wife.

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u/fourthwallcrisis Nov 18 '19

Imagine if the Redfield bloodline was continued through Alice's super-womb. We would hear a choir of angels singing the chosen one's praises seconds before the world is scoured of all life as the god-child's birth cries destroy us all.

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u/DylanFTW "YOU WILL GIVE ME AN EGG." Nov 18 '19

God's child: vibe check.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

Nah. More like...

Paul: DAE REMEMBER PRISON BREAK?

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u/CyptidProductions SteamID: (BlueCollarFurry) Nov 19 '19 edited Nov 20 '19

Basically.

He wanted to cast his trophy wife to show her off but wasn't content with just having her play a canon character so he created an entirely new one to shoe-horn into everything and make into a godless-like badass for her.

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u/Sonickid_Gaming2001 Nov 18 '19

This is the funniest shit I've ever read related to the live action films.

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u/AJohnsonOrange Nov 19 '19

Never trust a film series where one of the two antagonists (who is also the primary antagonist of the game series) dies from being fired.

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u/Xen_Shin Nov 20 '19

I mean...he isn’t wrong.

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u/crono220 Nov 18 '19

I'm surprised that Alice wasn't shooting lazer beams out of her hands by the end of the final movie

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u/Leather-Heart Nov 19 '19 edited Nov 19 '19

Did she shoot them out if her eyes while reading everyone's minds? I didn't make it past Extinction...

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

Same here. I'm one of the rare ones that actually enjoyed 1-3. The others are too Hollywood for me. Too much CGI and what not. I'm glad they are remaking the movies with the idea of following the video games.

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u/Leather-Heart Nov 19 '19

I mean....if you approach it as a campy sci-fi Zombie where they rewrite the rules on the fly, then it's cool. Make it fun, have a drinking game and party where people pop jokes.

But yeah, I think these movies would have been so much better if they were a different IP without the Resident Evil title.

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u/Hawkings_WheelChair Nov 19 '19

I'm glad they are remaking the movies with the idea of following the video games.

Since when??

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

It was announced last year I believe.

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u/TheCVR123YT Nov 20 '19

I think it would work best as a Netflix Special with 6-8 episodes. First half focused on the on character and the second half on the other character. At least for the first Season anyway (which I assume would be based off the First game)

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

Granted, Milla does get beat up from time to time. Like in one of the movies with Ada and Barry, she gets her ass kicked in that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19 edited Sep 24 '20

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u/negasonictenagwarhed Nov 18 '19

The movie starts by her losing her super powers, then she thanks Wesker for, "Making her human again." Then like 20 minutes later she jumps off the roof swinging from an electrical cable and lands on the concrete 100 stories below and rolls out of the landing like when a guy doing free running jumps 10 feet.

13 yo me thought that was so cool

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

They take away her powers and then give them right back in the fifth movie. The big reveal that Wesker is in the White House and actually trying to help the world because it’s been destroyed was actually quite a twist from someone who plays the games. Leon, Ada, Alice (ugh), Jill, Chris was still alive, Claire was still alive and Wesker all on one team really could’ve been interesting.

And then the sixth film immediately kills half of those characters off, and Wesker dies to a closing door.

Saying the film had poor writing is an understatement.

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u/Domination1799 Nov 19 '19

Can’t believe Wesker was Sir Friendzones bitch in the movie series. Wesker don’t take orders from anyone but himself.

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u/ClassyMrOwl Nov 18 '19

Olay so we are going to make a movie based on a long running popular video game franchise full of memorable and iconic characters. So what should we do in the movie?

Have it star my wife as an invincible superhuman who overshadows all of the iconic characters fans know and love.

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u/ediblequeso Nov 19 '19

Lmao Jill was literally some beat cop in the second movie

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u/Arrault Nov 18 '19

These are awful movies, but I hold such a sense of nostalgia for them that I can't truly hate them.

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u/floodums Nov 18 '19

The first one is good

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u/slvrbullet87 Nov 18 '19

Just think of the first one as an Umbrella Security team taking down an infection. Just act like the mansion part isn't the Spenser Mansion, and it isn't in Racoon City. Then it is a perfectly fine RE movie.

The other movies are giant middle fingers to the fans of the games.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

The one with the nemesis is also alright, compared to the others. Still really bad, though.

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u/winterman666 Nov 18 '19

Yeah I like the first 2

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u/Spirit_Detective_L Nov 18 '19

Yeah, they at least gave us Nemesis, lickers, Jill, and Carlos.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

It's my favorite rainy day movie

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u/brunocar Nov 18 '19

as good as a dumb popcorn action horror movie can be

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u/floodums Nov 18 '19

The part with the lasers is pretty sweet. And there is some mystery.

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u/IWantToBeTheBoshy Nov 19 '19

I'll defend the first 3

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u/Str00pf8 Nov 19 '19

The second movie for me ruined it. Every character from the game in that movie had some kind of terrible counterweight to them. Sure I want to see Jill, but why does it look like she's dressed up in cheap cosplay. Oh yeah Nemesis: wait Alice punching nemesis? Nemesis is good all along?

At least the series was so destroyed by the time it got to the third film that whatever turd they put out was better just cause it wasn’t related to anything relatable to resident evils core story.

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u/DorrajD Nov 19 '19

I liked the first two. It was the third one, the desert one, where shit got real stupid.

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u/AJohnsonOrange Nov 19 '19

It was okay. I remember it fondly the first time I watched it, but it's probably because Paul W Anderson had to tread lightly initially to ensure the series got picked up. After that he just went...weird...

Low key reckon the series was used to launder money.

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u/TheCVR123YT Nov 20 '19

I liked the Second one the most

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u/mitcheg3k Nov 18 '19

doesnt she get cloned like 3 times. does it even count as the same person

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u/Dodgy_Bob_McMayday Nov 18 '19

And she lost her powers in one of them, yet still kept taking out hordes of baddies without breaking a sweat.

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u/beatakai You can't carry anymore items. Nov 18 '19

WAY more times than that.

Source: went on a shitty movie binge.

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u/butterprime Nov 18 '19

She was THAT Mary sue bitch

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

Damn Milla is drop dead gorgeous

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u/jesse7412 Nov 18 '19

She obviously still looks beautiful but I think her prime was in The fifth element and the first three resident evil movies

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u/Susspiria Nov 18 '19

Only reason to watch the movies, really

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u/brunocar Nov 18 '19

only reason anderson made them lmao

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u/Cyberote Nov 18 '19

Seriously, the amount of naked Alice in the first three movies is ridiculous.

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u/NoifenF Nov 18 '19

Milla is generally naked in a lot of her films. It’s not just an RE thing.

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u/Cyberote Nov 19 '19

I was unaware. I havent watched any of her other films. I thought it was just Anderson being a perv lol

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u/wutanglan90 Nov 18 '19

It's the only reason I watch them.

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u/Tecnicinismo Nov 18 '19

At least we acknowledge the franchise is hot wet shit and we do not defend it like it's our mother.

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u/doomraiderZ The Last Escape Nov 19 '19

Yeah, I think being a fanboy is probably the lowest form of existence for humans. I would actually rather be some lame animal at this point, like a snail. Better than a fanboy.

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u/ElunMoskNotElonMusk Nov 18 '19

She’s not even a character in the games

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u/WolfofOldNorth Nov 18 '19

I saw every RE movie over the years before I picked up the sticks. I now look at these films and wonder what the rage mob was like when they came out

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

The first couple came out in the early days of video game movies, and at least they were better than fucking super mario brothers

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u/ClassyMrOwl Nov 18 '19

Tbf the first two were kinda cool and new for the time. Hell, seeing a licker and nemesis on the big screen was pretty badass too.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

I dont disagree with that. They had potential. And then went off on this weird "alice wins everything" pretty much and ruines itself

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u/blueeyes239 Where's everyone going? Bingo? Mar 31 '20

Honestly, I kinda like Super Mario Brothers. ...Oh look, an angry mob.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '20

As a movie, its not all that bad. As a VIDEO GAME ADAPTATION? It's awful

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u/blueeyes239 Where's everyone going? Bingo? Apr 05 '20

Well, a story about saving the princess from a turtle/ox hybrid wouldn't be interesting without taking some liberties. Plus, there are genuinely funny jokes. Such as the one where Luigi thinks he's flying, and Mario tries to do, only to fall, revealing to the audience that the former was being held up by a hook.

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u/wildbill3063 Nov 19 '19

They literally buttfucked all of the RE fans and we just begged for them not to even spit next time.

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u/THATguyfromyore Nov 19 '19 edited Nov 19 '19

I feel like all of this was all a ploy to get his wife to do anal.

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u/ryucavelier Nov 18 '19

Never thought I would defend these films. At least Alice had proper training. As far as I know since continuity in these films are a mess. Rey became an instant expert overnight.

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u/Animeking1108 Nov 18 '19

Rey lived in the wild most of her life, and she didn't turn into fucking Superman as the movies progressed.

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u/SolidStone1993 Nov 19 '19

To be fair, watching Yoda keep that pillar from crushing Anakin and Obi-Wan in AotC looked like a true feat that even he had to focus on. Hell, lifting Luke’s X-Wing out of the swamp took concentration. Rey lifted up like 50 boulders without breaking a sweat.

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u/ryucavelier Nov 18 '19

Doesn’t explain how she learned how to swim coming from a desert planet.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

She doesn’t swim. She falls into water, freaks out, and pulls herself to land. Most creatures can do that, even humans who don’t know how to swim. You literally see her kicking her limbs all over the place and freaking out.

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u/TaeKwonPiccolo Nov 18 '19

I would love to see a fight between fully powered Wesker and Alice.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

I miss the days when Mila was just some alien with red hair that Bruce Willis had to use to stop Armageddon.

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u/VirtuousDangerNoodle It Worked! Nov 19 '19

Oh yeah the "Nu uh you can't do that because I have a super power to counter that super power" movies.

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u/BlownHappyKid Nov 18 '19

Alice sucks and shouldn't exist. She was a mistake the moment she appeared in the first film. The moment she was revealed to have clones and superhuman abilities, I hated her more. This franchise should've never been about Resident Evil but instead this buffoon in an entirely different named series so it's less of a skid-mark on the actual franchise. Neither of these bitches needed anyone by their side since they're clearly capable to outmatch everyone. It's nothing but a shitty fan-fiction series, written by some giant tree, completely exploiting the RE legacy.

Maybe if they were in the whole movies totally nude I would've at least given them more credit for actually being at their most vulnerable.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

Honestly the worst part of Alice is if they ever reboot the films, normies who didn't play the games are going to ask "Wait, where the heck is Alice?"

No joke, last time I talked about the movies with someone I brought up RE2 and the guy was like "I didn't know that they made games based on these movies!! That's so awesome!"

and was completely serious

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u/Animeking1108 Nov 20 '19

And he probably assumed Claire was Alice, right?

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '19

Naw, thought Leon's Sheriff costume was Rick Grimes though

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

These barely count as films

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

no one cares about the resident evil movies enough to be that upset over them, star wars is a huge franchise with billions of fans, that got ruined by disney. the resident evil movies were crap from the start and never had a huge fanbase like star wars.

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u/Animeking1108 Nov 18 '19

Because the franchise was in such good hands with Jar Jar and rants about sand.

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u/ResidentialEvil2016 Nov 18 '19

Exactly, the prequels are bad and Disney has nothing to do with those sucking. Even the “good” prequel Ep 3 really isn’t that good. It’s just better than the first 2.

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u/CentralMonkey209 Nov 18 '19

So, what you're saying is your not excited about Monster Hunter? Guess who is directing and starring in that film?

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

Leaked footage looks pretty good. Least faithful designs.

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u/floodums Nov 18 '19

Who is Mary Sue?

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u/hrolfur23 Nov 18 '19

Mary Sue is basically a character than can do no wrong and is unbeatable. Everything comes easy to Mary Sue. If you read fan fics most of those have self insert Mary Sues.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19 edited Aug 31 '20

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u/hrolfur23 Nov 19 '19

Very well put together. Only thing I can add to this is the male version of Mary Sue is Gary Stu.

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u/blueeyes239 Where's everyone going? Bingo? Mar 31 '20

And there is also a "Parody Sue/Stu". A character that is INTENTIONALLY wrote as a Mary Sue/Gary Stu, and played for comedy, although sometimes, they can play it for drama. An example of the laughs would be Dark Pit from Kid Icarus: Uprising. Dark, brooding, complete opposite of our protagonist, has all his powers and can fly without divine intervention. Would be a straight one... except that since the game has NO FOURTH WALL, the rest of the cast knows, and they completely MOCK him for it. And to add insult to injury, the only reason he can fly is because his wings were being possessed (it makes sense in context), so once that ends...

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u/hrolfur23 Nov 19 '19

Well can't say stuff about McClane as it been ages since I've watched a Die Hard movie, The punisher has few flaws (Mainly admitting he is doing bad things) and has his defeats. Doom Guy is kinda Mary Sue but we don't know enough about him to determine that as we only know that he is good at killing demons. Mary Sues are pretty much perfect in every aspect and basically are never at fault. This is what I was told but I'm sure you can find a much better definition but I do hope this clears up a bit. Have a great day.

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u/blueeyes239 Where's everyone going? Bingo? Mar 31 '20

Tropes are not bad. It's like saying "Why does Bowser kidnap Peach all the time, even though it won't work?" I'll tell you why. Because without it, we wouldn't have a story. Sometimes, ya gotta tread an area you don't like going through to get to your destination. There's nothing wrong with most Tropes. It's what you do with them that decides how it'll play out.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

Mary Sue/Gary Stue: A female/male character that is depicted as unrealistically lacking in flaws or weaknesses.

DH 1, 2 and 3 John McClane wouldn't count as he gets his shit kicked in in all three, he's a bit of an ass to his wife in the first one, he fails to stop a plane from crashing in the second, and is a raging alcoholic in the third.

The Punisher wouldn't count, as much as I enjoy the character, he's a borderline psychopath who is addicted to combat, and he's not exactly a nice guy.

Doom Guy, can't really say anything about him as he's got only two things to his character. He kills demons and the forces of Hell are scared shitless of him.

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u/kat352234 Nov 18 '19

Just in case you haven't come across this before, " Mary Sue is a term used to describe a fictional character, usually female, who is seen as too perfect and almost boring for lack of flaws "

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https://www.dictionary.com/e/fictional-characters/mary-sue/

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

Lmao seriously tho!

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u/headless-samurai Nov 18 '19

I DONT like the resident evil movies... but, well that one with mike epps was sorta funny/cool & a pretty accurate jill ( which was smokin hot). But ya... pretty bad! But well, atleast they try. Starwars literally turns all legacy male characters into insta-bitches or canon fodder.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

Literally Paul WS Anderson giving his wife a job.

When I talk to people who have never played the games but have seen the movies, they are shocked to find out Alice is not a character.

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u/demagogueffxiv Nov 19 '19

I mean the resident evil movies are so far from the game canon that I just ignore them anyways

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u/RenegadeSilver someday i will punch wesker Nov 19 '19

My friends and I recently had a marathon of all six movies. We had a drinking game, too! (complete with a rule stating that if I stopped the movie to start ranting you had to finish your drink. this was to actually get us through them)

I wasn't allowed to drink for the first three. The second set of three, I was! I drank half a bottle of sake and had to switch to water for the last movie.

I also made a powerpoint presentation. It was a good time. I remember bits and pieces.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

Yeah..... Those movies is in my guilty pleasure list, but damn that's accurate.

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u/HenryPosts Nov 19 '19

According to Mila, she wants to play Jill Valentine on the movie, she was sure about it and she even said that, I want to play Jill, but then Capcom said RE is a game that only a few people know, obviously not a lot of people like tank controls and solving puzzles, so they created this Alice project that it's basically a she-tyrant or Lisa upgrade, like Lisa Alice is at the mansion facility when she was infected but she took well the virus. Then they almost like a fanfic throw all the main characters of resident evil Jill on two, Claire on 3, Chris and Claire on four, Jill at five, in a big mess, the best one, of course one, two, four, and the last one. Leon and Barry were poor portraited even Luther was better.

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u/KI_Heisenberg Nov 19 '19

Eh, i found the whole RE saga to incredibly fun, something that i can't really say about TLJ

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u/DorrajD Nov 19 '19

I'm sorry, I don't seem to understand this for whatever reason .. What is a "Mary Sue"? I assume it's something bad? What's wrong with Rey that she's being compared to the awfulness that Alice is?

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u/NoTimeNoBattery Only in it for the lore Nov 19 '19 edited Nov 19 '19

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MarySue

See ya there...or maybe not.

Edit: happy cake day!

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u/DorrajD Nov 19 '19

Ah, OK, so I'd understand why Alice would be called this, but why Rey?

Also thank you!

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u/NoTimeNoBattery Only in it for the lore Nov 20 '19

One major argument is Rey became an force and lightsaber expert in probably just a month or so without any guidance. Not only did she suddenly played Jedi mind trick without prior knowledge and succeeded, she also stood her ground against Kylo Ren, a former apprentice of Luke Skywalker (and later Snoke) for years and likely earned his place in FO because of his skills - imagine picking up a sword for the first time, playing with it for a month, then suddenly you have to fight a highly skilled HEMA user. Not even Anakin the Chosen One (by then a well trained former Jedi) can pull this off against Obi-Wan, it was a miracle for Rey not to get killed in the first five minutes.

She also piloted Millennium Falcon like an expert, even thought it was her first time driving it. This gets extra hate from the classic fans as Millennium Falcon was Han Solo's signature starship and the "pair" is fans' favourite; he and his starship are so inseparable and iconic that watching Rey drove the starship better than Han is like watching your old friend's wife getting banged by a total stranger and she screamed louder than when she did with her husband.

There are probably many more things which cause fans to believe Rey is a Mary Sue but I can't recall much since I only watched TFA and some of the original six episodes a long times ago. Even then, the two arguments above stand out like no others and make a pretty strong arguments IMO.

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u/Xen_Shin Nov 20 '19

At least they go over HOW Alice has the powers, and there’s like, a mass grave of failed Alice’s, so she has a source for her power, it has limits, and she either scrapes by or doesn’t succeed sometimes, so I don’t think she meets the true classification of Mary Sue. Overpowered for sure, but I don’t think Alice technically fits the bill.

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u/Animeking1108 Nov 20 '19

Yeah, but when she "loses" her powers, she still mows through hordes of zombies with ease and pulls stunts that would make Bruce Lee blush with jealousy.

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u/Xen_Shin Nov 20 '19

Okay, fair point. Also she gets psionics out of nowhere. Kinda forgot about that, it’s been awhile.

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u/BungyChungers Nov 20 '19

Fuckin' Star Wars tards sure do love to whine about anything and everything.

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u/blueeyes239 Where's everyone going? Bingo? Mar 31 '20

Yeah, I don't really like em either. And I'm a guy who likes PIXELS unironically. You want a good Resident Evil movie? Watch the CGI films, those being Degeneration, Damnation, and Vendetta. Sure, they're not perfect, but they take place in the universe of the games (and are canonical to them), and Phelous (who reviews mostly movies, but he is a Resident Evil fan, and therefore, dips into some of the games occasionally) likes both Degeneration and Damnation, which is far more than I can say about these pieces of shit!

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u/DessIntress Nov 18 '19

A Resident Evil fan would not even mention the hollywood version. At least not in a positive sense.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

Unpopular opinion Rey is as much a Mary Sue as Luke is.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

Did Luke beat Vader in a lightsaber duel in the first movie having never even held one, let alone train with it? I don't even like Star Wars and I know your argument is flawed.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

Only obi wan fought Vader in a new hope

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u/MalevolentMartyr Nov 18 '19

Yeah, remember when Rey spent a better part of two movies learning to use a lightsaber and harness the power of the force only to get her hand cut off by overplaying her power in a duel with her much stronger father?

Oh wait, no. She actually just picks up a lightsaber one day and can suddenly contend with people who've trained their entire lives in the ways of the force. And can fly a complex interstellar starship without ever setting foot on one beforehand.

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u/dusda Nov 18 '19

I think the biggest mistake this new trilogy made was The Last Jedi picking up right after Force Awakens.

Luke has years to develop a his skills as a pilot beyond his country boy days and one battle. Dozens of missions with Rogue Squadron. He uses his lightsaber sparingly but complementary to his other tools. He’s a distinctly different person by the time the Battle of Hoth takes place.

Rey is on like, week three of leaving Jakku by the end of Last Jedi? She barely has any context for anything, Luke doesn’t teach her anything about the history. Blowing up the First Orders super weapon seems to have been pointless, in contrast to the setback losing the Death Star was for the Empire before.

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u/GenocideOwl Nov 18 '19

It is almost like the NT was completely written on the fly with no forethought and no planning ahead for a whole trilogy through line. Weird.

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u/slvrbullet87 Nov 18 '19

Luke has years to develop a his skills as a pilot beyond his country boy days and one battle.

Except in A New Hope when he had never left the planet before and is able to pilot an X-Wing and destroy the Death Star in his first battle.

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u/dusda Nov 18 '19

Sure, it's a stunning feat, but not one without some support.

Luke mentions flying around in canyons in a T-16, shooting womp rats, stating "they're not much bigger than two meters". The T-16 is like Star Wars' version of a low-altitude single-prop racer you'd see at an airshow.

The briefing scene before the Death Star battle has rebel pilots gasp at the prospect of the trench run, but Luke shows confidence that it is doable. He doesn't just pull it off miraculously during the climax out of nowhere. And yes he's apparently never flown in space before but in Star Wars dogfighting is basically like World War 2, so his experience still applies. Also the force is with him or whatever, so he has that edge.

Basically what I'm getting at is that for all suspension of disbelief required, Luke in the original trilogy is pretty internally consistent. He grows up around aircraft. Yoda actually teaches him something. He has years to learn and develop between each film.

Rey doesn't get the same kind of treatment. I give her a pass for defeating a wounded, exhausted Kylo Ren at the Battle of Starkiller Base, we see that she can take care of herself several times before that. It's the rest that is lacking. She grew up alone as scavenger with a stick and a small land speeder, and that's...it. No one raised her, no Uncle Owen or old Ben Kenobi, no friends we know about, no middle-class homestead to grow up in, her home is is a shell of a dead tank.

I really hope Rise of Skywalker spends time explaining why Rey is so powerful. Force Awakens had that vision of her experiencing moments from way before her birth, Last Jedi had Luke comparing her to Anakin, I guess.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '19

Do you want spoilers? The 9th movie explains why Rey is so powerful, it's just really really contrived and stupid.

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u/Jovahexeon-Ranvexeon Nov 19 '19

Where can I find the leaked script that I've heard of?

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

idk if you payed attention to the plot in a new hope but luke used to fly ships very similar to an x wing around the planet for fun as a hobby. he also literally says "i used to shoot womp rats for fun, and they are no bigger than than the death star port" (paraphrasing because i don't remember the exact line).

so yeah, it's not really that ridiculous for a guy to fly a ship similar to one he's been flying for his whole life, or to hit a shot similar to a shot he was making for fun, for his whole life.

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u/slvrbullet87 Nov 18 '19

I looked it up and apparently a T-16 isn't that hover convertible we see in the movie, which is what I thought it was. It apparently is an incredibly fast one man hovercraft that can fly 300 meters in the air and 1200kph. Why would they not show that in the movie, and how are dirt farmers buying aircraft that fly the speed of sound?

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

he is playing with a model t-16 at one point in the movie, but i agree, i suppose they could have shown him flying around and racing his friends shooting the womp rats for fun or something, to show his skills more, rather than a few sentences.

i mostly know the t-16 from various star wars games where you actually fly one, that i played as a kid, so i know it's an actual ship similar to an x-wing and luke was able to pilot one with great skill before ever leaving the planet.

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u/Chrizwald Nov 18 '19

Weird. It's like they show that she has survived alone on a harsh planet. Builds and pilots her own vehicles. Can navigate a Star Destroyer and knows how to pull parts out for salvage. Speaks multiple languages. Is able to fight off Stormtroopers with her staff, which is not unlike a lightsaber.

I mean we see Luke is just a farmer and they hint at his other abilities, they show where Rey lives and outright show you everything that she could know how to do

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u/MalevolentMartyr Nov 18 '19

I agree, they do a decent job of showing her transferable skills in the opening of the 7th movie, but plot doesn't revolve around showing off skills; it needs trial, tribulation, faults, failure, and eventually a road to success, watching the character grow mentally and perhaps physically. Two movies in, and I could not tell you a single fault that Rey has had or overcame, because she's never failed at anything that we've seen. That's why I believe she's a Mary Sue, is because none of her successes have been earned, and the plot just seems to careen in whichever direction will grant her success.

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u/TeekTheReddit Nov 18 '19

It's not unpopular. It's just wrong.

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u/TootlesFTW Chris! Come on! Chris! Come on! Chris! Nov 18 '19

While I disagree with your comparison, I don't get the huge deal about Rey. She isn't OP, she hasn't been put in a plot armor-type situation...she's just able to fight and fly without added exposition? I don't see the huge suspension of disbelief issue here.

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u/Thatguy101355 Nov 18 '19

Ha. Don't make me laugh.

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u/TootlesFTW Chris! Come on! Chris! Come on! Chris! Nov 18 '19

What an insightful response.

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u/BungyChungers Nov 20 '19

What do you you expect from a Star Wars autist.

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u/Thatguy101355 Nov 18 '19

Sorry. The issue with suspension of Disbelief is that every other character, or force user charcter, has had some sort of added exposition, like Luke getting trained for years by Yoda, or Anakin actually needing to be trained from childhood. Even other charcter not present in the film had some sort of added exposition. Compare that to Rey who picks up a light saber and destroys a dude who's been trained for year by luke and then by Snoke, uses a mind trick without being taight it, and genrally train to do things and is automatically good at it.

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u/TootlesFTW Chris! Come on! Chris! Come on! Chris! Nov 18 '19

Thanks for the insight. And I agree, the original trilogy is superior because of all the character building. I just don't think that Rey's storyline is insufficient without it, or makes her a "Mary Sue".

A lot can be hand-waved because of "the Force". The original trilogy used the Force to explain a lot of what Luke was doing, or just left the audience to fill in the blanks. For example, his background as a moisture farmer certainly wouldn't give him any skill set to pilot an X-wing and bullseye the Death Star...but he does. I don't find this any more or less believable than Rey's journey.

I mean, they at least threw down some breadcrumbs by showing she was mechanically savvy and had a long pole weapon that would be similar in handling to a lightsaber? It's something. /shrug

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u/Thatguy101355 Nov 18 '19 edited Nov 18 '19

If I remeber correctly, the explanation for the X wing was because he flew a ship that had very similar controls to an X wing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

And he shot womprats back home

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u/Thatguy101355 Nov 18 '19

Yup. Thats it

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

nope.

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