The game sort of had an overall feel of dread while the movie was more of just an action packed shootem up.. In other words it reminded me alot of the action in House of the Dead without the bad actors and horrible script..

B.O.W?

Well, the second one was far more in line with the games, mostly RE3.  Some angles were also taken straight from it, like the street battle between STARS and the zombies, straight from the game cut scene and I liked that.

I guess we have to wait and see what is being concoted in Baja.

Sorry, my geekiness is getting a hold of me, Bio Organic Weapon or something similar, basically anyhting tampered and altered by our favourite umbrella company.

The problem I had with the second one is that it tried to get the characters from the games involved, when it ommited them from the first film, continuity problems for me there, seeing as STARS would have been the first down to the Hive if they were so important and "the best" in Raccoon City. Hell there were enough of them to be expendable.

Plus Nemesis turned into Braveheart at the end and risked it all for his girlfriend *rolls eyes*

It only reveals that she's rescuing some survivors trying to reach Alaska.

Milla was the only one confirmed to stay in Mexico City... I wonder why...

Well, the second one was far more in line with the games, mostly RE3.  Some angles were also taken straight from it, like the street battle between STARS and the zombies, straight from the game cut scene and I liked that.

I guess we have to wait and see what is being concoted in Baja.

From a practical standpoint Anderson's movie isn't that bad for a film that cost about $20million.  It could have been a lot worse and it also hits the series differently and starts everyone at the same level so it would not isolate the community of people who never played RE and it would hopefully please the fans.

As some people would say nowadays....at least Uwe Boll didn't get the rights.

The main outlet where Romero got his ideas was from his son recording himself play the game, so it probably had a better effect.

NOTE - the draft that drifts around the net (or one of the more popular ones) is not Romero's first attempt, it's a rewrite by another person, mostly Romero's stuff, but edited. He had several different endings to choose from too, which included deaths for all the characters, happy endings and some middle ground stuff. Sadly we got a different movie, but eh, the first RE movie was alright.

The Capcom exeecs were half and half really, some found it was too differentform the game (and look at the film that was made *rolls eyes*) and the others felt it gave a great representation of what Resident Evil was about, but because George is a wee bit stubborn, he dropped out, and expendable Anderson took the helm.

And Castlevania as a movie, I have loved the stories of the games, but they aren't new, apart from the Bellmont name and huge castles, it could be overall generic, or completely different from the games if made. I'd hope for the latter.

I plan to sit down this summer and read all of his script and see if any ideas popped up in the two current Res Evil films.

http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Resident-Evil.html

As for the reason it was dropped. I was at a convention in Pittsburgh and this was brought up. Apparently the producers were in Germany or somewhere like that.. They didn't like the script and wouldn't fund it unless he did a major overhaul.. Which in my opinon was really stupid..

Romero told everyone there that he had actually gone to the Capcom studios and they gave him tons of material to put in the script.. Even things that were going to be used in the next game that he could incorporate in his script.. So I can see why he was frustrated when the idiot producers wanted him to completely change the script..

The deleted stuff though, grant it there are some added scenes that are understandably cut because they were fillers or just bits of random convo.  Blood and gore wise, first glance it looks very real but after a few viewings it seems that Fox had it digitally added in long afterward.

Anderson, I respect him like you said Dean for doing stuff most folks wouldn't do.  I have no prob with him and Res Evil but I do have a problem with one of the producers for it...and it isn't Jeremy Bolt.  George A. Romero did a screenplay (it is on the net somewhere) and I read a little bit and it is VERY well done and goes at a fresh angle to the game yet still nice and close.  Though one of producers apparently threatened to back out if Romero didn't make changes so instead Romero dropped.

I've heard rumors of Anderson doing a remake of Roger Corman's DEATH RACE 2000 sometime in the near future and doing CASTLEVANIA as a movie too.

I like Anderson for doing films that no one else would probably do however, takes some guts.

Here we go Fangoria issue # 235 article, excerpt from "The AVP Referee" by Mark Salisbury.  Anderson talks of the special effects of the creatures of AVP before talking of RE:

...Anderson being disappointed with how the CG licker looked in Resident Evil.  "The problem we had with that was we added it late," he admits.  "What we should have done, which we've done in the sequel, is build an animatronic [Licker] and do CG enhancement.  In the first movie, I decided during principal photography that we should add it.  But by then it was too late to build one for real, so we had to go for all CGI."