everygrainofsand

everygrainofsand

Blissfully out of the closet gamer

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Re: Here's Your First Look at Netflix's Resident Evil

everygrainofsand

@Jimmer-jammer Spot on - you've nailed it. Resident Evil has already found its form - its medium - as a video game. Making movies/TV from games is like making music about architecture: possible, no doubt, but uninspiring, slightly bizarre and ultimately an empty exercise. Taking a thing that depends upon active user engagement as a video game, and rendering it into a thing of passivity for that same audience, is bound to disappoint