What decides if a movie is a commercial success is whether it's a good movie that fits the expectations set by its publicity.

What decides if people will bash a movie due to it being a bad adaptation is whether it's a good adaptation of the original material.

Both of those things correlate a bit, but are mostly not related.

Watching the movie felt almost exactly like how it feels to play the games imo. Almost every line Bryan said throughout the movie was something I've said myself while playing. Trying to shoot padlocks, missing tons of pistol shots, knowing a zombie is coming and still screaming when it does...so many similar experiences. As for the plot, you hardly ever get direct continuation between games, and new lead characters are introduced all the time, so to me this easily felt like it fit in the world established by the games.

Definitely felt like it was made by a fan which I think is the most important thing in adaptations.

I haven't seen the movie yet, but in a similar vein I watched Twisted Metal recently, and it's... actually good, somehow? Much better than it would have been following any of the games' stories, or even a mash-up of them.

They've clearly used the games for humor, visuals, characters, and Easter eggs for the fans, but they somehow made something better than the sum of it's parts, and it should be looked at as a great example for other adaptations, especially action comedies.

I think fallout handled that great with thier show. They were just like “it’s not going to be close enough for anyone to be happy anyway so we’ll just do our own thing”

It’s been pretty good despite some stuff like cold fusion being a pill for some reason.

Here's the thing, if they're complaining it's not accurate it's because the movie is so bad they had plenty of time to think about the source while watching. Make a good movie and the rest doesn't matter.

I'm not a cinema expert, but some camera work (especially in the sewers) reminded me of the early games. There are some passages in which the movie brilliantly subverts expectations (no spoilers). The RE movies with Milla Jovovich just throwed more CGI and highly-choreographed battle sequences at the problem.

Movie was a comedy/horror and a bit unexpected.

despite having nothing to do with the games

?? It's much closer to the source than any of the (live action) movies until now, beside maybe half of the first movie - and Welcome to Raccoon City. That's why people like it. There are people who just want to see Jill and Wesker even if they have nothing to do with the game characters, and there are people who would watch any genre as long as it respects the source material even without using the actual characters. No one is actually angry at the comedy or the OC.

It has the obscure unbreakable locks with weird keys, the ammo boxes are accurate to the games, umbrella corporation is about what you'd expect, the main character isn't a fucking super hero (come on, give them a few movies before throwing Redfield/Kennedy in there).... idk seems like a much more grounded adaptation.

There's a new movie? Damn.

not as bad as comic/book adaptations.

Why do you think it has nothing to do with the games?

I hated the movie so much. I've walked out of like 4 movies in my life. 2 of them were for health reasons. This would have made 5 except I went with a friend.

Everyone in that movie was dumb as a rock.