Villains Too Stupid To Win Ep.02 - The Umbrella Corporation

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[@Rine910]

Huh, weird

[@rebeccachambers4701]

2:40 so what you're saying is they are a metaphor for the pharmaceutical industry

[@rebeccachambers4701]

Man this video aged really well like you could almost take out the fictional parts and it would hold a lot of relevance

[@donovanulrich348]

The "unexplained" reasons umbrella tolerates the Trinity Makes more sense when you think of umbrella as a trust falsely claiming it's a corporation Trustees or agents of the corperation can't oust beneficiarys which Alice is Trustees have immunitys, but can't act against beneficiarys in any capacity And beneficiarys can fire independent agents without question Trustee's are safer, they need a trustee board/co trustee vote to be removed. Or majority of the beneficiarys

[@eddihurta7173]

So Resident Evil is actually a message about not buying certain consumerism products so the big corporation doesn't spend that money to make undead monsters from humans? 🧐 Got it

[@xanderkai6353]

I love how every plot twist is: you’re a clone. he’s a clone. everyone is a clone. oh and no one is ever actually dead.

[@TransformersBoss]

“No one’s ever really gone”

[@GeorgeMonet]

WHAT A TWIST

[@SolidKing98]

Yoda: Begon the clone war has

[@ramsaybolton7464]

I know this must be marvel lol

[@boydsinclair4166]

“Everyone look under your seats! You all get clones!”

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Umbrella should have secured their facility with more pointless random puzzles.

[@MediaZealot]

I'd love a scene of Alice backtracking, just running down corridors for hours on end, checking every innocuous bit of crap lying on every table, what fun.

[@peger]

Imagine working for a Umbrella. I don't even want to know what to do to be able to use the toilet in their facility:D.

[@Mattfromthepast]

Alice would get board after failing the first one a few times and go off and do something else, it's the perfect defense!

[@arturotroncoso3484]

@@peger its locked and you have to read your managers name backwards in order to unlock it and then you have to find a sword that's protected by a giant to flush the toilet that gives you a gem for your Christmas bonus.

[@rednova2212]

@@MediaZealot A scene of her not only backtracking, but suddenly a menu screen popping up, some Downloads being queued, and then suddenly the movie playing again, and as she moves along, suddenly she runs into Mr X coming after her at a walking pace with 'X gon' give it to ya' resonating from him on a loop, like the mod from the Resident Evil 2 remake.

[@marcelomaldonado2011]

Imagine being an umbrella employee and having to walk through the laser disintegration field everyday when leaving and entering work

[@IsaacClodfelter]

At least everyone would be fit I guess. Due to all the acrobatics required to get to their offices and what not.

[@Слышьты-ф4ю]

@@IsaacClodfelter but it won't help against protagonist

[@IsaacClodfelter]

@@Слышьты-ф4ю no, but it would improve the average office cardio health.

[@MrHellsing76]

Talk about a need to work from home.

[@soulslayers2679]

Imagine having to be the janitor

[@invisibleman4827]

I dunno why Alice bothers trying to destroy Umbrella Corporation, they're doing a great job of it by themselves

[@jevauljameson5695]

🤣😂🤣

[@mirceazaharia2094]

Everybody needs a hobby, even bland Mary Sues.

[@CadOaThePickle]

the funny thing is that alice was their way of destroying themselves after all they did create her

[@FumblsTheSniper]

So she could make more movies, duh.

[@andrewblanchard2398]

​@@jevauljameson5695 the REPUBLICANS are following the SELF DESTRUCT blueprints

[@rocketrooster2410]

inventing the antivirus 10 years after the virus is like the story of the canopener being invented 50 years after the can XD

[@kimarous]

Would have made more sense if they had an antivirus from the start, but the virus mutated in the interim and made the original antivirus basically useless, forcing them to start over.

[@projectkepleren]

@@kimarous like even if their story is stupid, they have to have an excuse for the villian to be stupid and it has to not be bad writing, when that happen. you know the movie has very little chance of making any sense

[@josephhartmann6976]

In Real Life Things are too stupid to believe it, but they do happen.

[@mayshiratoshi6390]

For reeal thing they do. (In first movie you seen to type of bottle 1 is virus 1 is anti-virus

[@Fenris77]

Agreed...

[@HekateMGO]

“Population growth will outstrip food production!” Proceeds to zombify all food producers. That’s some grade A politician logic.

[@Awkci_gaming]

No no no, politician Logic would be to blame the food producers for the (as of yet non-existant) food shortage and kill them all; while making food very cheap, and not teaching people to not waste food.

[@BondableZeek]

Real politicians be like

[@EyeOfMemes]

They already had technology and farming isn't that hard if you have umbrella level technology

[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

Given their vast, vast underground facilities and their amazing technological sophistication, they could have solved most of these problems anyway. Imagine turning Umbrella Prime completely into vertical farming with umbrella drones harvesting food. That's got to be enough to cover millions of people's food supply.

[@ShadeSlayer1911]

That's Thanos logic there.

[@Don-ds3dy]

Step 1: Destroy Humanity Step 2: ? Step 3: Profit!

[@thecircleoft.e.d2121]

Yeah, pretty much a bunch of insane dumb arseholes; try not to think about it too much.

[@panzerraven4135]

Underpants Gnome Logic!!

[@MediaZealot]

Dude, step 2 was totally them selling bioweapons to zombies, while idle clones literally gobbled up their company stock. MASSIVE profit in that shit, obviously. In the Final Chapter, I was genuinely hoping the profit motive would randomly kick back in, and they'd suddenly be all about selling the airborne antivirus to the wasteland survivors. Plot twist, they're all broke AF now. Roll creds.

[@thebonecollections4478]

But at least the Gnomes did see their flaws they just never changed

[@zerowolf0006]

Dat sound guod to me

[@mr.voidout4739]

Wesker's RE5 death: Multiple RPG hits, a boulder, and lava. Wesker's movie death: Gets voted off The Apprentice.

[@jucalebre7540]

Lmao

[@SamsarasArt]

How strong is that door? Lol

[@lmul1441]

movie and game appear to be as stronger as each other but game wesker is way more durable and unfairly faster

[@leonardeuler9592]

@@lmul1441 Well, game Wesker and movie Wesker are both faster than bullets.

[@pedromiguel748]

-"i'm eating rockets..." Alber Wesker.

[@isaacfaith9369]

This guy essentially just used a beloved franchise to foam at his wife, earning millions of dollars whilst doing so.

[@Arizona15G]

yeah and like it or hate it he made is money and showed off his wife lol

[@AncapOtaku]

well he kinda met his wife while working on the first one & he is a fan of the games

[@helenline1790]

@@AncapOtaku he can't be that big of a fan lol. He made this franchise 🤣.

[@AncapOtaku]

@@helenline1790 well let me ask you this simple question what was he supposed to do copy and paste the plots of the video games? That seems kind of pointless and unoriginal don't you think also it would defeat half the purpose of anyone to play the games cuz outside of playing the games that are already going to know everything that happens on the story. no I'm not saying rather or not I think what Paul WS Anderson was good or bad I'm just asking this honest question.

[@helenline1790]

@@AncapOtaku He was adapting another piece of media. The key to any good adaption of someone else's work, is staying true to the source material. WHICH HE DIDN'T!!!! Question answerd. Any resident evil fan worth his/her salt, would've stuck to the games, and done the characters justice. HE DID NONE OF THAT.

[@thatboy353]

"A series of ok movies" You are being extremely generous with that statement.

[@ritabegaxv2]

At least Ghost in the Shell and the first mortal Kombat movie did pretty good.

[@hexmaniacciaran]

the first one was decent for a videogame movie, the 2 after that were OK then it became a steaming pile of shit

[@leonardeuler9592]

The 1st one and the 3rd one were B movies. The other movies were turds.

[@DizzyedUpGirl]

I was thoroughly disappointed after watching the first one. Like, they had it set up for the 2nd one, but I didn't care

[@shedijon]

the first RE movie was fun for a hoot

[@IG2212]

"Diseases which we have no cure, population growth will outstrip food production" Proceeds to make a uncurable disease and doesn't even bother to make their underground bases self sustainable Shit goes horribily wrong *Surprised pikachu face*

[@anubusx]

For population control call Thanos.

[@dragonfell5078]

Not only that, but the virus screws up the climate so farming is gonna be a doozy

[@raven4k998]

sounds like our world when you think about it just change t-virus with covid lol

[@raven4k998]

@@dragonfell5078 well think about it if you wipe out all plant life what are the odds that farmable plants will even take when you wake up wouldn't the plant life still be dead since when you think about it the cure is supposed to cure the t virus there's not talk about fixing the planets plant based life support system which when you think about it if our worlds c o 2 levels will begin to get toxic in about 2050 with our plant based life-support still working what chances are there for the planets that does not have that anymore?

[@dragonfell5078]

@@raven4k998 Now that you mention it, the mass climate change happened _because_ the plant life was dying. I don't know what Umbrella was thinking when making that virus but fucking the planet by killing all the plants is just beyond stupid. And all the cities and infrastructure are gone, hell Las Vegas is buried in the sand. With the relatively small amount of umbrella people in cryosleep I highly doubt they'd be able to do much to get those production centers working for thousands of years. Why not, instead of bitching about climate change and how the world is ending, Umbrella just uses their vast resources to do something good for once? Lobby in Senate for green alternatives, undercut rivals and go on a massive advertisement campaign touting the goods of green energy, fund scientific research towards helping the planet. Basically, do all the shady corporate shit you've been doing for years, but this time for good. Then you'll cement yourself as the saviours of the world and everyone will want to buy from you. Honestly, if you have time to engineer the apocalypse, you have time to build heaven.

[@indumatipngtuber2790]

Chris be like, "With that kind of technology, you could cure cancer! But Umbrella said, "I don't wanna cure cancer, I wanna turn people into Zombies!"

[@cherrydragon3120]

I mean, i guess it sort of gave them a resistance to cancer as they won't die from it now in zombified state.... soooo i call it a win??? Idk...

[@randallbesch2424]

That wasn't the plan just a side effect of the T-virus.

[@randallbesch2424]

@@cherrydragon3120 over time the zombies become more alive and develop that inner mouth.

[@arc_1704]

@@cherrydragon3120 true, umbrella did a lot of good, unemployment is at a record low, along with overpopulation, crime real low with the legal system gone.

[@soul_vicex]

It wasn't an adaptation, it was just various sources like names, monsters and locations piled together to make action movies.

[@Uaitdevil]

And to give a role to director's wife. A veeery bad role since they just added her character to make her looks cool, ignoring the actual lore of the saga.

[@SamsarasArt]

It's fanfiction and not even a good one

[@Spaced92]

You know it's bad when RE fans protest that its story wasn't properly adapted. I actually think the first 4 could be okay movies if adapted properly (remember how chilling the 4 epilogue was?). 7 was basically just house of 1000 corpses which wasn't a good movie, but a cult favourite.

[@supoa9489]

It's a loosely based adaptation

[@mentalcase4299]

@@Spaced92 4 is awesome! Legit scared me!

[@J.Panxer]

No shortage of eyeliner in the apocalypse, apparently.

[@danielthompson6207]

It's easy to make. Just take some ash from the last bandits you incinerated and mix it with some oil made by cooking down some cat fat. Best eyeliner this side of the hive.

[@zory6699]

cuz everyone goes emo in the zombie apocalypse

[@neglectedprincessdaisy2814]

Well, it isn't a necessity. So there'd be plenty lying around. Its just weird she insisted on wearing it after the apocalypse happened.

[@sorrenblitz805]

@@neglectedprincessdaisy2814 actually could have a practical purpose like eyeblack for football players skiers and snowboarders, it could help keep glare down while she's wandering the bright sunny desert

[@durnel2001]

XD

[@WomannequinReviews]

"Breaks the 'Prison Break Guy' out of prison" lmao

[@kojakbraddy2338]

And immediately he turns into Chris redfield

[@thousandyoung]

That casting came out of fucking nowhere lmao.

[@AncapOtaku]

what's funny is the actor thought that the prison break connection was a joke you can look this up

[@kojakbraddy2338]

So ..... He breaks in prison so he can get out 🤦 only later on to be put back in prison and released by a chick called Alice who has a STD called T-Virus , which later on finds his sister he's so desperately trying to reiquant with , and only moments after , they catch Corona virus ( COR-19 V ) ....... Sounds like a great story. The end.

[@paulmajano]

@@kojakbraddy2338 I don’t think it’s an STD haha

[@berner]

Google's motto: "Don't be evil". Umbrella's motto: "Let's be evil". Well at least _Umbrella_ stayed true to their principles.

[@a.n.l.aantineoliberalismas4504]

Well I can't remember the last time google cause the end of the world

[@justinvzu01]

Umm... Actually... Umbrella's Motto is "Our Business Is Life Itself" 🤓 *Starts jerking off to Alice clothe less scenes*

[@Wintd1]

@@a.n.l.aantineoliberalismas4504 Give it time, they'll cause it eventually.

[@Michael_Dominic]

This has not been their motto for quite some time

[@justinvzu01]

@@Michael_Dominic Was the sarcasm not obvious enough?

[@shayscruggs7829]

Wesker has super strength,speed,a super powerful healing factor that allows him to survive being cut, stab,and blow up but in the end he was defeated by a door falling on his arm

[@ghedebaronsamedi]

*leg He run out of plastic bags. The poor sob had no chance against that door.

[@shayscruggs7829]

@@ghedebaronsamedi if theirs any plastic left thanks umbrella stupid plan. I mean even by villian plans go they did not think this through

[@cheadennis4238]

This isn't the same wesker. This wesker is umbrella prime wesker...the original wesker who should have the original strain of the progenitor virus.... The tokyo clone wesker who became bonded to the different viruses supposedly died at the end of afterlife in the plane explosion.

[@shayscruggs7829]

@@cheadennis4238 they should have explained that or make it clearer

[@theperfectdrug]

@@cheadennis4238 he didn't die if you pay close attention he jumps out & you can see him parachute out of the plane

[@killjoy5934]

When you love your wife so much you make her the good guy the bad guy and 200 random npc's. Can't wait to what kinda hero,shop keeper and huge monster Milla Jovovich will be in Monster Hunter.

[@A_Black_Sheep94]

She wasn't his wife when the series started

[@0008loser]

​@sovereignsnorlax8868 but now she is and is the main character of any movie he makes lmao

[@schwarzerritter5724]

"I want our logo painted on the solar cells of every satellite." "That would make them significantly less effective. It could take the cameras years to find a person instead of hours." "Branding is everything, especially after the apocalypse."

[@mattcollins5974]

What?

reminds me of this silly story: thedailywtf.com/articles/radio-wtf-space-for-guests

[@gunnerr8476]

@@mattcollins5974 The solar cells purpose is to generate solar energy(from the Sun)for the satellite. Umbrella's painted their logos on the solar panel is a dumb move.

[@mrkiky]

No that's super effective RED solar cell material which is very scarce so they just used it creatively.

[@faniefrikkie6868]

While we're at it, just send out a tweet telling people we'll be branding the shit out of our satellites. Oh, and get this on the Instagram feed as well I wan the world to know, people!

[@KingOfMadCows]

Maybe Umbrella listened to Isaac because of Iain Glen's amazing voice. He can make the dumbest dialogue sound great.

[@MediaZealot]

I honestly think Iain Glenn was the saving grace of this entire franchise. I assume that's why they wrote him in to feature more prominently. We need more villains from him.

[@drippinwet774]

Your grace, I...

[@MistahJay7]

@@MediaZealot The only reason I watch the Final Chapter is for his performance.

[@TheDeeman25]

I really hope I live to see a decent reboot of this series. There was so much potential!

[@Raximus3000]

@@MediaZealot More villains with an intelligent plot!!

[@eberwolf2k]

The live action Wesker looked eerily like 1990's Resident Evil outdated graphics video game Wesker.

[@DragoonCenten]

Wasn't that the point?

[@eberwolf2k]

@@DragoonCenten - I mean he looks like CGI live action adaptation created with outaded PSX graphics.

[@Zekyb0y]

Make one with Weyland Yutany, the ones who always lose colonies to xenomorphs because they make experiments with their Queens and later they call the colonial marines to help them to later try to kill the Marines with mercenaries because they saw too much and fail.

[@pnk9639]

also a great idea

[@louisarius9672]

A really fucking stupid plot, honestly.

[@NodDisciple1]

And then they get bought out by Wal-Mart. X_x

[@Zekyb0y]

@Lady Wanderer or why they even need to infiltrate executives or androids to smuggle xenomorphs, just send a proper expedition where they can lock a xeno properly.

[@sallyaustin2070]

also, in some story-lines, they helped create xenomorphs. and they deliberately send civilians ino nests (at least in the first movie)

[@0816M3RC]

Villains too stupid to win and Heroes too stupid to win.. No wonder it took several movies to end this.

[@VirgilSollozzo924]

@Jordan Joestar Theyre not connected to the movies.

[@justbny9278]

@Jordan Joestar jokes on you the games got nothing to do with this mess storywise and can be separated in During Umbrella and Post Umbrella

[@AlexanderDraconis]

Villains - Too Dumb to Survive ✓ Heroes - Too Dumb to Prevail ✓ Effects Budget - Unlimited(?) ✓ Writers - Wage Slaves for Life ✓ BOY YOU GOT A SERIES THAT WON'T QUIT!

[@Tommy-hy4ef]

Alice is pretty smart though, I’d say she puts up with a lot of stupidity which is why it does take her a while to conclude everything.

[@AlexanderDraconis]

@@Tommy-hy4ef She Definitely suffers the least from plot-induced stupidity. She's also pretty genre savvy at times.

[@zacht9447]

The "You're Fired" Scene is obviously a call back to Robocop

[@EGRJ]

But, y'know, worse.

[@rienneant7607]

Or the Apprentice

[@Tommy-hy4ef]

“He literally sat here doing nothing.” Yup that’s the whole Wesker storyline wrapped up there

[@shaftoe195]

Umbrella's execs didn't plan for anything. They just loved zombie movie/games too much. *End of story.*

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

Secret vore fetish involving zombies, is my bet

[@TheVagabondGadite]

*AND ABSOLUTELY NOBODY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO CHRIS REDFIELD*

[@carterdeppe2106]

Ikr

[@Justinian43]

They probably had no budget for the actor since they had to re-cast Jill, the guy that plays Barry Burton, Leon, re-cast Carlos Oliveira and Michelle Rodriguez for the next film, so probably had no money left to cast Chris since he was a rising star with his show

[@steel749]

They died. Chris, leon, Ada & Jill all died in the novel set in between the 2 movies.

[@marcusperez2024]

Steel 74 wow really? It’s hard to Imagine THE crack team of zombie killers to just die uneventfully between movies

[@steel749]

@@marcusperez2024 yeah dude They died by the Uroboros mass from RE5. Pretty bad tbh Such iconic game character killed in a novel

[@chavezchavo]

Umbrella logic: We'll place the responsibility of security to the most volatile and untrustworthy people in the company.

[@warlockstudios8545]

I mean at least you won’t be surprised, or at least shouldn’t, when it’s obvious who will betray you. You also wouldn’t have to spend that much monitoring everything to see if there has been a breach, because it’s safe to assume one has already happened/is happening.

[@lds_drive]

I love how Alice just after being in a plane crash is able to walk it off like she just had a big shit.

[@morcossthegreat7960]

Like the one I'm taking now oh HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT!!!!

[@Cwhirt910]

Especially since she's not supposed to be super human anymore at that point.

[@mirceazaharia2094]

@@morcossthegreat7960 I hope you survived your shit, friend. If not, may I have your skeleton? The Calcium Legion must grow, after all.

[@kreevisful]

@@morcossthegreat7960 Sounds like good old Mexican heart burn. 🌶🍑🥵

[@dwaynegreene152]

Wesker survived all those certain deaths by dying by having a door shut on him.

[@watcherzero5256]

He used up his nine lives.

[@abelingaw5070]

"John Wick cheat code software" I lost it hahaha. I wish I had that too.

[@chickendrawsdogs3343]

Jorah Mormont's last thoughts in this world: Khaleesi... Life ain't easy But whatever happens Don't watch those Resident Evil movies.

[@karlhans6678]

i read it in his voice

[@Spartan11117777]

If there’s one thing I like about Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is how Alice goes from the Capital Wasteland to the Mojave Wasteland. We just needed her to say “Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.”

[@belisarius6949]

Would that make Umbrella Corp the Institute?

[@arguedcorgi8628]

@@belisarius6949 There's a settlement that needs your help I will mark it on your map

[@Darkko88]

@@belisarius6949 They would be more like the Enclave

[@sorrenblitz805]

Alice: *is on her knees in a graveyard* Isaac's: "Truth is, the game was rigged from the start..."

[@darthstarkiller6605]

It’s almost like they didn’t have a plan and just wrote it haphazardly one film at a time... or something

[@DoomWar1]

It was all cheap lazy improv lol and placing a clown like mike epps definitely didn't help in me taking these movies seriously.

[@anapoda3081]

just like star wars

[@4dhumaninstrumentality789]

Darth Star Killer I like(I say this ironically) how they just randomly start incorporating elements of 4 and 5 randomly in the later titles. The random Executioner Majini’s just hanging out with zombies. It really makes you question if Wes Anderson played any of the games at all.

[@jeangreffsbp]

@@4dhumaninstrumentality789 a zombie simply having Las Plagas out of nowhere

[@steel749]

The first 2 went well together after that It really fell off. They shouldn't have went full global outbreak. They should have stuck to the outbreaks in villages and cities instead like the games

[@Joey-rs7uq]

The first two movies are pretty good, the rest are as smart as boulder punching on steroids.

[@jamesroper4952]

The entire franchise sucked.

[@multitudeofidols]

First one was good. The second one was where it began to go off the rails, but it still had some semblance to being grounded. By the third film all fucks concerning coherency and logic and general decent storytelling were thrown out the window, never to return for the last film.

[@Juppie902]

@@multitudeofidols LoOk At Me I aM a ClOnE

[@thousandyoung]

@@fullmontyuk Only Milla took it seriously because it was basically wish fulfillment from his husband lol

[@SA80TAGE]

None of the movies are good, least of all the first sequel, where Alice gets into a _fist fight_ with Nemesis... you actually thought that was good? Holy shit no wonder this franchise lasted as long as it did with idiots like you running around.

[@JACCO20082012]

A lot of this could have made a fair amount of sense if the writers had just given it a little more thought. Instead of just making the umbrella board a bunch of religious doomsday fanatics, it could have been framed as a preemptive continuity measure. They realized the game was up after Raccoon City and knew there was no way to stop it so they buried themselves to wait it out and re-emerge as a highly organized and well equipped apocalyptic superpower that they controlled. In the mean time, the clones were to create an army that was perfectly suited for a post social world filled with zombies and mutants (the plaga tests) and control the policial structure of the societies that sprang up so make them allies or easy to take care of. All of the tests, clones, adventures, etc in the movies after apocalypse could have been better framed as events in an overarching war between the survivors/umbrella deserters and umbrella itself as it attempted to ready the world for the return of the board. That would have been a pretty interesting story and pulled all of the movies together about as well as they could have given the erratic nature of the writing. Ideally of course, they would have had all that mapped out from the beginning but that is another story.

[@ivanlagrossemoule]

Yes but the problem is that any even remotely decent writing would require them to not write things on the go without a million plot twists.

[@jeremyallen492]

Dude, this is a movie series based on a CAPCOM product. You're missing the point if you go into it expecting anything logical

[@MH-tr4kn]

you now whats great? a weapon that makes your enemies stronger

[@magnatcleo2043]

And creating platoons of super-powered clones of your worst enemy along with an AI based off of them too.

[@Xehanort10]

And the whole "Alice is a clone of Dr Marcus's daughter" retcon means that in Extinction Umbrella was cloning a clone.

[@rosesske2551]

What do you expect from the same corporation who thinks wiping out a large portion of the population (and making it almost impossible to grow crops and livestock) equals profit?

[@michaeldiekmann6494]

@@rosesske2551 the customers who survived will buy more for higher prizes!

[@jhonnoilcringeincarnato8593]

@@Xehanort10 *CLONECEPTION*

[@mrmaeda2089]

I remember going to see the final movie, The audience threw popcorn and booed when the credits rolled lol.

[@acewolfgang276]

Bood?

[@eng3d]

@@acewolfgang276 yes, bood too.

[@synchaos9141]

someone in that theater said boo-urns

[@Jonathanizer]

@@synchaos9141your comment is *excellent*

[@BullworthGraduate]

For real?

[@iapetusmccool]

Most of the other "Villains too stupid to win" have goals that make sense, a strategy that you can understand why they would do it, and screw up due to plausible human failings. But with Umbrella, _absolutely nothing makes sense._

[@MediumRareOpinions]

You can't "fail" if nobody knows what you were trying to achieve in the first place. It would be genius if it wasn't so stupid.

[@Shiirow]

"Albert Wesker, youre fired." **computer immediately tries to kill Wesker** So they pretty much stole that from Robocop?

[@fluffyonefluff5945]

It's been pointed out several times. Their are no original ideas in this movie franchise...

[@manuelroberts7379]

@@fluffyonefluff5945 how is the licker not original? I mean thats only 1 example so u cant say none of it was original

[@bretoneill6624]

I see people say that on almost every movie and show. Really no matter what you watch you are going to see a similar thing in something else....Especially when you try to compare a scene that is 4 seconds long....

[@Arklay_Ishimura]

@@manuelroberts7379 The lickers in RE films are nothing more than a ripoff from one of the greatest game franchises of all time. Which the movies are an absolute disgrace and disservice to. Try again.

[@irishpride2993]

Wouldn't be the first movie to steal a line from another movie. This is why Hollywood is making movies based on games, live action Disney and anime, remakes and reboots. America hasn't had an original idea for quite some time

[@virulentstalker9014]

Umbrella Corporation: *Exists* Umbrella Corporation: "We're about to destroy this Corporation."

[@user-Jay178]

Lol so true

[@k.g.3567]

The way Umbrella appears to do business I am surprised they had a way to fund all those facilities, the crazy experiments, and all of their advanced equipment in the first place.

[@k.g.3567]

@@H-to-O The Retcon from the last movie is just so dumb. If I remember correctly, the reason behind the virus in the games was that it was meant as a weapon and it only got out through a very unfortunate accident, which makes perfect sense. Every profit oriented company would've voted out every share owner who got the "brilliant" idea to destroy the world because eNvIrOnMeNt.

[@sirloin869]

like transformers, it appeals to a certain audience - not the people who've played any of the games... still waiting on the zombie apokolypse

[@BigrookieMER]

Alicia:"Albert Wesker, you're fired." Robocop:"Thank you."

[@BioGoji-zm5ph]

"Nice shooting, son. What's your name?"

[@NateWolfKira]

@@BioGoji-zm5ph "The Red Queen"

[@mirceazaharia2094]

"I'd buy THAT for a dollar!"

[@DustedVeins]

I think that most of what is wrong with the movie incarnation of the Umbrella Corporation is that Hollywood believes audiences are afraid of the concept of "evil," and as a result they never allow a movie's antagonist to have any nuanced identity. Think about it: a real-life Umbrella corporation would surely be smart enough to, as MZ pointed out, solve (or at least control) the world's problems and make a profit at the same time. This angle of Isaacs and his cohorts being religious fanatics and intentionally destroying the world is marginally palatable to a wide audience where as the totally realistic economic and socio-political exploitation of the world's population is... Well, it just hits a little too close to home for comfort, doesn't it? Think about it from that perspective and it's really not much of a mystery.

[@ML-qe7ml]

I agree, although I have the feeling that depicting said exploitation may not actually scare all the people one would hope it would.

[@johnkelly7757]

Good point.

[@Noahdaceo]

Treaded Water like Wallace corporation from blade runner. Makes more sense as it hits closer to home too

[@khanhnguyen-tt3ff]

lol most of this movie is make under the same director( his wife is the lead actress) that why the lead is not Christ or any other character form the games. this who series is about how Mary sue( a super character that can do no wrong and is good at everything because the plot require them to be ) take down the umbra corp.

[@crypto1223]

Treaded Water I know the ending reason for the outbreak is a bullshit biblical play. But wouldn’t the most profitable and evil act a corporation can do is wipe out all other possible competitors and OWN the population that they thaw out to repopulate the world?

[@Whalewraith]

I always wondered who they where planning on selling the virus and bio weapons to, I mean at least in the games the bi weekly Umbrella security breaches where localised...

[@chrisprusinowski5287]

In the games it was usually some disgruntled ex-umbrella employee or rival company that causes the T-virus outbreaks in the games.

[@Makkufurai]

@@chrisprusinowski5287 Dr. William Birkin with (indirect) help from his also Dr. wife Anette, cause the T-virus outbreak in RE2 which spreads throughout Racoon city. The reason being that William was (very rightly) certain that Umbrella would kill him and steal his research on the G-virus, so he injects himself; chaos ensues :)

[@Life-Row-Toll]

I understand the films much better now than when I was watching them. hhaha Well done!

[@MediaZealot]

I'm pretty happy to hear that. It was the most challenging script yet, seemed like it was impossible to arrange things in a rational order. I'm glad people are understanding the circumstances, what a big mess.

[@KS-PNW]

Same here

[@Bluecho4]

@@MediaZealot There IS no rational order, because Wes Anderson was making it up as he went along. Motivations, stakes, even basic continuity were thrown out as the series went along, just to make sure they could pump out more sequels. It's all internally inconsistent and hard to follow because there IS no thread to follow.

[@masterstoner666]

Christ when you watch the whole story being explained like that its almost like these movies are completly retared

[@paulmajano]

rick grimes well I would lose my mind if I was married to a super hot super model like Mila 😛

[@4dhumaninstrumentality789]

It’s like writers of RE4 through 6 wrote some screenplays then Hollywood got a hold of them and said “Oh, we can make these much much worse.” I hope to this rebooted as a franchise that actually sticks to the source material 100%.

[@miguelpereira9859]

Nothing about these movies makes any fucking sense

[@jasdanvm3845]

You really need the plot to be explained to understand that? IN THE FIFTH MOVIE THERE'S A FUCKING FACILITY WITH THOUSANDS OF CLOBES WICH ONLY PURPOSE IS TO BE KILLED.

[@gokunumberone]

@Mr.Tweezy007 the 6 one was the best

[@cnk9822]

The RE movies fell like those fanfiction where the writer creates his OC and rewrites the original histories to make his OC the main character and then proceeds to put the original main character in the background just to exist.

[@borealsullivan5486]

They are basically that, but in movie form

[@Weiswolfe]

@@borealsullivan5486 and badly made i mean, you can make a good movie out of this premise if you 1) Adapt alice to learn not just take the badass moments of other characters just because you sleep with the actress after shooting 2) continuity, FOR FUCK SAKE DECIDE WHICH WAY YO GO, dont create ways out of nothing, watch you alst5 movie your last script and continue on with it 3) plot twist needs to be managed with responsability, it can add a power blow to your narrative or, dismantle it on your hand slike a rock of sand 4) use the main source and try to adapt alice to it no the other way around, this was one of the main issues of may RE fans, that actually damage the games like RE5 and 6, finally they saw they fucked up and created 7 a new way to play but again surv horror but anyway, is over and fucked up beyon salvation

[@rhorynotmylastname7781]

"Turn share holders into zombies!" WRITE THAT DOWN

[@joshuacooper770]

"Swept away by the inevitable reboot." That is the most horrific part.

[@jasdanvm3845]

What about the only 300 humans left on Earth in the 6 movie?!

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

If it's some Resident Evil + Mad Max shit, I'll go see it.

[@rivahoukes1554]

like complete reboot, done by a good director, who played the games... sounds like a good idea

[@lozm4835]

Well, Monster Hunter was such a failure, and it wouldn't shock me if Capcom axed that aspect (or at least Paul). Thank god. For reference, it cost around 60 million, and it's made back around 29 million worldwide to date.

[@LuisGonzalez-ce7yf]

Who’s here after the reboot date announcement.

[@sm0lcretcher]

I like how they cant fix the problem of famine even in their super high tech bio weapons facility where they're literally depending on food stocks and they have the TECHNOLOGY TO CLONE THINGS.

[@jasdanvm3845]

Worse even THEY HAVE MILLIONS OF CLONES IN THE UNDERWATER FACILITY JUST TO KILL THEM

[@herheartbeats5727]

Regardless to the whole point(lessness ?) of using all their own resources to develop absurd and unreliable bioweapons which fail over and over again...

[@endianprime]

Don't forget that the zombies won't starve to death. I forget which one they established that nonsense, had to be 1-3 bc that's all I could stomach.

[@nihaalsandim9986]

Also they're literally farming clones out of thier ass , pretty sure uts easy to grow some fucking potatoes than grow humans

[@zero_chevalier]

Daenerys did order Jorah to find a cure. He just went above and beyond, that's all.

[@lauragraves4342]

😆👏 I think he turned dark side from being stuck in the friend zone.

[@orkzin]

@@lauragraves4342 😂🤣😁

[@ranfan1820]

@@lauragraves4342 and lost his mind lol

[@lauragraves4342]

@@ranfan1820 you can say that again. ChAOs is a jgdurdstjkjesu5394erred udydurdrhcjtdrs.

[@Tywil714]

The Umbrella Corp takes the meaning of greed to a whole other level that would make even EA jealous

[@user-Jay178]

Lol

[@simonsays5193]

I wish that was the case! It would at least make them more interesting. They are just stupid religious assholes that want to kill everything which screw themselves over too. So dumb.

[@paulmajano]

Tyrell Wilson you mean Hollywood jealous

[@freezetasticvoyage19]

At least they didn't merge with ea and weyland yutani.

[@hamasaken]

just give it time our techonology havent quite reached zombie virus levels for ea to fuck up that much

[@Jtoob-z5n]

Wesker died by getting fired from his job.

[@AdmiralBison]

'Monopoly' game logic. The game world literally ends when everyone body else on it is bankrupt except one person.

[@JD867]

Umbrella wins the Cerberus Award for excellence in workplace safety.

[@Xehanort10]

And their reward for that is to be eaten by their own Cerberus zombie dogs.

[@purplehaze2358]

“A series of okay movies” I think our definitions of “Okay” are very different....

[@corrat4866]

One is making sucky movies, The other is conducting hilarious scp experiments.

[@orkinho1]

First 2 are ok. The rest are terrible but in an entertaining way imo

[@Weiswolfe]

@@orkinho1 my guilty one is the one of Leon lmao, Milla's outfit is soo aaaagh, i cant get it out of my mind, i watch it twice, on thether and dont regret it i left happy, knowing it was shit but had so much god damn fun lmao

[@Scout-Fanfiction]

This synopsis was better than every movie in this franchise.

[@RBeeMedia]

*Umbrella wipes out the population* "Uhhmm we uh, totally meant to do that"

[@4dhumaninstrumentality789]

R-Bee Media They were obviously writing these terrible movies as they went. No real plot. Just cash grabs for brainless action movie zombies who have no idea about what RE really is.

[@Minotaur-ey2lg]

Oh well, never waste a good crisis.

[@GingerZombie29]

@@4dhumaninstrumentality789 obviously. The million retcons speak for themselves.

[@Gfish17]

Now I want a series for Villian to smart to Exist. For those rare moments when we get an actually competent Fictional Villian.

[@highlordwolnir4226]

"Dissolve him in Umbrella brand acid" Oh i'm laughing hard now.

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

But Umbrella-brand acid would probably fail to dissolve anything.

[@robertbuckley8550]

@@TF2CrunchyFrog If Umbrella is known for one thing, it's fucking up everything it touches, so maybe Umbrella acid would be extra potent, more potential for disaster.

[@mikehofer2393]

Movie Marcus: I did it to help my sick daughter Video Game Marcus: YEET I WANT IMMORTALITY

[@csr.shimada]

That's Spencer

[@sorrenblitz805]

Yeah I thought the game T-Virus was also made to save some sick Umbrella scientist's kid.

[@CluelessGuyAXI]

This series has jumped the shark like a dozen times now

[@derpypotato677]

Much like the franchise this comment references

[@alejandrosalamanca9552]

"breaks the prison break guy out of prison" lol

[@Uaitdevil]

Are we still talking about this sh*t? the whole point of those movies was: "Hey everyone, look how many cool and badass shots of my wife i can make! and we're using one of the most famous videogame franchise of all time because it's cool"

[@Venom-jm9qt]

Haha that's so true !!! :)

[@garamoth97]

And he gets to do it all over again as he is making a Monster Hunter movie, and shock horror, his wife is the lead yet again.

[@Gonz.0]

I aint complaining. I think shes a total smoke show.

[@vegetalover9297]

@@Gonz.0 not the point

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

@@garamoth97 man Milla really hasnt have to lift a finger to get work. She is best proof you can surf as woman through life on your looks. First ukrainian supermodel and from there straight to 5th element, one of the biggest and most expensive movies in history , just jumping from there to 30 movies of resident evil

[@Cp-71]

You know a corporation is evil when they plaster their logo on literally everything...

[@Steve-yn3cs]

Was waiting for someone to comment on this. Sure i love the umbrella logo, but they pretty much abuse it. It's like they're fucking trying to remind us everytime who the big baddies are. It was too much.

[@cristhianramirez6939]

@@Steve-yn3cs Seethe traitor, if i could i would have every electronic device with the umbrella logo

[@NebLleb]

[Video says that it's on the Umbrella Corporation from Resident Evil] HOW DARE YOU BESMIRCH SOME OF THE MOST MEMORABLE VILLAINS IN ALL OF GAMING! YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSEL- [It's (thankfully) about the version found in Paul W.S. Anderson's bizarre, warped fanfiction] ...Oh. Phew! False alarm everybody.

[@stormnet7836]

I remenber in resident evil 5, that thing wasnt easy to take out of Jil. Now? Just pull slightly and its done.

[@lordshaodeus1021]

They were pretty fucking retarded in the games as well

[@linguisticallyoversight8685]

I think parasite Eve should feel more slated than resident evil should

[@paulman34340]

@@linguisticallyoversight8685 why are you referring to last birthday it's not a Parasite Eve game even if it has characters and tries to connect it to Parasite Eve the story ended in Parasite Eve 2 there is no dirt game, and I wish a curse upon you good sir or madam for daring to bring up that unofficial mess

[@drippinwet774]

Bro, Paul W.S. and his wife were MAJOR coke heads. Neither of them played a Resident Evil game (except a little bit of the first one for the Playstation [1st Gen]). A lot of the writing was based on his disabled nephew's interpretation of the series, while babysitting him, as Paul & Mila railed fat lines of Peruvian uncut.

[@freedantheeternal]

I never watched any of these past the second one. It somehow got dumber than I ever imagined.

[@stefank4286]

my dude you have no idea how bad they are. I was on vacation and I only had one english channel (which showed RE the final chapter) and some french channels. I started to watch RE at first but after 20 min I decided to watch a french documentary on boats. I mean I only got 1 in 10 words at most but at least I could watch some boats lol

[@Dyvon.dynamo]

I love the Tuvok inserts in these videos. Out of nowhere at times get me laughing. Thanks dude!

[@Cheezus]

That zombie playing with the toddler toy is the best part of that movie.

[@LRBeforeTheInternet]

Do the machines in "The Matrix" next! :)

[@ceiling_cat]

Actually people in Matrix lol

[@Sizifus]

@@ceiling_cat Maybe both?

[@davidmarsh7933]

Have you read the comics that explain the matrix? The whole machine take over makes no damn sense. The city they made was repeatedly nuked over and over by every nation.

[@killian9314]

@@davidmarsh7933 yeah, they even made an anime ova out of it, the humans were also pretty stupid using trench warfare against flying machines. But the robots should have died from the nukes because EMP anyway

[@Echelon030]

@@killian9314 I know EMP was used in the movies against the machines too, but hardening electronics against EMP isn't difficult to do.

[@njineermike]

Don't forget that alice somehow manages to manipulate motorcycle controls despite having no fingers on one hand.

[@white0thunderwhite0thunder71]

When has Hollywood EVER cared about consistency?

[@SnowmanTF2]

While you have a point, that is often related to high turnover of key staff or entire staff except maybe lead/popular cast members, often made worse by long periods between each installment of the series being made (so audience age drastically changes and even cultural norms as well). These all had the same writer and most of the lead producers consistently worked on the majority of the films, plus within a year of releasing one were in pre-production for the next.

[@ghedebaronsamedi]

Pfff. Many times.

[@thomasrose2149]

Well, The Last Jedi is certainly proof of that.

[@oneandonlysound3453]

This is true. The only times things aren't that black and white are with the kid characters, namely the red queen (who honestly should've been replaced with something else by the time we got to retribution, extinction already had the white queen), angie who had to be killed off-screen int he novelization because of hollywood unwritten rule #49558 can't kill kids on screen, and Becky from Retribution. Siena Guillory wasn't in Extinction cause of commitments to what was supposed to be an Eragon franchise, but it made no sense why she wasn't right back not at the end but at the beginning of Afterlife. And lastly the only ones with a real time period was retribution and final chapter, and I haven't seen anyone do a movie besides the actress who played Ada, so something tells me they were available (she was also signed on so for whatever reason she either dropped or they dropped her in favor of the dumb washington murder plot)@@SnowmanTF2

[@OsirisLord]

Not even Hollywood. I'm a Godzilla fan and let me tell you, the Godzilla franchise didn't have any consistent continuity or chronology until, ironically, Hollywood started making Godzilla movies in 2014.

[@FrankCastle-tq9bz]

It seems that the greatest weakness of Umbrella Corporation is bad writing.

[@AncapOtaku]

Anderson can make some great movies but he isn't the best writer anderson does have a good eye for cinematography action & a good eye for details he isn't a bad director just a not so good writer

[@fightingmedialounge519]

Great isn't really the correct term her. Serviceable would be more accurate.

[@Fulcrox]

@@AncapOtaku he sucks and has no sense of continuity

[@TheRoguePrince0]

In the 3rd movie umbrella literally had an army of super clones that they could have used to wipe out all the zombies in a year and then they could have ruled whats left of Humanity with an iron fist.

[@DansilSchroeder]

Alrighty, as a helicopter pilot, at 14:30 I gotta stop ya right there. Helicopters don't have ignition keys. They have a checklist you gotta go through in order to start them properly and safely. Most people have no idea how to start your average American general-aviation helicopter.

[@GingerZombie29]

@antiami I think he/she meant nobody knows *exactly* how to do it.

[@danielthompson6207]

Most helicopters take several minutes to get started. They're intentionally made to be complicated in order to prevent some jackwagon from simply turning a key and attempting to steal them, or more accurately, crash them immediately.

[@TheJamie119]

@@danielthompson6207 Look ma, I'm flying a helicopter *crashes into barn*

[@MrDalisclock]

@antiami helicopters are complex machines which require training and experience to operate safely is what s/he was saying.

[@Tylerbolical]

It’s silly how easily they could pull off the mind control devices. In resi 5 Chris and sheva really really struggle to pull it off of Jill Valentine

[@Tengu125]

Exactly.

[@cryolocker0224]

Ah yes, When you solve overpopulation by instantly going to the most extreme way: Planetary genocide, Because my solution when I don’t have enough cash at hand for a candy bar is to rob a bank

[@nicholasrandall3507]

2022: "To solve global warming, we need to consider blocking out the sun." - Bloomberg

[@permeus2nd]

0:26 lets face it this guy only makes platforms for his wife to (in his mind) show off. Ok so I haven’t see any of them past 3 as I was done by then, I was ok ish with 1 but 2 and 3 was just too much and most of these films i had no idea about and I’m glad.

[@casbot71]

Nearly every (?) single film has a scene where she does some kind of semi orgasmic revival which reveals side crotch and no public hair.

[@MediaZealot]

I admit I thought the same, but my research suggested he met her on the set of RE1. Unless perhaps that's the way rich people ask girls out? At the very least, he extended a platform for her.

[@Laflamme78]

@@MediaZealot Hmmm, how can I meet that women in a completely natural and believable way? I know, spend millions on a movie, get her as the star and ask her out while on set. Genius! Fool proof!

[@Xehanort10]

The whole film series is just him putting his fantasies about his wife as a superhuman badass in film form. Alice having superstrength in the 2nd film was fine because there have been plenty of characters in the games who've gotten super strong after being infected with the viruses but having her do OP shit like make an Umbrella guard bleed to death from the eyes just by looking at him through a camera and set crows on fire with her mind took it over the top. Doesn't help that Alice is a boring character who swears to take down Umbrella only to fail so often it's a running gag.

[@targard.quantumfrack6854]

Luc Besson did the same with... Jovovich.

[@DurtyDan]

I swear it's like Paul Anderson and Michael Bay have never even heard of continuity

[@KrimzonFlygon1]

Pshaaaw! Continuity gets in the way of 'splosions!

[@NobodyCaresALot]

Edited for my own stupidity.

[@craigrandall4553]

I commented on this because of your pfp. Yay for Goblin Slayer

[@brandonfoley7519]

It's like non of the other films matter and though I liked the films It is irritating

[@brandonfoley7519]

@@craigrandall4553 another thing with continuity problems

[@nurse425]

Umbrella: We can clone HUMANS, but didn't think to clone ANIMALS for food!

[@IchigoKurosaki_]

The 7 dislikes on this video were clones doing the bidding of their cryo sleep counter parts 😉👌

[@MediaZealot]

Plot twist, EVERYONE is clones!

[@thelittlebosniaexperience8181]

Nope, my dislike came as soon as he said they were ok movies and not 1.5 hour cinematic abortions

[@PasserMontanus]

"series of OK movies"? Eh? Are we still talking about Resident Evil?

[@vectorialforce3173]

The movies are OK compared to anothers movies adapted from videogames

[@OsirisLord]

@@vectorialforce3173 The video games are so god awful I have no idea why Resident Evil is so popular.

[@kcazzzzz]

@@OsirisLord resident evil is popular because of the 1st few games. the atmosphere for zombie apocalypse was perfect. later games they tried to be more creative and lost that atmosphere, their zombies are no longer zombies people recognize, and the whole series fell apart.

[@maiseree1511]

@@kcazzzzz Yeah but they've managed to bounce back ever since RE7

[@maiseree1511]

@@OsirisLord I feel like you're only looking at RE5, RE6 and Operation Raccoon City. Other than that the games are amazing. The reason RE is popular because it is basically the father of survival horror. It's what popularized the genre in videogames and used zombies to their fullest potential as a plot device for terror. The games delivered great stories and just great gaming experiences in general, right up until after RE4 when things started to go downhill. Thankfully they've managed to bounce back again ever since RE7.

[@Tienkou111]

I feel both relieved I don’t have to watch the movies, but also I feel intrigued to actually witness this whole rollercoaster by watching the movies… great job on the video 👍

[@mr.voidout4739]

15:24 You cut out the best part! ::Tense music climaxes:: Wesker: ...and I want *_damage reports._*

[@casbot71]

With allocation of resources, there was somebody who post apocalypse has the job of giving _Brazilians_ to all the Alice clones……considering how many there are in the facility in *EXTINCTION* it's a _full time_ position. *Dr Isaacs:* Remember, we need to save at least one beautician. *Test coordinator:* Prepare to release another clone for a fatal test… *Technician:* Wait, she still has public hair, it's got to be removed before we can proceed. *Dr Isaacs:* Who's responsible for the oversight? All Alice clones are supposed to be kept fully waxed while still in their tanks, I don't care how hard it is to remove intimate body hair in a client in embryonic solution…

[@crypto1223]

casbott Thank you for creating that insane image in my head.

[@patrickbateman312]

If they can create a super virus that turns people into zombies and turns the environment into desert (?!?!?!), shit out thousands upon thousands of clones, and make impossible monsters, it's not that much of a stretch that they just like...removed the pube gene or something.

[@Planetbustard]

They have obviously genetically modified the clones to not have body hair!

[@ItsBunnyBuns]

Grant "the pube gene" I died laughing, how dare you.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@ItsBunnyBuns I know, it fucking killed me. The comment made no sense but when I read "the pube gene" I had to give it a like. I'm still laughing as I type this.

[@ericstaples7220]

I saw the director's commentary for one of these RE movies once and Paul W.S. Anderson kept bragging about how expensive the scenes were. It was as if he thought expensive sets and action scenes were the same thing as good story telling.

[@herheartbeats5727]

Hollywood logic repeated over and over...

[@Volatile127]

this series is all over the place, but it's fun to binge while high. and Milla Jovovich...

[@jasdanvm3845]

But she is so plane...

[@herheartbeats5727]

@@jasdanvm3845 Plank of wood in any way, shape of form...well why does it remind me of some recent movie/series characters ?

[@Gonz.0]

Shes a total smoke show

[@patrickwilliamson29]

Idk man I kinda think she's actually pretty ugly in this series

[@godemperorofmankind3.091]

@@patrickwilliamson29 yeah and im sure you're just a charmer. feel good in your glass house?

[@GeneFOX70]

Wesker a superhuman with enhanced strength, speed, agility, and durability who can take rocket launchers to the face and a fall in lava while weakened. Gets killed by a door

[@anothercleverusername992]

_"... In 'The Final Chapter', We discover, to our horror... That there's yet another plot twist."_

[@danaripley1200]

In the Resident Evil games what always made me laugh about Umbrella Corporation was its employees. Especially the ones that turn around and try to steal bio weapon samples. They are supposed to be so smart, some of them can't make a clean get away without becoming infected, nor can they keep control over weapons like the Tyrant. I enjoyed watching them die because they were too stupid to survive.

[@Antonio_Ortiz]

I've seen the movies and watched this recap of the entire saga and yet.....I still feel like I have no F'ing idea what the hell is going on. He made a clone of his arch-enemy? What??

[@dawsynlarson696]

Let’s just be thankful these movies aren’t canon and never will be

[@jasdanvm3845]

Pffff Of course they are Canon. What part of Anderson's Universe you don't understand?!

[@steevidrums]

"Paul West-Side Anderson 😂😂😂😂" I spat my coffee out when I heard that.

[@paulmajano]

Stephen Mackrill me too haha

[@Stargatelover]

I know this doesn't quite fit but... Team Magma, Team Aqua, Team Galactic, Team Flare and Team Plasma, all from Pokemon, had plans almost as convoluted as the above. And with about as much common sense too.

[@marley7868]

I'd argue it would be more like if aqua swapped between having team aqua goals and seek to achieve them and then randomly switch to team magma plans for no reason

[@Stargatelover]

​@@marley7868 Team Aqua wanted to rise sea levels to make more ocean, for no apparent reason. Team Magma wanted to expand the continents by reducing water, using the Global Warming Pokemon. Not only is it kind of ironic, but those are some of the most convoluted villain goals in Pokemon. Minwon Jang Yeah, in terms of how much sense they made at least. Team Rocket is just Pokemon Yakuza basically with no bigger goal than getting money out of Pokemon and Team Skull is a simple gang of losers really, Island Trial Drop-Outs basically make up a mayority of their members and Guzma isn't even trying to accomplish anything nefarious other than working with Lusamine who he likely has the hots for. Considering the woman looks not much older than her own children, well... The worst offender though is Team Galactic, who literally try to erase reality using literal gods, to make their own universe. Convoluted, check. Pointless? Yeah. Dangerous? Definitely. No net gain? You know it. So yeah, they are really the worst offender in the "Villains too stupid to win" category. Then again they all were too stupid to stop a bunch of 10 year old kids from foiling their plans so...

[@dustwarewolf5532]

In all fairness to Team Galactic, destroying the world so you can remake it in your own image is actually a fairly standard villainous master/mistress plan. It was also Porky's evil plan during Mother 3, as just one of many examples, and it was by NO means a plan that was "convoluted" in the usual negative connotation of the word. So I really have no problem with Team Galactic's plot. And while Team Plasma's plan WAS stupid, they did manage to essentially overthrow The Elite Four, and in the magna even managed to capture and BLEEPING CRUCIFY all of Unova's gym leaders. The magna gets QUITE thematically dark at times.

[@MediaZealot]

There's almost nothing that I wouldnt force to fit in around here, but to be honest the thought of touching any kind of anime storyline, is enough to trigger an instant migraine.

[@caseysand8227]

Basically only Team Rocket's plans made any sense. Idk about team skull. Havent played that one

[@OKTANE0]

Ah, *that hallway* the most menacing thing possible.

[@bificommander7472]

I only saw the first two movies. But it's admirable how they stayed true to the games and turned their straightforward zombie story into an increasingly incomprehensible clusterfuck with every sequel. The clip of Trump at Umbrella building the wall was hillarious.

[@caseysand8227]

bificommander They shit the bed in the first one.

[@DoomWar1]

Stayed true to the games? What movies were you watching?

[@Mayhzon]

@@DoomWar1 True to the games in the sense of how shitty their plot got. Take the first three games and it's alright. Resident Evil 4 still had a decent self-contained story, but was starting to make less sense. Resident Evil 5 was a mess with 6 shitting all over the franchise to the degree that it needed a hard reboot, which it got with Resident Evil 7. There were countless of spin-offs between the main line games and their stories got worse each time, too. The plot became ever more obviously a string of events chained together to make action happen. And while that is generally the purpose of a story in media, a good plot has something to say and keeps up the facade of good writing. Bad plot is obvious in it's intention and breaks immersion.

[@johnstovall7503]

I was invested in Wesker as the big bad and when he got nerfed and demoted for Isaacs who had already been dealt with it was pretty annoying

[@TheHeartlessFour]

It hilarious almost every movie retcons its predecessors. I feel like the movies would be less frustrating if you watch each one as a standalone. Still mediocre films though. Although I do enjoy 1-2 to a degree.