Director Uwe Boll may have a reputation for making terrible videogame movies, but the continuing success of Paul W.S. Anderson's mediocre Resident Evil pictures does more damage to the genre.
Resident Evil: Afterlife sold more tickets than any other flick this weekend. Loosely based on Capcom's videogames of the same name, the movie pulled in $27.7 million on the strength of its 3-D visuals and the appeal of star Milla Jovovich.
The picture is the fourth movie in Sony's successful, but critically reviled, series of action-heavy zombie pictures. Anderson, best know as the filmmaker behind 1995's Mortal Kombat, also worked for a time to bring the Konami franchise Castlevania to the silver screen.
With hack jobs like the Resident Evil series continuing to perform at the box office, it becomes less likely that we'll see Hollywood pour its heart and soul into making smart videogame movies that are true to their source material – especially when you consider that gamers don't support movies that seek to speak to them in their own language. Edgar Wright's woefully unappreciated Scott Pilgrim vs The World has grossed only $30 million since it was released in August.
Next time, gamers, go see Machete.
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