Raccoon City

Yeah, that is absolutely true.

This place would get Raccoon City into the Earth's crust, wouldn't it? It would be a huge smoking crater.

It

would.

But it's completely different.

Like it's not set in Raccoon City.

It's set in some little Spanish village or something.

Like it's completely different to the first kind of trilogy, I guess.

Yeah.

And apparently it's been reported that you can possibly see him in other places of Raccoon City as well.

I don't know.

That's fun.

It was really cool seeing all that.

It's great as well, because the first,

if you don't know, at the end of Resident Evil 2, they hit Raccoon City with a nuke.

So it's not the raccoon city, you know, it's a bombed out wasteland of raccoon city.

Nemesis, Jill and Carlos, very specifically, they're kind of our primary viewpoints for that game.

Bad shit happening in Raccoon City.

Exactly.

The Raccoon City Incident, as it is famously known as.

Yes.

But yes, the big one being this is the movie where we get Nemesis.

Yeah.

I think this is my number two live-action...

So I'm

so excited because this is not Welcome to Raccoon City.

I am not going to be telling you what type of cocktail somebody is.

I'm going to get into the nitty gritty of what this movie is.

Unfortunately.

But

I did enjoy Welcome to Raccoon City.

I didn't think it was phenomenal, but I thought it was like, okay, this is a step in the right direction.

james was really well covering it as well

yeah definitely it's amazing like just how good it looks and you know just like how much they've done in it like uh absolutely fantastic stuff i would have like given like my eye teeth for that back in the day on the saturn so the um resident evil 2 was actually the main reason i ended up getting a playstation one so like when i found out it wasn't coming to the saturn i was absolutely gutted and then my mate who had a playstation got a a demo disc with like the um uh first bit of like resident evil 2 on yeah and it amazed me so much i'd like you know the zombies that were on fire and i thought i'm like you know you're properly in raccoon city i was like oh man i'm gonna have to like get hold of this somehow So that was my first non-Sega console.

I felt a bit bad about abandoning the Saturn, but once I got properly stuck into it, all those feelings of guilt disappeared.

I think Resident Evil 2 probably might be my favorite one, like even more than the first, just because it took everything that was good about the first one.

And this was like the first Resident Evil I was a little bit disappointed by.

And I don't even know why now.

It just kind of felt a bit too much like more of the same, particularly as well with quite a large section of it at the start being set in the Raccoon City Police Station again.

I just sort of thought like, well, you know, we've done all this before, haven't we? But I did still like it in the end.

But I think I found a nice segue into our review of Resident Evil.

You may not be medical professionals and neither is Paul Bryan, who's trying to deliver a medical something to Raccoon City in Resident Evil.

So on that note, let's get on with the show.

Resident Evil follows Brian.

I can't quite remember.

But it was a great fun game.

But I kind of like you, Jordan, like I'm not really – a massive gamer but i i do like to watch other people and get like caught up in it which is why i think you know horror like i get scared really really easily i can't look away like i love the genre too because it's so inventive it's so exciting and you know we'll get into all all of those things as we kind of unpack the film but i kind of wanted to start um also with a bit of history in this like you mentioned there's like so many of these games but there's also as many movies that have come before this zach craiger one and i i think i've picked them all out but i'm happy to be um fact checked on this so it started in 2002 with resident evil now they all have resident evil in the title so i'm just gonna you know call out the thing that comes out past the colon so uh apocalypse in 2004 then extinction in 2007 afterlife in 2010 and then retribution in 2012 but mila jovovich wasn't done yet because she came back for the aptly named the final chapter which is hilarious because in hollywood there ain't ever a final chapter um and that was in 2016 and then they rebooted it in 2021 with resident evil welcome to raccoon city which i never saw and then there was a tv show soon after that in 2022 um Uh, how many of those movies have you guys seen or think you've seen? Cause you know, there's been a lot, there's been a lot of resident evil films, haven't there?

There's, there's been plenty.

His second movie, one small suburban town.

His third movie, it's in Raccoon City.

One city.

His fourth movie, in space.