I've been watching all of the Resident Evil films recently. They are hated by fans of the games.
Speaking as a huge fan of the games I can see why. They abandon pretty much all of the plot points, they feature a heroine who is super powered, when the whole point of the originals was ordinary people surviving in horrible circumstances. Alice the main character wasn't even in the games (and consequently the games actual heroes like Jill and Chris are pushed to the side.) Finally they are more action based, where as the games are more about atmosphere and horror.
Still they are all good films in their own right. Alice is an interesting heroine, the action scenes are great, and the cast in all films are brilliant. You have Michelle Rodriguez (who is gorgeous and always amazing) Milla Jovivitch, Oded Fehr and Wentworth Miller who are always good action leads.
Still most fans hate them and trash them for how unfaithful they are. Same applies to the 98 Godzilla. Once again overall that wasn't a bad film. Its not a classic, but its a decent enough monster flick. Yet fans hated it because it abandoned so many of Godzilla's trademark characteristics, his firey breath, the fact that he is unkillable etc.
Yet when it comes to DW its fandom (ironically perceived as the most difficult) have always been happy to let it's traditions get tossed out of the window.
The Doctors asexuality, his moral code, his reasons for travelling, the time lords even his dress sense, were all thrown in the bin when New Who started, and most fans accepted it? Can you imagine Missy going down in any other franchise.
Of course finally after Jodie all of these fans seemed to have finally woken up and there is now a proper backlash against the revival, but its come too little too late. If the fans had made it clear in Eccelston's series that this was NOT DW, all of it could have been avoided. Question is why didn't they?
Why did Who fans buy into this "DW is all about change" crap and happily sell the show they claimed to love out?
Speaking as a huge fan of the games I can see why. They abandon pretty much all of the plot points, they feature a heroine who is super powered, when the whole point of the originals was ordinary people surviving in horrible circumstances. Alice the main character wasn't even in the games (and consequently the games actual heroes like Jill and Chris are pushed to the side.) Finally they are more action based, where as the games are more about atmosphere and horror.
Still they are all good films in their own right. Alice is an interesting heroine, the action scenes are great, and the cast in all films are brilliant. You have Michelle Rodriguez (who is gorgeous and always amazing) Milla Jovivitch, Oded Fehr and Wentworth Miller who are always good action leads.
Still most fans hate them and trash them for how unfaithful they are. Same applies to the 98 Godzilla. Once again overall that wasn't a bad film. Its not a classic, but its a decent enough monster flick. Yet fans hated it because it abandoned so many of Godzilla's trademark characteristics, his firey breath, the fact that he is unkillable etc.
Yet when it comes to DW its fandom (ironically perceived as the most difficult) have always been happy to let it's traditions get tossed out of the window.
The Doctors asexuality, his moral code, his reasons for travelling, the time lords even his dress sense, were all thrown in the bin when New Who started, and most fans accepted it? Can you imagine Missy going down in any other franchise.
Of course finally after Jodie all of these fans seemed to have finally woken up and there is now a proper backlash against the revival, but its come too little too late. If the fans had made it clear in Eccelston's series that this was NOT DW, all of it could have been avoided. Question is why didn't they?
Why did Who fans buy into this "DW is all about change" crap and happily sell the show they claimed to love out?