Resident Evil Damnation: Leon vs Lickers - A Love, Hate Relationship

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For this year's spooptober episode, we wanted to take continue our look at the Resident Evil CGI movies with the second in the series Resident Evil Damnation. Slavic Chris Redfield, the goodest of good boys in the form of a squadron of lickers, gratuitous nudity, and an ending which needed explaining to Jay. But does it hold up against the Hollywood movies? There's only one way to find out.

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This is actually a sample of the full show notes - make sure to click here to check out the full show notes.

Content Warning

As this is an episode about a biopunk action horror movie and the games that it's based on we'd advise a little caution for this episode. There's nothing explicitly terrible in this episode, but the subject matter can be pretty rough.

This episode has a few swears in it, but none which should be too offensive.

Please listen responsibly.

Show Notes

Squidge started this one off with his, now trademarked, intro:

From active time battling to zombie slaying Waffling Taylors covers video games and beyond.

In this episode Jay and Squidge cover the 2012 CGI movie Resident Evil Damnation. We cover everything from bioweapon on bioweapon action, Chris Redfield from wish.com, to neon plot devices.

So without further ado, sit back, grab some snacks, and get ready for this episode entitled "Resident Evil Damnation: Leon vs Lickers - A Love, Hate Relationship".

Enjoy.

— Squidge

Initial Thoughts

As always, the boys like to lead with their initial thoughts before talking about specific scenes in the movie, and Squidge agreed that this movie (along with the games released at the time) is more of an action affair:

And yeah, it's more action-based. I've noticed that. This one is definitely more action-based

— Squidge

Whereas Jay's thoughts are more along the lines of how Leon may as well be Samus, starting a brand new Metroid-based adventure:

What I noticed when I was watching this was, "wait. Leon's a special forces agent now. He's been trained in all sorts of different combat situations. How in the hell can he not fire a gun properly yet?"

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It doesn't make sense to me why he doesn't have his skills at the beginning of the movie; even though he's been called there specifically.

— Jay

But Squidge broke in with an explanation of sorts. Although, it does involve a little head canon and some classic British standup:

And yeah, it's more action-based. I've noticed that. This one is definitely more action-based

— Squidge

Full Show Notes

Make sure to check out the full show notes for more discussion on the points we raise, some extra meta-analysis, some out-of-context screen grabs from the movie, and some links to related things.

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