10 Movie Franchises That Need A Reboot

9. Resident Evil

This is one series that was really doomed from the outset, as Paul W.S. Anderson, hardly a good director at the best of times, upsets every video game fan on the planet by taking a respected video game series and turning it into mind-numbingly inane fantasy fare. Though the first film was at least a fun B-movie, every other instalment, which ironically attempted to steer closer to the source material, turned out to be absolutely awful. Anderson doesn't know what he wants to do; does he want to make a series that's only thematically linked to the video game namesake, or does he want to adapt the games? As such, he tends to weave his own lame-brained narrative - complete by casting his wife, Milla Jovovich, as the gun-totting Mary Sue, Alice - and throw in a few video game references or characters to try and please the fans. But it's done with so little effort that it only infuriates us; it's like a low-rent high school production that's just been slathered in mediocre visual effects.

What they should do is get back to basics; find the original script that George A. Romero wrote, and Hell, get him to film it (it's not like he's doing much good these days). Stop with the dumb CGI set pieces, overuse of slow-motion, 3D gimmickry and loud soundtrack; get back to what works, and try to restore the good name of the premiere video game survival horror franchise.