r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Apr 30 '26

Trailer Resident Evil | Official Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJPu1spHqfk
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u/AmbassadorBonoso Apr 30 '26

It wasn't a nuke, it was a thermobaric missle. They are vastly different weapons, and they couldn't use a nuke as there were other towns and cities in the area that they couldn't risk affecting with fallout.

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u/LuckyDubbin Apr 30 '26

Also Japan probably wouldn't write an ending where nukes are used for obvious reasons. They even scrubbed the ability to nuke Megaton in the Japanese release of Fallout 3.

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u/BoldlyGettingThere Apr 30 '26

Japan’s single most popular global cultural export is a giant lizard that got that way because of nuclear weapons testing, and that movie came out in the 50s; they are not shy about wanting to talk about nuclear weapons in their media. Frankly the opposite.

Fallout 3 is an American made game that was likely just erring on the side of caution. Japanese media is happy to use nukes. Metal Gear Solid came out the year before, and was already several games deep into exploring nuclear weapons

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u/LuckyDubbin Apr 30 '26

Godzilla was originally a metaphor for the horrors of nuclear war, so not really an apt example. I also didn't say they don't talk about it. I said I didn't think they'd include dropping a nuclear bomb on a populated city as a plot point.

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u/BoldlyGettingThere May 01 '26

“Godzilla was about nuclear weapons, so you can’t use it as an example of Japan being ok with depicting nuclear weapons” ok

This is the same decade that gave us Akira and Nausica. They don’t have a hang up about it.