I thought it was crazy awesome, IGN be damned.
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I thought it was crazy awesome, IGN be damned.
Okay, just saw it a second time, this time with the gf. She agreed, it was great but the cult stuff just made the move too damn long at the end. It needed to be there, but it could have been done better.
I actually loved the slow pace. It's a nice change from all the other horror movies lately.Quote:
Originally Posted by sethsez
For the most part, yeah. However, they cut out the whole part about the god the cult worshipped and summoned that caused shit to go down in the first place.Quote:
It's quite faithful to the games, almost to its detriment at times.
But I'm not gonna bitch, in probably any other director's hands this movie would have been a plie of shit. At least you could tell the upmost care and effort went into getting everything pretty much exactly right.
I noticed more tunes from SH3 than SH2. The tune playing in Rose's car, the end credits, the tune playing as they're heading to the hotel, etc.Quote:
It's the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack, for the most part.
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Originally Posted by Destro777
I would love to see them take a crack at SH2's storyline.
What I think it is: The demon possessed/joined with Sharon, and her and Rose are still in Silent Hill. The husband can't see her or her car parked in front of the house just like he couldn't see her when he walked right past her in the Midwich schoolyard earlier.Quote:
Im still trying to figure out the significance of the final final shot. Ill have to see it again.
Dolemite: Yes that ending can be taken in a ton of different ways, and most of them youde be right. I think its a perfectly fitting end for a silent hill movie. But i was referring to the final shot...it seems the camera pans to a batch of shrubbery, and sits on it for a bit before fading to black. I want to see that part again. Its gotta mean something...
They got Dark Silent Hill so fucking perfect in this movie. I really just wanted the whole movie set there. And give Pyramid Head some nice monsters to rape while you're at it.
You're comparing this to a Paul Anderson movie? Dude, you're nuts.Quote:
Originally Posted by voltz
Hey, they're doing a movie adaptation of The DaVinci Code. Should they make up a totally new story for that, too?
Perhaps you're thinking that they make this movie solely for fans of the game, with no interest attracting people who never heard of it before. There's plenty of people out there who know nothing about Silent Hill, and the filmmakers want them to see the movie too.Quote:
Originally Posted by voltz
Besides, this is an adaptation. They have to tell the origin and you know the fans would go apeshit if they fucked with the game's story too much.
I doubt it means shit, unless maybe those Kinghts That Say Nee assholes from Monty Python are showing up in the sequel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Destro777
I thought the skin rippin scene was great
I just got back and loved it. I've never played a game, but I'm a big fan of Silent Hill 3's soundtrack, so I was giddy listening to it throughout the film. I loved how it segued between foggy and dark, each time getting creepier and as the horn blew it just gave that feeling like, "Oh yeah! Here it comes." I will agree that I didn't like the "let's take a break from the story to spell out the history" scene, but I didn't mind the cult stuff. It worked to give the movie a problem to fix. The style was really unique, too. I liked it, but I don't think many other people enjoyed it at my theater...
This was like watching two different movies. One was awesome. The other was a shitfest. Unfortunately, the shitfest part pretty much ruined the movie.
LOL at this. To each his own and everything, but there's no way the movie was this good unless you're an incredibly blind fanboy.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrWhitefolks
Alright so I just got back from seeing this.
My verdict is that it's clearly the best game-to-movie translation, but that doesn't mean shit. Aside from that it's a pretty good horror film that's weighed down by some dragging dialogue. Not as much in an M. Night Shamallamadingdong flick, and not nearly as many cheap "BOO!" scares to keep you from falling asleep.
I like that this film didn't rely on the cheap scares but instead created the feeling of dread that the games always went for. I will say that the gore was there and more than in any Silent Hill game. In fact a lot of the death scenes were more graphic than I've seen in a horror movie in atleast the past 5 years.
Overall I liked the movie, but I did think it drug in places because of the exposition.
I just saw it tonight with a bunch of people from work.
Horrible dialogue, horrible acting (though a couple people were good), visually impressive as hell. A fun watch, but don't expect to ever want to watch it again.
The story goes pretty much nowhere.
I recommend it, as for a movie based on a game, it does a million times better than most.
PS: I actually almost fell asleep right before the going into the first Church scene. I perked up right away, and then drifted a bit until the second Church scene.
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master
No. This movie has a bad case of Titanic. Actors looking bad because they're got terrible lines and almost no characterization to build from. These are good actors trying to wring what they can out of a miserable script (at least when it comes to characterization).Quote:
horrible acting
My problem is the opposite... the story goes in too many directions and keeps steamrolling ahead, even though the literal plot has always been the least interesting aspect of the Silent Hill series. I would have preferred it if things were kept more vague and we didn't get the occasional bout of exposition. When you've got a film that thrives on dream logic and surrealism, the last thing you want to do is keep dragging it back into reality by trying to give everything a literal explanation.Quote:
The story goes pretty much nowhere.