silent hill

[bubz_bluez]

hey if anyone sees this tell me what you thought of it....
i played the video game and it was awesome

bubz

[mrjohnchimpo]

hey if anyone sees this tell me what you thought of it....
i played the video game and it was awesome

bubz

i want to see it, i think it looks awesome. i remember the video game royally scaring me.

[larryhead]

Looks like it comes out 4/21/06... here's a neat little flash site about the film:

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/silenthill/

[Simolean2]

omg I cant wait to see this freakin movie lol
I played the games too most of them atleast.
I was worried that they wouldnt make the monsters as creepy in the movie as they are in the game but watching a few clips those bloody headless dolly bastards are all over the movie lol. Looks great! I prolly watch it opening day and post something

[Simolean2]

Ok just got back from seeing Silent Hill and OMG WAS IT FREAKIN AWSOME!

Ive watched almost all video games turned movies flop dirty, but this movie literally captured the Silent Hill essence. Using original music from the actual games, and the twisted scenery aswell as freaky monster design.
They werent afraid to show gore, flensing, Iam afraid to keep raving about it cause I know how that spoils these movies.

But seriously this movie was just ...WOW. all of my friends that went said the same thing, as soon as this comes out on DVD Iam buying and watching it again!

[bangg trimm]

wow. i really thought this movie was terrible. i didn't know it was based on a game, but as my brother and i watched it i thought "it's odd that they play this completely out-of-place electronic music in these open plazas where characters are travelling from building to building" and " this action scence looks like they're going to try and make a video game out of it".

i can see how a game enthusiast might enjoy seeing it brought to the screen, but as a film , it sucked. for these reasons:

1. no character development with regard to situation, emotional state, etc. merely action without apparent cause or sufficient consequence. no weight whatsoever.

2. only the most tenuous of beginning/middle/end. no importance to any moment.

3. it wasn't scary. not even in that cheap surprise/fast-cut sort of way. it was just a little odd. like a marilyn manson video with worse music. or fashion-goth porn.

4. oh, the dialogue.


the critters were cool, though. especially triangle head big knife guy.

[larryhead]

Yah, I haven't played the game, but someone else was also telling me the movie was pretty bad. :(

[Simolean2]

lol damn I must have bad taste LMAO!
in regards to character development there isnt really meant to be any.
Other then a mother taking her daughter into silent hill to find the cause of her sleep walking nightmares and face relentless odds making her overcome
fear and panic and become something more. There was no importance to any moment cause its bases on the game. Which is mostly travel, running from monsters and solving clues that further the plot. Which yes there was one is this movie, lol. I agree that it wasnt scarey but comeon the skinning scene! that was out of hand. All the ghetto kids in the front row screamed like little girls and the rest of the theater went completely quiet for like 10 mins after that. In regards to dialogue well there wasnt really any. Its based off a mystery/horror game. Your alone most of the time not really many ppl to talk to lol. I thought overall if youve played the game and can relate that they kept alot to the overall feel of it.
funny your the 1st 2 ive heard say anything bad about it lol

[Soul Queen]

:D I always assumed Movies based off of video games usually won't have much of a story line.

Its a horror film, right? I can't remember the last horror film where there was character development and a killer story.

Except for maybe EVIL DEAD 2. "Shop Smart, Shop S Mart."

I am also pondering the difference in the movie theatres. The crowd in the Miami movie theatre in the Grove and the crowd in the movie theatre in Columbia Mo I bet are very different.

[bighead_42_1090]

Ya I really don't like going to theaters to watch movies anymore. I just hate having to pay ticket prices to go and listen to some asshole 4 rows over from me talk through the whole damn movie.

Ok rant over. I enjoyed Silent Hill for the most part, though I must agree with bangg trimm on the dialogue. I think the movie would have been better with less talking. The story in the movie is pretty much a carbon copy of the first game, with a few changes. (ie female protaganist in the movie, male in the game) Seeing Pyramid Head was pretty cool.
This is definately one of the better video game movies IMO. I think fans of the series will definately enjoy it more than people who haven't played the games. But it does seem that it's pretty much broken down into 2 different groups, people who though it was awesome and people who thought it was craptacular, while i'm not really in either of those extremes I will be casting my vote closer to awesome. 7/10

On a related note. penny arcade and a unique view on the movie
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/24

[bangg trimm]

i don't usually expect too much out of horror movies either.
but i think my points were more to reflect that

1. there seemed to be NO change in the mother. ever. started off an impervious semi-badass, ended an impervious semi-badass. no confrontation of internal demons, and the confrontation with external ones was minimized to Shock At Seeing Creepy Thing.

in short, she was a one-dimensional character. perhaps less. mostly problematic cause she was the main character.

2. one moment did not compel the next. anything could have happened in any order. it didn't matter much. that's just bad storytelling.


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