New Silent Hill Movie

  On 9/29/2012 at 10:31 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

  On 9/29/2012 at 10:23 PM, Awepittance said:

the context of all the characters didn't really matter to me probably because i never played any of the games, i took it all at face value and found it a pretty gnarly movie overall. It's not often even in an R rated horror flick we get to see a ginger girl picked up off the ground by a giant, stripped naked and then have her skin torn off like a rag doll. It was sort of hot/horrifying in a Hellraiser 2 sort of way which i admit i appreciated greatly.

 

and that's my whole point; you are missing the lore and ethos which made the original storyline and universe so compelling. its condensed into an easily digestible movie narrative for the sake of exploitation. Yeah, its enjoyable, but knowing its origins and how it failed to deliver on any meaningful level is incredibly frustrating.

 

"Oh, all those cool monsters? Yeah, they just live here. They look cool though, right?"

  On 9/29/2012 at 6:49 PM, gmanyo said:

Actually, my problem was that the movie seemed fascinated with novelty and gimmicks. It was more concerned with the idea of a cool monster doing something cool and freaky than it was actually letting the horror sink in. So what you got were a bunch of loosely connected "cool" scenes with not much to really hold them together. All the horror felt so forced, and it wasn't scary.

you've got a point there. maybe i just really liked it cause all these new horror movies that it was up against were total shit. im not really saying this movie is a masterpiece or anything. a solid 6/10 for me. i agree that the story was hard to follow. ive played SH's 1-4 and some multiple times. and i had no idea at all what was really going on or how the movie had anything to do with the games. and now looking back at what Smetti and I have said i have a feeling maybe this one might not be as good. the things that Heather sees was the WHOLE point to the story in 3. and if they mess that up then this movie will be bad.

that blonde lady is meant to be at school? she looks like 30

I think it's pretty hard to pull off the feel of the games because a film needs a certain pacing and narrative flow to keep the audience's attention. It can't just be an overhead shot of a character exploring a mangled wasteland for 2 hours. That said, the could have easily done a better job on the first movie.

  On 9/29/2012 at 2:58 AM, lumpenprol said:

Squee: I thought the first Silent Hill movie was good. It fell apart a bit at the end, and the directing was only adequate. But it had some stuff in it I really liked. One of which was the depressing, claustrophobic ending.

 

big disclaimer: I'm evaluating it as a standalone, as I have never played any of the games

Same here. I enjoyed the movie, I could never play the game.

So did anyone watch this? I heard it sucked.

I did. I liked the first one better, the second one seemed like a stammering excuse: "Uh-buh, duh, here-you-go..."

4/10

I thought the movie was both horrifying and erotic. I enjoyed it.

6% on rotten tomatoes

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/silent_hill_revelation/

good riddance. the franchise truly died about a decade ago at this point.

Alice Krige should have come back for the second one. Her presence on screen never fails to make my skin crawl.

Not to say the movie would have been much better, but at least there would be Alice Krige.

Alice Krige is an awesome actor/actress, that I cannot deny. She did her best with the first film (once again, not a horrible movie, but pretty disappointing from a longtime fan perspective)

  On 9/28/2012 at 10:16 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Needs less Sean Bean looking thru file cabinets the whole fucking movie.

There's never enough Sean Bean.

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Alice Krige is an awesome actor/actress, that I cannot deny. She did her best with the first film (once again, not a horrible movie, but pretty disappointing from a longtime fan perspective)</p></blockquote>

Even without her usual seductress typecast, she freaked me out. She's so damn SINCERE, it's eerie...