Silent Hill movie
POSTED BY: singate
UPDATED: Friday, April 28, 2006 19:50
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Just wanted to see if any other browncoats went out to see Silent Hill this past weekend.
I thought it was a pretty good flick. It's hard to qualify anything as a horror movie nowadays because people are so jaded with what goes on in the real world but this movie has a definite creepy factor.
What I liked about this film more than recent so called horror is that it doesn't simply overwhelm the viewer with non-stop gratuitous violence. That being said there are a few scenes with over the top gore. Think Hellraiser and up it a few notches.
The downside of the movie is it assumes the audience has some knowledge of the events taking place. For anyone who doesn't know there is a series of excellent games which the movie is based upon. The people I went with had some questions after which is a direct relection of them having no prior contact with this storyline.
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Originally posted by singate:
The downside of the movie is it assumes the audience has some knowledge of the events taking place.
And that's why I've read no good reviews of it. How can you expect anyone to enjoy a movie with a story that makes no sense, unless you've played the game. I'll bet $10 it's going to be a flop.
Don't get me wrong, like Serenity it will probably make more money from the DVDs. I might even rent or buy it if I read or hear more good things about it.
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The downside of the movie is it assumes the audience has some knowledge of the events taking place.
It does? Hmm, maybe it's just that in knowing the gist I hadn't noticed that... but then, I've no idea how close to the plot of any of the games the movie plot is, because I've only played about half of the first one.
But I definitely got all the SH-type stuff, and loved the music. It was well done overall, I think.
Except Sean Bean's accent. Not good, not good at all.
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It actually pulled in 20 million, and was #1 at the box office, despite getting terrible reveiws. Deep sigh. These "The Ring" clones have got to stop. We get it, ghosts are scary. Especially when its a 12 year old girl who meows, or sounds like an old man (Grudge, Silent Hill).
Every weekend a new one comes out, and they usually do pretty good, due to the large ammount of 14 year olds (no offense) who go to the movies every weekend and just eat this crap up. Sorry, but its sad when these kind of movies suceed. Because instead of takeing chances on films like Serenity (for 50 million), movie studios just keep pumping these gems out for about half that, and make huge profits.
And even if this movie IS good, i wouldnt go see it because these movies comes out every week and i just cant keep track of which piece of crap smells the least horrible.
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Although it's highly likely the first set of Silent Hill games pre-date The Ring, of course...
"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
"SUMMER!!"
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would someone please explain these things to me? I have never played a silent hill game and probably never will I just don't enjoy horror games but every now and then I like a good horror movie so looking for an explination here
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Explaining would, y'know, give it all away and run it. I reckon you should just go see it on it's own merits.
"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
"SUMMER!!"
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ya know, that's what amazes me with movie goers these days. If a good movie comes out, not unless it has a big name attached to the movie, it has a 50% chance to go far.
I just can't see hollywood making good movies when the same dribble comes out and the movie rakes in 3 times it's worth in one weekend.
I havn't seen ice age yet, but I didn't think it was that good to justify a sequel. How about scary movie 4? I just don't understand it and plan not to
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Ice Age was Hi-larious but no more thread-jacking
all I meant was that since singate said that you have to nkow something about the games storyline I didn't want to be in the dark if I see it
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I'm not sure if it makes any difference. It's not knowing the storyline that's the issue exactly, I think it's understanding the concepts: the two - well, three - worlds, for example. But not knowing the games just makes it weird and mysterious, surely, something not completely understood and strange. Which is good; means you have to think a little.
You shouldn't have any problems.
"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
"SUMMER!!"
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