Nancy

Cool! I can't wait to see him

I'm playing SH1 at the moment because I have some catching up to do before the movie. I haven't played it since 1999 so I only remember the plot faintly. And despite the somewhat crappy graphics I'm still scared shitless when I play it

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Scorps

I never played the games but I'm still going to see the movie

Nancy

^^ How about giving the games a go?

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I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

Fire

I just saw it, and first, I must say that I have played none of the games- this did not stop me from loving the hell out of it- It was scary as hell and sureal, but not annoying surreal- It of course was trippy and violated the laws of reality, but it had its own internal consistancy, that it did not seem to violate- so rather than annoying, it was cool, and by the way, scarry as hell.....

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Lasereth

I saw it. I've played Silent Hill 1 all the way through twice and I watched my brother and a friend play through 2 and 3. The movie follows Silent Hill 1 EXTREMELY closely for the first hour or so. I'm talking the camera angles are identicle, the plot is the same, the exact same music and locations, etc. It was really really cool. The movie looks just top notch. All of the locations are well put together and are JUST like Silent Hill in the games.

The bad part: the movie sucks. The acting is iffy, the dialogue from the script is just terrible, and the plot could have worked, but didn't. I enjoyed the first half of the movie because it was literally like playing through Silent Hill all the way up to the elementary school part (anyone remember the 2nd floor bathroom? Wait until you see the movie. ). After that it derailed from the first game and went on its own. That's when I started getting bored and didn't really enjoy it. Following the first game closely can keep my interest through the bad script, but after that stops, it all goes downhill.

If you've played the games, you should go see it just for the first half and how unbelievably they recreated the first game. If you haven't played the games, I can't really recommend it. I wasn't scared during the movie once and there were no startling parts. Hell, it wasn't even creepy. It was more like a "look how closely we can make the movie feel like the game" project instead of a horror movie.

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robbdn

Wow... very impressive trailer... they really managed to capture the feeling of the games, I wonder if they had any of the art guys from Japan... This seems like a very smart movie to make, given the success of Japanese horror lately, this movie functions as a kind of hybrid Hollywood/Japanese horror film. Definitely going to see this one.

As for Uwe Boll... he keeps getting movies because for some reason people watch his movies, and I think he's relatively cheap. There is a market for unbelievably bad movies. I just thought it was hilarious that he thought Bloodrayne was going to put him on the map, and get him respect.

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Jove

I am going to agree with Lasereth about the movie, it was terrible. Sean Bean's character was not well developed and should not have been placed in the movie. Also, the actress playing the police officer was not a good actress, they should have found someone else to play the part.

Kadath

Honestly, I enjoyed it. There were some things that caused my friend and I to laugh, such as the scene where Sharon was shoving through the crowd of zealots, but Silent Hell was INCREDIBLE. I've never played any of the games, only watched my erstwhile roommate play Silent Hill 3, but I enjoyed the craziness. The plot holes and clunkiness of the dialogue mirrored pretty effectively the problems of the game, so I was willing to ignore them for the uncompromised vision of the horror aspect of the game. Spoiler: When Pyramid Head ripped Anna's skin off and throw it at the church doors, that was incredible. Truly effective.

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Jinn

Just saw it, thought it was HORRIBLE. They did so little character development that I really didn't give a fuck what happened to them by the end of the movie. They treated the main chracters like extra characters.

Cool special effects, but the story was impossible to follow..

I could not stop laughing in one of the scenes (LATE in the movie) when she says .. "Wow.. it looks like there was a fire!" NO SHIT!!

Some of the one-liners had the people in front of me splitting their gut laughing, and that doesnt help with the continuity of the movie.

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sunkssd

I never played the games, but I watched it last night. It wasn't as good as I expected. It did have some good parts, but they were few and far between. Since I have not played the games, I do have a question: Are they all dead in some type of purgatory? If they aren't, why are they still in the hazy world after they leave the town?

noodle

Okay, so this one goes on my "Oh Hell, No" list. Scary movies about supernatural horror stuff freaks me out. My first college was haunted beyond Tilted Paranoia. I had a horrible time trying to make it through The Grudge and only got 15 minutes into Boogeyman before I couldn't go any further. Give me Hannibal Lechter and Jeffrey Dahmer any day.

Thanks for scaring the buhjeeeeezus out of me, Nancy. Shoulda read the whole thread before I clicked on the link. How do you people play those games without driving yourselves insane?

/me shudders

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Charlatan

fred... you sound just like my wife.

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noodle

I'm flattered, Charlatan. I'll take it as a compliment.

My boy is addicted to these horrible slice-and-dice games where people are screaming "Help me, they've stolen my baby!" accompanied by gunshots and chopping noises. Now he's stuck on WoW, so I guess I can't complain. Plus, he lets me hang on him during things like The Ring. My brain just can't handle the supernatural stuff since college.

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Reese

I enjoyed it. I did notice alot of things people were griping about but honestly I didn't find them all that bad. Like some others said, there aren't any big scares but the movie is freaky. This is one of the best video game adaptations I've seen. There's room for improvement but it was a worthy effort.

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Lasereth

Like I said in my above post, the second half of the movie completely goes away from the Silent Hill games. Spoiler: Sharon, Cybill, and Rose were all obviously dead the entire movie when they were stuck in the fog at the end without seeing Sean Bean. In the Silent Hill games (especially the first one), the main characters typically make it out of Silent Hill alive, if not mentally scarred forever. I would have enjoyed the movie much more if it followed the first game till the end, even if the script remained as bad. It was just really really cool seeing the locations in the game in a movie. The Hell World was portrayed better than any game location ever in a movie. I'll say it again: if anything, Silent Hill had the best looking environments in any game movie I've ever seen. They were well-crafted and created the atmosphere of Silent Hill perfectly. Too bad that was basically the only positive thing about the movie.

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docbungle

This was the worst movie I have ever seen in my 33 years on this planet. I am not exaggerating. It has absolutely no redeeming qualities.



SPOILER:






The moment she inexplicably runs from the cop in the beginning of the movie, for no discernable reason, and then crashes through the fence, almost killing the both of them, the movie loses all relevance, as it immediately makes zero sense.

This movie can be summed up with a nice tidy "WTF?"

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Kadath

docbungle:

You might want to try the spoiler tag. Also, I am very envious that this is the worst movie you've ever seen. It seems likely to me that her running from the cop (while admittedly a stupid thing to do) has to do with the fact that she's already slightly crazy due to her daughter's problems and desperate to do what she thinks she has to in order to fix things.

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crewsor

Saw it this weekend. I must admit I didn't even know about the video game, but it was about the worst movie I ever sat through.

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shesus

I have never played the video game because I get so freaked out and jj would like to keep the systyem in tact. However, I watched him played it and enjoyed watching the game so we wanted to check out the movie. We read the reviews Friday night to get the opening night feedback. The reviews were so rotten, we decided to see it, but set the expectations low. That was the smartest thing we did.
Since we had low expectations, it was enjoyable. I thought it was hilarious and we laughed most of the way through it. The script was poor, but it had such a B-movie feel to it, that it was acceptable. I will say that the visuals were awesome and surreal, even though sometimes campy.
If you go in just expecting to be entertained and have no expectations of a blockbuster movie it's pretty easy to sit through.

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JumpinJesus

Yeah, The movie pretty much sucked from a certain standpoint, though visually very impressive.

Also, was I the only one who expected Michael Jackson's "Thriller" to suddenly cue in the scene with all the nurses?

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Reese

Spoiler: Lasereth, They aren't dead. If they were, Christopher and the Sherriff would have found their bodies inside the wrecked Jeep. When the Reaper and Sharron merged at the end, they went back to being Alessa. Only Alessa can open and close the gate to Silent Hell, She chose not to let Rose leave. Probably because she cannot leave herself. She couldn't force Rose to stay in the horrible place like Silent Hill, so she took her to somewhere familiar. The movie goes off before Rose realizes that something is different about Sharron, and her house. Who knows what actually happens next.. (just my opinion...)

yah.. I noticed the Thriller sequence too... :P

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t3m3st

I can't believe so many of you hated it! I thought it was awesome!

Anyways, does anyone know the name of the song that played at the end credits? I'd swear I've heard that somewhere before...

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cyrnel

Ow. That was a tough watch.

Ernest Borgnine could have helped a few scenes.

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Reese

Could it be Melissa Williamson - You're not here? I don't exactly remember the song but I think this was it. It's on the Silent Hill 3 soundtrack.

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Kadath

"It's on the Silent Hill 3 soundtrack" applies to every piece of music in the movie. They lifted every song. Not that that'a a huge problem, it's good music, they were just a touch lazy.

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Reese

Yah it didn't have alot of original music. I don't know if they were just being lazy or wanted to get the fans something to recognize - Probably a little of both. I do think it's "You're Not Here" though. SH3 started with the song and ended with "Hometown." The movie started with Hometown(or at least the mandolin) and it would be fitting for it to end with "You're Not Here" since it does kind of reflect the ending of the movie.

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Willravel

Finallly got around to seeing Silent Hill last night. I kept waiting for the movie to scare me, but was left wanting. Pyramid Head was too obvious, the whole creepy little girl thing has been overdone, and the disfigured dead were just goofy. I miss scary movies that actually scared me like The Wicker Man, Alien, and The Exorcist. Am I jadded? Recent scary movies have been rich with formula and CGI, and lacking in story and believability (even Alien was believable on some level, because of the excelent acting, and perfect directing).

hagatha

Silent Hill stole two hours of my life that I can never get back. Thanks Silent Hill.

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Toaster126

Took a date to this not knowing that it was based on a video game series. The movie was entertaining merely from the special effects. There were too many things that were just bonkers logically that they glossed over. The ending made me cranky as well.

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Stompy

The effects and certain elements make it a tolerable movie.

Story wise... not so much, especially from a standpoint of someone who never saw the movie. When they explained what was goin on with the girl, it made ZERO sense, but having played through the first one, I understood kinda what was going on.

But the whole monsters.. and the screaming baby sounds they made was awesome. Dark world changing and areas was awesome. Pyramid head was awesome.

To anyone else not familiar with the game (well, anyone who hasn't played it through), it will probably suck.

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Nancy

Sorry babe


I don't. I'm dead scared everytime I play the SH games - Sh4 litterally gave me nightmares
And yet, I keep on playing them


Btw I saw the movie the other night and.. I am SO glad I didn't waste my money on movie tickets. The dialogue was terrible and I hated the plot - why the script got approved in the first place is beyond me.

*sigh*

The atmosphere and special effects were FANTASTIC, though!

Oh.. am I the only one who got goosebumps as the mandolin started playing at the beginning of the movie?

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I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

Ample

I watched it last night. Liked it, but I was excpecting more.

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Porkchop

quite dissapointed. Thought there would of been more to it. Must admit I have only played part of the first game. So at times didnt know what was going on

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Ch'i

The only part in the entire movie that scared me was when Rose bumped into that garbage can after the first siren... I think it relied too heavily on the whole "blood, gore, surreal violence" and not enough on story substance. They could have done alot better.

Ace_O_Spades

Just another example of why North American horror sucks the big one.

It's all about special effects and trying to shock people... There's no atmosphere. Silent Hill had atmosphere on the surface (CG much?) but they really didn't take advantage of it in the way they could.

The acting was awful... The characters weren't developed... The whole beginning was so rushed...

That being said, the whole sequence in the school was the best part of the movie. If the rest of the movie was like that it would have been dope.

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Ch'i

If I agreed any more I think I would spontaneously self-combust.
Too many horror movies today rely completely on CG and shock value. I think directors/writers have forgotten the three elements that make a great scary movie.
1) The unknown; the audience' imagination can make a movie scary.
2) False sense of security. I think the best example of this I've seen is in Alien ; when the alien was hanging in plain sight, but so obvious that it went unoticed, and in Signs; when Mel Gibbson looked out the window to see the alien on his roof/when it was following him during his corn crop expedition.
When the audience knows something is about to happen they can brace themselves, or remove themselves from the scene a little. Placing something in the image that you might not see at first, however, draws them into the scene, and allows them to discover the danger, making it much more frightening.
3) SUBTLE IS BETTER! Most horror films today will flash an image fast with a really loud noise. Sure that can make someone jump; I could do the same thing by shouting suddenly in the middle of a quiet scene. As Ace_O_Spades said, creating an atmosphere is crucial to drawing the viewers in. Its all about the subtle things.

lindalove

I never played the game, so I had few expectations. I just finished watching it and thought it was well done and the visuals were great. I really had no idea what the hell was going on with the main character. I'm still at a loss, to tell you the truth, though.

Spoiler: If they got out, well, does that mean they were dead, since they could no longer interract with Chris? If so, where were their bodies? Why didn't they turn up during the search? And why was Gucci unchanged from when he "saved" Alessa. It was very confusing and left me saying "What?"

Nancy

Spoiler:
Like Lasereth said, the main characters typically make it out of Silent Hill alive in the games but in the movie, Rose and Sharon/Alessa survive but are left in the alternate world, whereas Christopher is still in the real world. There are two important facts that suggest that they’re still alive:
1) Their bodies weren't found
2) Rose’s movements can affect the real world, such as when she opened the front door in her world, she opened the front door in Christopher’s world too.

This is typical for the Silent Hill games’ “happy” endings, where not everything ends just right. Does that mean they will never enter in the real world? That’s unanswered. There are cases in the games where monsters and people from the foggy/nightmare reality enter our reality (The Walter Sullivan murders in SH4 and the murder of Harry Mason in SH3). But I think that if they want to leave Silent Hill and come back to the “real world”, Alessa would have to die, because then the illusion of the “dream” world would die with her.

The reason why they’re still in the alternate world at the end of the movie is because of Alessa/Sharon. Like Dahlia says, “Only the Dark One opens and closes the door to Silent Hill”. Some people think that Rose ‘sells’ her soul to Dark Alessa in the hospital basement; she chooses to get Sharon back and helps Alessa with her revenge but gives herself over to Alessa’s will in order to do so. Thereby, by aiding the demon, she gives into its power and hence, she gains Sharon back, but unwillingly sacrifices her normal ‘existence’ and is forced to stay in Silent Hill.

The reason why Gucci is unchanged is because Alessa spared him since he saved her from the fire. The people she did want to get back at never died in the fire - they dissappeared instead (Gucci said that many of the bodies weren’t even found). She’s taken them all with her to the alternate world, her own personal limbo, in order to avenge herself on them there.

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I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

Plaid13

I just want to say i just watched the DVD for this movie and i really enjoyed it. I really didnt think they could keep the same weirdness that the game had but they really pulled it off well. Its a good quality creepy movie.

Crack

I hope he get's an ass kicking... this guy is a fucktard.

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