Silent Hill

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:13 pm

Went to watch this movie yesterday.

It was pretty good. Kind of creepy and freaky. The ending, well it definetley sucks and leads insto a SIlent Hill II... Not sure what it will be about though.

All in all decent movie.

Justin from Detroit1 · Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:14 pm

Dude, it was TERRIBLE. If you liked the games at all, do NOT see this movie. The dialog is clunky, acting is bad, and they changed the storyline. It is terrible movie.

Ryan from Ohio · Post by **Ryan from Ohio** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:28 pm

Never heard of or played the game so I went in with no expectation.

Chris from MI · Post by **Chris from MI** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:07 pm

Justin from Detroit wrote:Dude, it was TERRIBLE. If you liked the games at all, do NOT see this movie. The dialog is clunky, acting is bad, and they changed the storyline. It is terrible movie.

I have to agree. That movie could have been shortened to like 30 min if they would have cut out all of the meaningless running around and crap. I was actually disappointed that it was so crappy.

High Society · Post by **High Society** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:24 pm

Hey, I just talked to my sister about the movie. She said the same thing. It just dragged on and on.

Post by **GlassWolf** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:21 am

Ryan's taste in movies concerns me a bit.
We may have to plan an intervention.

hehehe

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:57 am

Dang I had good hopes for the movie. I really liked the games.

solacedagony · Post by **solacedagony** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:15 am

I thought it was decent, then again I didn't play the games so. It definately did kind of drag on and I really didn't understand half the story. But it was somewhat scary and it entertained me, so it served it's purpose. I'm easily amused

Justin from Detroit1 · Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:23 am

I'll post my review from another site....

Bart Fargo wrote: I saw the 12:45 showing, and it looked like Silent Hill, it sounded like Silent Hill, but it didn't feel like Silent Hill.

There were several neat scenes, and the whole movie was well-made, but for me it just didn't really rise above the thought of "Nicely made, expensive horror movie, with a few guest appearances from Silent Hill monsters."

I really lost my connection with the movie about the time [spoiler]we got to the hospital. The nurses looked like they were all just hanging out there waiting for someone to shine a flashlight on them so they could spasm around for a while. By the time we were all reunited in the church to burn Cybil (who should have been dead already after the pounding she took. It sounded like they were stomping on cantalopes.) I was ready to leave. It didn't get better after that.[/spoiler]

It looked great, the sound effects were nice and disturbing, and there were some cool scenes. But other than that, I was not very happy with it.

Admittedly I am a serious fanboy of the series, and I know that to tell the story as it was in the games would be challenging at best for a two hour movie, but this just isn't what I was expecting at all.

That is basically exactly how I felt. It seemed like it was a horror movie with a few random SH monsters thrown in. Seeing a total of about 40 seconds with Pyramidhead wasn't enough either, I feel. By the time they got to the nurses I was already somewhat bored and annoyed by the movie, but upon seeing the nurses I thought "sweet, this could change it". Then they started break dancing, and that was basically the endof it for me. The rest of the movie I found I was forcing myself through, just to see it, but not really enjoying.

Then all of a sudden, oh look, the lady they severly beat the hell out of with big flashlights in the face is fine and yelling! Sweet! Then look, crazy barbed wire..... great.

Like I said, and a few others have said, it felt like a horror movie with a few cameos by SH monsters, not like a Silent Hill movie. I wasn't really creeped out by any of it, nor worried that the next scene was going to make me jump out of my seat. I love horror movies, easily have over 75 horror DVD's, but this movie didn't put me in the "horror atmosphere" as most seem to do. It isn't a TERRIBLE movie by any means, but one I would consider renting when it came out on video instead of wasting $9 to see it in theaters.

sinister audio · Post by **sinister audio** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:30 am

that sucks i was really hoping that it would be a good movie. i might rent it when it comes out on DVD still but i wont go see it in theater.