Agent Monkeysee on 1/5/2006 at 14:43
My friends dragged me to see this last weekend. All I can say is EXPOSITION!
OnionBob on 1/5/2006 at 15:16
Quote Posted by daniel
actually, titties sell better than sausage, thats why a woman is the lead
daniel: internet poster and feminist.
Para?noid on 1/5/2006 at 21:13
I don't think many people watch this film for the titties, somehow. I read an interview with the director where he mentioned that the choice to make most of the main characters female was inentional, since it probably made Pyramid Head look worse or something.
Tenkahubu on 2/5/2006 at 08:10
That`s a very vague explanation. I suspect it has more to do with the fact that Silent Hill`s male heroes do not really match the machismo image of movie male heroes. Harry and James are not very strong or good at shooting guns or anything like that. Perhaps the director thought that male actors would not show the emotional side that the game characters do?
daniel on 2/5/2006 at 08:43
Quote Posted by OnionBob
daniel: internet poster and feminist.
wtf?!
MEN > women
:joke:
Agent Monkeysee on 2/5/2006 at 14:42
Quote Posted by Para?noid
I don't think many people watch this film for the titties, somehow. I read an interview with the director where he mentioned that the choice to make most of the main characters female was inentional, since it probably made Pyramid Head look worse or something.
The director said something about the character in the first Silent Hill game, which is what most of the movie is based on, having more of a maternal sensibility and thus he decided to change the character to a female since the audience could probably relate better. I'm inclined to agree. Japanese games have a tendency to overfeminize their male characters and it comes off as pretty ridiculous to a mainstream American audience.
Also the idea that anyone went to Silent Hill for titties is laughable, as there is nary a titty to be found and the female lead really isn't attractive in the classic Hollywood sense.
Para?noid on 4/5/2006 at 20:08
Yeah plus the cop is wayyy butch
I actually saw this film last night, and it really is like watching someone play a computer game. The actors even walk like FMV that was made around 1999.
Marecki on 5/5/2006 at 04:01
Hell, people in some of the scenes actually look rendered, even though I could see no reason why they'd do that...
godismygoldfish on 8/5/2006 at 05:44
Okay, just got back from this.
I thought that Gans did a good job directing it, but Avery's script was piss poor. (and I'm a huge fan of the games) There were several things wrong with this movie.
First of all they threw shit in there that was very specific to the particular games (Pyramid head and the fleshwalker from SH2 come to mind) that didn't work in the new context that they were put in. Those elements had a reason why they were there in the games (Pyramid Head was James' guilt over his abusive sexuality) but in the movie they're reduced to generic bad guys.
The dialogue was very poorly written ,and consisted of almost nothing but expositionary phrases like 'Rose look at this" or "hey, what's this?" Things that worked within a game do not always translate well to the screen.
That fucking voiceovered exposition at the end, hell almost all of the last 45 minutes of the movie (minus the ending, which was actually rather nifty) felt like a cop out from tellign a good story, which leads to what annoyed me the most...
The stories in the games were always the strong points of the games. Everything was designed to fit the aesthetic of the story and it's themes, from the creatures to the characters. In this movie, good story telling was dropped for a rather ham-handed attempt to tie together a whole lot of different Silent Hill references. The scene with the nurses at the end was actually funny because you knew while you were watching it, you just knew that the scene could have been cut and it wouldn't have made a single difference to the story.
Frankly, if I had been directing a silent hill adaptation, I would have either stuck with the story of one of the games (preferebly 2) and made that including all of the aesthetic designs that were made for that game, or done an entirely new story that didn't destroy much of what the silent hill series is about. I don't think Avery got what made the silent hill games so good, he just cobbled shit together. Silent Hill as just an abandoned haunted town? I mean come on, it's supposed to have been a average urban town that became a personal limbo and hell for whoever came there.
Anyway, I would only reccomend this to people who loved the games and can forgive bad dialogue, bad story, and the desecration of the ideas that made the game series so good.
(And the CG was bad, but I can live with that, it's always bad in a Gans movie)
/rant
37637598 on 8/5/2006 at 05:58
Quote Posted by Madin
Mario
Resident evil
Tomb raider
Doom
Street Fighter
I'm glad I judged these games based on their movies. No doubt they were has poor has the films that followed them.
Mario... wow, I don't even know where to begin... Of course by the time I knew what mario was I was only in kindergarden. Hours and Hours and HOURS of super mario brothers 3!!! 1 was good too but I liked 3 the best. 2 just sucked. As do all of the gamecube and ANY 3d mario game. The origional NES versions were the best.
Resident Evil... I agree
Tomb raider... I actually had alot of fun with this game. It was a very challenging game for me playing it as i was about 10 or 11 years old at the time
Doom... is S#IT
Street Fighter... Who DOESN"T have good memories of playing street fighter with all of their freinds, competing to be the best, spending hours on sleepovers trying to beat career mode
This is my opinion anyway. Does anyone else feel remotley the same way?
