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porta	silent hill	#41	[-]
Oct 12 06 5:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	What can I say? Yet another tedious, rubbish piece of trash that I had so many hopes for. I can't even be bothered to explain how bad it was. It was bad though.
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skelton knaggs	Re: silent hill	#42	[-]
Oct 12 06 6:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	*Quote:* What can I say? Yet another tedious, rubbish piece of...... Thank you porta. I couldn't have said it better !
oldmanster	Re: silent hill	#43	[-]
Oct 12 06 8:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I found parts of the film very compelling. I liked the continuous fall of ash; some of the critters/things such as the faceless twisting horror seen early in entering the town were damn interesting and spooky. What killed it for me was the usual speeded-up/jump cut/blurred action shots down in the near-dark of the mine; the confusing juxtaposition of Sean Bean's character who's walking over the same ground but doesn't see the same things -- alternate dimension? death and afterlife? all of it pretty murky -- and the downer finale was equally murky and inconsistent with the main premise of the film. Still... it had some nice visuals, the acting was decent. Just suffered big time from the usual problems of adapting a video game to film. ... Reed
blahlalalovely82	Re: silent hill	#44	[-]
Nov 6 06 11:23 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I agree with porta this was such a bad movie there is no point in taking the time ot explain how bad it was. "I get lost in the music in my mind"
sunshinedlite	Re: Silent Hill	#45	[-]
Nov 7 06 4:12 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I have seen this movie and thought it was pretty good. You have pay attention though you could get lost. You think one thing is going on it really is something else. To me it was more suspense than horror. I could be wrong but I think that you will like it. Sunshine
taraco		#46	[-]
Sep 11 11 5:00 PM Burgomaster Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Let me say up front that if I was 10 years old at the right time, I would have become so immersed in the world of video games up through my teens and beyond that I fear I might have never emerged whole from my obsession. But I totally missed the video game trend, and to this day can barely make Mario jump on Nintendo let alone have any luck in a frst-person clue-based game like SILENT HILL. I tried one of the SILENT HILL sequels on my family's Wii at home and was so hopelessly mired in the junkyard that I never even encountered the monsters! All that said, I just saw SILENT HILL, the movie, on cable's Fear.net and gotta say it was one of the creepiest and even disturbing horror films I've seen in years. Yes, because it's based on a video game it's mainly one woman moving through levels -- as someone less enamored with the film said here it can be like watching someone else play a video game. But the design and apparitions are really effective, and from a half-hearted viewing I became totally engaged. Sadly, the film really loses its way at the climax, which becomes a sadistic display of blood-letting. Even with the subtext of fundamentalism gone wild it seemed needlessly nasty and not quite comprehensible. But the first two-thirds are worth the time. The acting is fine, the special effects and ghosts are memorable and the whole thing puts you in a place you've never been before. Which is...Silent Hill. david
borchabob		#47	[-]
Sep 11 11 9:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I remember seeing this in the theatre. I also think this was a very creepy film. I also feel the climax was a bit over the top and the ending was a bit of a let down. the scene with the guy in the restroom scared the crap out of me though.
kinggirlfriend		#48	[-]
Sep 12 11 11:44 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Love it! Reminds me of DAGON in that it creates a whole world full of creepy ++!# in the corners. The sets, acting and atmosphere are all fantastic. I'm really suprised more horror fans don't like it. It's one of the few horror movies from the past 10 years that I can actually enjoy.
Alias the Scarecrow		#49	[-]
Sep 13 11 8:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I enjoyed this film during it's cinematic run and I still like the creepy visuals from it now...there was so many bizarre things occurring during this film that made it enjoyable to watch and I am a fan of Radha Mitchell anyway, so it was icing on the cake.
tabletopjoe		#50	[-]
Sep 15 11 2:03 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I really love this movie. The story is only so-so, but given that it's an adaption of a video game it's not bad at all. For me this film is all about art direction which is absolutely stunning and it nails the game's look and feel in that respect perfectly. I still believe the first 3 Silent Hill games are absolute works of art in terms of their visual design, I don't typically say that about video games, but Slient Hill, specifically the first 3 games in the series, are the exception. It was a treat to see the game's amazing visual sense fully realized in a film.
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rogueevolent		#51	[-]
Sep 16 11 4:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I rather liked this movie too. I watched it twice when my son had the DVD on rental. I thought the two lead female characters did a decent job in the acting department. I liked the set design and overall un-real feel of the town. I also liked the idea of a parallel dimension. Pyramid Head (or whatever the main villain in the beginning was called) was quite effective. fwiw - Jay "We didn't come here to fight monsters, we're not equipped for it" -- Richard Carlson (Creature from the Black Lagoon)
ramairls1		#52	[-]
Sep 16 11 11:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	loved this movie....two two lady's were hot and i thought it was well done....scary as all hell to me...loved the bathroom scene as well as the part of them going into the church and that ''thing'' ripping that girl in half....wicked...loved the entire town and the way it was put together....
todmichel		#53	[-]
Sep 16 11 11:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You can love or hate this movie, but like all the ones directed by Christophe Gans, nobody can accuse it to be an ordinary horror movie - it's an extraordinarly ambitious movie - not your usual slasher of the week. Probably too much ambitious for its audience. Gans has an incredible knowledge of fantasy/horror cinema (he worked for years for French magazines like "L'Ecran Fantastique") and even in his first essay, a short called "Silver Slime" - a sincere and brilliant homage to Argento ("silver") and Bava ("slime"), his talent was apparent for everybody when it was shown at the Grand Rex festival.
Saturday8pm		#54	[-]
Nov 8 11 10:11 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	'tis not bad, for a direct-to-script video game. Tries too hard, though. "Lord I love Spring! The birds, the fair weather, the new flowers. It doesn't get any better than this. HOLY CRAP! what's THAT?!?"
Dudley Manlove		#55	[-]
Nov 8 11 2:34 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I thought it was really good and extremely atmposheric. But as a non game player i had no idea who Cheese Head was which was a bit confusing.
Uncle Bingo		#56	[-]
Nov 17 11 12:01 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think this movie and the concepts behind Silent Hill are extremely underrated. The monsters in this movie are creepy as hell - maybe the best onscreen monsters since the cenobites in Hellraiser. The whole "Twilight Zone" feel to the movie with amped up horror works for me. The ending is also a shocker. Music is really good too. Acting is fine with decent performances throughout. I really don't see how people can rag on this but hey, to each their own! I think folks have to assume a movie based on a video game series HAS to be bad. Silent Hill games have so much story going for them compared to most of their ilk. In my opinion, it is one of the best newer horror films in the last decade.
Maximillian		#57	[-]
Jan 4 12 10:19 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This is my third (and hopefully final) attempt to comment on this movie. I liked this movie when it first came out. I was remotely familiar with the games, but I never got into them prior to seeing it. I guess I owe some debt of gratitude to the movie for helping me get into them. But as time passed (five years roughly speaking), I grew to love the games but I also grew to hate this movie. I am suppressing the urge to go all Red Letter Media on this film, but you really have to question the decisions of both the characters in the movie and the makers of the movie. The awfulness of it all is nearly unexplainable. There are things (plots, characters, settings) cherry-picked from each of the games (1-4) and randomly inserted in the movie, thus resulting in a cinematic mess. This was probably done as lip-service to the fans ("Oh, cool it's Pyramid Head!"). Yes, it is cool, but unfortunately Pyramid Head's role in the movie was nothing more than getting that reaction from the fans. The general audiences were understandably confused. It's all so hollow and meaningless. No wonder this movie was not embraced. It's a real shame too. The world of Silent Hill is actually quite rich: visually, aurally, and contextually. It is a perversion of the idealistic American small town (interesting that it is a Japanese creation). The games realized this concept perfectly (well, the early ones did). The movie tried to, but it failed miserably. I don't think the filmmakers understood how to tell this story cinematically, or maybe they were too afraid to. They just tacked on some ending that looked like something from a Hellraiser movie. It was so stupid. They could have done so many things differently. But since studio heads are all cowards, they just decided to make a movie titled Silent Hill that was affiliated with the games by name only. They should have named it Scary Town. But since the old people that run the studios think that Silent Hill is just a brand name that the kids like, they named it Silent Hill hoping it would sell tickets. And unfortunately for us, it did. There, I'm done...hopefully. Last Edited By: Maximillian Jan 7 12 8:38 AM. Edited 2 times.
Godziwolf		#58	[-]
Jan 11 12 4:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Maximillian wrote: It's a real shame too. The world of Silent Hill is actually quite rich: visually, aurally, and contextually. It is a perversion of the idealistic American small town (interesting that it is a Japanese creation). The games realized this concept perfectly (well, the early ones did). The movie tried to, but it failed miserably. I don't think the filmmakers understood how to tell this story cinematically, or maybe they were too afraid to. They just tacked on some ending that looked like something from a Hellraiser movie. It was so stupid. They could have done so many things differently. But since studio heads are all cowards, they just decided to make a movie titled Silent Hill that was affiliated with the games by name only. They should have named it Scary Town. But since the old people that run the studios think that Silent Hill is just a brand name that the kids like, they named it Silent Hill hoping it would sell tickets. And unfortunately for us, it did. The movie is atmospheric as hell (literally so). It's also a jumbled mess that doesn't play by its own rules. I just found the movie frustrating, and I think like you, was annoyed by how stupid all the characters seemed to be. At least in things like The Ring, or in Del Toro's works, that confusion serves a purpose and is itself a threat to the protagonists -- in Silent Hill, it seems even the monsters don't understand the rules. It would have been a better movie played as a straight ghost story -- there's a ton of Carnival of Souls potential here without the more ridiculous phantasmagoria. The only part of the film I find really amusing is that I've actually been to both the town Silent Hill is based on and the mining regions of West Virginia the setting was transported to. It does capture that decrepit old industrial town vibe pretty well.
STALKER		#59	[-]
Jan 12 12 7:49 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	LIke many others, the visuals, sound and overall atmoshere did it great service, but the rest fell falt. The actors were mroe than capable, but it felt like they didn't know what it was all about. The script was a bit of a mess. It came out as style of substance which is a shame because the substance in the source material is even better than the style, which is excellent! Still worth a watch if only for the atmosphere and monsters alone.
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