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Title: Silent Hill
Post by: JPickettIII on March 19, 2007, 10:58:02 PM
I am watching Silent Hill in bits and pieces, (I have a 15 month old boy and I don't want him watching anything to intense).  I like the film.  Never played the game, but after watching the film, I would love to give the game a whirle.  What do you guys think of the film?

John


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: BeyondTheGrave on March 19, 2007, 11:05:42 PM
I thought it was one of the better video game based films. The subplot with the husband looking for his wife was a damn waste that really didn't add to the film at all. Besides that I liked it.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: fortunato on March 19, 2007, 11:58:50 PM
The problem with Silent Hill the movie is that there are too many characters running around in it. The first game, at least, was paranoia inducing because there was a limited human cast and a large, sadistic army of critters ready to rip into you. Also, the fact that the movie includes the cult as currently-existing within the Silent Hill universe really takes away from the buried-but-not-quite-gone threat that they pose in the game. In short, the movie takes everything that is suggested in the game and shows it all.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: Torgo on March 20, 2007, 02:51:43 PM
Fantastic visuals, uneven performances, absolutely lousy script.

I'm a huge fan of the games and I was completely left down, particularly since I was a fan of the director's previous movie Brotherhood of the Wolf. 


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: Mr. DS on March 21, 2007, 11:25:33 AM
Fantastic visuals, uneven performances, absolutely lousy script.

I'm with you on that.  The imagery was disturbing and often gut wrenching making it cool to watch.  Alas, nothing is ever tied together in the plot line and too many questions are left unanswered.  Seems to be a huge trend in Hollywood nowadays. 


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: DistantJ on March 21, 2007, 12:01:30 PM
I thought it was pretty cool, but not really as awesome as everybody was making out that it was.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: Kooshmeister on March 22, 2007, 04:57:48 AM
I've never played any of the games, and I haven't seen the movie yet, but I do know that the hero of the first game is a man. Some people don't seem to have much of a problem with changing the main character's gender, but I do. Their 'reason,' last I heard (and correct me if I've been misled), is apparently they thought audiences wouldn't buy a man trying to find his child. Although I'm not a father, I find this very idea insulting. To suggest someone is incapable of something due to their sex is, well, gee... sexist. There'd be a huge outcry from people had it been a female character changed into a male one because the writers felt a female character couldn't pull it off; but when it's a man changed into a woman nobody seems to give a flip. Aren't double standards fun?

And even if it's done for the benefit of the audience, that's still the filmmakers assuming the audience wouldn't buy a male character doing something because he's a man, and assuming that there'd be enough people like this in said audience to justify the change is dumb, in my opinion.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: Shadow on March 22, 2007, 12:32:12 PM
I never played any of the games either, so I had no point of comparison. I found the film to be ok. I suppose as far as films based on video games go, I found it to be more entertaining than most.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: BeyondTheGrave on March 22, 2007, 12:44:17 PM
Kooshmeister, I think your right on why they changed the character to a women. I remember being pretty ticked about the excuse why they did it. I am a big fan of game's and found that argument so B.S. It alienated fans and It would have been different to have a father looking for his daughter, just like the game.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: Torgo on March 22, 2007, 03:07:53 PM
I agree with everyone that the decision to change the main character from male to female was  a mistake.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: JPickettIII on April 09, 2007, 05:49:30 PM
For those of you that played the game, what was the creature that had the Iron Triangle on it's head.  That thing was bad a$$.

John


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: BeyondTheGrave on April 09, 2007, 06:59:28 PM
For those of you that played the game, what was the creature that had the Iron Triangle on it's head.  That thing was bad a$$.

John

Its official name is called "Pyramid Head". If I remember right they were executioners of prisoners in towns early days. Can't kill them in the game either.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: Torgo on April 09, 2007, 09:14:09 PM
The stupid thing is that Pyramid Head didn't appear until the 2nd game and was actually vital to the plot of that one.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: Automan2000 on April 11, 2007, 12:04:41 PM
For those of you that played the game, what was the creature that had the Iron Triangle on it's head.  That thing was bad a$$.

John

Its official name is called "Pyramid Head". If I remember right they were executioners of prisoners in towns early days. Can't kill them in the game either.
The first time you run into one you can't kill it. You can shoot at it or simply avoid it till it leaves. Later on though you have to fight and kill 2 of them.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: DistantJ on April 28, 2007, 03:46:24 AM
I'm really not bothered with changing a character/gender of character (one of my favourites was in Guyver: Out of Control where they replaced the Guyver 2 "Lisker" character with a hot redhead chick and gave us a very graphic nude transformation scene, yay!) but I can't say I'm fond of the reason they did it. A father has every bit as much love for his child as the mother does.      ...At least as far as I know.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: Oldskool138 on April 28, 2007, 07:39:16 AM
(I have a 15 month old boy and I don't want him watching anything to intense). 

I don't have any kids so I'm curious.  When does one stop counting their child's age by months and uses  years?  (No sarcasm.  I really am curious.)  Thanks.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: Scott on April 29, 2007, 03:22:55 PM
You all have my curousity about this film SILENT HILL. Sounds like a good one. It's on my list.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: fortunato on April 30, 2007, 01:21:07 AM
I think people usually start counting years at age 2. Personally I still like to hold up my fingers and say "this many" still. But some of my coworkers give me weird looks and then I crawl back into my cage.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: Jack on April 30, 2007, 07:27:10 AM
In the third video game they had a female lead character, but she wasn't looking for a kid.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: Scott on May 04, 2007, 04:59:45 AM
SILENT HILL - Just saw this creepy film last night. If it takes Hollywood to use a video game concept to make an original movie then so be it. The film also borders on other films and is like a mix between HELLRAISER and CARRIE, but the look and feel of the film mixed with this story make SILENT HILL a unique production. The to female leads seemed to be overly brave about going into this dark world. Both actresses were good and the casting department picked two interesting body time to play them. The cinematography (CGI?) were different. Still I don't care for dark shots especially dark CGI shot, but I guess that was part of the story. The town of Silent Hill, Virginia was a neat idea.

 :thumbup: :thumbup: (7 out of 10 Stars) This might become a cult film because of the two females and the town.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: Torgo on May 04, 2007, 03:55:28 PM
In the third video game they had a female lead character, but she wasn't looking for a kid.

In the 3rd game you're actually the girl from the 1st game all grown up.  You're surrogate father is Harry Mason from the 1st game as well.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: Neville on May 05, 2007, 05:11:29 PM
I saw it on the theatre, and while I enjoyed certain things (some visuals, like the ash rain, Radha Mitchell's performance, the hospital scene, the production design, the epilogue) I felt it dragged and that the plot was poorly explained.

The people I bullied to watch this movie instead of something more arty still mention this movie when they want to get leverage on any conversation.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: BTM on May 21, 2007, 04:24:45 PM
I have to agree with what a lot of people are saying, GREAT visuals, kickass effects and great job on the monsters, my favorite part is how the world would "shift" from one reality to another, going from old and gray to hellish, rusted and rotten.

I haven't played the first game but I did play (and finish) the second.  I do know some of the background story for the game, which they changed a lot for the movie. Among other things, the cult in the game was NOT a fundamentalist Christian group, they were Pagans, trying to create the birth (or rebirth) of an ancient god.  Granted, they probably changed the story to make it simpler for the audience...

What's really weird to me is there's no real reason given for the mother to go to Silent Hill, other than that's where her daughter (who's adopted) came from and she keeps having dreams about the place.  According to various synopsises of the film, supposedly the mom is taking her to a faith healer in hopes that she can cure her daughter of some disease, but this is NOT mentioned in the film at all. 

Interesting notes:

The little girl in Silent Hill (Jodelle Ferland) also played the ghost Mary in Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital (thought she looked familiar, so I looked it up on the imdb)

The nurses were played a group of dancers (they were needed to perform the various odd movements the creatures make.)


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: HarlotBug3 on May 31, 2007, 04:07:01 AM
SILENT HILL - Just saw this creepy film last night. If it takes Hollywood to use a video game concept to make an original movie then so be it. The film also borders on other films and is like a mix between HELLRAISER and CARRIE, but the look and feel of the film mixed with this story make SILENT HILL a unique production. The to female leads seemed to be overly brave about going into this dark world. Both actresses were good and the casting department picked two interesting body time to play them. The cinematography (CGI?) were different. Still I don't care for dark shots especially dark CGI shot, but I guess that was part of the story. The town of Silent Hill, Virginia was a neat idea.

 :thumbup: :thumbup: (7 out of 10 Stars) This might become a cult film because of the two females and the town.

Expect some ham and excess in the dialogue and you'll thoroughly enjoy this film.


Title: Re: Silent Hill
Post by: Killer Bees on November 09, 2007, 01:54:49 AM
(I have a 15 month old boy and I don't want him watching anything to intense). 

I don't have any kids so I'm curious.  When does one stop counting their child's age by months and uses  years?  (No sarcasm.  I really am curious.)  Thanks.

I stopped counting months after about 18 months.  Then at 2 years old I said he was 2 and that kept up until about a month before each birthday and I'd say, he'll be 3 next month.

But everyone is different.