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returntothepit >> discuss >> Movie: Silent Hill by spaldino on Jan 29,2006 1:37pm
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toggletoggle post by spaldino at Jan 29,2006 1:37pm
http://www.welcometosilenthill.com

its looking really fucking cool so far... but you cant help but notice the obvious changes in the story and the fact that they added key elements from SH2 like the pyramid head and the manequins. those were incarnations of James' sexual frustation (manequins... especially the scene where he sees them and it looks like two of them are banging) and his desire to be punished (the pyramid heads). i dont even think Harry is in this movie. the main character is being played by a female (not Cybil... shes in the movie though) and in the trailer you can hear the female lead talk to her (what i can assume) husband and she calls him "christopher". but regardless... it looks fucked up and i want to see it.



toggletoggle post by Notorious_D.U.G. at Jan 29,2006 2:11pm
they've taken so much from all the games that no one really knows how anything fits together yet. There is a lot of new ideas and twists though which should in the end make it it's own entity in the series.



toggletoggle post by Moran NLI at Jan 29,2006 3:03pm
Those aren't the manequins, they're the nurses from the first game.



toggletoggle post by wade at Jan 29,2006 3:35pm
looks awesome.



toggletoggle post by menstrual_sweatpants_disco   at Jan 29,2006 4:27pm edited Jan 29,2006 4:27pm
spaldino said:
http://www.welcometosilenthill.com


That sure is a shitty movie poster.



toggletoggle post by pam nli at Jan 29,2006 9:21pm
I can't wait to see this. I'm a big nerd for Silent Hill games.



toggletoggle post by Abbath at Jan 29,2006 11:57pm
oh ya i saw this preview during underworld, it looks like it could actually be a good horror movie and give the genre justice



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Jan 30,2006 7:44pm
Moran NLI said:
Those aren't the manequins, they're the nurses from the first game.


look closer... you can tell its an SH2 guy because of how smooth it is. i know the nurses... they are grouped together... its just one manequin they show in the trailer twictching a lot.



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 7,2006 11:18pm



toggletoggle post by SPALDINO at Mar 8,2006 11:10am
what the fuck guys? this shit is fucking brutal and you are gonna sit there and be gay about it?



toggletoggle post by Moran NLI at Mar 8,2006 12:30pm
I watched it. That shit is gonna be ridiculous. I can't fucking wait.



toggletoggle post by SPALDINO at Mar 8,2006 4:23pm
Pyramid Head is going to ruin everything. even Stevie Wonder.



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 8,2006 11:11pm
faggots.... im not letting this go back down to page 3



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 9,2006 5:07pm
i hate you



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 9,2006 5:45pm
seteu



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 9,2006 10:59pm
i hate you



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 10,2006 12:11pm
cut the shit



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 10,2006 12:25pm
seriously



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 10,2006 5:02pm
srgfgssssssssdfhxgfmnjxfgmnj



toggletoggle post by jesus  at Mar 10,2006 5:54pm
this is getting re-goddamn-diculous



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 10,2006 9:40pm
no



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 11,2006 1:18pm
iiiii've been working on the raaaaiiiroad... allll the live long dayyyyy



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 11,2006 2:38pm
im a little tea pot...



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 11,2006 5:13pm
fyifgjfgjfgj



toggletoggle post by Notorious_D.U.G. at Mar 11,2006 5:59pm
did you read the article in the new Fangoria about it? Gave me a stiffy.



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 11,2006 6:35pm
no? i dont read magazines... i get instant information straight from the internet!



toggletoggle post by Notorious_D.U.G. at Mar 11,2006 9:20pm
ok. cool. this article with the director is not on the internet. unless someone witha fango subscription typed it all out. to each his own.



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 12,2006 2:57am
its a little more than a month away... i am still going nuts waiting.



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 12,2006 2:01pm
xryifykftgyk



toggletoggle post by MetalcoreSUCKS at Mar 12,2006 10:37pm
Saw the trailer today,this looks good and real fucked up



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Mar 12,2006 11:01pm
looks like they did the video game right in this movie.
w00t!



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 13,2006 2:55am
YES!



toggletoggle post by davefromthegrave  at Mar 13,2006 4:50am
after all this excitement you have, I really hope the movie comes out good.



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 13,2006 2:49pm
i do too... from what ive read, this guy has done his homework has even played the games and has had Konami and the Silent Hill development team watching the production and approving and disapproving things. it sounds like its a story thats BASED on the first one but there are elements from every game in it and not only that... the director even created a new enemy creature thing and Konami like it so much that they are gonna use it in the future. it just sounds like they actually are gonna do a game justice with the movie this time.



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 16,2006 5:31pm
HAHAHA! YOUT THOUGHT I WAS GONNA LET THIS DIE?! FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!!!



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 16,2006 6:40pm
yes



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 16,2006 10:50pm
no



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 16,2006 11:27pm
LIEK OMG!



toggletoggle post by anonymous at Mar 17,2006 4:57am
spaldino said:
i do too... from what ive read, this guy has done his homework has even played the games and has had Konami and the Silent Hill development team watching the production and approving and disapproving things. it sounds like its a story thats BASED on the first one but there are elements from every game in it and not only that... the director even created a new enemy creature thing and Konami like it so much that they are gonna use it in the future. it just sounds like they actually are gonna do a game justice with the movie this time.


I've noticed that. Everything I've seen so far I can pretty much place in the game. This movie is gonna be fucking sick.



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Mar 23,2006 10:30am
alright fuckwads... its out in like... 3 weeks. this movie is going to own ass.



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Apr 22,2006 5:46am
THIS MOVIE RULED. you kind of had to play the games to fully grasp what is going on but either way... a lot of bad ass shit goes on and you have to see this. beautiful art and cinematography.



toggletoggle post by anonymous at Apr 22,2006 9:56am
i loved it but i have played the game. my friends hated it and they haven't seen the game.



toggletoggle post by dug nli at Apr 22,2006 10:04am
that's what I hear . . . if you played the games then the movie experience is better (ie., makes more sense). It's a shame that Gans alienated 70% of the movie going audience by being too much of a fanboy. I'm seeing it today. I hope it's better than I'm hearing.



toggletoggle post by Abbath at Apr 22,2006 1:38pm
this is the greatest game movie ever, which isn't saying alot (i mean mario brothers?!) but this was an AWESOME movie, i really hope they make a sequel, followed the first one well



toggletoggle post by Christraper at Apr 22,2006 1:39pm
I saw it last night. I never played the games but Ive watched other people play them while waiting to do something more interesting. The movie itself wast terrible. I definitely wasnt angry that I sat through two hours of it but I dont think it'll be any new addition to my dvd collection. Things I cant see tend to freak me out more than big zombie guys with swords but thats just me. If you like blood, guts and decent computer graphics then go see this.



toggletoggle post by dug nli at Apr 22,2006 3:46pm
I'm on the fence with this movie. I just got back from seeing it. The cinematography and set design were top notch, but the dialogue and acting was sub par to say the least. There were a bunch of decent actors in this but they didn't deliver the goods. I will admit that it didn't feel like a video game movie at all, which is a good thing. I was afraid you had to be a die hard fanboy to appreciate or follow any of it. However, it felt like a standard horror story trying to be too smart or incorporate too much for its own good. Avery is a good writer but he fell real short here. Gans is a good director but most of the movie felt forced. Too much telling and exposition and not enough showing. It was not scary in the least or at all gory in my opinion even though Pyramid Head was fucking brilliant. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it either. A solid 6.5/10.



toggletoggle post by succubus  at Apr 22,2006 3:52pm
aaron and i are going tomorrow i think...thanks for posting dug...i only would watch aaron play 1 of them..i think 3...



toggletoggle post by spaldino at Apr 22,2006 4:02pm
the movie is really good. its almost exactly like playing the game. im sure they had to explain some things because they had to make the movie accessible to the general public. the bad acting/cheesy dialogue is perfect because it fits the games so well. pyramid head (the big zombie guy with the sword) was in SH2 and was fucking scary as hell in the game and was just totally bad ass in the movie. this wasnt a retelling of anything... i think it showed you the underground cult that is talked about so much in the games but isnt explained or anything.



toggletoggle post by dug nli at Apr 22,2006 4:09pm
sorry. I don't enjoy movies with cheesy acting or dialogue unless they are supposed to be B-rated movies. which I'm sure Gans will agree wasn't intended for B status. just because the game developer couldn't write a decent script or hire good voice over actors doesn't mean that the movie should follow suit.



toggletoggle post by xmikex cantlogin at Apr 22,2006 5:07pm
I have never played the game, and I hate horror movies.

Nevertheless, I loved this movie. The cheese did leak through on a number of parts, and a lot of the dialogue was forced. Also a number of times I felt as though I was watching a rendered scene in a video game as opposed to a movie.

HOWEVER, this movie was visually, and conceptually brilliant. The visuals were absolutely surreal. I ususally cringe at over used digital effects, and weak attempts at surrealism. Silent Hill is what decades of digital effects in film has been leading up to. Plain and simple.

I also did not see any cheap horror film tricks. So many contemporary horror films just rely on an hour and a half's worth of long quiet pauses broken up by loud noises (and you're an asshole if you're actually scared by that because if you're older than 8 you should know it's coming). There was no overwhelming, commercial sound track trying to take over the movie either. And aside from the almost hilariously cheesy archetypal "sexy cop" character, it really wasn't just a poor excuse to show t & a.

Honestly, I think this movie has made almost every horror film in the past 2 decades look foolish. I think it totally subverted the whole genre and I hope someone follows this lead.



toggletoggle post by xmikex cantlogin at Apr 22,2006 5:08pm
Also, when they showed the little girl's drawing of the church did anyone else think of the cover of South of Heaven?



toggletoggle post by xmikex cantlogin at Apr 22,2006 5:18pm
I think some of you guys are just disappointed because you didn't appreciate sitting through a review session of what you already knew from the game. I guess I might have been too.

But as an example of what this movie meant to the general public let me offer this: I had to go see this movie at the Randolph Cinemas which I didn't want to do because Randolph is always a zoo full of rowdy teenagers, and ...well....black people (who just can't shut up during a movie). Everybody started off as expected, yelling shit at the screen, talking, making cell phone calls, acting stupid. But 45 minutes into that movie nobody had a thing to say. Everyone sat down, shut up, and watched the movie. I don't think I've ever seen that happen on a Friday night in Randolph. I think that speaks volumes about this movie's appeal.



toggletoggle post by dug nli at Apr 22,2006 8:55pm
I was disappointed by the things that I have mentioned in my previous review post. Like I said, it didn't feel like video game movie. and for the record, some the review is necessary as is most backstories in all movies.

The soundtrack was amazing. It's all the music from the games basically.



toggletoggle post by DrinkHardThrashHard  at Apr 22,2006 10:38pm
The game music is fantastic, for all four of them. I'm going to wait to see this on DVD. Not going to drop the $18 just for Pyramid Head.



toggletoggle post by Dave Maggot at Apr 23,2006 2:42am
mike, i think i got the only two chatty black people in the theater sitting behind me. they literally talked and commented for the whole 2 hours. they did make me laugh a couple times though.



toggletoggle post by pam nli at Apr 23,2006 11:46am
I might have to go see this today.



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Apr 23,2006 1:00pm
carina and I are sitting in the theatre now waiting for this movie.
it did get a little scarey, when I jumped up and screamed matthew perry



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Apr 23,2006 1:04pm
why is every movie brought to you by coke and m&ms?



toggletoggle post by dyingmuse   at Apr 23,2006 1:10pm
i wanna see this too. i hated the games though. RE the game was way better than this game.



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Apr 23,2006 4:00pm
xmikex's review was perfect. some force dialog, but good none the less. the movie was awesome. the only couple things were
1) some of the cut aways from the kid running were too limited in view. they should have beem POV from the mom.
2) the cop broke the first rule of RE/SH, emptying a clip into a beasty is the best way to get dead fast. shoot them twice and see if they drop cause you'll never have enough ammo.
3) the ending was lame IMHO

I'm going to have to get SH2 and play it now. I only played SH3 and if you want to know about that:
http://www.returntothepit.com/view.php?formid=2973



toggletoggle post by BaptizedInResin  at Apr 23,2006 4:07pm
i would imagine you deffinately had to be familiar with at least the first game to really enjoy this movie, and i fully enjoyed it. alot of the acting was pretty bad, but this bothered me less when i read spaldinos comment, cuz the games voice acting was really shitty as well, but it worked. i was a little surprised at some of the gore, i expected it to be a tame r rating for some reason, which it still kinda was. also, am i the only one who thought the majority of the computer effects were pretty shitty and fake looking? overall tho, very sick, ill probably pick it up when its released



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Apr 23,2006 4:09pm
I don't think that there was enough gore. there should be more.

there were a few jumpy scenes with walking that I didn't like. it seemed too "the game is loading"



toggletoggle post by succubus  at Apr 23,2006 4:16pm
funny...i clicked on the link aaron posted and i did say:
"post by succubus at Sep 27,2003 12:02pm

i've only been watching him play and it's sorta like watchin a movie..."





toggletoggle post by spaldino at Apr 23,2006 6:18pm
DUN DUN DUUUNN!!!



toggletoggle post by DomesticTerror at Apr 23,2006 10:24pm
only 2 things i didn't care for. the acting, but i'm a horror fan, so i'm used to it. i'd be a lot more pissed if it had jennifer aniston in it. the only thing that really bothered me was the father scenes. all of them. completely unnecessary.
visually this movie was spectacular. and in terms of visual concepts, this could be the greatest horror movie since Hellraiser I and II. in all of the darkness scenes i had a hard on the size of clive barker. if this movie had a scene with some skinless person dripping blood on a white wall, i woulda sworn it was a barker flick.
if you like clive barker, go see this movie.
if you like dumb shit, go rent jeepers creepers



toggletoggle post by xmikex cantlogin at Apr 23,2006 10:26pm
the_reverend said:

1) some of the cut aways from the kid running were too limited in view. they should have beem POV from the mom.


i didn't think of that. that would have been way better, and way more frightening. i think that was one of the few lapses it had into cheap horror movie tricks. i have never appreciated the trend of jumpy chaotic scenes like that. i want to be scared. not motion sick.



toggletoggle post by menstrual_sweatpants_disco   at Jan 22,2008 1:30am
Finally saw this even though everybody I know says it sucks.

This movie is fucking AWESOME.



toggletoggle post by menstrual_sweatpants_disco   at Jan 22,2008 1:32am
Overall, I think the movie just FEELS like you're playing an action/horror game. Just wandering around creepy fucking scenery trying to figure out bits and pieces of a story.



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Jan 22,2008 1:37am
totally.



toggletoggle post by Niccolai   at Jan 22,2008 8:16am
Silent hill was used to make this:


bennyhillifier



toggletoggle post by Yeti at Jan 22,2008 10:42am
menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:
Finally saw this even though everybody I know says it sucks.

This movie is fucking AWESOME.


agreed, i thought it was great. there are some really creepy scenes in it, like when the main character first encounters those creature people and they are all walking towards her out of the shadows. i want an action figure of the dude with the gigantic sword.



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Jan 22,2008 10:47am
what is the ending footage from with the guy + barbed wire?



toggletoggle post by xmikex at Jan 22,2008 11:14am
I'll defend this movie till the end. Awesome film.



toggletoggle post by niccolai   at Jan 22,2008 12:25pm edited Jan 22,2008 12:26pm
the_reverend said:
what is the ending footage from with the guy + barbed wire?


It's all from silent hill.

I could send you the AVI when I get out of work, if you so desire, revy-poo.



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Jan 22,2008 12:27pm
I don't remember that in the movie.



toggletoggle post by niccolai   at Jan 22,2008 12:35pm
it was one of the best parts meng.



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Jan 22,2008 1:04pm
not in the movie that I saw.



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