Movie Defense Force: Silent Hill Revelation 3D - A Sidesplitting Family Comedy
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For some reason I started watching this movie a while ago, saw bunnies, skipped ahead and saw Pyramid head fighting inside a fire ring and I just had to stop watching it.
The first one at least had some good atmosphere, and a bunch of good effort put into it, even though I wouldn't consider it "good" by any means, average at most, but it felt like they tried to make a movie out of it, while this one felt like a bunch of stuff thrown together to make it "scary".
The first one at least had some good atmosphere, and a bunch of good effort put into it, even though I wouldn't consider it "good" by any means, average at most, but it felt like they tried to make a movie out of it, while this one felt like a bunch of stuff thrown together to make it "scary".
Prince of Persia?... I'd say anything but Prince of Persia as a good movie adaptation, maybe say something like "Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter" but Prince of Persia?... No, just no.LysanderNemoinis said:
Perhaps I should have been a bit more specific. The main reason I hold of PoP as one of the best video game movies is that the creators specifically said they weren't going to make the movie just like the games or base the movie off any one game's story, Jordan Mechner was involved in the production and lended his ideas and input to the proceedings, and the movie had elements from just about every game in the series. It's a stark contrast to the rest of the video game movies where people like my person hate figure Paul W.S. Anderson continues to say what a huge fan of Resident Evil he is and that he's played all the games, and he's just lying through his sniveling, duplicitous ass. Besides, while they heavily used the Sands as a part of the movie, there's several continuities for the series, so I consider the movie just a new entry into the franchise.DirgeNovak said:"Prince of Persia" and "quality adaptation" in the same sentence? Don't make me laugh. That movie legitimately made me angry. How those assholes took one of the best stories in video game history and made it that fucking pile of shit is sickening.LysanderNemoinis said:
I wasn't the biggest fan of Silent Hill 3's story (it's good, but it's definitely the weakest of the Team Silent stories), so fucking it up didn't bother me that much, but what they did with Sands of Time was like spitting in my face. They needed five characters, they made a dozen. The prince's origin story makes no fucking sense. The characters have no arcs. And worst of all, they completely, irredeemably fucked up the game's perfect ending.
I guess it looked pretty, though.
I absolutely agree. I caught this a while back and had a blast. Being a fan of the series makes this film so much more enjoyable because the sheer incomprehensible stupidity of the references baffled and amused me to no end and they happen so frequently I couldn't help but lose my shit a few times.
The greatest and most amazing achievement of this film, however, is casting Sean Bean in the "supposed to die" role that is achieved in every other horror film ever and is even the same character that bites it IN THE GAME IT IS BASED ON: HE LIVES THROUGH IT. The film actually tricked me several times by "implying" his death about 3 times or so but each and every time he shows up later! It's insanity!
The greatest and most amazing achievement of this film, however, is casting Sean Bean in the "supposed to die" role that is achieved in every other horror film ever and is even the same character that bites it IN THE GAME IT IS BASED ON: HE LIVES THROUGH IT. The film actually tricked me several times by "implying" his death about 3 times or so but each and every time he shows up later! It's insanity!
Nope, nope, nope. Still too painful. I went into this expecting to be as pleasantly surprised as when I watched the first Silent Hill movie and was so bummed by the end. Maybe some day I'll give it another try from your perspective, but that's not going to be today.
Well, I'll say this; The puzzle in the apartment building in 2 involving the juice box and putting it in the garbage chute? It took me about half an hour to figure that out. I guess that since I wasn't Japanese that it didn't immediately click that's what you're supposed to do.
'This is heavy'
Real good clue there.
'This is heavy'
Real good clue there.
That final battle with Pyramid Head nearly had me shouting in rage, it was so utterly stupid. And don't get me started on the contrived love story that never existed in the game being shoved into this film as though they were trying to make it a teen flick. And how they killed off one of the most pivotal characters within 5 bloody minutes of the beginning but not kill off the other pivotal character that's central to the plot moving forward.
Beyond that though, I can forgive it. It's an immensely watchable bad film.
Beyond that though, I can forgive it. It's an immensely watchable bad film.
As Silent Hill 3 is my favourite Silent Hill game I can't forgive Revelations for it's awfulness. I can't say I was bored, though, parts did make me laugh. I did like that the film was just a love letter to the series but for some reason it shits on Silent Hill 3. What was wrong with Silent Hill 3, movie?! It did look nice, though, nearly as much as Silent Hill 1.
Oh well, I just finished Downpour again so I think I may watch this again just for the sake of it. I do wonder whether the next film will be of Silent Hill 2, 4 or Downpour.
Oh well, I just finished Downpour again so I think I may watch this again just for the sake of it. I do wonder whether the next film will be of Silent Hill 2, 4 or Downpour.
I view the film from the same point, it's a comedy. My boyfriend thinks it's actually a pretty good film and can never understand my gripes with it. He hasn't played the game and wasn't aware of the plot differences until I pointed them out to him. I feel the film just takes one big giant crap on the game. However I did like the nod to Origins and Downpour at the end. Even if I thought they weren't the best games. It's entertaining to watch but it's also painful as hell. Oh Vincent, Vincent, what have they done to you? You were delightfully near on insane in the game and here you are a teenage boy.
There wasn't even the line "Monsters? They look like monsters to you?".
There wasn't even the line "Monsters? They look like monsters to you?".
How ironic is it that in the storyline this movie was adapted from, Sean Bean's character was supposed to die... and yet here he didn't?
I have always had huge gripes with both of these movies (why the hell couldn't Bean be the lead to begin with?), but this one was irrevocably shittier. When I saw this in the theater, the final Pyramid Head battle literally made me say "You've got to be shitting me." I can still enjoy both of them, but I can't honestly say that this one was even slightly good.
Also, the wink-wink-nudge-nudge to both Origin AND Downpour (which was fucking terrible) almost gave me a hernia.
I have always had huge gripes with both of these movies (why the hell couldn't Bean be the lead to begin with?), but this one was irrevocably shittier. When I saw this in the theater, the final Pyramid Head battle literally made me say "You've got to be shitting me." I can still enjoy both of them, but I can't honestly say that this one was even slightly good.
Also, the wink-wink-nudge-nudge to both Origin AND Downpour (which was fucking terrible) almost gave me a hernia.
I remember being disappointed a lot by the mannequin-spider-thing because it was CGI and not made with practical effects. The director forgot that actual dolls are creepy as fuck.
Ahhh, when I saw this movie I showed it to EVERYONE that I know! We're all Silent Hill fans and it's just so hilarious. My favorite sub-plot that starts up and suddenly goes no where is the part where the police are after Heather, go to her house, see the "come to Silent Hill" message written in blood, affirm out loud to the audience that they have gone to Silent Hill, just so we're clear, and then we never see them again. Ever. That's it. Like, they aren't even brought up. The next time we see police officers it's just to make a nod to Downpour.
Pyramid Head showing up to save the day and then limping away like it's all pedestrian to him was truly the best ending I could have asked for. I kind of genuinely hope they try to pull a Silent Hill 2 out of their ass and go off that Sean Bean willingly going back to Silent Hill to find his wife thing that happens at the end. I can't imagine how hilarious that would be.
Pyramid Head showing up to save the day and then limping away like it's all pedestrian to him was truly the best ending I could have asked for. I kind of genuinely hope they try to pull a Silent Hill 2 out of their ass and go off that Sean Bean willingly going back to Silent Hill to find his wife thing that happens at the end. I can't imagine how hilarious that would be.
My favorite is when Claudia's henchmen take "dark-long hair" boy to the asylum. The thing that made no logical sense at all, therefore hilarious, was the fact that this seemed like the henchmen have done this before yet they are surprised when they get utterly slaughtered by the nurse monsters they saw standing there in plain sight. I mean seriously they lived and worked in silent hill for some time, was there no protocol for this? They seemed to think "hey these are the things that attack you upon hearing noise. So instead of standing at a safe distance and pushing the gurney into the crowd of knife wielding freaks, let's careless;y walk right in front of them. Safety first!"
On a slight change of gear but still "horror " theme. Jim, can you do a defence for the 1999 version of House on haunted hill. That's a "guilty" pleasure but I've been made away that film had been poo-pooed by critics for years. Very unfairly poo-pooed. It's a brilliant hammed up joyfest with Geoff rush eating the scenes as if they were made of chocolate.