Silent Hill movie wasn't that bad.

[David_G]

I think that the movie was ok, especially since it left the games alone, it didn't change anything. It was more of a spin-off, rather than a movie adaptation of the games.

 

[Daedalus1942]

I mean, if you played the games, the movie gives you a certain hand-clapping "i remember those things!" sort of recognition. But I tried watching it as a movie, not as a reference, and I've got to say, I wound up agreeing with the critical consensus.

First of all, no; it's not the worst videogame movie ever made. Having said that, we need to remember that the bar is still set very, very low. I was a little intrigued by how they sort of amalgamated elements of the first three games into the script, but ultimately it feels hodgepodged.

Alright, every point I'm about to make has already been addressed by Yahtzee before, so I am aware of that, but why were the faceless cleavage nurses there? Why Pyramid Head? Silent Hill 2 had these things because of the psychological metaphoric significance to James Sunderland, not just "'cuz they're scary."

Anyway, Sean Bean's side plot was completely throwaway; his little investigation ends up going nowhere and his venture into the town serves as nothing more than an expository romp that, frankly, would have lended more creepiness to the film had they omitted it.


I don't know; I guess I just didn't like Silent Hill very much as a movie. It is decent for a cheap date-scare, but it certainly wasn't the good film it could have been.

The whole deal is his investigation is trying to find rose, and then at the end you discover
SPOILER WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




















She's died from the dust inhalation (or maybe it's the car crash?) in silent hill, and when she gets home, she's left the door open and the family doesn't realize she is dead.

 

[Daedalus1942]

i thought the silent hill movie was garbage. doom on the other hand was allright

lol...

 

[Arella18]

Okay the bubble head nurses (While not the design of the original game) are symbolic of Alessa's fear of adults (Though they look somewhat like SH3's version minus the hair)...like the guy in the bathroom at the school. Pyramid Head was probably there as the role of executioner (that was part of his role in SH2 not just a representation of James' sexual frustrations)seeing as how he was constantly trying to murder the main characters. The movie itself wasn't all bad I enjoyed the symbolic overtones of the motherhood role and the behavior of the cult. Though the imolation of Alessa was very different in the movie than the game...since Dahlia simply burned her daughter as if she were a witch instead of on a contraption. The Alessa at the end was very similar to the Maria boss in SH2 and continues the role of the punisher as Maria did in the game. At the end the nurse in the movie was Lisa Garland...you see she'd looked in on Alessa when she was suffering and Alessa was angry so she burned her eyes out using her own power. The lying figure is represented by the complete and utter fear of being trapped and alone. Though the main different between the game and the movie was that in the game Alessa split herself because she didn't want Dahlia getting her power...in the movie Alessa did it to protect the good part of her soul...so the movie wasn't about preventing the cult from resurrecting god and more of helping Alessa exact her revenge for everything that had happened to her. You see Silent Hill is based on symbology and subtle overtones...such as the canaries to detect the darkness. Since in the movie the town is an abandoned mining town (with a mine fire) the canaries were like the ones they used to take into mine shafts (they used them to detect toxic fumes). In fact the insects or Crawlers as they're called are manifestations of the insects Alessa liked to keep in her room...and the Gray Children (the little child monsters in the first part of the movie) are physical representations of the cruel teasing Alessa suffered from growing up. That's the symbology of everything in the movie in comparison to their original games.

 

[ironlordthemad]

ive never played the games but i liked the movie, id did what i wanted it to do, entertain me for an hour and a half while i sat on a couch. It wasn't particularly scary and I never found myself in the fetal position thinking "when is the monster going to show up", but it was cool, showing a darker side of humanity and then going "hold on to your seats kiddies because the air raid siren is about to go off and then we are going to flip this bad boy upside down!"
although ive never played the games i can tell that its been mainstreamed, theres something about it that doesn't seem quite right.

As for the Sean Bean bit, i think it presents an interesting look into silent hill because it shows that the established ways of silent hill are not to be messed with. From other people's comments on the series I can tell that Silent Hill is a place where messed up people are supposed to confront their problems and try and survive as some malignant force makes them deal with it.
And they do it alone.
So when someone tries to help out someone who is stuck in silent hill, it doesnt go well. Fate conspires against them too try and stop them from helping the isolated protagonist so that they have to work on their problems by them selves.

it seems like the silent hill series is one of the times you can be a true blooded diehard fan boy and hate something in the series...

 

[JoeKickAzz]

Just recently i unburied my PS1 from my closet, and a bunch of old games and found Silent Hill. I started playing it and beat in two nights, then I went to my Xbox and played Silent Hill 2, and got the shit scared out of me. Then i ordered the Silent Hill movie on netflix just to see if its any good, and surprisingly, for a video game based movie, it wasnt that bad!

A lot of critics gave this movie very bad reviews, and i was like, "what the hell!?". I can understand this now cause these critics never played the games and couldn't relate to them.

Like when the Lying Figures came out and the radios started to fuzz, I knew what was coming, and it was awesome.

and Pyramid Head.........nough said.


what did you think of the SIlent Hill movie?

I havn't seen it, but I personally am a huge fan of movie adaptations of games, thanks for the recommendation

my good man, you are welcomed

 

[DJShire]

It wasn't horrible, but as previously stated by so many, it's hard to get the same feeling you would while playing the game.

Now, I have read that the movie enemies that were reused from the games had their symbolism that worked in with the movie, of course, it could all be bollocks

Spoiler: grey children

They represent Alessa when she was burned alive, her pain and loneliness (them clawing at Rose was not an attempt to hurt her, but to get some attention, just like a child would)

Spoiler: lying figure

they represent Alessas hospitalization

Spoiler: nurses

they represent something Alessa cannot become, a mature woman with all the accompaniments, but because of the one nurse looking in on her with disgust and fright, she took away all of their eyes, and made it so that any time they move, they suffer

Spoiler: Pyramid Head

Alessa's incarnation of her "father" - a man unknown to her, wearing a mask that conceals his identity, an authoritative figure punishing those in Silent Hill that had punished her in the past

the children were the girl's bullies but everything else is completely wrong. the lying figure was from silent hill 2, where the dude was being afraid of being handicapped and their acid makes the fear come true. the nurses are related to the lying figure, but they are sexually charged as he can't have sex by being handicapped. pyramid head is symbol for punishment and the need for penance by the dude in silent hill 2. no one can see the same monster, silent hill changes to your mentality, its your personal hell. no one can have the same hell. unless hell is really cheap and lazy where it reaches action 52 levels of same-ness.

ok, but all those explanations are from other sites, not me.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

Okay the bubble head nurses (While not the design of the original game) are symbolic of Alessa's fear of adults (Though they look somewhat like SH3's version minus the hair)...like the guy in the bathroom at the school. Pyramid Head was probably there as the role of executioner (that was part of his role in SH2 not just a representation of James' sexual frustrations)seeing as how he was constantly trying to murder the main characters. The movie itself wasn't all bad I enjoyed the symbolic overtones of the motherhood role and the behavior of the cult. Though the imolation of Alessa was very different in the movie than the game...since Dahlia simply burned her daughter as if she were a witch instead of on a contraption. The Alessa at the end was very similar to the Maria boss in SH2 and continues the role of the punisher as Maria did in the game. At the end the nurse in the movie was Lisa Garland...you see she'd looked in on Alessa when she was suffering and Alessa was angry so she burned her eyes out using her own power. The lying figure is represented by the complete and utter fear of being trapped and alone. Though the main different between the game and the movie was that in the game Alessa split herself because she didn't want Dahlia getting her power...in the movie Alessa did it to protect the good part of her soul...so the movie wasn't about preventing the cult from resurrecting god and more of helping Alessa exact her revenge for everything that had happened to her. You see Silent Hill is based on symbology and subtle overtones...such as the canaries to detect the darkness. Since in the movie the town is an abandoned mining town (with a mine fire) the canaries were like the ones they used to take into mine shafts (they used them to detect toxic fumes). In fact the insects or Crawlers as they're called are manifestations of the insects Alessa liked to keep in her room...and the Gray Children (the little child monsters in the first part of the movie) are physical representations of the cruel teasing Alessa suffered from growing up. That's the symbology of everything in the movie in comparison to their original games.

The moment Lisa Garland realised she was actually dead in SH1 and Harry locked her on the other side of the door as she "died", I found pretty gut wrenching at the time.

 

[Firia]

At the end the nurse in the movie was Lisa Garland...you see she'd looked in on Alessa when she was suffering and Alessa was angry so she burned her eyes out using her own power.

The moment Lisa Garland realised she was actually dead in SH1 and Harry locked her on the other side of the door as she "died", I found pretty gut wrenching at the time.

That was one of the defining moments for the game for me. I was still pretty young, and such a mind-fuck like that. When Lisa "died" and turned, my jaw dropped, and I felt all the color drain from my face... jeez, still gives me the shivers!

 

[Flos]

It might have been one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I even tried to get out of my own head, and just watch it on its own premises. I think it's amazingly bad. As a videogame movie it fails even more. And if you think Pyramid Head belonged in the movie, you missed the point of Pyramid Head entirely to begin with. :/

I'm sorry, but just thinking about that crapfest gives me foam around the mouth.. :/

look everyone!!! its a troll!!!

he has a point. the girl is fighting the monsters that ONLY APPEAR to the dude in silent hill 2. he isn't trolling, the movie WAS THAT bad. its like a movie where master chief decorates the covenant's ships with frilly pink doilies. it misses the entire point of why those monsters are there.

The problem being that the movie monsters, just like the monsters in the games, can be applied to the characters.

Yay complaining-about-a-movie-game-adaptation-without-actually-understanding-the-game-poster!

 

[Vrex360]

I can't really object much to the usage of the canon as I am not a determined Silent Hill fan but I gotta say that for its own merits, the film was descent. There were some genuinely disturbing moments, Pyramid Head was a real badass and I just wanted to point out that I've always liked Randha Mitchel as an actress and she managed to come across quite real in this movie, gradually hardening up.
I liked it. No masterpiece but damned entertaining.

 

[gabdewulf]

I liked the movie and hadn't played the games at that point (did end up paying 3 and 4.) The movie was good, not the best nor worst movie ever made. I enjoyed the movie more than the games.

I think nostalgia for the games brought about the negative options.

 

[DirgeNovak]

The first half was alright, it wasn't Silent Hill though, just another horror movie. The second half went to shit though.

Pyramid Head being in the movie makes me want to throw small children down a well though, I will ever like that.

THAT.
The first half was creepy as hell and genuinely intriguing. But as soon as you begin to learn what's actually going on, eeewwww....

 

[velcrokidneyz]

I just finished watching it all the way through for the first time. Just to be clear, I have not played the games but am aware of the story and have seen enough of it to get an idea. I think the set pieces and the feel were spot on and from a standpoint of just seeing it as a film I loved it. The barbed wire was awesome.

My girlfriend and I were arguing over it though and she says she hates it because it isn't like the game. When did it ever claim to be a direct representation of the games? It was BASED on the game universe and used things from the games to make it what it was but it was a different story. It never was Silent Hill the Game: the Movie or something like that. I enjoyed it immensely. (And yes I am going to play the games, I am trying to find copies around town.)

 

[piinyouri]

It more or less got the atmosphere right.
honestly it wasn't that bad, compared to other video game movies.

 

[shrekfan246]

This thread is three years old. What am I reading?

I... guess I can contribute... I don't actually remember much of the movie, but what I do remember is that it did decently enough with the atmosphere. A bunch of other people keep saying it was pretty good, for a video game movie at least.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Fuck, did I fall asleep in the time machine again?

OT: I remember the movie, wasn't that bad from what I recall.

Sean Bean not getting a huge role, as usual