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Post by spooner5020 on Oct 25, 2020 13:58:32 GMT
Maybe not “love” but the positivity for this movie. This was a movie I wish I could understand why some fans like this movie. Now let me state I’m not a huge fan of the games and maybe it’s part of the reason why I don’t like the movie because I’m not all that familiar with the lore. Even if I was a fan of the games I heard they got the lore wrong for this movie. For example Pyramid head. From what I understand he shouldn’t have even been in the movie and it was nothing more than fan service.
I also don’t find this movie to be all that scary or even all that entertaining to watch. The movie loses me half way through after pyramid head and never grabs my attention again. I think the creature designs and the parts that are straight out of the games are cool and that’s it.
I guess I wanna know how people are looking at this. Are they watching it as a horror movie or are they watching it as a video game movie? Silly question I know. I just want to understand from fans point of view for this movie.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Oct 25, 2020 16:06:08 GMT
I found it an interesting watch, even though I never played any of the games. But a one-time watch was all it was worth. It was convoluted and confusing, but I just went along with it. I just liked see Alice Krige who you really don't get to view until the latter part of this mish-mash.
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Post by Sarge on Oct 25, 2020 20:49:49 GMT
It takes practice to separate, I don't like from it's not good or well-made. There are plenty of good films I don't like and plenty of bad films I do like. I've only played a little of the games because I hate 3rd person fixed camera games, and I can understand the disappointment of those fans. For the rest of us the movie looks fantastic and is genuinely scary looking. If you don't find Pyramid head holding a woman aloft and ripping her skin off to be horrific then I don't know what to tell you. The setting of the movie is based on a real life town in West Virginia where an underground coal mine has been burning for almost 60 years.
Ebert didn't understand the movie, hated it, and yet wrote this,
Scout Tafoya writing for rogerebert.com wrote this,
You don't have to understand the inexplicable phenomena of Silent Hill to understand the underlying themes of losing a child, religious fanatics, and how average people can participate in horrific acts. It's not like this is touted as the Star Wars of horror, it's a slightly above average horror movie that looks good and the ratings reflect that.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 25, 2020 20:58:02 GMT
I thought it had a couple of effective scenes--the weird creature out in the fog...
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Post by theravenking on Oct 30, 2020 12:45:20 GMT
Originally the movie would've only featured female characters, but one of the producers sent back the script with the remark: "No men?" - So Christophe Gans wrote in the role played by Sean Bean. This is why the Bean character has barely anything of interest to do in the movie.
As someone who has never played the games I enjoyed it enough. It has great atmosphere, but I didn't find the story to be entirely compelling.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Oct 30, 2020 14:28:03 GMT
I love atmosphere, and great, rich atmosphere and nailing the tone can forgive a lot of faults. I've talked endlessly about how much I adore Sleepy Hollow. That movie is about the tone and the atmosphere. It's not style over substance, but style AS substance.
Silent Hill has a lot of that same sort of thing going for it. The story and performances never quite worked for me, but I understand how some could be captivated by the imagery and the desolate feeling that the movie does nail pretty well.
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Post by moviemouth on Oct 30, 2020 16:16:48 GMT
I don't care about anything that is happening in the movie and dislike the directing of the movie completely.
Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for this movie when I watched it. It has good production value, but it feels very generic at the same time. I really dislike the style of the movie and none of it is scary or entertaining.
It feels too much like you are watching a video game and that is part of the problem.
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Post by moviemouth on Oct 30, 2020 17:11:34 GMT
Silent Hill (2006)
The movie doesn't set up anything well. It just throws you into the action without giving the viewer any reason to care. The problem is also that Radha Mitchell is not a particularly good actress and she is required to carry the movie all by herself for half of it. Her line-deliveries are often dull and unconvincing, lacking any authentic emotion.
The movie is visually ugly. This is not at all a well made movie imo. Entire scenes of unconvincing cgi and dumb looking creatures walking around. These scenes feel and look like video game cut scenes and this is suppose to be a movie based on a video game, not an actual video game. The movie is so self-serious and brooding that it comes close to being unintentionally funny, especially the scenes after the alarm goes off.
This movie is not hard to follow though. It starts explaining everything (and then re-explained in literally the next scene) in the last act and that is when the movie becomes pretentious, with religious themes being awkwardly shoved down your throat. This is not the movie for this and instead of being emotional or thought-provoking, it just comes off as ridiculous. The very last moments of the movie are very frustrating.
Now for the good. The actual story and themes of the movie are effective on their own, the movie just writes them poorly. There is absolutely no nuance to anything from the director. Alice Krige chews scenery all over the place and adds some much needed personality to the film, Kim Coates is good as the police officer who is helping the father find his wife and daughter, some of the art direction is cool and the final confrontation is sort of awesome and ripped straight from Clive Barker, though way too much cgi holds it back from being fully effective.
This movie is what I call a wasted opportunity. It is bad, but not awful.
4.5/10
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Post by jonesjxd on Nov 4, 2020 12:34:45 GMT
It was better than expected but that's about it. There's some good spooky imagery and interesting practical special effects but the script is uninspired and didn't offer me anything to warrant ever watching it again. 6.5/10
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Nov 7, 2020 23:21:06 GMT
I couldn't explain it to you. I thought it was lame as shit.
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Post by forca84 on Nov 10, 2020 1:09:14 GMT
I liked it at the time. Haven't watched it since. It had some creepy imagery going for it.
The sequel is absolutely dreadful... Just awful. It makes part 1 look like a masterpiece. What went wrong?
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Post by SciFive on Nov 11, 2020 10:29:12 GMT
There's a lot of running in it, as if you're in a game. 
There's a familiarity about this.
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Post by Vits on Nov 11, 2020 13:28:21 GMT
What do you mean? It was a critical failure when it came out and that hasn't really changed. The only people who like it are fans of the games who appreciate how faithful of an adaptation it is... even though that's just 1 factor and not enough to claim that a movie is overall good. Hell, if someone argues that the games weren't good to begin with, what does that say about the movie?
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Post by quagsjonny on Nov 14, 2020 10:18:01 GMT
I enjoyed it. Great casting, great filming, great score. Great non CGI affects. Sorry if it was not Marvel enough or too plot driven for yourself. I even enjoyed the second film.
Was it Radha Mitchell or Sean Bean that made this a pile of shit for you?
Seriously?
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