Silent Hill The Movie(May Contain Spoilers)

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:13 am

Saw it earlier today. It captured the atmosphere of the game beautifully. I couldn't help smiling when they played the theme music, and when they showed a map of the hospital. And the "Janitor" - Colin, is one nasty SOB.

Anyone else?

Post by **Dave_K.** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:33 am

Just saw it with my GF tonight. I'm not a fan of long drawn-out suspensefull horror films. Thankfully this wasn't one of them. It had plenty of horror, but not an ungodly amount of suspense, so I liked it. I never played the game(s), so I thought the story line was pretty good/original.

Diabollokus · Post by **Diabollokus** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:13 pm

So is it worth seeing then? Game to movie translations have angered me since Doom. Resident evil 1 I liked.

thesuperkillerxxx · Post by **thesuperkillerxxx** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:50 pm

Best game to movie translation I have seen yet! They didn't dumb it down or "gamify" the movie at all. Truly captured the spirit of the games.

I will buy this on dvd on release day.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:12 am

It actually was pretty good. Fake ass cg but overall a very decent flick. My only real complaint was that the characters weren't as moody as they are in the games - no biggy.

MAN THOSE SETS ROCKED. They really captured the look of Silent Hill.

Limbrooke · Post by **Limbrooke** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:14 am

Easily the best movie I've seen this year.
I really enjoyed how majority of music is taken from the games, that's a nice touch. The town was captured quite well (as a friend told me, it was filmed in a local Ontario town) and the movie moved along at a good pace.

BUHA · Post by **BUHA** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:44 am

i was dissapointed overall with the movie.

i thought it captured the feel of the first 3 games very well, but i wasnt big on the acting or the dialogue too much. i loved the music as well, though, and recognized a couple from the original silent hill PSX game.

i thought it started out great, and got better and better until the middle, then it got lamer and lamer and then it was over! and (POSSIBLE SPOILER) the ending was the trademark silent hill ending, which means IT WAS A LET DOWN.

overall it was fun to down some beers and see it with some friends at the theater, but i'd rather play through SH3 again or something.

SPOILER ALERT:

i thought pyramid head was incredible, i just wish there was more of him and some backstory on him! i never played SH2. Also, Colin was the most disgusting thing i've seen in awhile, and i thought it was great!

the bad guys looked awesome but i just wish they showed them some more.

sethsez · Post by **sethsez** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:56 am

BUHA wrote:i never played SH2.

Fix this. It's the best game in the series and one of the best games of the current generation.

BUHA · Post by **BUHA** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:38 am

im actually going to buy it tomorrow with my bud that saw the movie with me yesterday. lol we liked pyramid head so much we gotta see what he's all about.

and yes, i've heard it's way better than it got credit for.

Specineff · Post by **Specineff** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:40 am

Pyramid Head stands as the only game character I have actually been afraid of finding in my home in the dark when I go to the bathroom, making me turn on all the lights on the way there. I guess I must atone for my sins in order not to give him any opportunity to come torment me.

Though I don't think SH2 is the best in the series. Perhaps one of the most disturbing, but nothing beats the original in terms of true opressive suspense and terror.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:20 am

sethsez wrote:
BUHA wrote:i never played SH2.
Fix this. It's the best game in the series and one of the best games of the current generation.

I second that.

BUHA · Post by **BUHA** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:47 pm

The first silent hill is really dated and has some bad voice acting towards the end, but I agree with it being a great game. Resident Evil can kiss its ass.

but the voice acting on RE 1 is the best thing ever. DONT OPEN THAT DOOR

what IS it?

Fenrir · Post by **Fenrir** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:03 pm

DANG IT
you made me hungry now. WE WANT IT IN YUROP!

sethsez · Post by **sethsez** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:33 pm

Specineff wrote:Though I don't think SH2 is the best in the series. Perhaps one of the most disturbing, but nothing beats the original in terms of true opressive suspense and terror.

The first is the scariest without a doubt, but the second is one of the very, very few games to have an emotionally mature plot and intelligent uses of symbolism. It's a much smarter game than the original (hell, it's a much smarter game than 99% of games out there), and although it isn't as viscerally shocking as the first game is, I'd argue it's much more emotionally affecting in the long run. It's a beautiful game, ugly as it can be.

jp · Post by jp » Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:40 pm

sethsez wrote:
Specineff wrote:Though I don't think SH2 is the best in the series. Perhaps one of the most disturbing, but nothing beats the original in terms of true opressive suspense and terror.
The first is the scariest without a doubt, but the second is one of the very, very few games to have an emotionally mature plot and intelligent uses of symbolism. It's a much smarter game than the original (hell, it's a much smarter game than 99% of games out there), and although it isn't as viscerally shocking as the first game is, I'd argue it's much more emotionally affecting in the long run. It's a beautiful game, ugly as it can be.

If the person playing can pick the game apart and catch all the little details that make it such a great experience... then yes, I agree 100%.

Otherwise, when you beat the game you're just like "OK... I just spent 8 hours running around in the fog for this?"

At least, that was my initial response, before I went back and read up on the plot (I know I know, I cheated myself).

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:51 pm

I don't get out much anymore.
So I watched a camcorder'd version that was all dark and had people coughing and stuff. For 75% of the film, I couldn't see what a Hell was going on.

I think I'll have to rent this when it's out on DVD...

Oh and I've only played about an hour of SH2. And then I died. It was on the easiest difficulty setting too.

sethsez · Post by **sethsez** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:54 pm

jp:

Well, it's definitely something you have to be in the right mood for. Silent Hill 2 will either float by like nothing or dig deep under your skin depending on what frame of mind you're in and whether you're taking in all that it's saying. The first game is more consistently scary because the scares are less... "personal" isn't the right word, but it's what comes to mind first.

Basically, you get out of Silent Hill 2 what you're willing to put in. It's an easier game to block out than the original is.

jp · Post by jp » Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:57 pm

sethsez wrote:jp:

Well, it's definitely something you have to be in the right mood for. Silent Hill 2 will either float by like nothing or dig deep under your skin depending on what frame of mind you're in and whether you're taking in all that it's saying. The first game is more consistently scary because the scares are less... "personal" isn't the right word, but it's what comes to mind first.

Basically, you get out of Silent Hill 2 what you're willing to put in. It's an easier game to block out than the original is.

Yeah, I loved it the second time through when I was actually looking for the symbolism and getting into it.

I wish it was backwards compatible for 360... I've been itching to play through it again. Such great music.

BUHA · Post by **BUHA** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:53 pm

I just went and bought SH2 for PS2 yesterday for 8 bucks and I'm already loving it.

it really has the feeling of you seriously DONT know what's going to happen around that next corner. not to mention the environments just LOOK plain scary by themselves.

i'm only an hour into it, though, so we will see what happens next.

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:57 pm

I need to get the original release of SH2... I got the Greatest Hits version and there are no GameShark codes for it...

Yeah, I suck at 3D games so much I need cheats to get further than an hour into the game

thesuperkillerxxx · Post by **thesuperkillerxxx** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:16 pm

^^
Keep the GH version for the extra scenario.... The Hell with gameshark codes :P

judesalmon · Post by **judesalmon** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:51 pm

As a movie, it was okay, but as a Silent Hill movie, it was excellent. If that makes any sense.

Nei First · Post by **Nei First** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:10 pm

judesalmon wrote:As a movie, it was okay, but as a Silent Hill movie, it was excellent. If that makes any sense.

You just answered my only question, thanks! I think I'll like this movie, at least more than hostel anyway. (Really hated that film).

judesalmon · Post by **judesalmon** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:13 pm

Nei First wrote:
judesalmon wrote:As a movie, it was okay, but as a Silent Hill movie, it was excellent. If that makes any sense.
You just answered my only question, thanks! I think I'll like this movie, at least more than hostel anyway. (Really hated that film).

If you've played the games (especially the first), then you'll appreciate the movie.

PFG 9000 · Post by **PFG 9000** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:51 pm

I'm extremely surprised that the majority of feedback here is positive (for the movie, that is...I think SH2 deserves nothing but positive feedback, as it's one of the greatest games I've played with the single best story I know of in a game). After seeing the movie at the very first showing and mulling it over ever since, I think I've finally decided that I did like it. But I think it could've been a great deal better. It's certainly getting massacred by reviewers and many fans.

I think it's probably the best game movie yet, but it's still not all that great. The first hour feels very game-y, as the characters travel from one location to another without making huge progress. Though it starts out a little campy, it gets better, and much much better, towards the end. Almost all the music in the film is straight out of the games (all four of 'em), but several tracks are re-recorded with some added touches and little bits of new stuff tacked on. Promise (reprise), the song from Angela's attempted suicide scene in SH2, is used four times throughout the movie. Several of my favorite tunes were used. Most of the best were left out (which I see as a good thing). I would have preferred a great deal more original music with an homage here and there, but this worked well too.

It's pretty gory, and extremely graphic in parts. A few unexpected things happen, and while the plot follows that of the original game fairly closely, there are a few deviations and some aren't entirely explained. If you've read Roger Ebert's review, he's full of shit - the general plot is actually quite easy to understand, even if you haven't played the game (I have to guess at that part obviously, but I think it explains most of the events just clearly enough, without over-explaining too much). The acting is pretty solid. There are a few lines of dialogue that I didn't care for, but nothing that kills the immersion. And the overall atmosphere of the series is preserved extremely well. And that's probably the most important aspect of the series.

All in all it isn't as good as I was hoping but it's an enjoyable watch and I think most survival horror fans would enjoy it. Most Silent Hill fans will be pretty happy with it. I was hoping for at least one person to rattle a doorknob and declare, "The lock is broken; I can't open it." But no such luck.

Nei First · Post by **Nei First** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:59 pm

@judesalmon: Currently playing the second game, never played the first.

Oh well, can't be helped. I won't wait till then to watch the movie but, think the first game is still worth seeking out, even now?

Is playing SH2 enough to still get some extra enjoyment out of the film?

Marc · Post by **Marc** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:13 am

Hell yes, I loved it. It had a really creepy, oppressive atmosphere, some reasonable acting, a slightly messy plot (This is Silent Hill though), and Pyramid Head, who justified the enterance fee by himself.

Agreed with all the positive stuff regarding 2 above by the way. I'd like to play it through again to get the full benefit of the story though.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:13 pm

Looks like the DVD will probably have more gore, as at least one of the best Pyramid head scenes got edited. Read Neo Rasa's post in the other thread (with picture). I don't remember the end shot of Pyramid head holding the body.

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... ght=silent

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:29 am

Dave_K. wrote:Looks like the DVD will probably have more gore, as at least one of the best Pyramid head scenes got edited. Read Neo Rasa's post in the other thread (with picture). I don't remember the end shot of Pyramid head holding the body.

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... ght=silent

That image was just used for promotional shots.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 4:40 pm

So, as a survival horror game, how's Blue Stinger, for the Dreamcast? I've seen it at Game Force for less then $20, and thought about picking it up.