DamienPales wrote:I finally saw the movie last weekend after two of my friends cornered me and thrust it upon me.
It fucking sucked. One of the worst movies I've ever seen, and I'm being serious.
I was laughing through half of it, sleeping through the other half. Two hours...are you kidding me? It was just an orgy of every horror cliche in the book. Nothing happened for the first hour and a half of the movie, and too much happened in the last half-hour. I audibly groaned every time the movie switched to Chris' point-of-view. And then I audibly groaned again when it switched back to Rose.
Because really, I didn't give a shit about anyone in that movie. The janitor in the bathroom stall was more fleshed-out as a character than anybody else.
And whoever was in charge of royally fucking-up Akira Yamaoka's music can go straight to hell. I thought, "Well, at least the music for this movie is going to be pretty sweet." And then not even that is executed correctly. Adding all these little effects to his songs that only serve to make them more melo-dramatic and cheesy.
To quote Cybil, "What the fuck is wrong with you people?" Roger Ebert was right, this movie blows. This movie almost made me want to distance myself from the whole Silent Hill universe. I was embarassed to be a fan of this series, if only for a night. I spent the whole night basically saying, "Well, I'm not really big into Silent Hill all that much. I just own a couple of the games. Don't really play them all that much."
Don't they have meetings? Don't these movie people get together and look at the storyboards and assess the direction of the project? Because when I'm writing something for a project, sometimes I throw away entire pages and do them over because they suck.
I swear, man.
I must say, I'm always surprised when I see people who don't like the Silent Hill Movie
this much, while granted I do think it wasn't the most amazing movie ever, it was alright, and in comparison to a lot of horror films that we get now a days it was great.
To DamienPales, I think you should try watching the film again by yourself, because you say you spent most of the film laughing/sleeping. In my own experiences I have done just that with The Grudge, not the best example of a film I know, (I went to see it in the cinema with my two brothers), however when I rewatched the film without the distractions from the people around me I could appreciate it for what it was and actually found it quite 'good'.
Without meaning to sound arsey here, when did a two hour long movie become too long? (I
am assuming that you were complaing it was too long and not too short) :S
I didn't mind the scenes with Chris, sure, they could possibly have been left out, but it helped to portray that there were seperate worlds and not just that the whole town had changed into some nightmare world that anyone could walk into.
Also, the comment about the Janitor being the most fleshed out character isn't true, since the fact that all we get hinted at about the Janitor is that:
he sexually abused Alessa
Now that right there seems like some fleshing out of 'the victims' character, plus 'the victim' then gets the rest of the movie about them too. :S
Akiras music wasn't used to the best effect, I do however like the changes that were made to the compositions, since all that was done was that the synthesised strings were replaced by real ones. (Ignoring You're Not Here at the end which sounded weird, lol)
Finally, don't disown one of the best computer game series' in the world just because your friends/you thought the film was lame!
Like I say, try watching it again it might grow on you.
P.S. I know nothing about this journalist dude
and this isn't meant to be a rant at you Damien, I just thought your post was the best post to reply to and share my opinions with in the thread.
My supply fell through...