Hmm, I'm not sure if I agree with that. I'm a huge fan of the games, but I liked the movie from an aesthetic point of view. If I had of expected it to follow the Silent Hill mythos I would have taken to it with flaming torches and pitchforks. Uwe Boll's game adaptations can't even get the aesthetics right, let along capture the spirit of the games.Zand88 said:
Yeah exactly, I did see it twice, but in two different ways, neither worked out for me, and that's it. Would much rather just play the games anyway. Although I do plan on keeping an open mind for the second movie, hopefully everyone has learned a bit from the first one....Aura Guardian said:
My feelings pretty well parallel this. The first half-hour especially gives the feeling of "fan-wank" with all the familiar scenes, camera angles, etc. But it's like they put the first two games in a blender, then spread the results out on a sheet and tried to write exposition for the entire mess into Sean Bean's scenes. It didn't do very well either as an extrapolation of the series's story or as a stand-alone movie. Was it Uwe Boll-quality terrible? Not at all. But it could've been a lot better had they simply selected one game or the other to stick to.saintchristopher said:
Nah, first one was in the cinema, thinking "this is gonna be great!!!!!" because the trailer somehow had had me believe that it was gonna be everything I could want from an SH movie. Was mildly bitter while going home from that one.. Second time was after the bitterness had settled, to check if it was really as bad as it had seemed. I realised I was right within the first five minutes, rest of the movie was just me and my dad pissing about making stupid jokes.Aura Guardian said:
That sounds seriousNicolefranklin said:Nah, first one was in the cinema, thinking "this is gonna be great!!!!!" because the trailer somehow had had me believe that it was gonna be everything I could want from an SH movie. Was mildly bitter while going home from that one.
And that's for laughs. HA. I was right.Nicolefranklin said:Second time was after the bitterness had settled, to check if it was really as bad as it had seemed. I realised I was right within the first five minutes, rest of the movie was just me and my dad pissing about making stupid jokes.
Oh dear, I guess you're right, but that whole serious/for laughs business somehow sounded totally different in my head at first. Lack of sleep does funny stuff to my logic at times.Aura Guardian said:That sounds seriousNicolefranklin said:Nah, first one was in the cinema, thinking "this is gonna be great!!!!!" because the trailer somehow had had me believe that it was gonna be everything I could want from an SH movie. Was mildly bitter while going home from that one.
And that's for laughs. HA. I was right.Nicolefranklin said:Second time was after the bitterness had settled, to check if it was really as bad as it had seemed. I realised I was right within the first five minutes, rest of the movie was just me and my dad pissing about making stupid jokes.
Slightly correct. Pyramid Head was a manifestation of James' desire for punishment. Pyramid Head mocked him with his raping of the Mannequins, and several killings (which I will remain silent about, for spoiler reasons). Many of the monsters of Silent Hill 2 were meant to represent James' sexual frustration and anxiety since his wife died. The vast majority, if not all, of that game was symbolic of James' feelings towards Mary, and the inner workings of the supporting characters' thoughts and emotions.GoldenCondor said:
