Posted April 14, 200619 yr Forget the bloody awful 'Doom', 'Tomb Raider' and all the other fukkin terrible game to film adaptions, "Silent Hill" looks as thought it's gonna beat them hands down, with Christophe Gans (Crying Freeman, Necronomicon, Brotherhood of the Wolf) as director and Roger Avery (Killing Zoe, Pulp Fiction and Rules of Attraction) as scriptwriter, this one will work... From what I saw from the trailer, the mood and atmosphere looks spot on and the monsters are exactly like the game monsters - bizarre and terrifying. Out April 21, go see...
April 14, 200619 yr Author I wanna go see this but I have a feeling that its gonna be rubbish. Well, like I say, given the pedigree of the Director and Writer - Gans has done horror before in 'Necronomicon' and "Brotherhood of the Wolf" is a teriffic film; and Roger Avery is well known as well, he wrote the "Gold Watch" episode in 'Pulp Fiction' as well as the excellent, and vastly underrated, job he did of adapting Bret Easton Ellis' "Rules of Attraction" - I've no real fears about this one. The quality of the cast is not bad either - Radha Mitcell (from "Pitch Black"), Sean Bean, Alice Krige, Deborah Kara Unger and Kim Coates - certainly no duff acting of The Rock variety.....
April 14, 200619 yr i might go and see it, but i was very disappointed with the Resident Evil film so i hoping this isn't another c**p addapation.
April 14, 200619 yr i might go and see it, but i was very disappointed with the Resident Evil film so i hoping this isn't another c**p addapation. well if the names Uwe Boll is not on the sleave you can be sure of the quality
April 14, 200619 yr Author i might go and see it, but i was very disappointed with the Resident Evil film so i hoping this isn't another c**p addapation. The first Res Evil film was pretty good I thought, it was the sequel that was garbage... But given the quality of the director and writer and the fact that the cast is quite a bit above average, I'm thinking this one will work out....
April 15, 200619 yr Urgh, even if it is good, i'm broke i wouldn't be able to buy a ticket at the cinema. Sorry Scot but i hated the first Resi film (haven't seen the second) it should of been alot more like the game, in a mansion that can give some character to the setting unlike the metallic surroundings of that underground lab. Best thing about Resi was the sound track! lol
April 16, 200619 yr Author Urgh, even if it is good, i'm broke i wouldn't be able to buy a ticket at the cinema. Sorry Scot but i hated the first Resi film (haven't seen the second) it should of been alot more like the game, in a mansion that can give some character to the setting unlike the metallic surroundings of that underground lab. Best thing about Resi was the sound track! lol I agree that more use should've been made of the mansion, but in the game you end up in the underground lab anyway.... But I really loved the way it started, with Alice having no idea who she was or what was going on, it made a bit of a mystery out of it... The sequel is astoundingly disappointing - It has Jill Valentine, STARS, Racoon City and the Nemesis creature and it so utterly fails to put any of these elements to good use..... If you saw it mate, you wouldn't complain so much about the original, trust me.... :lol: :lol:
April 16, 200619 yr Urgh, even if it is good, i'm broke i wouldn't be able to buy a ticket at the cinema. well i've got one of those cineworld passes so if i've got time to kill...
April 16, 200619 yr I agree that more use should've been made of the mansion, but in the game you end up in the underground lab anyway.... The sequel is astoundingly disappointing - It has Jill Valentine, STARS, Racoon City and the Nemesis creature and it so utterly fails to put any of these elements to good use..... If you saw it mate, you wouldn't complain so much about the original, trust me.... :lol: :lol: Yeah but the lab was a $h!t hole, not some clean environment like the film was. It was still quite raw and gave it character. The zombies weren't that good either. urgh never seen it and i aint bothered if i never do.
April 21, 200619 yr Author Right, just been to see this today, and I can honestly say that it has a depth to it that few horror films can match, it is totally respectful to the original game - utilising the right sort of mood, tense, claustrophobic atmosphere, the use of music and sound effects lifted directly from the games is spot on, the monsters are truly frightening and the plot, while it deviates somewhat from the game plot, makes total sense in cinematic terms - changing the main character to a woman was the absolute correct thing to do IMO. I honestly felt the same clammy sense of dread during this film that I felt playing the game eight years ago. In fact my only complaint takes the form of a question - just what the hell was the point of Sean Bean's character or the male cop character? They serve no real purpose and just detract from the main plot and themes of motherhood and matriarchal power. It is the women in the film who are the real protagonists, the males are a distraction and it seems that they were only put in because some bloody producer looked at the script and said "Hmmm, there are no men in this film..". But this is really the only fault in an otherwise excellent film, well plotted, well paced, extremely well acted by Radha Mitchell, Deborah Kara Unger and Alice Krige (also the actress playing Sharon/Alessa is marvellous..), wonderful direction and great use of CGI effects that for once add to the mood rather than detract from it (the scenes in which the surroundings change from relatively normal to the horrific blood and rust hell dimension are magnificently done and the fog effects are superb..). By far the best film made from a Video Game and a serious contender for horror film of the year.... Well done - 8/10 (would've been 9/10 without the pointless men...)
April 21, 200619 yr Well done - 8/10 (would've been 9/10 without the pointless men...) The Independent gave it 1 out of 5, even Tris and Iso, and American Dreamz got more, think i'll give it a miss
April 21, 200619 yr I've totally changed my opinion of the film now and I think it looks good, after seeing a few more trailers, and after reading Grimly's review its convinced me even more to go and see it. I'm also guessing that the ending wil pave a way for a sequel a bit like the Resident Evil films.
April 21, 200619 yr Author The Independent gave it 1 out of 5, even Tris and Iso, and American Dreamz got more, think i'll give it a miss That's quite strange, The Indie usually has good taste. Oh well, I guess anyone could have an off day...
April 21, 200619 yr Author I'm also guessing that the ending wil pave a way for a sequel a bit like the Resident Evil films. Not really so much the ending (which is rather wonderfully ambiguous, it certainly is not clear whether good has triumphed over evil, or whether it is a less insidious form of evil that has triumphed..), but there is a comment in the film when the male cop character recounts a story of how a maniac threw a young boy down one of the mineshafts in Silent Hill (which may actually have been the sole purpose of that character to be honest... :lol: ) - that may open up the possibility of adapting the Walter Sullivan story arc from Silent Hill 4 - The Room for the sequel.....
April 22, 200619 yr That's quite strange, The Indie usually has good taste. Oh well, I guess anyone could have an off day... another poor review from the guardian, but quite funny nonetheless :lol: Silent Hill (Cert 15) Peter Bradshaw Friday April 21, 2006 The Guardian 1 out of 5 "Unbelievably boring' ... Silent Hill Er . . . Scary Movie 5, anyone? Maybe it's the kudos acquired by screenwriter Roger Avary in his association with Quentin Tarantino that has allowed him to write this unbelievably boring horror-thriller at such testicle-shrinking length. Over two hours. But it might as well be two days. A gutsy mum called Rose (Radha Mitchell) searches for her lost daughter in a ghost town called Silent Hill, evacuated after a mining disaster, and now populated by creepy religious crazies: whose existence very much does not lend depth to all the gothic screeching about evil. It's based on a video game, which explains why we are plunged so directly into the action, with the most minimal of nods to dull irrelevant stuff such as character and plot
April 23, 200619 yr Author The Guardian are usually hostile to horror films anyway, so I'm not surprised by this so-called "review"....
April 23, 200619 yr The Guardian are usually hostile to horror films anyway, so I'm not surprised by this so-called "review".... still maybe me laugh, not as much as the Jamie Foxx album review and it's songs about vaginal mucus :lol:
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