Silent Hill movie

Originally Posted by SemperFidelis

Well, I'm vague on the details, but I remember loving the game. And I'm sorry if you took offense to my comments. I'm doubly sorry if you enjoyed the movie.

I didn't take offense in your comments, I just think you poorly executed your 'opinion'.

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Could somebody 'SPOIL' the retard up there!

Double Post:
Box-Office estimates for the Week-End are 20.1 Million dollars. Not bad. Even if it drops by, say, 40% next week, it'll probably make back it's 45 Million dollars budget. And that's not even the gross World-wide.

So, I'm pretty confident about a sequel.

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Originally Posted by sprouticus

Agreed. It would have been such a simple fix that for some reason, they didn't do. Oh well, I'll deal with it.

Could've worked, but I like it also that way.

And Sean Bean's character was written in the script because of the only studio note they received: "There are no men?!".

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Originally Posted by Dr. Uzuki

Spoiler:

I got a sense that not only did the cult want to deal with the child being a bastard, but the fact that Dahlia wouldn't even name a father. The cult might of figured the conception to be unnatural and the child a demon. Whether or not Alyssa's birth really was a product of dark works and if she really had any power before her burning, if the evil split personality came directly from her or was a/the devil responding to her pain, that much is left ambiguous.

Spoiler:

Maybe Dahlia wouldn't name a Father because she wasn't married to him, so it would constitute a sin to their religion. Maybe the 'Father' was an important member of the community and Dahlia didn't want to tarnish his character. There's A LOT of material to play with here and as Gans said multiple times, the Mythology and history of Silent Hill is way too vast to tell in one siting. He could do a story about the first Witch Hunt, Dr. Kauffman, Lisa Garland, Dahlia, the origin of the mystic indiens who lived on this land, etc.

As for Alessa being born with Dark gifts, personally, I think she either didn't have any powers wathsoever and the cruel attention she got from school and the cult was because her Father was never named or maybe she was a psychic. What I'm sure of is that Dark Alessa is a manifestation of Silent Hill, clearly Samael.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Silent Hill was their 'Special Place' probably due to the fact that it was their last trip together and Mary liked the town and its past.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

@MOBIUS: Put Spoiler Tags on your post and I'll answer your question.

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Originally Posted by Dr. Uzuki

Well, yeah, I get that's what the game billed it as. I'm not swallowing that pill. The place is suppose to have a history peppered in atrocities and mysticism long before the events of the first game. I could buy that the occult stuff of the town was buried under something seemingly normal, but as a place people vacation to? That's retarded.

How about the US? Don't tell me no atrocities have ever been comitted in Florida or New-York and it doesn't stop it from being a way-point for tourism.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Dr. Uzuki

I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just always something that's stood out to me as a lazy excuse on how to place these character's in Silent Hill.

What characters?

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Originally Posted by Jan

Ok.. I made this a journal entry too but thought I'd post my opinion in this thread...

Pyramid Head rocked my socks. God damn... the sheer fucking terror of thinking what it'd be like to raped by that fucking monster... he is a fucking murderous abomination... wow. I mean seriously, I can safely say they did his character complete justice.

So the movie definetly succeeded my expectations in the respect of his character. The rest of the movie was pretty good to, although there was this one part

actual spoilers... I suppose:

when they are bruning Allesa. Well I know they don't really show it full on show... it's just her screams... I mean. I was thinking in my head, oh fuck what are those fucking people doing to her. God... fuck. I mean, they might have been tortoring her, which is damn bad enough... but burning her?... yah my stumach sank. How could people do that to a little girl.

Anyway, their whole fucking made up religion just sickened me by the end of the movie. I mean it was horrifying what those people had become and the things they believed in.

Now... as for Cybil, wow fucking awesome character I mean damn. Really tough... and obviosely a good heart. I could tell that when the detective told the other guy about how she stayed with that boy and kept him alive.
It was pretty paining when she was getting beaten... damn seriously. Then fucking burned. erg... why cybil? ;___;

The devil with I'm assuming she was an interesting character I suppose. Oh wow in the end, this was basically just a revenge movie.

The part when Pyramid Head rips off the kids clothes, then skin was kinda like erg o_o... yep.

Now I'm definately not an expert on the games and don't quote me if I'm wrong but I don't remember there being this "society" of people who were still living there... I mean there was Galespy and the nurse... anyway, yah I think it was a pretty good thing to add in those people, I mean the story would have been completely different had they not been included.

So in the end I was definately impressed but hmm... like the previews I was absolutely enthrawed by, I might have just found the movie good because I am extreemely stoned. Im going to go see it again most likely just to make sure because I WAS entertained. = D

Spoiler:

In the original game, there was a cult, which sole purpose was to ressurect God. Dahlia, Alessa's mother, was part of the cult, at least, one of it's main figures. Alessa was nearly burned to death to bring on the coming of God, at least, it was one of the steps of the ritual, but a part of Alessa's soul escaped in the form of a new-born baby and found by Harry Mason, Silent Hill's main character.

Also, Lisa Garland, the nurse, wasn't 'alive', she was a creature who took a human form, to keep Harry from succeeding.

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Originally Posted by Jan

right...

But they didn't actually include all those people in the game right? They just talked about how it happened in the past or something?

Yeah. The Alessa scenario differs from game to movie but the whole history and mythology is the same; Pyramid Head, the various realities of the town, etc.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Servilonus

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It seems Gans is about to do Onimusha as well.

There's no need for me to really restate what everyone has said about each meticulous flaw and merit the movie had. I thought it was an awesome movie, at the very least visually. If anything, I felt it suffered the most with pacing issues, and Avary's script. If there is or isn't a longer director's cut, that could resolve some pacing issues (as I heard a rumor [also on IGN] that the orginal cut was 3 and a half hours). Most of the reviews that cited the length of the movie as a con were irritating, as I don't really see most phenomenal movies falling underneath two hours. And if the average is ninety minutes, then it's only a half hour more to, at the very least, soak up more astounding visuals. Gans directed excellently in my view.

Needed more monsters, etc, copypasta.

On a slight tangent, on the way home, my friend's brother's girlfriend called him, and he said he'd take her to see it if she didn't mind gory movies. She said, she didn't, and that the only movie she couldn't watch was the fly, to which I replied "It's probably because of Jeff Goldblum" ::everybody laughs::

My friend told me as well that Gans favored SH2 the most, and I'd like to think he made this one as almost a test run for the visuals for 2, and to explain, or at least infer, a bit about the town. I would also prefer for Gans to personally write the script, and have someone else edit it.

If you had to cast the characters for a SH2 movie (assuming it was disconnected), who would you cast? Ever since I saw Saw, I thought Cary Elwes looked and sounded just like James (I imagined him calling out to Mary as I saw it), and Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Eddie.

Sorry to burst your bubble but Gans said many times in interviews that everything that he wanted was in the movie; this was his Director's Cut. Also, he said he loved the second but probably won't used it for the sequel.

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I hate that stupid Marine Corps bullshit...

I was speaking idiomatically.

Didn't Kaneshiro sucked as an actor? He was horrible in RETURNER (Along with pretty much everything in it); wasn't he a Soap-Opera actor in Japan?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Devo

Get recruited already.

I concur.

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