Silent Hill movie

Crappy quality, and it cuts off right at the good part. :\

All things considered though...HOLY SHIT!

How ya doing, buddy?

Uhh... what's wrong with the question; a lot of people want to know if Mary McGlynn and/or Joe Romersa are doing vocal themes.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Rape time.

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

Helloooo, Nurse!

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Megalith

Ugh, sure hope not.

I was speaking idiomatically.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Ryuu

Indeed. That was what made me really love the end to V for Vendetta

Spoiler:

(I loved the movie, but not showing V's face made everything even more better).

Thanks for spoiling a completely unrelated movie that a lot of people haven't seen yet, buddy!

FELIPE NO

Yeah, it sounds like Reaper. :\

Read the Fangoria article -- in it, Gans mentions there are 3 variations of the little girl. If Sharon and Alessa are the first two, I guess the Reaper is the third.

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Originally Posted by SOLDIER

I'm just going to wait until the first reviews pop up. But let it be known, if the reviews are favorable, I'm watching this within the first day or two that it's out. This is the ONLY movie in theaters that I care about at all this year.

Then prepare to not see the movie on day one. Sony pulled all prescreenings, which means no reviews until at least opening day, possibly the day after.

And she very obviously says, "I am the REAPER." Stop fishing for a way to validate one cheesy line, people.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by SOLDIER

Look at Batman Begins. I'm sure many people still had fears if the movie would be a success, but then came Roger Ebert's review where he praised the crap out of it.

Batman Begins' success was the result of positive word of mouth. It followed Pirates of the Caribbean's success formula: Started out slow, but once it started getting positive word of mouth, it flourished.

And Casaubon's right, don't even bother with critics. Horror movies almost never garner favorable reviews, and I expect Silent Hill will be no different.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Extended, higher quality clip.

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

Apparently FX will also show a Making of doc on Tuesday @ 7:30 PM. Don't know if it'll be the same or a new one.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

You've played SH1, haven't you? The movie's almost a complete retelling of that story.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Damn cool music video there.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

The movie uses music from all 4 soundtracks, plus unused music. Gans commented on how Jeff Danna was brought in to help Yamaoka remix/adapt the original pieces for a film score and mix them in 5.1 sound.

As for an actual soundtrack release, there aren't any plans for one yet. Yet.

FELIPE NO

Lots of new clips here. See if you can spot the various SH tracks.

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

Could be to protect a twist. Early impression that are leaking to SH-forums and SA from non-fans are glowing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

A couple choice quotes:

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My husband and I went to Seattle today and, amongst other celebratory measures taken to ensure the proper historical notation of our 22 consecutive years of conjugal joy, observed a trade screening of the movie Silent Hill, based (and I have no idea how loosely) on the video game of the same name. The movie is also somewhat riveting, at least it was to me, and my husband (who is possibly a more discerning viewer than I) agreed.

The movie's plot revolves around a young girl who does dangerous things when she sleepwalks, her adoptive parents, and an eerie ghost town whose name she whispers in her sleep. This mysterious town, where coal mines still burn underground, is awash in the ashes of the past, and the little girl carries a dark secret that takes her mother deep into a labyrinth seething with lost souls wandering terrible hallways of buildings that seem to turn on the hinges of more than one plane of existence.

Here you can never be completely sure if what you see is occuring now, or is some hideous replay of events that occured 30 years prior. Are people themselves, or hellish reincarnations of these tormented creatures whose ignorant choices made a lifetime ago continue to perpetuate a wrong that can never be made right? How far out does the circle extend? Where are the lines, and when have you crossed them?

The movie is frustrating in some aspects. Its backstory is somewhat vague, and the ending makes you start wondering aloud after you kick it around for a while. What are we seeing, exactly? Who is dead and who is alive? When did they die? My husband and I tossed these questions around, and wound up deciding we would need to see the movie again and look for clues we might have missed, or misunderstood, the first time around.

The movie is more creepy than spooky, with some disturbing images and a few over the top gore shots near the end, but all in all, I think it's worth a couple of hours of your time. The acting is decent, and the atmosphere is properly set with dramatic weather shifts to accompany scene changes. It's a bit choppy, and a little over-dramatic, but aren't all horror movies, to some extent? I would recommend it over some of the sludge that slops around this time of year, when the blockbusters haven't been hauled out into the bright summer sunshine yet, and the indie snootfests have mostly worn out their welcome.

I mean, it ain't no Ice Age 2, but, you know, not EVERY movie can have a couple of wooly mammoths, a sloth, a sabre-toothed tiger AND two opossums.

It's probably just as well. I don't think this movie would have known what to do with the opossums.

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(...) we won't be seeing any reviews until Friday, apparently, because Sony has it on hardcore lockdown. BUT, I can give you this quote that came straight from my friend's mouth.

"The few people in the tiny theater I saw it in had to sign agreements not to talk about it until the release date. I'll tell you this though. It'll blow your f---ing mind. Easily the greatest video game adaptation ever made and one of the better films so far this year. Better than the Underworld or Resident Evil dreck Sony has been putting out"

They did also tell me not to hope for something as completely majestic as Brotherhood of the Wolf in terms of character development, but to expect to want to see it 300 times in theaters.

I might want to share that this is also coming from a person who has never even heard much let alone played the games...but this is a very critical person in the horror genre and I trust they're telling me the truth and it's going to be a lot of fun.

Oh yeah, those scenes Gans talked about where Rose is wandering around just like in the video game? I'm not quoting here but expect a lot of slow parts and a lot of super speedy parts. And when I brought up the fact that there's scenes of this video game wandering around collecting stuff and solving puzzles, they said that it doesn't take away from how great the film is.

And just because:



There's nowhere I can't reach.

My friends and I got our tickets for the 10:45 show tomorrow night. Seriously can't wait to see it -- I've been replaying all 4 games over the past 4 nights in anticipation.

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

I mostly agree with SOLDIER's/a_nal's impressions. I really enjoyed it for the most part, but a lot of the changes to the cult rubbed me the wrong way. Still an overall excellent film, and I can't wait for Gans' take on SH2.

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Originally Posted by JazzFlight

I do think that a great addition to the finale would have been:

Spoiler:

...the cult members who were running towards the front door to have escaped, only to meet Pyramid Head and dozens of the different armless acid-spitting monsters from before.

Basically, I felt the finale had too many humans, and no monsters. I don't consider rape tentacles/barbed wire to be a Silent Hill monster.

I agree, if only because the movie coulda used more cowbe...Pyramid Head.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Pyramid Head is a manifestation of the town's old executioners. James sees them because he remembers that painting in the Historical Society from his last visit and it freaked him out -- PH isn't specifically tied to James.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

SH2 (the movie) could easily rewrite SH2 (the game)'s story as

Spoiler:

Christopher getting calls/letters from Rose begging him to find her in Silent Hill and berating him for leaving her there to die alone and never caring enough to find her.

Not saying that's what I would want, but they could easily rework the story to fit that mold.

FELIPE NO

Spoiler:

They wouldn't need a twist. Hell, the changed the entire cult around for the movie -- I wouldn't be surprised to see them do something similar for SH2. I don't want that, but it's certainly possible.

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Alot of the complaints I heard from my professor and other friends was the Bean's character sucks for just saying "kthxbye" to the police and not continuing his search for Rose.

This is why I really feel they should've written Christopher's segments so that HE learned the history of the town, and dropped the Dark Alessa exposition sequence. His scenes are mostly pointless filler as are.

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