Originally posted by Brodrick
I saw a few people in here giving it bad reviews. I cannot stand when people come in and say 'the movie sucked' and then don't justify why they disliked it. So just to the people who haven't seen it, Don't listen to the children in here. They probably just didn't understand the movie and hate it for that reason.
excuse me was that necessary? If you like the movie fine, but don't call people who disagree with you children. This board is about opinion. Perhaps being such an "adult" as you are, you can, maybe, give some insight to us "children" on why this movie is such a winner.
I liked the movie. I guess it all depends on taste. Im really a horror movie buff so I know what it expect. The atmosphere was great but the acting was Ok. I found it to be a great horror movie. The story is ok because it somewhat stayed true to the game. I give it a 7 or 8. As far as others who say its bad, thats fine its your opinion but I find that it was better than many movies critics praise. I never truly base by opinion on a critics rating. Roger Ebert gave Daredevil a 5/5 so I really don't care what his opinion is.
Originally posted by Big Sexy
I liked the movie. I guess it all depends on taste. Im really a horror movie buff so I know what it expect. The atmosphere was great but the acting was Ok. I found it to be a great horror movie. The story is ok because it somewhat stayed true to the game. I give it a 7 or 8. As far as others who say its bad, thats fine its your opinion but I find that it was better than many movies critics praise. I never truly base by opinion on a critics rating. Roger Ebert gave Daredevil a 5/5 so I really don't care what his opinion is.
thank you for being professional about you oppinion B.sexy, unlike mr. "i don't like when so and so don't justify", but yet has no justification of his own over there.
I thought I would discuss the monsters in this film and give my interpretation as to their origins and why they were what they were. I've never played any of the games, so if there's any history related to these monsters outside of the movie that I don't know about please let me know. It'd be interesting to know what others think they were too.
The Ash Children: I think these were the children who made fun of Alessa, and once Alessa turned Silent Hill into her own world turned them into these screaming ashen things.
That coocon monster who spews out acid: I think this was suppose to be a representation of Alessa and all of her skin graft patches. I know it's a stretch, but looking at the monster it seems like it's forcibly trying to get free of the skin that's on top of it, and I think this represents Alessa being forced to have those skin grafts on her after she was burned.
That barbed wire monster: obviously this is the janitor that molested and/or raped Alessa. I think he was wrapped in barbed wire in such a disfigured manner that if you think about, it'll be physically impossible for him to ever have sex or jerk himself off. Maybe Alessa wanted him to never have that gratification again? And the way he has a bandage over his eyes implies that he might have lost his vision too, signifying that Alessa won't even give him the pleasure of ever seeing a woman again.
Pyramid Head: this is the only monster that I can't put my finger on anything. He's so unique, and there's no other character in the film that somehow relates to him. I can't find any meaning to his pyramid head, or the apron made of skin, or the large knife, or those freaky cockroaches. I think in this case it was all just made up with no purpose behind it.
The nurses: these monsters might be a loose interpretations of the nurse that decided to get a quick peek at Alessa. IMO they all have wrapped bandages completely covering their faces because this signifies Alessa's jealousy at how pretty the nurse was, and how after the accident Alessa will never be. When we finally see that the real nurse has no pupils, a cracked face, and bleeds blood this further acknowledges my theory of how Alessa purposely ruined her beauty.
Anyways feel free to comment on what you think these monsters meant. I also think that some of them might mean nothing and were just put there for fun, but it's always a lot more funner to try and relate things.
Originally posted by systemshock2
The Ash Children: I think these were the children who made fun of Alessa, and once Alessa turned Silent Hill into her own world turned them into these screaming ashen things.
I thought of something else that might relate to these Ash Children being the school children. I remember that during the flashback scene they would all point to Alessa in the middle of the classroom and yell "Burn witch burn". It's funny now that she would instead later on make them burn forever.
Originally posted by hily
i thought the cockroaches had human characteristics which could just make them the rest of the people in silent hill ones she may not have had contact with so they just became something insignificant, like a roach
That's a good angle, having those townspeople literally become as insignificant as a roach. What a sorry way to end up, especially for that one that was squished by the cop lol.
I had a chance to see the movie again, this time at the dollar theater, and I noticed something that I didn't pick up before. All of the monsters come out after that horn blares and the world turns black, yet there's one monster, the acid-spewing one that looks like it's trying to rip out of its skin, that appeared during the regular time. I wonder if that's a mistake or something, since other scenes clearly established that as soon as the night turns into day, the monsters disintegrate.
Originally posted by systemshock2
I had a chance to see the movie again, this time at the dollar theater, and I noticed something that I didn't pick up before. All of the monsters come out after that horn blares and the world turns black, yet there's one monster, the acid-spewing one that looks like it's trying to rip out of its skin, that appeared during the regular time. I wonder if that's a mistake or something, since other scenes clearly established that as soon as the night turns into day, the monsters disintegrate.
well...those ones came from.....I dunno. Those monsters came from a fenced in place, so maybe that has to do with it........? Ah, I dunno
Originally posted by replies in kind
This movie was actually good, but the only thing I didnt like was how they replaced the guy from the Silent Hill game with a woman thinking she can get her daughter back. I really hated that about the movie, but on the other hand the monsters seemed cool.
yeah, I thought the main character in the game was a guy.......Oh well!
I liked that the main character was a woman. It just made more sense considering the genre. IMO it made it much more suspenseful to have a woman experience the horror and constantly scream and yell and run away. That one scene where she just collapses by the lockers and begins sobbing really did it for me. It really made me sympathize with her. As opposed to a guy character, whom we as an audience probably wouldn't get too much of a response out of.
This sucks. I tried to find the soundtrack to the movie today and apparently there's none. I did some research on it and apparently that's because most of the music in the movie is taken straight from the game, so I guess that didn't warrant a CD soundtrack or something. At least I wish they could've released one anyway, even if it was just a collection from the various games. Oh well.
Some of the songs that stood out, at least the one's I would've looked forward to in the CD, would've been:
- that banjo type song that begins right at the opening credits
- that male vocal song that plays as Sharon is about to jump off the cliff
- Alessa's main theme, which is that piano theme
- and a whole bunch of eerie atmospheric music that plays during most of the scenes
Hopefully the DVD will have some solo audio track or something.