Silent Hill

Originally posted by woody82
I'm fine with more pyraqmid head as long as theres none of that stuff he did in silent hill 2 when your hid in the coupad and he's banging another pyramid head. 😄 lol

Originally posted by Evil Dead
this movie was horrible.

There was no build up.......no character development. As soon as the movie opens.......it's off and running to Silent Hill, why?.....because a little girl was sleep walking and said Silent Hill. Yeah......the audience is really along with this without further explanation, back story or even knowing who these characters are. It's like they started the movie 30 minutes into it.......and the audience just missed all the important stuff building up to them going to Silent Hill.

Once they get to Silent Hill......crazy shit happens. Okay....I'm down with that, as long as it's explained later. Then the explanation comes. The girl built this imaginary world to punish those who burned her. Alrighty.........but uh.....why is this world still in existence after she's killed all the religious nuts? Who was the other little girl? was it satan? we don't know.......all we know is that the other girl came to the burned girl in the hospital and offered to help her take revenge. beyond that.....no explanation.

bad movie. Atleast Resident Evil had a plot.......not a bunch of questions and is still reasonably fun to watch as a popcorn movie if nothing else.

who said I didn't understand it? It's not exactly Primer.....or anything near as complex. I understand it perfectly.......I understand that it was a shitty movie. No character development, no plot development, unanswered questions, lack of score, horrible CG.......

ps. cute emoticon kiddo.

This could have been a great horror film had it been handled differently. Some of the visual effects in it were really amazing, but that alone could not save it. Oh well. =/

It has succeeded in making me more interested in the game, though.

~ Kryzula

They shot this film mostly in my hometown of Brantford, Ontario - an hour southwest of Toronto. Several streets in our downtown core are so depressed - closed businesses, shuttered windows - that we won dubious honours of having The Worst Downtown in Canada (while also having the best parks & gardens; there's irony.) It's slowly turning around, but it was easy for the filmmakers to make those streets look even worse, and putting up false fronts and the like. I took several photos of the set, on the days they weren't shooting.
Scenes earlier in the film around the cliff and waterfall, that was outside Hamilton, a half hour east toward Lake Ontario. The falls is Tew's Falls; the glowing cross area is around a gorge known as The Devil's Punchbowl.
The film itself was creepy and fascinating, but ultimately too long to get where it's going, and some CGI wasn't convincing. Good music score though - dark & industrial. And Laurie Holden is way hot.

i do think the sequel (if it goes through) that it is less based on the game.. it would make a better film perhaps and non-gamers can follow it a fresh

What would have been better, not just for non-gamers but for the sake of a better movie, is if the storyline stayed closer to the actual storyline of the town, but not make that backstory the main story and do something similar to the Silent Hill 2 game.

I think the writers did a good job adapting the story of the first game into a coherent story, but their version makes Alessa the main (only?) reason why the town is screwed up. Now that Alessa/Sharon's "cured", the town may as well as go back to normal.

And it also, as said by too many people to count, the plot wasn't structured well.

(minor GAME SPOILER here) Alessa wasn't the reason the town was screwed; it was a demon god that the cult worshipped. The child Alessa/Sharon was supposed to give birth to this god, but that caused... problems.

The cool thing about Silent Hill 2 was that the story was independent of the backstory of the town. The main guy found clues as to why the town was the way it was, but the main story of finding his dead wife was still dominant. Such structure also meant that other people could be drawn to the town and have their own experiences (in sequels), regardless of Alessa or the cult. As such, the town would always be haunted regardless of Alessa.

I think the movie Silent Hill would have been better if it took that approach.

And, to be honest, as a HUGE Silent Hill fan, I love the concept and atmosphere of the games a lot more than the complete backstory (which is conflicting and even a little hokey).

Oh well, there's always the games (which I HIGHLY recommend to anyone).

I agree with a lot of your points E.C.

The painfully overembellished back-story on Alessa and the exaggerated dramatics by the religious zealots really grated on my nerves. I would have preferred a little more restraint during those parts. It would have been better if everything had been explained a little more subtly. I enjoyed the times when the atmosphere was quiet, mysterious, and surreal. I did not enjoy the ridiculous theatrics near the end... gah. That's what ruined it for me.

I think I am going to have to watch this movie again. I might be able to overlook it's shortcomings if I just focus on the good stuff. I don't think that it was a bad film, it just failed to be great like it could have been.

~ Kryzula

it was an okay movie,but what was the ending about?anyone know?

I think the movie was great. The atmosphere of the game was captured beautifully on film.

Although I didn't like the reason why the mother and her daughter came to Silent Hill in the first place. I thought it was not very believeable.

Also, I hated the fact that they keep mentioning "Silent Hill" in the movie and that it was a fairly known ghost town. I think it would have been a better idea if they just stumbled into town without knowing anything about it.

Other than that, I think it's a very good adaptation of a game. Better than Resident Evil.

It's my worst movie of 2006 so far.

I'd say my worst movie this year would be "Lady In The Water". And to think I'm an M. Night Shyamalan fan!

Anywho..looking forward to buying Silent Hill on DVD.

Originally posted by roughrider
They shot this film mostly in my hometown of Brantford, Ontario - an hour southwest of Toronto. Several streets in our downtown core are so depressed - closed businesses, shuttered windows - that we won dubious honours of having The Worst Downtown in Canada (while also having the best parks & gardens; there's irony.) It's slowly turning around, but it was easy for the filmmakers to make those streets look even worse, and putting up false fronts and the like. I took several photos of the set, on the days they weren't shooting.
Scenes earlier in the film around the cliff and waterfall, that was outside Hamilton, a half hour east toward Lake Ontario. The falls is Tew's Falls; the glowing cross area is around a gorge known as The Devil's Punchbowl.
The film itself was creepy and fascinating, but ultimately too long to get where it's going, and some CGI wasn't convincing. Good music score though - dark & industrial. And Laurie Holden is way hot.

You lucky punk =P. How sweet that you had a chance to go through the town set and so on. I loved the movie, and how cool would it have been for me to drop by the actual town. Anychance you can post your pics up roughrider, I'd really like to take a look. Interesting that the cross was located at a place called The Devil's punchbowl too.

Btw I still haven't figured out what the movie poster of Alessa without a mouth is suppose to mean. Anyone know?

Originally posted by systemshock2
You lucky punk =P. How sweet that you had a chance to go through the town set and so on. I loved the movie, and how cool would it have been for me to drop by the actual town. Anychance you can post your pics up roughrider, I'd really like to take a look. Interesting that the cross was located at a place called The Devil's punchbowl too.

Btw I still haven't figured out what the movie poster of Alessa without a mouth is suppose to mean. Anyone know?

I can try posting some pictures, but they may be too big for the bite size allowed for files. We'll see.

OK; I had to shrink these down a bit to fit file requirements, but here are some photos of the set I took, in April 2005.

The main street they dressed was Colbourne St. Here's looking out, towards the way everyone comes in.

This movie theatre is a completely fake front.
Note the title - The Omega Man, circa 1971. It's about to get remade with the title of the original novel, I Am Legend.

Yes: that's me standing in front.

A fake newspaper. The real city newspaper building is on the other side of the street up ahead. It was used for the scene when Chris looks in the city police archives.

I check out a false bank they put up.

For info on the real city and my hometown, look here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brantford%2C_Ontario

You ****ers couldn't do a better job if you had 30 million to work with, I liked it.

the ending was they were trapped in that dimension FOREVER!!!!!