The Silent Hill film. Some small spoilers.
Well I waited for the Silent Hill film to be made and it was.
I watched the beginning and it was good.
Somewhere along the way it lost me though.
It wasn't a bad film. It didn't completely suck. It wasn't total garbage and it certainly wasn't 'Mortal Kombat'. Yes, thats a good thing.
The movie kept true to the games with the wonderfully run down and creepy sets to the freaky monsters and costumes. It lacked a lot of other things though. The film moved too fast. The monsters were basically cameo appearances and it felt like the entire thing was on 'easy' mode as the heroine ran past most of the monsters and got away from them with little trouble. All except for in two scenes.
There were no 'fighting to survive' moments and that to me made it boring. There were three moments that came close to it but over all they were too short as well.
It was as if they only scratched the surface and felt that that was good enough. The end 'boss' scene was rather cool and freaky though.
But sadly most of the film was 'Ohhh! Monster!!! -bang bang- -run run run- and mostly, honestly, just -run run run-. Only one type of monster appeared at any given time and when
The end decent into the domain of evil was also disappointing in that there were very few monsters in the lair of the source of the evil in the town. You would think that it would have been one of the most frightening scenes but it wasn't. Instead you get a pack of nurses that, for a moment, seem like they were a few years too late for auditioning for the 'Thriller' video.
Next up, my Silent Hill obsession.
I watched the beginning and it was good.
Somewhere along the way it lost me though.
It wasn't a bad film. It didn't completely suck. It wasn't total garbage and it certainly wasn't 'Mortal Kombat'. Yes, thats a good thing.
The movie kept true to the games with the wonderfully run down and creepy sets to the freaky monsters and costumes. It lacked a lot of other things though. The film moved too fast. The monsters were basically cameo appearances and it felt like the entire thing was on 'easy' mode as the heroine ran past most of the monsters and got away from them with little trouble. All except for in two scenes.
There were no 'fighting to survive' moments and that to me made it boring. There were three moments that came close to it but over all they were too short as well.
It was as if they only scratched the surface and felt that that was good enough. The end 'boss' scene was rather cool and freaky though.
But sadly most of the film was 'Ohhh! Monster!!! -bang bang- -run run run- and mostly, honestly, just -run run run-. Only one type of monster appeared at any given time and when
The end decent into the domain of evil was also disappointing in that there were very few monsters in the lair of the source of the evil in the town. You would think that it would have been one of the most frightening scenes but it wasn't. Instead you get a pack of nurses that, for a moment, seem like they were a few years too late for auditioning for the 'Thriller' video.
Next up, my Silent Hill obsession.
posted by Steven at 8:14 PM
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