Delayed Posts - Short Review : Silent Hill -

Officially, it's Saturday, 2:20am. Let me explain. Thursday, took time off work, was suppose to help a freind move/paint a room in their new place. That fell through, so then it was just a dilly-dally day, hanging out. Friday, suppose to have a day of fun with freinds. That kinda fell through, though I did get to see Silent Hill, which I was very very excited for... and was dissapointed, *tear*, but not spurised at my dissapointment. So now, Saturday, here I stand... or sit, actually. A somewhat wasted "weekend" for me, probably back to work feeling unaccomplished as usual. I had plans Saturday, but they fell through, because everyone was busy again. The new Magic the Gathering set, Dissensions is having a Pre-release tournament Saturday, but everyone was preoccupied, and so, I dislike going to events alone, what's the point? *sigh* I'll call into work and tell them I'm coming in after all. Probably post a review of Silent Hill when I get a chance. I can, however give a short, spoiler free review of Silent Hill.

Silent Hill (R)
3/7
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It was bad, not horrible, but the storytelling could have been told better. Rather than take creative lisence on the story telling part (ie, go here, find out information, go here, find out information, continue as needed, big story revealed at the end), they decided to follow that formula to the very core. It was a giant cookie crumb hunt. Look, a clue, follow it, learn some new details, follow the next clue. *sigh* It works ok in a game, because you're interacting, but in a movie, it's just played out.

If you're expecting many cameos from your favorite monsters, sorry to say, a small spoiler but not actually a 'spoiler'. Pyramid head is in it for all of 3 minutes spread out through the movie, in about 3 or 4 scenes. He is very impressive, however, and does one really, really amazing trick, which was very impressive. Only cameos are Pyramid head, and the Nurses, both of which are revealed in the Trailer. They added two or three new monsters, but that's about it.

Story, which they took much liberty in changing for the big screen (bad descision in my opinion). Many things they took out, I could understand, but they changed it a LOT, in ways that made it less ominous, scary or intriguing. They took out a lot of the mystery, and that makes me sad. *tear*

Dialoge was sad at points, and the script left me wanting more. A lack of understanding of social taboos and human interaction was very obvious (meaning, in a paticular situation, people will react in a believable fashion. This movie, did not know that quite often).

Music was great, a lot of it was taken directly out of the game, and that added a good segway between mediums, from video games to the silver screen. Sound effects were great as well, the sound was just overall well done. Voices (while dilaogue was poor) were well done as well.

Overall, there were too many "hehe" scenes, and a few "haha" scenes, that could have easily been avoided with good dialoge and directing. It does have a few "ugh" gross scenes, which I enjoyed (>:D), and the story was pretty good (but a step down from the first game), but not a "MUST SEE" movie, or even a "you should probably see it" movie.