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Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 6:41 pm
by GORDON
I admit it, I am a fan of the movie Silent Hill. I won't apologize. Go to hell.
This movie, though... eh. It is a direct sequel. Sean Bean. The little girl. Silent Hill. That all seems like it should be good.
But the charm of the first movie is missing, somehow. I haven't figured out what, yet.
Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:28 pm
by Malcolm
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Caught this on TV. Dear Christ, it didst sucketh out loud. It had a handful of interesting moments, climaxing during the duel at the end when you finally get to see Pyramid Head strut his shit unabashedly after being wasted for one and ninety-nine hundredths of a movie. I like to think he was grinning under the helmet at the time.
Problems:
1) Radha Mitchell gave the most "alright I'll give you one day of shooting for half a million but get the fuck off my back" performances I've ever seen.
2) Sean Bean seemed like an afterthought, except for purposes of setting up a sequel (which I actually hope happens).
3) I couldn't even tell the psycho religious chick was Trinity. It could have been anyone under all that makeup.
4) So the Order couldn't manage to handle Sharon on her home turf before Rose got her out. Now their plan is to reality/dimension shift into our world to get to Sharon to come back to Silent Hill ... the place where her all-powerful demonic half lives ... and get her to reunite with the good half so she can be used as the vessel for their god's rebirth? WTF? You plan to subdue her at that point ... how?
5) Speaking of Sharon, it seems to me she'd be able to walk about in the Darkness with literally no fear. She's half of Alessa and the demon clearly isn't acting anymore hostile towards her than she is towards Dahlia.
6) Speaking of Dahlia, why the fuck is she even in this film? Was there no other way to advance the plot in that manner?
7) At Sharon's first step into Silent Hill, Alessa should have confronted her, merged, then they both could have gone off to get the Metatron medal and stomped the fuck out of the Order. Game over.
Given #5, it's virtually impossible to build up any terror, suspense, or fear. The only time that occurs is when the Missionary monster, looking like one of these had a one-night stand with one of these, invades the real world while Sharon isn't in Silent Hill yet. Since those reality shifts start and stop seemingly at random, there's no build up. Even Malcolm McDowell shapeshifting into a Frankenstein-looking beast wasn't doing it.
If you see it, see it to watch Pyramid Head and the Missionary duke it out and pray this was just a shitty bridge of a movie between two superior films (one of which hasn't been proposed or greenlit yet).