Silent Hill: Revelation

I saw a slightly different ad today that showed Douglas being snatched out of an elevator that he and Heather was riding. I hope they didn't put him in the film just to kill him off! If not, this is turning into Distressed Dude: The Movie. :/

Release day and no reviews? This does not bode well.

I like the first movie (and I'm a complete mark for this franchise) and this was more like an Asylum rip-off you'd see on the Sy-Fy channel than a proper sequel.

The writing and directing is amateur at best and actors that were really good in the previous film are pretty bad in this one. Heather and Vincent's "romance" is so painful and forced, in fact almost all of Vincent's scenes caused massive amounts of eye-rolling.

Speaking of eye-rolling, you remember how Pyramid Head was a clear threat and kinda cool in the previous movie? Well, at the end of this movie, Claudia turns into a stupid looking Hellraiser rip-off and fights Pyramid Head in a circle of fire Mortal Kombat style.

Douglas shows up and he's nothing but an info-dump, then he dies.

Sean Bean and Malcolm Mc Dowell (by chewing scenery as only he can) are pretty much the only actors that can salvage any of the script and neither of them are in the film enough to save it in any capacity.

Dahlia and Rose both get one scene each and they're played by the same actors from the first film and they don't do a very good job.

It's so boring and it just drags on and on. The monsters look terrible because all the special effects are so clearly CG, I think the only monster that wasn't done with crappy CG was Pyramid Head.

Travis from Silent Hill: Origins show up at the very end. He picks up Heather and Vincent after they've beaten the bad guys, says his name for the fans to squee and then they drive off. I think there might've been a reference to Silent Hill: Downpour as well, but either I'm reaching or the filmmakers were reaching.

edited 26th Oct '12 6:50:10 PM by NULLcHiLD27

But I thought they said that all of the monsters except for the mannequin spider were practical effects.

In other news, anybody who uses their tumblr to talk about spoilers without marking them can go fuck themselves. I'm disappearing from the SH tag on Tumblr for a long, long time.

In OTHER other news, I launched a character sheet for the movie.

Of all the games to do a reference for, why Downpour? It must just be because it's the most recent one, because the game got the lowest overall Metacritic rating out of all of the games. Which is kinda hard to believe considering the mediocrity of Homecoming, but I guess Downpour could be mediocre too. Didn't help that IGN gave a ridiculously high rating to The Silent Hill HD Collection, which was a total chucklefuck, while being more critical towards Downpour.

Referencing Downpour is kinda funny, cause I saw someone on Tumblr who wanted a Sequel Hook for a Silent Hill 2 movie.

Even if I wind up hating this movie, I want there to be more SH movies, so hopefully, this new film will be financially successful, even if it is Sy Fy quality.

edited 26th Oct '12 7:39:08 PM by BearyScary

I hated it, but hopefully you'll like it more than I did. I just couldn't find much to like about it personally.

Downpour's was decent, it's about as good as 4.

I think I can spoil this because it has no baring on the plot at all anyway. At the end of the movie, they show a police bus driving into Silent Hill and I guess that's supposed to be a shout out to Downpour, but like I said, maybe I'm reaching.

That person that wants a Silent Hill 2 movie might get something like that because Harry/Christopher goes back into Silent Hill at the end to look for Rose.

edited 26th Oct '12 7:42:40 PM by NULLcHiLD27

I hope I like it and Downpour too. I'm one of those people that really liked 4.

I liked Downpour.

Actually, the only Silent Hill game I would say I disliked was Homecoming. 4 and Origins don't elicit a reaction of like or dislike from me at all. And I like all the others.

Haven't seen Revelation yet, though I don't have high hopes for it. I thought the first movie was decent enough but... eh, we'll see.

I thought Homecoming had some good levels and good monster design, and the bosses were fantastic. But the game was mediocre because it had a third-person floating camera. I gotta say that the earlier games were much more atmospheric and even cinematic because of some of their dramatic camera angles. And then you finish Homecoming, and the Plot Holes catch up to you...

I don't feel that Revelation has blown me away like the ads for the first one did (although that may have been partially due to actually seeing it for the first time), but it looks scarier than the first film.

Downpour has a blah beginning and a bit of a dodgy ending but everything in between has more creativity than Homecoming and Origin could muster combined.

Goddamn it, this was worse than Battleship. I'm going to need new eyes, because my peepers just burned to cinders watching this cinematic abomination.

I see reviews complain about copious amounts of exposition, is the dialogue as bad as in the trailers? Bad/contrived exposition is my pet peeve numero uno.

edited 27th Oct '12 1:09:02 PM by LE0Night

I think it was bad. Sometimes the dialogue seems so bad it's like it was straight out of a bad college play or soap opera or something.

I think Spill said it best when they said one character dropped a "phone book of exposition".

Sorry to say, LE0, but Fangoria said that almost all of the dialog is exposition.

Apparently, IMDB gave it a 7/10. I have no idea where they get their scores from, though.

Users.

And cheating fake-review writing executives.

Exposition is so anti-Silent Hill, though, 99% of all the games pretty much went "Shit be weird, yo, just deal with it" and was much better for it. The first film did actually get that right at some points, the otherworld-sequences were fantastic. Everything else, though...

I'm also seeing that this will probably be getting the straight-to-DVD treatment in my region at some non-specified point in time.

edited 28th Oct '12 4:15:41 AM by LE0Night