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SILENT HILL MOVIE update
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The Take Out Bandit
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Sure Konami fucked the series all up, but I'm a Christophe Gans mark and will see this in the hopes that it's at least as enjoyable as the first game.
Just stay away from the ultra pop Silent Hill 2 and after soundtack plz!
Just stay away from the ultra pop Silent Hill 2 and after soundtack plz!
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Los Pacte De Lupes was really, really good.
Anyone see Brotherhood of the Wolf?
Gans is talented, there is a good overall team doing the movie.
Whose staring in it again?
Anyone see Brotherhood of the Wolf?
Gans is talented, there is a good overall team doing the movie.
Whose staring in it again?
Keyser Soze
Member
The last 15 years of history tells me not to get excited but I really want to 
On a light side note: Is Mortal Kombat: Devastation still in production or did it die?
On a light side note: Is Mortal Kombat: Devastation still in production or did it die?
SolidSnakex
Member
Some pics of the town
http://stillepost.ca/boards/index.php?topic=1021.0
Yamaoka is going to be doing the music so we know atleast one aspect of it is going to kickass. That gives you the feeling that the people behind the movie are trying to keep it as close to the games as possible.
http://stillepost.ca/boards/index.php?topic=1021.0
Yamaoka is going to be doing the music so we know atleast one aspect of it is going to kickass. That gives you the feeling that the people behind the movie are trying to keep it as close to the games as possible.
The Take Out Bandit
Member
More banging on garbage cans and rattling chainlink fence plz!
Silent Hill OST > Other Silent Hill crap
Silent Hill OST > Other Silent Hill crap
SolidSnakex said:Some pics of the town
http://stillepost.ca/boards/index.php?topic=1021.0
Yamaoka is going to be doing the music so we know atleast one aspect of it is going to kickass. That gives you the feeling that the people behind the movie are trying to keep it as close to the games as possible.
where's the fog?
Die Squirrel Die
Member
John Harker said:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384537
Not exactly an A-list cast, but that seems to be a good thing, as it looks like they are going for quality character actors, rather than MTV pinups.
I didn't expect that there would be characters directly from the game though. My memories slightly off but they all seem to be from the first one.
SolidSnakex
Member
Die Squirrel Die said:
Cybil, Dahlia, and Alessa are all from it. Officer Gucci is mentioned in a memo.
Wow, I didn't realize Sean Bean was in this movie! Maybe the Christopher character he plays is analogous to James Sunderland and Pyramid Head is a part of his mind.
Woah, and Dahlia's in it too? I hope it doesn't get too hookey with the cult stuff - that's one thing I liked about Silent Hill 2 leaving the rather silly cult plot behind.
"Haha, you will birth God!!!"
Woah, and Dahlia's in it too? I hope it doesn't get too hookey with the cult stuff - that's one thing I liked about Silent Hill 2 leaving the rather silly cult plot behind.
"Haha, you will birth God!!!"
TheJollyCorner
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they better have a damn good fucking reason for PH being in this film, instead of just "whoa, he was, like, cool in that one game... lets make him be in this and have a KILLER ROCK-METAL THEME THAT PLAYS WHENEVER HE'S ON SCREEN!"
GODSMACK 4 EVER!
.... why couldn't Avery make an original SH story instead of just aping SH1 and tossing in SH2 locations and elements? -_________-
GODSMACK 4 EVER!
.... why couldn't Avery make an original SH story instead of just aping SH1 and tossing in SH2 locations and elements? -_________-
ArcadeStickMonk
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Pyramid Head isn't in James' mind. The town calls to the guilty (for some reason) and the executioners punish them.
Remember that dude who got ganked by the TV? A Pyrmid standing real close by? He was guilty of sumpin.
The Pyramid's also appear in some carvings in the prison, and the painting. They were real once, in the prison camp; now they are... something else.
Dunno why Eddie and Angela didn't get killed by a Pryamid though, they all had graves dug. Just they way they wrote it Ig uess.
Anyway, I interpret the canon as the Pyramids being part of Silent Hill, not just James. There's more wrong with the town than a drug peddling cult y'know.
Remember that dude who got ganked by the TV? A Pyrmid standing real close by? He was guilty of sumpin.
The Pyramid's also appear in some carvings in the prison, and the painting. They were real once, in the prison camp; now they are... something else.
Dunno why Eddie and Angela didn't get killed by a Pryamid though, they all had graves dug. Just they way they wrote it Ig uess.
Anyway, I interpret the canon as the Pyramids being part of Silent Hill, not just James. There's more wrong with the town than a drug peddling cult y'know.
ArcadeStickMonk said:
Yeah, while most of the monsters are interpretations of what the characters see and their sins, I think Pyramid Head is an "agent" of Silent Hill that appears to everybody. Sort of like a grim reaper or something. Hell, it makes sense with the gigantic hood obscuring his face and the gigantic knife (read: scythe) that he employs. The two aren't far off from eachother in function or appearance.
The Take Out Bandit
Member
Maybe it will make a better movie than it did a game.
Uno Ill Nino
Banned
Silent Hill 2 is the king of the SH games, IMO. It was just creepier all around. Don't get me wrong, SH1 was AWESOME. It was unrivaled when it came out. I think it was only really topped by the sequel and then the horror games of the next gen systems.
I think a SH movie could be one of the best horror flicks of all time if done correctly. Just model it after the games and it will be legendary. Don't try to make it like other horror flicks. SH is a better horror story than most movies out there so it'll be hard to fuck that up.
I think a SH movie could be one of the best horror flicks of all time if done correctly. Just model it after the games and it will be legendary. Don't try to make it like other horror flicks. SH is a better horror story than most movies out there so it'll be hard to fuck that up.
SolidSnakex
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ArcadeStickMonk said:
What you had with them were 3 murderers but each went down a different path after they did it. Eddie was the only one that actually enjoyed what he did. So instead of just killing 1 person he's been going around killing multiple people. He sees it as the right thing to do when people pick on him. So he's endlessly haunted by people picking on him and it drives him crazy and eventually leads to him being killed.
Angela after killing her dad she becomes depressed. She's now left alone with no family or anything. She feels guilt for killing him even though he was shit. So she's haunted by her dad and in a way by James. She doesn't have it in her to trust men because of her dad. Eventually the guilt gets to her and she kills herself because she can never be ok with what she did.
Now with James, I think the reason the Pyramid Heads haunted him and not Eddie and Angela is because they both knew what they did and weren't trying to hide it. James though killed his own wife and convinced himself that it was ok. The Pyramid Heads are there to show him that what he did was kill his wife. No matter what justification he makes up in his own head, he killed her.
Angela after killing her dad she becomes depressed. She's now left alone with no family or anything. She feels guilt for killing him even though he was shit. So she's haunted by her dad and in a way by James. She doesn't have it in her to trust men because of her dad. Eventually the guilt gets to her and she kills herself because she can never be ok with what she did.
Now with James, I think the reason the Pyramid Heads haunted him and not Eddie and Angela is because they both knew what they did and weren't trying to hide it. James though killed his own wife and convinced himself that it was ok. The Pyramid Heads are there to show him that what he did was kill his wife. No matter what justification he makes up in his own head, he killed her.
Escape Goat
Member
At least it isn't Uwe Boll.
ZombieSupaStar
Member
jetjevons said:
yeah because silent hill 1s totally refreshing combat and gameplay was so much better........oh wait....
As much as I enjoyed the first Silent Hill, I would much rather like to see a Silent Hill 2 storyline for the movie. The psychology in Silent Hill 2 just made the storyline and characters all the more creepy to me (if not deeper and more three dimensional). I just enjoyed the focus being more on the characters, their pasts, fears and how the town preyed on them over the whole occult history of the town.
I don't want to get my hopes up over the movie, but I do have a pretty good feeling about it with what has been released about the story and characters so far. Hopefully if it does do well, we'll see a sequel on par with Silent Hill 2. Depending on how the movie turns out though, that could be either a good or bad thing. :lol
I don't want to get my hopes up over the movie, but I do have a pretty good feeling about it with what has been released about the story and characters so far. Hopefully if it does do well, we'll see a sequel on par with Silent Hill 2. Depending on how the movie turns out though, that could be either a good or bad thing. :lol
ArcadeStickMonk
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Official line from where?Ceb said:
Seems pretty convenient that spirits of old executioners appear as executioners in a town that once held executioners... but only because some guy who knew very little about the town showed up looking for punishment.
Are we blaming TV guy on Eddie? We know that Eddie killed kitchen guy, but a Pyramid standing so close to a fresh corpse seems pretty obvious to me.
This is one movie I have really high hopes for, because it doesn't seem like another Hollywood cash-in. I think there's a decent chance it will turn out to be the first really good videogame-to-movie adaption. I just hope they don't go out of their way to show people that it's a Silent Hill movie, I mean forcing recognizable aspects of the game into the movie and making the script and story suffer in the process.
ArcadeStickMonk
Member
That doesn't feel right to me.
All three guilty characters have dangers themed on their guilt. James has female manequins and hospital related apparitions, Eddie has ugly people who make fun of him, and Angela thinks that different things are her father as well as the constant fire.
Laura, of course, saw nothing because she was innocent.
The Pyramid Heads, being drawn from the history of the town and not that of a character, should be a whole seperate thing. Evidence that supports this are the graves dug for the guilty (the three are all in the same situation) and the infamous "rape" scene (the Pyramids do not work with the monsters).
What does not agree with my theory is the fact that we never see the other two characters bothered by a Pyramid, and of course, this official line.
I think this is a situation where my interpretation is truer to the overall spirit of the material than what was once stated by the team.
All three guilty characters have dangers themed on their guilt. James has female manequins and hospital related apparitions, Eddie has ugly people who make fun of him, and Angela thinks that different things are her father as well as the constant fire.
Laura, of course, saw nothing because she was innocent.
The Pyramid Heads, being drawn from the history of the town and not that of a character, should be a whole seperate thing. Evidence that supports this are the graves dug for the guilty (the three are all in the same situation) and the infamous "rape" scene (the Pyramids do not work with the monsters).
What does not agree with my theory is the fact that we never see the other two characters bothered by a Pyramid, and of course, this official line.
I think this is a situation where my interpretation is truer to the overall spirit of the material than what was once stated by the team.
SolidSnakex
Member
Neither of them were in denial about what they did though. Eddie knows he's killed before, Angela knows she killed her dad. But James is in denial over killing his wife. That's why PH stalks him, to constantly show him again and again what he did and finally make him accept that he did it.
They were all haunted by what bothered them most. Eddie haunted by being teased, Angela haunted by images of her dad, and James haunted by being faced with the reality that he's a murderer.
They were all haunted by what bothered them most. Eddie haunted by being teased, Angela haunted by images of her dad, and James haunted by being faced with the reality that he's a murderer.