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Silent Hill: Revelation Could Actually Be Pretty Awesome

Posted on Tuesday, August 28 @ 15:30:00 Eastern by sara_gunn

Video game movies, for the most part, are garbage. Sure, some of them are good fun; I’m totally not at all ashamed that I own the Mario Bros. movie on DVD, and I have a lot of tolerance for the Tomb Raider movies, mostly because of Angelina. But for all those, we also have Alone in the Dark, Doom, and those Resident Evil atrocities.

But then we have Silent Hill. Not only is it the only video game movie I’d say actually correctly represents the game it’s based on, it’s also a legitimately good film. With a lot of hot ladies. And Sean Bean.

I know, I know, the plot’s all wrong. It’s true. But plot doesn’t necessarily make a film adaptation for me. If I want the plot, I’ll go to the original source. The film should be a representation of the original story. If the characters, symbols, and visuals are on the level, the film is good. Silent Hill is totally there.

So Silent Hill: Revelation comes out in October and, I must admit, I’m a little bit stoked. Could it possibly be that Silent Hill will go the way of X-Men and Star Wars and Terminator and actually have a better sequel? Probably not, but it still looks the sh*t. And it’s based on Silent Hill 3, my second favorite SH, so we can look forward to some hardcore Heather action.

And the cast is freaking fantastic! The delicious Radha Mitchell—as well as Sean Bean, who just can’t shake that pesky curse of his—reprise their roles from the first film, and Carrie Anne-Moss and Malcolm McDowell join as Claudia and Leonard Wolf, respectively, which will be pleasantly creepy. Kit Harington (who we know better as Jon Snow) is playing Vincent, which does seem a bit bizarre, so we’ll see how it goes. The only one missing is Cybil…

Tags: silent hill

Comments

Nick_Tan
Joined: Jul 2006

Posted: Aug 28th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
As long as Pyramid Head is in it, I'm down.

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NecroWolf
Joined: Oct 2005

Posted: Aug 28th, 2012 at 4:47 pm
Wait, the Resident Evil movies suck? Odd to hear that opinion, as compared to most video-game movie adaptations, almost everyone I talk to agrees they're the best of the lot. I enjoy them a good deal, I really like how they're not in any way connected to the video games except through some names and concepts.

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Imnickson
Joined: Jul 2006

Posted: Aug 28th, 2012 at 6:15 pm
"I really like how they're not in any way connected to the video games except through some names and concepts."

That sums up why most gamers and ALL RE fans hate the movies. That and Milla is a terrible actress.

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NecroWolf
Joined: Oct 2005

Posted: Aug 28th, 2012 at 8:19 pm
Perhaps she's a terrible actress in your opinion, I happen to like her a lot. I also tend to hang around a lot of 'gamers', and the majority seem to enjoy the movies. But hey, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Aug 28th, 2012 at 11:07 pm
Milla isn't a terrible actress at all, those movies are just cheesy and goofy as hell. And Paul Anderson directed the first one, what do you expect?!

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wildmario
Joined: Jan 2007

Posted: Aug 28th, 2012 at 10:46 pm
I think because the movies are not connected to the games are the reason why many people don't like the movie versions. It basically takes the name of the franchise and nothing else backing it up. I don't remember anyone ever liking that Final Fantasy movie for being different when it could have easily been another generic sci fi movie in a different name.

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daverabbit
Joined: Oct 2008

Posted: Aug 28th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
It's like this post was plucked from my brain. 100% agree with everything that was stated, even the love for Mario Bros.

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dirty_f
Joined: Nov 2010

Posted: Aug 28th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
To be honest i don't even really think of Silent Hill as being adapted from a game, which may be because i didn't spend a lot of time playing the games. Don't get me wrong, i liked and appreciated the connections and realise there would be no movie if not for the game but at the end of the day when i think of that movie, i think of it as being one of the few great horror movies to be released in the last 10 years. Fucken love that movie.

N ya know what? I enjoyed Doom. I thought it was good fun.

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OdiousLupous
Joined: Jul 2011

Posted: Aug 28th, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Seeing a villain use the entire body of skin and hurl it at another person made me think alright the Silent Hill movie isnt all that bad. Its wrong, I know but daddy likes his old slasher flick now and then.

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Jonathan_Leack
Joined: Jan 2012

Posted: Aug 28th, 2012 at 9:20 pm
I'm actually very excited for this film. The first one was great, and I love the games.

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Aug 28th, 2012 at 11:09 pm
Silent Hill was good, better than I expected, although the bad writing and dumb ending don't help it.

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Lien
Joined: Feb 2008

Posted: Aug 29th, 2012 at 2:27 am
Can't wait till we see a love romance between the male and female character then wait for the climax scene where the male character sacrifice for her sake. And before the movie credits she will spend a final flashback wit hall the found memories of him and her.

...Sigh... i hate hollywood studio's decisions sometimes...

Still from the stills, this movie might pull it off.

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