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Originally Posted by Canyarion
Probably not. Maybe if I read that it's not as scary/violent as the game. 
I decided not to watch movies like The Ring and TBP.  |
If you listen to the critics, it's a piece of trash that's not scary, takes itself too seriously, contains laughable dialogue, and makes little or no sense despite a long attempt at trying to explain itself...
Which basically sums up the game series itself (minus the label of "trash" and the attempts to explain itself)...
I never found the games very "scary", exactly... Moreso just dark and twisted, which is what the movie is...
And while it's sad to see laughable dialogue carry over into the movie, when it boils down to it
if I could tolerate it in the games, I can tolerate it in the film...
And I think the movie makes sense in that usual vague, some-stuff-left-up-to-personal-interpretation Silent Hilly sort of way...
Where the movie scores a big win is the visuals... They absolutely positively
nailed the Silent Hill visual style and atmosphere... The monsters look amazing, and what's even more amazing is that, despite some people's complaints of "Terrible CGI monsters", they were done mostly by practical means (people in suits)...
And the otherworld... Oh, the otherworld... My only complaint is that the movie didn't spend enough time there...
So while the general public views this as video-game movies moving from over-stylized cornball action flicks (Resident Evil, Doom) to over-stylized nonsensical, boring trash, I think it's a tasty treat for Silent Hill fans...