SILENT HILL
Theater: Showcase Cinema de Lux 16, Okolona, Kentucky
Director's Hall
Never played the video games, but like Resident Evil, I'm pretty sure there wasn't as much scantily-clad womenfolk in it originally. And what little I know about the game, it starts with a mother in a car crash, and when she wakes up her daughter is gone ... a much better opening to get us into the movie rather than dealing with meaningless exposition to explain things in words that are covered later anyways.
And of course, you can't market a movie with a mother all alone in a ghost town searching for her daughter ... you need people for her to interact with.
Hence the female motorcycle cop who happens to drop in, and adds the awkward lesbian flair so standard in horror fare nowadays, and who sacrifices her life for no good reason ... but we'll get to that later.
The film starts creepy, then gets creepy with lesbian overtones, then just gets disgustingly brutal and violent. But nowhere in here is even the hint of a good movie, much less one that makes sense. Maybe I should have played the video games, but I find that to be a weakness in an adaptation: it's your duty to explain the narrative as clearly to both those familiar with the material to those seeing it for the first time.
See it if - you like female motorcycle cops.
Rent it if - you played the game; you like gore; you like female motorcycle cops in the privacy of your own home.
Director's Hall
Never played the video games, but like Resident Evil, I'm pretty sure there wasn't as much scantily-clad womenfolk in it originally. And what little I know about the game, it starts with a mother in a car crash, and when she wakes up her daughter is gone ... a much better opening to get us into the movie rather than dealing with meaningless exposition to explain things in words that are covered later anyways.
And of course, you can't market a movie with a mother all alone in a ghost town searching for her daughter ... you need people for her to interact with.
Hence the female motorcycle cop who happens to drop in, and adds the awkward lesbian flair so standard in horror fare nowadays, and who sacrifices her life for no good reason ... but we'll get to that later.
The film starts creepy, then gets creepy with lesbian overtones, then just gets disgustingly brutal and violent. But nowhere in here is even the hint of a good movie, much less one that makes sense. Maybe I should have played the video games, but I find that to be a weakness in an adaptation: it's your duty to explain the narrative as clearly to both those familiar with the material to those seeing it for the first time.
See it if - you like female motorcycle cops.
Rent it if - you played the game; you like gore; you like female motorcycle cops in the privacy of your own home.
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