Movie Details
| Title: | Silent Hill | |
| Director: | Christophe Gans | |
| Year: | 2006 | |
| Genre: | Video Game | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 04.20.06 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (0)
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 04.20.06 | Regal Metropolitan | So after that we headed over to the Metro and walked right in to a sneak preview of Silent Hill, complete with obnoxious free-movie crowds that turn from semi-civilized (just shy of being able to shut up during the movie) human beings to mindless zombies hungering for free t-shirts rather than brains. Perhaps I don't like seeing us as a species devolve so much so quickly like that, or maybe i'm just a misanthrope... either way though, I hate these early screenings. Still though, I didn't think I'd have time to see this with QTfest starting up so there you go. I've never played any of the games so I was a complete virgin going into this. I have to say I really liked it. It felt like I was watching someone play the video game in the exact right way, catching all of the cinematics in just the right spot and surviving the combat with just the right amount of health and ammo left over. Maybe that doesn't work for some people, but I like to think that I used to be a pretty hardcore gamer so I was fine with it. All of the creature design really rocked my socks. I guess they're all straight from the game so kudos to the game but kudos to Avary and Gans for not feeling compelled to change them. By far my favorite dude was Pyramid Head. hearing him drag that anime-size blade around was probably the creepiest part of the movie for me. Usually when I see CG bugs I am immediately taken out of it and somewhat annoyed. While everyone in the theater squirmed around in King Kong during those bug scenes I was absolutely fine... But having a dude with a pyramid head dragging a huge blade around made me disregard the bugs completely, which was good. There's also a gag where he rips all of the flesh off of this girl and flings her hide at Rahda Mitchell that floored me. Awesome! Also, toward the end one character gets charbroiled over a bonfire and you see the flesh on her face boil and crisp. Never seen that in a film before, I was pretty impressed. Toward the end, there's some stuff done with barbed wire which tripped my suspension of disbelief breaker... but for the most part I was really engaged with it... really enjoyed it a lot. It's still weird when we gt like a solid 5 minutes of exposition right at the climax of the movie... so much like a video game... but you know, it flowed. I just thought about how this print, which had that one sequence artificially aged to look like the film was all dirty and scratched, will look in 20 years when it's supposed to dissolve to a clean white screen but doesn't. I have to believe that someone somewhere will still be projecting film prints far into the future, so movies like this and Seven and Fight Club with their dirty-film "looks" will grow into accuracy. So after that I actually made it downtown and even parked and was completely set to see Warhol's Dracula at midnight when I gouged my big toe on some random piece of metal sticking out of the sidewalk. I walked a few blocks down to a mini-mart while I bled out onto my sandal and tried to clean it up right there on a street bench, pouring foaming hydrogen peroxide onto the sidewalk and trying to get a band-aid on it... but by then it was past midnight and my sandal was all bloody and sticky and I stank of peroxide so I limped back up to my car and drove home. Maybe it's a sign saying 3 movies is my limit today, maybe I should just look where I'm going. Either way I hope I don't get lockjaw. That would suck. |
