farewell silent hill..

[Eelectro 2]

in all honesty, i think it's very hard to compare the feeling you personally get from watching a movie about a game you have already played. nothing compares to the first time you play through a creepy or scary game. nothing compares to actually being in control of what happens either. whereas a movie is going to happen and progress forward within an hour and a half, maybe 2 hours, and it's not going to strike you half as creppy because you personally (mentally) don't have to walk past those nurses or outrun something scary. you can get easily sucked into a movie, and for that i liked silent hill. but games have and always will (if done right) have more of a personal touch to the player/viewer, something which most movies can't really do the same

 

[CaptainClown]

looks like ill never understand the ending to the first movie

heh

 

[CaptainClown]

in all honesty, i think it's very hard to compare the feeling you personally get from watching a movie about a game you have already played. nothing compares to the first time you play through a creepy or scary game. nothing compares to actually being in control of what happens either. whereas a movie is going to happen and progress forward within an hour and a half, maybe 2 hours, and it's not going to strike you half as creppy because you personally (mentally) don't have to walk past those nurses or outrun something scary. you can get easily sucked into a movie, and for that i liked silent hill. but games have and always will (if done right) have more of a personal touch to the player/viewer, something which most movies can't really do the same

that is very true, but still really no excuse for some odd moments with the dialogue. Well that was for me

 

[Space Moose]

90% of video game adaptions suck.

 

[CaptainClown]

what movies are those last 10 percent?

 

[Figs]

what movies are those last 10 percent?

Yeah, I think he should up his percentage to 95%-99% lol.

 

[Dr. Manhatten]

If he's gone, I"m fine with it. The script made no sense and if another writer is brought on that could make sense of the first one, it'd be welcome. It was very well made though

 

[Bastila]

I thought the film was ok, better then I thought.

Shame, I wanted to see another one, since the ending was so weird lol.

 

[Episode29]

But think about it, some of the best games ever have the most ridiculous and/or cliche plots...Those games are good not really because of their stories, but because of gameplay and presentation.

A decently written video game adaptation will still end up relying on the video game's story as a reference. The trick is, finding the right story to tell and doing something new with it. Silent Hill was pretty close to hitting this balance. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Silent Hill is the most critically acclaimed video game adaptation so far.

-TNC

Critical Reception (Taken From Rottentomatoes.com)
Silent Hill: 28%
Resident Evil: 33%
Resident Evil: Apocalypse: 21%
Resident Evil: Extinction 26%
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within: 43%
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: 19%
Lara Croft: Cradle Of Life: 23%
Mortal Kombat: 20%
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation: 4%
House Of The Dead: 4%
Alone In The Dark: 1%
Doom: 19%
Street Fighter: 27%
Double Dragon: 0%
Super Mario Bros.: 6%
D.O.A.: 34%

Actually, it appears that Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is, critically speaking, the greatest video game adaptation of all time (which is a really, really sad accomplishment) with an earth-shattering 43%. I would say though that due to the fact Rottentomatoes doesn't have a large sampling of reviews that predate the late 90's, Mortal Kombat may have the edge. I'd guess it'd be somewhere around the mid 40-50% level. Regardless, as the facts show, Silent Hill ain't the title holder.

I do agree with you one hundred percent that most video game stories are cliched and shallow. Even ones with "epic" tales ala Halo or whatever are extremely simplistic when laid out, and really quite dull. Video game stories are simply clothes lines which stitch together playable scenarios. They are a constantly repeating pattern with little nuance or artistic flourish. As far as I'm concerned the only way to make a sucessful adaptation is to take the base, core concept and create an entirely new story around it (ala Mortal Kombat).

 

[bullets]

id rather see the nocturnals anyway

 

[Fenrir]

Silent Hill would've been a good film if it hadn't gone completely down the drain in the last half-hour or so. The rest of the film was a pretty faithful adaptation of the games and delightful to watch.

 

[bullets]

it was allright , i forgot about it though .