Whatever happened to the Solomon Kane trilogy?

[MOVIELORD101]

So basically the Weinstein's sat on the movie? That is utterly moronic! Why would they do that? From an economic stand point that makes no earthly sense!!!

Dude, the Weinstein's are NOTORIOUS for crap like this. It's nothing new. They pulled the same **** with All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (a 2007 thriller that is considered quite good that got the exact same screwed-over history Solomon Kane has), and would've gotten away with doing the exact same thing to the Jet Li movie "Hero" had Quentin Tarantino (one the few people they WON'T screw around with) not gotten involved and made himself producer in order to get the movie released.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

SH got some things right but it has more bad stuff then good. I applaud him for trying to merge the game mythology with the previous movie's.

Visually, there was still a lot of Silent Hill in there. But the way he tried to merge the mythology was just wrong. Had they just went another route, it could've worked. By that I mean, the main cultist woman was supposedly the sister of the one from the first film, and they tried to merge the cult ideas for the game, but the more Christian anti-witch church from the first film was nothing like the cult from the games. Had they just called it a separate cult or sect that was also steeped in the weird happenings of Silent Hill, or the opposite side, that believed Alessa was the pathway to God, it'd have been fine.

Not to mention that instead of ending on something really horrific, or doing something like one of the games, it ended with a monster brawl with Pyramid Head and not-Cenobite monster.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I give Bassett and the studio no credit for Silent Hill Revelations, it is an utter disaster of a film. It is one of the worst films that I have ever seen.

As for Kane, I watched it but I can't remember it that well.

 

[Sundancer]

No need to PM. I can say it here:

Ok, bear in mind, Basset was only hired to do SH: Revelations b/c they needed a replacement for Roger Avery, who wrote the first movie and was supposed to write and direct this one. He got booted off due to being in prison for some sort of manslaughter charge, so they desperately hired the next person they could find. Avery, much like the director of the first movie, was a fan of the games. Basset, as far as I can tell, never played the games, hence the dumb ideas like making Pyramid Head a good guy and the Alessa fight towards the end.

Huh. I thought Bassett was a fan. The Alessa carousal encounter is straight from the game, and having PH her protector arguably fits with the first movie's theme of his role. The "cenobite" is based off Valtiel, I think. You can research that on YouTube.


Now I want to listen to Kane's commentary...if there is one.