Wait. What was so idiotic about the ending? It certainly wasn’t High Art, but it wasn’t particularly stupid. It’s been a few years, so remind me.
Dude, I am a dirty, dirty Silent Hill whore. I have all the games and have played each of them through to all possible endings. I love Silent Hill. This board introduced me to the games, btw.
Even so, the ending to the movie sucked. Maybe they were reaching for “enigmatic.” All they achieved was “muddled.” Believe me, as a fan of the game series, I am well aware that not everything in Silent Hill is resolved nor is everything internally consistent. Hell, lots of times things just plain don’t make sense. I still found that ending idiotic. Are they dead? Are they in a parallel world? Both? Some other fourth thing?
Edited to add: The sequel begins filming next month supposedly. In 3D. I don’t have a lot of confidence that they will produce anything memorably good.
As you said, though, this seems fully in keeping with the game. What was idiotic about it?
I’m sincerely asking, by the way, not trying to win an argument.
For me, the problem was the lack of resolution. The games are often confusing and/or inconsistent on background details, notably what is causing the strangeness in silent hill. The games do have (multiple possible) endings that wrap up the story of the main character, though. In SH1, the canon ending_based on the fact that there is a SH3_is that Harry finds [a form of] his daughter and the two of them leave Silent Hill together. Dahlia et. al. perish. In SH2, James finds out that his wife is dead and he is the killer. In SH3, Heather takes revenge for Harry’s murder and learns more about her own background. In SH4, Henry saves (or doesn’t) Eileen and ends (or doesn’t) Walter’s nefarious scheme. In SH Homecoming, Alex finds out what was really going on and how is brother actually died. In SH Origins, the canon ending has Travis safely leaving Silent Hill after helping Alessa create the baby containing half her soul. None of the game endings, even the joke ones, leave the player with a “WTF just happened!?” feeling like the movie did.
I can understand that, and if I were as interested in the entire storyline, I might feel the same way you do. To me, the movie felt like a way to summarize the huge plot arc in the span of a movie’s length. I thought that by focusing on the atmosphere of Silent Hill, as well as the (really rather nasty) undertone of twisted sexuality that pervades it, they really succeeded with the movie.
The ending did clunk a bit, I suppose, given the husband’s (Harry’s?) storyline, but eh, it was the least interesting bit of the story anyway. Alessa’s nightmare world was the star, and if they do SH2, they can always do something with Harry’s part, and whether they are alive or not.
I guess I’m saying I don’t care THAT much for the moment, and we obviously have a different (if related) story in the movie(s) than in the games.
You really should find a smaller font, a much smaller font, when writing that.
I kinda like the original Tomb Raider movie.
Final Fantasy: Spirits Within I enjoyed too.
None will win any awards but I enjoyed them.
Cautiously holding my breath for Bioshock. Could be amazing, will probably suck horribly.
I thought that Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children was a pretty good sequel to the game.
Yes and no. I found it awesome visually, but even if you played the original game the scenario didn’t make a lick of sense. The visuals are more than enough to distract one from that, though.
I watched it in full “WOAAAAH!” mode. And the little touches were really cool, like one of the bad guys having the traditional “combat won !” jingle as his cell phone ring (and of course getting called just after he thoroughly thrashed Tifa)
Silent Hill was ok IMHO. Pretty creepy with a decent enough cast.
The Resident Evil films are ok stupid zombie films
Street Fighter was hilariously bad.
I think this may be another thread altogether, but the Final Fantasy games have never been widely renowned (amongst my circle of friends, anyway) as telling the most coherent stories. I’m STILL trying to figure out Final Fantasy VIII.
And I’m still trying to work out how you have an entire series of games with No relation to each other whatsoever.
All with the word “Final” in their title.
Oh, dear god. That movie was almost Pearl Harbor bad.
To be fair, the filmmakers pulled that plot point from Mortal Kombat 3.
There’s a relation, it’s just not from the plot. However, items, people, and things have similar structure among the games, and the pacing of the storyline generally is pretty similar
Sorry, not buying it. It’d be like having a movie directed by George Lucas entitled Star Wars Episode XVI and instead of it being set in a Galaxy Far, Far Away, it’s set in India during World War I and is about a postman and his cat delivering mail to a Maharajah and his beautiful daughter.
Inspired by this fanfilm.
And of course there’s Tetris: the Movie…
It’s not that bad. FF games have a general setting that’s been increasing in technology slowly over the course of it’s history. It’s always some part medieval/part sci-fi fantasy world where you use swords and magic in addition to guns and technology.
In addition to that, much of the enemies, spells, items, and location names are related or the same. There’s always a guy named Cid/Sid in them. The protagonist is always some plucky youngster out to save the world from a great evil.
From the playing perspective, if you are familiar with one game, it makes it a lot easier to pick up and play a different one, even if the battle mechanics are changeds
It’s more like if Lucas tried to remake the prequels into something that isn’t the prequels, but simply set in a different time, trying to copy his first 3 movies, telling a different Jedi story using many of the same characters
WC was a decent enough movie about an aircraft carrier in spaaaace! I enjoyed it as long as I ignored (1) the violations of microgee / freefall / vacuum, and (2) any connection to the game of the same name.