teosoleil wrote:Lol. The first movie's story was bad because of changes made to the original core story, to adapt to Gan's vision?
You're ignoring the fact that Harry was changed to Rose because of Harry's very feminine characteristics as a person, and the fact that the entire movie deals with themes that revolve around motherhood, what makes a good mother or bad mother, and how mother is god in the eyes of a child. Hell, the movie's last full line is "Mother is god in the eyes of a child." Without a female version of Harry, none of this would have worked at all.
The movie felt like Silent Hill just because of its visuals? What about the soundtrack? Acting? Symbolism? Cinematography? It seems like you credit the first movie for visuals only and deem every other area lackluster without explaining why. All these other aspects of the film adds to the atmosphere that is so "Silent Hill".
No. What brought on the Chris side story was the decision of the film's executives who felt that a two-hour long movie without men in it would not be received well.and that change brought on the Chris side story, which killed the pacing
And even if the pacing with that side of the movie was horrible, it really is nothing compared to the pacing of Revelations.
Hell, the first movie didn't have much closeness to the original story, but managed to adapt a lot of meaningful and deep details into film. On the other hand, you have Revelations, which is extremely close to the game in many ways but fails to convey deeper details or any meaningful aspects as a whole.
And, even though he did get the story close to where it needed to be for future, non-Order related installments, he created a whole lot of problems and a bunch of mess that just can't be ignored unless you ignore important events of the first movie entirely. In fact, I would go as far as to say that the new aspect ofcan only be taken seriously if you take the first movie out of the film canon at all, or, alternatively, having Revelations take place in an AU.PRIME_BBCODE_SPOILER_SHOW PRIME_BBCODE_SPOILER:people now being drawn to Silent Hill
I disagree. I got about as many deep details out of Revelations as I did the first movie.....And I get the movie, it just didn't much for me on the emotional side of things...and I didn't care for any of the characters in the first movie....Rose was reckless and put her daughter in danger by taking her to a town that she knew was dangerous....Desperate or not....You don't do that....And yeah, lets run from the cops in the pouring rain and crash through a closed gate....Because thats just stupid. Cybil...Ok, she was pretty cool...But whats up with her making a useless sacrifice when could have easily went with Rose on the elevator, cause they weren't going to follow them into hell ....That's shoddy writing...
The acting? Really....It was just as bad as Revelations....The symbolism would have been fine if it wasn't all over the place....Oh, lets throw religious imagery at everyone, make statements like "I go by many names", have Alessa called a demon the entire movie and have a scene where it looks like she it making a deal with the devil.....Only to mess with everyone....Cause ya know...She's not a demon...
The cinematography is fine, The Visuals are fine, the music was fine....The Writing, Pacing, Acting was off....Way off.....Again, these are just opinions....
On the side of Revelations....It suffers from alot of the same problems....Pacing, Writing, at times the acting is just plain bad....There are a couple scenes that don't fit(The Mall)....The Retcons(which I can live with, again, just an opinion)....And the movie has more going on under the surface that some people are giving it credit for. at least I thought so...
About people being drawn to Silent Hill....How else do you set up the fact that Silent Hill isn't just a place Alessa created? Thats a problem Gans created....and Bassett had to fix it, and I have no problems with the way he did....
I never understood this either...I think it was just a way to rationalize his changes to the story....I'm still somewhat mystified by this assertion, and have been ever since Gans said it. What part of Harry's attitude or actions were feminine? Was it that he gave a shit about his daughter? Or was it that he ran like he had a corncob stuck up his ass?