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THERE WAS A SOLOMON KANE MOVIE?!?! WHY HAS NO ONE EVER TOLD ME THIS!? | |
Thank FUCK they aren't touching James and his story. If they did, I would actually gather an army and raise his production office to the ground. I can safely say I have no further worries. This movie can suck all it wants, I have no attachments to Harry or Heather Mason. | |
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I have 3 questions. WHy are they making another one? Why is James Sunderland not the main character? How will Pyramid Head be fan serviced into this one? | |
If this is like the first it's another mixed blessing. Starts out with a strong premise, by the end it's really speeding at terminal velocity towards the ground. "Constantine meets The Expendables." I wonder if they'll throw Sean Bean into the mix again. | |
Last paragraph, third sentence. You said "thew movie." Gotta love typos. On-topic, I haven't seen anything this new director has made, so I can't really make a judgement as to whether or not this will likely be any good. The "filmed in 3D" bit isn't particularly inspiring, though. | |
The first movie was pretty good...and I fucking love silent hill...this is the only game I am a fangirl about I know the monsters, the symbolism, the storylines, I've read the comics, the books, hell pretty much anything. The third game wasn't that bad but the story really wasn't freaky...it had the doom 3 scare scenario where its a quick startle...the movie sounds like the premise the game should have had so I'm not too worried. | |
Come on, the first movie was that bad. For a movie based on a game I mean. You had an interesting plot, creepy effects, and a completely batshit (not in the good way) cult. Granted, the story wasn't following the game verbatim, but at least it wasn't as awful as it could have been. | |
Be thankful. It was fucking horrendous. Death Watch on the other hand, was absolutely awesome. | |
aparently it's really good, everyone i've spoken to that has seen it recommends it. Deathwatch was really good too. looking forward to it | |
So I assume Heather discovers she's actually Keanu Reeves and needs to gather a bunch of badly aging action stars to help her kill Satan? That sounds like it'd be more entertaining than the first movie at least so I guess it could be worse. Seriously though, I have to assume he's referring to a completely different script because the idea of anything based on Silent Hill being in any way similar to The Expendables doesn't make the least bit of sense. It also makes me die a little inside. | |
Because the fans love it. Because they know better. ...Good question. OT: Uh...Silent Hill similar to the Expendables? Fuck that; its a horror franchise, not a mediocre action film. If anything I want it to be a cross between the Grudge and SH3. | |
Can't say this will end well. 'Constantine meets The Expendables'? Fail. Hollywood is certainly running out of ideas, I wouldn't mind if they could follow the damned story. It's like they're trying to piss off the fans. I understand moving from an interactive medium to a non-interactive one is difficult - and if it doesn't work, drop it. We'll thank you for it. | |
yay the second movie is about the 3rd game in the series *sigh* my least favorite game of the classic games (by classic I mean Silent Hill 1 through 4). Why do Silent Hill need to be a movie ? | |
What we need is a Guillermo Del Toro directed Silent Hill movie. Think about it. Definitely awesome. | |
So it's going to yet another sequel with gimmick 3D. Wonderful. | |
This... is going to be... well, terrible is an understatement. The director has made 4 bad films and a very sub-par, sludge-like grey TV series, that no one watched. Let me sum up his latest effort; Solomon Kane, for the unaware: Utter trash. With special effects from the 90's era of CGI badness, a cast of gurning plebeians and some of the worst pacing/plotting/scripting I've seen in recent years. I had to think for a while of what film it reminded me of, then, it came to me - Van Helsing. If you liked that equally terrible turnip faced freak of a film, then by all means, start hyping yourself for the offal he's about to create. If not, avoid like the plague. | |
Uh...ouch? I love Silent Hill, especially the second, but I'm not too sure about the whole Constantin+Expendables=Good Movie. As long as the movie's good in its own right I don't care much, but mixing some Silent Hill with that whole deal seems like a recipe for disaster. Eitherway, I'll leep my mind open. | |
I watched the first movie, and it wasn't terrible. As a fan of the games, I can't help but get pissed off at them totally running wild with the story and shoe-horning Pyramid Head in there so fans of the game actually had a reason to watch the movie. I'll still watch this movie, but my concerns were that they'd totally butcher Silent Hill 2's story, characters and setting. They aren't, so I have something to be thankful for. | |
Hey guys. | |
I don't care that it's in 3-D or even if it sucks. I just want the damn sequel already. | |
I loved the first movie. One of the best game to movie adaptation i have seen(though it could do without Sean Bean. Reading the idea for the second movie just creeps me out, it just sounds terrible. | |
I hope they focus more on giving it the same oppressive atmosphere this time around. There were too many human characters. I want the main character to be isolated with out anyone to help her but herself. Any people she encounters should be unreliable or potentially dangerous and few and far between. | |
did anyone else read the name and think "michael ba- HOLY SHIT!"
lets see about... 1 person helped the main character the rest wanted her to be burned because she was an evil witch. like a 200 to 1 ratio. | |
Wouldn't it be better if - you know, Sean Bean goes to Silent Hill to look for his missing wife and daughter? What else was the motherfucker doing in the first movie? | |
3D yay! I love it when a film has 3D in the title it's so helpful to me, means I know exactly what film to avoid. | |
how many people do you know that say "that movie was that bad"? I am pretty sure he meant wasn't that bad. | |
Being filler since it didn't have any male character in the original script. I mean those scenes really take the pace out of the movie. Ok it does explain a few things but still the movie wouldn't have been worse without those scenes | |
Good luck on that. American horror for the win guys! *Sarcastic thumbs up* | |
You, sir, are mistaken. The Silent Hill movie is "Star Wars Prequel" bad. And that isn't in the sense that it is simply clearly inferior to it's predecessors. They missed the point of the series in every sense of the word in service of only kind of being reminiscent of the atmosphere(like the aforementioned prequels). As a generic horror movie, it was pretty bad. As a supposed translation of Silent Hill to the silver screen, it's fucking awful. | |
Hm...I was kind of hoping they would resolve the storyline with the girl being possessed, and she and her mother being trapped in the "Silent Hill" world. Hard to imagine they've been there for nearly a decade, but I suppose it would work... | |
I quite liked the movie. I had to understand something right out of the gate; the Silent Hill series has a deep and carefully connected mythos, and I knew 1) that however good they may be in every other area, the new games would likely never catch on to that, and 2) that the movie will have 0 connection and can almost be forgotten that it's related to my favourite game series. Now it's on that second point that I will dwell. See, I went into that movie with nothing more than the atmosphere on my back... and I didn't need it, because the movie created its own. Most of the monsters were rebuilds of the creatures from the games, with carefully constructed costumes (not CG, which I am glad for), inhuman walking and twitching that they needed acrobats for. The new monster designs, working from a new base principle? Holy freaking moly, they were GENIUS. If I had never heard of Silent Hill, I'd be holding them up as the best "creature feature" designs of all time. The storyline made sense from a movie perspective. I've seen much more convoluted movies; it seems hollywood hipsters love them. The setup was better than I expected, but still not superb. See? That's not so bad.The acting was good, the story was OK, and the effects friggin' made it. What do people hate so much? It has nothing to do with the games in my mind; it's just an interesting coincidence. You know what else? The mine fire angle is something I wish had been included in Silent Hill 1. Stick that in your rusty pipe and smoke it. | |
"Constantine meets The Expendables." Yet another example of people not understanding Silent Hill, but quality of films too. | |
I was impressed with Deathwatch. I'll be interested to see how this turns out. | |
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Second Silent Hill Movie Finds a Director in the Fog
After several false starts, the Silent Hill movie sequel is finally moving forward.
British film maker Michael J. Bassett has signed on to write and direct the sequel to the 2006 Silent Hill movie. Bassett's previous work includes writing and directorial duties on World War I horror Deathwatch, and last year's Solomon Kane.
The movie's working title is Silent Hill 2: Revelation 3D, which will hopefully change before it gets to theaters. The movie will follow 18-year-old Heather Mason, who, along with her father, has spent her whole life fleeing from something that she doesn't understand. After her father goes missing, she learns that she isn't who she thought she was, a revelation that threatens to trap her in Silent Hill forever. If that sounds familiar, it's because it's basically the plot of Silent Hill 3, with a few tweaks here and there.
In a recent blog post, Bassett talked about a new script he was working on that he described as "Constantine meets The Expendables." Whether this was a reference to his Silent Hill script isn't clear. It's certainly doesn't sound like a Silent Hill script, but we don't really know how closely Bassett is planning to stick to the source material. The news that the movie will be shot in 3D is a little troubling, but it's much too early to make assumptions about how the effect will be used.
Christophe Gans, who directed the first Silent Hill movie, announced that Sony Pictures officially ordered a sequel in 2006. The project was "stalled" when the man originally hired to direct it, Roger Avary, was jailed for a year after being found guilty of vehicular manslaughter. Producer Don Carmody said that he had a rough outline for the movie, and it would appear that Sony has elected to take that outline and hand it over to someone else, rather than wait for Avary's release. It seems unlikely that Silent Hill 2 will come out before 2012 at the earliest, as it would appear that the production is starting from scratch.
Source: Bleeding Cool
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