See it with no expectations

Rating: 10/10 (10 May 2006)

I had few expectations when I first saw this movie, except that I know I love Roger Avary's writing. Before I alienate any people who hated the movie, I will explain...some of this dialog and acting was meant to BE BAD!!! Although I love the story arch of the silent hill games the writing for dialog is downright AWFUL with acting worse than Keanu Reeves. In general I'd say most of the acting is quite good, but anyone has to admit moments like: --"They used to say this town was haunted" --"I think they were right" is so awful it makes skill crawl worse than any of the haunting images in the rest of the film.
I feel its great some of the better people in Hollywood are willing to make fun of the original source material, which they obviously were ashamed to love. Some plot points are difficult to follow, but I feel most people should be able to pick up on it if they aren't some drunk frat boy who wants to talk to the screen instead of watching what is on the screen.(I say this cause they were very loud in the theater the rest of the time.)
Sure, there's a lot of metaphors in it and I don't even want anyone to try and interpret it or worse say someone is far off. Things like this are left sketch with a few puzzle pieces missing and are meant for you to fill it in and make sense of it however you like! (Unless DVD audio-commentary tells you otherwise.) I never understood people being afraid during movies or complain about not being scared. I haven't been scared during a movie since I was a little kid and it was some awful film like tremors. Sit down and enjoy a surreal movie with some dark images a decent story and satire, I did.
It is what it is.