look forward to Silent Hill 2

Rating: 3/10 (23 April 2006)

the actors - excellent the artwork and sets - excellent
The mood of the game was captured stylistically, and yet emotionally i did not feel immersed in the dark world, as one can experience in the game.
isolation, paranoia, claustrophobia, anxiety -all very difficult emotions to convey through visual story telling. I think of Kubrick's 'The Shining' of an example of how to create mood through a powerful musical score, cinematography, and very little dialog, mundane conversation, facial expression and the tension of suspense.
I wish the film was more dream like, with much less literal verbal explanation. Narrower story focus, staying in the dark world. I wish the actress was just left alone to mutter to herself. More internal personal conflict rather than being surrounded with a cast of townspeople.
I think this movie was killed in committee, way too many characters and competing story lines forced together. I can only assume the studio had too much control over production and sabotaged the concentration of the director. Perhaps the multiple 'Executive Producers' got scared the production would fail and withdrew their financing. Because you can tell this thing was thrown together in a bizarre illogical manner. Entire scenes needed to be scrapped, rewritten and re-shot.
It seems that Silent Hill's considerable existing base of artwork was expropriated to tell a fast paced sweeping epic of a film, a Hollywood action type of story rather than what this subject matter required- a thought provoking, very personal experience of hell on earth. I would like to change the pacing and focus of the film to a grim determined Karasawa style.
i have to say the entire cast and crew is so talented, it really hurt to see such a horrible failure. 30 seconds of the silent hill game would be scarier than this movie.
the editing of this movie was Horrific.
I am seriously hoping that a directors cut DVD is released which is radically different than this studio version.
#1- erase the husband from the script.
Sean Bean is one of the great actors working today. He was used in this movie like a card board cut out.
The cast and crew are some of the most talented people in the business of film making. I loved 'brotherhood of the wolf.' I had a 10 year old little girl next to me laughing at how bad and unscary this movie was. And I quote "That was retarded."
Sometimes good intentioned people are warped be circumstances they do not understand to do horrible things, they look back and say how did it get so bad, how did I allow myself to fall so far into hell. This movie is an example of the same message it was trying to convey.
I wish only the best for the individuals who worked on this movie in their future endeavors, and I look forward to Silent Hill 2.