Avary & Gans Skip SILENT HILL 2

Thank god. Those two did more damage to Silent Hill than I could have possibly imagined. They should hire me as the screenwriter for the next installment. I have a 'relaunch' (on par with the upcoming Hulk movie) planned that's positively killer.

Ahem. Not that I've prayed for this or anything.

I thought the first Silent Hill movie kicked ass, not sure why some people think it sucked so bad. But the good thing about Silent Hill, is you don't NEED a relaunch, you can just have a whole new story with new characters that involves the town and it's demons. Each movie can be completely different and have no relation to the other.

I'm sad that Gans is passing on it though.

I have to agree with you, BryanWay. And it's funny you mentioned wanting to be hired as the screenwriter. I would write Silent Hill 2 tomorrow if I were the guy doing it, and I would stay pretty close to the game's story, because I like it so much.

With movies based on a game like Silent Hill, people don't want the exact same storyline. I think the makers of the Silent Hill film captured the mood and world of Silent Hill very well.

Maybe the movie didn't scare the crap outta me as much as the game, but it still scared the crap outta me. I was squirming in my seat.

Bottom line, it was a good adaptation.

BryanWay, if you have a script idea, write it and get yourself an agent. Hollywood needs new blood.

I liked the movie.
It had a good atmosphere, some great effects, and some good acting.
There were some bad plot points and a few mediocre actors, but overall I enjoyed it.

Not interested in this. I like Gans well enough, but my natural aversion to VG adaptations kept me away from SH1, and I still don't see much reason to deviate from that course of action.

Another vietnam movie? Do we really need it?

As far as video game adaptations go, this movie rocked. It was scary, weird, creepy, gross, all the great things a horror movie should be. I mean, do you want the movie to be the same as the game? How would that be good? People complain so much. And normally those who can't do, complain. I am not saying the movie was a masterpeice, but it was better than a lot of video game movies. Although, I did like DOOM. I thought it was fun.

I have a script idea. In fact, it's fleshed out to 103 pages at the moment, and I'm in the process of cleaning it up. It follows the game almost exactly while beefing up the character arcs, cutting the bad dialogue, and cutting a few locations. All the characters are there and I didn't add any new ones. The problem I'm worried about is that the very basic premise of my script is so similar to the bastardized movie. The Silent Hill opening in the alleyway is nearly exact, and it's a parent looking for a child who has something to do with the town. Fortunately, I've excised the retarded witch-hunt element.

Speaking of which, this movie was a TERRIBLE adaptation. The only thing worthwhile was the production design. Acting, writing, exposition, plots; all of them were awful. The reason VG movies fail so terribly is because the writers and producers ignore the plots of the games and assume that the audiences will want to see something they've never seen before. That is NOT the case. That's like saying 'To Kill A Mockingbird is good, but the audience won't want to see the same characters and situations or they'll complain it's just like the book, so let's write out Atticus Finch.' Obviously the comparison isn't literal, but you see what I mean.

Writers, producers, and directors assume that the fans want to see something new and that if they stray from the formula, it will attract people who aren't fans. In reality, they aren't making a BETTER movie, merely a DIFFERENT one, and changing the plot and characters pisses off more game fans than it pleases. Could you imagine if they decided to get rid of Professor X and Wolverine in X-Men and tried to come up with new, cooler characters? When people tried adapting The Maltese Falcon book into a movie, they failed until John Huston patterned the screenplay after the book as exactly as he could. The rest is history. Part of what made Sin City so good was that they followed the plot so precisely that Rodriguez refused to shoot anything that wasn't in the comic.

Unfortunately, the best VG adaptation was Mortal Kombat. Yes, I know, it's bottom of the barrel, but the characters and situations were intact, and actual actors were bypassed for people who knew martial arts. The spirit and point of the game was kept alive, and based on such thin material (it's a fighting game, for god's sake), they did wonders.

My point is, the only good video game adaptations will come from people who actually love the games enough to stay faithful to the material. I've been proven right by every video game adaptation in the past ten years, and I'll keep saying this until they try my idea and it fails.

I think people who played the game didn't like the movie. and, those who didn't play the game liked the film. My friend loved the game, but didn't like the movie. I've only played the game here and there and thought the movie rocked.

But, I admit; I hate when Hollywood changes major plot points from comics or books when they make them into films. So, I completely understand why those know the game would hate the movie.