Silent Hill. Or was it?
Apr. 24th, 2006 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winneganfakeWell, I'm back from the movies.
Part of me liked it, part of me didn't.
It was a really well done horror movie. It had the look of Silent Hill down to every last bolt, rust spot, and bloodstain. And I loved the transition sequences.
But the plotline changed a lot of Silent Hill's backstory. Not in a bad way, it's just way the hell different from what it was before. The SH atmosphere was still there throughout, just the facts and circumstances were altered. And the ending? Definitely good SH material. So all over, not bad, just different. It's like ordering a coke slurpee and getting a blue rasberry one instead. They're both good, and they're both slurpees, but it's still just not quite what you were expecting.
The only thing I was disappointed in was the soundtrack. I thought it'd be great to have Akira Yamaoka (who did the original videogame soundtracks) on the film handling the score. What I didn't realize was that by "handling the score," all they reall meant was "editing existing tracks from the games for time and speed to go with the movie scenes." I would've loved to have heard some of the tracks they used beefed up by a full range of instruments. Or even some new compositions specifically for the movie. Ah well. Anyways, back to the real world, job hunting, writing and painting for the rest of the week.
Part of me liked it, part of me didn't.
It was a really well done horror movie. It had the look of Silent Hill down to every last bolt, rust spot, and bloodstain. And I loved the transition sequences.
But the plotline changed a lot of Silent Hill's backstory. Not in a bad way, it's just way the hell different from what it was before. The SH atmosphere was still there throughout, just the facts and circumstances were altered. And the ending? Definitely good SH material. So all over, not bad, just different. It's like ordering a coke slurpee and getting a blue rasberry one instead. They're both good, and they're both slurpees, but it's still just not quite what you were expecting.
The only thing I was disappointed in was the soundtrack. I thought it'd be great to have Akira Yamaoka (who did the original videogame soundtracks) on the film handling the score. What I didn't realize was that by "handling the score," all they reall meant was "editing existing tracks from the games for time and speed to go with the movie scenes." I would've loved to have heard some of the tracks they used beefed up by a full range of instruments. Or even some new compositions specifically for the movie. Ah well. Anyways, back to the real world, job hunting, writing and painting for the rest of the week.
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Date: 2006-04-25 12:27 am (UTC)