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changeyourstars8) wrote2006-04-22 10:38 am
changeyourstars8) wrote2006-04-22 10:38 am
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Went over to mom and dad's last night . . . my brother was going to go see Silent Hill with a friend of his, but then he called and said that he wasn't feeling well. So Chris and I offered to go with him--
Biiig mistake. Had a couple of friends tell me after we got out of the theatre that the game actually succeeded in being scary, while the movie-- not so much. But that wasn't even one of the main things that bugged me.
Spoilerific mutterings under the cut.
First off, Radha Mitchell (Pitch Black will always be one of my favorite movies) is too generally awesome to be in this. Alice Krige, too, for that matter.
The character Mitchell played was a freaking idiot. I expect that out of horror movies sometimes-- "Tee hee, I know there's a killer on the loose, but let's make out in the woods anyway!"-- but at least those movies don't try to take themselves seriously. Some examples:
1) The gas station scene, where she a) leaves her tired, sleepwalking daughter alone in the car while she goes in to pay, b) does not even glance over at the cop who walks by her directly toward the car (apparent cop or not, if someone's destination is clearly your vehicle, don't you at least look?) and c) has a conversation with her daughter in the shadowed, creepy gas station parking lot outside the car. Maybe it's just my own longstanding fear of the dark and paranoia, but that whole scene struck me as off.
2) She instructs her daughter to put on her seatbelt and then zooms away from the cop after she's pulled over, proceeding to ram through a gate and barrel down unfamiliar roads that seemed to have pretty low visibility. Of course the whole thing ends in a crash, but first--
3) -- the radio stops playing music and starts with this scratchy, squealing racket, but instead of telling her daughter to turn it off or pulling over to fiddle with it, she looks away from the road to turn it off herself.
4) After the cop has handcuffed her and is leading her out of town, some weird mutant thing attacks them. Now, the cop has previously not been listening to a thing she said, but after something this unexplainable, a "Now do you believe me?" would have likely been greeted with a positive response. So what does the mother do? Flees into a clearly dangerous town, alone again and with the bonus addition of handcuffs.
I'm sure there were other Stupid Moments, but my brain has blocked them out. On to the other things that bugged--
1) And this one is not so much an actual problem with the movie itself as just a matter of my preferences . . . when I go to a movie like this, I expect freaky-looking monsters. If I want a story where the main villains are a bunch of fundamentalist wackos who want to burn people at the stake for daring to disagree with them, I'll just pick up a history book or open a newspaper, thanks.
2) We got to see a long, loving close-up of the cop's face with the skin peeling and cracking as she was lowered closer and closer to the fire. I damn near walked out of the theatre. In retrospect, I really should have.
Biiig mistake. Had a couple of friends tell me after we got out of the theatre that the game actually succeeded in being scary, while the movie-- not so much. But that wasn't even one of the main things that bugged me.
Spoilerific mutterings under the cut.
First off, Radha Mitchell (Pitch Black will always be one of my favorite movies) is too generally awesome to be in this. Alice Krige, too, for that matter.
The character Mitchell played was a freaking idiot. I expect that out of horror movies sometimes-- "Tee hee, I know there's a killer on the loose, but let's make out in the woods anyway!"-- but at least those movies don't try to take themselves seriously. Some examples:
1) The gas station scene, where she a) leaves her tired, sleepwalking daughter alone in the car while she goes in to pay, b) does not even glance over at the cop who walks by her directly toward the car (apparent cop or not, if someone's destination is clearly your vehicle, don't you at least look?) and c) has a conversation with her daughter in the shadowed, creepy gas station parking lot outside the car. Maybe it's just my own longstanding fear of the dark and paranoia, but that whole scene struck me as off.
2) She instructs her daughter to put on her seatbelt and then zooms away from the cop after she's pulled over, proceeding to ram through a gate and barrel down unfamiliar roads that seemed to have pretty low visibility. Of course the whole thing ends in a crash, but first--
3) -- the radio stops playing music and starts with this scratchy, squealing racket, but instead of telling her daughter to turn it off or pulling over to fiddle with it, she looks away from the road to turn it off herself.
4) After the cop has handcuffed her and is leading her out of town, some weird mutant thing attacks them. Now, the cop has previously not been listening to a thing she said, but after something this unexplainable, a "Now do you believe me?" would have likely been greeted with a positive response. So what does the mother do? Flees into a clearly dangerous town, alone again and with the bonus addition of handcuffs.
I'm sure there were other Stupid Moments, but my brain has blocked them out. On to the other things that bugged--
1) And this one is not so much an actual problem with the movie itself as just a matter of my preferences . . . when I go to a movie like this, I expect freaky-looking monsters. If I want a story where the main villains are a bunch of fundamentalist wackos who want to burn people at the stake for daring to disagree with them, I'll just pick up a history book or open a newspaper, thanks.
2) We got to see a long, loving close-up of the cop's face with the skin peeling and cracking as she was lowered closer and closer to the fire. I damn near walked out of the theatre. In retrospect, I really should have.