After a few watches....


I actually rather enjoyed it. Even more so then the original. Hear me out.

So lets just get this outta the way, it's not a great movie. Not like some prize winning greatly acted movie but it's entertaining and thats what a movie should be. So first seeing the movie I had all these high hopes and expectations and they were not met so I left the theater very disappointed. So after not watching it for a long while I decided to pick it up for my SH collection anyways and watch it again. Now I really like how much this movie sticks to the plot of the 3 game. Sure they practically take away a lot of the "heather giving birth to God and actually being pregnant with it" plot but its mostly there albeit in pieces. But it struggles from having to also be a continuation of the first movie which ISN'T close to the plot of the first game and I feel like that hurt this movie. It tries to do two things, be a sequel and be an adaptation and it failed at atlas being a sequel. But it sure did try and I respect that. I mean everyone knows it mostly retcons the first movies story... But there are clever ways it could be written where the changes in this movie and the cults motives could been explained without pretty much ignoring the first movie. And while it borrowed some aspects of SH3 I feel like they shoulda spent more time in the mall. Heather had a few run ins with Claudia which kinda built up character development for both in the game. In the movie they only meet at the end at the underground church for the final stand off which on paper sounds epic but on screen comes across as corny and anti-climatic. And another thing which is probably my BIGGEST problem with the movie is that it didn't use ANY creatures from SH3... or from the SH universe in general other then PH, Lying Figure, Memory of Alessa, and a version of The Missionary but I assume this is due to the budget being low and the monster effects being high cost. Most of the creatures in the film mostly relied on realism and almost had a Jacobs Ladder feel which isn't bad but this was a SH movie. I will say I dug the atmosphere and how Heather really isn't given anytime to breathe as she's always running away from something. Theres a certain sense of fear there. But like I stated above I think most people were just flat out upset that it feels so disconnected from the original movie and that it was. But it did do a rather good job at adapting the source game although it was dumbed down and fitted to work with the plot of the first movie (which was a waste). Honestly had I been the director I woulda just ignored the plot of the first movie and just adapted SH3. I mean honestly this movie isn't for everyone and clearly most SH fans hate it. But I like it for the simple fact that plot wise it's a closer adaptation then the first movie.

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The first film is by far a better movie.

But, Revelation is extremely entertaining. It's not a good movie and I really don't care.

Silent Hill Revelation. A Piece of Cinematic Genius.

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I mean I think my only problem with the first movie and why I like Revelations more is just because of how different plot wise it was from the first game and it didn't need to be that way.

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Like Gans said, "A game is a game, and a movie is a movie". Stuffing a massive video game plot into a movie without major changes is a terrible idea that will only please some of the people who already liked the games and no one else. SHR (aka Silent Hill: Exposition) is the single best example of this, with all the tension, meaning, character development, and atmosphere shoved to the side so characters can spout endless exposition, since that's really the only way to cram a story meant for a multiple hour game into a 2 hour movie. Video game stories are made for video games, not movies. The first SH film was far superior because it was written with a plot specific to a movie, weaving its own narrative while still taking several cues from the games. So yes, the first movie absolutely did need to change the plot, or else it would be a muddled, boring, overly convulated mess like its "sequel".

It is the way of men to make monsters; and it is the nature of monsters to destroy their makers.

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I agree fully, We just finished Silent Hill and Revelations back to back, Rev was second viewing. SH is better, Revelations was much more enjoyable than first view way back. 4hrs to kill, they segue good.

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I disliked this movie the first time I watched it. Ended up liking it the second time around. It's nowhere near as good as the first one, but it has its moments.

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Good lord, "a few watches"? How are you not suicidal? Also, have you ever heard of paragraphs?

"A man chooses. A slave obeys."

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