Did anyone like it? I thought they completely nailed the tone and the monsters but kind of took a left turn with the plot.
The music was  perfect as well, I'd def watch it again just for the creepy vibe.

I agree completely.  The look and atmosphere were pretty accurate, although the plot was tampered with a bit too much.

I always thought the first Silent Hill game would make a great film, but having watched this I think maybe not even if it did stick completely to the plot of the game.  I just think there is too much wandering around with little plot in the game that you don't notice when you are playing it.  So maybe they did the right thing by trying to expand the plot.

As a film it's OK.  As a film of the game its horrendous.  Every aspect of it was ruined and the things that make Silent Hill what it is were severely lacking.

I hated the explain-it-all-montage, the nurses were a joke, 'Burn the witch' is Monty Python... I could go on about porn movie acting and what not but I wont

I never played the game but I enjoyed the movie. I hope they make a sequel to take care of the downer ending.

I saw the movie having never played the games and i thought it was really good.Then i actually played all the silent hill games.

I thought it was entertaining.

Yeah, I would agree.  It wasn't all that bad, but I was expecting a hell of a lot worse.  I think "Entertaining" is a good way to sum it up.

It nailed the mood, but seemed to take the easy route near the end and just turned into a typical gorefest. Kind of odd to say that about a Silent Hill movie, but I've always liked the eerie, unknown qualities of the Silent Hill franchise over the blood and guts.

"Did anyone like it? I thought they completely nailed the tone and the monsters but kind of took a left turn with the plot.
The music was  perfect as well, I'd def watch it again just for the creepy vibe.
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It's definitely one of the better video game movies out there, and any movie with Pyramid Head in it is a winner in my book.

I left about an hour into the film. That's my best answer.

mediocre

I like the visual presentation but yeah that story did it so, so wrong.

I Really liked it. As the TC said it really captures the tone and atmosphere of the world and is just plain creepy. The acting and story may be a little flimsy at times, but overall it's a great story that has a decent movie adaptation. Probably one of my favorite horror movies.

I liked it quite a bit other than the cop dieing. She was kinda badass and I wanted her to live. I'd take her over the goobers from the last 3 games.
Id say it feels more like Silent Hill than Origins did and probably more than Homecoming will.

Loved the movie.. One of the best game-to-films I have seen for a long time. It seemed like the director really respected not only the story, but also the ambiance and tone of the world. The end (30 mins of it) really took me by surprise.

I hate Silent Hill, and I hated the movie.

"I never played the game but I enjoyed the movie. I hope they make a sequel to take care of the downer ending.
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  Alot of liberties were taken with the story, but I enjoyed the film very much. 
 
  Too bad nothing new has been said about the sequel for quite some time now.

-Evan

I feel about the Silent Hill film much like I feel about "The Return of the King". For everything they did perfectly right, there's one thing they messed up completely, and with everytime you watch it, the things that did go wrong annoy you more and more.

The story was well conceived, but badly told.
The monsters were brilliantly designed, but they weren't used and had no real point in the plot.
The soundtrack was awesome, but there are tons of scenes where less would have been more.
The idea of the searching husband was good, but it felt wasted because they didn't do anything with it.
Cinematography was awesome, acting was bad.
And the list goes on.

I don't mind that they're taking elements of the first game to tell a completely new story. Not at all. I hate movies that try to stay to close to the source material of another medium, they almost always fail. The fact that some people seem to think that the first Silent Hill game didn't even have a great story shows that even the game lacked exploration and that things had to be told anew. But the film is just like "Origins", and "Homecoming": Silent Hill has a distinctive look, but that's not what Silent Hill's about, and that's not what makes it great. Getting the look right serves no one, it's just shallow fanservice. Silent Hill is disturbing because of it's themes and stories and characters, not because there's blood and rust on the walls and the monsters look eerie.
The first "Silent Hill", regardless of all other story or design elements, primarily is a story about someone experiencing what is going on in the mind of a tormented, abused young girl who has seen hell and survived. Every physical appearance and every plot element going on mirrors this. The film scratched on that, but never fully realized it in terms of storytelling, but chose to focus more on the bla cultists and their evilness. How very original for a horror movie.

  Too bad nothing new has been said about the sequel for quite some time now.

The idea that the events after the car crash were nothing more than Harry's last dream before dying from his injuries was really cool.

At the beginning of the movie, I felt that they nailed it down, but when the best moments are about to come, it felt like I hit my fingers with the hammer and couldn't stop. 

What pissed me off the most is the role in the husband.  Its like Avery did not know how to tie the story up so he used the husband as a scapegoat to fill in story gaps of SH's origin. Every time when there's a build up in the horror sequence, the scene gets changed to a boring moment where the husband is digging for information about SH; and that really killed the scariness/creepiness Christopher Gans was aiming for.

Christopher Gans was amazing for recreating SH's backdrop and chases to the dot. because I really felt the tension when shit were going down  Roger Avary screwed it all up by placing excerpts of the story in the wrong spots by removing us away from the tension, and changing the story as a whole.  The movie should've been exactly what the first was; the story is always explained along the way and never departs from the main character because it makes the audience feel like they are there.  Avary should've left SH as it is since the beginning of the story is near exact to the first game.  And instead of the story revolving around the characters' consience, it turns into a witch hunt.  wtf is that?

To TC, of course the music is great; they were ripped right out of SH 2 and especially 3 games.

And instead of the story revolving around the characters' consience, it turns into a witch hunt.  wtf is that?

To TC, of course the music is great; they were ripped right out of SH 2 and especially 3 games.

As a movie it is alright, but as an adaption of the game it is not too good at all. Unfortunately it is impossible to just forget you are watching an adaption and not compare it to the game experience and just enjoy the film.

As far as game translation to movies this is to date one of the best renditions i have seen. I have seen video from the 1st game and shots of the movie side by side and everything is recreated as  faithfully as possible and almost exactly as it is in the game see here ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW5ND6OysSs )

Did you know that Silent Hill is a real town with a coal fire still burning?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill