MKJ wrote:havent seen it myself.. what does she memorize ?Jackal wrote:MKJ wrote:
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thats some great trivia right there :icon14:
It's not the konami code though. She doesn't say "up" or "down" at all. When she started I thought it was the code too, but it's not.
It's all relative to the film itself, not to other films.Foo wrote:jarhead on equal footing with reservoir dogs? Silent Hill 'almost as good as' reservoir dogs?Jackal wrote:Silent Hill: 7/10
Jarhead: 8/10
Advent Children: 6/10
Reservoir Dogs: 8/10!
thats my favorite movie of all time :icon30:werldhed wrote:The Great Race - 6/10
Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtic, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk.
Good goofy fun. Too many stupid characters make it a bit annoying though. (i.e. the "liberated woman" who demands a man walk her to the train, and stupid Tony Curtis and his bad acting.)
lol worse than mine.sliver wrote:
Silent Hill - 1/10
Speaking of offensive, Silent Hill was a huge hilly pile of shite. I cannot find a single positive thing to say about it, because Radha Mitchell isn't even very hot. I was furious I spent money to see this, which I only did because I owed someone a movie and she wanted to see something "scary" -- which this emphatically is not. I could go on for ages about how horrible it was, but instead let me just say that movies I previously considered among the worst ever made (Anaconda I & II, Soldier, The Whole Ten Yards) are masterpieces compared to this awful awful film, which is mostly an excuse for the audience to voyeuristically enjoy the brutalization of women. Laurie Holden should have been its saving grace (she's hot and was good in the X-Files), but even her attraction factor is ruined by weird lesbo hair.
Yeah, which is why I deducted points in my rating as well. I just think what he points out in his review is fucking idiotic.+JuggerNaut+ wrote:i recall the games scaring me in some parts. i had none of that with the movie.
Familiarize yourself with some film theory and get back to me. A good starting place with respect to this might be Linda Williams's "Discipline and Fun: Psycho and Postmodern Cinema." You see the repeated victimization of women as a result of a mostly-female cast, but I see the causal relationship going in the other direction.ctrlnuke wrote:You go into a horror movie with the intent on seeing brutalization of the actors/actresses. It's known before going into it that that's what you're going to see.
Silent Hill had mostly a female cast, but to try to make it into something it's not (i.e. some political statement about women/fetish/whatever you're trying to say) is just stupid.
I don't generally care if movies star superhot women or not, but that could have been a redeeming factor, and it is one that the folks behind Silent Hill really missed out on. That's all I said. Reading too much into such a statement is "moronic."Edit: and knocking the movie because the females weren't that attractive is moronic. Sorry you didn't get a chubby watching Silent Hill, but I don't think that was the intent.
His point being that the main actress wasn't hot, and the other had a lezbo hair cut.riddla wrote:no, you fucks just totally missed sliver's point - much like 90% of threads posted here.
christ, you read more like a film critic every time you post. you'll easily land a job with a paper or magazine when you leave college.sliver wrote:Familiarize yourself with some film theory and get back to me. A good starting place with respect to this might be Linda Williams's "Discipline and Fun: Psycho and Postmodern Cinema." You see the repeated victimization of women as a result of a mostly-female cast, but I see the causal relationship going in the other direction.ctrlnuke wrote:You go into a horror movie with the intent on seeing brutalization of the actors/actresses. It's known before going into it that that's what you're going to see.
Silent Hill had mostly a female cast, but to try to make it into something it's not (i.e. some political statement about women/fetish/whatever you're trying to say) is just stupid.
I should also point out that I didn't take issue with the violence, only with the fact that the movie itself was a pitiful excuse for the showcasing of said violence. The savagery is to be expected, but most vehicles for it at least try to justify themselves.
As for the game, I don't really enjoy video games any more (once I grew out of q3, that was it). If you are suggesting it as a way of better understanding the background of the movie, fine, but I expect films to be able to stand alone -- sequels notwithstanding.
I don't generally care if movies star superhot women or not, but that could have been a redeeming factor, and it is one that the folks behind Silent Hill really missed out on. That's all I said. Reading too much into such a statement is "moronic."Edit: and knocking the movie because the females weren't that attractive is moronic. Sorry you didn't get a chubby watching Silent Hill, but I don't think that was the intent.
And do you really think they put Laurie Holden into Trinity-style skintight latex because that's what cops wear? She squeaked when she walked, for fuck's sake.
I don't know where you read anything about political correctness or happy endings. I will reiterate at this point that the only reason I complained about the actresses' looks was because they robbed me of the one last-ditch pleasure one can usually get out of nearly any movie, no matter how awful -- hot women. Silent Hill would still have been absolutely terrible even if, instead of Radha Mitchell, it had starred Sarah Michelle Gellar and Jessica Alba as lesbian nudists looking for their adopted lesbian daughter (played by Elisha Cuthbert) in Silent Hill. The point is, the movie really really sucked in just about every way possible, and the director was so overwhelmed with his own little sense of mythos that he forgot he was making a horror movie and put in endless boring exploration/landscape shots & scenes that ruined the pacing and looked like they should have been in a whited-out Lost In Translation.Pooinyourmouth wrote:Well shit sliver... it sounds to me like you wanted another Hollywood cookie cutter churned out flick. One that has a hot actress, is also politically correct, and has happy ending.
The fact that you like Anaconda more says to me you have some really bad taste. Saying the actress wasn't hot enough, kind of makes me really think you went to the movie with the wrong intentions. Then when the horror movie shows some horror you become appalled by it. I’d have to say your review gets a 1/10.
But i guess its not for everyone.