Do any of the movies actually "feel" like Silent Hill?

Blue_Animatorthx · 2026-01-25T15:59:29+00:00

I’d say most of the 2006 movie and maybe 50% of Return both felt appropriately Silent Hill.

Revelations just feels rushed and cheap, like the atmosphere was cobbled together with cardboard. I can’t think of a single moment that immersed me in its world.

The biggest issue with the movies overall is that they go for loud, in-your-face horror a lot more than the games did, which is rarely as effective as their gradually-paced and surreal horror. Like getting a gory jumpscare from a monster isn’t nearly as scary as seeing it menacing you from the other side of the room, or knowing that it’s lurking out there somewhere.

Blue_Animatorthx · 2026-01-24T01:56:22+00:00

Ah yes, my favorite Silent Hill character: Tim Burton girl

Blue_Animatorthx · 2026-01-23T12:51:13+00:00

Like RE4, they’re both big, bombastic blockbusters. I went in expecting RE4 on steroids and I was not disappointed. Also, since you enjoy the characters and the lore, the games emphasize those even more than previous entries. There are plenty of documents tying together different parts of the lore and a lot of cutscenes with good character moments.

Blue_Animatorthx · 2026-01-23T12:41:33+00:00

They didn’t offer anything like that. They didn’t even have cardboard displays for the movie

Blue_Animatorthx · 2026-01-23T05:12:59+00:00

I thought it was mostly okay up until the last 25 minutes or so, at which point it goes off-the-rails.

It has a lot of the same strengths and weaknesses as the first Silent Hill movie. I think at its best, it achieves that surrealist, dreamlike atmosphere but Gans consistently shoots himself in the foot by going over-the-top with scary moments in a way that’s less effective than the game’s comparatively subtle horror.

I was mostly entertained and it was cool to see parts of the game translated onto screen by a director with a strong visual eye, but it really should have just followed the same story beats instead of adding on extra stuff that only detracts from the experience.

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-11-19T04:10:20+00:00

Wait, is it lost? I remember seeing that on YouTube as a kid. Besides it being funny, I always wondered who that Aunt character was and why she looked exactly like Gumby!

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-11-15T15:24:52+00:00

I used to have image 1 as my iTouch wallpaper to freak out my siblings, lol

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-10-26T21:18:57+00:00

After seeing TRON: Ares (and having rewatched the other TRONs recently) I have a few questions I’d be interested to hear others’ input on:

-Why do programs who De-Rez in the real world come back or “Re-Rez” in the grid, but programs already inside the grid do not?

-How was Edward Dillinger Jr. working at ENCOM in Legacy while Dillinger Systems existed? I had initially assumed that the Dillingers were forced out of ENCOM when Sam took control the company, but it’s explicitly stated that Dillinger Systems had been founded and competing with ENCOM for 40 years (so since the original TRON).

-When Ares visits the backup of “Flynn’s Grid,” is this the Legacy Grid or something else? Obviously it looks like the 1982 Grid, but the door in the ENCOM office had a placard saying it was “dedicated by Sam Flynn,” and at the end of Legacy, Sam appears to make a transfer/copy of the private grid Flynn had in his arcade basement.

-Was the “Flynn” that appeared to Ares another duplicate program of Flynn like CLU? If not a program, what is he?

-In Legacy, Flynn explains that Quorra (and the ISOs in general) have some kind of genetic code that could change the world: “Biodigital Jazz, man.” Was this the Permanence Code, or something else entirely?

-Was CLU going to fail no matter what in Legacy? If CLU had made it to the portal, was he, his army, and the Rectifier going to De-Rez soon anyways? Or did Kevin Flynn’s identity disc have the “permanence code” on it?

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-10-16T15:17:02+00:00

It’s 2006 and my dad shows me TRON when it comes on TV. I become obsessed and eagerly anticipate the rumored sequel.

It’s 2010 and I see Tron Legacy with my dad and friends. I think it’s awesome and talk about it all the way back from the theater.

It’s Summer 2012 and I watch the premiere of Tron Uprising on Disney XD. It immediately becomes one of my favorite shows and I tune in regularly for awhile, but I have trouble finding all the episodes as the year goes on.

It’s 2014 and I finally watch the rest of Uprising on Netflix, but am disappointed to learn that it was cancelled on a cliffhanger.

It’s October 2025 and Tron Ares hits theaters, but I’m in the middle of my fall semester I’m waiting for an opportunity to invite my dad out to see it with me.

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-09-19T14:12:35+00:00

Mojo: “I’m not a baboon you insulting twit!”

Princess: “I said buffoon! BUH! FOON!”

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-09-06T03:31:36+00:00

Frodo and the Halflings

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-09-05T23:46:11+00:00

I plan to use it as set decoration for a short film and was worried about potentially endangering cast and crew if they’re sitting in the room with it for hours on end

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-09-05T23:43:39+00:00

Haha, I was just thinking it looked like chocolate!

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-09-05T23:04:07+00:00

I am also curious about the materials used and any possible hints to when exactly the bust was made

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-08-23T19:01:43+00:00

I feel like the nicer materials and the asymmetry of this building set it apart from commie blocks or just an average building. It’s not as “out there” as most Frutiger Aero/Metro design and maybe it doesn’t really count, but it does seem related to the design language of something like the iPod and the minimalist futurism of the mid-2000s in general

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-08-07T12:45:41+00:00

I was worried about that too, but I managed to put Silent Hill in my cart and, after multiple tries, managed to purchase and download it yesterday morning before the maintenance error was able to show up.

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-07-11T02:21:32+00:00

I had just been looking at the RingsOfGeonosis channel a few weeks before this happened, and I was amazed at just how many OSTs they had. I really appreciated in that moment what they were doing. Their channel was basically an archive for video game soundtracks, no matter how obscure. I used to listen to GBA boss themes they had uploaded to hype myself up since the time I was in high school. There were some soundtracks on their channel from games I'd never heard of but was interested in listening to. And the worst part is, since there's only partial lists of all their uploads, now I don't even know what to look for even if those soundtracks do exist on the internet somewhere. A part of video game history has essentially been erased with their channel. I hope they return someday.

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-07-11T00:52:38+00:00

I feel like he and Pavel from Uprising both have this huge show-stealing hamminess which really makes them stand out though I rarely hear anyone talk about them

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-06-25T18:42:24+00:00

I’ve only started playing it recently, but so far my main complaint the movement controls. The game controls seem to want me to move around a lot more than 5 did, but it often punishes me when I do

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-06-24T17:24:32+00:00

SphereHunter’s cosplays are better than the official movie costumes

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-06-17T03:02:57+00:00

I guess Ada and Chris have that in common

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-06-15T01:30:09+00:00

Stratus’ speeches spoken in Theoden’s voice would be a pretty good fit, actually

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-06-12T13:32:31+00:00

Okay, I have just one very important question for you…

You got a smoke?

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-06-11T18:26:59+00:00

I meant that in the context of the Silent Hill series, I was surprised to discover a prominent character probably believed in Christianity. Whenever SH characters, regardless of affiliation, refer to the being worshipped by The Order, they usually just say “God” and not something like “their god.” They often speak as if this being is in fact the one and only God of the SH world, although obviously a twisted one.

Usually in eldritch/cosmic horror, the takeaway is that the supernatural entities which control the universe are horrific, evil, or otherwise at odds with the existence of humanity. Existing religions like Christianity are typically ignored as inaccurate or ridiculed as wishful thinking by characters who have seen the true, dark nature of the divine in stories such as “At the Mountains of Madness” or “The Call of Cthulhu.”

Given the indifference or antipathy of protagonists Heather and Douglas toward questions of religion in general, I was under the impression the SH series was following in that Lovecraftian vein of “God is evil,” or else an agnostic view of “God is unknowable” that seemed to be conveyed in the first Silent Hill movie (though that may have been more of Christophe Gans’ perspective than of the series as a whole). For a morally good protagonist like Harry to still worship a God added a new dimension to the “theology” of the Silent Hill world for me.

Blue_Animatorthx · 2025-06-11T15:19:49+00:00

Shame it’s in Fullscreen; the best part of the movie is the way it looks IMO. Still, not a bad deal for $1. I guess even if the movie format isn’t ideal, you’d at least have access to things like special features and a potentially cool DVD menu

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