11th March 2015, 3:25 PM
At this point it probably should be split, yeah.
For a second there, I thought you were talking about the director of the movies in your second post, but then I realized you were talking about the games again. It was definitely not Kojima behind it. He's actually new to the whole franchise. Silent Hills will be his first take on the series.
I must admit, I watched Eraser Head and didn't much care for it. I tried, I really did. I walked away thinking of it as more... pretentious? Sorry, I saw it as the sort of thing an art student would make before telling me I'm an idiot for not "getting it". Spoiler alert: I didn't get it. Not a bit. The whole thing flew right over my head. It was the cinematic version of those paintings that are nothing but random splashes of paint. To the right audience, I'm sure both have deep meaning, but to me, it was just... weird. This is coming from someone who loved delving into the symbolism of the Silent Hill games, so I don't know what that says. I know what I WANT to say that says (I'm right, you're wrong!) but if I'm being honest, I'm pretty sure I just don't "get" that sort of art. Like the movie "Boyhood", it seems like it was made for someone else and I'm just "visiting".
I'm just going to leave this here.
The movies were pretty bad. The music was great, because they got the same musician as for the games, so buy the soundtracks, but not the movies themselves. The second one (Silent Hill 3D) was even worse, because it tried to stick to the plot of SH3 even when they changed too much of the plot of SH1 in the first one for that to even work. Best Silent Hill movie? Jacob's Ladder.
You're right about Shattered Memories. That one was a good one too. I'm mainly talking about Silent Hill 5 and Downpour. Those two were letdowns, especially 5. They had "in your face" subtlety, or in other words, no subtlety.
For a second there, I thought you were talking about the director of the movies in your second post, but then I realized you were talking about the games again. It was definitely not Kojima behind it. He's actually new to the whole franchise. Silent Hills will be his first take on the series.
I must admit, I watched Eraser Head and didn't much care for it. I tried, I really did. I walked away thinking of it as more... pretentious? Sorry, I saw it as the sort of thing an art student would make before telling me I'm an idiot for not "getting it". Spoiler alert: I didn't get it. Not a bit. The whole thing flew right over my head. It was the cinematic version of those paintings that are nothing but random splashes of paint. To the right audience, I'm sure both have deep meaning, but to me, it was just... weird. This is coming from someone who loved delving into the symbolism of the Silent Hill games, so I don't know what that says. I know what I WANT to say that says (I'm right, you're wrong!) but if I'm being honest, I'm pretty sure I just don't "get" that sort of art. Like the movie "Boyhood", it seems like it was made for someone else and I'm just "visiting".
I'm just going to leave this here.
The movies were pretty bad. The music was great, because they got the same musician as for the games, so buy the soundtracks, but not the movies themselves. The second one (Silent Hill 3D) was even worse, because it tried to stick to the plot of SH3 even when they changed too much of the plot of SH1 in the first one for that to even work. Best Silent Hill movie? Jacob's Ladder.
You're right about Shattered Memories. That one was a good one too. I'm mainly talking about Silent Hill 5 and Downpour. Those two were letdowns, especially 5. They had "in your face" subtlety, or in other words, no subtlety.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)