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rionaleonhart) wrote2006-01-20 10:37 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2006-01-20 10:37 pm
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DOOM AND WOE
I had an entry all written about my abusive relationship with Silent Hill, and how it lures me closer with intriguing characters and beautiful music, and then I become steadily more uneasy about being around it until eventually it begins breathing quietly down my neck and I turn around to ask it to knock it off, please, and when I regain consciousness there's blood on my face and throat and in my mouth and I'm bound with barbed wire to the rusty bars of a waterlogged prison cell. Upside-down. And when I come back Silent Hill will say I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, it won't happen again, but it will be laughing as it says it, and I'll go back to it anyway.
The moral of the story was that you really, really shouldn't let Silent Hill anywhere near you, because it is a terrible inescapable descending spiral of insanity.
But there was an error and the entry was lost, so the above is a rather condensed version.
Anyway! The reason for this seemingly random musing about the nature of my relationship with Silent Hill is the fact that, as some of you may be aware, a trailer for the upcoming movie has appeared. My initial reaction was - well, my initial reaction was 'The monsters look kind of fake', and my second reaction was 'EXCUSE ME WAS THAT A SPLIT-SECOND FLASH OF A CERTAIN MONSTER THAT SHOULD NOT BE THERE CONSIDERING THAT A CERTAIN PROTAGONIST IS ABSENT?!', but my third reaction was '...oh god I actually kind of want to see this'.
Because it looks like they've put real effort into it, and it'd be nice to see a videogame-to-movie conversion that's actually had effort put into it, and the sets look pretty impressive, and oh who am I kidding. I JUST WANT TO WATCH IT BECAUSE THE 'I'm looking for my wife!' LINE INSPIRED IN ME THE HOPE THAT WE COULD HAVE A JAMES-ESQUE CHARACTER. IS THAT SO WRONG?
Granted, the fact that his wife is alive makes that seem somewhat unlikely. For him to be even remotely like James - or at least the James that we see at the time of Silent Hill 2 - it would seem pretty necessary for his wife to be dead. SHUT UP AND LET ME CLING TO MY DREAMS.
I think that going to see this movie would be a quite astonishingly stupid thing to do. You've managed to avoid buying any more Silent Hill games, Riona, you can avoid the film as well. Really. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SLEEP FOR WEEKS, RIONA, YOU CAN'T HANDLE HORROR, YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN'T... ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME? ...IDIOT.
The moral of the story was that you really, really shouldn't let Silent Hill anywhere near you, because it is a terrible inescapable descending spiral of insanity.
But there was an error and the entry was lost, so the above is a rather condensed version.
Anyway! The reason for this seemingly random musing about the nature of my relationship with Silent Hill is the fact that, as some of you may be aware, a trailer for the upcoming movie has appeared. My initial reaction was - well, my initial reaction was 'The monsters look kind of fake', and my second reaction was 'EXCUSE ME WAS THAT A SPLIT-SECOND FLASH OF A CERTAIN MONSTER THAT SHOULD NOT BE THERE CONSIDERING THAT A CERTAIN PROTAGONIST IS ABSENT?!', but my third reaction was '...oh god I actually kind of want to see this'.
Because it looks like they've put real effort into it, and it'd be nice to see a videogame-to-movie conversion that's actually had effort put into it, and the sets look pretty impressive, and oh who am I kidding. I JUST WANT TO WATCH IT BECAUSE THE 'I'm looking for my wife!' LINE INSPIRED IN ME THE HOPE THAT WE COULD HAVE A JAMES-ESQUE CHARACTER. IS THAT SO WRONG?
Granted, the fact that his wife is alive makes that seem somewhat unlikely. For him to be even remotely like James - or at least the James that we see at the time of Silent Hill 2 - it would seem pretty necessary for his wife to be dead. SHUT UP AND LET ME CLING TO MY DREAMS.
I think that going to see this movie would be a quite astonishingly stupid thing to do. You've managed to avoid buying any more Silent Hill games, Riona, you can avoid the film as well. Really. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SLEEP FOR WEEKS, RIONA, YOU CAN'T HANDLE HORROR, YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN'T... ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME? ...IDIOT.
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...I could give you the explanation here, but it would be LADEN WITH SPOILERS, and all your other commenters would beat me with sticks. Which nobody wants.
I want to see the movie too. Originally, I was thinking "I don't really care about seeing this movie, but I know I'm gonna". Now I'm thinking "Man! I want to see this movie!"
It's... really all because of A Certain Monster, though.
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I wonder whether A Certain Monster will terrify me in quite the same way it did in the game. I'm telling myself that it - that Silent Hill in general - won't scare me so much when I don't feel responsible for the safety of the protagonist, but this could quite possibly be Completely Wrong and result in my being traumatised for life.
Am I trying to persuade myself to watch this? Why am I trying to persuade myself to watch this?
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(Anonymous) 2006-01-31 06:14 am (UTC)(link)And as far as the movie goes, I know exactly how you feel. Sean Bean just SCREAMS James. Or maybe I'm just clinging to false hopes just like you. *lol* Still, he makes a perfect Jimmy, no?
Anyway, glad to see there's someone that
is completely and utterly obsessed withloves the Sunderland boy just as much as I do. ^^ Maybe even more so. *lol*~ Laura
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I seriously think that you can't not love James. He's so adorable and thick and determined. If there's a character like him in the movie, I will probably explode with glee if I'm not too busy hiding in a corner and trembling.
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(Anonymous) 2006-01-31 11:32 am (UTC)(link)And yes, I feel bad for my friends who plan on seeing the movie with me. Because I know I will giggle and squeal like a little school girl at some point. Especially if there are similiarities between Christopher (Sean Bean) and James. *watches friends move ten seats away*
If you want to, since I don't have an LJ account (I'm bad at keeping up journals), perhaps we could chat on AIM or YIM or MSN?
~ Laura
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(Anonymous) 2006-01-31 11:36 am (UTC)(link)http://www.geocities.com/something_beautiful.nick (http://www.geocities.com/something_beautiful.nick)
http://www.absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=6441 (http://www.absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=6441)
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(Anonymous) 2006-01-31 11:38 am (UTC)(link)making an ass of myselfcluttering up your comments... >_> *sheepish grin* You can delete these last couple if you want.~ Laura