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Comment by FalseFace on October 27, 2012 at 10:40pm

I'm grown enough to know what I like and don't like.  The Spill Crew just reviewed the new Silent Hill and said similar things: the visuals were great but nothing happened, particularly in the middle.  To elaborate on what I said, I thought that some of tension and the breathing sounds were good.  However, the way that Michael actually stalked them just seemed a little unrealistic.  He wasn't subtle AT ALL.  He would've gotten the cops called on him a LONG time ago. 

Combined with his unrealistic abilities that weren't explained and also how the doctor TALKED about how evil Michael was instead of the movie really SHOWING us -- even as a child (besides that murder; we don't know what triggered it) -- I just kept being taken out of the movie, man.  I saw it as a product of its time, instead of a great horror film.  Carpenter did The Thing, which I find MUCH better.  I also think Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street are better films. I just couldn't get jiggy with this one.

Comment by Cthulhu R'lyeh on October 27, 2012 at 4:30pm

Watch it again.

And I don't see how a movie can have good atmosphere and bad pacing.

Comment by FalseFace on October 27, 2012 at 12:03pm

Good: Camera work and atmosphere. That breathing...

Bad: The pacing -- nothing really happened until after an hour or so. The unexplained logic of the movie, particularly Michael Myers' super strength (noone noticed this at the mental home?) and invulnerability/healing factor, just took me out of it. Plus, it was never explained why his sister was so important -- killing her as well as bringing her tombstone to that house.

I understand the influence of the movie, but that's it. If this came out NOW, I think the Crew would give it some ol' BS, yo.

Comment by Cthulhu R'lyeh on October 27, 2012 at 8:58am

Excuse me?