The video game to movie curse was broken in 2006
With an amazing film called Silent Hill
shareI'd stop short of calling it amazing, but yes, it's been the best video game adaption to date.
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Agree! Any news for Part 3? At the ending scene of Part 2 they show the Truck Driver from Silent Hill: Origins and the Cops with the Prisoner from Silent Hill: Downpour.
"Let them Hate as long as they Fear"
If Silent Hill is an amazing film to you fanboys, then they still have a long way to go before the curse is broken. I've never heard anyone say Silent Hill was a good film at all except from fans, which is to be expected and not to be used to gauge the progress video game movies have made in any way. Its the general audience that needs to be impressed, not the damn video game community.
shareBut impressing the general audience is not the same thing as impressing critics. Silent Hill actually does have a following outside the existing fanbase of the game. Of course the Resident Evil series is the most successful video game movie franchise and that has also gained an audience outside the existing fanbase and I haven't heard many people call those good movies either.
shareI actually found Doom of 2005 to be an amazing sci-fi movie. It had nothing to do with the game except for the name and the location, but it just had that good old "Alien" feeling.
Regarding the op's Silent Hill, I wouldn't watch a horror movie if you put a gun to my head, so I wouldn't know. I just hate the feeling of "being frightened", why people want that is a mystery to me.
But Warcraft was a good enough movie. I had missed a good fantasy world since The Lord of the Rings ended.
My ratings are not always like the IMDB average score because I only enjoy intelligent movies.