Silent Hill was (yet another) awful video-game based movie (they all are). Slowly, certain friends of mine who shall remain nameless to protect the innocent (and the paint on my car from getting keyed) who are HUGE Silent Hill game fans and claimed to like the movie… have been coming around recently to admitting the horrible truth. Silent Hill (the movie) sucked.
The movie was also a disappointment at the box office, failing to break even with its domestic box office (It made under $50 million) and getting a general thumbs down from the audience. Surprisingly, there have been whispers over the past few months about a possible Silent Hill 2 movie. But the longer those rumors float out there… the more holes pet pricked in its optimistic balloon. Our friends over at MoviesOnline give us the following:
Writer Roger Avary, who wrote and directed “Killing Zoe” and “Rules of Attraction,” is not going back to the visually-haunting but ultimately-disappointing grounds of video game coal town horror for “Silent Hill 2,” the sequel to last year’s adaption from the popular video game “Silent Hill.”
Avary, who wrote the first movie, has probably picked up on this as he is following the lead of director Christophe Gans who said he will not be part of the revisiting of the movie end of the “Silent Hill” franchise, which enjoys its best success in its original video game format. Avary was quoted in a report by ShockTillYouDrop: “I’m not gonna do ‘Silent Hill 2’ … If Christophe’s not gonna do it, I’m not…”
Considering how bad the first movie was… how it didn’t meet box office expectations… and how the audience have generally reacted to it, I’m not surprised that either the director nor the writer want to come anywhere near this thing again. Nor should the studios. Chin up. It was worth a shot (I guess) and you gave it your best. You failed… now walk away, take the learning experience and move on to something else to try.
