Silent Hill

You've played the game. Now watch the movie! You know you wana. Actually, I know I wana. Hmm yes. The movie had every bit of the suspense in the games, and has a sort of side story going so that the audience is more aware of what's going on. I guess it cannot be exactly like a walkthrough of a Silent Hill game where nobody really knows what's going on and just winds up getting scared all the time, and highly confused. That's probably bad for a movie. Anyway, it's nice that the producers collaborated with Konami on this piece. It really brings out the spirit of the Silent Hill series. (Why was the show censored? I paid good money to watch a good movie at the cinema! You do NOT censor shows I PAY money to watch!)

As for the story, it's about a mom with a highly disturbed daughter. The daughter sleepwalks and keeps mentioning a place known as...you guessed it...Silent Hill. After a bit of research, the mom drives the daughter to the place, sees something spooky and crashes the car. This time, there's a cop who follows. Well, Silent Hill is a ghost town. Exactly the sort of ghost town that's full of the horrors of the past. Not to spoil anything, suffice to know that I loved the ending.

For some reason, Silent Hill is a place where virtually nothing ever works, zombies appear for no apparent reason, and you always have a working torch, a melee weapon of some sort, and a projectile weapon which is often a gun. There's always a torch and melee weapon early in the game! And likewise, there's a melee weapon and torch towards the middle of the show. Don't forget your radio! The one that makes weird noises when zombies are nearby. I think they didn't emphasize that part enough. But for once, you kinda understand why the zombies just look like bags of meat. In this version of the story, Silent Hill was a town gutted in a fire. A witch-burning fire of all things. But all in all, I loved the pace of the story. They actually had a sort of narrative going, instead of having everything come in via whispered conversation and flashbacks. If ya ask me! Watch tha movie! I shan't say more =p

Ah yes. I notice that other girls never admit to being gamers, even if they play video games.

I went for a seafood buffet after the show. The food was so-so, so I wound up massacring their flower crab dish. Couldn't figure out what else to eat anyway. Felt kinda bad when people opened the case and found all the crabs gone. NOT.