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Originally Posted by dubman

you guys are BABIES.
"oh that almost worked, oh that could have been cool, oh if only they tweaked things for my tastes, oh SIGH, OH BITCH AND OH MOAN"

there's legitimate complaints, and then there's just sloppily applying your quip to what good moviemaking (or book adaptation) should look like in general. that whole line about books not translating to film well is horseshit. people may not be able to get it right very often, but it certainly can be done well.

I agree that it can be done well, but more often it isn't done well. I too often find myself saying "oh that almost worked, oh that could have been cool", specific examples being the Resident Evil movie, the DOOM movie (even though I haven't seen it yet), and hopefully Hollywood will not f*** up the upcoming Silent Hill movie because I really have a special place in my memory playing such a fun and scary game franchise.

For the Silent Hill series especially, I feel the series has a lot of potential to be very a good, not cheesy movie. I really hope I will not be saying "oh that almost worked, oh that could have been cool" once I see the film. For once I just wish someone would take a video game franchise and give it the love and respect it deserves, like what James Cameron did with Aliens. The only reason I feel I can complain that Silent Hill better be good is because I've seen someone take a franchise and respectfully add onto it and expand upon it such as in Aliens. I was worried that Batman Begins would be similar. They needed to respect the first two films and not make this one a joke (like the last two Batman films). It turned out great.