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Hmm. I had a pleasant Saturday evening date with my husband. I was informed that we'd do anything that I wanted. That meant seafood at The Dock At The Bay, movie rental (because I didn't feel like fighting the crowds on a rainy night ), and a slice of cake from The Dessert Deli (they made our wedding cake. They totally own Amherst...half the town was in that place on a Saturday night paying 5 bucks for a slice of cake and LOVING it).
So we watched Silent Hill (meh *shrug* It ain't art, I'll say that much. Probably would have liked it better if I'd ever played the game), ate cake, got cozy, napped... All very pleasant.
Then I wake up because the wind is howling and the rain is falling in buckets, and I decide to check up with my eBay auctions online...and I find e-mail from some friends, informing me that someone we all know died this morning.
She was my age and she was a strange bird prone to bouts of crazy...but she introduced me to anime and she made really great cocoa and even though we clashed sometimes, I always admired her. She had lovely long red hair and she was a very good fencer. She bought her first house at 24...quite a feat for a single girl...and lived in it quite nicely, all alone. She was very smart and very independent...she had great art on the walls.
I knew she was sick...she's had breast cancer for three years, but I didn't know how ill she'd become. I was going to give her a call and see how she was doing.
... I have nothing much more to say. I'm not exactly devastated or anything...I'm just saddened and feeling my mortality. She was my age and she's gone, and isn't the world a capricious place? Lightning strikes or it doesn't. The lump is just a cyst or maybe a malignant tumor. There's no telling which way it'll go. Usually I'm fine with that. Tonight, I'm hearing the storm at my window and it sounds...close.
So we watched Silent Hill (meh *shrug* It ain't art, I'll say that much. Probably would have liked it better if I'd ever played the game), ate cake, got cozy, napped... All very pleasant.
Then I wake up because the wind is howling and the rain is falling in buckets, and I decide to check up with my eBay auctions online...and I find e-mail from some friends, informing me that someone we all know died this morning.
She was my age and she was a strange bird prone to bouts of crazy...but she introduced me to anime and she made really great cocoa and even though we clashed sometimes, I always admired her. She had lovely long red hair and she was a very good fencer. She bought her first house at 24...quite a feat for a single girl...and lived in it quite nicely, all alone. She was very smart and very independent...she had great art on the walls.
I knew she was sick...she's had breast cancer for three years, but I didn't know how ill she'd become. I was going to give her a call and see how she was doing.
... I have nothing much more to say. I'm not exactly devastated or anything...I'm just saddened and feeling my mortality. She was my age and she's gone, and isn't the world a capricious place? Lightning strikes or it doesn't. The lump is just a cyst or maybe a malignant tumor. There's no telling which way it'll go. Usually I'm fine with that. Tonight, I'm hearing the storm at my window and it sounds...close.
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I loved Silent Hill. The people who worked on that movie should be the only ones to ever do any other game-to-big-screen movies. Konomi even put their name on the movie. Most video games companies won't do that because the adaptation sucks. (I'm thinking of Resident Evil which sucked big time. Did these people ever play the damn games? Once??)
But yeah, there were actual scenes out of the game in the movie. And the camera direction was fabulous.
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Y'know...I had the feeling that I would have ~loved~ that movie if I'd ever played the game. It seemed really true to the game, it even ~looked~ just like the game. I love the visual impact of that ghost town with the ash falling from the sky, it was chilling and a little beautiful.
I could tell it was faithful to the game because it was even structured like a game...Greg and I got a kick out of saying stuff like "Level one: The Town", "Level Two: The Underground". After that scene where the really scary dude with a triangle for a head chased the women into that little room full of big scary gears (and they eventually get away), I turned to Greg and said "That boss was a bitch. I'm so glad I downloaded those cheat codes!", and we cracked up. Oh...gaming geek humor, how I love you. :-)
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Some of the moments in that movie were absolutely stunning (and creepy as hell). The lighting was perfect and the with the music swelling at the right moments...*sigh* I love that movie...
LOL I saw the movie with a friend of mine and we were fairly familiar with the game. We'd briefly played them (they're really friggin hard) and knew about most of the baddies. When Triangle Head showed up we flipped out and started screaming, "Oh my GOD! She's so screwed!" And our jaws about hit the ground when she found the nurses. In the game they were so hard to fight. (It seems like females in games are harder to kill)