The Reel Rejects - SILENT HILL: REVELATION (2012) – THE PRACTICAL EFFECTS ARE INSANE! FIRST TIME WATCH

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Starting point is 00:02:01 It kind of is. I'm sure Tara and I will be covering the 2026 Silent Hills. well. So let us know what other things in the meantime you guys want us to do or post that. We always are picking up different horror-esque franchises where the Shijax, horror, horror, scream cleans, all that good stuff. And one of the cool things you get to do over on Patreon is you get to ask us questions. And that's how we do our reviews now. So shout out to those patrons who did ask questions. And we're going to get to those in a minute before I ask you those couple questions there, just in general, 8% on Rotten Tomatoes. Fair or not fair?

Starting point is 00:02:35 I don't think it's fair. Okay. The practical effects bring it up to at least a 30 or 40. Like the writing, not great. Very video game. I think they, it seems like when you play a video game at Dave and Busters where they're like, it's the dumbest script. It's very expositional.

Starting point is 00:02:55 There's not like great acting. It just is what it is. You move along. You fight some creatures. Right. That's what it felt like. Yep. I'm super with you.

Starting point is 00:03:04 I feel as if this movie, was not good, but it was not, it was not hot garbage. It was just not good. It was just not good. But for the practical effects along, good job on that. Yeah, looked really cool. We had some plot issues. Cool to see Anthony Hopkins in it.

Starting point is 00:03:21 It's an inside joke, y'all, and it's an inside joke with you guys, if you know, you know. All right. Leave it in the comments. What, when, what reaction did she call him that? Because we are having a hard time remembering. I think it was one of the Silence of the Lambs movie. No, because I didn't watch that with you. But you, so did I just tell you about it?

Starting point is 00:03:39 No. No, you lived it with me? No, I lived it with you. I watched something with you. And you were like Anthony Hopkins. And I was like, wait, it was because I had just seen Silence of Lambs. So I was thinking about Anthony Hopkins. Okay, that's why I'm thinking around that time period.

Starting point is 00:03:53 Yes. You guys got to tell us. Yeah, what was the movie? I mean, heck, if I'm going to remember. And it was something where he wouldn't, it was a wrong term movie. It was something that he never would have been in. It wasn't wrong turn. It was after that.

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Starting point is 00:07:25 Or some things that stand out about the movie, either good or bad. Oh, I really like this question, actually, because I think it does give us a way to talk about this movie a little bit. So kind of good or bad. Let's start with good, Tara. What stands out about this for you? Well, honestly, I did. I like the environment, the way that they lit,

Starting point is 00:07:44 like carnival, when it's like rain and dead bodies, all that stuff. Practical effects. I've already talked about that enough. The acting was okay to me. I think really just the good stuff was the environment and the effects, because the script and the rest of it can,

Starting point is 00:08:01 So speaking on good things that stood out, Sean Bean really takes this seriously. I think he does a really good job in this franchise. He really gives it his all, and he's been enough things to probably know on set that this might not have been peak, and he was like, I'm still going to do it all. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:17 Which is cool. I like father-daughter storylines, so that was interesting. It really is the standout is the effects the way that the monsters look. And you can kind of see that this is a little bit of, this is a little bit of like it precedes

Starting point is 00:08:35 stranger things and stranger things kind of I don't want to say that they took from this or barrens but like they clearly some of the stuff I was like oh that's a demigorian right there

Starting point is 00:08:43 exactly that's coming from that so and same thing a little bit with the last of us I don't know timeline wise if this was before or after that but they're all in like a little bit of a similar style which is cool

Starting point is 00:08:54 so those are things that stood out in a good way in a bad way what stood out to you Um, the plot, like I said, the script seems pulled right out of a video game with no juice and, uh, or trying to raise the level of the, what they're saying. There wasn't really a beast story about that terror because like, as you're saying the plot, I'm like, okay, so the whole plot was that we needed to get back to Silent Hill, um, to save the dad who was taken to Silent Hill as the mom had already been taken. But what? And then we find that Heather is the missing piece to Alessa.

Starting point is 00:09:28 Yeah. there's just no other, like there's not that much going on. There's not, it was like, oh, sure, Kit shows up and we, it's very obvious that he has some something to do. Yeah, I think I said it was like 15 seconds. You did. And you were like 100%. I'm an order.

Starting point is 00:09:44 I'm a child of the order. That is exactly what it sounded like. It was, a lot of it was melodramatic. Some of the delivery, I was like, why is this like this? Yeah. I mean, honestly, I think. that if you play the video game, you have to be watching this movie most likely going. The director took a shot for shot. That's what I think. I also think that in video games,

Starting point is 00:10:11 they do a good job of like if you cut to a scene, it's kept as like a oneer. And they did follow that in a lot of these, even though the script and the plot, I was like, I'm kind of not very excited. I did notice a lot of cool tracking shots, which I'll give you more. credit for that. It just, it sucks that it kind of got lost in not a good, not a good movie. Um, I felt like there was quite literally zero chemistry between who apparently were our two romantic leads that I, and you know me, I feel like people have chemistry with a brick wall sometimes. I'm like, I want you to kiss. I want you to kiss. When he kissed her, I was like, wait, what? Yeah, we both were like, oh, okay.

Starting point is 00:10:53 It was not a vibe. No, not at all. And they're both very hot. So I, it should have been a lot. But It just was not a vibe. I don't know whether I was because of the dialogue or what, but I don't want to blame the actors for that because a lot of times it's direction thing. Yeah. They're just not on set at the same time. I don't know. It just,

Starting point is 00:11:10 that was kind of out of left field. And I will say this also, which is probably one of the toughest things a movie can do, is that this was a 95-minute movie that felt like a two-hour movie. Totally. And that's one of the worst things that you can do as a movie. Also, hugely underutilized, if you have Kariam Moss in your movie, Duh.

Starting point is 00:11:33 Gave her more to do. Same with Malcolm McDowell. I think that they had great cast and that they didn't utilize it as appropriately as they could have. I also think that the lead girl, remember in the line when she's walking with Kit and it goes, well, I think like you're funny and corky or something. And I was thinking the entire time at the very beginning when she's, She stands up in school. I was like, and she's doing that whole monologue.

Starting point is 00:12:01 It's supposed to be kind of funny and cool. And like you brush off people. You're making them laugh. You're like, trust me. By the time you get to know me, like, I'll be gone. It didn't come off that way at all. Did not come off that way at all. And the whole time I was thinking, why did they cast her?

Starting point is 00:12:17 Yeah, because she's so intense. She must have a relationship with the Hiditas. But she was good. I felt like it was a direction thing, though, Tara, because it might be. Because she was so clearly being directed. to be so intense. It's not like she wasn't believable as intense.

Starting point is 00:12:31 It just wasn't doing what we... It wasn't doing. It wasn't doing. Why would you have him say that you're funny in court? She's not at all, funny, at all. No, she wasn't funny at all. At all. Like, we're missing context clues there.

Starting point is 00:12:44 I don't know. Like... And I think that that monologue at school would have been... Is supposed to be funny where she's like... She pops a joke the first thing. like when she gets there, but it was like wasn't that vibe. It wasn't the right vibe for delivery. Her name is Adeline Clemens.

Starting point is 00:13:03 She was in, she's been in a lot. Oh, she's in that show I liked under the banner of heaven. She's in Rectify. She's in the Great Gatsby. All right, good for her. Okay. She books a lot. Had to be direction.

Starting point is 00:13:19 MJ Bassett is the director of this. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. So I'm sorry that that was my, response just now. MJ's a woman, which I wouldn't have guessed based on me neither. She wrote and directed this.

Starting point is 00:13:34 She also directed Ash versus Evil Dead. Really? The show. Oh, we haven't watched that. Yeah, I didn't watch the show either on Stars. She directed some episodes of power. She directed a movie called Solomon Kane.

Starting point is 00:13:51 All right, so a lot of TV, a lot of TV stuff. A lot of, a lot of TV. TV stuff, Reacher. Um, okay. And there's, there was four writers on this. Ah, that may be why. Um, and, uh, it's a little messy.

Starting point is 00:14:08 That's about all I have to tell you. Four riders for that dialogue? Yeah, but what are these writers doing? I don't know. One's adapted by, M.J. Bassett wrote it, but it was adapted by Laurent Hadita and story by Hiro yuki, Oahu, and video game credit to Kikiro. Toyama. Okay. Yeah, kind of all over the map. Like we mentioned, it has an 8% on Rotten Tomatoes, has a 4.9 on IMDB. Just seeing if I can give you any quick trivia on this. For the scene of the

Starting point is 00:14:39 goldfish dying, the crew placed the fish in specifically prepared water that would cause the animals to fall asleep, creating the appearance of dying animals without actually causing them any harm. Oh, thank God. Kit Harrington admitted trying to play the Silent Hill games for research, but quit because they were too scary for him. However, he also added that he didn't need to play the games as his character bears very little relation to his game counterpart. Right. Okay.

Starting point is 00:15:08 Red Pyramid is a full body costume that was blended into Roberto Campanella's wrists, requiring only 25 minutes of preparation for each scene, as opposed to three hours it took in the first film. Which one is Red Pyramid, the triangle head? I don't know. I don't know. Carrie and Moss had to shave her eyebrows for this role. Oh, that sucks. According to filmmakers, this was done to her facial expressions would be more difficult to tell,

Starting point is 00:15:34 just like her game counterpart. I'd be like, just put makeup over them. Why do I have to shave them? For this? For this? No way. I'm barely in the movie. Put makeup on.

Starting point is 00:15:44 MJ Bassett was dissatisfied with the final film. But she's the writer and director, so, like, okay. Maybe studio had a ton of notes. Yeah, maybe the Hadidas got. involved. Yeah, so what was the name of the Hadida person? There were so many. I know. I know. They're just put in Hadita film people. I know,

Starting point is 00:16:03 but it was like the first one that was like a Bubba Blu production. Was it Laurent? Samuel Hadita or Victor Hadita? I think it was Samuel. Okay, Samuel Adita was a producer on this. I don't know. Producer in Resident Evil, too. He must be a video game

Starting point is 00:16:21 guy. Gotta be. Okay, well, that's what we got. You guys probably know more than us, so tell us in the comments. I'm sure we'll be back here for 2026. Sis Silent Hill, maybe it will be good. Should we see who's in that? No, we'll keep it a surprise.

Starting point is 00:16:37 We'll keep it a surprise. We'll keep it a surprise, Derek. Keep it a surprise. We like surprises. Any final things for the peeps? No, I wish I liked it more. Me too. We'll get back. Obviously, leave in the comments, like if you have any suggestions for us, as always.

Starting point is 00:16:52 We don't know what are watching next. But hopefully it's, Better than an 8%. All right. Much love rejects later.

The Reel Rejects - SILENT HILL: REVELATION (2012) – THE PRACTICAL EFFECTS ARE INSANE! FIRST TIME WATCH

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