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[sepiastars]

If you remember The Moffatts, go (here) and listen to "Perilously Here." Both the other songs are pretty good too, but "Perilously Here" is AMAZING. So I misjudged Scott - apparently the excessive drinking and pot-smoking hasn't totally ruined his creativity.

I will be buying the CD when it's made available.

Next topic: I had the hardest time going to sleep last night.  I went to see "Silent Hill" after work with the girls because I had a free ticket and it's been ages since we saw a movie.  Typically, I'm fine with movie gore and stuff because I can easily reconcile the fact that it isn't real blood, but this movie put some of the worst images into my head.  I have a really strong stomach anyway, but I literally felt ill at some parts of this film (Caution: Spoiler coming).  There's a scene where a woman is held over a fire and we see her entire death sequence, down to melting fabric and bubbling skin, and the worst part is that they made sure we knew that a little girl was watching her die and being traumatized. (Okay, spoilers over).  I also wasn't aware that it is based on a video game, because if I had known that, I would have used my free ticket on something else.  The movie made absoltely no sense, and I hate it when I walk out of the theater having no idea what the hell just happened.  So FYI, there is completely unnecessary gore and blood and images of horrifying bodily harm in this movie.  And the monstery-creature things were definately the scariest things I have ever seen in movies.  But the movie itself was horrible.  Bad acting, bad writing.  Don't waste your money.

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[michelled85.livejournal.com]

I didn't know anyone else remembered the Moffatts.

I hardly ever see movies in the theater anymore because they seem to be making worse ones. My friends and I have started just renting them when they come out on DVD so we don't waste too much money if it turns out to be horrible.

[plushmistress.livejournal.com]

I HATE HATE HATE scary movies, but I want so bad to see Silent Hill because I kinda liked the game (although I never played it...just slightly familiar with it), but I KNOW for a fact that it will scare the crap out of me. Just the previews freak me out, because those creatures are SCARY. And I'm home a LOT by myself late at night while Ryan is working, and I don't want the images of those things coming after me. And what's even scarier is that they are real poeple acting in costume, and not CG creatures. EEEEK.

[sepiastars.livejournal.com]

You could tell they were real because of the way they moved and how full and fleshed out they were. It made it a lot scarier. But other than the fact that those creatury things were really gross and scary, the movie wasn't scary because I didn't have any idea what was happening. Can you explain what Silent Hill's deal is to me? I'm so lost ^.^

Michelle - I LOVE The Moffatts! I was always a Scott fan; a couple months ago I found his MySpace and he's kind of pathetic now: self-depricating and doing nothing but drinking and smoking pot, but apparently he's done a little more than that and is putting out a CD. And judging from these 3 songs he has on MySpace, a pretty good one. Did you listen to "Perilously Here?" You should! If you want to see his personal profile, he's under my friends as Jabberwhorl Cronstadt. I don't know why.

[plushmistress.livejournal.com]

Well, this is copy/pasted from some forums that I frequent, and someone asked a similar question, and a girl actually took the time to answer it:

There are four Silent Hill games.

The first one came out on PS1 and it was about a man named Harry Mason (Yes, Harry Mason. XDDD Say it out loud.) whose daughter Cheryl keeps asking to go to a town called Silent Hill. Upon taking her there, they almost hit a girl on the road and swerve and crash. When he wakes up he's in Silent Hill and Cheryl is missing. He now has to search the foggy town for his daughter and unravel a conspirasy about a girl who looks like his daughter named Allysia, a secret drug ring and a bunch of other stuff. He basically needs to stop the birth of a god of destruction... The first Silent Hill has the worst graphics but is by far the scariest.

The second one is on ps2 and is about a man named James Sunderland who recieves a letter from his dead wife, telling him that she is waiting for him in silent hill. He knows it can't be true because she's dead, but he goes anyway. He then has to travel through his own nightmares to figure out the truth of his wife's death, and as well help the people whom he meets in the town - one of which looks exactly like his wife but isn't his wife. This game is more about the monsters being in your head, rather than the first game where the monsters were created by Allysia's will/pain. This silent hill in my opinion is the best, and is also the saddest and most tragic. The ending made me cry =(

The third one is about Heather Mason, the daughter of Harry from the first game (Cheryl, she changed her name.) In this Heather is going to give birth to the god again, and she wants to take revenge on Claudia for killing her father. I'm not completely sure of the exact story line because I haven't played this one yet. This Silent Hill was the most popular, most likely because it had a female lead. tongue.gif

The fourth one is about Henry Townsend, a single photographer living in a small apartment. One day he wakes up and realises he can't leave his apartment, the door is chained and locked from the inside. However, he manages to find a hole in his bathroom which leads to different parts of silent hill, and he must solve the mystery of the murders of his fellow tendants as they are all killed off by a ghost. This Silent Hill is the hardest and has the best gameplay - it's not very scary, but it's very fun.


The Silent Hill movie is a re-telling of the first game, but with several differences. First of all, the main character is now a woman. I'm not complaining though because the director making this movie has very good reasons for the changes he makes and he knows A LOT about Silent Hill. (He makes Harry a woman souly because his character is hard to play as a male on screen, he works better in game form. It would have ruined the movie if they kept him male.) Also, monsters from the second game make appearances in the movie, but I don't blame them because the monsters from the second game are twenty times cooler. XD Most noticable is the appearance of Pyramid Head, whom in the second game haunts James for his sins and is a very sexual character who rapes other monsters. O_O However, his appearance is based on the excecutioners of old Silent Hill, and also on the god -- And my source tells me that the pyramid head in the movie isn't the same one from SH2, rather it's just a monster who takes the same image of the god just like the pyramid head from SH2 does.