So I Managed To Watch It After All

That is to say, I stepped into the office this morning and a few minutes later was told that not only had Silent Hill arrived in Singapore, and not only had the censors not yet taken their scissors to the movie, but that the distributors, the Shaw Brothers company was going to be screening it in the private theater they had on the 13th floor of their office building and some lucky bastard from GameAxis was going to go and watch it with ‘em.

Said lucky bastard being me.

I can’t go into too many details since I’m still owing an official review for GameAxis itself,
but I will say this; fans of the game have nothing to complain about, it’s so true to the look and feel of the game that it’s positively unnerving. Unfortunately, fans of cinema in general will–and rightfully so–bash it for exactly these same reasons. But my God, as a huge admirer of the series, the geek in me has just gotta’ marvel at how intensely true to the series Roger Avary and Chrisopher Gans were, even if it came at the expense of the plot, dialog and acting… Oh well.

When the review has been submitted and put up on the GameAxis website, I’ll post a link here.