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shadowhiveSo I had hoped, again, to get more posts out but alas my brain has been too sidetracked which is annoying. (Maybe I’ll have another up before the night’s up but we’ll see, more likely tomorrow)
Monday ended up being annoying cause of mum’s firmed coming, which meant I ended up going to town to put money in the bank. On the plus side it meant I got a Will figure from Morrisons (it was the last one and discounted) but still no stickers or the b and m stuff I was hoping to get. But b and m did have some of the new Lego poly bags and I did get some stuff from Iceland.
Then I came home and of course she wants more stuff which.. Ugh. I hate that she’s like this. Then the next day some of the stuff came and one was a plant that was real (she expected it to be artificial, despite its description clearly saying it was live) and she called wanting to send it back then called again saying she changed her mind which… ughh.
Also speaking of stuff coming neither of the things I won have arrived. I sent one a message asking if it had been sent but haven’t heard a reply yet. I fear it has ended up somewhere else, but as I’ve no idea and I dont like the idea of going around chasing it up with no idea where it could be.
But fast forward through the week (cause it was largely low energy) and we get to yesterday.
I ended up going to town to see Return To Silent Hill. I didn’t do much in town itself, I checked for stickers (nope), got a drink and a Disney book partwork, then the fantastic 4 comic and meal deal from Tesco (cause I had £10 credit to use).
When I got to the cinema the guy at the counter instantly knew I was coming for Silent Hill before I said it which was funny. He’s nice I’ve seen him before and I got to talking how I came then cause it was one of the two day showings they had (Monday is the other) and how I wanted to avoid late night ones, despite planning to come on Friday next week for teo late films. (Please weather don’t be cold like planned.
I had considered going for another film but there wasn’t anything I wanted to see that wasn’t clashing (I considered No Other Choice but doubted I’d have the focus).
Trailers
Obsession: Less a trailer, more a scene of a guy on a phone. It seems like regular customer service until he starts talking about a wish and if it was real love that he’d wished someone to love him. Not sure what to make of it from that alone though
Scream 7: A new trailer for me, but I kinda lost focus on scream after hearing how two of the actresses were treated. It looks like it could be good but I dunno.
Whistle: One I’ve seen before and it looks pretty good I might see it
Cold Storage: my beloved, I really am so hyped for this. Like honestly it’s the film I’m second most excited for (which says a lot considering it’s a Star Wars year)
Send Help: felt like a new version of the trailer, not sure if I’ll see it, we’ll see
Primate: one of those trailers that’s like ‘we put cameras on a crowd to see how they reacted’ trailers. I’m still eh about it though.
Anyway onto Return To Silent Hill.
So I’ll start this by saying I’ve only ever played one Silent Hill game (the Wii one, which I thing is Shattered Memories?) so it’s one of those gaming gaps that I have. However I have seen both of the other films (albeit a looooong time ago and the second only once) and I have seen a bit of gameplay. The point I’m making here is I’m not an expert, but I know this film is based on Silent Hill 2.
(A funny thing I read this week was one of the actresses, who played Agnes in Wednesday season 2, was cast as a role in this but was also a voice in the recent remake of 2. However she’d signed an NDA also the film makers had no idea they cast her for the same role.)
The story is about a man called James who gets a letter from his ex girlfriend to come back to Silent Hill to find her. When he arrives he finds a near abandoned town, plagued with ashes and creatures, which transforms whenever sirens go off. As he explores the town he has flashbacks to his past (and the film opens with his first meeting with her).
It did get me a few times with jump scares and the creatures are well done (one especially really freaked me out) and visually the whole thing does look great. The whole vibe of the town is really surreal, with the ash falling down and covering everything, then the scenes changing the vibes completely, (Plus the guy they got to play James is pretty)
The flashbacks are on odd thing. At first they feel like standard flashbacks, but early on it’s clear that things are off with Mary (the gf’s) friend group. It does feel like that should have been explored more cause just as it gets interesting the flashbacks to that time stop.
There’s a few points where it’s like ‘this is a real place and it’s strange’ but also ‘this whole thing is in James’ head’. It feels like the entire thing is a manifestation of James’ grief/guilt (which I’m guessing it is in the game).
All in all though I largely liked it, though I do feel the ambiguity and stuff might make people dissatisfied. (And like I said I dunno if that makes it a good or bad adaption or not.
Next cinema trip should (hopefully) be Friday for Another World and Iron Lung.
Speaking of films there’s a trailer for Masters Of The Universe and I’m really into it. Like I’ve never seen He Man or anything but it has convinced me to check it out. It has a bit of a guardians vibe to it. And yeah hit guy in a skimpy outfit is always a plus.
When I got home the new SFX was here (a surprise it’s not out till next week) but ah! It feels very relevent to my interests cause there’s several articles one after another that goes: Cold Storage, Ghost Watch, The War Between The Land And The Sea, Stranger Things. So I looking forward to reading those things. (And also the Hawkins Horrors book came cause I ordered it with stuff mum wanted to get an offer. I hope my ability to book read returns from the war.)
Last night was the Traitors finale and ahhh. I’m not gonna say more but I fully expected it to go differently especially after Thursday’s round table. (It’s so funny they didn’t have to use that tie break thing before and this season they used it twice after first using it in the celeb one)
Today I decided to finish off the Doctor Who boxset by watching The Seeds Of Doom.
Researchers in the Antarctic find a mysterious seed pod in the ice, but, of course, things go wrong when they bring it inside to study.
This is very much an episode in two halves, which isn’t surprising considering it’s a 6 parter. The first half is set at the Antarctic base where one of the scientists becomes infected when the pod opens. That could have worked well enough as a concept as its own but for some reason the doctor instead appears in England tasked with going to the base to see what the pod is. It feels like an odd choice (cause usually in a story like this the doctor would land at the base from the start) but I feel it’s cause of the second half of the story being set in England.
The second half being the result of a rich guy, Harrison Chase, being told about the pod and wanting it (he has a thing for plants) and sending men to steal the pod and bringing it back to England (at first cause or it being unique, but when it’s revealed it’s dangerous it’s shown he doesn’t care). It does feel a bit that Chase has walked off a Bond set, as he has all the vibes of a Bond villain. (He has his own security force, his house is very much lair coded and he even has a machine to dispose of people albeit not designed for that specifically). Somehow it works, even though it feels it shouldn’t.
(And it also introduces another fun old lady in this case a painter that smokes in every scene she’s in and is just funny)
But the alien threat, the Krynoid, is a really good one. A plant that takes over a person, then has control over other plants while also having vines and also growing to giant sizes. It really works. I’d love to see it make a come back in New Who (it doesn’t need to be on earth, the Doctor says it has landed on other worlds so show us one). I know Big Finish have done an audio with that concept specifically (and probably more) which I’d love to hear but I’d like to see it.
Overall it’s a pretty good up, with the creepiness, the body horror, the two locations, having a bad guy in Chase. It would probably have worked just as well focusing on one of the concepts rather than doing both but it works really well. (And both Sarah Jane and the Doctor are so fun together and I love how he calls her his best friend). But it does feel odd have a random unit person instead of someone we know.
Now I’m finishing The Masked singer (the wrong person was unmasked damnit), then will watch the next Seven Dials and the Seeds Of Doom special features (and maybe other stuff).
Monday ended up being annoying cause of mum’s firmed coming, which meant I ended up going to town to put money in the bank. On the plus side it meant I got a Will figure from Morrisons (it was the last one and discounted) but still no stickers or the b and m stuff I was hoping to get. But b and m did have some of the new Lego poly bags and I did get some stuff from Iceland.
Then I came home and of course she wants more stuff which.. Ugh. I hate that she’s like this. Then the next day some of the stuff came and one was a plant that was real (she expected it to be artificial, despite its description clearly saying it was live) and she called wanting to send it back then called again saying she changed her mind which… ughh.
Also speaking of stuff coming neither of the things I won have arrived. I sent one a message asking if it had been sent but haven’t heard a reply yet. I fear it has ended up somewhere else, but as I’ve no idea and I dont like the idea of going around chasing it up with no idea where it could be.
But fast forward through the week (cause it was largely low energy) and we get to yesterday.
I ended up going to town to see Return To Silent Hill. I didn’t do much in town itself, I checked for stickers (nope), got a drink and a Disney book partwork, then the fantastic 4 comic and meal deal from Tesco (cause I had £10 credit to use).
When I got to the cinema the guy at the counter instantly knew I was coming for Silent Hill before I said it which was funny. He’s nice I’ve seen him before and I got to talking how I came then cause it was one of the two day showings they had (Monday is the other) and how I wanted to avoid late night ones, despite planning to come on Friday next week for teo late films. (Please weather don’t be cold like planned.
I had considered going for another film but there wasn’t anything I wanted to see that wasn’t clashing (I considered No Other Choice but doubted I’d have the focus).
Trailers
Obsession: Less a trailer, more a scene of a guy on a phone. It seems like regular customer service until he starts talking about a wish and if it was real love that he’d wished someone to love him. Not sure what to make of it from that alone though
Scream 7: A new trailer for me, but I kinda lost focus on scream after hearing how two of the actresses were treated. It looks like it could be good but I dunno.
Whistle: One I’ve seen before and it looks pretty good I might see it
Cold Storage: my beloved, I really am so hyped for this. Like honestly it’s the film I’m second most excited for (which says a lot considering it’s a Star Wars year)
Send Help: felt like a new version of the trailer, not sure if I’ll see it, we’ll see
Primate: one of those trailers that’s like ‘we put cameras on a crowd to see how they reacted’ trailers. I’m still eh about it though.
Anyway onto Return To Silent Hill.
So I’ll start this by saying I’ve only ever played one Silent Hill game (the Wii one, which I thing is Shattered Memories?) so it’s one of those gaming gaps that I have. However I have seen both of the other films (albeit a looooong time ago and the second only once) and I have seen a bit of gameplay. The point I’m making here is I’m not an expert, but I know this film is based on Silent Hill 2.
(A funny thing I read this week was one of the actresses, who played Agnes in Wednesday season 2, was cast as a role in this but was also a voice in the recent remake of 2. However she’d signed an NDA also the film makers had no idea they cast her for the same role.)
The story is about a man called James who gets a letter from his ex girlfriend to come back to Silent Hill to find her. When he arrives he finds a near abandoned town, plagued with ashes and creatures, which transforms whenever sirens go off. As he explores the town he has flashbacks to his past (and the film opens with his first meeting with her).
It did get me a few times with jump scares and the creatures are well done (one especially really freaked me out) and visually the whole thing does look great. The whole vibe of the town is really surreal, with the ash falling down and covering everything, then the scenes changing the vibes completely, (Plus the guy they got to play James is pretty)
The flashbacks are on odd thing. At first they feel like standard flashbacks, but early on it’s clear that things are off with Mary (the gf’s) friend group. It does feel like that should have been explored more cause just as it gets interesting the flashbacks to that time stop.
There’s a few points where it’s like ‘this is a real place and it’s strange’ but also ‘this whole thing is in James’ head’. It feels like the entire thing is a manifestation of James’ grief/guilt (which I’m guessing it is in the game).
All in all though I largely liked it, though I do feel the ambiguity and stuff might make people dissatisfied. (And like I said I dunno if that makes it a good or bad adaption or not.
Next cinema trip should (hopefully) be Friday for Another World and Iron Lung.
Speaking of films there’s a trailer for Masters Of The Universe and I’m really into it. Like I’ve never seen He Man or anything but it has convinced me to check it out. It has a bit of a guardians vibe to it. And yeah hit guy in a skimpy outfit is always a plus.
When I got home the new SFX was here (a surprise it’s not out till next week) but ah! It feels very relevent to my interests cause there’s several articles one after another that goes: Cold Storage, Ghost Watch, The War Between The Land And The Sea, Stranger Things. So I looking forward to reading those things. (And also the Hawkins Horrors book came cause I ordered it with stuff mum wanted to get an offer. I hope my ability to book read returns from the war.)
Last night was the Traitors finale and ahhh. I’m not gonna say more but I fully expected it to go differently especially after Thursday’s round table. (It’s so funny they didn’t have to use that tie break thing before and this season they used it twice after first using it in the celeb one)
Today I decided to finish off the Doctor Who boxset by watching The Seeds Of Doom.
Researchers in the Antarctic find a mysterious seed pod in the ice, but, of course, things go wrong when they bring it inside to study.
This is very much an episode in two halves, which isn’t surprising considering it’s a 6 parter. The first half is set at the Antarctic base where one of the scientists becomes infected when the pod opens. That could have worked well enough as a concept as its own but for some reason the doctor instead appears in England tasked with going to the base to see what the pod is. It feels like an odd choice (cause usually in a story like this the doctor would land at the base from the start) but I feel it’s cause of the second half of the story being set in England.
The second half being the result of a rich guy, Harrison Chase, being told about the pod and wanting it (he has a thing for plants) and sending men to steal the pod and bringing it back to England (at first cause or it being unique, but when it’s revealed it’s dangerous it’s shown he doesn’t care). It does feel a bit that Chase has walked off a Bond set, as he has all the vibes of a Bond villain. (He has his own security force, his house is very much lair coded and he even has a machine to dispose of people albeit not designed for that specifically). Somehow it works, even though it feels it shouldn’t.
(And it also introduces another fun old lady in this case a painter that smokes in every scene she’s in and is just funny)
But the alien threat, the Krynoid, is a really good one. A plant that takes over a person, then has control over other plants while also having vines and also growing to giant sizes. It really works. I’d love to see it make a come back in New Who (it doesn’t need to be on earth, the Doctor says it has landed on other worlds so show us one). I know Big Finish have done an audio with that concept specifically (and probably more) which I’d love to hear but I’d like to see it.
Overall it’s a pretty good up, with the creepiness, the body horror, the two locations, having a bad guy in Chase. It would probably have worked just as well focusing on one of the concepts rather than doing both but it works really well. (And both Sarah Jane and the Doctor are so fun together and I love how he calls her his best friend). But it does feel odd have a random unit person instead of someone we know.
Now I’m finishing The Masked singer (the wrong person was unmasked damnit), then will watch the next Seven Dials and the Seeds Of Doom special features (and maybe other stuff).
