Matt James

feels more believable in a video game setting than a movie.

I feel like hitting it tonally in a movie, you'd have to be like David Lynch.

You'd have to be just like a master of what you're doing.

to hit that kind of right tone that is a bit campy, but also the surreal nature of it too.

It's a fine target to hit tonally, and it just doesn't really achieve that.

And I don't particularly think that a lot of the performances...

in the movie are helping that.

I think that the performances in the Silent Hill 2 remake that was recently released are by and large better than the performances in this film.

And one of the actors is actually the same and she does a great job.

I know, I know.

That's what happens in the video game too.

But it works in that context.

This is just, I feel like it's just a really specific example of like, you can't adapt every video game.

Some of them just don't.

It's like adapting a superhero, right?

Like you can have a great superhero comic.

You can have a great superhero game.

There's something about when you put them on the screen and you're looking at Batman's suit and you're like, no, that's not right.

And it doesn't feel right.

It's sort of similar to that superhero not translating to film thing.