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Originally Posted by Zivouhr
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The new group needed Heather as a sacrifice for their end goals. They hired the investigator and sent the son in to track her down, then even kidnapped the father to draw her in. But yeah, I'll have to watch it again to see why Alessa was so angry with her other half, other than wanting to take over everything with her hatred. Good point about the fusing from the first movie, and this not being discussed in the 2nd. Possibly a temporary blend of power that dissolved after they left Silent Hill? Not sure since Bassett didn't get into explaining it.
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Lucas, in his later years, [Show spoiler]probably thought a little too much about politics and thought back to Star Wars a New Hope, which hinted at the lines in the conference room with Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin, discussing the dissolution of the Republic and how they would no longer be a factor. The fear of the Death Star being the new power of the Imperials. Then Lucas infused much of his prequels with politics, forgetting that fans loved Star Wars for the original Trilogies' sense of adventure, fun interactions between Solo, Leia, Luke, Obi Wan Kenobi, C3PO, R2D2 and Chewy versus the Empire. The prequel cast had a few miststeps with the wooden performances especially of Anakin Skywalker and Leia's daughter, Padme/Amidala, excluding Ewan McGregor's great performance as Kenobi, and a few other well acted parts. |
It is actually telling in one of the deleted scenes Vincent even refers to the original group from the first film and how they wanted to sacrifice her to bring about there god.... No they didn't. They felt she was a witch and wanted to cleanse her. Nothing about a sacrifice to birth a god or similar is made or suggested. The group in the second film are not protected in any way from the darkness like those in the first film, so if Alessa wanted them dead they should already be dead.
The numerous things like along with the ignoring of the end, the fact that people can't leave silent hill (yet some ritual apparently enables them to be able to....) have me question if the film maker had seen the film he was making a sequel to in recent times. Also Rose somehow gets Alessa/Sharon out of Silent Hill (as they are already fused), by a mcguffin that even the director says should never be used. Why would Alessa and the entity allow Sharon to leave. No one leaves Silent Hill unless the entity allows it. The ambiguity was also dropped, the religious symbolism, the entity that created Silent Hill etc.
The sequel quite honestly should have dropped the Alessa/Rose story line and taken ques from the second game (of course changing the character) and have Sean Bean as the main star travelling to Silent Hill to find his long lost wife and daughter. What it tried to do was just it's own thing, which maybe would have been fine if it's own thing was compelling or interesting, but it wasn't which makes it a bad sequel and a bad film.
In fact I would have to say this is even worse as a sequel then The Descent 2 and the more I think about the film the more issues I notice. Which is no easy feat to manage
[Show spoiler]especially when it is a film that ignores the first films ending, then ignores that the very existence of the monsters was meant to be ambiguous (Sarah was originally intended to be the monster and she originally starts seeing the 'monsters' in the hospital at the start, hence also why when she screams after being in the pool of blood the others hear one of the monster screams), and only real addition to the story was we saw where this monsters defecate (even though we are not meant to even be sure if they are real).
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