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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

The first Silent Hill movie is excellent. It takes the great plot of the first one, mixes in elements from the games like camera angles and puzzle elements, has the music from the games, and adds a few of its own ideas. The movie is so much like the games that even the ending makes absolutely no sense, just like the ending to the games. THe Silent Hill movie is to the games what Batman Begins is to comic books.

The second movie, on the other hand, is a piece of ****.

As for Silent Hill 2 (game), it is a great game, but 3 is superior to it.

I guess it's "excellent" for a video game movie. The end is actually what I disliked about the first movie. It's not that it doesn't make sense, it's that it's the equivalent to the various bad endings throughout the series, like "in water" from Silent Hill 2. Also the way the movie changed it from "evil cult member mother who sacrifices her daughter to bring back their old god" into "poor girl who gets accused of witchcraft and is taken from her mother to be killed" seemed weird. I wouldn't say the 2nd film is totally shit, but it was to me more of like "here's a crap ton of references to the games in a hour and a half package" than it was an actual movie, so I liked it, but I understand why it's not overall well on the reception.
Game-wise: Silent Hill 3 was scarier than Silent Hill 2, but Silent Hill 2's story was more impacting and mind-f***y. It's a case of SH3 being more physical and present scary while SH2 is psychological and moodier. Regardless both are easily the best entries into the series and a must play for any horror game fan.