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Silent Hill: Revelation (2012)
The end scene saves it all
I must say, I was a little disappointed by the movie. Not because of contrariness to the game (I think the visuals of the 3rd game were marvelously adapted, and I also think that Pyramid Head made a lot more sense here since he was presented as the cult's guardian), but it lacked something. After some hard thinking on what I felt was missing, I think it was a) the rather poor dialogue and b) the lack of solitude. Heather is almost always in company of someone, be it Vincent or Grandpa or some cult person. The loneliness is an important part of the SH feeling.
BUT! The one thing that saves it all for me was the ending. And if you don't want to catch any spoilers, you shouldn't read on.
After Alessa and Claudia are defeated, Heather and Vincent leave Silent Hill, who has lost its foggy appearance. On the road that leads out of town, they hitchhike, a truck stops, and as soon as we get a look at the driver, everyone who knows the games will have a good laugh. It's actually no need for him to introduce himself as "Travis Grady", because they really made an effort of casting an actor who looks VERY similar to the protagonist of "Silent Hill: Origins". Heather and Vincent climb onto the truck and while it passes the place-name sign of Silent Hill, a convoy of police cars, escorting a prisoner transport, drives in the opposite direction, heading right into town. As they enter Silent Hill, the fog reappears and swallows the convoy. A new trip to hell is about to start for prisoner Murphy Pendleton, protagonist of "Silent Hill: Downpour", as his transport bus will have an accident only he and a certain female police officer will survive.
This ending is SO beautifully done, and subtle as well (we never actually learn about what all this means, you really have to know the games to understand), I think I will buy the DVD just to watch the last 5 minutes over and over again.
Der Herr auf Bestellung (1930)
A hilarious comedy
... with many surreal or absurd jokes.
Long before the Marx Brothers, perhaps best compared with some Ernst Lubitsch silents ("Die Austernprinzessin", for example), this movie, along with "Die Drei von der Tankstelle", is a very good example for early musical comedies from Austria and Germany in the early 1930ies.
Even though Willi Forst preferred the (romantic) drama to comedies in his own directing work later on, I have to admit that I personally enjoy his early acting roles more. That man had a face, voice and style that are unique until this very day.
There are many very funny scenes in this movie, the best, to my opinion, being the one, when Willi Forst 'dubs' the shy, stuttering Paul Hörbiger from behind a curtain. Unforgettable!