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My brother in law has written a review of the Silent Hill movie on his LiveJournal, but I don’t have a LJ account and I’m still working on getting OpenID running on this site, so I’ll post here. Maybe he’ll link back to me.  My review is as someone totally unfamiliar with the video game.

Great: Color timing, cinematography, Pyramid Head, Sean Bean, Jodelle Ferland, the cockroaches, certain in-camera shots (such as the camera descending to frame a character through a broken chair) and certain effects shots (such as the elevator descent).

Good: The score, Alice Krige, Deborah Unger, interior production design.

Bad: The legions of identical reveals of disfigured bodies, the fact that as a horror movie it failed to elevate my heartrate even once, exterior facades of main street, Laurie Holden.

Terrible: Radha Mitchell.

My rating: 7 out of 10.

Read about RealDriver’s amazing full-sized cab simulator of a GP-38 for use with Microsoft’s Train Simulator.  They also offer a smaller train controller for use with this software and (soon) your model train set.

Stupid things shouldn’t be this much fun.

I doubt if anyone cares, but I beat THPS3 on Monday night.  Good game.

My vacation is officially at an end: I have work tomorrow (today) morning.  Prudently, therefore, I only played THPS2 until 2:30 a.m.   :-)

Well, the weblog is back after my week+ hiatus.  The holidays were great: Jenn and I were able to see both our families, and in the days after Christmas Jenn’s sister, Jenn’s brother, and my brother (ages 20, 18, and 18, respectively) came to stay with us in Thousand Oaks.  We had a fabulous time.

The highlight, perhaps, was my developing a serious addiction.  To a video game.  I don’t play video games.  Jenn has a Sony Playstation that I gave her as an anniversary gift because she does enjoy video games.  I have played and enjoyed games such as Roll Away and Mortal Kombat 4, but they never manage to hold my interest for more than an hour or so.  My brother rented some games to bring with him and, on a whim, picked up Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 since he knows I enjoy watching competitive skateboarding.

I love this game!  After they left Jenn and I went out of town, and on our way home I stopped to purchase a copy ($40, by the way) at Toys Backwards-”R” Us.  Last night I started playing about an hour after midnight, lost track of time, and finally stopped at 4:30 a.m.

So, I’m hooked.  I’ll probably play more tonight: I am very close to unlocking Venice Beach.