Silent Hill: Revelation 3D

In the Los Angeles Times, reports are being spread about the four new films being released this weekend, one of them includes Silent Hill: Revelation 3D.  Amy Kaufman writes about the expected outcome of how Silent Hill is going to probably make the biggest bucks within this weekend of the four.  Although by guessing how much each movie will make, and how much it cost to make it, is the judge of what the outcome will be.

I love the Silent Hill movie that came out in 2006, and I love all of the games that were made too.  The story is just really twisted and entertaining.  The brutality and creep factor of this film is just amazing.  I didn't figure, however, it'd be first to come up out of all the films, but I want to see if Kaufman's guess is correct.

This entire article impacts me as a consumer, and provides me with the knowledge I need to know about what movie I might and might not want to go see this weekend.  A movie I might have wanted to see could have came in last ranking to be enjoyed, and that would easily change my mind on whether or not I want to see the film or not.

The only thing I wonder, is does the industry believe Silent Hill could still make as much money as it is now, without Halloween slowly approaching? Or is it just there method of pulling people in to watch the film.

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"Waiting Room": Another Documentary of Our Nation's Healthcare System

 Waiting Room is a documentary, made by Peter Nicks, being released this Friday in the San Francisco/Bay Area.  All of this documentary was based off of Nicks's wife's career at Oakland Hospital.  With the stories she always told him, and the crippling health care system of our nation, Nicks was motivated to put this on the screen.  He started off on his own, and would speak to patients in the Emergency Room waiting rooms, for endless hours on end, while also trying to fund his documentary.  The article is almost like a thorough interview as well, Nicks discusses the issues with uninsured patients, and all the perspectives he wanted and needed. Nicks believes the system has been lost, and that the purpose of it has been destroyed.  He really appreciates the patients and the staff for what they do.  

This is a very controversial and politically sensitive debate in America for the past couple years.  Being in the waiting room is the most realistic point of the entire situation.  Mainly this caught my attention because I myself am in the waiting room for the emergency a lot, since I don't have a regular doctor.  I've spent my fair share of many hours just waiting.  At some point in my life, I was also uninsured, so not only was the wait impossible, but the expenses as well.  It's good to see that somebody wants to really show the world what's going on in the places where it matter's most.  Not government official buildings or meetings, but down to the core of a hospital itself.

This can impact me as a filmmaker and a consumer.  As a consumer, I love watching documentaries like these, I like to know what's going on in our country and how people would reveal the truth of our nation.  It's something I'm really interested in, and wish I was lucky enough to be in the Bay Area to see it myself.  As a filmmaker, this makes me want to make something that people want to know and see.  If this doesn't concern you, then you aren't really concerned about the troubles of our nation right now.  It's important to know what your viewers want to see, when it comes to documentaries such as this one.

Sometimes when I watch these documentaries, they can be so controversial.  They're so emotionally and politically arousing, the only question I could possibly ask is that if it's really safe to put out something sensitive like a topic like this?


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