True. Also, to my understanding, Team Silent wasn't very keen on giving the Silent Hill movie rights to just anyone, and Christophe Gans really had to prove that he would do justice to Silent Hill should he be given the rights to the movie. Sure, the movie isn't the Holy Grail of video game movies, far from it, but I think that Gans really did well. I think that some of the choices he made while directing it were made with the general audience in mind, hence the cliche'd feel in certain aspects of the movie. He had to to make those choices, since it probably would have been too much of a risk to create a movie that only the most hardcore fans of Silent Hill (those who understand the thematic elements in SH; the background, the monsters, the people, etc.) would understand and appreciate. The irony is that, even with the changes, Silent Hill can only be truly understood by those hardcore SH fans.