You don't need to play a single moment of Silent Hill to understand the story, considering how widely divergent it is from the games plot it might be better just to go in fresh. Out of the group I went with, four or five had barely even heard of the game, and most weren't gamers. There were no complaints about difficulty to understand the plot.

QUALITY of plot is a different matter.

I think he might've meant LITERAL sense. At the basest level, because the film is comprised mostly of women, a whole lot of women get messed up. But it doesn't ipso facto make it misogynistic.

People like to cry about these things.