(xpost) Enh, even if you're a fan of Hooper's Texas Chainsaw 2 (I'm not) those 90s followups were pretty bad, way before the remake and the prequel. The "brand" has been compromised for quite some time. 3D one on the way this year. No thanks.
― Hey Jude, don't make it BAD MENTAL HEALTH (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
George Washington and All the Real Girls are both great movies and i will ride for pineapple express
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
ok i have not seen either of those. cant get behind pineapple express myself though, and even if i could that movie gives me zero optimism abt the dude handling suspiria well, which despite its O_O moments works with a lot of subtlety, which pineapple express has none of.
― sfdgafhtehw (jjjusten), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
DGG's career suggests the movie he should be remaking is Body Snatchers.
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
or white zombie maybe
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
Or "the stuff"
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
Or Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things.
― get me bloodied (Eric H.), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
Why remake Susperia? The movie is renowned for it's visual style, not it's script. Who's doing the remake Return to Reason? Jon Favreau?
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
This thread is hard to search for!
Anyway, "Cabin in the Woods:" what a weird fucking movie. Like "Tucker and Dale" meets ... "Cube?" Tips its hand to its best gag early, not sure I like where the film ends up. Reminds me a bit too much of Ben Stiller's "Low-Budget Tales of Cliched Horror" bit. Everybody see it so we can discuss.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 April 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
I liked Tucker & Dale. Not to your point. I just wanted to post that I had a good laugh and was charmed by the movie.
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 13 April 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
CITW was fun, but felt like more of a stoned undergradute cultural studies thesis paper than a movie at times.
― Simon H., Friday, 13 April 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
I wish they had more fun having fun with it, or found a better way to reveal just what was going on. By the end I was thinking of these sort of every which way but loose VHS b-movies like "Return of the Living Dead III" and "Waxwork."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 April 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
(I liked Tucker & Dale a lot, too! This one had some fun with cliche subversion, but less consistently so)
I liked CITW. Merman gag was pretty solid.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 14 April 2012 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
Merman gag was ace. Motorcycle into barrier gag would have been good had they not revealed said barrier so early with that eagle.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 14 April 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
i think it was pretty lolsome that you knew it was coming.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 14 April 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
cabin in the woods was fun shit, it was pretty fucking goofy but had some genuinely startling moments, fran kranz + bradley whitford = gold.
― humba (NZA), Saturday, 14 April 2012 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
You mean, it was funnier knowing he would fail? In that case, I don't they pulled the gag off that well. They could have had a Sam Jackson in "Deep Blue Sea" moment, but nope.
This was so Fran Kranz's movie, and if I ever saw it again - and I'm not sure why I would need to see it again - I'd see it for him. Some dude on etsy I'm sure is getting right on that travel-bong.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 14 April 2012 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
I actually really appreciated Ebert's key takeaway:
This is not a perfect movie; it's so ragged, it's practically constructed of loose ends. But it's exciting because it ventures so far off the map.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 14 April 2012 02:42 (eleven years ago) link
Also, a bit miffed at all the reviews who characterize these college kids as dummies. They're all actually pretty smart - Thor as an econ wiz was worth a chuckle, and I actually liked when the other hunk put on his smart glasses to look at something - but their behavior is directed contrary to said smarts. They're literally made to behave like dummies
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 14 April 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
thought cabin was pretty great. speakerphone gag was perfect
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 14 April 2012 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, a big point was making them into the stereotypes. Also Rex Reed not getting the Final Girl wasn't actually a virgin was pretty wtf (except not coz its Rex Reed but you know).
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 14 April 2012 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
Wasn't quite sure why the victims are allowed to "win," or why all the other countries seemed to have failed/succeeded, persevering over evil, given what's at stake. I suppose all those unanswerable loose ends constitute a big part of its ridiculous charm. Regardless, the Japanese schoolgirls got the biggest laugh when I saw it.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 14 April 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha. the japanese thing killed me.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 14 April 2012 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, was this 3-D?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 14 April 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
no. it was going to be, but due to MGM clusterfuck we were spared that indignity.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Saturday, 14 April 2012 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
saw cabin in the woods early this afternoon. dug it a lot, though i can't quite say it's great. i do have this advice: if you have any interest in it at all, do not read anything about it, do not talk to your friends about it, do not wait for DVD, do not read this thread, just go.
― BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Saturday, 14 April 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
lol rex reed http://www.observer.com/2012/04/cabin-in-the-woods-rex-reed-richard-jenkins-bradley-whitford/
(spoilers within)
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 14 April 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
I'll second contenderizer.
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Saturday, 14 April 2012 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
I doubt if these people even know who Sigourney Weaver is.
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 15 April 2012 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
here's a screenshot of the betting board from cabin: http://i.imgur.com/BQaLg.jpg
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 15 April 2012 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
sold when i saw "angry molesting tree"
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 15 April 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
The way the opening scene cut to the title: Funny Games?
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Sunday, 15 April 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
lol Deadites
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Sunday, 15 April 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i thought of funny games too, though where haneke is a stern moralizer who wants to chasten his audience, cabin in the woods gives the horror audience more of a gentle ribbing
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 15 April 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
Good to have that screenshot. I only caught a glimpse of "dismemberment goblins", which was enough for a laugh.
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Sunday, 15 April 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link
"Reptilius" would have been damn awesome.
You can't see it on there, but I think one category was just called "Kevin." I don't know if that's supposed to be like Freddy, Michael or Jason, or just some fictional ... Kevin.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 15 April 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, wait, there it is: Kevin, bottom left.
What I thought was oddly funny ... what if the kids in the cabin had accidentally raised killer robot insect with giant saws or whatever? Would have made a hilariously poor fit for the spooky woods.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 15 April 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
We Need To Talk About Kevin.
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Sunday, 15 April 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
what if the kids in the cabin had accidentally raised killer robot insect with giant saws or whatever? Would have made a hilariously poor fit for the spooky woods.
still pretty scary though. plus kill you good, by the looks of things.
was really hoping for a screenshot of that board, so thanks, h4a. passed by too quickly in the movie for me to catch stuff like "deadites" and "angry molesting tree". lol @ "witches" and "sexy witches". will take option #2, if it's all the same to you.
― BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Sunday, 15 April 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, April 13, 2012 8:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
[mild spoilers ahead, so...]
yeah, i thought the film handled this very well. not only are the kids forced into their roles, they're textually framed as "horror movie types" from the very beginning: the introductory shot of the panty-clad protagonist as seen voyeuristic 80s-style makes this comically clear. to say nothing of the opening sequence that foregrounds the film's twofold reality. those scenes put such huge quotation marks around the presence of the kids in the movie (and the movie as a whole, tbh) that i had no problem accepting the first act's more contrived and familiar aspects. by the time we got to mordecai the harbinger and the straight-up evil dead cabin, it was clear that the cliches were pretty much the entire point.
while watching, i liked how up-front the film was in letting us in on its first-level secrets, but in retrospect, i might have appreciated a bit more restraint. by the time we got to the reversals and expansions about halfway through, there wasn't much mystery left, which drained the subsequent absurdity exhibition of its power to really surprise me. overall, i liked it a lot, but a bit of the air did fizzle out in the ott final act.
― BEMORE SUPER FABBY (contenderizer), Sunday, 15 April 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
Disagree, but not vehemently. Leaving the reveal til the end would have been mindblowing, but left the entire first half pretty tediously cliched. Knowing they were playing around from the get go was sort of crucial.
― jungleous butterflies strange birds (Eric H.), Sunday, 15 April 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
I think it was very well measured. I didn't expect it to go as bonkers as it did. I guess Meta's only direction to go is out.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Sunday, 15 April 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
("The Japanese are the only other viable market currently running!")
Ha. I like the furious STATE-OF-THE-GENRE-RIGHT-NOW of the movie the more I think about it. It may or may not toss posterity out the window, but whatever - the manipulators/manipulatees scenario may probably always be potent. Or not.
― "Fourvel - it's like Fievel, but one less." (R Baez), Sunday, 15 April 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
anyone seen the divide? very bleak
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 15 April 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
remind me: pontypool is yea or nay?
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 15 April 2012 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
i like pontypool, its worth watching
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 15 April 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
Finally got around to Stake Land last night. I liked its faux-Malick lyricism and affectless voiceover more than I usually like actual Malick lyricism and affectlessness. The story felt very third- or fourth-hand, too much like I Am Legend or 28 Days Later or whatever other apocalyptic vampire/zombie movies you might name. But the downbeat vibe was an interesting approach, and there was some legitimately gorgeous filmmaking.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 15 April 2012 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
did rex reed even watch the same cabin in the woods that i did?
― humba (NZA), Sunday, 15 April 2012 05:55 (eleven years ago) link