are you even listening to me? THE CABIN IN THE WOODS thread (WARNING: SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILEROS! SPOILIDAD!)

aside from the haircut and the superbong, i didn't really thing the shaggy reference was too heavy handed -- he makes a pretty nihilistic shaggy! the only other point of comparison i can see is that shag & scoob are usually the ones who fall down the trapdoor directly into the monster's lair while the rest of the gang is still puzzling over clues

No joke, that is one of the worst, high school level interviews I've read in ages. Aside from your quoted unicorn bit there, there is virtually nothing in there.

Q: I liked your movie a lot.
A: Thanks!
Q: Were you worried you would make a movie no one would like?
A: Not really. We tried to make it as un-not likable as possible.
Q: Well, it worked!
A: Thanks!
Q: Do you like horror movies?
A: I do!
Q: What is your favorite horror movie?
A: I like all of them!
Q: Did you like your own horror movie a lot!
A: I did! And I hope others do, to.
Q: Well, judging by the packed audience at the screening I was probably in some way at least loosely affiliated with, packed with hardcore geeks, Whedon fans and horror movie buffs, all stoned, I think you've got a big hit on your hands!
A: Thanks!
Q: What's next for you?
A: Another movie!
Q: Sweet!
A: Awesome.
Q: Thanks.
A: No, thank you!
Q: Is there anything I should look out for when I see this for the fifth time?
A: Yeah, all sorts of stuff. Did you see the werewolf?
Q: Yeah! It was awesome!
A: Thanks!
Q: Was it real?
A: No.
Q: Awesome!
A: Thanks!

It's Ain't It Cool News. I don't think anyone there's gotten any smarter despite it being 2012, you know?

It's part of their stupid charm, tbh

lol @ "fun read"

Even if someone sucked 15 years ago, you'd think there'd be some learning curve. Then again, maybe the guys with half a brain at that site all jumped ship eons ago.

Drew Goddard: Right.

Quint: And the shit gets real.

Drew Goddard: Shit definitely gets real! (laughs)

http://media.filmschoolrejects.com/images/harryknowles01.jpg

that said theres some good interviews on there sometimes. like this soderbergh one http://www.aintitcool.com/node/51119

I interviewed DG and ... dude's just not easy to get much out of. By the end of the interview, I was asking him questions like, "What do you think Joss Whedon would say about this?"

This is fun and really dumb:

http://thefineartdiner.blogspot.com/2012/04/cabin-in-woods-free-will-husband-bulges.html?m=1

it is the latter

^^^

that article was fun to read, this is exactly what the internet is for!

i love how paragraphs like this mix in both accurate observations and glaring errors:

How do the items in the cellar reflect each of the characters? The necklace on the bridal gown is feminine and that’s what Jules tries to be, hence, dying her hair blond, but she's also hoping that Curt will marry her; Dana was going to take books to the cabin, so she goes for the book, the diary; Curt was playing football, so he goes for the round object that looks like a ball; Holden is there to get hooked up with Dana so that’s why he opens the jewelry box (a reference to the sexual act with her) and the ballerina refers to the awkward “mating dance” Holden and Dana are doing; Marty goes for the reels of film (he also reads the book about Nemo, after the Pixar film) so he’s always trying to get a “frame of reference” for something and that’s why he went for the movies (possibly also because of the drug culture depicted in the films, but more likely, because Marty has been feeling like something’s strange, as if they are in a horror film and that’s why he’s mentally referencing movies).

lol Nemo

Yeah, there's a vibe in there like a Senior AP English student or some freshman lit.crit major trying to do some major contextual analysis and failing magnificently.

It's akin to the speech and subequent bike jump scene in the film.

Also, did any anybody else notice that this flick not only makes you laugh, but also full-on _cackle_?

both times when i saw this in the theater people seemed too afraid to really bust a gut, making me and my friends look like total maniacs. but the movie IS that funny! i mean c'mon, the Ring parody thing alone

Exactly. And there are parts where I was just cackling evilly at how far the flick was willing to go and what was about to happen.

Holden is there to get hooked up with Dana so that’s why he opens the jewelry box (a reference to the sexual act with her) and the ballerina refers to the awkward “mating dance” Holden and Dana are doing; Marty goes for the reels of film (he also reads the book about Nemo, after the Pixar film) so he’s always trying to get a “frame of reference” for something and that’s why he went for the movies (possibly also because of the drug culture depicted in the films, but more likely, because Marty has been feeling like something’s strange, as if they are in a horror film and that’s why he’s mentally referencing movies).

every aspect of this is so fucking stupid and nonsensical that it actually makes me angry. i couldn't finish reading the article, though i did plow through the bulk of it.

this is worse:

So if Curt has some good in him, why doesn't he survive the jump with his bike? There's an invisible boundary between dating and being married to someone, and the grid symbolizes that invisible boundary. Curt "made the jump" with Jules from boyfriend to husband without them being married, so even though, as Curt tells Holden, he's jumped a lot further with his bike in the past, he doesn't have the moral strength to overcome the power of the grid that is holding him back morally. In the sacrificial pictures, the athlete that Curt fulfills is shown with a spear, and that spear is the phallic symbol: athletes have to have good bodies to compete, the problem is, the body becomes their whole being (in art and stereotypes of them) and they then look at others as being only bodies as well, including Jules.

[Picture of the survivors outside the RV, looking across the gulf to freedom, just prior to Curt's failed motorcycle jump]

At this point pictured above, they have lost Jules and they think they have lost Marty. They were trying to make it out of the grid and almost succeeded when a "tunnel avalanche" caused by the control room makes it impossible to pass, and Curt, driving the mobile home rambler, quickly thinks and steps on the gas, backing out all the way out of the tunnel in reverse; pretty impressive driving. It symbolizes the unconscious thinking Curt has been doing because going into the tunnel (since Curt is driving) easily symbolizes the sexual act, and going in reverse means that he's wishing to undo what he and Jules had been doing because he realizes now that's why she died. The sheer rocks they are surrounded by? The "hardness of heart" that sin causes and is caused by sin.

It kind of makes you want to hit them over the head with a box of scare quotes.

fyi: found this review whilst googling "husband bulge"

gah! stop thinking!

― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer)

just too perfect

it was a gift

happy b-day to me!

http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/45/47/23264745.jpg

got you a gift!

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m341i4MFmx1rs9lamo1_1280.jpg

Note: it took me way, WAAAAY to damn long to find a shot of that

and it's a deauxzy

Flipped thru the Visual Companion book to the movie tonight at the bookstore. Most disturbing shot of the flick for me were the mutants just holding down a dude and puking into his face and yep, good color photo of just that shot in the book. They're explicitly called out in the novelization and the screenplay, and as listed as the "mutants" on the betting board.

I finally saw this on the weekend (TWICE) and loved it. System purge/elevator scene was the horror movie equivalent of a water-park ride, soooo much fun.

Ploughed through this whole thread and can I just say: pairing 'Roll with The Changes' for the office party was such an awesome juxtaposition with the tv monitor dock scene.

Mr Veg and I were talking after about how it felt like Joss was emptying out all of his leftover ideas from Buffy & Dollhouse, to really good effect.

speakerphone gag was GOLD

Saw this the second time a week ago. Still awesome.

I finally saw it last night, and "horror movie equivalent of a water-park rid" is exactly the comparison I was thinking of! Also, a little bit of this from way upthread (Whiney):

Evil Dead IN ITSELF was kind of a winking parody of George Romero and Three Stooges, and now this runs THAT whole concept through a meta-mirror.

But yeah, really fun.

say this last night, total riot

one of my favorite gags was the elevator bell -- like, it'd be a while without hearing it or something and then "ding" just wave after wave of horrible things

That same noise accompanied this movie's appearance on the ILX horror movie poll, for the record.

I kinda want to have a bunch of friends over and watch it again, p sure most them have not seen it

i watched this the other night. pretty fun, probably having already read about every plot twist was a bad idea, still i think spending the whole middle third with the ... lartners? laughners? seemed a bit off in terms of emphasis

bradley whitford should be in more things

I don't know, playing guitar in Aerosmith keeps him pretty busy.

Effing rad movie. Not much to add that hasn't already been said except that I was waiting and waiting for Sigourney Weaver to tell the main character that there is no Dana.

Also, assuming the havoc at the end didn't take down the forcefields, I can totally imagine a sequel (in plot if not in spirit).

this rocked

way better than anything else going for thrills this year.

way better than the avengers imho. (though it shared a love of bureaucrats driving golf karts through tunnels in underground bases.)

annihilated prometheus and batman.

yeah this was dope i agree 100%

loved that it was basically an hp lovecraft movie at heart

and that it basically was an excuse to throw every horror movie archetype together in one room... loved the hellraiser dude

the cutaways to the j-horror plot unfolding across the world were so dope

Was really hoping for a specific Lovecraft image in that last shot.

dude me too! only letdown was that it was just a big ol' hand.

aw i liked that, it was like a classic zombie thing