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

Love the idea that the illuminati is all powerful and super secretive but yet can't stop accidentally making music videos about itself

Sure, if Neil was as single-issue focused

Love the idea that the illuminati is all powerful and super secretive but yet can't stop accidentally making music videos about itself

hahaha

this was fun, but i was expecting another layer, like maybe there are no elder gods and the corporate dudes are being manipulated by an evil CEO to make real horror films for his/her (i guess it would be her) personal entertainment, so their thin layer of moral justification goes out the window. would not have been as fun as the end of the world though.

would have preferred tentacle but NBD

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Friday, October 12, 2012 10:46 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

totally, can't believe they didn't go with something cthulu-y.

i enjoyed this, dont know why it had german subtitles tho

realism

would not have been as fun as the end of the world though.

that's the thing. some preachy "see, the world won't collapse if we break free of cliches!" ending would have totally justified the handful of "joss whedon thinks he's so great" grumbles this got.

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

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Friday, October 12, 2012 11:28 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lil girls joyfully singing samara into a frog was the best moment imho

ya

A giant tentacle dispatched Amy Acker I think

part where dude was like "are you kidding me" before getting killed by a crawling mer-man

oh hey I'm rewatching ALIAS and in the last season Amy Acker shows up as a villain!

no spoilers

she is a secret agent (omg spoilers)

her mis-usage was one of the worst things... in that already poor season

Has Joss' penchant for redheads ever been spelt-out anywhere? I mean, yeah, I quite support it

he definitely had a lot of weird types... some actors I can't really picture in anything but whedon stuff

xp: did you see the crew of the helicarrier in Avengers?

man, wasn't really feeling this at all. had avoided spoilers, have enjoyed a lot of jokey/satirical horror flicks in the past and appreciated the spirit it was done, but it fell totally flat for me outside of maybe some of the whitford/jenkins stuff. also obviously scares/fx were not really the point but it just looked terrible, was so dim and hard to tell what was going on i started to wonder if it had been released in 3d.

I didn't like this much either other than thinking it was a neat idea. I avoided this thread and spoilers, but maybe I should have read something about it. I was hoping the movie wanted to scare me, not make me laugh.

contendo otm throughout this thread

Finally saw this. Loved it, for every reason already stated thruout the thread, really. The elevator dings, the "you're kidding me" merman death payoff, the telescoping coffee bong, all the meta meta meta. I went in expecting Whedonesque comic timing so I wasn't disappointed. Must watch it again.

Finally Watched this over the weekend, loved it. Most entertaining movie I've seen in a long time. I definitely second a monsters poll from way upthread.

Spoilercorns in a walk.

Finally saw this last night and, yes, amazing.

Bradley Whitford's delivery of the line "teQUILA is my LADY!" is masterful.

Just watched it, finally. SO FUN.

:D

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130714203334/thecabininthewoods/images/9/9b/Cabin-in-the-woods.gif

Did we ever get round to doing a Cabin in the Woods monster poll?

Wow, do I wish there were more movies like this. Totally holds up on third viewing, years (right?) later. Still say the only misstep in the entire thing is revealing the electrified grid dome thing too early for the sake of a lame CGI eagle gag, but the rest is pretty flawless and really smart.

I need to watch this again

Still say the only misstep in the entire thing is revealing the electrified grid dome thing too early for the sake of a lame CGI eagle gag

Nah thought that was good! It added to the sense of "ok what the fuck is going here" that permeated the first act.

going ON here

Yeah, but you already know there's something weird going on, from minute-one, and by the time, way down the road, they do bring in the electrified fence as a plot point, I doubt anyone would still be wondering what's going on, let alone be surprised something strange is going on. Revealing the fence early on ruins the gag later. I mean, no biggie, it's just an unforced error.

Did catch something I somehow missed the first two times, that after she kills the zombie in the basement with a knife, they send her a little electric shock that makes her drop the knife.

it's not a gag later. you're meant to be that far ahead of the characters by now, and filled with dread at how they're going to fuck up, not startled.

that's true, but the existence of the sky-fence would have come as a nice surprise during the escape attempt, had not the useless eagle gag spoiled it

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SPOILERS DISCUSSION

I thought it was more effective foreshadowing than ruining surprise. If you wern't told about the shield beforehand then it'd be dumb having it pop up during tha scene for the first time, it would be as if they'd just written ANOTHER thing that can go wrong, as opposed to the lead forgetting that no, running's not gonna work. action vs horror or something

stalemate. we need to have somebody not read this thread is what we need to do, and then they go and watch the version of the movie without the eagle and report back, compare notes is the idea.

I want a print of this:

http://www.nerdist.com/2014/09/hey-l-a-celebrate-joss-whedon-with-this-weekends-gallery1988-show/

http://www.nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/photo-gallery/Gallery-1988-Whedon_08.png

rewatched this again, just as fun the second time around. kinda agree the thing with the bird is unnecessary.

Just watched it, finally. SO FUN.

― emil.y, Tuesday, June 3, 2014