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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Some of the better jokes got really good responses from them. Especially The Merman. That ugly fucker I think I'm the only person in my showing that got that, which saddened me deeply. I was also the only person to bust out laughing at, "I've done way bigger jumps than this." Which played to that character archetype so well, but also because of the giant invisible wall. *sigh* I need to start going to movies in movie towns, not local, "Duh, let's go see whatever and talk during the whole thing and text on our phones so we miss important plot details and have to ask our friends to explain it to us" towns. This was actually the first time I've EVER shushed someone during a movie, and it was the same girl who asked her friend to make sure they were in the right movie after less than a minute. She did actually quiet down after I made it obvious that she was annoying the poo poo out of me, so that's good. Cpt. Spring Types fucked around with this message at Apr 14, 2012 around 02:49 |
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I can't really find the words to express how much fun this movie is. I have to go see it again. When the Japanese schoolgirls did their binding ritual on Samara, the audience was shouting with laughter and cackling like hyaenas on methamphetamines. One thing I loved the most about the film was the creativity. So many ideas were at play. I loved the pokemonster element and Joss's personality was palatable throughout. I really enjoy his writing. I don't know how much he had to do exactly, but his presence was definitely there. The excessive fun of the whole thing negates any perceived flaws.
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madsketcher. posted:When the Japanese schoolgirls did their binding ritual on Samara, the audience was shouting with laughter and cackling like hyaenas on methamphetamines. "gently caress YOU! gently caress YOU! gently caress YOU! FUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCKYOU!"
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God drat I love my town. We were the youngest people at our afternoon showing by far and it was obvious the older people all "got it". The "am I on speaker phone" scene just wouldn't have been as funny without a theater audience to laugh with you.
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I really loved the Intern. "Um...I don't know. What do you think?" "I don't know. I just want this moment to end."
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:I really loved the Intern. That reminds me! During the chaos near the end, did anyone catch what the papers the intern was showing one of the security camera said? AmbassadorFriendly posted:God drat I love my town. We were the youngest people at our afternoon showing by far and it was obvious the older people all "got it". The "am I on speaker phone" scene just wouldn't have been as funny without a theater audience to laugh with you. gently caress, that part killed. I was also surprised at how many middle-aged women were at my showing and how many seemed into it.
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LesterGroans posted:That reminds me! During the chaos near the end, did anyone catch what the papers the intern was showing one of the security camera said? I was really hoping we were going to get a close-up on that. I tried so hard to read it!
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Just got back from the theater and while I am still processing the film (I have my issues with the implications of the ending, which I am trying to work through) I can say it's a definite good one. I'm really glad that everyone else leaving the cinema was animatedly discussing how much they enjoyed the film. I really can't remember the last time I heard that much positive chatter after a showing. The only catch is, I guess, if it does make a lot of money it proves false its own satirical point, that horror audiences loathe originality.
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Nog posted:Some of the options on the betting board were pretty great, for a background prop. I liked "Angry Molesting Tree". My personal favorite was "Sugarplum Fairy." And it actually had a pay off later with the ballerina girl with the FACE FULL OF TEETH.
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The part that made me smile the most? The little shock on the knife handle to make Dana drop the knife. That was always one of my pet peeves in horror movies going back to Halloween. Also, Merman!
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Nog posted:I was really hoping we were going to get a close-up on that. I tried so hard to read it! Same here. Hopefully they'll show up in Blu. H.P. Shivcraft posted:The only catch is, I guess, if it does make a lot of money it proves false its own satirical point, that horror audiences loathe originality. It could be read that the film, while critical of the audience, is, in a way, on its side. The ending states that it wants to "give someone else a shot", implying that the all the lovely, cliched horror elements that the audience eats up--and by proxy their creators--need to be wiped away(literally, by the "horror audience-as-ancient Gods") so that the new and creative can take over.
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I feel like that if the movie was really being as critical of the audiences and creators of horror films as some of you seem to believe, it wouldn't have turned out nearly as well as it did. There seemed, to me at least, to be a genuine love of these tropes and cliches behind everything. Was it making fun of them as well, and calling them out for being cliches? gently caress yeah, but there also seemed to be an appreciation for them. The idea of the gods being an audience surrogate is actually really appealing, and as LesterGroans says, the idea that at the end it fails and "something new" comes about is a really interesting one, and I agree with that reading of it.
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I went into the movie when I saw a screening a few weeks back completly blind and I thought that when they said "Got to keep the customer happy" in reference to her showing boob, that they were literally going to have a movie audience be the end result, like a test screening audience. Of course, having angry gods represent horror fans is much better because when they don't like something, they ravage it, destroying it.
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TheJoker138 posted:I feel like that if the movie was really being as critical of the audiences and creators of horror films as some of you seem to believe, it wouldn't have turned out nearly as well as it did. There seemed, to me at least, to be a genuine love of these tropes and cliches behind everything. Was it making fun of them as well, and calling them out for being cliches? gently caress yeah, but there also seemed to be an appreciation for them. The idea of the gods being an audience surrogate is actually really appealing, and as LesterGroans says, the idea that at the end it fails and "something new" comes about is a really interesting one, and I agree with that reading of it. I definitely agree that it's coming out of frustration and not disdain. Like, there's no way this movie could have been made without genuine love for the horror genre. It was almost like Hot Fuzz in that regard, but way more pointed and a little less loving.
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TheJoker138 posted:I feel like that if the movie was really being as critical of the audiences and creators of horror films as some of you seem to believe, it wouldn't have turned out nearly as well as it did. There seemed, to me at least, to be a genuine love of these tropes and cliches behind everything. Was it making fun of them as well, and calling them out for being cliches? gently caress yeah, but there also seemed to be an appreciation for them. The idea of the gods being an audience surrogate is actually really appealing, and as LesterGroans says, the idea that at the end it fails and "something new" comes about is a really interesting one, and I agree with that reading of it. I think it's a celebration of the genre like a funeral is a celebration of someone's life. I agree that there is some genuine love for the tropes but the movie is also saying that it's time to move on. It is somewhere between Hot Fuzz and Funny Games. It doesn't outright hate the tropes but it is also saying "come on people! Give something different a chance!". As I said, there is love, but in the end the world of horror movies being destroyed. In the end it's deemed better for the genre to die then for it to go on stagnating where it is.
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Just got back from a 10:30 showing. Pretty decent turnout considering the timeslot. Pretty much everyone in the theater seemed to "get" it, aside from the guy who was behind me with his girlfriend. He kept saying "What the gently caress is this poo poo? I paid 22 dollars for this??" and his girlfriend kept telling him to shut up. She sounded pretty fed up with him by the end of the movie. Oh well... I (as well as the rest of the audience) loved the speakerphone part. I don't really think anyone was expecting it. And when the merman showed up, people were cheering and yelling at the screen, that was a huge payoff. Overall, I'm so glad I saw it in a theater with other people, it definitely added to it. I'm actually considering seeing it again before it leaves theaters. I agree word of mouth is going to do a lot to help this movie.
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AmbassadorFriendly posted:God drat I love my town. We were the youngest people at our afternoon showing by far and it was obvious the older people all "got it". The "am I on speaker phone" scene just wouldn't have been as funny without a theater audience to laugh with you. As the same time, I was intrigued that the Harbinger's presence was intended to provide the option of free will to the sacrificial victims, by giving them a way by which to evade their fate by choosing something different (like turning around and going home). If I had one teeny tiny nitpick, it was with the depiction of HOW the techies are influencing the minds of the victims to fit better into their roles. The scene where Helmsworth says "we have to stick together" - the techie just says, "I'll fix that" and pumps in some gas and immediately Hemsworth does a complete on180 that makes no sense. If they'd perhaps explained that the drugs caused paranoia or distrust, thus resulting in them splitting it, that would have made more sense.
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Yeah usually I end up seeing movies on like Tuesdays at noon since that's what my schedule allows but I went and saw a 10 PM show of this tonight and having people to laugh and stuff makes a world of difference. I'm sure I would have enjoyed it just fine had I seen it all by my lonesome, but I doubt I would have liked it nearly as much. Great movie, can't wait for the nerd backlash.
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I saw this today, opening day, as well. I loved it. It was the very first showing of the day, 10:30am and there was only about 12 people total. That being said, from what I could gather everyone enjoyed it, including my 64 year old father I brought along who had never even heard of the film. If you are a fan of the horror genre you OWE it to yourself to see this at least once!
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So, what references to other horror movies did you guys catch in the end scene with all the monsters? There was the obvious not-Pinhead guy, and then the 2 guys and 1 girl with the doll masks who were straight out of The Strangers. The giant snake seems like a reference to Anaconda or any of the other giant snake movies. What else did you guys catch?
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Ive been completely spoiled about the movie. On purpose. I don't like horror movies much, but I am a huge Joss Whedon fan. And I am at my parents house for the weekend and my dad really wants to see it as he too is a big Joss Whedon fan. But again, not a big horror fan. At all. Nope. Nuh uh. Nope. I like sleep and horror movies scare me. Like... really really scare me. Scream freaked me out. The Evil Dead movies gave me nightmares. The trailer alone for Paranormal Activity made me sleep with a light on. And just the website for the Blair Witch Project kept me up for weeks (though I was in like 8th grade at the time). sssooooo, how scary is this film? How gory is it? Are there a lot of jump scares? Im not planning to sleep much in the next few weeks as I need to wrap up my masters thesis... but Id still like to be able to sleep some. And if it is scary, does the awesomeness of it make up for it?
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BlueBayou posted:Ive been completely spoiled about the movie. On purpose. There's a couple of cheap jump scares, there's a bit of gore, but I didn't find it to be actually scary at all, on any level. It's closer to Evil Dead 2 or Army of Darkness in tone than it is to an actual "scary" horror movie.
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TheJoker138 posted:So, what references to other horror movies did you guys catch in the end scene with all the monsters? There was the obvious not-Pinhead guy, and then the 2 guys and 1 girl with the doll masks who were straight out of The Strangers. The giant snake seems like a reference to Anaconda or any of the other giant snake movies. What else did you guys catch? The most obvious reference (so obvious that I'm not going to even bother spoiler taggin it) is that the Cabin itself is llike an exact replica of the one from Evil Dead II. There was also the clown from It. In general the whole montage where the monsters are let lose would take like a dozen viewing to catch even half the references. Hell, I just want a screenshot of the betting board. I think all I caught there was "sexy witches". axleblaze fucked around with this message at Apr 14, 2012 around 06:09 |
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The twins from The Shining show up in one of the cells when they do the pull out reveal of all the monster cells.
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I'm pretty sure I saw "dragon" on the betting board. Did that show up at the end at all?
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There was also a Boomer from Left4Dead, which is an interesting inclusion that broaden's the movie's scope beyond just films, but into all kinds of horror entertainment.
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Just got back from seeing this and man it was the most enjoyable movie experience I have had in a really long time. I loved how every time you think some sympathy is going to come from the techies, something happens to interrupt it. Tequila! So many great parts I can't even focus on one at the moment. There are a bunch of spots where I just wanted to pause the movie to see what all was going on. I can't wait to see this again.
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I only caught dismembering goblins on the betting board. The guy I went to see the movie with kept insisting that the elevator sequence was straight from Cube, I doubt his claim. When Signourney appears did anyone else notice her forearms and hands were black, or did I see that wrong? Also, The Strangers never ever occurred to me for the masked trio. I blocked that movie from memory.
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I saw this mid-afternoon and there were probably 12 to 20 people in the theater. We all had a really great time, laughing together at all the right moments. I only went and saw the movie because I read the spoiler in the Movie Posters thread, but I enjoyed the hell out of it. I may go and see it again when the house is more tightly packed. Totally enjoyable!
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TheJoker138 posted:I feel like that if the movie was really being as critical of the audiences and creators of horror films as some of you seem to believe, it wouldn't have turned out nearly as well as it did. There seemed, to me at least, to be a genuine love of these tropes and cliches behind everything. Was it making fun of them as well, and calling them out for being cliches? gently caress yeah, but there also seemed to be an appreciation for them. The idea of the gods being an audience surrogate is actually really appealing, and as LesterGroans says, the idea that at the end it fails and "something new" comes about is a really interesting one, and I agree with that reading of it. I can see where this interpretation is coming from, but it seems like there's an internal contradiction within the movie itself. If the Ancient Ones represent horror movie audiences, then the movie seems to be portraying them as wrathfully demanding conformity to established tropes--so much, in fact, that if there is the slightest deviation in the horror movie formula they'll get so pissed off that they'll rise up and destroy the world. The only way this could be interpreted as a metaphor for paving the way for a new, more creative universe of horror movies is if the traditional horror audiences getting pissed off and savaging movies like this would somehow lead to more movies like this, which doesn't really make sense. Maybe I'm overthinking this....or underthinking this. I don't know. Now where'd I put my collapsible coffee thermos bong? e: I think axleblaze's interpretation makes the most sense. It's like Whedon and Goddard are saying, "gently caress it. If audiences want to punish horror movies for being innovative and creative, then we might as well cede to them dominion over the genre and let them kill off the last of the talented horror filmmakers like they were nothing more than a bunch of sex-positive co-eds." Like some sort of nihilist defeatist attitude. Though, once again, this would conflict with Marty's contention that allowing the Ancient Ones to take over actually would be giving something new a chance. Arrrgh. Billy Idle fucked around with this message at Apr 14, 2012 around 07:58 |
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I am of the strong opinion that every horror movie from now on should be forced to fill out detailed paperwork explaining just what it thinks it has to say that Cabin In The Woods didn't already handle, and a team of experts must review that paperwork. Any movie that doesn't pass will be cancelled immediately. Basically as far as I'm concerned, that can and should be the final horror movie ever. And I think it's trying for a genre kill, too. If we're the Ancient Ones (and we are), well, the ritual's been profaned. It won't work any more; at least, it shouldn't. Time to give something new a chance.
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TheJoker138 posted:There's a couple of cheap jump scares, there's a bit of gore, but I didn't find it to be actually scary at all, on any level. It's closer to Evil Dead 2 or Army of Darkness in tone than it is to an actual "scary" horror movie. Agreed. There's even a dismembered zombie hand played for (grim) laughs.  Bonus: Mondo poster, perfectly interpreted, as always Overall, I thought it was excellent, especially the purge system sequence. But it wasn't scary enough. Probably for the best since I brought my boyfriend who doesn't care for Horror or Joss Whedon or Lost*, and he enjoyed it. I loved Whitford and Jenkins, they were indeed the real stars, and I credit their delivery with making the script palatable for a non-Whedon fan. For those who've seen it, what was everybody's favorite monster? I really liked the homicidal unicorn. Was anybody able to male out the sign the intern was holding up to the screen during the elevator scene? *I feel they're related, in spirit anyway PopRocks fucked around with this message at Apr 14, 2012 around 08:37 |
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User-Friendly posted:I'm pretty sure I saw "dragon" on the betting board. Did that show up at the end at all? It was dragonbat and it totally kills one of the guards.
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I give the film a solid three stars out of four simply for having some good ideas and a few good excellent moments. But I read that Goddard and Whedon wrote the script in three days and the film felt like it was written in three days. It seemed as if the jokes and characters could have all used a bit more work regardless of the cheapness of the material that was being spoofed (Remember how interesting the characters (though they were all somewhat verbose) in Tarantino's "Death Proof" were?). The material in "Cabin in the Woods" is certainly subversive but it is too light. You can be subversive while demonstrating the power of certain formula and tropes (Wes Craven does this in "Scream") but "Cabin in the Woods" is all about its wry thesis and humor but lacks any real punches. The first ten minutes of "Scream" trump anything in CITW when in comes to suspense and freight, and that's a shame.
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Way back when this was first announced I seem to recall the tagline being "The horror movie to end all horror movies" which in retrospect was amazing. Too bad they changed it.
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When I saw this it was quite obvious from the prevalence of unwashed goatee that I was surrounded by Buffy geeks (myself included), so the perception of enjoyment and "getting" of the tropes may not be scalable to general audiences. I need to see it again so it'll be interesting how it fares in a multiplex-type environment. This was definitely one of the best cinema experiences I've ever had (likely helped by the audience demographic). If I had to nit-pick: the system purge button wouldn't really have been created if it did that. Although I loved Marty generally I thought "husband bulge" was a bit forced (a view not shared by the cackles from my fellow viewers) and when he turned up high and behind the wheel I felt that was a bit irresponsible - clearly, I am old. Also Tom Lenk was underused. Highlights were: "do NOT read the Latin!", anything with the Harbinger, especially the speakerphone part, the mirror sequence, the wolf kissing scene, and of course Bradley Whitford saying anything to anyone at any time. EDIT: can't believe I didn't mention the celebration at the end while the zombie is going to town on girlie, "we work with what we've got", and "fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou!". Also the last 20 minutes as a highlight kind of goes without saying, right? Pleasepleasepleaseplease let it do well. tags2k fucked around with this message at Apr 14, 2012 around 11:38 |
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Strontosaurus posted:What was the older operator referring to when he mentioned 1998? Any ideas? I feel like I missed a good joke. I just really love that if you take the concept of the film to its natural extreme, it exists in a universe where almost all horror movies co-exist. Timeless Appeal fucked around with this message at Apr 14, 2012 around 15:13 |
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I must have watched it with the wrong audience. There was barely anyone there, and I was the only one cracking up at the motorcycle death scene. I really love the concept of the film, and wish we could have seen more of that.
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My favorite bit on the betting board was Two separate entries for the Buckners and 'Regular' zombies.
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After sleeping on it...I still loving love this movie. Question - I get what Japan was supposed to represent. What were the other places? Germany and Sweden? What genres were they supposed to be, torture porn and "Dead Snow?"
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