Neane (post: 1549494) wrote:THE CABIN IN THE WOODS.
It's the perfect send up & love letter to all things horror. It really is a movie made by film geeks for film geeks. It has everything a true horror buff would ever want. There's even a perfect shout out to Japanese horror.
Also, I'm not trolling. This is what I am planning to see this later tonight:
GrubbTheFragger (post: 1549508) wrote:Oh good someone else has seen Cabin In the Woods.
Neane (post: 1549766) wrote: It isn't torture porn.
[spoiler]The ****er at the end having a human hand makes perfect sense in the deconstruction sense. The Gods aren't fear or anything like that. The Gods are a clear cut stand in for something. The Gods are Us. The Viewer. Cabin is a full on deconstruction & celebration of horror. In the film it is made clear that as long as some country somewhere in the world is delivering good "sacrifices" to please the Gods of Old, they'll lie in rest. They'll be placated. BUT, after the the last bastion of "sacrifices" - the good ole' US of A- fails to deliver the type of sacrifice the Gods will accept, one where the Virgin dies last, the Gods awaken to destroy those who go out of their way to please them.
Once you look at the context of the film as an elaborate & awesome essay on horror (or populist filmmaking in general) it can't be avoided the Gods are the Viewers. They're the Horror Fans who clamor for something new as long as it plays by the rules. The third act of Cabin sure does not play by the rules. Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard ARE the Downstairs Guys, they're the ones creating the story for the Gods knowing that their existence (i.e. their careers in the industry) depends on keeping the Gods happy.
Once the Gods as Filmgoer is taken into account, having the God represented as a Giant Human Hand is just too perfect. I can even see that Hand as thousands of angry teenage horror fans voting the film a 1 on IMDB because it didn't go the way they wanted. Lol. I LOVE this movie. [/spoiler]
KhakiBlueSocks wrote:"I'm going to make you a prayer request you can't refuse..." Cue the violins.
Agloval (post: 1490987) wrote:I saw the documentary Senna (here's its trailer) at the cinema last weekend. I thought it was pretty gripping and quite moving. It probably helped that I only have a casual interest in F1 racing -- in some ways the less you know about Senna's life the more interesting the movie could be. Maybe.
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