Movie: The Cabin in the Woods

[hellholiday]

Crap.

Too much self awareness being tossed about. Like those Scream movies. Didnt think a CGI massacre was all that funny or exhilarating. A lot of teenagers around me in the theater did.

Hated the ending. Both Sigourney's speech out of nowhere and the WTF attitude taken by the characters were dumb.

I liked the premise a lot but the movie fell flat in execution.

The speaker phone bit and when the rest of the countries were failing were done well.

[buzzsaw]

loved it.
Not really sure how people predicted that. I laughed my ass off when shit hit the fan.
NOT Crap.

[mazacultura]

Went in with no knowledge and no expectations, which was for the best. Not life-changing or anything, but me and my little crew really enjoyed it. Whole thing was basically a 90-minute Twilight Zone episode with a solid budget. Can't really complain about that.

[Sowley]

Loved it.

The third act was completely insane and had us freaking out.

I was completely unnerved how much Fran Kranz's character "Marty" reminded me of John Grabski. His tone, his delivery, all of it. So strange.

[J. Burns]

I enjoyed the hell out of it.

For some reason, it reminded me more of Funny Games than Scream. Probably due to a similar title sequence, and how the film was seemingly an examination/criticism of violent American cinema while still being an example of same.

Except I hated Funny Games, and really liked this. Read into that what you will.

[krs]

I liked the premise a lot but the movie fell flat in execution.

I am not voting Crap, but yeah, I can relate. I do not think this movie is 'all that'. It was enjoyable, but it wasn't the best thing evar. I felt myself getting bored until things kicked up in the third act. The film being loaded with all the best parts in the back end was a bold choice, and it was a good movie in that it bucked convention, but yeah, it kind of fell flat for me overall. Props for the Lovecraftian elements, but I think the ending was telegraphed a bit too much over the course of the film.

[tarblackvomit]

Piranha 3DD absolutely crushes this movie.

[placeholder]

Saw this at the two-dollar theater last night. I'm surprised to say that I liked it in spite of its myriad irritating qualities.

All the meta crap—"Look how clever we are! We're really subverting horror tropes!"—was annoying. The writing wasn't half as smart or cute as I'll bet Whedon and whoever else probably thought it was. Shit was Scream-level. The dialogue stood out as especially poorly written and unbearably smarmy. "Sorry I didn't tell you a werewolf was about to bite you." Come on.

I thought a couple of the little in-jokes were funny, partic the brief reference to Troll 2, predictable though it may have been.

It wasn't scary in the least, but I did laugh a couple of times at the end, once all the monsters started going to town and wrecking everything. It was batty and appealing. I wasn't into all the cheesy CGI, but I also wasn't surprised by it.

It wasn't that hard to figure out the major story beats, although some of the details were unpredictable.

I definitely could have done without the Lovecraft stuff and the g.d. zombies, but given who made this movie and who its target audience is, I expected many more grating concessions to "nerd culture." I guess I should be happy there weren't bacon-wielding pirate zombie ninjas or something.

So, surprisingly NOT CRAP. I went in knowing nothing about it and was entertained the whole time.

Piranha 3DD absolutely crushes this movie.

This didn't make it to theaters here, and I am super bummed.

I'm editing this to fix a typo and might as well mention that I shouldn't have been bummed that Piranha 3DD didn't show here. It was Troma-level godawful—about 180° away from the awesome Piranha 3D.

[N7G2P]

meh...

[Ernest]

I just finished watching it; I liked it a lot. Granted, the movie didn't spend the first hour doing anything interesting, and only seemed focused on the delivery of the second, but that second half makes up for the obviousness, and 'meh'-ness of the first.

I love the underlying Lovecraft plot, but I wish the movie unfolded better. Also, I don't really ever picture one of the Ancient Ones to have a hand like a human being. That was clumsy.

[krs]

I love the underlying Lovecraft plot, but I wish the movie unfolded better. Also, I don't really ever picture one of the Ancient Ones to have a hand like a human being. That was clumsy.

The underlying plot was influenced by, but not directly pulled from Lovecraft. That wasn't meant to be any of his creations.

[numberthirty]

I love the underlying Lovecraft plot, but I wish the movie unfolded better. Also, I don't really ever picture one of the Ancient Ones to have a hand like a human being. That was clumsy.

The underlying plot was influenced by, but not directly pulled from Lovecraft. That wasn't meant to be any of his creations.

It seemed that way. I don't think that you could have bought off anything Lovecraft wrote about with a few dead bodies.

[iembalm]

Gallery of conceptual drawings/sculptures, etc. for the creatures.

http://imgur.com/a/WKkPX

[llllllllllllllllllllllll]

I enjoyed the hell out of it.

For some reason, it reminded me more of Funny Games than Scream. Probably due to a similar title sequence, and how the film was seemingly an examination/criticism of violent American cinema while still being an example of same.

Except I hated Funny Games, and really liked this. Read into that what you will.

Man I LOVED Funny Games!

Really enjoyed the control room scenes, wasn't a big fan of much else.

[BClark]

liked it a lot. from what people had told me, i expected it to be a little more shocking and batshit crazy. but still i liked it a lot.

thought the dude who played josh lyman in the west wing totally stole the show. the whole control room thing was really well done.

[Snowblinder]

My girlfriend and I watched this last night at home. I had purposely avoided this thread and any conversation pertaining to it, as I didn't want to know any spoilers. For all I knew when we put it on, it was a simple, teens-in-the-woods horror movie, which is kind of what I was in the mood for last night. I expected something more along the lines of Cabin Fever (which for the record, I hated). Had no inkling of the actual plot of this film.

It delivered. We laughed nonstop. The speaker phone scene was gold. Everything out of Bradley Whitford's mouth was hysterical. The last portion of the movie when the nightmarish creatures are all released in the complex was epically awesome.

My vote is a solid Not Crap.

[Sock OR Muffin?]

My girlfriend and I watched this last night at home. I had purposely avoided this thread and any conversation pertaining to it, as I didn't want to know any spoilers. For all I knew when we put it on, it was a simple, teens-in-the-woods horror movie, which is kind of what I was in the mood for last night. I expected something more along the lines of Cabin Fever (which for the record, I hated). Had no inkling of the actual plot of this film.

It delivered. We laughed nonstop. The speaker phone scene was gold. Everything out of Bradley Whitford's mouth was hysterical. The last portion of the movie when the nightmarish creatures are all released in the complex was epically awesome.

My vote is a solid Not Crap.

+1, really liked this. NC.

[Dee Wig]

Wasn't as blown away by it as many people were, possibly because I'm not that into a lot of horror genre stuff (slasher flicks, monster movies, Asian ghost stories, etc.), but I did really enjoy it. Amidst all the formulaic horror shite out there, a mainstream film like this that at least tries something a little different is laudable.

[scale]

it's fun and it's possibly trying to say something about the state of the horror film (you could read something like into it), I liked the monster extravangza. The third act seemed a little Deus Ex Machina, but I was sort of charmed so it did the job.
Not Crap.

[AnthonyCinder]

Do not get why you all liked this movie so much.

It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't very good.

It wasn't particularly funny, eliciting only a few chuckles here and there.
It wasn't at all scary.
Didn't find it to be very clever. The whole meta thing is tiresome.

Meh.