Cabin in the Woods, the longer post
Apr. 16th, 2012 09:35 amI've seen a lot of folks chastising critics for spoilers, but I'm not sure how much of this movie can really be spoiled. This isn't From Dusk 'Till Dawn, with its complete genre shift mid-movie (something I'd like to see more of); nor is it The Sixth Sense, with a twist ending that, on reflection, was the only possible way the movie could make sense. Hell, it's not even The Crying Game, with twist reasonably early in the movie that forced people to adjust their expectations. If you watch the first third of Cabin in the Woods and you somehow can't predict everything that's coming (in a general sense), you probably haven't seen many movies.
This isn't so much a movie as it is a ninety-minute work of film criticism. Whedon and Goddard are talking about the horror genre, from the final-girl myth to the torture porn craze to the cultural differences in horror movies in different countries to the question of free will and agency in victims to (as Nordling at Ain't it Cool points out) our own culpability as fans. And you get most of that in the first ten minutes, let alone the first half.
That said, I suppose if I do discuss anything specific, I should toss in a spoiler tag. A few discombobulated random thoughts behind the cut.
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This isn't so much a movie as it is a ninety-minute work of film criticism. Whedon and Goddard are talking about the horror genre, from the final-girl myth to the torture porn craze to the cultural differences in horror movies in different countries to the question of free will and agency in victims to (as Nordling at Ain't it Cool points out) our own culpability as fans. And you get most of that in the first ten minutes, let alone the first half.
That said, I suppose if I do discuss anything specific, I should toss in a spoiler tag. A few discombobulated random thoughts behind the cut.
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