The Cabin in the Woods
So I finally got around to watching this
And...
it was okay. I can see why so many people lauded it, praising it but I am a horror fiend, I've seen so many in so many languages that nothing bothers me any more, this might have been fun with liquor and friends because the countdowns were so predictable
but I had seen it all before
The concept of the office watching it was directly lifted from Cube 0 (which while better than cube 2 was not a patch on cube 1) the very idea of the universe which existed to pick them off was from Cube as well
there was the cenobites, oh look she's from... random werewolf and the crappiest merman i've seen in a long time - and I was really excited to see the merman so it was a huge let down. Oh look, a kraken
If you're not a huge horror buff I imagine that it would be fun, I can see why it became such a sleeper hit, but I think they missed a trick at the ending, because if Sigourney Weaver had managed it then it would be open, it would be possibly real, but the ending made it completely unreal, as it were. Any sense of lingering horror was smooshed by a giant stone hand.
I liked that it used the cliches, but there is using the cliches and then there is stealing from everything and doing so with a nod, which it did, they were our nightmares, cribbed from movies and books and it was deliberate but when the main idea itself is cribbed from something so obscure only I would have seen it then I get narked, because Cube deserves everyone to watch it, it deserves someone taking the effort and maybe suffering through the sucky sequels, the lifts, the office, even the snark, all of that came from Cube and that annoyed me, because no bugger has watched that and it's awesome.
Because one thing that was amazing about Cube and no bugger has bothered with since is the complete and utter lack of exposition, why are they in the cube, who knows, what is the cube, who knows, all you need to know is that they are in something (we know it's a cube from the title) and that some of the rooms are deadly, some are very deadly, and there is a pattern to the safe rooms, if you know where to look.
Everyone praised cabin in the woods for it's originality, but what happens when you've seen the movies that it stole from, the ones which were original - you just get let down
And...
it was okay. I can see why so many people lauded it, praising it but I am a horror fiend, I've seen so many in so many languages that nothing bothers me any more, this might have been fun with liquor and friends because the countdowns were so predictable
but I had seen it all before
The concept of the office watching it was directly lifted from Cube 0 (which while better than cube 2 was not a patch on cube 1) the very idea of the universe which existed to pick them off was from Cube as well
there was the cenobites, oh look she's from... random werewolf and the crappiest merman i've seen in a long time - and I was really excited to see the merman so it was a huge let down. Oh look, a kraken
If you're not a huge horror buff I imagine that it would be fun, I can see why it became such a sleeper hit, but I think they missed a trick at the ending, because if Sigourney Weaver had managed it then it would be open, it would be possibly real, but the ending made it completely unreal, as it were. Any sense of lingering horror was smooshed by a giant stone hand.
I liked that it used the cliches, but there is using the cliches and then there is stealing from everything and doing so with a nod, which it did, they were our nightmares, cribbed from movies and books and it was deliberate but when the main idea itself is cribbed from something so obscure only I would have seen it then I get narked, because Cube deserves everyone to watch it, it deserves someone taking the effort and maybe suffering through the sucky sequels, the lifts, the office, even the snark, all of that came from Cube and that annoyed me, because no bugger has watched that and it's awesome.
Because one thing that was amazing about Cube and no bugger has bothered with since is the complete and utter lack of exposition, why are they in the cube, who knows, what is the cube, who knows, all you need to know is that they are in something (we know it's a cube from the title) and that some of the rooms are deadly, some are very deadly, and there is a pattern to the safe rooms, if you know where to look.
Everyone praised cabin in the woods for it's originality, but what happens when you've seen the movies that it stole from, the ones which were original - you just get let down