Your reaction to The Cabin in the Woods is my reaction. I saw it a week ago, and I'm still not over its absurd greatness. I'm wholly familiar with Joss and Drew's work, yet the twist managed to throw me for a loop. I loved every second of it.
I just love how META it is! Breaking down the reasons behind the archetypes, and what horror movies are for -- horror as ritual sacrifices to appease angry elder gods MAKES ME SO GIDDILY HAPPY. And the technicians and their pride in their work and the betting pool and that opening scene around the coffee maker. THEN CABIN IN THE WOODS OVER THEIR FACES AS THEY'RE DRIVING THEIR GOLF CART.
I CANNOT GET OVER HOW FLAWLESS EVERY DETAIL IN THIS MOVIE WAS.
Also: Characters we SYMPATHIZED WITH and believed in! I didn't want any of them to die, not even Jules who was the most one-note of the group. It's so impossibly refreshing to have an entire cast of people, including the technicians, that we care about and pity IN A HORROR MOVIE.
AND MARTY MARTY MARTY HOW PERFECT WAS HE AND SURPRISINGLY FIERCE AND THAT SCENE WITH THEM JUST HOLDING EACH OTHER IN THE ELEVATOR JUST BURY ME WHERE I FELL.
Ugh I could just blather on for ages but it's past midnight and i really should just go to bed.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. As I briefly mentioned in my entry about the film, the cold open with Hadley and Sitterson around the water cooler was all I ever wanted in a genre film. So many of my favorite moments in movies are the ones not actually about plot of the movie. Exhibit A!
THAT SCENE WITH THEM JUST HOLDING EACH OTHER IN THE ELEVATOR... YES, YES, YES, YES, YES. That scene just got to me. I didn't expect it, and it didn't feel contrived. It was such a beautiful character moment amidst meta insanity and absurdity. I liked all of the characters in their own little ways (like you said, they were actually sympathetic!), but Marty... MARTY! He was the one character I wanted to survive, and HE DID (as much as one could survive at the end of the film, haha)!
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I CANNOT GET OVER HOW FLAWLESS EVERY DETAIL IN THIS MOVIE WAS.
Also: Characters we SYMPATHIZED WITH and believed in! I didn't want any of them to die, not even Jules who was the most one-note of the group. It's so impossibly refreshing to have an entire cast of people, including the technicians, that we care about and pity IN A HORROR MOVIE.
AND MARTY MARTY MARTY HOW PERFECT WAS HE AND SURPRISINGLY FIERCE AND THAT SCENE WITH THEM JUST HOLDING EACH OTHER IN THE ELEVATOR JUST BURY ME WHERE I FELL.
Ugh I could just blather on for ages but it's past midnight and i really should just go to bed.
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THAT SCENE WITH THEM JUST HOLDING EACH OTHER IN THE ELEVATOR...
YES, YES, YES, YES, YES. That scene just got to me. I didn't expect it, and it didn't feel contrived. It was such a beautiful character moment amidst meta insanity and absurdity. I liked all of the characters in their own little ways (like you said, they were actually sympathetic!), but Marty... MARTY! He was the one character I wanted to survive, and HE DID (as much as one could survive at the end of the film, haha)!
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