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2.04.12 # News # 6 Comments
One thing I didn’t consider when naming this site back in 2007 was how it might play on movie posters. If I did, I probably wouldn’t have called it Movie-Moron.com. Who’s going to take a recommendation from someone that sounds like an idiot? This might, partially, explain why we haven’t been on a poster, well until now. Ok, this is an internet-only poster, and we’re crammed on with, er, quite a few other people, but that doesn’t stop it being exciting.
We’re happy to contribute to the great buzz surrounding The Cabin in the Woods, and you can read Sam’s full review here.
Meanwhile Joss Whedon, as producer and co-writer of Cabin, was asked a selection of questions from UK blogs, and you can catch our contribution half-way in:
Look out for our roundtable interview with director Drew Goddard and co-star Jesse Williams in the coming days.
I’m sure this will be entertaining, but horror is so self referential and self aware that Weldon’s approach sometimes seems a bit redundant. It’s like with Scream 4 .The best post modern twist would have been to make a flat out slasher thriller. Sure, all these sorts of films have been done before, but so has every war film, every comedy, every western and every everything else. The real trick is to just do them well.
It’s like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo remake. Is it original? It wasn’t even startlingly new in the first place. Is it it good? Yup, it’s very very good.
I was disappointed with Scream 4, it did feel redundant. I haven’t seen Cabin myself, it’s the reviewer Sam who has, so I don’t know, but if all these sites (the poster is just the UK ones) liked it this much, it must take it to the next level in some way.
It really is such an intriguing twist that raises Cabin to a high level. It feels like it breathes new life into the genre – but really anything similar that comes after this I think would now be pretty redundant! Honestly I think if Cabin had its release before Scream 4, the Scream team would’ve been forced to bin their movie! By me!
the only thing I’ll add is that films need more than a twist to make them good.
The twist in Unbreakable works because it reinforces the mythology of the film. It actually becomes better once the twist is revealed. The twist in this is certainly out there, but mainly because it’s ridiculous.And going by the trailers, it doesn’t look like it has much more going for it. I think it was shelved for the same reasons Case 39 and the New Daughter were shelved. The marketing seemed too costly for the returns. My main point is that Weldon often seems like he’s simply making things that are implicit in horror explicit. He tend to ignore the fact that the idiot plot element of slashers all ready came with a built in groan that directors were fully aware of. A lot of those films were very self aware and played on it. Here is redoing Evil Dead or Night of the Demons, which was were not entirely serious in the first place.
The reason the film was in distribution limbo for so long was due to the collapse of MGM. So long as it gets good publicity (which it will through word of mouth alone IMO) I think it will do good box office. Watch the movie when it comes out man. Everything will make sense.
I haven’t been impressed by the trailers too much but it seems to be getting good reviews.
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