movies

[go birds]

Cabin In the woods was [expletive] awesome.

[JL21]

Anyone who said Cabin In the Woods was legitimately good was wrong. That was some campy B [expletive] right there.

That was kind of the point, though (and you're probably on to this stuff, so forgive me if I'm over-explaining). It was making fun of every genre of horror and how formulaic horror is these days. Pick a cube for a villain, assemble your cast and make them behave in the genre-accepted ways (the slut, the jock, the nerd, the stoner)... They even poked fun at how formulaic other countries are with the J-horror ghost in the schoolroom.

I get it, I'm just not enough into horror to find that funny. Except the part with the unicorn and the merman. I just wish the beginning and middle were scarier, the ending was funnier and then I'd be on board.

I'll be honest, I almost never find horror "scary", so I don't really use that as a gauge. But that's just me. When you've seen enough of it, there's not a lot the genre can throw at you to surprise you. At this point, I look at it as a matter of the genre offering me new stuff, new takes and twists on tired clichés.

[thrill]

Looper was cool. Loved how they got around the stupid time travel questions by making fun of it in the movie.

[stlouie_lipp]

Anyone else just see the full trailer for "Lincoln" that aired after the debate? I think they should just give the Oscar to Daniel Day Lewis right now and skip all the formalities.

[cardsfantx]

Yep, Spielberg, ddl....looks awesome

[cardsfantx]

What's with all the damn Brits taking our jobs!!!

Batman, superman, Lincoln, Thor ( I think he's Australian though?)

Those are our characters!!!

[cardsfantx]

If you have kids, hotel Transylvania in 3d is actually not too shabby

(Better than seeing nemo retrofitted into 3d)

[Maclowery]

In other trailers-released-today news, the Lone Ranger trailer looks stunningly terrible. Disney apparently spent 250 million dollars on it. Their last 250 million dollar movie was John Carter, which made like 60 million domestically. Oops.

(I actually kind of enjoyed John Carter)

Lone Ranger stars Johnny Depp with a bird on his head.

[ghostrunner]

What's with all the damn Brits taking our jobs!!!

Batman, superman, Lincoln, Thor ( I think he's Australian though?)

Those are our characters!!!

Technically Thor belongs to the Norse.

[go birds]

V/h/s this weekend. Stoked.