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THE CABIN IN THE WOODS Trailer!
Nordling here.
This film's been waiting for release for a couple of years now, and I've been anxiously waiting for it since I first heard that Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard would be taking on the haunted cabin genre. I haven't read the script, although I know there's some second and third act twists that pretty much turn the genre on its ear. Some shots from the trailer suggest that it might be more of a genre hybrid than I thought. For that reason, I'm marking this a spoiler because I had no idea that a hybrid movie was even a possibility. I love the new poster we premiered several days ago and I hope to get to see this soon. Here's the new trailer, courtesy of Yahoo Movies:
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS opens April, 2012. Nordling, out.
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Looks interesting.
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Where's the Prometheus Trailer!
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Subtext....
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Hollywood has run out of ideas and is now mashing up as many genres and concepts as possible, resulting in cluster fucks like this
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Did not expect the genre mashup. Wish they would quit pushing the date on this one but at least they're committing to a release finally.
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kinda
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This is the project AICN keeps on banging on about saying 'release it noooow'. <p> I know Whedon likes his to be 'hip' but if someone told me this was a parody of a horror movie I would have seriously bought it. <p> Christ when the dude at the garage type place at 0:37 ish turns up I thought he was going to say in the South Park voice "Yaaa don't wanna go daaawn that raaad". Every single beat of the movie is laid out here and you can probably guess in which order each of the trendy hipsters gets picked off if you try hard enough. <p> I don't like to hate but fuck this. And fuck Whedon too. Buffy was quite good in places granted but when I look at Whedons work on scripts and other pieces man he blows. <p> Calling Firefly Defence League To The Rescue in 5....
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Command me, oh great master!
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The death order is easy - reverse order of billing in the credits.
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"The lambs have passed through the gate. They are come to the killing floor." I'm in. As if I wasn't already. How 'bout, I'm STILL in.
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Looks like a hodgepodge of "Evil Dead" and something like "Sleuth." Not sure if it will work, but I'm intrigued that its not a straight shot at the cabin horror sub-genre. Not to mention, Kristen Connolly is flat-out fucking adorable. So it gets points there.
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good to see Whedon give him another gig trailer looks a bit corny...and they gave away too much with the shadowy gov't agents controlling shit
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They said 'do you want to go down at the end'.Heh. Do you get it. It's like. A double meaning. <p> There's only one 'Cabin In The Woods' movie worth seeing and it's 30 fucking years old. And it wasn't the concept that sold that and moreover its sequel - it was the lughead charm of Campbell and the genuine shock and awe of the excess gore coupled with slapstick. Remaking the concept is meaningless without the actor to sell it. To remake the Evil Dead they don't just need to build another Cabin - they need to find something special in an up and coming charasmatic unknown and to be honest I'm struggling to name one in the last 5 years that hasn't fallen into the one note Cera, Hill, Rogen brigade <p>
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The road might not be on the map, but the GPS will be able to pinpoint them.... Am I missing the point?
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Dec. 5, 2011, 2:29 p.m. CST
Just when you thought a trailer was released without any BWOOOOOOOOOM....
by CanYouFlySucka
It kicks in right at the end. BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!! Seriously, when did that shit start appearing on every Goddamn trailer.
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can you explain why this was delayed for 2 years, other than the movie is terri-bad?
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True enough - but when you can take an educated guess not by looking at the credit roll but how the leads are dressed and where they're standing in relation to the camera, you're in trouble. Admittedly I'm speculating and again I don't want to be overly negative but the format of the trailer just looks garbage. Not even the tech military guys gave it any real edge. <p> It just looks so run of the mill. The Evil Dead, which is the film 99% of people on here will associate this with lets face it, was genius because it had absolutely bananas surreal moments throughout the trilogy and characters that didn't need to say in the car on the way "HEY THIS PLACE ISN'T EVEN ON GPS NOTHING CAN GO WRONG LOLOLOLOLOZ" to serve as context. <p> You want mash up? Stick Ash in the with his boomstick and see who walks out alive. Whose laughing nnnnooooooooooooooow
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Dec. 5, 2011, 2:32 p.m. CST
on the plus side this trailer makes the movie look batshit insane.
by irc-Hollywood
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Sorry. I just couldn't help climbing aboard the name game there. Not a bad trailer, though, I'd say. Semi-predictable at the beginning, but weirder as it went along. I'm not really a horror movie buff, but I might check this out. The fact there's computers and tobacky-spittin' rednecks and forcefields kind of got my attention. Hmm.
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Seriously, if you have such little hope for this movie go ahead and read the script for it online. Is everybody a stereotype? yes. Is that old man at the run-down gas station something we've seen a million times? Yes. Do the characters increasingly do and say more and more stereotypical things as the scenario progresses? Yes. Is that the point of the entire movie? Yes. Not saying it's going to be amazing, way too early to tell, but based on the script, all of you saying "Hahaha this looks so predictable" or "It lookz lik every other horror movie lolz" are gonna be eating your words.
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to merit all the hate, unless it's just Whedon knee-jerk stuff. It's a genre horror film, anyone who's been paying attention knows it's going to repeatedly tweak the genres and conventions of horror films, the trailer doesn't do much to dissuade anyone of those ideas. Looks pretty well done for what it is, and maybe when it comes out we'll see that it's quite a bit more than that. And it's got dudes in creepy doll masks. I'm in.
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You're not supposed to know it at first, but that's actually the direction the whole thing ends up going... a weird self-aware parody with dark overtones.
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Cabin on a Mountain. Cabin by a Stream. Cabin by the Lake. Cabin on a Farm. Hell, I've even seen Cabins by the Highway.
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Its because MGM was spiraling into bankruptcy. Same reason the next Bond flick and The Hobbit were delayed for so long.
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...is M. Night Shyamalan in disguise... ...who is a bastard child of Roger Corman. Pretty much got "crap fest" written all over it. I'll buy that for a dollar...but no more :)
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gotcha
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Answer: It's supposed to. <p> Self Awareness of the genre expectations? From Whedon? Say it ain't so. <p> So wink winks to the camera throughout?
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google her in underbelly. great reason to see cabin.
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Whedon's biggest enemy is his rabid fanbase. I avoided his stuff for a pretty long time because of them. Then picked up a Buffy DVD and holy shit his Tv work is tons of fun. But people avoid his stuff, because they see the obsessive fanbase (and crazy show concepts) and start to resent the guy. Half of the haters here would find this trailer cool without whedon's name attached to it. (the other half is so full pf hate that no movie trailer would please them at this point)
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"Calling Firefly Defence League To The Rescue in 5...." ...awesome. But I did like Firefly.
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Dec. 5, 2011, 3:04 p.m. CST
omg is the twist that they find out they are all just charcters in a script?
by zom-bot.com
and then they have a nice little struggle to see if there is unchangeable destiny or you can make it yourself, trying to fight the scriptwriter (god) at every turn. like final destination with an unseen 'writer' instead of 'death?' or is it more like the twilight zone where the people realize they are dolls in a salvation army barrel? or is it like cube? or is it like the OTHERS or SIXTH SENSE where they realize they are ghosts at the end? or any movie where people realize they are in a simulation or video game or movie or story? or any one of those patent twists that the twilight zone used it first over 50 years ago?
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around Joss's cabin? Or is it a holodeck?
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...That its actually a shit movie from the begining rather than turning into one half way through.
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...this mashup is that you know ahead of time going in that it's a mashup. It's a surprise to the characters, but not to us. Imagine seeing this with no knowledge of the twist, then being totally surprised with what happens. That would actually be pretty cool. Unfortunately it's also impossible if you watch even a single trailer. Going in the filmmakers probably thought, 'this is gonna blow their minds'. Surely they also thought "of course, they'll already know about it before they even see it thanks to the marketing folks." Fucking marketing folks.
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...too bad the movie looks like a heaping pile. Oh wait... Joss Whedon helped crap this turd?! Nevermind, it doesn't matter if it sucks, the geeks will eat up all the turds out of his hands... just like they are still munching on those Buffy turds...
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Dec. 5, 2011, 3:14 p.m. CST
i heard JJ liked it so much he's making THE FLARE IN THE LENS right now
by zom-bot.com
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for buffy and angel, I shall watch.
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No, to all of those. I've tried a few things by Whedon here and there, never really got on the obsession train. And I don't know if I'll see this. But I did read the script, because people seemed so gaga over it and it's readily available online, and I felt like giving Whedon another shot, and I will say this: at least I had no idea what was coming, and I think the premise is actually pretty cool. The execution itself didn't really leave a lasting impression on me. But the central premise, I have to admit, is a clever one.
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i bet the 2 year delay had something to do with similar movie(s) coming out at the same time...even if this one twists what the other(s) were about. suits shuffle around release dates based on similar movies these days- we'll never have the kind of summer where deep star six, leviathan and the abyss all came out at the same time again...
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Dec. 5, 2011, 3:21 p.m. CST
spacehog- if the script is still free online, i'll give it a read
by zom-bot.com
it's actually good to hear that i was wrong on all counts. but we still have to be careful about what flicks we fork over money to these days, after all :)
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Scary.
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Basically, yes, it's all very deliberately a cliche. The movie offers a reason for why all these stories stick so close to a formula. I don't recall any characters going all ''Scream'' and talking about how it feels like they're in a horror movie. It's more like every horror movie happened in this same universe, maybe in this same cabin. What other kinds of things, aside from movie formulas, have strict rules of observance that are followed very closely?
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Dec. 5, 2011, 3:29 p.m. CST
zombot, I totally agree, and I probably won't be forking over for this
by spacehog
But that's because I already know the story...seriously, the story is pretty solid and I hope like hell they keep the ending I read. But knowing the premise is a bit like knowing how ''The Sixth Sense'' ends. I just can't imagine it would be much fun to sit through this, now that I've spoiled the fun of where it goes for myself.
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...what horrible CGI will be in store for us then..
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..Thats even worse than pushing the buttons.....What horrible CGI will be unleased on us.
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http://www.ironsky.net/
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Microwave oven, CD Player, assault rifle and rocket launcher all in one bling bling machine. Uuhh yeah, good ol' Beverly Hils Cop 3
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Wow...those are big shoes to fill......
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yawn....
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And I enjoyed both of those films (the latter MUCH more than the former) so I'll probably see this.
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imagine going watch this movie without knowing anything about the SF twist. wouldn't that been great? bloody spoilers.
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Dec. 5, 2011, 4:14 p.m. CST
still looks 1000 times better then any Jar Jar Abrams bullshit that AICN always hypes about.
by AsimovLives
so there's that in it's favour.
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Because they do not look real to me.
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....WATCH a movie before passing judgement?
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Seriously, why is everyone so pissy? I'm down. Looks like a popcorn fest.
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..the bad guys have special fx fuck up our protagonoists...unleash demons on them an shit, rich guys killin like in hostel2 but with stan winston an rick baker in their corner.
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holding off on the script, would prefer virgin status for this one. Trailer wasn't great, but still looks promising....
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They're revealed very early in the film. Most of the "twists" are pretty much shown upfront; as in any other horror movie, the tension comes from not knowing who will survive, or how.
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That it's the Govt testing suoer soldiers or some shit like that. Otherwise it looks pretty interesting. i'll definately check it out when it comes out on DVD. Don't see why so many people are dissing it before it's even out but thats what people on this site do right. do do do do right. Sensoria
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Just checking
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caught an advance screeing a couple years back....its a "techy" Evil Dead movie with a few cameos and a shitty ending
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Dec. 5, 2011, 6:01 p.m. CST
Spoiler in the trailer? Damned if you do, damned if you don't
by Billy Goat
The only people who would love this movie are the ones who are sick of cabin-in-the-woods type movies, and want to see the genre shaken up or mocked. So if you don't spoil the sci-fi twist in the trailer, you drive away the audience you're trying to reach, and only attract slasher fans who will hate the twist. It's a dilemma. How can you tell audiences who want a surprise, that your movie will surprise them, without spoiling the surprise?
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."Half of the haters here would find this trailer cool without whedon's name attached to it. (the other half is so full pf hate that no movie trailer would please them at this point)" I'm not a Whedonite(?), like a lot of his stuff, others not so much, but am interested enough to check this one out.
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Ever time I see the yahoo logo with a trailer announcement it's a big WTF moment. Their player sucks ass, never loads right, and constantly has to re-buffer. And Joss where is the ext Avengers trailer, TDKR is kicking your ass in pre-movie hype. This is when you start to leak, crappy versions of the trailer on the net, keep that: Holy shit I have to fucking see this! momentum going.
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Dec. 5, 2011, 6:54 p.m. CST
(silent child-like whisper) I believe in you, Peter. I mean, Joss.
by sweeneydave
Although I just couldn't fit my bleeding heart into your Dollhouse, that's only one small strike, my friend. I love your fun style of storytelling. I love that you can do funny and scary at the same time (like Gremlins or Trick r Treat). Maybe everything you create isn't always a fried gold feast for the starving public, but you've got a rather large niche of the world in the palm of your hand. And I, for one, am glad to be one of your fans. If fanboy sustenance is simply giving us something to be excited about and not letting us down - then you, my friend, are the winner of the bread. Keep on truckin'. (Or other such positive-reinforcement slash thank-you-note slash creepy-love-letter.)
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And it's got a song by The Naked And Famous in the trailer, so right on.
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It's got that really annoying guy from that really annoying show Dollhouse. I've loved everything Whedon's done until Dollhouse. He needs to leave that cast of losers out of his work. If I have to see Eliza Dushku ever again I'll scrape off my genitals with the Garden Weasel.
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Dec. 5, 2011, 7:37 p.m. CST
Trailer makes it looks like they accidentally spliced in scenes from a different film
by LordSoth
It just doesn't work in the trailer.
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bad acid trip, only if.
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Man, GPS has screwed me over so many times in rural areas because it can't find me, so yeah, it's entirely possible. It sees you, it just can't tell you where the fuck you actually are with ANY accuracy. (Happens in the city, too!)
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I like the genre mashup for this film. It is definitely intriguing, and totally unexpected. I hope they pulled it off. I have faith in Whedon, for this and The Avengers. It's nice to see a Whedon-cast reunion, too. It's...shiny!
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despite what the poster says
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Dec. 5, 2011, 8:28 p.m. CST
APRIL? And why isn't Amy Acker and her amazing Neck in the preview?
by elmo
We want us some Fred! And not in Much Ado about Nothing!
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1. the gps thing can easily be explained due to the "cabin". if you can create a forcefield, im sure scrambler a cell reception is easy 2. the guy who played Topher on Dollhouse is gonna be everyones favorite character... to bad he (spoiler) dies 3. its less sci-fiey then you think 4. weed is awesome 5. its gonna be batshit insane... I still cant believe they put a fucking merman in it
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...And starts swinging some sleeping bag-encased teenage lesbians into a tree.
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Haven't we seen this a hundred times or so?? Oh, well, it's horror, so count me in.
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Dec. 5, 2011, 9:27 p.m. CST
behind the mask the rise of Leslie Vernon, is the best genre mashup
by future help
of this sort of film.
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Dec. 5, 2011, 9:32 p.m. CST
well-produced on screen blood splattering mayhem?
by WINONA_RYDERS_PUSSY_JUICE
I'm in!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tNrvDA_eE8
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but since youre in, I wont say anything bad to you
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I will be there day one.
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I'm betting those involved would have loved to advertise this movie as another cabin in the woods horror flick, and have the audience find out the rest in the theater. But no studio would be ballsy enough to advertise without those money shots. Oh well.
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The "bird getting zapped" shot happens in the first ten minuets of the film. Also, Bradley Whitford of "West Wing" fame is in this, so it's bound to be at least watchable.
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So you dislike women, got it. Tell your therapist, not us.
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...that I just want to see this now. Just read the script, and it's a giant WTF. And the reveal of the people with the monitors orchestrating everything happens very early in the script, and is basically a source of comedy.
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The Naked and Famous and Marilyn Manson in the same trailer?
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But if I ever do, I'm either gonna take him to a cabin in the woods. Or I'm gonna promise to take him and then not take him, but the one thing that I will never do is not tell him that I'm taking him to a cabin in the woods, and then not take him.
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The trailer itself is bad enough. If the script is true, especially the ending of the film, well it's absolute garbage. Was this supposed to be a "reimagining" of The Evil Dead flicks? Because those were great movies, with lots of laughs. This isn't. At all.
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...why, when the tagline is, "You think you know the story", people are surprised that some of the setup elements are predictable cliches you've seen a million times. That's kinda the point: Start from the cliche and THEN head in a different direction with it. If it wasn't using a cliche premise, you wouldn't think you knew the story. It seems that the point it to play with expectations, which necessarily requires that you first create the expectations before playing with them.
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Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome!Awesome! did I miss anything?
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Dec. 6, 2011, 4:14 a.m. CST
Trailer looks great! Anyone know where I can find the script?
by Happyfat73
I'm having trouble finding a download via the googles.
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Dec. 6, 2011, 6:50 a.m. CST
What? No one has said it should've been directed by Paul Verhoeven yet?
by kells
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Dec. 6, 2011, 6:58 a.m. CST
The bird getting zapped should have been the last and only sci- fi thing in the trailer
by Monolith_Jones
It would have been perfect, gives a hint of what kind of movie it will be without ruining anything.
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...if the review is genuine and seemed to be from what i read; the ending is ten times worse than "Knowing". Here's the link, spoilers ahead obviously: http://tinyurl.com/bvculcr
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Whedon will present it and probably also present some Avengers footage
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if he is there, I hope they will have security to protect him from Herc
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I think the long release time is going to hurt it a little. The trailer looked like Ash was going to pop out at any second then after the bird I was pretty much waiting for Altair. Still..credit for trying something different. The parody part is so over done that it is a cliche. I've heard the guy realizing how stupid splitting up is a dozen times now. There are a lot of good movies that are available now that have totally spun this concept on its head. Leslie Vernon is one and I've seen enough of Tucker and Dale to know I want to see it way more than Cabin. Finally, the trailer spoiler had to be done or you would only get die hard horror fans...word of mouth doesn't work like it used to. Its all about the opening weekend.
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Dec. 6, 2011, 9:03 a.m. CST
'Race with the Devil' meets 'Evil Dead' meets 'FutureWorld'...
by Zombiana_Jones
...With Joss at the helm. this is gonna be cool, no matter what. Possibly epic....
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cube v evil dead gets me all kinds of interested!
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Dec. 6, 2011, 10:43 a.m. CST
I am a fan of Whedon, never got into Dollhouse though, but there's a reason
by openthepodbaydoorshal
things stay on the shelf for a loong time. Take Wrong Turn, add a dash of Evil Dead, a heaping helping of The Truman Show, a bit of the holodeck from ST:TNG....put in a blender and voila. After Tucker & Dale, does the genre even need revisiting regardless of whatever "twists and turns"? And this was held by Lionsgate? I thought they release, even direct to DVD, anything...
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http://horrorscreenplays.blogspot.com/2011/07/cabin-in-woods-2011.html </p> The script review that optimusbob posted is genuine.
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Dec. 6, 2011, 11:56 a.m. CST
Sorry to use that phrase, but "You just don't get it", tomdolan04
by AshMcQ
Firstly you have to realize one thing: The cabin & subgenre is full of homages to famous predecessors of the genre. For every one into it, it's always a pleasure to find those familiarities. The "Gas Station" guy has been one of those since I believe "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Stuff like that is almost like a secret code for fans. Now this very movie seems to turn this "nodding" to a higher level: It becomes part of the story. The first 30 seconds of this Trailer are supposed to look and feel like every other Cabin-movie ever made - thats the whole point of it. The Trailer wouldn't work as good as it does otherwise. As far as it looks to me what this movies really about is(I mean the subtext): Turning the creative team of horror film making against the protagonists. There tools are the cliches of 40(?) years of horror gruesomeness. The elements are not supposed to be original. They never pretend to be. However, the way they are put together very much is. I'm looking very much forward to the movie.
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Well said. My only fear is that it will be too self-aware.
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LOL j/k-- whedon/goddard? I'll be there opening night!
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Dec. 6, 2011, 12:37 p.m. CST
Spied a grey's anatomy actor about 30 seconds in and hit the stop button
by proevad
Whedon or no Whedon. No thanks.
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I like intelligent film making. I like horror. By propositioning the genre conventions this way in the trailer I think this is neither of the two. Not scary enough to be a horror, not clever enough to be a stand alone film without mocking the conventions of whats gone before it <p> I'm not a sole Whedon hater - I think the whole horror genre has become far too self aware of itself that it's already a parody of itself without Whedon throwing in his cute dialogue. I yearn for more up and comers in the vein of Raimis unconventional start in movies. <p> Funnily enough when the tech guys showed up I just was taken back to the trash fest that was the movie Resident Evils.
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I thought the movie looked really interesting...not sure what the heck is going on. Reminded me of Resident Evil. And I'm TOTALLY heterosexual, but Chris Hemsworth is just cool.
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I could barely see anything that was going on.
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they're in a holodeck on a space ship.
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and the Black Lodge.
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Not a bad concept. I will actually watch this now but I think this is going to be a love it or hate it movie. Wont be a huge blockbuster or anything but with the Avengers coming out it doesnt have to be. Still should have come out a couple of years ago. Would have be a lot cooler and much more relevant before all the other stuff that has come out since.
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but then I took an arrow to the knee.
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Was the Marilyn Manson, reminding me of Patricia Arquette topless in Lost Highway.
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It is a supernatural horror film. Whether or not they stick the landing remains to be seen, but the broad concept ain't just mean geeks sending robot zombies out to scare some kids and make Scream-style jokes.
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Was a Skyrim joke? I swear it was.
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I don't know how great it looks, but seems a bit early to be trashing the thing. Looks different, I like it. As for thinking it got held over because it sucks, that's just not paying attention. The studio went under...taking The Hobbit and James Bond with them. And we KNOW those movies were bombs and no one would want to make those, right? It has nothing to do with quality, folks. Use yer noggins. I disliked Leslie Vernon just on the insulting basis of the movie, which is the documentary filmmakers is just shocked, SHOCKED that the wannabe murderer who has been prepping the entire time is in fact killing people at the end. I'm sorry, but some things are just too stupid to go with, and that's one of them.
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