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Apr. 21st, 2012 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreToday, I went to see Cabin in the Woods.
Oh my god, you guys, I love this movie. With the funny and the gore and the meta and, wow, there is nothing about this film that I did not like.
1) My favorite thing is a tiny tiny thing but, when Dana stabs the zombie dude in an actually effective manner, there is a tiny little flash of electricity, just enough of a shock to make her drop the weapon. Because of course there is. So lovely.
2) Okay, you guys, here is my official statement on such things. I am all for personal survival but if we are in a situation where it's my life versus the entire rest of the world, you have my permission to kill me. Because that is the right decision, oh my goodness. Please try to make it as painless as possible.
And, all right, there is a little bit of fridge logic setting in, mostly about how the archetypes for the sacrifice are in no way universal horror archetypes - the slasher film formula has really only been around for a little over 30 years and isn't anything like set in stone and is really only an American thing, after all. But I don't actually care. Mostly, I want so much background worldbuilding information. What are the other rituals like? Where did all the monsters come from? How do you get hired to work at this place? Is it government sanctioned? Do the people who work there have home lives and what are they like?
I just, I really love this premise. I don't care over much about the victims - they're nice enough, which is pleasant in a slasher film, but in the end they made a decision that I pretty much fundamentally disagree with (and I wonder which way the actual filmmakers fall on that score) - but the people who are running the ritual are fascinating.
I kinda want to watch a whole bunch of horror films now.
Oh my god, you guys, I love this movie. With the funny and the gore and the meta and, wow, there is nothing about this film that I did not like.
1) My favorite thing is a tiny tiny thing but, when Dana stabs the zombie dude in an actually effective manner, there is a tiny little flash of electricity, just enough of a shock to make her drop the weapon. Because of course there is. So lovely.
2) Okay, you guys, here is my official statement on such things. I am all for personal survival but if we are in a situation where it's my life versus the entire rest of the world, you have my permission to kill me. Because that is the right decision, oh my goodness. Please try to make it as painless as possible.
And, all right, there is a little bit of fridge logic setting in, mostly about how the archetypes for the sacrifice are in no way universal horror archetypes - the slasher film formula has really only been around for a little over 30 years and isn't anything like set in stone and is really only an American thing, after all. But I don't actually care. Mostly, I want so much background worldbuilding information. What are the other rituals like? Where did all the monsters come from? How do you get hired to work at this place? Is it government sanctioned? Do the people who work there have home lives and what are they like?
I just, I really love this premise. I don't care over much about the victims - they're nice enough, which is pleasant in a slasher film, but in the end they made a decision that I pretty much fundamentally disagree with (and I wonder which way the actual filmmakers fall on that score) - but the people who are running the ritual are fascinating.
I kinda want to watch a whole bunch of horror films now.
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Date: 2012-07-17 09:05 pm (UTC)In regards to my own life, I am fine with the idea that one of my closest friends might kill me in order to save the entire world. Not that I wouldn't want to live, but you are correct, it is the right thing to do. In regards to me killing one of my closest friends, however...I actually told him that sorry, but I would totally let the world go to hell. Bit of a double standard, I suppose...
Also, I freaking loved Cabin so very much. :) It made me stupidly happy.
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Date: 2012-07-17 09:51 pm (UTC)It's the whole Star Trek "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one" thing. I admit that it would be much easier to die or kill myself in that situation than to kill a friend. But still, if the fate of the world hangs in the balance, the right (if hard) answer is still to kill that one person.