Thread: All Things HORROR

I do think it was the logical conclusion and very 'Chess in the snow' if you catch my drift.

I'm afraid I don't...

Sorry, been a long day...meant drinking jack in the snow.

Yea but two totally different movies. I love that ending if it's The Thing or even something like The Mist.

But for Cabin In The Woods? I wanted more fun. Whatever. It's not enough to make me like the movie any less.

You don't always get everything you want exactly the way you want it.

Originally Posted by Dr. Naysay

Yea but two totally different movies. I love that ending if it's The Thing or even something like The Mist.

But for Cabin In The Woods? I wanted more fun. Whatever. It's not enough to make me like the movie any less.

You don't always get everything you want exactly the way you want it.

That's a good point. Too heavy for the overall tone??? I don't know. The movie has some serious change-ups throughout the course of, and for me, it worked. Anything else would have rang hollow. That's just me though.

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I could go on and on, because this is the first horror film in years that I've been truly blown away by, and there's plenty to discuss and chew over, but this (very small and thankfully not too vocal) "backlash" really bummed me out. I don't care if you don't like the movie - no movie is ever going to satisfy everyone, certainly not a horror movie (one that requires a little brain activity to boot). But the dismissals I see from usually clear-thinking folks are in some ways more upsetting than Rex Reed's now legendary and hilariously inept review, because some of them (not Vern's, I should stress) almost seem to be of the opinion that the film can't be considered horror simply because it's intelligent. One point of the film is that we NEED horror movies to keep the world from descending into chaos - because of that, The Cabin In The Woods has done more to validate the genre than you, I, or any other horror critic ever will.

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

That's a good point. Too heavy for the overall tone??? I don't know. The movie has some serious change-ups throughout the course of, and for me, it worked. Anything else would have rang hollow. That's just me though.

Not too heavy... too anticlimactic. I know that may sound crazy given the scope of the climax... but that's a macguffin. They really just end the story in a blah manner. Again it's just about pacing for me. The stakes are so high and the action has just been ramping up and up and up and then.... piff. It's over. I guess I would have preferred an ending that had some manner of epilogue.

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

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I disagree. I think it was a comedy.

Originally Posted by Dr. Naysay

Not too heavy... too anticlimactic. I know that may sound crazy given the scope of the climax... but that's a macguffin. They really just end the story in a blah manner. Again it's just about pacing for me. The stakes are so high and the action has just been ramping up and up and up and then.... piff. It's over. I guess I would have preferred an ending that had some manner of epilogue.



I disagree. I think it was a comedy.

Ok...so the ending was too abrupt. Almost like they painted themselves into a corner? I get that argument too, I just can't see any alternative to where they went coming off as anything other than a cop out. The ending you are looking for just may not exist. As I have expressed, I fully bit on the ending because it was atypical of your standard Hollywood 'let's set up the sequel' finale'. And, let's face it, as evidenced by the Thing and The Mist, most moviegoers don't want that harsh glass of cold water to the face kind of ending. They want to go home happy and content in their belief that all's well that ends well. So yeah, I am probably more in love with the ending than I should be.

And no, it wasn't a comedy. It had elements...but if I am filing this in my (non-existent) video store, that puppy goes on the horror shelf.

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Ok...so the ending was too abrupt. Almost like they painted themselves into a corner? I get that argument too, I just can't see any alternative to where they went coming off as anything other than a cop out. The ending you are looking for just may not exist. As I have expressed, I fully bit on the ending because it was atypical of your standard Hollywood 'let's set up the sequel' finale'. And, let's face it, as evidenced by the Thing and The Mist, most moviegoers don't want that harsh glass of cold water to the face kind of ending. They want to go home happy and content in their belief that all's well that ends well. So yeah, I am probably more in love with the ending than I should be.

And no, it wasn't a comedy. It had elements...but if I am filing this in my (non-existent) video store, that puppy goes on the horror shelf.

I just want to stress again that my mild displeasure with the ending in no way diminishes my fondness for the movie. I still love it.

I guess I just wanted more movie.

As for comedy vs. horror.

I dunno... I look at it like Ghostbusters. The subject matter is "horror stuff" but tonally it was more about humor than trauma.