| Page 754 of 1492 |
|
|
 Posted: Mon, 20th Aug 2012 22:14 Post subject: |
|
 |
The Expendables 2 - 2/10
I should have known after the disaster that was the first film, but holy shit this was even worse. Doesn't even come close to the idiotic charm of the 80s "golden era" action epics it tries to evoke, and instead looks more like a vanity project for a bunch of past it OAPs. Zero laughs, boring action, no plot (despite the highly original weapons grade plutonium macguffin) and even though it's supposedly being played for laughs, it takes itself way too seriously.
Thank God TCITW was waiting for me when I got home...
The Cabin In The Woods - 8/10
Genuinely fun with more than its fair share of laughs, an original take on the horror genre and filmmakers that know how to stage an exciting set-piece. Surprisingly good effects, too! Studios, more money for Drew Goddard pls!
| chiv wrote: | | don't quote me on that |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Mon, 20th Aug 2012 22:15 Post subject: |
|
|
I can't believe what i'm seeing. So many liked the terrible teenage horror part of the movie and less fond of the original part of the movie which stands out from all the other horror movies out there. I loved the last part and wanted to turn off the movie the first part. I also hated that the movie stopped once it became REALLY interesting. Would be cool to see some scenes of the demon or god, whatever ruin cities and such for a few minutes.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Mon, 20th Aug 2012 23:15 Post subject: |
|
|
| b0se wrote: | | madmax17 wrote: | Drive Angry - 6/10
Kinda of a trashy movie but the characters are fun, accountant is cool. The women is smokin'-hot!! |
Well son, that's the point with those movies...
Lack story, characters and money ? No problem, add a hot whore and here comes the audience.  |
Don't call her the 'wh' word, that's my future wife  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
WaldoJ
VIP Member
Posts: 32678
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 01:08 Post subject: |
|
|
she's a lesbian. dummy.
| Sin317 wrote: | | I win, you lose. Or Go fuck yourself. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
sausje
Banned
Posts: 17716
Location: Limboland, Netherlands
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 05:26 Post subject: |
|
|
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 09:50 Post subject: |
|
|
| WaldoJ wrote: | | she's a lesbian. dummy. |
So am I.
But I heard she isn't, she had a guy as well as a woman. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Mutantius
VIP Member
Posts: 18594
Location: In Elektro looking for beans
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 10:02 Post subject: |
|
|
| Stormwolf wrote: | | I can't believe what i'm seeing. So many liked the terrible teenage horror part of the movie and less fond of the original part of the movie which stands out from all the other horror movies out there. I loved the last part and wanted to turn off the movie the first part. I also hated that the movie stopped once it became REALLY interesting. Would be cool to see some scenes of the demon or god, whatever ruin cities and such for a few minutes. |
It breaks down the genre and for you to recognize that its indeed the horror genre it needs to have the generic content at the beginning. And I mean its not that generic it's clear they are tampering with the kids to abide the "rules" and I thought that was brilliant. Also the hand wasn't good enough?
"Why don't you zip it, Zipfero?" - fraich3
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 10:47 Post subject: |
|
|
Cabin in the Woods 5/10
Whedon needs to focus on his jokes and stick to shallow crap, as it works much better for him - as is evidenced in The Avengers.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Doh!
Posts: 1361
Location: Wellhigh DK
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 12:44 Post subject: |
|
|
| Casus wrote: | Cabin in the Woods 5/10
Whedon needs to focus on his jokes and stick to shallow crap, as it works much better for him - as is evidenced in The Avengers. |
He is a co-writer and Whedon have both written and directed other things than The Avengers mate. Shallow crap my ass...
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 12:56 Post subject: |
|
|
FIREFLY BEEAAAUUUGHHHTCH!
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
vurt
Posts: 13845
Location: Sweden
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 13:27 Post subject: |
|
|
| Stormwolf wrote: | I can't believe what i'm seeing. So many liked the terrible teenage horror part of the movie and less fond of the original part of the movie which stands out from all the other horror movies out there.
|
I think it was an ok build up, it also made the second half less expected.. Obviously like many movies the build up wasnt as interesting as the conclusion / the second half of the movie.
| Quote: |
I loved the last part and wanted to turn off the movie the first part. I also hated that the movie stopped once it became REALLY interesting. Would be cool to see some scenes of the demon or god, whatever ruin cities and such for a few minutes. |
Gods are much better imagined than seeing some bearded giant or something, that never works and they knew it. It ended exactly where it should have ended.
Overall, about 55 mins horror/comedy with a rather unique twist and 40 mins which becomes a lot more interesting than the first part... Horror movies are usually a LOT worse than this, i'd love to know what you're comparing to in the genre.
Last edited by vurt on Tue, 21st Aug 2012 13:32; edited 1 time in total
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 13:31 Post subject: |
|
|
| Doh! wrote: | | Casus wrote: | Cabin in the Woods 5/10
Whedon needs to focus on his jokes and stick to shallow crap, as it works much better for him - as is evidenced in The Avengers. |
He is a co-writer and Whedon have both written and directed other things than The Avengers mate. Shallow crap my ass... |
You think I didn't know that?
He's good at shallow pop-culture crap (obviously, it's not crap if you like it) - but he absolutely sucks at making movies or shows I can take seriously.
I expect to take a horror movie seriously, and this movie failed utterly in every way.
Don't get me wrong, I really liked The Avengers - but it's just a popcorn movie.
I also really liked Firefly - but it's still nothing but well-crafted pop-culture fluff.
Whedon is a master of not taking the material seriously - and he's great at jokes and giving you the unexpected. That's as far as his talent goes, however.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
vurt
Posts: 13845
Location: Sweden
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 13:34 Post subject: |
|
|
What's wrong with popcorn movies? You see them for some brainded action / story and when you're prepared for it its a really fun ride. Watching The Avengers or Cabin in the Woods expecting Oscar material or some deep drama? I mean that's laughable and no wonder it will leave you very disapointed.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 13:36 Post subject: |
|
|
There's nothing wrong with popcorn movies, I just don't think as much of them as you do.
I didn't expect oscar material or "deep drama" - but I did expect horror, and I didn't get that.
If you think that's laughable, fine, but there it is.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
vurt
Posts: 13845
Location: Sweden
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 13:47 Post subject: |
|
|
I guess i didn't expect it to be absolutetly terrifying just because it happened to be a horror movie. If you're familiar with the genre you also know there's a lot of different types of horror.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 13:52 Post subject: |
|
|
| vurt wrote: | | I guess i didn't expect it to be absolutetly terrifying just because it happened to be a horror movie. If you're familiar with the genre you also know there's a lot of different types of horror. |
Is there some reason you insist on these strawman statements?
Did I say I expected to be "absolutely terrified"?
No, I said I expected horror. To me, that means I expected to be frightened and excited to SOME degree.
I felt nothing like that.
You liked the movie, and I can easily handle that. Why is it such a big deal that I didn't?
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
vurt
Posts: 13845
Location: Sweden
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 14:03 Post subject: |
|
|
How did you come to the conclusion it's a "big deal" to me? I dont care dude, just saying why it's possible to ruin a perfectly good movie with the wrong expectations..
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 17:37 Post subject: |
|
|
| cirithungol wrote: | The Expendables 2 - 2/10
I should have known after the disaster that was the first film, but holy shit this was even worse. Doesn't even come close to the idiotic charm of the 80s "golden era" action epics it tries to evoke, and instead looks more like a vanity project for a bunch of past it OAPs. Zero laughs, boring action, no plot (despite the highly original weapons grade plutonium macguffin) and even though it's supposedly being played for laughs, it takes itself way too seriously.
Thank God TCITW was waiting for me when I got home...
The Cabin In The Woods - 8/10
Genuinely fun with more than its fair share of laughs, an original take on the horror genre and filmmakers that know how to stage an exciting set-piece. Surprisingly good effects, too! Studios, more money for Drew Goddard pls! |
Serious 2/10 for Expendables and 8/10 for the Cabin in the woods and u call Cabin in the woods a "an original take on the horror genre" , what is original about this movie ?
Horny blonde dies first , well they always die first in these B type of horror movies .
Bad guys in cubes , damm where did i ever seen that.
A stoner that is imune to mind controling smoke???
They manage to put an invisible wall but cant detonate some damm explosives , must have been a budget cut no money for good wires.
Calling the Cabin in the woods horror , please , its simply a B movie (bad acting , bad script , bad waste of money.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
tonizito
VIP Member
Posts: 51421
Location: Portugal, the shithole of Europe.
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 17:45 Post subject: |
|
|
| Madmartigan74 wrote: | | They manage to put an invisible wall but cant detonate some damm explosives , must have been a budget cut no money for good wires. |
You might try watching it again... nah, better go see the undurrables 2 again 
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
garus
VIP Member
Posts: 34200
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 18:13 Post subject: |
|
|
snip
Last edited by garus on Tue, 27th Aug 2024 21:46; edited 1 time in total
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
VonMisk
Posts: 9468
Location: Hatredland
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 19:00 Post subject: |
|
|
| Madmartigan74 wrote: | | cirithungol wrote: | The Expendables 2 - 2/10
I should have known after the disaster that was the first film, but holy shit this was even worse. Doesn't even come close to the idiotic charm of the 80s "golden era" action epics it tries to evoke, and instead looks more like a vanity project for a bunch of past it OAPs. Zero laughs, boring action, no plot (despite the highly original weapons grade plutonium macguffin) and even though it's supposedly being played for laughs, it takes itself way too seriously.
Thank God TCITW was waiting for me when I got home...
The Cabin In The Woods - 8/10
Genuinely fun with more than its fair share of laughs, an original take on the horror genre and filmmakers that know how to stage an exciting set-piece. Surprisingly good effects, too! Studios, more money for Drew Goddard pls! |
Serious 2/10 for Expendables and 8/10 for the Cabin in the woods and u call Cabin in the woods a "an original take on the horror genre" , what is original about this movie ?
Horny blonde dies first , well they always die first in these B type of horror movies .
Bad guys in cubes , damm where did i ever seen that.
A stoner that is imune to mind controling smoke???
They manage to put an invisible wall but cant detonate some damm explosives , must have been a budget cut no money for good wires.
Calling the Cabin in the woods horror , please , its simply a B movie (bad acting , bad script , bad waste of money. |
You didn't catch the fact that CITW is a pastiche and a tribute to the horror movies. They die in that particular order because that's one of the rules of horror movies - slut dies first virgin survives. The house is similar to the house from Evil Dead 2. There are monsters in the cages from other horror movies and the cells themselves are a tribute to the Cube.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
WaldoJ
VIP Member
Posts: 32678
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 19:40 Post subject: |
|
|
| garus wrote: | | No amount of derps can express my disappointment in that post. Did you skip through the movie? |
some people just don't see the overall idea. can't really call them derps for that. It's not like they were familiar with it from the begining. I mean if the movie didn't play tribute to horror and what not... and took it self seriously as a horror movie then it would be a pretty bad movie. But the main saving factor for it is that it plays with horror to loling at horror and other horror movies. so \o/. Still, they beat the background story into your skull to the point where it starts to take it self serious and it just ruins it for me. It was epic until they ruined it. There was no need for any of that stupid shit in the end. 
It's like loling at horror genre was funny. the cliches were funny. the set ups based around horror movies were funny. But when they did their own humour set around their concept. It got less and less funny.
and it's not an original take on the horror genre. come on. evil dead 1 and 2 were original takes at horror. Both funny, both original, and both blood curdling scary. Shaun of the dead. Tucker and Dale vs Evil. Severance. Feast. and even slither. This movie just had a unique concept which was ruined by the creators going too much into it to show off how much thought they put into it. 
| Sin317 wrote: | | I win, you lose. Or Go fuck yourself. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 20:35 Post subject: |
|
|
| VonMisk wrote: | | Madmartigan74 wrote: | | cirithungol wrote: | The Expendables 2 - 2/10
I should have known after the disaster that was the first film, but holy shit this was even worse. Doesn't even come close to the idiotic charm of the 80s "golden era" action epics it tries to evoke, and instead looks more like a vanity project for a bunch of past it OAPs. Zero laughs, boring action, no plot (despite the highly original weapons grade plutonium macguffin) and even though it's supposedly being played for laughs, it takes itself way too seriously.
Thank God TCITW was waiting for me when I got home...
The Cabin In The Woods - 8/10
Genuinely fun with more than its fair share of laughs, an original take on the horror genre and filmmakers that know how to stage an exciting set-piece. Surprisingly good effects, too! Studios, more money for Drew Goddard pls! |
Serious 2/10 for Expendables and 8/10 for the Cabin in the woods and u call Cabin in the woods a "an original take on the horror genre" , what is original about this movie ?
Horny blonde dies first , well they always die first in these B type of horror movies .
Bad guys in cubes , damm where did i ever seen that.
A stoner that is imune to mind controling smoke???
They manage to put an invisible wall but cant detonate some damm explosives , must have been a budget cut no money for good wires.
Calling the Cabin in the woods horror , please , its simply a B movie (bad acting , bad script , bad waste of money. |
You didn't catch the fact that CITW is a pastiche and a tribute to the horror movies. They die in that particular order because that's one of the rules of horror movies - slut dies first virgin survives. The house is similar to the house from Evil Dead 2. There are monsters in the cages from other horror movies and the cells themselves are a tribute to the Cube. |
Actualy i think the cells were a tribute to Thir13en Ghosts but i could be wrong.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 20:36 Post subject: |
|
|
| Madmartigan74 wrote: | | cirithungol wrote: | The Expendables 2 - 2/10
I should have known after the disaster that was the first film, but holy shit this was even worse. Doesn't even come close to the idiotic charm of the 80s "golden era" action epics it tries to evoke, and instead looks more like a vanity project for a bunch of past it OAPs. Zero laughs, boring action, no plot (despite the highly original weapons grade plutonium macguffin) and even though it's supposedly being played for laughs, it takes itself way too seriously.
Thank God TCITW was waiting for me when I got home...
The Cabin In The Woods - 8/10
Genuinely fun with more than its fair share of laughs, an original take on the horror genre and filmmakers that know how to stage an exciting set-piece. Surprisingly good effects, too! Studios, more money for Drew Goddard pls! |
Serious 2/10 for Expendables and 8/10 for the Cabin in the woods and u call Cabin in the woods a "an original take on the horror genre" , what is original about this movie ?
Horny blonde dies first , well they always die first in these B type of horror movies .
Bad guys in cubes , damm where did i ever seen that.
A stoner that is imune to mind controling smoke???
They manage to put an invisible wall but cant detonate some damm explosives , must have been a budget cut no money for good wires.
Calling the Cabin in the woods horror , please , its simply a B movie (bad acting , bad script , bad waste of money. |
It's original because it takes so many things from the horror genre and essentially mocks it. I'm afraid you missed the point of the movie and maybe took it a bit too seriously. I mean it's a movie where they
 Spoiler: | actually pump drugs in the air that make people dumber, just so the dude would act like a typical alpha male (like in most horrors), and girls act like a dumb horny blonde. The drug also forces them to split up (another typical horror trait), and i could go on.
|
How do you take that seriously. More than that, how can you call that un-original. It's original because no other movie has that take on the genre. I can understand not enjoying that concept, but calling it not original is just not true.
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
tonizito
VIP Member
Posts: 51421
Location: Portugal, the shithole of Europe.
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 20:44 Post subject: |
|
|
| WaldoJ wrote: | | some people just don't see the overall idea. can't really call them derps for that. |
How about calling them derps since they missed a simple enough detail on the movie, which was what I quoted? 
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
tonizito
VIP Member
Posts: 51421
Location: Portugal, the shithole of Europe.
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 21:02 Post subject: |
|
|
| Madmartigan74 wrote: | | And what detail was that ? the wall , sorry the glass wall? |
Nope, it was why didn't the explosives went off like they were supposed to.
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
| Posted: Tue, 21st Aug 2012 21:09 Post subject: |
|
|
| tonizito wrote: | | Madmartigan74 wrote: | | And what detail was that ? the wall , sorry the glass wall? |
Nope, it was why didn't the explosives went off like they were supposed to. |
Faulty wiring what else thats why the guy is under the computer trying to "jump start the explosives"
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Page 754 of 1492 |
All times are GMT + 1 Hour |
