★★
It’s time for Chris Hemsworth to get a new agent. I'd heard a lot about the meta- aspects of Cabin in the Woods, and I went into it with far higher expectations than were justified.
It’s time for Chris Hemsworth to get a new agent. I'd heard a lot about the meta- aspects of Cabin in the Woods, and I went into it with far higher expectations than were justified.
Cabin is another serial-slashing film, only
this time with an external frame of people manipulating the story and
effects. We've this same convention
recently in The Hunger Games, and Cabin in the Woods doesn't fall far from the tree
of The Matrix, Inception or even The Truman Show. The one newish element here is that it turns out
Evil is real and inhabits the frame, but that feels more like an embellishment of an idea that's fairly current rather than a new idea in itself.
I'm surprised that anyone thought Cabin in the Woods was
original or, for that matter, interesting.
Once I figured out what the middle-aged bureaucrats were doing, about
half way through, it wasn't hard to see where the rest of the film was
going. And I'd been there before.....with
the same cardboard characters.
