10/06/2012

Cabin in the Woods

First we are introduced to the game makers, which bares some resemblance to Hunger Games. At first, these two seem completely random to the plotline, but as our main characters arrive at the cabin, it becomes clear that these two office nerds are watching the five friends. Early in the movie it is established that our "virgin" has actually slept with her professor (scandalous!). Our blonde girl is our "whore", in my opinion for two reasons. First, she makes out with the fake wolf head. Second, she goes off to have sex with her boyfriend. She is not hiding the fact that this is why they are departing from the cabin. The "jock" is her boyfriend, and he is a textbook stereotype of an athlete. Then to be politically correct, they threw in what I thought was a half black male who was supposed to be the "scholar". I assume he received the label from the intimate moment that he shared with the "virgin" on the couch. Also, he wears glasses!! Last and most certainly least, we have the "fool".  He is the pothead who clearly is a fool since he doesn't understand the dangers of smoking.
To make a long story short, these five teenagers go into the basement and start looking around at all the weird antiques. In the meantime, the comical aspect of the movie is the game makers betting on which monster the kids are going to stumble upon first. Leave it to the "virgin" to pick the family of the living dead.
Let's get to the good part. The "whore" dies first, and we see her blood outline a figure of a girl in the stone as part of a ritual. Then, the "jock" dies, who moronically crashes into the force field (just like Peeta in the Hunger Games). Then the "scholar" dies, so we are left with the "fool" and the "virgin" . They find a secret elevator that leads them to all the other monsters. There are many references to other movies with some of these "monsters". In conclusion, the two of them end up where the stone pictures are outlined with their friends' blood. There is some random lady that appears and tells them that either the "fool" dies or the gods with destroy the earth. So here is the metaphor: we the audience are the gods, and we expect movies to be a certain way. The producers are the game makers. They fulfill our whims. If we are not happy with the ending, we are going to destroy the movie with criticism. At the end, I was so annoyed with the remaining two characters that I hoped that they both would die. Luckily, the world was destroyed (ie the movie). Oh and there was something about the Japanese have better movies, but who cares about them.

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