Tonight is the last night I can see The Cabin in the Woods at the theater, but it's a 10:00 showing and I'm not sure I can comfortably sit in a theater chair for a couple of hours. Darn it, I wanted to see it again before it ran its course!
You've got my support. Just think of me as...as your... You know, I'm searching for 'supportive things' and I'm coming up all bras.
Xander ,'Empty Places'
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Matt the Bruins fan - May 17, 2012 8:05:21 am PDT #20380 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Tom Scola - May 18, 2012 10:50:13 am PDT #20381 of 30000
hwæt
So will The Avengers outgross Battleship this weekend?
tommyrot - May 18, 2012 10:59:04 am PDT #20382 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Good question!
Battleship outgrossed Titanic 3-D in the UK, FWIW.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 18, 2012 3:48:45 pm PDT #20383 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh I hope so. I want it to rake in a steady couple of hundred million a week until it hits the magic $3 billion mark.
Frankenbuddha - May 18, 2012 6:20:19 pm PDT #20384 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I saw Cabin in the Woods today. THAT was a lot of fun. I was a bit spoiled, but it was very hard to avoid reading certain things about. I would have loved to have seen it completely unaware (like not even a trailer, which the ones I saw gave some of the game away).
Was I the only one who kept thinking of the five victims to be as Tributes? Because some of this really struck me as being very Hunger Games-ish thematically, although miles away tonally. I'm not so sure now if Joss would have been a good choice for Hunger Games; I know he can do grim, bleak and dark, but he does also need a certain amount of humor in there somewhere. Who knows?
Also, while I pretty much knew what Bradley Whitford's fate was going to be once he started talking about Mermen (I knew going in that all hell breaks loose at the end, although not that at the very end it was quite that literal) his pitch-perfect delivery of "Oh COME on!" really sold the moment.
Finally, does anyone know if that was Sigourney's voice that Marty kept hearing in the cabin? I didn't recognize it at as her, but I did recognize her as soon as I heard the voice in the facilities.
Polter-Cow - May 18, 2012 9:16:51 pm PDT #20385 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
FILM CRIT HULK REVIEW AVENGERS. If you can get past the CAPSLOCK, it's a really good review, and he makes the exact point I did about the cathartic circling power shot.
Polter-Cow - May 18, 2012 9:59:19 pm PDT #20386 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So will The Avengers outgross Battleship this weekend?
1. Marvel’s The Avengers (Disney) Week 3 [4,349 Runs] PG13
Friday $15.5M, Weekend $52.5M, Cume $454.5M
2. Battleship (Universal) NEW [3,690 Runs] PG13
Friday $9.5M, Weekend $26M
Steph L. - May 19, 2012 6:40:05 am PDT #20387 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
FILM CRIT HULK REVIEW AVENGERS. If you can get past the CAPSLOCK, it's a really good review, and he makes the exact point I did about the cathartic circling power shot.
Okay, so now I want to see it again.
Zenkitty - May 19, 2012 8:52:07 am PDT #20388 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
FILM CRIT HULK MAKE ZEN HULK HAPPY.
Polter-Cow - May 19, 2012 9:08:52 am PDT #20389 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I like the point he makes about how Joss deliberately sacrificed narrative propulsion and made the Chitauri kind of lame in order to make a character-focused movie. I mean, I think you can make a character-focused movie with narrative propulsion, but it's a little harder when you have this many characters to focus on. I also like the insight about Loki. Funnily enough, I saw another review that says Loki is an ineffectual villain, and that's a PLUS, but Film Crit Hulk notes that Loki is actually the one who brings the Avengers together, not just in general (he is the catalyst for their calling) but specifically, in his interactions with each member.