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[shadowkat]

YES! Finally, a reviewer totally captures what I felt about the film Cabin in the Woods. This review by abigail nussbaum in "Asking the Wrong Questions" explains in perfect detail all my issues with Cabin in the Woods and why I was underwhelmed by it:

http://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2012/04/cabin-in-woods.html

Don't you love it when someone else perfectly articulates your half-formed thoughts? I tried to write a review explaining it - but she does it better. And I agree, the spoilery twist, revealed at the outset and in the trailers, doesn't help the movie.

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[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

**Warning! Spoilers!!*** (figured I'd put that in, just in case someone who hasn't seen the move reads this.)

A very good review! Now, I have to say that I haven't actually seen the movie. I really can't handle gore, so I went for the compromise and bought the novelization... which was apparently spot on for the movie. And yeah, there were definitely moments in the story that would have been twists if they hadn't been rather blatantly spoiled in the promos (like seeing Marty and Dana in the elevator, since that meant he wasn't killed when he was dragged underground). And having read the book? I'm VERY glad I didn't break down and go see it in theaters. If it was anything like the book, the movie had to have been quite the gorefest.

The reviewer put a finger on exactly what it was that didn't work for me in the story and how it couldn't have been made stronger and more interesting... making it the technicians, instead. Also, toward the end, there was that moment where Marty and Dana are in that control room and there's actually something labeled "Purge" that opens all of them cages? WHY?!?! Why would the base or whatever you want to call it even have such a thing? The mind, it boggles.