Half in the Bag: Cabin in the Woods and The Three Stooges |

http://twitter.com/kzap333 Andrew Coleman

Did they reshoot the intro or just re-color grade it? It looks different.

Bobbysnobby

do you not like things that are different?
- Mcfly
  
  That’s not what he was inferring, ass-hat.
  - Guest
    
    *Implying
    
    Bobbysnobby inferred Andrew Coleman did not like things that were different.
- http://twitter.com/kzap333 Andrew Coleman
  
  No, I think it looks good, just curious
  Would you rather I just posted “first”?

Guest

Wow, brilliant timing on this guys! I’m really starting to like the reviews of recently-released blockbusters.

Looking forward to hearing what you thought of Cabin.

http://twitter.com/DangerShoes Jeff Elwell

I liked the idea of Cabin in The Woods. Liked the story of the first 2/3rds of it, but the wrap up down below seemed like Joss’s wrap up of Buffy and Angel. There were some problems in the 2/3rds, ((spoilers))

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Towards the beginning you see a monitor with all the victims and it shows their heart rates, why did the Fool’s heart stop or did this huge tech savy corporation not notice he was still alive? Plus when they “escape” in the elevator/box, why didn’t these people know exactly what box that group of monsters were in? Plus why have all those boxes have access to the main lobby? Where did Ripley come from? When they entered the chamber no one else was in there. (((*brain explodes*))

Guest

I think that was part of the humor in it.

You have this big corporation run with military efficiency that inexplicably makes the dumbest decisions (like installing a “unleash all monsters into the base” button) and the pothead was poking fun at stoner films and the ridiculous logic of pot being the end-all be-all miracle cure for the hero.
ILDC

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Did the movie explain where the monsters came from? Were they from the gods? Did the corporation make them? Does the government know about this? (*brain also explodes*)
- Sleeper99999
  
  They mention that the various specimens were from the world as it used to be, and were “provided” by the Ancient Gods in some manner.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Kyle-Bartley/77100504 Kyle Bartley

I am so glad you like Firefly. In my opinion it was pretty much the perfect show, and every single person that I have introduced to it has become a fan. You guys should try Buffy though, at least the first several seasons (after she goes to college Spike is the only good thing about the show).

Mcfly

Don’t listen to this douche. One of my ex-girlfriend’s tried to make me watch that Buffy crap. It’s absolutely terrible. Avoid it at all costs. One of my testicles stopped working after I watched that show.

CDoherty

Loved it again guys.

http://twitter.com/screwbacca556 Screwie

Poor Plinkett.

Guest

This isn’t Gamestation 2.0 you lazy bums!

Ohgoatly

Can anyone confirm that there are no Cabin in the Woods spoilers in the review? I want to be completely clueless about the film’s content.

Stephen Grillo

Before the SPOILERS Jay gives a time to skip to for you to avoid them, just watch and enjoy!
http://twitter.com/Destraudo James Gammell

There are huge spoilers.
Will

but they warn you before they talk about the ending

http://twitter.com/kennyhotts Kenny Hotts

Still the best three stooges review!

http://www.ruthlessreviews.com/12740/the-three-stooges-2/

Jcox2820

How can you like this when you hate Baby’s Day Out so much?

ILDC

Plinkett did.
- Jcox2820
  
  Point.

Toni Anttila

SPOILERS FOR CABIN IN THE WOODS

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As you rightly say, taken as it is, the movie doesn’t make a lick of sense. But as I understood it the movie is about horror movies, why we watch them and why we need them. And watching the movie as an allegory / metaphor (I haven’t really thought it through yet) the ancient gods are the audience who watches horror movies and watched the ancient human sacrifices. For some reason we need to see these human sacrifices and they need to have necessary elements (tits) to enjoy them? I don’t know. Fun movie never the less.

ILDC

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Did the staff doing things like making bets say anything about the filmmakers?

Chucky’s Chicken

My friends loved Cabin, and I enjoyed it too but I felt like there as something that kind of bothered me about it. The review made me realize what exactly I didn’t like. Thanks for that.

Jawsphobia

Did you ever see the James Frawley TV biopic The Three Stooges which Mel Gibson produced? Michael Chiklis from The Shield played Curley. It is interesting but also gets into the sadder aspects of their lives.

Jawsphobia

Typo. Curly.

Colmmulholand

Why did they even have the chicken eating scene? Is it linked with one of the movies some how?

aisbauer

General whore-ish product placement / Product placement for fast food or restaurant chain

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=26711684 Robert Tyler Sturtzen

DRAMA!

Jim Thorpe

it is extremely funny how obvious it is that the chunky’s chicken box is a Popeye’s box, guys.

Stephen Grillo

You FUCKS made me go to some shit webzone…..GENIUS!

http://www.thejhohcableshow.com/trollpolice/ Jhoh Cable

Delightful. :3

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=684511406 Paul McConnochie

Jay sounds just like Steve Buscemi.

EddyGordo

I LOLed at the first “review”

zaprowsdower

The beer they’re drinking at the beginning is the same brand they used to simulate Plinkett pissing on the Phantom Menace VHS tape in the Episode III review. I’m such a Red Letter Media fan boy. I fucking hate my life.

that feel, i know it

i know that feel, bro
- Sgt. Pepper
  
  WHY CAN’T I HOLD ALL THESE FEELS
President Rex

They are drinking Spotted Cow from New Glarus Brewery, which is locally brewed in Wisconsin (althought it is distributed so widely in the state that it is arguably no longer a microbrew).
- http://www.tap-start.com/ Mirkwood
  
  New Glarus Brewery is the beeeest

http://twitter.com/AWBiggs Andrew Biggs

Best the cliffhanger not lead to the end of these, otherwise I storm the plinkett palace and I bring my sad face with me…

http://www.facebook.com/sddeacon Samuel Deacon

CHUNKYSCHICKEN.CORN

Qbertmariostarfox

I always thought that the Stooges were like the Monkeys, only instead of ripping off the Beatles they were ripping of the Marx brothers.

Stephen Grillo

There is actually a chunkychicken web site as well as chunkyschicken, which is a much nicer webzone but has no picture of Mike.

Guest

To be honest I didn’t like HITB at first, but now I really look forward to them. Perhaps even more than P. Reviews! OMG, I said it. *crying*

For real yo’s, I love HITB.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Rix/100000432643045 Michael Rix

I would forgive the unfunny slapstick if it didn’t involve religion.

Malchik

Really? I was hopping Moe would ram a crucifix up Larry’s ass while Curly shat all over the Eucharist, and whipped with the Gospel of John.

Wolfsigma

Don’t think you can explain cabin in the woods against a real world. Thats because Cabin in the woods is trying to explain why a horror movies even DO exist. WHy are they so formulaic? Cause thats what some weird god wants. Why does every culture have its own “shtick” horror genre? Cause some weird god wants it. Why all the horrible monsters? Cause some old god made them.

http://twitter.com/El_Mufro Chris McFarlane

I love Half In The Bag, but I always feel bad when you wreck the place lol.

Guest

Obviously Mike is Moe, Jay is Larry, and what’s his face is the other one.

Guest

Can’t believe they left out the Kate Upton bit.

Joseph RedBlue

God damn it. I’m craving some popeyes now you bastards.

Big Dumb American

You magnificent bastards have done it again. Thank you for being so goddamn good at making entertaining movie critiques.

fred astaire vacuuming

>ruining the three stooges is not something to get angry about. ruining star wars, child slavery, these things you should get angry about

genius! hahahahahahaha-
…. you-you’re kidding, right?

Doc Brimley

Yeah, it’s a pretty clear self-referential jab at the fact that RLM got famous for it’s Star Wars reviews.
- Matthew Phillip Chesterwood
  
  I think he was wondering if they were serious about child slavery. They were not.
  - Note
    
    went for the low hanging fruit there didn’t you

I heart pizza rolls

I actually skipped to 13:11, Thanks for the alert.

http://twitter.com/AnnPeek Ann Peek

Whore machine.

http://twitter.com/SuperSunshine21 ダニ　ダール

“whore machine”

hockeytemper

Did I detect a touch of The Long Walk Home in Rich’s exit before the cliffhanger?

Khift

I am disappointed that you guys didn’t register chunkyschicken.com and put some nonsense in there. Would’ve been humorous.

Mauricio

Fuck
i actually went to http://www.chunkychicken.com.
Weird part of the internet indeed

Jegsimmons

i was laughing my ass off at three stooges. maby because ive always was a stooge fan.

http://www.facebook.com/Dark.Reaper.and.Galactimus.Zero Marvin Choi

So, it’s basically Cube: Zero but less retarded?

Gghjkliog

for cabin in the woods i got the impression they took a fair bit from ‘stay tuned’ where they set up the tv station to simply not only appease satan but entertain him as well

http://twitter.com/ColeScorpio Cole Scorpio

So wait… Three Stooges wasn’t terrible? Huh.

MesZoe

WoW! Mike and Jay’s critiques have gotten more forgiving of movies…. Ever since Jack and Jill traumatized them so much.

Daggoth

I know, its like I can see how the mental scars of Jack and Jill have affected them in some way… in a way where they appreciate films a lot more now, and don’t take anything for granted…

I guess that’s what happens when you watch a movie that’s so horrific that it manages to win every single razzie award nomination there is… it becomes a curse that destroys your mind, and your faith in film integrity forever…
- Zero_miles_per_hour
  
  It’s possible, didn’t Mike say in that review that he suddenly has a huge appreciation for Michael Bay, and not even jokingly?

Ahnult

**SPOILER ALERT FOR CABIN IN THE WOODS**

Jay & Mike, the ‘Gods’ were supposed to represent us, the audience. Again and again, we plunk down cash to see these types of movies, filled with stock characters, cliche situations and a standard repertoire of villains. We demand these characters die in entertaining ways and each country has their own unique sacrifices because audiences around the world expect different cliches in their horror films. The two behind-the-scenes guys were the filmmakers, engineering the characters’ fates for the bloodthirsty horror audience.

Guest

Just because it works on a metaphorical level doesn’t change the fact that it doesn’t make sense on a logical narrative sense.

Deak Thefreak

Cabin in the Woods is terrible. So terrible, I don’t think I will ever go see a movie in a theater again.

Fuck movies. All of them.

Deak Thefreak

And the ending was not a surprise. IT WAS GIVEN AWAY IN THE OPENING IMAGES OF THE MOVIE.

Fuck movies. All of them.
Guest

You are what’s wrong with the Internet.
- Deak Thefreak
  
  Cabin in the Woods is what’s wrong with everybody and everything. It was just bad. The zombie redneck pain family was just boring. But then, I guess they were kind of supposed to be since the movie wasn’t about them. The teenagers were boring, even when we were told they were starting to conform more to their stereotypes because they weren’t able to show it very well. But then, the movie wasn’t really about them, either. Nor was it about the NASA control room thing. It was about… an unoriginal take at deconstructing the horror genre. Maybe I’m just sick of deconstructions of genre films because there is little to say and that little has already been said. This sort of thing is a sign that the summer blockbuster genres are starting to cannibalize themselves because they are completely out of new ideas. And the human sacrifice angle is not a new idea. It’s not even a spoiler. it was already used in an episode of South Park. When you can say your big reveal was used in an episode of South Park, you need to go even further. This movie did not.

B.R.Olvera

maybe them being too forgiving is a late April fools joke…

Boo

Or maybe they just didn’t think it was that terrible. You know, like they clearly explain in the episode

Mornegroth

Appreciated the spoiler heads up.

Dwfdsf

The Three Stooges are the Fathers of comedy and the fact that you think Star Wars can even be compared to it just shows you guys are fags.

Philo

SPOILER ZONE FOR CABIN IN THE WOODS

They totally explained the sacrifice thing. they explained that everyone had to suffer. this is why the virgin’s death was optional, because she simply needed to suffer and experience all of these horrible things so that her innocence was basically taken away through the process.

I think it’s only that one center had to succeed the sacrifice, as they showed” fail” running across everyone’s screen, because only americans were able to complete the sacrifice ritual.

FinishYourNewMovie

I just want to say how awesome your dance around spoilers was in your review! The Movie (Cabin in the Woods) seems to be great and I can’t wait to see it myself.

And since I’m drunk out of my mind –> Thanks for making me crave fried chicken at 3 am… in Germany…..assholes!

Zero_miles_per_hour

If you want to see a real modern version of The Three Stooges by the Farrellys, you should see Dumb & Dumber which did this perfectly, with Jim Carrey playing a composite of Curly and Moe, and Jeff Daniels playing an analogue of Larry.

Kyle P Wagner

You guys crack me up. That suggestion for a Three Stooges movie called “The Three Stooges” were they are just dumbasses in current day–hilarious.

Tommy_Wiseau

They did.

I less than 3 Plato

Nice episode!

guest

Plinkett forgot to do his voice at the end scene, fire him!

Ashhaas

So, has Rich just given up on trying to act or sound like the Plinkett character anymore? I’m not offended or disappointed since the whole point for me is the superb movie reviews. I’m just curious.

Meszoe

Rich is Plinkett on Screen, … Who is Plinkett on the Uber-Reviews? Eh, Just go with it dude.

death

anyone else watch the entire 10 minute chunky chicken advert after this video lol

Fat Alf

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I didn’t think it really mattered that the background story didn’t make too much sense, in fact I think it was kind of the point. If the Elder Gods represent the Horror Audience and the ‘puppeteers’ are the movie studio then the fact it makes no sense is part of the ongoing criticism, the Elder Gods/Audience doesn’t really care for smart story telling or originality, every time the plot deviates from the norm the Elder Gods/Audience get angry and the address the issue of it not making sense with the “Virgin doesn’t matter” and “I don’t think Curt has a cousin” lines at the end, the Elder Gods/Audience isn’t specific when it comes to the plot, but knows exactly what it wants when it comes to gore and killing and any originality and deviance from this is met with an angry reaction from them, this is why the facility was filled with all the recognisable, mass-marketed, stock monsters, the Elder Gods/Audience didn’t want anything new and the Puppeteers/Studio knows that.
All in all, the Puppeteers/Studio acts on the desires of the Elder Gods/Audience, if they don’t want original Horror movies, then the Puppeteers/Studio has to make the same dumb shit over and over again or the Elder Gods/Audience gets angry.

Pete

I agree that the movie works as a satire of the realities of the film industry when it comes to horror movie convention and audience expectation etc. I also think it could be read more generally to reflect the peculiar and frustrating basic human demand/need for human sacrifice in our stories. As you said the details don’t need to add up exactly because they are secondary and just a means to get us to the blood. We need to see people suffer first. All the better if it is punishment for some transgression, but contriving the circumstance for the choices characters make and the rules they break is almost out of embarrassment for having this primary bloodlust. We need to see the suffering but it makes us feel guilty, so we construct a shoddy foundation for it.

Take the “Saw” movies (I’ve seen only a couple), there we are meant to swallow that the main villain is doing all of this psychopathic torture/murder from the moral high ground. That a victim in that bleak scenario somehow deserves to be maimed and tortured because he put himself there by, say, not spending enough time with his kids or having a drug problem is of course ridiculous (It makes me wish there was an Ultimate Moralizing Torturer who would kidnap and torture moralizing torturers for the REAL transgression that is torture – like a horror movie villain Dexter who only kidnaps and tortures other horror movie villains – FREE IDEA).
I think that you could also equate the repeated viewings of the grizzly images of horror films/ human sacrifice as a therapeutic release. And the fear of stopping, of the ancient gods rising, is the fear of what we would do or become if we closed the valve on our steady intravenous drip of suffering. The theory that violent stories give us a benign release for our violent urges, and that without release we risk exploding outbursts of real violence isn’t new. I don’t particularly agree with this theory, mostly because human brains are not hydraulic pumps that have pressures and flow rates as the analogy implies, but it is certainly a common idea and I think it could meaningfully be applied to the film.

Tone

Remember the Jack and Jill review where you called Adam Sandler a Fraud for using product placement? Was that an ironic joke – was it intentionally hypocritical? Who wants a pizza roll?

boo

You don’t know what product placement is or how it works, do you? Idiot.
Darkwing Duck

Having an ad play before or after a video is not the same thing as product placement. Merely mentioning a product is not always the same thing as product placement either. Maybe you shouldn’t attempt to insult people when you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.
Zero_miles_per_hour

I believe that they called him a fraud because he raised lots of money to make a movie, but then he just cranked out the cheapest movie possible and gave the rest to himself and his friends. Product placement was involved, but not in the way you seem to think.

Jonny

Praising The Three Stooges for not toning down it’s cartoony violence in a live-action movie.
I’m pretty sure this is exactly what you bashed Baby’s Day Out for in the Plinkett Review.

Quake

lol, if you don’t realize that their baby’s day out is a joke review then i pity you.
Jessica Sanchez

It’s all about context, though. The Three Stooges are three guys who go around fumbling things up and their comedy style is vastly different (albeit cartoony) to what they did in Baby’s Day Out.
Zero_miles_per_hour

The Three Stooges aren’t cartoony exactly, since they aren’t inspired by cartoons, unlike Baby’s Day Out. Plus in that review Plinkett complains of Baby’s Day Out attempting something like The Three Stooges, but failing because they didn’t use professional comedy actors.

Blah

just posting to say I like your vids, thanks!

http://www.facebook.com/shawndriscoll Shawn Driscoll

Just watched your 10-minute long Chunky’s Chicken video. I can die happy now.

Ass

i want some chicken NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!

Ldigiac

i hope fake plinkett kicks your freeloading pieces of shits out!!!

Guest

Look again.

Sam Ciralu

Ok. So

Sam Ciralu

Is the Chicken commercial a big clue for the new Plinkett review?… hope so.

Fakeemail87

I love Half in the Bag, and Jay is better then Sliced bread. (as long as he’s shaved)

Mark Smith

They look too healthy in this episode. They need to be more sweaty and bloated.

http://profile.yahoo.com/P464EUBLHGM4NJF4TYADCUGDNM catoblepa

Here’s the Chunky’s Chiken theme…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjKvelfaE9A&feature=related

Can you believe they made an entire record with this stuff?

Chrisrolla117

I thought the same thing after seeing Cabin in the Woods The beginning reminded me a lot of rubber only funnier….

http://twitter.com/amanandroid Ann McCarthy

I just find all your voices so comforting

Bobo

Fuck you if you didn’t like The Three Stooges. Its low brow slapstick and its funny. The theater was packed with all sorts of demographics and EVERYONE was laughing the whole way through. Saying horseshit like “that type of humor is not relevant in 2012″ is asinine. Slapstick is timeless, its YOU who have become a jaded motherfucker that can’t see it for what it is. What is “relevant in 2012″ anyways? Dick jokes and saying fuck?

Fuck you, Bobo

Yeah! Fuck them for having a different taste in comedy than you! How dare people not all like the same thing!!!
Kucky

lol
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Hutchins/1178231477 Chris Hutchins

Lighten up, Francis.

patrick mccormick

Plinckett is suddenly quite lucid, apparently Jay & Mike have been pulling this fast one on him quite visibly, and only now he suddenly became aware of it. So does this mean that Plinckett is back on his meds, off his meds, or on a different med regiment? With regards to the latter, it’s possible his doctor prescribed him something different (i.e., something that WORKS, in a clinical sense that is), and so it would behoove Jay & Mike to get Plinckett back onto whatever it was that he was taking, back when he was hiring prostitutes and renting out his living room as a dance club.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Hutchins/1178231477 Chris Hutchins

I’m glad you guys enjoyed Cabin in the Woods. I saw it yesterday and loved the hell out of it. My thoughts….

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If we take it from the standpoint that the evil Gods don’t represent the audience:

The Director (Sigourney) makes it clear that there are more than one evil God. So I came away interpreting that each God desired its sacrifice in its own way. The facility under the cabin had one God to appease while other facilities like Japan were assigned another, with their own specific instructions on how to do it. And I believe that the reasons for the monsters is because the God’s agreed to withhold their wrath under the conditions that the sacrifices are carried out by their minions. And they make it clear that the victims have to unwittingly choose their minion. Now, we see that other facilities all failed when the victims escaped their fate, so it all came down to this one facility and its two orchestrators to keep the human race from total destruction. So I guess that would mean as long as one God is appeased, all is well.

Others could say my interpretation is ridiculous, but hey…it’s just one interpretation and either way it’s fun to discuss this movie!

It wasn’t until today that I started engaging in conversations about the Gods representing we, the audience. So I have other interpretations going down that whole avenue but haven’t pieced it all together in my head yet.

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I haven’t smiled this big in a horror movie in a long time. There was so much insanity in the final act that I need to watch it again, and then buy it on blu ray so I can pause it and drink it all in.

http://profiles.google.com/benmzion Ben Zion

I liked Cabin a lot. I understand the objections, but this is the only kind of movie Whedon can make well, so I am glad he did it this way. As for the “why didn’t they” questions: I think the movie did a pretty good job of establishing how lax the puppeteers had become in their bleached office setting. Who’s to say they don’t just suck at their jobs?

Sweetestsadist

You guys gotta put the Chunky’s Chicken song on Itunes. You have one buyer here. I’ll buy it twice if you let us download a full ten minutes of the song.

Malchik

The whole song is on their Blip if that matters.

http://www.facebook.com/welcometothehat Joshan Smith

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I’m on the side of how the Elder Gods represent us. The gods are the audience, the director is the big movie producer and the heads of the horror are the directors. We, the people who go see horror movies, ask for these archetypes and typical scenarios. The only thing we don’t ask for is the creature. We want a new fun creature every time, but we want everything else to be the same old same old. We are also indifferent on whether or not the virgin lives or die. We just wanna see her suffer. We also want the archetypes to be of a certain race and look and such thus the reason why they have to change the personality of all of the teenagers. We want certain things and the director and movie producer provides it for us.

Also, different countries and cultures do horror movies different than how we do it. Of course we, Americans, wouldn’t get what stereotypes the Japanese enjoy in their horror movies.
————–SPOILERS————————————–Basically, it is a metanarrative. I guess (I really liked the movie so I kinda disagree with y’all in some aspects) you can say watching the movie and then doing some deep analysis on it, things may not understand. I guess. I really didn’t see what you guys see. But if you look at it with the fact that everything is largely metaphorical and a satire on how we see movies, it is much more than two guys came up with this idea while they were high…. Which I would assume that’s how it happened. But hey! It works for me.

Also, I agree that is wavered between comedy and horror. I ignored the fact that it was horror or comedy. It was just a suspense or thriller with lots of comedic moments throughout.Since you couldn’t review this movie properly with telling all the major parts of the story, I really hope you guys consider making a Plinkett Review so I can see the parts that you guys believe didn’t make sense. I understand if you don’t I just hope you will.

http://www.facebook.com/welcometothehat Joshan Smith

Well, how didn’t it make sense then? Please explain how.

http://www.facebook.com/welcometothehat Joshan Smith

One, if you see it metaphorically, you don’t need to know about all the little details like where the monsters came from and blah. It is more about satirizing us.

Ricky

Very cool spoiler tag, thanks for that.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=606185187 تناسلی من مکیدن آلت

Both of your cheeks are a lot rosier than usual.

Did you pop off in each other’s mouths before filming this episode?

http://www.redlettermedia.com/ Mike Stoklasa

Yes. YES. YESSSSS
- Oakstave
  
  I don’t think it’s possible to actually insult you Mike.

Obrighm

I laughed so hard at that chunkys chicken website. Had to cover my eyes so I couldn’t look at it anymore.

http://twitter.com/Cowmanik Ian

Oh I was afraid it was an “experimental adult video” site.

DR

i can’t believe i’m that big of a nerd that i would actually type in chunkyschicken.com to see if it really exists…lo and behold u’ve created a hilarious website!

Yonkie

Also, notice the subtle things, like:

POWDERED SUGAR PIES…………………………. $4.99/each or 4 for $35.00

http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Kz/100000140719549 Michael Kz

The Three Stooges seems like the most inoffensive, offensive, yet not too bad, movie to ever exist. No one asked for it. No one likes it. No one hates it. It’s just there.

Doug

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The way I see it, the whole “ancient god” plot twist was designed to bring every horror movie under a sort of Cthulu/HP Lovecraft mythos. Humans made a pact with these gods, being given free reign over the earth in exchange for allowing concentrated manifestations of the gods’ power (the monsters) to take human sacrifices. I think they made it clear every country was trying to see who could appease the gods first, since they only need one ritual. However, every other country failed, so it was dependent on America.

Doug

Thats from a narrative perspective, putting aside the obvious metafictional/ real world parallels Joshan pointed out below.

http://www.facebook.com/sed1er Seid Pepic

you guys are delving way too deep into the plot of cabin in the woods. the movie is hilarious and the plot is ridiculous. I enjoyed it a lot and it worked for me. it just clicked. it was great.

Dilo

Don’t delve into a plot of a movie? Are you aware that you are watching Half in the Bag?
- http://www.facebook.com/sed1er Seid Pepic
  
  yeah but its my first time watching this so not sure what that’s suppose to mean.

http://www.facebook.com/dustin.hall1 Dustin Hall

On Cabin in the Woods and its early reveal; I was at Wondercon and got to watch the film on a panel with Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard in attendance and asked them that very question. Whedon’s response, “If you show your hand early, it forces you to play with new cards.” I gathered that they intentionally broke the typical screenplay structure in order to find new ways to keep the movie entertaining, in this case, building the characters of the people running the show, and having them comment on the action in the cabin. I really enjoyed the movie, and though I’d be curious to see how it would play out with a slower reveal, I respected the answer.

Rorudo

I’m just incredibly jealous you got to watch the movie on a panel with Whedon and Goddard.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Hutchins/1178231477 Chris Hutchins

Yeah, that really was a good answer to a good question.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=53400132 Samuel Bair

I don’t have a nearby Chunky’s Chicken here in Cleveland, but my boss (who’s from D.C.) said it’s basically the most delicious fried chicken ever.

Daggoth

I don’t understand anything about Chunky’s Chicken, or why it exists, or why there is a webzone for it, or why they are eating Chunky’s Chicken, or what it is, or what it means, or how I stand to benefit spiritually, psychically, intellectually, computationally, phonetically, prophetically or physically from it, or why there is a ten minute long video of chicken’s clucking tunes, or why it costs $72 for 24 piece chicken basket with cole slaw, mash potatoes, xxxtra thick gravy and 4 powdered sugar pies…

Alls I knows is…

“Here at Chunky’s Chicken, we use only the finest pieces of Z grade free-range battery farm raised chicken from Nenjiang. Don’t worry, we make sure that all our cages are hand tailored small enough to meet every one of our chicken’s personal needs, for the tastiest results. Because, here at Chunky’s Chicken, we believe that the cage seals in the flavor! Then, each chicken is lovingly mechanically separated in our mass sluicing vats with love, mixed to taste with the finest textured animal paste byproduct, a special dash of delicious chicken flavoring #14-a and our very own secret blend of chicken, herbs, spices and ammonia. Then, we ship every morsel to one of our fabulous locations!”

Hander87

“Skip to this time code to skip spoilers”

LOVE you!

Guy in the Hat

It’s too bad I could see the Popeye’s logo on the back of the box, kinda ruins the joke a little for me, but otherwise I loved it.

http://twitter.com/MajorStupido Major Stupido

I hope they’re gonna watch “LOL” looks like a totally AWESOME movie (if you are into S&M)

thegregster101

another great ep. keep up the good work!

Zanaderp

My theory is that the gods want the sacrifices to be viewed by as many humans as possible. Since public sacrifices are no longer accepted by society, the subjects have to be killed in a way that is acceptable for the public to watch ie. dressed up to look like fiction.

hugebone

Something tells me they aren’t really drinking beer…

anonymys

Fucking cliffhangers

Some internet asshole.

Three Stooges: I think it’s totally a movie you watch and constantly think about sending the film back in time to a 1930-40s audience, otherwise a drop-in-the-bucket comedy.

Rex Feral

FIRST!

guest

Allow me to blow your minds with the true nature of the Earth Gods. All who view horror movies are “the gods”. We require the blood of teenagers for our entertainment. Look inside yourselves, you know I’m right.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Hutchins/1178231477 Chris Hutchins

It’s a little difficult to blow our minds when that same metaphor has been analyzed countless times by so many others since opening day, oh messiah of the clueless masses.
guest

“Audience As Participant” in horror is at least as old as Peeping Tom (1960). Pardon me if my mind isn’t blown.

AdamCoates

I was going to write that I appreciated the spoiler alert and especially displaying the timecode to skip too… but then before commenting I scroll down and the third comment I see is about what I assume the spoilers were. Congratulations “Zanaderp”…

Blah

The metaphor is clear. But this isn’t some experimental film. It’s a linear story, and what works as metaphor fails as a logistical narrative.

Guest

hahah, great episode. had me laughing out loud several times.

sweetooth0

I am admittedly a little shocked that you guys failed to understand the pretty clear metaphor this entire movie was based around…

blah

Every film geek with access to IMDB is talking about this movie as metaphor because it’s easier than coming up with their own opinion. Yes, the metaphor that the “gods” are the “audience” is obvious. But this isn’t El Topo. It’s not an experimental film. It’s a linear narrative, and just because something works on a metaphorical level doesn’t excuse the fact that it makes zero sense on a logistical narrative level.
- Sy Burg
  
  Every other film geek is making your reply but saying logical instead of logistical.

Daniel Yowell

I could care less about what abstract aspects to the film they missed. They said they liked THE HUNGER GAMES and were “meh” about THE CABIN IN THE WOODS. what the crap.

tim b

this has to be the worst movie i have EVER seen in my life, hunger games was one of the better. even after seeing all of the explanations for why this is supposedly a good movie im less than impressed. so terrible

me

I think its about time we have a plinket review dont ya think.

Guest

That was the best commercial for fried chicken I have ever witnessed! So hungry now…

I liked the stooges when I was 5, didn’t like them at 15, and now I love them 25.

Hate when they leave stuff out from the trailer! Especially that part! It’s not that the part should’ve been in the movie, it’s that they used it to advertise to you, saying: this part will be in the movie, thought you could take that for granted.

Skipped to 13:11, I’ll redbox it.

Spaulding

dumb and dumber bitch

Luke

The stooges were violent for their time. That is why people who like the three stooges were excited when johnny knoxville was going to be in it. It probably would have sucked shit but at least it wouldn’t be the garbage that got released. Nobody wanted this kind of shit. The evolution of the three stooges is Jackass. A respectful three stooges remake would have updated the act.

Also one of the main appeals of the three stooges is that all their tricks were actually quite violent and often not fake (talking about the poking in the eyes and hitting). See Curly and Moe were brothers and if you have brothers, and understand the sort of violence that goes on, then you probably have a deeper appreciation for the stooges.
Being harshly critical of a work of art is a choice, and you guys have recently chosen to not be harsh, why?

Shemp

I don’t think a “respectful” Three Stooges movie would have updated it into Jackass. That is not necessarily the evolution of slaptick. It’s more like reality television, which is tv turning back into monkeys and losing control of the airwaves to superintelligent cockroaches with guns that shoot globs of slime at futuristic barbarians who ride around on slug horses and use sorcery to fight tyrannical beings bent on scavenging the remains of civilization for their own nefarious visions of life on the new shattered Earth and the Statue of Liberty is on a beach.
- Luke
  
  Respectful as it could have been, i’m with the guys that the slapstick of the three stooges does not work in modern society. I understand that your definition of respectful is probably different and I am absolutely not the authority on The stooges.
  
  And I think you have something there with reality television being the new dominant “slapstick” of today, because what is slapstick but laughing at humans being violent with each other? Reality TV being somewhat divergent because it is mostly based on verbal violence. I think a few years ago, maybe mid 90s to mid 00′s Jackass was more popular and can be said was the dominant slapstick act, it made sense to do the three stooges in a similar way. Also you got me thinking that a reality tv three stooges would have been pretty fucking interesting.
  
  I know that many view slapstick comedy as pretty stupid, and that is a valid viewpoint for a person to have.
  - Shemp
    
    I meant Jackass is more like reality television than like slapstick. Laughing at real violence is different from laughing at mock violence, even if it is voluntarily risked or self-inflicted.. The “verbal violence” of reality tv is scripted anyway, I heard from a very reliable source.
    Reality Three Stooges wouldn’t have worked. It would have created awkward silences among the people watching it. Even people who don’t find slapstick stupid would change the channel. I think it’s important to remember that for much of the 90s and 00s, few professional entertainers knew what the fuck they were doing, or at least it seems that way to an old fart like me.
    - Luke
      
      “Also one of the main appeals of the three stooges is that all their tricks were actually quite violent and often not fake (talking about the poking in the eyes and hitting). See Curly and Moe were brothers and if you have brothers, and understand the sort of violence that goes on, then you probably have a deeper appreciation for the stooges.”
    - Luke
      
      Jackass was scripted. The jokes they were doing were just bits they had written or thought up. Similar to sketch comedy.
    - Shemp
      
      No, not similar to sketch comedy, unless you mean someone can draw a funny sketch of himself riding a shopping cart down a hill. Is American Gladiators sketch comedy too? Maybe, since it’s become a minor cultural punchline.
    - Luke
      
      Do you understand what sketch comedy is? Do I really have to post the definition here? Do you need examples?
      Chappelle’s Show, SNL, Madtv, Mr. Show, etc.
      
      Jackass was largely improvised. Do you mean that improvisation makes something not sketch comedy? Do you consider Whose Line is it anyway to be a sketch comedy show? Be a little clearer in what you are saying.
    - Luke
      
      If you don’t understand why, a guy putting a toy car in his ass and then going to a proctologist and getting an x-ray and pretending to be surprised is sketch comedy then i don’t think i can explain it to you.
    - Shemp
      
      I’m not sure how many people I’m actually replying to, but for the record I still disagree with most if not all of what Luke’s said.
    - Luke
      
      this has been the same person the entire time. do you have an argument?
    - Shemp
      
      I got it the first time. I don’t believe it.
    - Luke
      
      watch any three stooges documentary. I suppose i do have more knowledge about them then you do. I do not mean that in an insulting way. Please research this if you are going to reply again. Moe usually maintained that the jokes were fake, but interviews with Curly and Larry tell otherwise. It is a part of their legacy that a lot of the small things were real because if they had been faked it would have looked shittier. Yes most of the time they poked above the eyes and they do have explanations for how they do it.
      
      Liking Jackass, The Three Stooges, and Reality TV does not make you a barbarian. The only reason it is funny is because it is fake or inconsequential. The jackass guys voluntarily did all their stunts, the stooges didnt show up to performances with bruises, and nobody feels sympathy for reality tv actors. In all these cases nobody is getting truly hurt (except possibly reality tv).
      
      I do not think the stooges would have had such a long career or be significant figures in history if they did unimaginative shit slapstick. That last statement is purely subjective.
    - Luke
      
      Actual hurt=Miscariage, death
      Slapstick= hitting, yelling, and dildo up ass.
      
      I do not think the kind of slap stick the stooges did works today, nor would I modern people to watch the actual stooges and enjoy it. I am just interested in them because I enjoyed them as a child and still do today.

Rob Thomas

Man you’re over thinking cabin in the woods in true nerd style!

Seen Spaceballs? What was with the spaceship Spaceball One? Why did it have a Circus in it? And a Mall? Was that really needed on a military craft? Did it have to be so long? And only have one radar dish to jam? Makes no sense to me.

Guest

That is the least apt comparison imaginable.

Rob Thomas

i wasn’t keen for 3 stooges til you mentioned all the violence

Bonkers

Hey Mike and Jay,

I saw the movie for a second time and I can tell you that a second viewing really helps fill in the cracks where your brain said “Whaaaat?” The pacing of the movie can be so fast at times that some helpful dialog either gets missed or misread if you haven’t seen it already. You both say you really liked it but Mike in particular had some minor logical problems with it. I’d bet you would like it even more a second time around.

Michael

Judging from the Chunky’s Chicken site, the next Plinkett Review is going to be:

- In The Mood (Based on the awesome Chunky’s theme)
- Rock-a-Doodle or some other GREAT chicken movie?

http://twitter.com/ShotnCut Brandon Bley

You can see Jay wanting to argue with Mike’s incomprehesible nitpicking and ‘meh’ response to Cabin in the Woods; I wish they’d be more contrary and argue a little; Mike was way off in his overall perspective with this review and Jay obviously loved the movie, like most of us did. I mean, Mike, really… don’t you get that most of Cabin is symbolic and metaphoric? It feels silly to even point out the the _____s represent us, the audience, because it’s ridiculously obvious. The wolf in “The Grey” was three times the size of a normal wolf, looked nothing like a real wolf, black as night and ect, obvioulsy represented death. Should we fault the makers of that film for making an unrealistic wolf?

Luke

Yeah I doubt that sincerely buddy. If someone (mike) is making a logical point, even if it contradicts your emotional feelings, then the opponent (jay) probably should have something logical to say if he/she is going to disagree. I know Jay enjoyed the movie, but I don’t think he had an argument against what Mike said.

Allegorical stories are supposed to be extremely difficult to pull off because they ask the creator to make them work *both* ways simultaneously and throughout. That is where the cabin in the woods fails. The excellent allegorical story exists at the same time as the shitty “real” one. They can’t just make up for each other, they are supposed to work together as perfectly as possible, otherwise you get a mix of good and bad.
If you actually give a shit about an the involved in-depth allegorical story then you ought not lower your standards just because they are uncommon.Sometimes things don’t need to be declared as altogether good or altogether bad (I would say many of the HITB reviews fall in this middle ground). The shit and awesome aspects of Cabin are present in the movie. I don’t know him personally, but I don’t get the feeling that Jay is a pussy. Although i doubt you know him either, so we both don’t really have a valid opinion. Please don’t get butt-hurt because I insulted Cabin, try to understand that things you love are not perfect. Also to be clear, I am not the authority on cinema, and if you disagree with some of the things I said, I would not have a problem hearing why.
- http://twitter.com/ShotnCut Brandon Bley
  
  Who called Jay a pussy?? You sound like a passive-aggressive, miserable little man. “Butt-hurt”.. what are you six? Please forgive me for stating an opinion that Mike and Jay should argue a bit, that it would make HITB more interesting. Is that really an unreasonable opinion?
  - Luke
    
    ”
    Mike’s incomprehesible nitpicking and ‘meh’ response to Cabin in the Woods”
    - Luke
      
      “If someone (mike) is making a logical point, even if it contradicts your emotional feelings, then the opponent (jay) probably should have something logical to say if he/she is going to disagree.” Enjoyment does not equal a valid argument.
    - http://twitter.com/ShotnCut Brandon Bley
      
      good point; it just seems as though Jay and Mike have that ‘great friends who’ve never passed the plane of arguing’ dynamic; like when you have a really good friend with whom you’ve never actually fought or argued with, so it’s really awkward when there’s a disagreement and neither person is sure of how far to carry it, if that makes sense. As far as Cabin goes, yes allegory is definitely best when set in a realistic context.
  - Luke
    
    I would much rather have a discussion about cabin with you, I did not intend to offend you. I had not realized that the term butt-hurt would set you off. Please read my point about an allegory needing to work both realistically (that is in the universe the story is set) as well as metaphorically (audience symbolizing old gods and whatnot).
    
    I apologize if i offended you in any way.

http://profile.yahoo.com/GCWENE7TBNLQ6FME2YZVMLEX7I david allen

Shutup and review a movie, you fornicators!!

Oakstave

Your reviews are more valuable to me than any other. When I listen to a HITB, I know whether or not I will enjoy a movie, one what level, and if not why.

Where were you when I spent $6.99 on The Immortals? We were transfixed by that fucking train wreck; and so help me God I watched the entire movie. It ruined an otherwise great night.

AnotherOakThing

You have only yourself to blame.
- Guest
  
  In OP’s defense, it’s hard to believe the same person who made the wonderful The Fall could’ve had anything to do with that terrible shitstorm of a movie called The Immortals. I thought at the very least it would make sweet love to my corneas with its gorgeous visuals. I was wrong.
  
  The Immortals raped my night at the movies, too. Live and learn.

Johnmatrixjmc

Thanks again for a very good and humorous movie review. You guys are natural geniuses. I alwyas like to tune into Red Letter Media. I recommend Red Letter Media to everyone.
[ COMEDY DISCLAIMER: Okay kids, now listen carefully. The above statement is filled with patronizing lies. In comedy it's okay to lie, but in real life that's NOT a good thing. So remember kids, don't lie and don't be patronizing, (we'll talk about what "patronizing" means later). Thank you. I have to go back now to watching that Jersey Shore thing again since slapstick and porn go so well together. ]

whosaywhat

Joss Whedon fan here, loved Cabin in the Woods. It was like watching a movie version of a Buffy the Vampire Episode.

Jppettis

You all probably get a ton of movie recommendations, but Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is a great, self-reflexive, horror movie about a documentary crew following a serial killer. It’s on Netflix, check it out.

http://www.facebook.com/Jimmie.Torp Jimmie Torp

Mr. Plinkett does not seem happy… I wonder what the hell is he’s problem
Now I have watched all Half in the bag, and I love it ! Thank’s for all the entertainment and for telling me about Samurai Cop, my friend and I laughed the entire movie …
From Jimmie Torp in Denmark…
Oh yeah and I will see you (Mike) when you come to Denmark the 27 of April

Murderin Murphy

Where the hell are the video game reviews???

Fuck movies!!

Thestarsmydestination

Whedon is a taleneted writer who needs to take a few years off to relax, get stoned, and come up with some new ideas, get sober, go take a pottery course, and get back to us when he’s got something really great to share. I suspect Avengers will force that opportunity upon him. He’ll never be forgotten, as his sycophant’s will never allow this to happen.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1310520931 Alex Crouch

I can’t wait to see him do Much To Do About Nothing. That’ll be really interesting to see.

Joe

Satire. Cabin in the Woods is just a satire. Stop trying to say it’s a metaphor, because that’s the dumbest thing you can say. The method used is not the important part. It’s clearly just another exploitation movie with a wink at the audience. It’s not even a subtle wink, it’s more like a club over the head and then a wink. It’s that loving moment after sex where the guy says, “don’t tell nobody or I’ll kill you”. Joss Whedon is flipping the bird at the movie industry, while at the same time caving to it. It was damn fun to watch, but all I could think of was how much of an Angel subplot it all was. Didn’t he already end a show with everyone dying and demons roam the earth?

If you want a much better example of an exploitation satire, go watch Death Race 2000. No, not the Statham remake where Hollywood stripped everything special away from the original and made it a shitstain. I’m talking about the brain-dead gorefest that’s so clever about its commentary that joe-public never realized it.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1310520931 Alex Crouch

I sort of half agree with you. Watching Firefly and Buffy and Dollhouse (and especially some commentaries), it’s evident that Joss really does love metaphors, but I’m not entirely sure whether this was one or not. I do agree that if anything, he was flipping the bird at the movie industry and that there’s not a non-sarcastic bone in this movie.
guest

theres an entire subgenre of meta slasher films, the scream films are probably some of the better known ones, but theres also New Nightmare, behind the mask, tucker and dale versus evil, theres some sarcastic humor in the evil dead sequels, so the premise isn’t really new, haven’t seen the cabin in the woods yet, just sayin’
- Joe
  
  Man Bites Dog – 1992. There’s nothing ‘new’ under the sun.

gekidami01

I havent even seen Cabin in the Woods, but just by the sound of it, the ‘ancient gods’ are us, the cinema goers who always want to see the same things in horror movies over and over. Like i said, i havent seen it, but it sounds like a critique of peoples love for old rehashed ideas.

Otherwise, i found the build up to the Stooges review a bit odd, it seemed like it was about the movie being full of whorish product placements… But nope.

Taterboob

I totally agree. I haven’t watched it either, but that’s what immediately popped in my head when they were talking about the gods demanding an entertaining sacrifice and there being a preset number of scenarios based on the victims’ decisions.

Cyvaris

Glad to know you guys are Firefly fans.

Tel Sutton

You completely sold The Three Stooges movie to me..! Sounds great,

ScottValline

My hopes for the cliffhanger is Plinkett takes his new lady on date…. to the basement… and watch a sci-fi movie,,, or something… I don’t know..

thirdcinema

The Three Stooges? Really?

http://twitter.com/darius_sinclair Darius Sinclair™

You guys… Pinkette is gonna find out pretty soon you guys can’t fix shit.

Klappstuhl

Cabin in the Woods ~ Scooby Doo

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1310520931 Alex Crouch

You fuckers created a website to sell that chunky’s chicken joke? Bahahaha Wow.

Guest

I seriously hope you’re joking.

guest

I think his names pronounced “yoss”

Devil_Dinosaur

Why do you think that? It’s not.

Kgradin77

I really liked the movie but weren’t the main themes done much better in the films The Wicker Man, and Funny Games?

Original Wicker man of course. With Funny Games either version is good.

bluelettermedia

peetsa roles!

Theecourier

You gentlemen should do The Raid: Redemption.

Darren_w1

I disagree with Mike. I like that they had the scientists and the facility from the start. If they didnt have those two storylines going simultaneously, then it would’ve just been a twist at the end of the Redneck Torture Zombie story arc, and that would’ve just been lame – like a Shyamalan type thing.

Resunas

Wow, I actually got a tortino’s pizza rolls commerical.

LifeInPictures

Hey guys, forget Plinkets VCR, fix Jays razor. He looks like the star of an Amish intervention.

http://creativejamie.com/ jamie

Guys, I love the show, but in all honesty, I could do without the Plinkett side stories. I’d rather just watch you guys review movies. I’d like to see the resolution of the cliff hanger be Plinkett retiring to Florida or something and leaving ya’ll the house.

Fuckyou

this show is a bigger scam than jack and jill

Guest

Care to elaborate? No. Oh right, that’s because you can’t. Thank Heavens the internet has allowed people to more freely complain for no apparent reason.
http://profile.yahoo.com/5J3XYIKXUZWYY5U25VZ3BLKI3Q Stacy

a scam that costs nothing

Guest

I laugh more watching Half In the Bag then when my girlfriend tells her rape story

Keep up the skits, keep up the A++ reviews, I hope this series goes on for a long time.
I dont even need to see any fucking movies anymore thanks to you guys.

http://twitter.com/ShotnCut Brandon Bley

well if your girlfriend prefers not to be raped she should stop batting her eyes at me while she’s jogging

Captainjack4181

I started watching firefly after seeing this movie and loving it. I recommend you guys check that show out, its reallz good.

Anzariel

Once again they made my day. Shared to my fans N’ stuff!

DasGav

my GODS i want chunkys chicken

Strelnikov

It’ll give you eyelid blisters and assteeth….

Bleakvision

Cabin in the woods…
Cabins in the woods are such a cliche that the word “cabin” would have sufficed to make me think of the woods. Ah whatever…

Folannolmar

I thought three stooges was pretty funny, but that’s just me. Also, that part with the booby nun you said wasn’t in the final movie, was.

Richard

Thank you for the “skip to this time” spoiler alert.

Captain Literal

your comment

http://mrcab666.livejournal.com/ MRCAB

Thanks for the warning!

Sdfdsf

Someone needs to educate these guys about Lovecraftian horror, which was the obvious inspiration for the whole elder gods bit.

Jitterscaffeine

Am I the only person who thinks watching someone eat fried chicken is disgusting? I mean, it’s like I can SMELL it through my monitor.

Not an aspie

The complaint about “why don’t they just put the sacrifices in a room and shoot them” is actually voiced by the black guard, and the answer given by the West Wing guy is that the sacrifices need to suffer, that the suffering, ie “punishing” is crucial to the ritual.

http://profiles.google.com/kevquattro Kevin Quattro

Cabin in the Woods was this generations “Saturday the 14th.”

imminentconundrum

So here’s my take on what Whedon might be going for with the Cabin in the Woods Concept. We (the audiences) are the ancient gods. I’m extrapolating the shit out of this, but this whole film was an allegory for the film industry. Jenkins was Whedon and Whitford was Goddard. Watching it from this perspective gives every line a commentary or a criticism of contemporary audience and what we expect and why they are forced to murder their darlings and pump out shlock to appease the gods. In that sense it’s kind of a whiney bitch artist complaining that “no one gets their work.” Basically it was a bare naked fist of contempt for the moviewatchers in general. But it had some boobs. So that was nice.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Dan-Norik/1562653118 Dan Norik

Was predictable. Was not meant to be unpredictable, but that just bothered me. Tucker And Dale Vs Evil is along this line and much better imho.

Malchazowski

This movie was filmed over 3 years ago, preceding Tucker & Dale, which is the same genre-breaking type of movie. but when MGM went bankrupt, the movie spent years in post-production hell. It was most likely finally released because of Joss Whedon’s connection to The Avengers, hoping to capitalize on his fame.

Izzard

You can actually compare Dolph and dolphin acting in “Johnny Mnemonic” movie.

Cohnwrithe

I love the fact that you can see the Popeye’s label through the Chunkey’s Chicken label. Hahahaaaa… win

Notboring1

Go to chunkychicken.com and you get to hear a silly tune.

Fakeemail87

I thought Cabin in the Woods was dumb as shit. Angry gods that demand sacrifice in horror movie form? What the fuck. Lamest payoff ever.

Notboring1

Cleverest film I’ve seen in ages.
Spaz

Spoilers?
Malchazowski

That’s not what the movie was about though. it was a commentary on the ‘horror genre formula’ through a metaphor. We (the audience) are the gods. We are the ones who time after time to see the same movie rehashed over and over again. it’s given away when the two “directors” say (about the topless girl) that they have to give them (the gods/audience) what they want. that’s why the one director was so upset that it was zombies ‘again’ because he craves originality with something that hasn’t been done before ‘Mer-Man’. The angry gods at the end was a metaphor for people like you discrediting the entire movie and hating on it, because the formula was broken. the entire thing is an expression of a filmaker lamenting the genre and his audience for not accepting new ideas and instead flocking toward the formula.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002018814705 Jakoporeeno Tex Mex Johnson

ERROR! ERROR! COMMERCIAL BREAK! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Jonathan

Chunky’s chicken . com
did you say chunky’s chicken.com?
yeah i said that, chunky’schicken.com

LibertyHS2013

<3 the show!

I'm making a video for my school and that "chicken cluck" song is perfect for a certain part. May i know the name of it?

Thank you guys!

Guest

Ray Stevens – In the Mood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sSeic3or-Y

james james

we the audience are the “Gods”. They do the killings to try and please us, and when we didn’t get the normal horror story, we become angry

LR

I can imagine someone making fun of The Three Stooges and the person next to them saying “oh leave them alone. They’re not doing any harm”.

Mattia

The ‘smoking pot’ idea point reminded me of how I once (having gotten pretty high) thought up of the tv series COPS only with different kinds of waterbirds representing each demographic seen in the original series… Still think it’s a nice parody if it can be done properly with cameras!

http://www.facebook.com/ghostofandy Justin McCabe

2 points: I’ll never see a movie that has any of the Jersey Shore in it; and slapstick works well in shorts, but not in features.

Snake

Some Spoilers:

I think the idea is, that it is not important how exactly the teens were sacrificed, but that you make money with the stuff you filmed there. The way they get killed in horrormovie-style is important for later selling that stuff in the typical american horror-movie to the audience in cinemas. Thats the point where the movie-idea reaches it´s top and links to the real world. We go and watch these movies that are made in the specific way that is shown in the Cabin in the Woods and pay for it. Its both: sacrificing teens to evil gods AND making money with all the same stuff over and over again in cinemas. Which is a very clever way of showin the audience their own stupidity of watching the same stupid stuff over and over and over again.

But that´s just my idea what it meant.

Colin

You know…we never did find out what Plinkett was going to “figure out”….

http://www.facebook.com/krish.mitra Krish Mitra

Damn you two. After watching this video. I had to drive down to the states from canada just so I could have some chunky chicken.

Guest

“Do the gods have this long written manual about how they want to be appeased?”

Yep. Deuteronomy.

$marta$$

These two VCR-repairing douchebags seem not to get that the ancient evil monsters represent us, the audience, needing to see five stereotipical B-Movie actors to die every once in awhile for our sins and misery so hell does not brake loose on earth.

yeababy

Do they not know about lovecraft?

Seth

Regarding “The Cabin In The Woods” yeah it doesn’t make sense on a certain level, some of the elements the plot requires, but it does make sense on a satirical level, since the film is critiquing the formulaic state of horror films today. That’s probably why the movie works, because it’s doing something bigger than the plot itself.

MavenCree

For want of a bag of weed, the world was lost.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Shorty-Lickens/1193601402 Shorty Lickens

Did Jay get a haircut immediately after the house was destroyed? Then come back right afterwards to survey the damage?

http://www.facebook.com/paul.ziko.7 Paul Ziko

Tequila is my lady!!!

Jared Lo

The “Gods” are movie viewers, it explains why they bothered with the horror monsters.

Vinny

You guys should review MAMA…..worst shit ever

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1250067032 Nelson Kaiton

I have a sentimental weakness for the 3 Stooges. Not a great movie, but I’m glad I rented it.

http://twitter.com/guch20 guch20

It’s funny that you act as though the Three Stooges are this horribly outdated comedy when they’re still loved to this day as timeless icons of the early days. There’s far more to their humor than hitting each other. There’s a rhythm to it–a sense of timing. Many of their jokes are multi-layered, which you’d know if you actually looked at it rather than down at it.

What’s really great is that these old guys who liked to hit each other went down in history as legends, while your three dozen fans will forget you exist in a matter of years.

http://twitter.com/dannyoraw Daniel O’Raw

Cabin in the Woods is definitely not supposed to be taken seriously as a thing that totally makes sense, but its a absolutely great film.

Zaaaaalox

This movie sucked, Im not sure if it was supposed to be a comedy, but it was classified as a fucking horror movie and it wasn’t scary, not in the slightest.

Connor

They need to get attacked because the Virgin has to be the last one, it doesn’t matter if she lives or dies, just as long as she suffers. She suffered through watching her friends die, thus appeasing the god(s)

Bhut Hertz

They need to take back what they said about Dolphin Lundgrand.

http://www.facebook.com/Torriiiiiii Tor-Arne Forsmo

I face palmed a couple of times. Were they kidding, or did they not get the idea behind the film? Yes these gods want it in a specific way, yes they wan’t specific people and yes there are different gods/audiences. It’s hinted all along the way, showing how every country keeps failing (at making decent horror movies) except the US and of course Japan who has made a bunch of really good horror movies. There’s also a point when they say “Remember the times where you just had to throw a girl into a volcano?” and he responds “How old do you think I am?”. They are referring to how something that simple could be thrilling back in the 10′s-20′s thus satisfying the god’s/audience.

Mittens

I’m a bit worried about the fact that I’m sort of aroused by the footage of Jay eating that chicken..