i get it, but it still doesn't mean it's a good film

Rating: 6/10 (26 September 2012)

so here goes...i get it! the concept, the whole story within the story, the horror movie clichés, the play and pretty much minor parody of 80's horror/slasher movies (most notably Friday the 13th). that being what it was i was perfectly fine with it. the jokes with mordecai being on speaker phone, the pothead referencing that the jock has never been the alpha male, that was good and funny. now with that being said the ending was a total miss. the movie is going in the right direction, even with the workers working the cabin and the whole "monsters" angle. after that the end veers off into a whole different direction, very unnecessary. i mean OK, basic horror flick pays homage to the 80's slasher film and other films and then WHAM!! the random sacrifice and appease the gods angle. it just doesn't fit, it doesn't work...if it was a test on human adaption and survival amid disastrous and traumatizing consequences and situations, i would have bought that more than i bought this. that's what made cube work. granted, this isn't cube and if the writers went that angle there would still be haters. hey! they bit off cube!! either way that would have been a 10 times better film and STILL different in it's own right for the BETTER. not different for the WORSE like this ending concept that seemed thrown together and without any real meaning or purpose. the writer's had a good thing going and threw it out the window. it's OK though, i'm used to it in 21st century cinema.