I EXpected So Much More

Rating: 4/10 (29 January 2013)

I sat down and watched what was supposed to be one of the best movies of the year, and it's a horror film. Needles to say, "Cabin in The Woods" was terribly disappointing. It is a horror movie and I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be. It was a horror movie that makes fun of the horror genre as a whole. I didn't like that and I felt like I was watching "Scream" all over again. There were many problems with this movie so let's get started.
The movie starts with your standard college kids going into a secluded place to party. However, this time is different. They are going into a controlled environment where a company controls how and when the die. This is the basic premise of the movie and it leaves the audience wondering why this company is doing this. Personally, I didn't like that. The idea was good but the ending to the movie became sort of obvious. This movie could have been a lot better if a few scenes were switched around. The company in control should have been the kicker and the huge surprise, instead the first scene shows them starting and telling you what is going to happen. This movie was supposed to be surprising and different with a mind blowing concept. Instead it became somewhat predictable and the "shock" at the end was just ridiculous.
This starts out as a basic and standard horror movie with Chris Hemsworth leading a group of mindless idiots into the woods. It was the typical jock, slut, genius, idiot stoner, and the innocent virgin. It is obvious who is going to die and when, and it is exactly what you would expect from a horror movie. The slut dies while having sex, which has been done so many times. The acting was just disturbing. Hemsworth plays the thunder god Thor in the movie "Thor." He did a good job in that movie and now he is seen with his terrible one-liners and bad acting. The slut does her job as the hot girl in the movie to draw teenage boys and perverted old men towards ticket sales. The only character I actually liked was Marty.
Marty was the stoner idiot who kind of saw what was coming. His character was actually interesting and had meaning. He wasn't just a filler character to get killed. He noticed something was wrong with the house and hoe everybody was acting differently. He basically pointed out how he was in a horror movie and everybody was in trouble. The movie throws in a lame twist as to how the company cannot control him as a character and it was just stupid. It was something I did not see coming but I still was not impressed.
I was also hoping the movie would focus more on the cabin itself. The movie is called a cabin in the woods and the characters spend very little time in the actual cabin. In the beginning the cabin is eerie and different and hints towards some importance. It turns into being just a simple cabin and is really disappointing. The two way mirror was cool and the elaborate paintings were interesting but after they were shown in their one scene, they were never seen again. There was so much potential wasted, and it is really a shame.
This movie takes a complete turn in a few ways I did not see coming. The company control monsters in which to kill people but what was basically going to happen was totally obvious. The ending to this movie was far-fetched and definitely entertaining. Actually, I need to say this, the movie was entertaining. I was generally entertained, and I even found myself laughing a lot, and I didn't like that either. I wanted to be scared and wondering what was going to happen. An interesting story simply turned into mindless violence with a poor reason.
Overall, "Cabin in The Woods" was generally entertaining with wasted potential and a disappointing chain of events in the end. Acting was pathetic, which is expected from a horror movie, but I honestly expected better because I heard so many positives from this movie. I did like how Marty touched upon how he felt like he was in a horror movie and the film touched on the structure of horror movies in general, but the poor structure of this movie was just disappointing. I wanted to enjoy this movie but I did not get what I wanted. "Cabin in The Woods" gets a WillyT A for Effort. I suggest you rent or borrow this movie and see it at least once, but only once.