i'm never gonna get to see a merman.
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Saw Cabin in the Woods. Non-spoilery: can Bradley Whitford be one of Joss Whedon's new hat tricks now? Because apparently Josh Lyman was a Whedon character all along and I just never realized it until now.
-Count the Whedon hat tricks: Fran Kranz, Amy Acker, surprise!Tom Lenk (no lies, I actually squealed "ANDREW!" out loud in the theater). Does Chris Hemsworth count now that Joss has directed Avengers? I would like him to count. And also to be in more Whedonverse, he did it well.
-I kept rooting forJosh and Fred Whitford and Acker accidentally, and then reminding myself that they were the bad guys. Sort of. Maybe not. Whatever, they're Josh and Fred, how am I supposed to not root for them?
-Let's be real, I knew it was going to be twisty, and then I got confused because it seemed like the major "twist" was revealed really early on with the pseudo-government guys controlling the cabin, and then, y'know, Joss happened. AND IT WAS AWESOME. Not actually as twisty as I was expecting, but at the same time, who expected an actualfax apocalypse?
-Oh, wait, this is the Whedonverse. Never mind. Seriously, Firefly is the only one of his shows that didn't end in an apocalypse, and that's probably just because it got cancelled before he could get there. Though you could argue a case for Miranda being a sort of zombie!apocalypse scenario.
-I totally wanted Buffy to swing in and save the day at the last minute, no lie.
-This surprises no one, but the dialogue was awesome all the way through. And the whole movie was just so meta on so many levels, I was giggling like a maniac the whole way through, even at the scary/gruesome bits.
-CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE JAPANESE SCHOOLGIRLS, BECAUSE THAT SHIT WAS HILARIOUS.
-Raise your hand if you knew, as soon asJosh Whitford whatever-his-character's-name-was mentioned wanting to see a real merman, that he would die by merman? I know the laws of the Whedonverse well.
-Love how hard the techie-guys had to work to foil their way-too-genre-savvy victims. "We have to stick together!" *headdesks* *insert brain toxin in cabin* "Wait, no, let's split up."
-TOM LENK TOM LENK TOM LENK.
-SIGOURNEY WEAVER TOO.
-"Virgin? Me?" "We have to work with what we've got." Snerk. For a bit, I actually expected the plan to be foiled by her survival because it would turn out that Marty had been the virgin, not her.
-Seriously, Marty and Jules are the only two character names that stuck with me. The girl alive at the end was...Dana? Beyond those, fucked if I know.
-Screw the haters, I kind of love Fran Kranz. I liked him an awful lot in Dollhouse, too.
-The Harbinger! "Am I on speakerphone?" That was such a classic Whedon scene, and I am still giggling.
-"COME ON, BOOBIES." Here's the thing. I get why a lot of people slam Whedon for his "feminism", and I'm not going to argue against that. Joss does some problematic things in his writing. But I find it fascinating, because he'll go to these creepy/objectifying places (see: all of Dollhouse), but in a way that, to me, is clearly supposed to showcase exactly HOW creepy and objectifying they are. He doesn't always succeed, and he's oblivious about his white male privilege in a lot of awkward ways, but he tries, and I kind of love that. I mean, no, you don't get a feminist cookie for pointing out that the slut archetype in horror movies is objectifying and disgusting, but still, I love how blatantly he highlights that with Whitford and all the skeezy techie guys watching Jules strip for her boyfriend.
-I fucking love all that nightmare fuel unleashed at the end. I'm not a big fan of horror movies, but it was fun to play name-that-beastie. Also, death by unicorn, I nearly bust a gut laughing at that.
-One of the monsters is listed in the credits as Fornicus, the Lord of Bondage and Pain. I ♥ Joss.
-LOOK THIS MOVIE WAS JUST LOTS AND LOTS OF FUN GUYS OKAY.
Speaking of Chris Hemsworth but not this movie, two things I only recently realized: 1. he played Kirk's dad in the Star Trek reboot; 2. he is Liam Hemsworth's older brother. Guys, Gale Hawthorne is Thor's baby brother. Sorry, just needed to get that out there. Apparently I'm slow or something.
-Count the Whedon hat tricks: Fran Kranz, Amy Acker, surprise!Tom Lenk (no lies, I actually squealed "ANDREW!" out loud in the theater). Does Chris Hemsworth count now that Joss has directed Avengers? I would like him to count. And also to be in more Whedonverse, he did it well.
-I kept rooting for
-Let's be real, I knew it was going to be twisty, and then I got confused because it seemed like the major "twist" was revealed really early on with the pseudo-government guys controlling the cabin, and then, y'know, Joss happened. AND IT WAS AWESOME. Not actually as twisty as I was expecting, but at the same time, who expected an actualfax apocalypse?
-Oh, wait, this is the Whedonverse. Never mind. Seriously, Firefly is the only one of his shows that didn't end in an apocalypse, and that's probably just because it got cancelled before he could get there. Though you could argue a case for Miranda being a sort of zombie!apocalypse scenario.
-I totally wanted Buffy to swing in and save the day at the last minute, no lie.
-This surprises no one, but the dialogue was awesome all the way through. And the whole movie was just so meta on so many levels, I was giggling like a maniac the whole way through, even at the scary/gruesome bits.
-CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE JAPANESE SCHOOLGIRLS, BECAUSE THAT SHIT WAS HILARIOUS.
-Raise your hand if you knew, as soon as
-Love how hard the techie-guys had to work to foil their way-too-genre-savvy victims. "We have to stick together!" *headdesks* *insert brain toxin in cabin* "Wait, no, let's split up."
-TOM LENK TOM LENK TOM LENK.
-SIGOURNEY WEAVER TOO.
-"Virgin? Me?" "We have to work with what we've got." Snerk. For a bit, I actually expected the plan to be foiled by her survival because it would turn out that Marty had been the virgin, not her.
-Seriously, Marty and Jules are the only two character names that stuck with me. The girl alive at the end was...Dana? Beyond those, fucked if I know.
-Screw the haters, I kind of love Fran Kranz. I liked him an awful lot in Dollhouse, too.
-The Harbinger! "Am I on speakerphone?" That was such a classic Whedon scene, and I am still giggling.
-"COME ON, BOOBIES." Here's the thing. I get why a lot of people slam Whedon for his "feminism", and I'm not going to argue against that. Joss does some problematic things in his writing. But I find it fascinating, because he'll go to these creepy/objectifying places (see: all of Dollhouse), but in a way that, to me, is clearly supposed to showcase exactly HOW creepy and objectifying they are. He doesn't always succeed, and he's oblivious about his white male privilege in a lot of awkward ways, but he tries, and I kind of love that. I mean, no, you don't get a feminist cookie for pointing out that the slut archetype in horror movies is objectifying and disgusting, but still, I love how blatantly he highlights that with Whitford and all the skeezy techie guys watching Jules strip for her boyfriend.
-I fucking love all that nightmare fuel unleashed at the end. I'm not a big fan of horror movies, but it was fun to play name-that-beastie. Also, death by unicorn, I nearly bust a gut laughing at that.
-One of the monsters is listed in the credits as Fornicus, the Lord of Bondage and Pain. I ♥ Joss.
-LOOK THIS MOVIE WAS JUST LOTS AND LOTS OF FUN GUYS OKAY.
Speaking of Chris Hemsworth but not this movie, two things I only recently realized: 1. he played Kirk's dad in the Star Trek reboot; 2. he is Liam Hemsworth's older brother. Guys, Gale Hawthorne is Thor's baby brother. Sorry, just needed to get that out there. Apparently I'm slow or something.
