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Bad film with amazing premise and mediocre execution that you can't stop thinking about? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by tetris11@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Cabin in the woods

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Hot take.

I loved cabin in the woods!

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, I don't think anybody actually thought it was a bad movie. The real hot take is saying it was.

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

everyone and their mother did

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, so much more there, they set up a very good universe to explore a tiny sand grain of it.

[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

100% agree. It's a fine twist on the subgenre, but the twist introduces an idea that begs to be expanded upon as part of a larger, cross-subgenre arc. And yet we only get a sliver and then it's done.

My hot take is that Joss Whedon's writing is like JJ Abrams': perfect premises with bad sense of follow-thru, so all their work gets the Netflix "over before it's satisfyingly concluded" treatment

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

That's a great point. It would be fun to see a G rated fantasy film that happens to exactly follow the rules to be a Cabin in the Woods prequel.

(Same enforcement of common tropes from much happier genres, but implying that the underlying reason is the same...)

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

I feel like everything was explained. I'm not left with any lingering questions about why or how any of it happened

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

you shut your bastard mouth!