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Film: The Cabin in the Woods

Really? This is the movie everyone is talking about? I was bored. I think we need a moratorium (spoiler alert) on movies that involve the end of the world. This is how movie studios react to the strength of tv drama. Because tv drama by definition must continue, the end of the world option is off limits. In movies these days, an inordinate number of blockbusters seems to be about the end of the world - Battle Ship, Wrath of the Titans, I could go on, but the movie ideas are so mindnumbingly trying to be "big." 

There is another thing going on - an abuse of mystery by JJ Abrams and the poor man's JJ, Joss Wheton. Each of these guys withholds information to keep the audience guessing about what is going on, but the mystery never pays off. The plotting does not reward the audience for paying attention - there are no interconnected themes or any layers. It's just purely withheld information, like an annoying girl saying "I heard something about youuuuuuu---" all provocatively and you're like "What?" and they say, "Something......" and you say, "Just spit it out, you dumb bitch." And then she walks away. I don't know where example that came from.