The hype was a turn off, so I didn't bother, but I just watched it on HBO, so...
I will admit to a little jealousy on my part, no high and mighty excuses, I was willing to believe the shit people gave this film because the hype just could not be justified.
Hype still bothers me in general, but I still dug this film, zero expectations = a better time to be had.
The problem w/ elitist thinking, while it can be fun to needle the "uninformed", is that those circles are wrought w/ sense of entitlement and outright hyprocrisy.
If you live inside that kind of circle for too long, your thoughts become uniform, and that just sucks.
I like the movie, fuck the reasons, I just like it. I laughed at some of Roth's silly surrealist dabbling (pancakes, Bugs Bunny), and I thought the gore and sense of mistrust and hysteria was handled appropriately for the kind of story he was going for.
The film wasn't scary at all, but I don't think that horror is about "jump scares", and I'm too desensitized to notice anyway.
I'll have to go so far as to say that Cabin Fever is in fact, one of the better mainstream horror films released in the the past several years. I'm pretty damned strict w/ modern horror films, I wasn't impressed w/ the American version of The Ring at all; I thought that the soap opera subplot totally detracted from the picture, and it stunk of two impending trends: Remake fever & PG-13 horror.
I won't fellate Eli Roth on the basis of one film, but my interest in whatever his next project is has gone from nil to 7 out of 10.
Cabin Fever is fun, I wouldn't wipe my ass with the other underground hyped film Haute Tension, and I'm still an elitist prick, nuff said.
I will admit to a little jealousy on my part, no high and mighty excuses, I was willing to believe the shit people gave this film because the hype just could not be justified.
Hype still bothers me in general, but I still dug this film, zero expectations = a better time to be had.
The problem w/ elitist thinking, while it can be fun to needle the "uninformed", is that those circles are wrought w/ sense of entitlement and outright hyprocrisy.
If you live inside that kind of circle for too long, your thoughts become uniform, and that just sucks.
I like the movie, fuck the reasons, I just like it. I laughed at some of Roth's silly surrealist dabbling (pancakes, Bugs Bunny), and I thought the gore and sense of mistrust and hysteria was handled appropriately for the kind of story he was going for.
The film wasn't scary at all, but I don't think that horror is about "jump scares", and I'm too desensitized to notice anyway.
I'll have to go so far as to say that Cabin Fever is in fact, one of the better mainstream horror films released in the the past several years. I'm pretty damned strict w/ modern horror films, I wasn't impressed w/ the American version of The Ring at all; I thought that the soap opera subplot totally detracted from the picture, and it stunk of two impending trends: Remake fever & PG-13 horror.
I won't fellate Eli Roth on the basis of one film, but my interest in whatever his next project is has gone from nil to 7 out of 10.
Cabin Fever is fun, I wouldn't wipe my ass with the other underground hyped film Haute Tension, and I'm still an elitist prick, nuff said.
