108532, So it's a "horror movie" by way of the Twilight Zone
Posted by ZooTown74, Sun Apr-15-12 02:56 PM
Interesting premise, and the execution was fine for the most part, but I thought it dragged in a few spots
Can't really comment on the kids, since they were mostly cyphers, except to say that the stoner kid got off a couple of good lines
Can't say I saw the "ancients = the audience" thing, in part because that would be a pretty shitty "fuck you" coming from the writer/director of one of the summer's bigger tentpoles, not to mention created one of the more celebrated TV shows that gleefully twisted and played with genre convention.
I can see Whedon saying that he's just poking fun at horror/sci-fi movie conventions, as well as our expectations, but the other interpretation just seems too mean and cynical coming from him, even though this movie is actually a black comedy more than anything else.
Anyway, the "veteran, non-spoiler" leads were okay.
It wasn't terrible, I had fun with it, but in the midst of all of the deconstruction it felt like something... more was missing...
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