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The Cabin in the Woods

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For those who haven't seen the film in question, there are some pretty serious spoilers. Perhaps a spoiler tag would be appropriate?

For those of use who don't know, what is the film in question?

The film is "The Cabin in the Woods."

Thanks. I must be missing the movie ads recently.

The Cabin in the Woods. 2012 horror movie written by Joss Whedon.

And directed by Drew Goddard. Who, by virtue of being less famous than Joss Whedon, doesn't seem to be getting enough credit for the film, which is a shame.

Having spoiler tags on everything that possibly discusses a movie is silly. The movie was released 9 months ago. By now, either you cared about the movie enough to have seen it or don't care enough to care about spoilers.

Many people don't go to theaters anymore; Cabin has only been out on disc/streaming for a month or two.

Perhaps adding spoiler tags for Soylent Green or Sixth Sense would be a little silly, but in general, it's common courtesy to alert the reader in case they care (and it's not like it costs you anything).

I care about spoilers and there's heaps of films that I'd like to get around to seeing when I get a chance, including quite old films.

I really hate it when I people give away spoilers. Like when I read something that casually gave away the ending of The Usual Suspects, which I'd been looking forwards to seeing.

I sympathize wholeheartedly. Few things are more maddening than finding out the ending to a plot you would otherwise have enjoyed.

I recently read The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton – a thriller that I ran across a spoiler to years and years ago and was hoping I would forget. Eventually I had to admit I never would and read the book. I enjoyed it anyway.

The Kids in the Hall used to have a couple of comedy characters whose schtick was that they were trying hard to be evil but could only ever manage to be a little bit evil. One of the only-sort-of-evil things the characters did was give away the endings to movies. A friend told me that he saw them perform it live, and they picked some movie that had only just come out and actually gave away the ending. The entire audience yelled "Evil!" I thought it was taking the joke much too far.

WOw this was really, really in-depth! Cool blog!

Which article are we suppose to read first?

Pretty bad user to interface design here

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Yeah, Wordpress isn't great about this. But, to answer your question, the best place to start for The Cabin in the Woods is here: http://scifiinterfaces.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/the-cabin-in.... Then use the next-post controls to move between them.

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