Half in the Bag Episode 29: Cabin in the Woods and The Three Stooges

[@jayrob5270]

The little Japanese school girls destroying the demon by holding hands and singing in a circle is my favourite part.

[@Grogeous_Maximus]

... of The Three Stooges? Maybe I should actually watch it, then

[@thesultrystrangerdanger6824]

I'm sorry did you say Japanese school girls andI can't read the rest of your comment because I grew up on the internet now I have an erection

[@crimsonlanceman7882]

​@@Grogeous_Maximusno it happened in Star Wars Old Man's Hope

[@hunterdaggerthorn1513]

These guys just don't get it. The three stooges are the audience

[@nijnij3988]

Hahahahaha! This made me lol :D

[@ramseyarthur]

Hunter Daggerthorn coitanly

[@rustyshacklefurd8928]

After reading the comments I see what you've done here. Bravo

[@MrJwfearman]

"Someone ruining Star Wars is something to get upset about..." 😬 I love rewatching the old episodes for little gems like that.

[@cbhlde]

@DangerBear 😁

[@PhantomFelix211164]

It was already "ruined" by the time he said that

[@reelredroom]

The 2012 Three Stooges is like if someone did an impersonation of Mike, Jay and Rich Evans in 80 years and made it into a feature length comedy.

[@sydknee604]

only 76 more years

[@finowa]

4:20 is the exact reason why I don't watch trailers. I'm so happy I hadn't seen the trailer to Cabin in the Woods, or heard anyone give away the idea behind the movie, because it was sooo enjoyable not having any fucking idea about the fact that something was going to happen

[@fangal12]

Me too, when I watched it I thought it was going to be a typical scary movie and boy was I happy.

[@ted_cruzumaki]

finowa same here!

[@Jprager]

finowa I actually really enjoyed the trailer for that reason though, it got me hyped with this brand new concept and something I was sort of familiar with but hadn't necessarily seen before

[@RoboBoddicker]

420 is the reason I watch too many trailers actually

[@alexcazet2694]

Nice.

[@Fargoth_Ur]

I wonder what kind of Old God demanded that his offerings be killed by a dumb ghost girl over Skype.

[@woodlefoof2]

ah yes, that was lord dsabfpuiadbfyudbfayusdvflyd the eccentric,

[@SpadaccinoLuciano]

Ah, yes, my mother named my brother after him.

[@Trowa71]

Bagul.

[@Egalitariat-likesecretariat]

Probably the same one that wanted his sacrifices turned into vegetables and eaten by a pack of vegetarian -trolls- GOBLINS.

[@countdorkula80]

Oh that was me.

[@JesusIzAPunkRocker]

Just watched cabin in the woods last night and was glad to see RLM reviewed it! I really enjoyed it having gone in mostly blind! Pretty clever satire of the Horror genre I feel like Mike isn't appreciating the 'meta' aspect of it. This large corporation is appeasing the *audience* with cliche Horror tropes. We are the ones who have dictated the beats that horror movies need to hit. In a sense we are the Old Gods that must have regular sacrifices of young kids in stupid situations (it's different in Japan) to 'sate our thirst'. Things going according to planned in horror movies are what we demand as the audience.

[@doctorbrown5957]

I had somehow never even considered that aspect of it, and I already really enjoyed the movie. I'm gonna have to rewatch it.

[@greybearddnd2417]

that is the whole point of the movie, it reference it quite openly: every SUMMER (as in summer movie) the old gods (horror movie audience) have to be pleased (get box office revenue), so every year its a challenge of what genre (Japanese Horror, Monster Horror, Gore Horror) will "win". And the filmmakers hate to force the characters to make stupid decsisions, since we, the audience expects certain tropes.

[@samuelhatlestad6676]

I felt that it was somewhat about that. Like they were making horror movies by watching them on camera.

[@groinBlaster31]

Yep. We are the gods. We want the familiar things we know.

[@CosmicWaltz7]

​@@greybearddnd2417 I don't think that's it. For one, the audience doesn't dictate a formula, nor does it benefit from the box office return. People will try new explorations of a genre, and genre styles that become too formulaic dry out after a while - westerns, romance films, gross-out comedies, et cetera. I think the Old Gods are the production studios. They're the ones that get together every summer to dictate the same exact thing needs to be made based on a formula that makes the most financial returns, even if the audience doesn't enjoy it. The reviews can be through the floor, but that doesn't matter - all they care about is how many people pay to see it. If the producers aren't pleased by a creative team following their notes and polling data, that team suffers and may even collapse - killing any spark of something original for the sake of the almighty formula. This movie even shows that in a way, as the film was entertaining and successful while breaking the established horror formula. Audiences will try something new if it's from a genuine place of inspiration. But, in-universe, even though there were more sacrifices than ever when the office got overrun, it didn't matter to the Old Gods - the humans didn't do it "the right way", even though it was more successful. Their world was still destroyed because it didn't follow a strict guideline to success. I don't think it was cynical towards the masses, but to the industry overhead.

[@Adaell90]

Haha, oh my god. They actually made a Chunky's Chicken website. It's glorious.

[@riverboatjohnny9615]

Still there, goddamn inspirational.

[@SkitsInfinity]

Its gone :(

[@playman350]

@@SkitsInfinity there's an actual chicken brand called chunky chicken in the UK so that might be it?...

[@Manzikirt1]

I feel like they kind of missed the point of Cabin In the Woods. The Dark Gods are watching what amounts to a horror movie, but they will only be satisfied with the "movie" follows the stereotypical horror movie plat that they have come to expect. It's all a big spoof on how we as a horror movie audience have an expectation and get angry if it isn't met. Poetic then that a lot of people didn't like the movie specifically because it didn't follow the pattern that the move makes fun of.

[@brabiz67]

Man in the Radiator that's the point...?

[@arcadetransylvania2066]

Oh my god my dude THE POINT OF THE MOVIE IS THAT IT WAS DIFFERENT AND THE GODS WEREN'T DO YOU KNOW WHAT A METAPHOR IS THE FIRST GUY PUT IT VERY CLEARLY IT DID FOLLOW THROUGH AND I'M NARROWING MY EYES TO A CRITICAL SQUINT AT YOU.

[@wmascolin]

Man in the Radiator freddy's new nightmare is the monster getting loose on the set, its happened.

[@reservoirfrogs2177]

Man in the Radiator You fuck, the fact they let the monsters loose is what was different, the gods didn't like it being different so they killed everyone

[@ravenkeeper]

@@Lady_in_the_Radiator You are the Old Gods in the metaphor.

[@nyutrig]

"somebody ruining star wars is something to get upset about" - mike

[@ericjamieson]

They explain in Cabin in the Woods why the gods in the movie go for horror movie tropes. They want their victims to experience the maximum amount of terror before they die. At first they were just guessing, but once humans invented horror movies, they started researching them assuming this is the stuff that scares humans the most. That's why the Japanese operation is based on J-horror instead of Western horror. Of course the subtext is that the gods are us, the audience.

[@davidthieroff9452]

Three Stooges was missing one big thing...a pie/cake/food fight at the end. The set-up was there. There was even a cake. I was surprised it never got thrown around.

[@Light-Rock97]

I caught this on TV at my grampa's. He was delighted, and kept commenting on how good the new guys were, or how well they were portraying the old guys. It was a while ago, but I remember having a good time, and being surprised by the cartoon violence.

[@ErichWK]

The way you explain the 3 Stooges movie, actually makes it sound great

[@kharris3352]

It's incredibly poorly reviewed, but when I saw it (5 years ago, mind you) I thought it was hilarious.

[@kharris3352]

Alright. Which ones do you recommend?

[@ryanheppel861]

It was a lot of fun. I grew up enjoying Three Stooges shorts, and they nail the nuances of those shorts while also improving on those jokes by playing on the rules of the universe.

[@ericjamieson]

They had me at "people get hurt, things explode"

[@johndelye3402]

Keegan. MOV Duck Soup and Night at the Opera are good ones to start with. The Firefly family from House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects got their name from the character played by Groucho Marx in Duck Soup.

[@martycollins4111]

The fried chicken part made me stop watching this, drive thirty minutes to the nearest kfc and then get stuck in traffic on the way back. Now I am back and I can resume.

[@dalecooper3872]

Are you Rich Evans?

[@henkman00]

Did it take you 4 years to come back? man traffic sucks in the future...

[@method0123]

And consume. Are you still alive?

[@pierrefaucon2875]

how was the chciken

[@thefractalcurve5462]

Chicken probably cold af by now...

[@marshmallowok]

I always assumed the old Three Stooges were completely idiotic and worthless, but then a couple years ago I was curious and watched some random old episodes and it was actually pretty funny and I thought some of the physical stunts were impressive. Now this vid makes me want to watch more.

[@TheSuicidalGiraffe]

The stooges are more or less the apex of physical comedy. Unapologetic and ridiculous yet consistent with how the physicality would flow. They were pros and sadly the genre has fallen away in the wake of well, woke. You can't have someone get hurt and laugh at it anymore, moronicly enough you REALLY can't hurt someone's feelings. That's why comedy is suffering so much, the best we can get is the few people well versed in crucifying themselves. Because who can dare laugh without being given permission.

[@richardtheconquerer]

@@TheSuicidalGiraffe this is the world's dumbest take

[@TheSuicidalGiraffe]

@@richardtheconquerer that's quite an extreme take yourself.

[@richardtheconquerer]

@@TheSuicidalGiraffe that's fair haha

[@Sora_Halomon]

@@TheSuicidalGiraffe unless you stopped watching any media after the three stooges you would realize there are still tons of offensive jokes and, more importantly, physical gags in plenty of shows. while I don't really like south park they just had an episode in the end of 2019 about an incredibly muscle bound man doing women's sports, and it is one of the most popular shows on TV. Tropic Thunder came out in 2008 which is just over 13 years ago and about 38 years after the "end" of the three stooges. In the least offensive way possible, you sound like you have no sense of the world around you and heard the opinion you wrote here somewhere else and just repeated it.

[@SuzakuX]

Surprised they didn't get that the "gods" are the audience.

[@filemissing3085]

hahahahha nice

[@mozzdog]

This is exactly correct.

[@Screamingmanta]

Mind=blown

[@ComfortableTool86]

That's pretty funny, especially since they said Joss Whedon's cleverness is often to his detriment. Too clever for them to notice this time.

[@infraled]

Came here years later to comment this.

[@D2T7096]

Never thought I would watch two grown men devour chicken on KZbin as a chicken-themed rendition of Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood” plays on, but here we are

[@chrismurphy9932]

Cabin in the Woods is one of my favourite horror movies of the last decade. I watched it recently and it's just so good. It subverts tropes and at the same time the old gods are the a surrogate for the audience who love horror movies.

[@TwelveTwelveEightTwo]

The gods were the audience, the movie audience. Literally you watching the movie. The gods are specific because this is what we've come to expect and request from horror movies.

[@iiota]

Isn't it ironic that because CitW didn't fall into that paradigm they panned it? I find it so funny.

[@alex_evstyugov]

Yes. And whenever people don't like a movie, they are so furious they act like it's the end of the world. I found that jab in particular to be rather poetic, for lack of a better word.

[@ericjamieson]

The in-universe explanation IIRC is that the Gods want their victims to die terrified, so they looked at horror films from different cultures on the assumption that this is how you find out what scares humans the most, and they tailor the experience based on cultural expectations.

[@FreshGarbage0]

@@ericjamieson they should watch vsauce they'd learn the easiest (scariest) way to do that is to drown them all. i guess that's why blood has to be drawn and separated, can't mix it all together in a pool

[@FreshGarbage0]

Love these takes btw, I especially like the idea that you can pretend any cliche horror movie is just footage from this universe and there's scientists behind the scenes.

[@stefanforrer2573]

cabin in the woods was one of the rare occasions where it actually worked being super silly and stupid while still keeping it entertaining

[@albinoshamrock8871]

I loved that movie! It's basically Scream, with a more sarcastic and probably cynical tone. The monsters and the gore were fun to look at, and the cardboard cutout tropes never got old for me. I wish the pace they took eased up in the spots where they're trying to show you that things are definitely off the rails. The spotter guy on the roof and the bird vs. forcefield scenes could be scrapped in my opinion. When the Athlete takes off on that bike, I should've been excited, but I remember thinking, "He's going to hit the wall". Lo and behold... So I know it's not perfect.

[@BlueMaxx86]

Wish they talked more about Cabin in the Woods.

[@tStevester83]

I wish they talked more about CHUNKY'S CHICKEN!!!

[@yds2m]

Cabin In The Woods is literally Evil Dead II meets The Truman Show

[@CDOES]

"Someone ruining Star Wars is something to get upset about" Little did they know...

[@MrHEC381991]

CHUNKY'S CHICKEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Targisvear]

Stanley Kubrick says it, so I believe it.

[@frankjones930]

i love that you can see Popeyes behind Chunky's Chicken haha

[@blaze4metal]

"Somebody ruining Star Wars is something to get upset about" Disney: "Hold my chai tea"

[@TheKaiTetley]

blaze4metal. George Lucas: Jar Jar is the key to all this. Me:🤮🤮🤮

[@_V.Va_]

And then Star Trek.

[@DM_Dad]

Cabin in the Woods sounds like horror "The Truman Show."

[@NightSpire]

That's pretty much correct, except the audience in Cabin isn't a literal TV audience.

[@Egalitariat-likesecretariat]

NightSpire Yeah, it's just a metaphorical audience... in addition to a literal one, kind of.

[@faethropp8194]

They even referenced it by giving the new guy at the facility the last name Truman

[@patb7487]

It’s 2019 and the Chunkys Chicken website is still up.

[@LabrnMystic]

It almost sounds like it was Joss whedon's take on an old film called "Stay Tuned." Where John Ritter is the protagonist and gets sucked into TV. The TV shows are designed to appease the devil, and most end with the death of the people who get sucked into the TV. It's one of my favorites from when I was younger. Always wish someone would reboot it.

[@rezaqalam482]

The reboot will be work with VR tech & streaming service boom that happened today

[@charlesbatkin8722]

I reckon tucker and dale vs. evil pulled off the best satire of the genre

[@ravenkeeper]

Man, those two had a doozy of a day!

[@TheTrooper424]

COLLEGE KIDS!!?!

[@Joseph_Tacos]

Why did I just watch 2 minutes of men eating chicken?

[@henkman00]

you saved time, it would have taken longer to see chickens eat men.

[@solarsystemcitizen1104]

I hereby declare this video Confirmed For Chicken. (y)

[@bk138gt6]

you guys should do Hobo With A Shotgun

[@dalevintage]

Cabin in the Woods... If you watched the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you would totally see where they got the storyline idea from...probably season 4, they had a "similar" underground operation in that season. I'm compeltley convinced that's where the inspiration came from. Drew was a writer on the show. ❤️🎬👍

[@MachineValve]

I really loved Cabin in the Woods...

[@zombieslayerz1]

It’s 2020 and the gods are still the audience

[@JohnSmith-tr9us]

The RLM lore here is that Mike never stopped eating Chunky's Chicken.

[@jimitaco1303]

"Goody! Then it's more Beer Time!"

[@jabbawonger6572]

James Gandolfini was great in his final role as Curly.

[@natani___7666]

“Somebody ruining Star Wars is something to get upset about.” Oh boy, they have no idea what’s coming.

[@WolfgangBrozart]

It's pretty jarring going from a skinny Jay episode to a fat Jay episode.

[@SirSlingShotMan]

@@ApolloVIIIYouAreGoForTLI lol

[@eden12340]

Skinny good beard to fat bad beard these days. He’s come a long way.

[@basedboi3956]

@@eden12340 yeah he’s had a serious glow up, I was shocked to learn he’s in his early 40’s

[@bayonetababe9697]

I guess I’ve missed those videos because I haven’t seen any where Jay’s fat. I think he’s better looking now than he was in his early stuff.

[@bhargavvasist]

Such a rollercoaster

[@qwer58j]

I just rented the three stooges on KZbin out of morbid curiosity. At first the film was just cringe. But once in a while I was surprised to find that I did laugh at it a little bit. Hiring them to assassinate that guy going wrong was comedy gold in my opinion. However “The don't try this at home” ending is one of the weirdest things I’ve seen in comedy. It’s so weird and distracting. I also find it distracting how this film is afraid to hurt women. They literally bring in a male nun just so they can have jokes where a nun gets hurt. I found this element of the film to be the most distracting when the female antagonist has a lobster thrown at her and nothing happens. It sounds like the setup for a Home Alone joke. So I find it strange when the lobster doesn't bite her.

[@albertgarrett4273]

chunky's chickens theme is Glenn Miller's in the mood comprised of chicken scwaking..

[@WitchoftheNight]

"somebody ruining star wars is something to get upset about." Well... :D

[@rustyjames1727]

Who else misses Jay's Mennonite beard?

[@Zer0Hour17]

I love Cabin in the Woods, but when I watch the second half I get disappointed that they wasted the first half on generic zombies and not some of the far more unique and interesting monsters you see later.

[@AngelCakes1997]

The joke is that such a typical situation is in such a weird movie.

[@Goldarlives]

I want to watch an entire movie about the unicorn.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

About Cabin in the Woods, I get what you are saying but they probably wanted to make the Cabin stuff as plain as possible so people think it's the typical teen horror movie. I too was disappointed by that part. When I first saw it, I was hoping for the kids in the Cabin to face a variety of threats, with many things happening to them in the house with the guys working their machines to make things appear, etc...But that's cause I didn't know that they basically had to choose one threat for this to work.

[@alanpennie8013]

@@johnnyskinwalker4095 I so wanted a merman.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@alanpennie8013 IKR

[@donjoey22]

We already got a three stooges feature film. It’s called Baby’s Day Out.

[@ByTorthePinballWizar]

These men are pawns.

[@boxer_1536]

Wait no; these men are paaaaaawns,

[@The_Order_Of_William_Marshal]

Hank Kennedy Oxygenate your wombspace.

[@donjoey22]

I have put the price of 10,000 denim on their head.

[@michaelhall5429]

Prawns are yummy

[@alt0799]

I now have a sudden urge to go to KFC.

[@johndelye3402]

Or Church's....

[@brandonhennig2324]

John DeLye or Popeye's

[@lazychild3]

Or savemart

[@holyreality02]

or chunkys

[@_V.Va_]

Mmm chimken

[@LetsPiecewise]

Honestly a lot of the "Things that don't make sense" that Mike and Jay were talking about in Cabin in the Woods was blatantly explained in the movie itself. "Why can't they just get five people into a room and execute them?" It's explained that they are doing this in order to act out the specific ritual of sacrifice that the old gods want. The old gods don't want just murder, they want this specific thing. "This particular sector, with these particular gods, just happens to be under this cabin in the woods" Mike seems to be insinuating convenience about how the cabin is directly over the sector and the old gods and such. When, in the movie, it's very clear that the cabin and that underground area were created artificially. It's not that there just happened to be a cabin there, they built that cabin. "Why all the ritual with the horror movie genre" It's blatantly said, explained for several minutes I think, that the tropes of our modern horror movies are left overs from the actions of these rituals which have been going on for all of history. The movies are acting out ideas or tropes that have been ingrained in our cultural history to the point that we don't even realize it. Honestly, it kinda just seems like they either weren't paying much attention or that they just didn't understand.

[@thepoliticalstartrek]

I do remember them having some dialogue about how at one time it was simply sacrificing a Virginia, but the gods got bored with that.

[@Bokobodobo]

"I do love me some reviews of interesting movies like Cabin in the Woods" *Continues watching grown men destroy fried chicken with their mouths*

[@Snardvark25]

How many people need to point out the gods are the audience? Over and over

[@ianlinn596]

did you know the gods are the audience?

[@NobodyCaresALot]

But if you unpack the thematic elements of the movie you will also realize the old gods ARE the audience. Very cool.

[@andreas0101]

I can't believe these men may control the fate of the Middle East.

[@henkman00]

5 people so far...

[@TheKaiTetley]

Ealdy The audience are......drum roll........GODS!

[@alex_evstyugov]

I had this movie sitting on the shelf for six years. Never watched it. Then I came across this review and before you even got to the tiniest spoiler I was like WTF I need to go see it *right now*. And so I did. And it was great fun. With all the caveats you mention in the video that I subsequently resumed watching. But great fun nonetheless. A thrill ride. A pleasant surprise. Thank you, guys. Uh, sorry, I meant to say "you hack frauds didn't even get the movie, OMFG, unsubscribed". A common typo. My apologies.

[@VolkorShima]

I watch these for the VCR repair sitcom. The reviews are cool too.

[@atom_gray]

you misspelled "RomCom" there...

[@marcespinoza6068]

If I never see Jay eat chicken again it will be too soon.

[@FictitiousCtrlGames]

I hope there will be a Re:View of Cabin In The Woods

[@rezaqalam482]

That Same as me waiting for re:view for phantasm

[@moxxie6.6.6]

I went to the site in 2019. Its still up...

[@olotocolo]

2015 RLM: someone ruining star wars is something to be upset about 2019 RLM: those manbabies are upset about star wars

[@Kendreyek]

2022 RLM: Oh... Star Trek... what have they done to you...

[@Lady_in_the_Radiator]

Cabin in the Woods seems to me like somebody started out writing a script that was a clever, satirical metaphor about horror movies and their audiences, but then halfway through they forgot that that's what they were doing and just finished it as though it were a literal story with nothing more to it.

[@blazr1976]

I would love to see RLM do a Re:View of Serenity by Joss Whedon.

[@themysteriouscatperson9483]

Josh Wheatdon

[@seansankey3562]

Joss Whedon and no they don’t need to review that - they will probably piss me off

[@themysteriouscatperson9483]

Josh Wheatdon

[@neosoul2203]

Why is every fucking comment about the audience symbolism in Cabin in the Woods

[@HypotheticalBees]

Cause they didn't talk about it, and it's pretty central to the films message

[@Grogeous_Maximus]

It's about family

[@KAPTAINALEX]

​@@HypotheticalBeesthis

[@Brokenskull666]

Watching Jay assault that chicken makes me feel like he should have ended up in court at some point. "Here, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is the video of the malicious attack. I warn you, the depraved act you're about to see is NOT for the faint of heart." * Jay mutilates chicken. * * Gasps, exclamations, and not a slight amount of vomiting occurs in the jury box * "Your Honor, can we *really* continue this hearing without putting this man in chains? For *everyone's* safety?" "Bailiff? Chain him."

[@Andrew-sy6on]

We’re the gods in cabin in the woods. The audience. Horror movies follow specific horror tropes because that’s what the audience wants, and if the audience doesn’t get what they want, they destroy the film “the world”. Weavers character is literally called the “the director”, and it’s her job to give the gods “audience”, exactly what they want. And every country/culture has their own type of horror. Japan ghosts, Scandinavia had trolls/creatures, and both those films ended with happy endings, and not a lot of death, thus enraging the gods ”audience “

[@Andrew-sy6on]

And are the gods this specific? YES. Audiences want variety, that’s why horror is such an expansive genre, because the gods want variety. Or we get bored

[@mottelopna3144]

Holy Firestorm of HITB releases in one day! This makes me happy.

[@OnlyKindofMedia212]

motte lopna reuploads

[@skippy8664]

was anyone reminded of Gremlins when they were eating chicken?

[@paradox5391]

Holy shit, Mike and Jay have aged 20 years in the last 4.

[@TheWarEagle1704]

this originally came out in 2012 on the website

[@ConnorNotyerbidness]

Great comedic timing on when they propped their feet up lol

[@cremetangerine82]

Connor notyerbidness At 1:37 for your enjoyment!

[@mwooten3]

The audience = The god(s) in Cabin in the Woods. It's all completely satirical.

[@AuthorityCat]

+Childish Antics EXACTLY. I'm not sure how they didn't get that. It was pretty obvious.

[@sartanko]

And everytime producers and investors try to control a movie is represented by the corporate entity pulling the strings. Just doing what has already been done in an atempt to please us.

[@sartanko]

+BETA-HUNTER Look up the word "metaphor".

[@linusdn2777]

the old gods are the gods in the cthulhu mythos

[@sartanko]

There really was no reference to that.

[@theMyouknow]

Cabin in the woods is awesome would like to see a sequel or a prequel.

[@rezaqalam482]

Prequel will be better

[@KDeusgeetar]

I really need the chicken song mp3 anyone know where to find it/??

[@CallMeFreakFujiko]

When I saw the commercial for The Three Stooges my thoughts were "Really? Well, if they're going to have to pull a nostalgic thing out of their assholes, it may as well be one that was already ruined from the start. You can't really break what's already broken."

[@awandererfromys1680]

_Cabin In The Woods_ was very similar to an SCP-001 entry imho. An omnipotent being comes to Earth and to stop it from destroying Earth the Foundation comes up with this highly convoluted, completely irrational, and morally questionable ritual to appease it. Why it works no one knows because no one can truly know the mind of a cosmic entity. Cool premise, fun movie.

[@carlsiouxfalls]

"Somebody ruining Star Wars is something to get upset about." Mike is like a film prophet. I've been watching a lot of older RLM stuff lately and there's some great off-hand jokes and comments that are coming true.

[@vegasgeekee]

I love you guys!!! I totally spewed my drink out at the Dolph Lungren joke!!

[@caiogracco9129]

Hey, Mike and Jay. If I may: don't worry about spoilers. Just warn the public and let the talk flow.So much richer this way, right? All the best.

[@Milos596]

I miss this old set

[@hadynm8622]

They pretty much say in CITW that the gods used to be appeased by a simple volcano sacrifice, but had gotten more and more desensitized and gluttonous and needed more entertaining ways to cull the herd. You guys need to watch the movie again, pay some better attention.

[@iiota]

Yep. I had to skip ahead lol. I love RLM but they don't seem to get sarcasm or irony well. It's like they imagine no one could ever be as clever or self aware as them. Kind of pretentious.

[@trillcosby4399]

I'm pretty sure when the original three stooges where on the air there was controversy because kids were poking each other's eyes out so the disclaimer was necessary. The real question is why the one guy decided to wear his sexy open shirt in the segment specifically for kids

[@dannyrighi]

That house you guys are in now that house gives me the chills !!!

[@Fathoms2004]

The Gods are the damn gremlins who changed this movie's title to THE Cabin in the Woods.

[@callie4808]

I love cabin in the woods but I think the biggest detramint to the film was the fact that it was advertised as a horror movie, it's a comedy for horror movie fans.

[@newarchillabog9403]

Watching an old video, again. I noticed how Mike looks like Spock , intentionally.

[@xgonne]

Weren't the rituals the point? We see it as horror movie tropes, but in universe, they see it as nightmare fodder (which may or may not come from the Old Gods). Jenkins and Acker explain this in the movie.

[@koanikal]

I haven't revisited this Half in the Bag in quite a while, but I'm surprised Mike and Jay didn't pick up on the fact that Cabin in the Woods is like 80% comedy and 20% horror (they seemed to think it leaned more into the horror than the comedy). No need to over-analyze the horror elements, like WHY the gods want specific types of entertainment that involve horror tropes. It's basically as if to explain why these events, like Camp Crystal Lake, happen in REAL LIFE, within that universe. The whole thing was just making fun of the fact that there are these tropes in so many slashers, and the scene where the office workers are taking bets, with that massive dry erase board, is one of the funniest things I've seen in a comedy horror, as well as the speaker phone call with Mordecai. Maybe they'd get it more now, 11 years later, now that they're more beaten down and cynical. To me, Cabin in the Woods is a comedy horror on the level of Tucker and Dale vs Evil. Seems like they didn't get very dry pitch black comedy as much, back then.

[@AuthorityCat]

Guys. the "Old Gods" are us(Or rather people), watching a horror movie, as we watch a movie about "Old Gods". I don't know how else to explain it. It goes pretty deep though if you really think about it, mostly about the disdain the industry feels for such traditional setups. They make horror movies like this because they make money, to "appease" the consumer/old gods

[@TheWSGman]

Yeah pretty much. the Japanese girls in the Japan videos and all that are them trying to appease to different cultures sensibilities appropriate to real horror subgenre that do exist. That's how I read it. It's great because the crux of the metaphor is in the premise so we can just have fun with the craziness of it all and not be beaten over the head with it, even watch it as just shlock like these guys , and its still super engaging. Man I'm going to watch this again

[@angelenriquerodriguez1572]

TheWSGman

[@Auron710]

+AuthorityCat Exactly ^^ the gods are the audience. They wanna see the boobs in the sex scene. The whore always dies, One or nobody can survive but it has to be the good girl (the virgin). Audiences dont wanna see the dickhead jock bully type survive. They dont want them to be sensible and not split up cus thats no fun etc etc etc. Just feed us the same cliches and appease us lol. Thats what i took from the gods part anyways. And why every country had its own way of expressing it.

[@alanpennie8013]

Do the makers of horror movies have nightmares about their characters turning on them and killing them then? While they protest that they only treat those characters so horribly because the audience demands it?

[@pushingpolygons]

Jesus guys, watch Buffy.

[@milovarquiel]

7:08 This guys could felt Whedon footprint across time.

[@Mercy4Hire]

I think the reason for the other contries sacrifices is because they learned that they can make money from the sacrifices so in trying to make money the tested it with those other contries using their genres of horror

[@gamereview211]

I am kinda surprised they didn’t pick up on the fact that the gods were meant to represent horror movie audiences and the type of movies they continue to go see, hence why each country’s ritual is different since their cultural tropes vary (school girls in japan for example)

[@spethmanjones2997]

Watching Mike and Jay devouring that chicken has me moister than an oyster

[@Spartan1853]

Man, those POWDERED SUGAR PIES are well priced! You can get one for $4.99 or 4 for $35. WHAT A DEAL!!!

[@kenbarney3843]

You guys might really enjoy watching Buffy and we would definitely enjoy seeing you review it.

[@josesarango3408]

agreed. But who am I to tell, I'm just a stupid BTVS fan

[@timory3105]

17:30 Mike is a modern-day Nostradamus.

[@psychonaut1829]

I think the "Gods" in Cabin in the woods are supposed to be us, the viewers.

[@rapechainz4561]

I'm curious as to what's goin on with all these re-uploads

[@benjaminjamesadlard190]

Nino Brown Wait so Machinima isn't going to upload Redlettermedia videos anymore? If so great! I can unsubscribe and only have to get videos like this one, that I actually want to watch.

[@Pcflwrrior]

We, the audience, are the gods and the blood is our money

[@PassiveNights]

Cabin in the Woods makes symbolic/mythic sense. Why should we know what the Old Gods need to be appeased? That, and yeah, they're meant to be the audience.

[@Mr.Smiley_J]

Hmmm. I laughed out loud hearing you guys talk about the 3 stooges, maybe I should check it out.