The Cabin In The Woods is an excellent film. It's also a film that was made without any real expectations, and Joss Whedon seemed to be rather hands-on with, what with production preceding the first Avengers film by a good year or two. It finished filming in 2009 but, for one reason or another, was shelved until it was finally released in 2012. Again, the delayed release isn't an issue with Goddard. It's also a fine movie, well directed with a clear visual style and some neat subversions of horror filmmaking to go along with the overall parody of the genre in the story and characters. But even despite its apocalyptic ending, it's a much smaller film than Spider-Man. Sometimes directors who have worked on smaller projects adapt well to the huge leap that entails helming a major Hollywood production. Sometimes they don't. One example that didn't work out? The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb, who went from small rom-com (500) Days Of Summer to $230 million production he clearly struggled to handle. Could Goddard have the same problem?
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