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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 12/05/2009 : 19:51:30
The Box
What a stupid movie! What's with the pretentious scenes underpinned by Jean-Paul Sartre? If anyone can't tell the diff between existentialism and pseudo Judeo-Christian morality tales they prob'ly deserve this film. Crap. In a Box.
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| thefoxboy |
Posted - 04/01/2010 : 04:53:50
Might have to stick to the Twilight Zone version.
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| randall |
Posted - 03/28/2010 : 20:19:16
Once again, I stand in the face of a hailstorm of hurled tomatoes. I rather enjoyed it. I knew we'd be flying away from the lovely Richard Matheson source material, just not this far. But what intrigued me were the terrific moody score; the seemingly non-sequitur grotesqueries like you can find in, say, David Lynch, JACOB'S LADDER, THE SIXTH SENSE, etc. -- the effect is of peripheral vision or an out-of-control dream; and Frank Langella's beautiful underplay.
Weaknesses include the screen story and script: when James Marsden bravely tries to describe what happened to him in the library, it's so purple as to be unintentionally funny. Also, I'm *from* Virginia, and those accents don't belong there: the actors are doing Mississippi shitkickers instead. Bad, bad dialogue coach!
But man alive: a total piece of shit? Far from it, droogies! A solid rental, and try not to learn too much [as I said, I was already aware of the Matheson conceit] before you give it a spin.
P.S.: The ending of the Matheson source story is far cheesier than anything in this movie. |
| MisterBadIdea |
Posted - 01/03/2010 : 00:35:52
Just saw it, and I think it was a truly abysmal piece of shit. Atrocious in every respect.
Even disregarding the preposterous revelations, here's my big thing: Wasn't this supposed to be about a moral question of some kind?? Because by the end, it was clearly not.
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER: In the final scene, because Cameron Diaz pushed the button, they have to take another test where Cameron Diaz dies or their child lives the rest of his life blind and deaf. Bullshit, and more bullshit. That wasn't part of the deal, in which you press a button and a random person dies and you get a million dollars. If this had somehow organically made its way through the plot, it would have made sense (as it did in the original short story), but it didn't. The alien/God/whatever Frank Langella basically offered a deal that said, "Push the button and someone dies and you get a million dollars (oh and we're not going to tell you this but we also drop an anvil on you.)" To say nothing about the ridiculous detours into science fiction, Martian lightning, and Klaatu-style moralistic-yet-genocidal alien races. At some point, the afterlife is described as a place where "despair no longer governs the human heart," if you need a solid reason why the writing sucks.
Donnie Darko worked because all the scifi shit worked to enhance the alienation and teen angst, and Richard Kelly has demonstrated with this and Southland Tales that Donnie Darko worked entirely by accident. Dear God, this movie sucks. It did not even come close to earning its final scene; I feel shat on. |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 12/06/2009 : 08:15:31
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Originally posted by Se�n
That link is dead. I'm guessing you mean the Cameron Diaz one out this year? If so I think I'll avoid it. 
Oops! Sorry
Thanks, Sean ... fixed now, ta!
Diaz - yes - avoid - double yes 
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| Sean |
Posted - 12/06/2009 : 02:11:30
That link is dead. I'm guessing you mean the Cameron Diaz one out this year? If so I think I'll avoid it. |
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