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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: jamie on August 18, 2008, 06:01:42 pm
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(http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/~knorr/movies/cube.jpg)
Cube is a 1997 sci-fi/mystery/horror kind of movie about a group of people who awaken inside a giant complex constructed entirely of cube shaped rooms which are identical besides their varying colours. Many of the rooms contain lethal booby traps which they need to avoid using the power of maths. That's the premise! This movie is excellent!
Now, really, the acting and the writing are kind of precariously laughable at times but this only adds to the fun of it all. The dialogue is ridiculous at times, yeah, but it's definitely not banal and the nature of the characters means that even though they are all stereotypes, they can still surprise you which I'll explain in a second. There's a kind of trashy feeling about the whole thing, which is probably obvious from the ridiculous premise but the movie never really descends into stupidity like you might expect it to. It always saves itself just in time. There are awful lines delivered terribly in this film, and then there are great little moments of actual humanity scattered around.
The movie is about shifting dynamics, it's full of them. Each character ends up in a completely different place than how they started. Each stereotype is inverted or swapped for another. A character might be a hero one second and a villain the next. It just rolls along like a rubik's cube and actually manages to avoid feeling disjointed or forced. There's a kind of conceptual unity about everything in the film which is both appealling and cheesey at the same time. Any way you look at it, it's like a puzzle with shifting parts and it's just fun watching them shift and seeing how they do or don't fit together.
I won't go into the actual characters or plot twists because that's what you want to watch, but there's a good mix of people in this and the actors are pretty charasmatic and really melodramatic about the whole thing. There's nobody particularly talented in it, it's got a couple of actors I recognise from other sci-fi things though.
Yeah I really liked this film and I don't think many people have actually seen it. You should see it if this kind of thing interests you. There's alot of quasi-philosophical arguing, conspirarcy theory stuff and mathematics (if you're into mathematics apparently some people are).
Great stuff!
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What I like about the film is how you never really work out what they are doing in this cube (something that the prequel and sequel ruined). The kills a few of them in the end is not the cube, but the people in it. This could be a metaphore for many things including war and murder in society. You can read a lot into the film, but I think it probably has no right answer and so is left to our interpretation to decide what the cube actually is.
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Man I love all the Cube films, yeah even the sequel/prequel. I thought pretty much everyone had seen these films!
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If you watch Cube Zero - it will explain what the Cube truly is (it's the third Cube film and is a prequel). Kind of enlightening but also disappointing at the same time since it kills the mystery and ability for one to interpret the first film. I liked the film better than Cube 2: Hypercube, but a lot of people hate both sequels.
Overall, I'd rate them as follows:
Cube >>>>> Cube Zero >>>>>> Hypercube
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I've only ever seen CUBE ZERO and haha man that was the worst.
But yeah I've always been kinda curious about this movie but I've never really bothered to check it out. Maybe I'll see it one of these days but I'm just so busy with my.... sophisticated works of art.....
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the sequels are awful and genuinely not accepted to be cannon since the director of Cube zero and producer hypercube is a fucking idiot
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Hey this is neat.
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Also, here's the original 1969 TV movie by the same title
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2112529755533998573&q=cube+in+color&total=547&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
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So one day I decide to go to the movies with my mates, back when I was 13 o4 14. And I think all of us will remember clearly that damned day when we saw... the Cube...................
I think it's one of the most pointless and absurd movies I've ever seen. :/
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I saw this, I thought it was excellent! As you said, the dialogue and acting wasn't the greatest, but otherwise the film was brilliant. I haven't seen the sequel or the prequel, though.
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I've only seen the first, and I really liked it. I really liked the character development in this movie and the whole concept of there not being a master plan and that everyone that worked on it only knew a little bit about what it was for
From what I'ver heard though, the other two were really bad and none of the same people worked on any of them.
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Man, I need to see Cube. It's always escaped me.
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Cube's brilliant but the 1969 film of a similar nature is absolutely fantastic.
it's a different kettle of fish but still really good. I highly recomend it.
Hypercube was a bit dodgy but Cube Zero was pretty good! I thought the end was pretty good in the way it tied in with Kazam from the first film.
Anyone know if they're liable to make another?
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Also, here's the original 1969 TV movie by the same title
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2112529755533998573&q=cube+in+color&total=547&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
I just watched this. That guy could stand to be a little more assertive.
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I liked it, could watch it multiple times but in all honesty would not recommend it for viewing to others.
I did enjoy the story line (watched only the cube and cube zero) but I felt that just it was lacking in character and depth that most smaller movies like it do have. What people tend to lean towards watching are not films such as this anymore, it's not enough action, not enough methodics, and not enough detail to capture the interest of the average north american movie-goer.