Cube C/D

Classic! Yeah some of the acting is atrocious but in an endearing way, for me (esp. Quentin). Haven't seen the sequel yet, I'm a bit afraid to.

What was the math goof?

This is one of my favorite movies along with Hypercube. Who cares about the horrible acting or clichés put to use, these movies are just plain awesome. I actually like Hypercube a little more because it was even 'worse', and it had even more rediculiously inaccurate yet interesting physical concepts. If this movie had the best actors around it would lose all of it's absurdity. The simplicity is beautiful.

There's a sequel? Whoa. I echo Jordan's reservations, but am intrigued.

The math goof, well, it's not so much a goof as more an incredibly annoying aesthetic improbability, when the math girl is working her brain to figure if an even number is prime.

That said, I'm unequivocally a fan of the movie.

Interesting tidbit, don't know if anyone caught it (I had to read it off the official message board), is that all the character's are named after prisons.

Damn, I was hoping this would be about Ice Cube's film career.

I thought this was a great film. Acting that bad? really?

don't know about cube, but they were showing hypercube on the scifi channel when i was at home recently - it was very very dire.... ice cube's film career, of course, is a classic.

I love both. Great concepts, shit acting, even worse dialogue, telegraphed plot . . . . .

I think it appeals to the both the little boy who watched a lot of horror from Avatar films and the guy who reads New Scientist.

i was about to rent Cube last night, then i saw the dvd for the sequel, and it looked so terrible that it made me not want to see the original. but after reading your opinions i think i will give it a chance.

i find the concept of CUbe too irresistbale to call the film the dud that it is...and i wanna see the sequel

i think Big Brother should be a lot more like Cube

i think Big Brother should be a lot more like Cube = haha!

the concept is classic, the implementation a dud. cool visuals, poor acting/script.

I actually just got through reviewing Cube and Cube 2 (the R1 special ed DVDs) and it was good re-visiting the first one. It has a stink ending, and in the director's commentary track he mentions that the ending is just there to shock. This seems to make the feelbad finale all the more pointless. Movies such as Easy Rider and Night of the Living Dead end on a downer for a reason... but with Cube it just didn't seem neccessary. However, the direction and script are tight knit and the performances are really good. The cinematography is suitably claustraphobic and it's easy to use forced camera angles to heigthen the tension in such a small environment.

Cube 2 is, if anything, better than the first. The idea of parrallel universes is at first bizarre but works out quite well and the cold, white interior of the 'hypercube' allows the director to experiment with some bold, European colour schemes when it comes to dressing the characters. A real visual feast, and surprisingly well done (ending in a really unptredictable 'conspiracy theory' that the first movie did its best to avoid).

Dud. But it's one of those leave there when you're flipping through movies. It sucks, but it's an amusing suck.

classic!

this is the one I mention when I say that I forget the Matrix as soon as I walk out of it.

Cube however: I did not see the acting, so it must have been good, lots of suspens, wonderous.

Just plain the best SF I saw in the last few years.

Any proxy recommendations: If you live this movie, you will also like ...

Cube 2.

Obviously.

er, Labyrinth?

there should be more 'mazes' in films...i have an idea for one they should use in Episode 3 but well..i've said too much

I am (sort of) watching Cube 2 as I write and can't help but be disappointed.

The acting: I cannot remember the acting of Cube 1 to be as bad as Cube 2. I remember I could identify with the characters in Cube 1.

The Plot: Analog vs Digital. The digital effect in Cube 2 do not serve the story well. Cube 1 was based on magic and imagination. Cube 2 has it spelt out.

Maze movies: Tron is a maze movie, Being John Malkovitch too, the submarine movies in somebody's bloodstream count. (I remember quite a good one with Dennis Quaid)

http://www.google.be/search?q=%22maze+movies%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&start=10&sa=N

Particularly liked/disliked (simultaneously) the wire-slicing bit.

Reminds me (thread hijack alert)... anyone like Pi? I think I watched them on the same night ages ago and now they're linked in my head. Or maybe they're similar and I can't remember why.

i really enjoyed Pi - i don't want to even bother picking holes in that film, Aranofksy (sp) is a talented director.