Red Mosquito • View topic

Samwise · **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:00 am

Been looking forward to this one for what seems like forever (though fortunately not quite as long as that other perfectly ripe for Halloween flick "Trick'R Treat") trailer hit the web today.

http://www.cinematical.com/2009/06/24/f ... s-the-box/

A stranger gives you a box with a button inside. If you press the button, you get $1 million instantly, but also one random person elsewhere on the planet you don't know will die.

This is from a Richard Matheson short story and was already adapted for the 80's version of "The Twilight Zone" TV series.

(note: Kelly's movie takes place in the 80's, so the $1M bounty has quite the more potency than it would today, for sure)

I Hail Randy Moss · **Joined:** Sat Dec 04, 2004 7:46 am **Posts:** 6099

I like Richard Matheson's work and Donnie Darko was decent, but this movie just looks really out there, in the sense that it walks on the line of idiocy. I may just be picky.

p911gt10c · **Posted:** Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:27 pm

this intrigues me. I shall go see it.

warehouse · **Posted:** Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:28 pm

could be a good name for a porno

p911gt10c · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:49 pm

Pushed back until the 6th.
http://thebox-movie.warnerbros.com/

Mercury · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:50 pm

I want to see this. Is it 12/6 or 11/6?

p911gt10c · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:33 pm

November. Ads running now.

Rocky Estoppel · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:06 pm

The choice would be a lot harder if it was someone I did know that was going to die.

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

Rocky Estoppel wrote:

The choice would be a lot harder if it was someone I did know that was going to die.

Completely. I mean, a lot of people die. How on earth would anyone know who had died because of your box?

Koufax · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:30 pm

Harmless wrote:

Rocky Estoppel wrote:

The choice would be a lot harder if it was someone I did know that was going to die.

Completely. I mean, a lot of people die. How on earth would anyone know who had died because of your box?

if your box is aids-ridden or full of the clap and it goes unchecked...

Bammer · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:11 pm

What's up with that guy's face?

fitzy · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:02 pm

This was a twilight zone episode. At the end the guy gives the box to someone

Spoiler: show: "Whom doesn't know you."

DUN DUN DUN !

dkfan9 · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:52 pm

Harmless wrote:

Rocky Estoppel wrote:

The choice would be a lot harder if it was someone I did know that was going to die.

Completely. I mean, a lot of people die. How on earth would anyone know who had died because of your box?

you'd rob the bank too wouldnt you

Harmless · **Joined:** Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm **Posts:** 11395

dkfan9 wrote:

Harmless wrote:

Rocky Estoppel wrote:

The choice would be a lot harder if it was someone I did know that was going to die.

Completely. I mean, a lot of people die. How on earth would anyone know who had died because of your box?

you'd rob the bank too wouldnt you

Erm...

p911gt10c · **Posted:** Fri Nov 13, 2009 6:26 pm

Saw this the other night. It could have been a lil shorter and some shit needed to be explained a lil more. Also, there were numerous scenes that were in the trailer that didn't make it into the movie, which is surprising considering it's runtime.

Overall, it's a sci-fi flick, which is probably what turned alot of people off.

If you can, wait for it to get to the cheap theatres. It was good, but not 12$ good.

Richard Kelly's THE BOX (Halloween '09)

Who is online