I watched Cube on IFC yesterday. Not really what I expected... (SPOILERS)

[Chimera]

Pretty good up until the end. I honestly think that they should have explained why the cube was built (better than the very vague and general explanation we got), who put the people in it, and what happened to the MR Guy after he got out. Also, where the Hell did the Cop guy get that piece of metal that he used at the end? Did he rip it off the door?

Anyway, it felt like a Twilight zone episode with a futuristic flare. It would have been more like a TZ ep if the Cop guy had missed his chance to get out because he was attacking the other people, not by being grabbed from behind. I don't know very much about this movie, but apparently it has a lot of fans. Or maybe I'm thinking of a different movie. Was the second one any better? Any worse?

It's odd how disjointed your thoughts can get at 2:15am...

[EinBebop]

They made a sequel which attempted to explain all that. It was very disappointing. I advise you to skip it and enjoy the first one for what it is.

[Shnay]

Yeah, I agree. The first 90% of the movie I was like "This is so cool and original." Then at the end, I thought..."What the hell? That's it?!"

I actually didn't expect them to explain much about the cube in the end. The point of it (as I understand it, anyway) was that it was supposed to be a product of bureaucracy gone mad. And, if that was the point, then I think that was explained well enough. If you think about it as an actual object, it makes no logical sense, but as a metaphorical thing, it works well.

My problem with the ending was the cop coming out of absolutely nowhere to kill of the remaining people. It makes no sense, and has no point. It was a cop-out, as I think they had no idea how they were going to end it. Also, when the mentally retarded character walks out of the cube, they have this big white light and music play like it suppossed to be some huge meaningful moment. If there was any meaning in him being the only one to survive, I sure didn't catch it.

One other minor complaint I have about the movie is that I wish they showed a few more trapped rooms. I would have like to see more of Wren (he was so cool), so maybe they could have extended him going through the different rooms in the beginning. It wouldn't have been much of a story thing, I just thought the room scenes they did have were really cool.

Edit: I never did catch the sequel, "Hypercube." I thought one of the strenghts of the original was it's originality. But when you make a sequel about the same subject, you lose a lot of that originality.

[Adam Tyner]

Anyway, it felt like a Twilight zone episode with a futuristic flare.

It practically is.

[okendri]

I have always heard that the cube was sort like a holding cell to determine who has fit to go to heaven and only the pure of soul could enter. Anyway Hypercube goes the government conspiracy route and leads you to believe that there is a third cube out there. Hypercube aired a few months back on Scifi so check their schedule for a possible air date.

[Shnay]

I have always heard that the cube was sort like a holding cell to determine who has fit to go to heaven and only the pure of soul could enter.

I guess that would work with the "white light" ending, but if you look at who makes it out in the first one, it doesn't seem to fit as well. Why wouldn't the college student be allowed into heaven? Are they trying to say that the only one's who are pure of heart are the ones who can't think rationally?

[Chimera]

originally posted by Adam Tyner
It practically is.

Ahh, so that's why I kept getting the feeling like I'd seen this situation before. That was a good episode, with a twist ending that seems really creepy to me for some reason.

Spoiler for that TZ episode:

Spoiler:

I never would have thought that the people were actually dolls. Very good twist at the end, and one of my favorite overall Twilight Zone episodes.