Saw this the other night, not terrible. Reminded me of this:
Originally posted by SnakeEyes
I want to see this eventually, but I'm in no hurry. I kind of can't stand Cameron Diaz though... she was smokin' hot in The Mask, but since then... not so much. And let's face it, despite her hotness, is she really all that good of an actress?
No, not really but she is type cast as that friendly blonde well. I don't like so much in the more serious roles, kind of like this one but she did well enough. I just didn't like the movie to well. I was bored through most of it. It felt like to little of a story for a feature film.
Re: The Box
Originally posted by Impediment
See the trailer.Based off of a short story by Richard Matheson (my absolute favorite author) called "Button, button", it's being written for the screen and directed by Donnie Darko's Richard Kelly.
Synopsis:
"What if someone gave you a box containing a button that, if pushed, would bring you a million dollars…but simultaneously take the life of someone you don’t know? Would you do it? And what would be the consequences? The year is 1976. Norma Lewis is a teacher at a private high school and her husband, Arthur, is an engineer working at NASA. They are, by all accounts, an average couple living a normal life in the suburbs with their young son…until a mysterious man with a horribly disfigured face appears on their doorstep and presents Norma with a life-altering proposition: the box. With only 24 hours to make their choice, Norma and Arthur face an impossible moral dilemma. What they don’t realize is that no matter what they decide, terrifying consequences will have already been set in motion. They soon discover that the ramifications of this decision are beyond their control and extend far beyond their own fortune and fate."
For those of you who don't know who Richard Matheson is (tsk, tsk), he is one of the greatest horror writers ever. Matheson has a talent for short stories, both horror and sci-fi. He wrote I am Legend. One collection of short stories is called "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", and it has some bad ass stories therein. You've probably watched more than one of the movie adaptations of his books. "Stir of Echoes" (Kevin Bacon) is one of them. Remember that episode (or sequence from the movie) of The Twilight Zone where the man is on the airplane and sees the gremlin on the wing, but nobody believes him? That is Matheson's work. The Shrinking Man is also a great one, as is Duel. Remember Duel? Thats the story about the man in the car "battling" a rogue 18 wheeler. It was also the very first movie that Steven Spielberg directed. He also has a knack for romance novels, both of which were made into movies, Somewhere in Time (Christopher Reeve & Jane Seymore) and What Dreams May Come (Robin Williams & Cuba Gooding Jr.). His most recent novel in "Hunted Past Reason", a suspense thriller novel about two men hiking in the deep wilderness of Yellowstone Park, and one hiker "snaps" and psychotically and sadistically chases and tortures the other hiker. My personal favorite is "Hell House", the grand daddy KING of haunted house novels. This is one of the few books I have ever read that actually made me sleep with my lights on.
I had no idea he directed such really good films such as Stir of echos and Duel.Knowing that I GOT to see this movie soon.which I had seen it then at the movies.
Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
Saw this the other night, not terrible. Reminded me of this:
And before that The Twilight Zone.
Originally posted by Impediment
Richard Matheson is one of my all time favorite authors. He is incredibly talented.Hunted Past Reason [b]really
needs to be adapted into a film. [/B]
so they can balls that up to? Bar What Dreams May Come (which was very different but yet still awesome), I rarely feel like they can adapt a Matheson book properly.
and yes, i'm including I Am Legend lol.
EARGH. I hate when movies have such potential [=here, through the author] and then totally bomb. HATED IT.... but I can it being brilliant with a different cast and different flow. So I guess I'll keep on tormenting myself about this completely LOST movie.
Having now wiki'ed the original plot and the Twilight zone plot, I really like
Spoiler:
when they turn it down, and the dude with the box is like, oh, that's okay.... I'll just offer it to some people you know nothing about. That generated creepy feelings. 😄 Ah, well.
Originally posted by siriuswriter
Having now wiki'ed the original plot and the Twilight zone plot, I really likeSpoiler:
when they turn it down, and the dude with the box is like, oh, that's okay.... I'll just offer it to some people you know nothing about. That generated creepy feelings. 😄 Ah, well.
Spoiler:is irrelevant. What he says afterward is in the movie, and it had the same effect. The only thing is that the movie kept going. The original story doesn't have enough to fill a feature length film. That's why Kelly added how he interpreted what would happen to them after.
Whether they pushed the button or not