To be fair though, Leavin and Worth didn't die because they were defeated by the Cube, they died because the movie ass pulled Quentin coming in out of nowhere (really, he just so happened to be able to avoid ALL the trap rooms by pure luck and managed to blindly make his way to the room the others were in, even after sustaining a head injury? ) and killed them. It honestly kinda ruined the end for me because it felt like the director wanted a downer ending, logic be damned.
@@lilburb9001 so tf what, he couldn't have known any of the info he NEEDED em for, the only logical explanation for me is, he was eaves dropping from rooms the group before him solved, but his acting and whole character ruined the whole movie, nigga looked off coke the whole movie
Not related to the philosophy of Cube, but I am a bit of a math nerd in addition to enjoying horror. Therefore one day I was thinking about if Cube ever was simulated since it is so math based. Turns out it was based on a math paper, and there are some basic rules inherent in how the cube functions. So I set out to simulate it, the original simulation was only based on a 5x5x5 cube, of which I was able to generate. However the issue I encountered was the trap to safe room ratio, there is an inherent conflict, literally. Based on the rules set out in the paper, all safe rooms move, which means you are limited in the number of viable room codes because the codes define the movement because safe rooms might collide with other safe rooms. The worse case scenario is one room wants to move into the spot another room is in, and vice versa. So the rooms are deadlocked. The problem with two rooms in a deadlock, if they aren't deadlocked from their original position, is that the cube can never return to its original configuration therefore n one leaves.But trying to create such a cube made me realize the necessity of having empty spaces in the cube itself to allow cubes to move, and looking through the deleted scenes of Cube, that is exactly one deleted scene where they discover empty space. So the 26x26x26 have a particular composition of safe and trap rooms along with empty space. But at the end of the day the issue with such a cube of that size is time. With a 26x26x26 cube each moving cell might need to make so many movements to return to their original configuration, some cells might need to make their own circuit more than others, it could possibly take a month for the cube to reach its original configuration, if each moving cell is stationary for 5 minutes at a time, to allow someone to leave. But all I ended up proving is what the only bit of certainty it could provide about the cube, it is a death trap.
When I first saw Cube, it reminded me of the short story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream." I think it's that fear of helplessness and hopelessness brought upon by some higher power destroying you for no reason you can fathom. Existential dread, indeed.
Some students picked this for a movie for a class viewing/discussion in my Grade 8 Humanities class with no warning. It was slightly traumatizing and entirely hilarious to watch our teacher slowly realize how disturbing it was!
I remember watching this film on Netflix without knowing anything about it. Honestly one of the most weirdest most yet thrilling movie sessions of my life.
I always thought that the cube was an allegory for the life experience. The characters wake up in the cube, much like birth, and they all have their own distinct personalities, which evolve over time. As they make their way through the cube, they try to understand it, they try to understand their involvement in it, ascribe to it some sort of purpose,, etc. Some of these characters begin to contradict who they are, a lot like how people in real life change over time. As we endure triumphs and tribulations, and are affected by them,, so are the characters in The cube. Some people can handle life a lot easier then others, and the choices we make in our lives truly dictate our fates. In the film, the characters are faced with making decisions that will affect the outcome of their lives, just like the choices we make have there outcomes as well. In the end, the only way out of life is death, and the only way out of the cube is death. The nihilistic character says it best when he says that there is no purpose to it, that it exists just because, and that if it were not used it would have no purpose. Think about existence in the same way, we don't know why we are here, we don't know what we are supposed to do, and the choices we make could affect us so monumentally that we could die if we don't make the right ones. All we do know, is that we exist, and while some people might grasp to different religions, or philosophies, in the end we extrapolate from our own individual experiences, and try to put purpose where there seemingly isn't any. It's a nihilistic concept, but not a hopeless one, as it leaves the individual free to find their own meaning in the existence they have been bombarded into experiencing, thus they will find a purpose for that existence.
@@LeoMastroTV my friend, I was merely trying to share my opinion of a film that I have loved since it's first release back in the late 90s. I'm sorry that my lengthy assessment of the film offended you, and made you feel as though you were in some way inferior. This is not my intent, as I was just sharing my interpretation of a movie that is laced with ambiguity. A lot of people have their own interpretation of a movie's meaning, aside from what they are shown on the surface. But please, do go on about how much of a smart-ass you think I am, because I'd rather be called to Smart than too stupid. Also, I have never taken a film class, at least a college level film class. Maybe you should take one though, perhaps you will learn how to convey your opinions about the films that are important to you with more clarity, and maybe not feel so attacked by others.
@@LeoMastroTV man honestly get a life, your generalising people who are analysing the concept of things in entertaining movies or some. You cant just mix up someone who is making a meaning out of something which was intended to have a meaning to just a nerd fam. Man honestly your stupidity shocks me and you sound like some teenager who is a fan of drakes new shit or sum instead of what the men be listening to (kendrick lamar)
I saw Cube on pay-per-view (remember that shit?) shortly after it came out when I was probably around seven or eight years old. At the time I thought it was just this super cool sci-fi horror, scary for its imagery. After rewatching it many years later, I can firmly say it's one of the most terrifying films I've ever seen. The sheer concept of the cube itself and all its intricacies, as well as the degrading sanity of the characters, is fucking horrifying. The ambiguity of the cube's origin and the nihilistic reasoning that, "If you built something, wouldn't you want to use it?" only further adds to the horror of it all. It's a seriously underrated movie, and though there's some fun overacting in there, it's a brilliant plot with disturbing aesthetics and great characters, and it's fucking fantastic.
For me aswell the concept of the cube, its emptiness yet vastness amazes me and horrifies me, im not particularly claustrophobic, but when watching this movie, with your eyes focused on the screen, it kinda makes me feel like im inside the cube along with the characters, as we viewers know just as much as the characters about the cube it makes me feel lost aswell.
@Coded Perfection Shit man, that film must of fucked up your childhood real bad. Coraline is a weird idea for a kids film, don't know why they targeted to that audience. Thank god they didn't make it live action lmao
When the nihilistic office worker mentions how he knew a contractor who worked on just a piece of the entire cube project, and how they never knew who they were working for and his team was strictly instructed to build an isolated part of the structure to avoid any wierd "suspicion"... That really chilled me to the bone. Because this is exactly how things are done if you want to build structures in secret. Such a small detail, but it's a terrifying one for me.
This movie inspired one of my reoccurring childhood nightmares. Twisted house that moved and was a maze full of all the things that scared me as a kid. Eventually I memorized the route out and learned how to wake myself up from bad dreams and stopped having that dream and the reoccurring dreams as well.
Donnie Darko felt like a gentle hand of grief. It’s been getting teased in the past decade. When I watched it as a child I bawled for days because the sacrifice felt like a resinous cloak of every emotion somebody may feel. But you feel so tenderly toward the protagonist, his knowing turn felt so much more affective to me. The atmospheric blues in the “notorious” dance scene laced and lanceted by the flowering fire. There’s so much lovely about it, I don’t think it’s just pseudo-schlock the way people often claim. It kinda breaks my heart and all. I’ll necrotize going on about this, but I’d dearly like to see that from you as well, Ryan!
@@gelitrippingkiddo5907 That's so poetic, well said. I wish I could show such eloquence, but I struggle to wield language to express my ideas in such a way.
Has my favorite lines from a movie "There is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan. "
The most impactful moment in the whole movie is when one of the prisoners admits he helped build the outer shell, and outright gives simultaneously the best and worst explanation for why they're all there: because without them there the cube is pointless. That's all.
One of the very few ones I saw when they screened in cinemas. The other weird one being Existenz. Newer ones would include Chronicle, a Serbian Film and maybe Green Inferno
I interpret it that way too. Especially when they end up where they originally started. In the end it made no difference whether or not they navigated the maze or not. Kind of like life- it doesn't matter if you live it to your fullest or do nothing with it, the end result is the same for everyone.
I’d easily put Cube up there with some of my favorite horror movies. Worth’s speech about nobody really being in control of the cube got to me as a 17 year old budding horror fan. It just flew in the face of every “evil government is behind it” Story I ever watched and to think that something so huge and dangerous such as the cube had no real purpose but was used anyway to torture people just because absolutely terrified me.
My exposure to big government contracts tells me, noone is actually in control. A requirement to advance some technology or theory progresses till noone really understands it all. It's the fear of AI, once it upgrades and rewrites itself a few times, it will surpass human comprehension.
@@agonleed3841 I think once you add a man getting graphically sliced into _cubes_ by a giant cheese slicer and another having his face literally melted off on camera a movie goes from suspense thriller to horror. Not to imply that graphic violence is a requirement of horror but I think it definitely moves a movie into that genre (war movies may be the one exception).
@@ClockworkWyrm yea..i count horror as givng a feeling of fear. gore just like inwar movies, isn't what makes it horror. There are some asian movies that are just pure action, or even have elements of supernatural that doesn't count gore as horror
Don't know why, but Cube (and it's sequel, Hypercube) reminded me so much of the movie "Exam" (2009) To summerize, it was a movie about several strangers taking a test for a job interview. They're all locked in the examination room and the test has only one question, where the protagonist's job is to figure out what said question is. It was probably the ambiguity of the objective or the fact that the test became entirely irrelevant by the end of the movie. Either way it's worth a watch.
idk... Cube had them locked in rooms, having to travel or survive each room. That exam movie, at least how you described it, seemed a bit boring. Like..they're just in a room..sure, some shit happens...but they're just in a room trying to figure out something...just in a room?
@@brightestlight9462 lmao not an interpretation. It's all happening in one room. And I'm basing it off your description. Were I to describe the movie 1408, another movie where it literally takes place in just that one hotel room, and basically only one character, I'd probably add the essence of the supernatural events...or like saw...though I also found that movie boring also
@@agonleed3841 my point is that if you think something being in one room is boring purely because it's just in one room, you lack patience and imagination and i feel sorry for you that you can't appreciate it.
My dad produced Cube. I remember being on the set when I was like 4 or 5 and it scared the shit outta me. I’m still good friends with Julien Richings (dude from the beginning) to this day. Always happy to see this get some praise✌️
I think that's a pretty thoughtful film. A lot of details in the way it is written that set it apart. Either way it's a very good movie, undeniably well made.
I saw cube for the first time about 10 years ago at this point, we watched it in school as part of a philosophy class talking about human behaviour (normally and under stress) and discussed it. To this day it has been one of the most memorable films I ever watched, the premise and movie being so simple in setup and yet you could talk and argue about it for hours on end.
Cube is one of my all time favorites. Sure it’s a little dated and cheesy but the premise alone stays with you long after the credits roll. It will always be an underrated classic
It's not underrated as there is nothing to credit it with to begin with. And it's not a "classic" - it's not all that old and it's certainly not a high water-mark by any means.
@@nl3064 That's just my opinion man lol I think it can still be underrated and I think the 90's were a while ago. maybe cult classic would have been a more accurate term because people definitely enjoy this film. I'm not saying its Citizen Kane but I think its a fun horror movie and most people I talk to enjoy it. why you gotta be a hater?
@@colinconsidine5209 'Cult Classic' is the word you're looking for. I'm tired of people tossing around words like "classic" and "underrated" and "Hidden Gem", etc. Those words have lost their meaning because of comments like these. Classic - 1. 'judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality or outstanding of its kind ' 2. Remarkably and instructively typical' (i.e. like an archetype or golden standard) Underrated - 'underestimate the value, extent, or importance of.' Does this random nothing you like match either of those phrases? Also I like how you think "wow, the 1990's, so classical - something in its 20's is so antiquated'. Let me guess, you were born this century? When you talk like that, you give away your age pretty quickly. I like how you at least acknowledge that it's no Citizen Kane, though by calling something a Classic, you are using it as a high standard. And by calling it underestimated, you are saying it has a higher value. How is it of any importance or merit or higher extent than your enjoyment? What is there to appreciate in this commonality that you can't get anywhere else? How does it stack up against all the works that actually distinguished themselves that you don't know? That's my rant, sorry if it's hostile and long-winded, but hopefully now you know where I'm coming from.
@@nl3064 bro I'm 32. nice try! and I know what underrated and classic means. Who says I have to adhere to your definition of it? Are you one of those people who just argues with people in the comments? lol "Arghhh these millennials don't know what they're talking about!" " get off my lawn!" you seem really conceited like you think you know whats up and can talk down to people trying to guess my age. lol to quote the Lebowski "that's just like your opinion man" Which is also a classic, cult classic, whatever you want to call it. I wasn't trying to write an essay about it. I just like the movie lol jeez. You're the reason i don't usually comment. You're the first person to argue with me but let me see if I can infer something about you. I'm not the first person you've argued with. you gave it away pretty quickly. haha
That's not my definition. That's literally the dictionary definition. I looked it up before commenting and directly quoted it. And I'm younger than you, so you couldn't guess my age either. And the way you write makes it seem like you're half your age. That is all.
sort of referencing almost overdosing levels of cynicism on looking at the burocracy of our society that has become borderline something out of a 80's parody. People dont question anything anymore on the grand scheme, just go after their own selfish desires because they are just a piece of the burocratic "cube" and they are okay with it. its scary how real this movie gets despite never showing the outside.
@@agonleed3841 that's so frickin' stupid. the internet isn't some futuristic puzzle cube that traps people in and murders them in torturous ways. it's a bunch of boxes and server farms that lets people use google and shit. you can say the cube could be about a lot of things, but summing it down to "book good phone bad" is pretty much what you're saying.
@@bonniejunk Honestly I didn't what it's metaphorical example was, I honestly didn't even care. If anything I think it's the whole "We're the biggest monsters" thing because the traps can kill people but they're emotionless, it's the Humans that mimic the emotionless killing machines.
this is unrelated, but i wanna know how they edited in the traps. And also how the characters act like they get injured even though there's nothing there. edit: also how are the actors such good climbers that they can climb down or up rooms without failing
Finland Gamer They just do the editing in dark scenes. They also just do acting schools for those scenes before this movie. White has no editing. Unlike cube 2. Which was only white. That made the editing bad.
I saw this film 20 years ago, and I still use the "this room is green" phrase and hand movement to this day, when I'm bored somewhere and about to leave the location/party/situation.
I saw this movie much like real life. Every day feels like another room, with more traps either in the next door, or the one you're in. Life is full of traps, and sometimes its the people you know that might be a trap. Sometimes its the people you don't expect that really help you in life. Aka the autistic dude, or that girl with glasses, or the nilist. Didnt spell that right but whatever.
This movie strongly reminds me of Sartre's play, "No Exit" and of existentialism in general. The characters are "thrown" into a world with no knowledge of how they got there or why they're there, just as we are born into a world against our will with no knowledge of how or why we're here. We spend our lives trying to survive the various traps--both deadly, mundane, and interpersonal--of everyday life, just as the characters try to figure out the puzzles and patterns around them. Many, if not most, of us are obsessed with trying to figure out the intrinsic meaning of it all, but existentialism says that there is no inherent meaning to any of it. We ultimately choose our meaning, and we live and die by it, just as the characters in "Cube" do. It's interesting how the autistic character with no interest in meaning is the one that escapes the cube. It reminds me of Camus's philosophy: ultimately, everything is absurd and we can only escape the dread of existence by embracing the absurdity of it. Much like Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill over and over, the autistic character is "happy" (that is accepting) no matter what his circumstances. BTW, I too love Donnie Darko, but I haven't watched it since high school. I'm just afraid that it may not live up to my memory of it. I'm very interested in your analysis of it.
I'm not claiming this is the only interpretation but for me the development of the "leader" / policeman hints at the relationship of heroism and fascism. At first the viewer identifies with the "strong" leader but he turns out to be obsessed with taking control of the situation to the point of becoming completely merciless. Towards the end he's so obsessed with being "the good guy" (from his perspective) or being right that he literally kills the last people (except for the one person who escapes) he supposedly tried to "lead" through the maze. I think it's very apt that he is a policeman as he believes that he knows what's better for other people and does not hesitate to use brute force to enforce his perspective on others.
I think that...he became a policeman because he has a take charge attitude. Not that he personally wants to be better. But he's easily affected by stress..which is why he was abusive as well. The cube was his punishment. They ALL did things that were deserving of punishment...except the mental guy. He was put there as the....lab rat that has already proven it's worth with other traps and scenarios. An experiment to see if "this rat" can save these other "rats" Humans deal with stress differently. Why he became the leader is because others wouldn't. It's not like he had any opposers. Later on...when he's been leading them for a while, everyone starts to become a bit more anxious and stressed...he feels it's his job to keep them together..even though he is also anxious and stressed. And getting riled up and demoralized could also mean death...soo...seeing others break down was starting to wear on his on psyche. he acted out irrationally, but rationally, he just wanted to keep everyone moving and not breaking down..which increases the chance of NOT getting out alive. But...then he broke.
@@agonleed3841 I don't necessarily disagree on the level of psychology... but i was talking more about it being an allegory for the different implications of power. On the one hand, yes he is taking charge because noone else would but then he becomes more and more convinced that him being in charge means that he's the only one who can make reasonable decisions for the group.
"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound." - Fredrich Nietzsche If something appears "deep" and/or has the goal of doing so, then it is not philosophy but rhetoric.
People often use this sort of thinking to reject anything remotely complex or thought-provoking on the grounds that if it is complex or thought-provoking, it is inherently somehow false. That only things obviously simple are to be trusted or considered. Specious grounds for anti-intellectualism.
The words "strive" and "must" shape the meaning greatly. The first two sentences are about intention and pursuit. The last is about interpretation derived from jumping to conclusions. Not being able to see the answer doesn't mean something must be profound, but that does not mean it can't be either.
There's a hidden gem horror movie called Vanishing on 7th St, I highly recommend it recreationally and for a video (I'm hoping to get it noticed by more people xD It's worth the attention)
I'm just continually in awe of the simple concept and how you can do this film with one minimal but totally versatile set. That to me is the genius of this movie.
I always took it that the purpose of the cube didn't matter, the cube was just another product of human ingenuity and creativity. Many of the greatest tools of society (everything from language, to the legal system, to the internet) don't have single inventors behind them. They've emerged from human ingenuity and creativity as products of our combined ideas and works. Incredible complexity emerges without any of us as individuals being able to understand the whole. Some of those products are good, some are bad, some are indifferent. And that's where the cube lies; somewhere amongst our "boundless human stupidity".
Oh my god, I'm so glad to see you cover Cube! A friend talked me into watching this, and I went in with a lot of trepidation and reservation on what I thought would be a shallow gore-fest and came out with one of my favorite horror movie experiences. I think the movie is brilliant in some many ways. I love how they managed to use their low budget of just two rooms to make such a compelling setting as the Cube. The characters were great in how they develop with time, with my expectations on Quentin and Worth in particular reversing so dramatically through the course of things. I was convinced Worth would be the first one to go once the group joined up as the obvious worthless cynic of the group, but he turned out to be the hero I never would have expected. And Quentin turned out to be a terrifying monster and worse than the Cube itself, which claimed fewer lives than he did, which is a really interesting examination on the human condition in such stressful situations. I love the fact that you were so trapped in the setting with no concept of where or when this was taking place, which really drew me into the story with the rest of the cast. I was both terribly saddened by the ending and deeply satisfied by it, and I actually really appreciate the ambiguity (though I can't help but yell on subsequent watches "Why, Worth? Why?! Escape first, existential crisis later!") The sequel, Hypercube, is actually a fun watch, though it's much more about the plot and intrigue than the characters, whereas the first is all about the characters. The third... well, let's just say it's the only entry in the trilogy I've only watched once. The first really is an understated gem, though, and I recommend it to everyone. And if anyone ever decides to create a Cube-inspired escape room (sans death traps), I'd be there in a heartbeat.
I think Hypercube is good in a "so bad it's good" kinda way. I genuinely laughed hysterically at scenes like: Jerry's death by cgi. Simon claiming he "collects knives." The two people who died having sex. Simon attempting to save the old woman only to end up stabbing her. The ending and jump out of the cube. Jerry claiming there's a "shift in gravity" despite continuing to climb like he did before. The general who wants to die yet proceeds to scream in agony and grabs the main characters leg in attempts to save himself after the trap starts killing him. The botched crappy intro when compared to the first.
the hero killed the girl by refusing to leave, without even knowing if she would be safe after they left the cube, because they didn't know where they were, and who would be outside
You also have to take into consideration that the characters are named after prisons: Kazan, Leavenworth, San Quentin State Prison, The Penitentiary of Rennes, Alderson Federal Prison, Holloway Women's Prison, i. e. that the film talks about needless brutality of the quote on quote rehabilitation of criminals. We don't know who these people are other then the roles they say they had (police officer, architect, Free clinic doctor, math wizz student, prison escapist), but somehow have been labelled felons who must be treated as subhuman beings and as such must endure unreasonable punishment.
I would always see this on TV in the 90's on cable. As an adult I appreciate the movie much more, and I appreciate every detail of this film. From the sounds of the doors opening to each panel on the wall. Also the music is subtle but very sci-fi and creepy. They somehow made a tiny cube set, feel MASSIVE and never-ending.
I loved this movie. I had low expectations when I first saw it. So I was pleasantly surprised. It reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode. Then again look at the other films out at the same time. I liked the meta message of blindness being the enemy. It was refreshing to me. There was no evil villain or genius behind it all. That blindness can be just as dangerous. And yeah Nicole is easy on my eyes.
just because it wouldn't help them escape doesn't mean it didn't a villain, there is nothing in the movie that indicates that the theory that it was pointless is true, since whoever put them in the cube expected them to escape
The first film is tragically underrated and one of the best Canadian horror films. The sequels are unjustifiable garbage. They missed the point of the original, made no sense, and are poorly produced with bad acting, continuously worse set design and bad writing.
What's the film where 5 people are trapped in an elevator & 1 of them is the devil. I think I might have answered my own question "devil". Any1 seen that?
WHOA I literally JUST thought about that movie 10 seconds ago then read your comment! I can’t recall the name but I enjoyed the premise of that movie. Just checked. You’re right it is called Devil 👍
I watched these on Netflix right before going to work one evening, so I'm excited to see you cover these films! They were such an oddball trilogy, and you're as well-spoken as always.
its about society. we create it and become trapped by it but if we dont know why it exists we will turn into animals. i like the idea of "no one is in charge". when he talks about how it was built i feel like he is discussing how our systems of governments came into existence. but like any film it is a mirror we can use to examine ideas we have. everything in film seems metaphorical by nature.
sort of referencing almost overdosing levels of cynicism on looking at the burocracy of our society that has become borderline something out of a 80's parody. People dont question anything anymore on the grand scheme, just go after their own selfish desires because they are just a piece of the burocratic "cube" and they are okay with it. its scary how real this movie gets despite never showing the outside.
lmao I think it's about some people who were stuck inside of a cube. Testing the effectiveness of the cube..for what reason? No one remembers nor cares...that's literally what the white guy in the movie...who helped design it, says. i think it's NOT about beuracracy..whether just another thing that is affected by the same ideas that are in our society as well. Our society is affected by people who plan things, maybe screw it up, then kinda drop that project, leaving us to have to deal with the aftermath. BUT That doesn't mean this cube movie means that. The Cube is just a cube. Created by some people, who test it with subjects..but then is forgotten about or just dropped. The two scenarios are affected by the same TYPE of situation..doesn't mean either one is linked to the other however
Cube is one of my favourite films. I’ve deliberately avoided the sequels from fear that they will spoil the first one. Cube never gets boring. I’ve even listened to it on headphones while commuting and enjoyed it perfectly well as a radio play
Cube is one of my favorites, I've always thought it was a metaphor about finding our place in the world. Between finding meaning, selfishness, and doubt, we are unable to see how our purpose is to help each other with our talents. Thanx, Ryan, great as usual... but you forgot to mention the sequels....
thanks for making a vid about the cube- i had hoped you’d pic this one up sooner or later :D i was a teen when it came out n it weirdly stuck with me: the strange philosophy behind it n the many twists n turns. i also feel like it inspired many escape room games (Lie the escape zero games for example) n i really like that. great video, as always. thanks :)
Wow, I suddenly had a flashback to a nightmare I had as a 6 year old. Me in my PJ's being lowered into a dark box with skeletal versions of the berenstain bears... and then a hellish roller coaster ride with my new cackling skeletal companions... not gonna sleep tonight thx
its superb how the third in this trilogy does a full circle and ties in perfectly with the first The Cube.. OMG one of my favourite trilogies EVER!!! ty for this video x
The opening kill is really cool, because it's Richard O'Brien. Aside being known for Rocky Horror, he hosted a game show called The Crystal Maze. I wonder if that's a little inside joke type of nod.
So which one is it? Are you fuggers really gonna make me go watch the beginning of Cube again? (I have it on DVD. Not that I know who this Rocky Horror Show person is, though.) 😂😂😂
You consistently do videos on all the hidden gems I found hidden away in the free on demand section of my folks cable subscription when I was a kid. It’s hits of nostalgia coupled with fresh perspectives to films I’ve seen 100 times already. Lots of fun.
Love your channel and your analysis is always so interesting. I saw cube and really did not know what to make of it but l did not look at the angle of it being about human nature and what happens when one is trapped with strangers constantly in fear and losing hope, not to mention not having food or water. Waking up there, none of them knew how the hell they got there or what the hell was going on that in itself is horrific would scare the shit out of me! Keep up the good work
I find the premise an interesting one, when I watched this awhile ago I thought it was a decent movie. I mean it only had a $300,000,000 budget. And while I want to write a long comment on my thoughts on this movie. Which I thought was a good movie for the budget they had, it would probably take me 1-2 hours. And at that point I might as well make a review on it. What I'll say is I find it way better than the saw movies, it has a lot of twist and turns. And If your good with math and prime numbers I think you'll enjoy it more. My favorite character was the cop for his sort of crazy character and his brute strength. Literally throwing people through doors like nothing. I laughed alot from this movie and was left with a lot of questions. I recommend watching if your into these types of movies.
After watching this movie I thought it wanted to show us that we as humans should work together not against. And it showed us this with near death experience. It just shows that if we work against each other it's gonna be worse for all of us, they just exaggerated it (which makes it better to understand).
One of the reasons why I loved this one so much is that it managed to turn a disadvantage- very low budget- into an absolute triumph. From a practical POV, it's a masterful work of fiction in that with only some changes in lighting and by angling the camera it manages to give us the impression that the characters that are going through an elaborate contraption when in reality they probably only had to actually make very few rooms. It's entirely possible to re-utilize the same room as another just by changing the color and that's just brilliant.
Commenting before I watch. Thank you for covering this Canadian gem. It’s an incredibly efficient low-budget film that is effective as well. It definitely has flaws, but I feel that the positives outweigh the negatives. Appreciate the spotlight you’re giving it!
Good video! one of my favorites, but really, I think the point of the film is literally existentialism, even the absurd, considering the cube itself is run and operated based on logic, yet its purpose and whatever is outside is completely unknown and is operating outside of logic itself. Basically, its the existential dread of many horror films, kind of lovecraftian in nature, that facing the undeniable alienation of the irrational, is incredible horrifying and could lead us to insanity. What I like most about this is that the one to get out, the man with autism, is actually the most capable of handling it, as the social "cubes" are irrelevant to him, he operates on pure logic, hence he does not concern himself with the why and is able to get out.
I don't even remember how old I was when I first watched the movie. The idea of a cube and rooms moving around reminded me of Rubik's cube, but it's a horror movie, of course I wanted to see it. I never really thought about the fact that the traps only killed 2 people in the entirety of the film, but the idea that the person seemingly least invested in the stakes of the game was the only one to survive really made me think. The fact that the good guy slowly devolved into a killer was truly horrifying, even more so than the traps. It's a really good movie, I wish I could find a well translated DVD copy for myself.
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my mother used to have the DVD if this movie, mainly for David Hewlett, who we both love in Stargate Atlantis. never had the chance to see it before the dvd went missing. the video was super interesting, and I enjoyed the analysis. good work!!
Ok. So I had been wanting to watch The Cube since forever. I have also wanted to watch your video, but decided the film has too far a lofty reputation to just get spoiled. I decided I had to watch it. I just watched it. Firstly, I was blown away by the fact that the nature of the cube, mathematically, holds up. The shere brainpower and writing skill to slowly reveal the maths alone. But most importantly, the most oppressive feeling I got was of essence, of origin, of reduction. It felt like looking into the Higgs Boson. Of the beginning framework, of the first base material for all of the universe. The Cube felt like someone had taken all of existence and reduced it down to its bare essentials. It had taken the entireity of the human experience, of the universe itself, mortality, and woven itself within itself like an ouroboros. Or, justly, a tesseract. 'You have some time. You will experience death risk. You are not alone -- unless you are. Your obstacles are the nature of the universe. You have only a scrap at salvation. There are no answers.' These are the basic building blocks of all human understanding and the universe in which we operate. The Cube somehow has taken the entirety of all that Is, and put it into one location, one experience. How it came to be? Unknowable. Why it came to be? Unknowable. But the nature of these characters struggling against the Cube; to unwrap it, to beat it, to thrive within it. That's the definition of the mortal human life. Of all life that exists -- to endure and pursue regardless of no ultimate explanation as to why we do it, and for what. We just simply MUST. We can struggle and attempt survival in groups, or isolated. Literally all variables of choices we can make, and the reality that at any moment, any set of variables could end with personal or gigantic catastrophe and human loss. But the Cube will continue to rotate, unhindered by our bleeding and suffering within it.
YES. The first one had amazing practical effects (the decapitation scene while the body keeps rolling from the figure skates) and a great set of characters. Skye is one of my favorite final girls of the 2010's. Really underrated horror slasher that I purchased on DVD
I finally watched this movie after all this time and it was amazing. The production, the effects, the script, the acting, the score, the pacing, and the ending… ohhh the ending.
Hi! I know I'm really late to this but I just rewatched this review after exploring into more existentialist pieces of writing and the absurdist of Cube really reminds me of Kafka's Metamorphosis and the idea that you need to let go of preconceived notions to fully create your own understanding.
The creepiest part for me when I watched it back in the day half asleep and not from the beginning was that there was no real reason behind the cube's existence. No one was watching you struggle and die there through the cameras for scientific or entertainment purposes, there was no moral to any of it - just a bunch of people left to their own devices in a cruel, meaningless trap with no exit or any other output whatsoever. Of course, it's only my head canon, them people were definitely cherry picked to be able to solve the puzzle (and its sequels are all about silly conspiracies, after all). But I like to believe that this is where all the "deep meaning" ends and not caring, alien void of senselessness begins. Like someone threw a kitten into a drain pipe and walked away.
it was true for the first movie. The white guy actually proves it. He was part of the development. But he only knew of his part. Didn't know exactly what it was for..obviously until he was put in it. I also think they were picked. But like a science experiment. And while they weren't being watched, the experiment was still happening...funded by a large government or dropped, but still studied by a few dedicated workers who just wanted to see it through? Idk. But I think the experiment was this: The mental kid..the guy who was mentally handicapped, but also obviously great with patterns...he was the lab rat that has proven his skills in other situations. And like scientists do, they test that same rat in multiple situations....so he was dropped in to see if "this rat" can help save the other "rats"..the other people. They DID choose people who had skills, but only those who also had a past deserving..or at least in the chooser's mind, deserving of anything bad that would happen to them in the cube. And they just let it all happen. Waiting to see how many made it to the end.
Thanks. I really like this film (I own it). To me, it's one of those few movies that leaves the ultimate interpretation up to you (and doesn't suck by doing so). But what really fascinates me about this film is how basic it is - and how cheap it must have been to make it - yet how effective it is. They would've had to build at most 2 'cubes'. Then they'd just have to move them in relation to each other (side by side, or top to bottom), depending on how the characters are supposed to progress. After that, just change the color that lights the panels, and viola! That's brilliant. Hollywood so often gets trapped in its own hype. I'd like to see more movies of this sort of stripped-down nature (that were still sci-fi, adventure, etc.) tavi.
Donnie Darko one of my favorite films and I've seen it many times. I adore almost every part of the movie and have listened to the cast commentaries more than once. It and Nightcrawler cemented Jake Gyllenhaal as my favorite actor. I also love the cube series and have watched each of them a few times.
Not sure if you cover video games, but can you please cover Metal Gear Solid 2? It is probably the most surreal video game or movie experience I've ever witnessed.
LedZep's X i suggest you take look at Xenogears if you haven't. I'm a huge fan of Kojima. But this game is also high level and has great themes. As great as Metal Gear Solid series imho :)
There is "The Philosophy of Time Travel" by Roberta Sparrow, the book it's based on and Donnie Darko: Deus Ex Machina - The Philosophy of Donnie Darko (2016) & I would see the film, then read and watch everything about it - and then re-watch it, as it's legendary.
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*What's the weirdest film you've ever seen?*
The 1989 film Society, quite odd
Your Mom ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
'Under the Silver Lake' is up there
Murder party.
Swiss Army Man, but I love it
I'm surprised there was no mention of the characters all being named after prisons.
Whoa, that certainly adds some depth
@@handfulmousefly Yeah, its a pretty famous Cube fact.
I never knew that!
Blake Long
I didn't either!
He didn’t realise? I love this film & I had no idea!
Also to note: The only person to survive was the one who never questioned the function of the cube, but took everything at face value.
He was also the most innocent of them all, the other characters had some sort of bone to pick or simply weren't innocent people
To be fair though, Leavin and Worth didn't die because they were defeated by the Cube, they died because the movie ass pulled Quentin coming in out of nowhere (really, he just so happened to be able to avoid ALL the trap rooms by pure luck and managed to blindly make his way to the room the others were in, even after sustaining a head injury? ) and killed them. It honestly kinda ruined the end for me because it felt like the director wanted a downer ending, logic be damned.
Nightmare Fanatic Honestly it’s definitely possible as he wasn’t a dumbass, he was a cop for fucks sake, also it was a neck injury not head injury
@@lilburb9001 so tf what, he couldn't have known any of the info he NEEDED em for, the only logical explanation for me is, he was eaves dropping from rooms the group before him solved, but his acting and whole character ruined the whole movie, nigga looked off coke the whole movie
“This room is green”
Not related to the philosophy of Cube, but I am a bit of a math nerd in addition to enjoying horror. Therefore one day I was thinking about if Cube ever was simulated since it is so math based. Turns out it was based on a math paper, and there are some basic rules inherent in how the cube functions. So I set out to simulate it, the original simulation was only based on a 5x5x5 cube, of which I was able to generate. However the issue I encountered was the trap to safe room ratio, there is an inherent conflict, literally. Based on the rules set out in the paper, all safe rooms move, which means you are limited in the number of viable room codes because the codes define the movement because safe rooms might collide with other safe rooms. The worse case scenario is one room wants to move into the spot another room is in, and vice versa. So the rooms are deadlocked. The problem with two rooms in a deadlock, if they aren't deadlocked from their original position, is that the cube can never return to its original configuration therefore n one leaves.But trying to create such a cube made me realize the necessity of having empty spaces in the cube itself to allow cubes to move, and looking through the deleted scenes of Cube, that is exactly one deleted scene where they discover empty space. So the 26x26x26 have a particular composition of safe and trap rooms along with empty space.
But at the end of the day the issue with such a cube of that size is time. With a 26x26x26 cube each moving cell might need to make so many movements to return to their original configuration, some cells might need to make their own circuit more than others, it could possibly take a month for the cube to reach its original configuration, if each moving cell is stationary for 5 minutes at a time, to allow someone to leave. But all I ended up proving is what the only bit of certainty it could provide about the cube, it is a death trap.
Chloe Malveaux I didn’t even read past the first 2 sentences, but you get a like for the effort alone.
My brain hurts
Thanks for your coment. Really interesting analysis
@@zaferc2743 At least you tried.
@@esppupsnkits4560 If I don't get these thoughts out that is when MY brain hurts.
When I first saw Cube, it reminded me of the short story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream." I think it's that fear of helplessness and hopelessness brought upon by some higher power destroying you for no reason you can fathom. Existential dread, indeed.
Yes. I never saw the connection until your comment but you're so right. Cube really is like a Harlan Ellison short story.
you ( might ) like the alastair reynolds story ( Diamond Dogs )
Nice comparison but the only things it really has in common r the intellectual concepts, not any real physical or superficial plot similarities.
Arsenic Wit capitalism ?
Arsenic Wit I hope somebody does the short story and video game justice with a great movie
Some students picked this for a movie for a class viewing/discussion in my Grade 8 Humanities class with no warning. It was slightly traumatizing and entirely hilarious to watch our teacher slowly realize how disturbing it was!
So your teacher didn't realize that after the first scene in which a guy literally gets cut into cubes? But yeah that seems legit
@@KompetenteEnte your school show movies containing gore, psychological horror and math?
@@lavish263team5 oh god, the math, that's the traumatizing thing of all
@@lavish263team5 imagine living outside of US
@R3qu1s well that escalated quickly XD
I remember watching this film on Netflix without knowing anything about it. Honestly one of the most weirdest most yet thrilling movie sessions of my life.
Nik Jewell yes i really like this though, its strange but interesting this is
the cube has always been a analogy for existence to me. rewatch it in that vein.
There's another on tubi idk if it's worth watching though
Bro same. Me and a bunch of friends found it on Netflix while baked af. It was wild.
Zack Ceasar Yeah sure, grammar, yeah. This ain’t school.
Nice cut from The Hero of a Thousand Faces to a man with no face
I’m glad you caught that :)
The Victim with Zero Faces
looked like a watermelon full of cottage cheese
I always thought that the cube was an allegory for the life experience. The characters wake up in the cube, much like birth, and they all have their own distinct personalities, which evolve over time. As they make their way through the cube, they try to understand it, they try to understand their involvement in it, ascribe to it some sort of purpose,, etc. Some of these characters begin to contradict who they are, a lot like how people in real life change over time. As we endure triumphs and tribulations, and are affected by them,, so are the characters in The cube. Some people can handle life a lot easier then others, and the choices we make in our lives truly dictate our fates. In the film, the characters are faced with making decisions that will affect the outcome of their lives, just like the choices we make have there outcomes as well. In the end, the only way out of life is death, and the only way out of the cube is death. The nihilistic character says it best when he says that there is no purpose to it, that it exists just because, and that if it were not used it would have no purpose. Think about existence in the same way, we don't know why we are here, we don't know what we are supposed to do, and the choices we make could affect us so monumentally that we could die if we don't make the right ones. All we do know, is that we exist, and while some people might grasp to different religions, or philosophies, in the end we extrapolate from our own individual experiences, and try to put purpose where there seemingly isn't any. It's a nihilistic concept, but not a hopeless one, as it leaves the individual free to find their own meaning in the existence they have been bombarded into experiencing, thus they will find a purpose for that existence.
This deserves more likes
I really enjoy this analysis, regardless if I agree with it or not. It’s pretty well thought despite or because of its brevity.
@@LeoMastroTV my friend, I was merely trying to share my opinion of a film that I have loved since it's first release back in the late 90s. I'm sorry that my lengthy assessment of the film offended you, and made you feel as though you were in some way inferior. This is not my intent, as I was just sharing my interpretation of a movie that is laced with ambiguity. A lot of people have their own interpretation of a movie's meaning, aside from what they are shown on the surface. But please, do go on about how much of a smart-ass you think I am, because I'd rather be called to Smart than too stupid. Also, I have never taken a film class, at least a college level film class. Maybe you should take one though, perhaps you will learn how to convey your opinions about the films that are important to you with more clarity, and maybe not feel so attacked by others.
@@glass.hammer thank you!
@@LeoMastroTV man honestly get a life, your generalising people who are analysing the concept of things in entertaining movies or some. You cant just mix up someone who is making a meaning out of something which was intended to have a meaning to just a nerd fam. Man honestly your stupidity shocks me and you sound like some teenager who is a fan of drakes new shit or sum instead of what the men be listening to (kendrick lamar)
ah yes, the five personality traits: smart, calm, domineering, mysterious, *autistic*
Calling Helen "Calm" was a major stretch.
She was high strung throughout the whole movie and a total bitch most of the time.
I feel like he didn't put enough thought into how the characters behaved or even enough thought into what he was saying.
@@SuzukiHalwende i haven't seen the movie lol i can't comment on that i was mainly just laughing at "autistic" being a personality trait because same.
@@LezbeOswald I have seen the movie, and he actually has personality traits beyond just being autistic to a basic degree.
It turns out he is a lobotomised ex worker for the company that made the cube. Good twist. Edit: according to the prequel
I saw Cube on pay-per-view (remember that shit?) shortly after it came out when I was probably around seven or eight years old. At the time I thought it was just this super cool sci-fi horror, scary for its imagery. After rewatching it many years later, I can firmly say it's one of the most terrifying films I've ever seen. The sheer concept of the cube itself and all its intricacies, as well as the degrading sanity of the characters, is fucking horrifying. The ambiguity of the cube's origin and the nihilistic reasoning that, "If you built something, wouldn't you want to use it?" only further adds to the horror of it all.
It's a seriously underrated movie, and though there's some fun overacting in there, it's a brilliant plot with disturbing aesthetics and great characters, and it's fucking fantastic.
For me aswell the concept of the cube, its emptiness yet vastness amazes me and horrifies me, im not particularly claustrophobic, but when watching this movie, with your eyes focused on the screen, it kinda makes me feel like im inside the cube along with the characters, as we viewers know just as much as the characters about the cube it makes me feel lost aswell.
@Coded Perfection Shit man, that film must of fucked up your childhood real bad. Coraline is a weird idea for a kids film, don't know why they targeted to that audience. Thank god they didn't make it live action lmao
When the nihilistic office worker mentions how he knew a contractor who worked on just a piece of the entire cube project, and how they never knew who they were working for and his team was strictly instructed to build an isolated part of the structure to avoid any wierd "suspicion"... That really chilled me to the bone.
Because this is exactly how things are done if you want to build structures in secret. Such a small detail, but it's a terrifying one for me.
"I'm a massive cynic."
We're aware you're Northern Irish, yes.
*northern
northern irish m8
@Adam Courier Yes, but that ensues with any kind of Irish.
Top comment right here😂
first thought i had after the video started was "dang, irish level is well over 9000 up in here.."
So you’re finally covering one of the first horror films I watched as a young child. Thank you for bringing these memories back😂
crusader 1 i deadass wanted him as a pet lmao
Marc-Anthony Martin that was the first “horror” I’ve ever seen
I always thought this was a thriller/suspense movie, never a horror movie...
gowary i was 6-7 y.o it was a horror movie for me. Never rewatched it since then but still remember lots of it
This movie inspired one of my reoccurring childhood nightmares. Twisted house that moved and was a maze full of all the things that scared me as a kid. Eventually I memorized the route out and learned how to wake myself up from bad dreams and stopped having that dream and the reoccurring dreams as well.
When do we get a Donnie Darko analysis? I would really REALLY love to see that
I agree with my fellow clan member wholeheartedly :)
Donnie Darko felt like a gentle hand of grief. It’s been getting teased in the past decade. When I watched it as a child I bawled for days because the sacrifice felt like a resinous cloak of every emotion somebody may feel. But you feel so tenderly toward the protagonist, his knowing turn felt so much more affective to me. The atmospheric blues in the “notorious” dance scene laced and lanceted by the flowering fire. There’s so much lovely about it, I don’t think it’s just pseudo-schlock the way people often claim. It kinda breaks my heart and all. I’ll necrotize going on about this, but I’d dearly like to see that from you as well, Ryan!
@@gelitrippingkiddo5907 That's so poetic, well said. I wish I could show such eloquence, but I struggle to wield language to express my ideas in such a way.
Donnie Darko is a crap story... Aim higher...
Let me guess, you think Stephen King is a good writer too?
I'd like to see a Donnie Darko analysis because I still have no clue what that film is about
Has my favorite lines from a movie "There is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan. "
The most impactful moment in the whole movie is when one of the prisoners admits he helped build the outer shell, and outright gives simultaneously the best and worst explanation for why they're all there: because without them there the cube is pointless. That's all.
Cude 1 is great
Cube 2 is bat shit insane in the best way
Cube 3: Ass until the ending which makes the whole series worth it.
Meh, 2 hypercube is god awful.
3 at least had Jax to entertain the shit out of me
Hypercube was weird.
Thumbs up for someone else appreciating how ludicrous Cube 2 is in a positive light.
ASTRONOMICAL.
They all had something I found entertaining about them.
YES holy shit I just watched this movie. I'm very excited for this.
One of the very few ones I saw when they screened in cinemas. The other weird one being Existenz.
Newer ones would include Chronicle, a Serbian Film and maybe Green Inferno
I love this movie and the way it gives you no sense of place or time or particularly being on planet earth. Also your hair looks really nice today.
@Massimo Casella what are you on about?
*Everybody gangster till da square go 3d*
LMAO
Lmao
I saw it as a study in existentialism. There is no meaning and how trying to find meaning in meaninglessness effects the psyche. 🤷🏽♂️
Could be why the only one who didn't question the function of the cube was the only one to escape.
Talk about a real mind fuck
I interpret it that way too. Especially when they end up where they originally started. In the end it made no difference whether or not they navigated the maze or not. Kind of like life- it doesn't matter if you live it to your fullest or do nothing with it, the end result is the same for everyone.
*affects
it reminded me of ,,no exit" by satre, so yeah it probably is meant to be that way.
I’d easily put Cube up there with some of my favorite horror movies. Worth’s speech about nobody really being in control of the cube got to me as a 17 year old budding horror fan. It just flew in the face of every “evil government is behind it” Story I ever watched and to think that something so huge and dangerous such as the cube had no real purpose but was used anyway to torture people just because absolutely terrified me.
is cube considered horror though?
I like it. It's awesome..I just think horror gets thrown around too much.
Suspense Thriller seems to fit it more
My exposure to big government contracts tells me, noone is actually in control. A requirement to advance some technology or theory progresses till noone really understands it all. It's the fear of AI, once it upgrades and rewrites itself a few times, it will surpass human comprehension.
And then Cube Zero goes "haha evil government cartoon villain lmao"
@@agonleed3841 I think once you add a man getting graphically sliced into _cubes_ by a giant cheese slicer and another having his face literally melted off on camera a movie goes from suspense thriller to horror. Not to imply that graphic violence is a requirement of horror but I think it definitely moves a movie into that genre (war movies may be the one exception).
@@ClockworkWyrm yea..i count horror as givng a feeling of fear. gore just like inwar movies, isn't what makes it horror.
There are some asian movies that are just pure action, or even have elements of supernatural that doesn't count gore as horror
Don't know why, but Cube (and it's sequel, Hypercube) reminded me so much of the movie "Exam" (2009)
To summerize, it was a movie about several strangers taking a test for a job interview. They're all locked in the examination room and the test has only one question, where the protagonist's job is to figure out what said question is.
It was probably the ambiguity of the objective or the fact that the test became entirely irrelevant by the end of the movie. Either way it's worth a watch.
idk...
Cube had them locked in rooms, having to travel or survive each room.
That exam movie, at least how you described it, seemed a bit boring. Like..they're just in a room..sure, some shit happens...but they're just in a room trying to figure out something...just in a room?
@@agonleed3841 that's a very simple and close minded interpretation. all kinds of drama and action and...stuff can happen in a single room
@@brightestlight9462 lmao not an interpretation. It's all happening in one room. And I'm basing it off your description.
Were I to describe the movie 1408, another movie where it literally takes place in just that one hotel room, and basically only one character, I'd probably add the essence of the supernatural events...or like saw...though I also found that movie boring also
@@agonleed3841 my point is that if you think something being in one room is boring purely because it's just in one room, you lack patience and imagination and i feel sorry for you that you can't appreciate it.
Nice to see Exam get a mention by someone. I really enjoyed that one, it reminded me a lot of modern 12 Angry Men, with a different plot obviously.
My dad produced Cube. I remember being on the set when I was like 4 or 5 and it scared the shit outta me. I’m still good friends with Julien Richings (dude from the beginning) to this day. Always happy to see this get some praise✌️
Wow you're actually friends one of the actors? That's gotta be a blessing lol
"I hate pseudo intellectualism " "My favorite movie is Donnie Darko."
lol wut5
that part HURTS to hear
I think that's a pretty thoughtful film. A lot of details in the way it is written that set it apart. Either way it's a very good movie, undeniably well made.
i mean the entirety of the essay is pseudo intellectual lol
Burn Fornever wtf still using the wut5 meme in 2019? Smh
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I saw cube for the first time about 10 years ago at this point, we watched it in school as part of a philosophy class talking about human behaviour (normally and under stress) and discussed it. To this day it has been one of the most memorable films I ever watched, the premise and movie being so simple in setup and yet you could talk and argue about it for hours on end.
watched in school? your teacher is a weirdo lmao
Cube is one of my all time favorites. Sure it’s a little dated and cheesy but the premise alone stays with you long after the credits roll. It will always be an underrated classic
It's not underrated as there is nothing to credit it with to begin with. And it's not a "classic" - it's not all that old and it's certainly not a high water-mark by any means.
@@nl3064 That's just my opinion man lol I think it can still be underrated and I think the 90's were a while ago. maybe cult classic would have been a more accurate term because people definitely enjoy this film. I'm not saying its Citizen Kane but I think its a fun horror movie and most people I talk to enjoy it. why you gotta be a hater?
@@colinconsidine5209 'Cult Classic' is the word you're looking for. I'm tired of people tossing around words like "classic" and "underrated" and "Hidden Gem", etc. Those words have lost their meaning because of comments like these.
Classic - 1. 'judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality or outstanding of its kind ' 2. Remarkably and instructively typical' (i.e. like an archetype or golden standard)
Underrated - 'underestimate the value, extent, or importance of.'
Does this random nothing you like match either of those phrases? Also I like how you think "wow, the 1990's, so classical - something in its 20's is so antiquated'. Let me guess, you were born this century? When you talk like that, you give away your age pretty quickly. I like how you at least acknowledge that it's no Citizen Kane, though by calling something a Classic, you are using it as a high standard. And by calling it underestimated, you are saying it has a higher value. How is it of any importance or merit or higher extent than your enjoyment? What is there to appreciate in this commonality that you can't get anywhere else? How does it stack up against all the works that actually distinguished themselves that you don't know? That's my rant, sorry if it's hostile and long-winded, but hopefully now you know where I'm coming from.
@@nl3064 bro I'm 32. nice try! and I know what underrated and classic means. Who says I have to adhere to your definition of it? Are you one of those people who just argues with people in the comments? lol "Arghhh these millennials don't know what they're talking about!" " get off my lawn!" you seem really conceited like you think you know whats up and can talk down to people trying to guess my age. lol to quote the Lebowski "that's just like your opinion man" Which is also a classic, cult classic, whatever you want to call it. I wasn't trying to write an essay about it. I just like the movie lol jeez. You're the reason i don't usually comment. You're the first person to argue with me but let me see if I can infer something about you. I'm not the first person you've argued with. you gave it away pretty quickly. haha
That's not my definition. That's literally the dictionary definition. I looked it up before commenting and directly quoted it. And I'm younger than you, so you couldn't guess my age either. And the way you write makes it seem like you're half your age. That is all.
I always thought it was a metaphor for bureaucracy.
Could be, as I really felt there was an unmentioned hint of Kafka in this movie
sort of referencing almost overdosing levels of cynicism on looking at the burocracy of our society that has become borderline something out of a 80's parody. People dont question anything anymore on the grand scheme, just go after their own selfish desires because they are just a piece of the burocratic "cube" and they are okay with it.
its scary how real this movie gets despite never showing the outside.
lol
it's just "how futurisitc elements can affect people"
think of it in the form of how we are on the internet in today's world.
@@agonleed3841
that's so frickin' stupid. the internet isn't some futuristic puzzle cube that traps people in and murders them in torturous ways. it's a bunch of boxes and server farms that lets people use google and shit.
you can say the cube could be about a lot of things, but summing it down to "book good phone bad" is pretty much what you're saying.
@@bonniejunk Honestly I didn't what it's metaphorical example was, I honestly didn't even care. If anything I think it's the whole "We're the biggest monsters" thing because the traps can kill people but they're emotionless, it's the Humans that mimic the emotionless killing machines.
When you find out they made the whole movie with just one “cube” 🤯🤯🤯
It would have been pretty overboard to build a whole multichamber facility just for a film set.
this is unrelated, but i wanna know how they edited in the traps. And also how the characters act like they get injured even though there's nothing there.
edit: also how are the actors such good climbers that they can climb down or up rooms without failing
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They just do the editing in dark scenes. They also just do acting schools for those scenes before this movie. White has no editing. Unlike cube 2. Which was only white. That made the editing bad.
@@Bongled thanks
They didn't even use real traps
I watched this on LSD and it made me extremely uncomfortable. It felt horrifyingly claustrophobic
Why would you (or anyone, for that matter) do such a thing?
Why are you afraid of Santa?
Haha drugs are soo cool guys right?
@@grrmonkey there is always one of you guys
@@sevenlines2238 I hope so, the world needs more rational people
"Plot Device"
"this room is green"
Yeah seems about right
I saw this film 20 years ago, and I still use the "this room is green" phrase and hand movement to this day, when I'm bored somewhere and about to leave the location/party/situation.
I thought my brain made this movie up... I'm glad to see it's real lol
That's how I felt with the film The Killing Room
Yo, this comment is too real
Plot twist: this movie thought Ryan’s brain made you up
Lmao, sometimes I forget if old movies existed too.
I saw this movie much like real life. Every day feels like another room, with more traps either in the next door, or the one you're in. Life is full of traps, and sometimes its the people you know that might be a trap. Sometimes its the people you don't expect that really help you in life. Aka the autistic dude, or that girl with glasses, or the nilist. Didnt spell that right but whatever.
This movie strongly reminds me of Sartre's play, "No Exit" and of existentialism in general. The characters are "thrown" into a world with no knowledge of how they got there or why they're there, just as we are born into a world against our will with no knowledge of how or why we're here. We spend our lives trying to survive the various traps--both deadly, mundane, and interpersonal--of everyday life, just as the characters try to figure out the puzzles and patterns around them. Many, if not most, of us are obsessed with trying to figure out the intrinsic meaning of it all, but existentialism says that there is no inherent meaning to any of it. We ultimately choose our meaning, and we live and die by it, just as the characters in "Cube" do.
It's interesting how the autistic character with no interest in meaning is the one that escapes the cube. It reminds me of Camus's philosophy: ultimately, everything is absurd and we can only escape the dread of existence by embracing the absurdity of it. Much like Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill over and over, the autistic character is "happy" (that is accepting) no matter what his circumstances.
BTW, I too love Donnie Darko, but I haven't watched it since high school. I'm just afraid that it may not live up to my memory of it. I'm very interested in your analysis of it.
Are you interested in knowing why we're here?
The most terrifying aspect of the cube was math it truly gives you the chills
Why? I never understood the math.
I'm not claiming this is the only interpretation but for me the development of the "leader" / policeman hints at the relationship of heroism and fascism. At first the viewer identifies with the "strong" leader but he turns out to be obsessed with taking control of the situation to the point of becoming completely merciless. Towards the end he's so obsessed with being "the good guy" (from his perspective) or being right that he literally kills the last people (except for the one person who escapes) he supposedly tried to "lead" through the maze. I think it's very apt that he is a policeman as he believes that he knows what's better for other people and does not hesitate to use brute force to enforce his perspective on others.
I think that...he became a policeman because he has a take charge attitude. Not that he personally wants to be better.
But he's easily affected by stress..which is why he was abusive as well.
The cube was his punishment.
They ALL did things that were deserving of punishment...except the mental guy. He was put there as the....lab rat that has already proven it's worth with other traps and scenarios.
An experiment to see if "this rat" can save these other "rats"
Humans deal with stress differently.
Why he became the leader is because others wouldn't.
It's not like he had any opposers.
Later on...when he's been leading them for a while, everyone starts to become a bit more anxious and stressed...he feels it's his job to keep them together..even though he is also anxious and stressed.
And getting riled up and demoralized could also mean death...soo...seeing others break down was starting to wear on his on psyche.
he acted out irrationally, but rationally, he just wanted to keep everyone moving and not breaking down..which increases the chance of NOT getting out alive.
But...then he broke.
@@agonleed3841 I don't necessarily disagree on the level of psychology... but i was talking more about it being an allegory for the different implications of power. On the one hand, yes he is taking charge because noone else would but then he becomes more and more convinced that him being in charge means that he's the only one who can make reasonable decisions for the group.
@@agonleed3841 the punishment thing was put in later in the sequels. So I wouldn't count it in the original movie.
Oh man, I'm so confused that nobody talks about this intense, amazing horror movie!
Same. I learned about this film from my Biotechnology professor. It really is a good horror movie.
Im so confused that no one talks about the awesoms sequals
@@HungL0W
they are pretty decent, but they're not as good as the original
Cube was bad
@@chzbrgr123
okay, in what way?
Just looking at the small clips of this movie makes me anxious.
I'm not the only one right?
Dude this movie is practically the reason why I have anxiety.
You're not, by any chance.
Same bro
It feels so claustrophobic, my anxiety hates it. Put that on the back of the box
Man this movie made me paranoid
Plot twist: This was actually the prototype for Nintendo's Gamecube.
lmao
They hadn't worked out the kinks yet.
"Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound." - Fredrich Nietzsche
If something appears "deep" and/or has the goal of doing so, then it is not philosophy but rhetoric.
I agree and disagree.
People often use this sort of thinking to reject anything remotely complex or thought-provoking on the grounds that if it is complex or thought-provoking, it is inherently somehow false. That only things obviously simple are to be trusted or considered. Specious grounds for anti-intellectualism.
The words "strive" and "must" shape the meaning greatly.
The first two sentences are about intention and pursuit.
The last is about interpretation derived from jumping to conclusions.
Not being able to see the answer doesn't mean something must be profound, but that does not mean it can't be either.
@windsweptspy You know that that quote completely contradicts itself, don't you?
@@DeadlyDanDaMan how so?
Reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode named “ 5 characters in search of an exit “
That actually was the inspiration for Cube
@@TheMilkman-ur5ip what's your source?
@@obscuremoviereviews2508 the Wikipedia article on Cube
There's a hidden gem horror movie called Vanishing on 7th St, I highly recommend it recreationally and for a video (I'm hoping to get it noticed by more people xD It's worth the attention)
TerrinX - Brad Anderson’s 2nd best, behind Session 9
All these movies gave me high anxiety as a child. Haha
I'm just continually in awe of the simple concept and how you can do this film with one minimal but totally versatile set.
That to me is the genius of this movie.
I always took it that the purpose of the cube didn't matter, the cube was just another product of human ingenuity and creativity. Many of the greatest tools of society (everything from language, to the legal system, to the internet) don't have single inventors behind them. They've emerged from human ingenuity and creativity as products of our combined ideas and works. Incredible complexity emerges without any of us as individuals being able to understand the whole. Some of those products are good, some are bad, some are indifferent. And that's where the cube lies; somewhere amongst our "boundless human stupidity".
Oh my god, I'm so glad to see you cover Cube! A friend talked me into watching this, and I went in with a lot of trepidation and reservation on what I thought would be a shallow gore-fest and came out with one of my favorite horror movie experiences. I think the movie is brilliant in some many ways. I love how they managed to use their low budget of just two rooms to make such a compelling setting as the Cube. The characters were great in how they develop with time, with my expectations on Quentin and Worth in particular reversing so dramatically through the course of things. I was convinced Worth would be the first one to go once the group joined up as the obvious worthless cynic of the group, but he turned out to be the hero I never would have expected. And Quentin turned out to be a terrifying monster and worse than the Cube itself, which claimed fewer lives than he did, which is a really interesting examination on the human condition in such stressful situations. I love the fact that you were so trapped in the setting with no concept of where or when this was taking place, which really drew me into the story with the rest of the cast. I was both terribly saddened by the ending and deeply satisfied by it, and I actually really appreciate the ambiguity (though I can't help but yell on subsequent watches "Why, Worth? Why?! Escape first, existential crisis later!")
The sequel, Hypercube, is actually a fun watch, though it's much more about the plot and intrigue than the characters, whereas the first is all about the characters. The third... well, let's just say it's the only entry in the trilogy I've only watched once. The first really is an understated gem, though, and I recommend it to everyone. And if anyone ever decides to create a Cube-inspired escape room (sans death traps), I'd be there in a heartbeat.
I think Hypercube is good in a "so bad it's good" kinda way.
I genuinely laughed hysterically at scenes like:
Jerry's death by cgi.
Simon claiming he "collects knives."
The two people who died having sex.
Simon attempting to save the old woman only to end up stabbing her.
The ending and jump out of the cube.
Jerry claiming there's a "shift in gravity" despite continuing to climb like he did before.
The general who wants to die yet proceeds to scream in agony and grabs the main characters leg in attempts to save himself after the trap starts killing him.
The botched crappy intro when compared to the first.
the hero killed the girl by refusing to leave, without even knowing if she would be safe after they left the cube, because they didn't know where they were, and who would be outside
We love watching videos like this!
One of my favorite horror movies. This film is under-rated. Such a classic.
I love your accent but I literally died when I heard “a hero wuth a thaasind feces” lol. That was hot haha
The accent is so annoying I stopped 4 minutes in.
@@portalmanHUN cringe moment bro
English is not my first language. Is it Australian accent?
Andrea Maciel nah it’s Northern Irish
hæwever
You also have to take into consideration that the characters are named after prisons: Kazan, Leavenworth, San Quentin State Prison, The Penitentiary of Rennes, Alderson Federal Prison, Holloway Women's Prison, i. e. that the film talks about needless brutality of the quote on quote rehabilitation of criminals. We don't know who these people are other then the roles they say they had (police officer, architect, Free clinic doctor, math wizz student, prison escapist), but somehow have been labelled felons who must be treated as subhuman beings and as such must endure unreasonable punishment.
I would always see this on TV in the 90's on cable. As an adult I appreciate the movie much more, and I appreciate every detail of this film. From the sounds of the doors opening to each panel on the wall. Also the music is subtle but very sci-fi and creepy. They somehow made a tiny cube set, feel MASSIVE and never-ending.
I loved this movie. I had low expectations when I first saw it. So I was pleasantly surprised. It reminded me of a Twilight Zone episode. Then again look at the other films out at the same time.
I liked the meta message of blindness being the enemy. It was refreshing to me. There was no evil villain or genius behind it all. That blindness can be just as dangerous.
And yeah Nicole is easy on my eyes.
Cernunnos Wild I agree, feels like the Twilight Zone
just because it wouldn't help them escape doesn't mean it didn't a villain, there is nothing in the movie that indicates that the theory that it was pointless is true, since whoever put them in the cube expected them to escape
This series was so underrated. They're like my favorite B-movies
The first film is tragically underrated and one of the best Canadian horror films. The sequels are unjustifiable garbage. They missed the point of the original, made no sense, and are poorly produced with bad acting, continuously worse set design and bad writing.
I still binge all 3 like once a year 😂
@@longliverocknroll5 Don't pretend the first movie had great acting to begin with lol
Sam Canick Miles better than the sequels. It at least had ONE competent actor, which the sequels did not.
@@longliverocknroll5 True.
What's the film where 5 people are trapped in an elevator & 1 of them is the devil.
I think I might have answered my own question "devil".
Any1 seen that?
WHOA I literally JUST thought about that movie 10 seconds ago then read your comment! I can’t recall the name but I enjoyed the premise of that movie.
Just checked. You’re right it is called Devil 👍
joejitsu034 directed by M. Night Shamalan
@@vegangurly Just remember, if a dropped piece of bread with a spread on it falls on the side with a spread, the devil is nearby.
@@vegangurly Shyamalan. And He didn't direct it. He did the story and he produced it, but not directed.
I remember complaining while watching the movie
It was terrible
I love how David hewlett (Dr Rodney McKay from Stargate) is in both Elevated and Cube
I always think of him as Treed Murray
I watched these on Netflix right before going to work one evening, so I'm excited to see you cover these films! They were such an oddball trilogy, and you're as well-spoken as always.
Oh man, I didn't know Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 4 Episode 17: The Box got a live action film adaptation!
Cube came out WEEEEELL before that episode of the Clone Wars, just sayin'. I love Clone Wars btw so not throwing any shade.
@@ClockworkWyrm it's was a joke
@@haroldbalzac6336 Dangit! r\whoooosh
its about society. we create it and become trapped by it but if we dont know why it exists we will turn into animals.
i like the idea of "no one is in charge". when he talks about how it was built i feel like he is discussing how our systems of governments came into existence.
but like any film it is a mirror we can use to examine ideas we have. everything in film seems metaphorical by nature.
sort of referencing almost overdosing levels of cynicism on looking at the burocracy of our society that has become borderline something out of a 80's parody. People dont question anything anymore on the grand scheme, just go after their own selfish desires because they are just a piece of the burocratic "cube" and they are okay with it.
its scary how real this movie gets despite never showing the outside.
lmao
I think it's about some people who were stuck inside of a cube. Testing the effectiveness of the cube..for what reason? No one remembers nor cares...that's literally what the white guy in the movie...who helped design it, says.
i think it's NOT about beuracracy..whether just another thing that is affected by the same ideas that are in our society as well.
Our society is affected by people who plan things, maybe screw it up, then kinda drop that project, leaving us to have to deal with the aftermath.
BUT
That doesn't mean this cube movie means that.
The Cube is just a cube. Created by some people, who test it with subjects..but then is forgotten about or just dropped.
The two scenarios are affected by the same TYPE of situation..doesn't mean either one is linked to the other however
IIRC the director said in an interview that it was a critique on modern day bureaucracy.
This movie made me paranoid of being put in a cube. Lots of restless nights during my early teens xD
You are in a cube. Your life is symbolic of the movie.
3:27 hero with a thighson fieses is just my favorite
I have such a love for these movies. All three of them are like... movies I could watch over and over again and never get tired of.
Cube is one of my favourite films. I’ve deliberately avoided the sequels from fear that they will spoil the first one. Cube never gets boring. I’ve even listened to it on headphones while commuting and enjoyed it perfectly well as a radio play
Cube Zero was very good in my opinion. You should give it a watch.
Cube is one of my favorites, I've always thought it was a metaphor about finding our place in the world. Between finding meaning, selfishness, and doubt, we are unable to see how our purpose is to help each other with our talents. Thanx, Ryan, great as usual... but you forgot to mention the sequels....
Nobody wants to mention the sequels.
thanks for making a vid about the cube- i had hoped you’d pic this one up sooner or later :D
i was a teen when it came out n it weirdly stuck with me: the strange philosophy behind it n the many twists n turns.
i also feel like it inspired many escape room games (Lie the escape zero games for example) n i really like that.
great video, as always. thanks :)
Wow, I suddenly had a flashback to a nightmare I had as a 6 year old. Me in my PJ's being lowered into a dark box with skeletal versions of the berenstain bears... and then a hellish roller coaster ride with my new cackling skeletal companions... not gonna sleep tonight thx
its superb how the third in this trilogy does a full circle and ties in perfectly with the first The Cube.. OMG one of my favourite trilogies EVER!!! ty for this video x
The second film was really bad.
0/10 No rooms were green.
The opening kill is really cool, because it's Richard O'Brien. Aside being known for Rocky Horror, he hosted a game show called The Crystal Maze. I wonder if that's a little inside joke type of nod.
THAT WAS HIM?! Oh damn, now that’s some sweet trivia!
The opening kill -- Alderson -- is Julian Richings.
So which one is it? Are you fuggers really gonna make me go watch the beginning of Cube again? (I have it on DVD. Not that I know who this Rocky Horror Show person is, though.) 😂😂😂
@@RyanHollinger bro did you read how the characters are all named after us prisons? kinda gives it away!
You consistently do videos on all the hidden gems I found hidden away in the free on demand section of my folks cable subscription when I was a kid. It’s hits of nostalgia coupled with fresh perspectives to films I’ve seen 100 times already.
Lots of fun.
Love your channel and your analysis is always so interesting. I saw cube and really did not know what to make of it but l did not look at the angle of it being about human nature and what happens when one is trapped with strangers constantly in fear and losing hope, not to mention not having food or water. Waking up there, none of them knew how the hell they got there or what the hell was going on that in itself is horrific would scare the shit out of me! Keep up the good work
The prime of X and X numbers mean we are tiangulated at x position : dies
"This room is green"
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!"
I find the premise an interesting one, when I watched this awhile ago I thought it was a decent movie. I mean it only had a $300,000,000 budget. And while I want to write a long comment on my thoughts on this movie. Which I thought was a good movie for the budget they had, it would probably take me 1-2 hours. And at that point I might as well make a review on it. What I'll say is I find it way better than the saw movies, it has a lot of twist and turns. And If your good with math and prime numbers I think you'll enjoy it more. My favorite character was the cop for his sort of crazy character and his brute strength. Literally throwing people through doors like nothing. I laughed alot from this movie and was left with a lot of questions. I recommend watching if your into these types of movies.
Loopy Longplays I think the budget was €3,000,000
Fuck the cop. The bitch died at the end and is burning in hell. Yea smart choice to just kill off your team.
Actually $300.000,00 as I remember
I think you added a few extra zeros mate.
if it really had a $300M budget then clearly one of the producers embezzled most of it.
YES FINALLY, i've been waiting for this day for so long :,)
After watching this movie I thought it wanted to show us that we as humans should work together not against. And it showed us this with near death experience. It just shows that if we work against each other it's gonna be worse for all of us, they just exaggerated it (which makes it better to understand).
One of the reasons why I loved this one so much is that it managed to turn a disadvantage- very low budget- into an absolute triumph. From a practical POV, it's a masterful work of fiction in that with only some changes in lighting and by angling the camera it manages to give us the impression that the characters that are going through an elaborate contraption when in reality they probably only had to actually make very few rooms.
It's entirely possible to re-utilize the same room as another just by changing the color and that's just brilliant.
Commenting before I watch.
Thank you for covering this Canadian gem. It’s an incredibly efficient low-budget film that is effective as well. It definitely has flaws, but I feel that the positives outweigh the negatives.
Appreciate the spotlight you’re giving it!
I like pontypool
@@KanishQQuotes I know a guy who grew up in Pontypool. He claims the movie is 100% accurate.
Good video! one of my favorites, but really, I think the point of the film is literally existentialism, even the absurd, considering the cube itself is run and operated based on logic, yet its purpose and whatever is outside is completely unknown and is operating outside of logic itself.
Basically, its the existential dread of many horror films, kind of lovecraftian in nature, that facing the undeniable alienation of the irrational, is incredible horrifying and could lead us to insanity.
What I like most about this is that the one to get out, the man with autism, is actually the most capable of handling it, as the social "cubes" are irrelevant to him, he operates on pure logic, hence he does not concern himself with the why and is able to get out.
First saw this movie years ago on cable. Instantly loved it.
Fun fact: David Hewlett played Hank in "Elevated" and plays Worth in "Cube".
I don't even remember how old I was when I first watched the movie. The idea of a cube and rooms moving around reminded me of Rubik's cube, but it's a horror movie, of course I wanted to see it. I never really thought about the fact that the traps only killed 2 people in the entirety of the film, but the idea that the person seemingly least invested in the stakes of the game was the only one to survive really made me think. The fact that the good guy slowly devolved into a killer was truly horrifying, even more so than the traps. It's a really good movie, I wish I could find a well translated DVD copy for myself.
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I JUST rewatched this movie. I seen it as a tween and I had to re watch it as an adult to get a better understanding of the movie.
It's quite entertaining watching your beard come and go
my mother used to have the DVD if this movie, mainly for David Hewlett, who we both love in Stargate Atlantis. never had the chance to see it before the dvd went missing. the video was super interesting, and I enjoyed the analysis. good work!!
This film and The Circle are my favorite films where it's basically a one scene film where you are meant to find the red herring
Absolute legend. This film needs more attention and analysis now.
Ok. So I had been wanting to watch The Cube since forever. I have also wanted to watch your video, but decided the film has too far a lofty reputation to just get spoiled. I decided I had to watch it. I just watched it.
Firstly, I was blown away by the fact that the nature of the cube, mathematically, holds up. The shere brainpower and writing skill to slowly reveal the maths alone.
But most importantly, the most oppressive feeling I got was of essence, of origin, of reduction. It felt like looking into the Higgs Boson. Of the beginning framework, of the first base material for all of the universe. The Cube felt like someone had taken all of existence and reduced it down to its bare essentials. It had taken the entireity of the human experience, of the universe itself, mortality, and woven itself within itself like an ouroboros. Or, justly, a tesseract.
'You have some time. You will experience death risk. You are not alone -- unless you are. Your obstacles are the nature of the universe. You have only a scrap at salvation. There are no answers.'
These are the basic building blocks of all human understanding and the universe in which we operate. The Cube somehow has taken the entirety of all that Is, and put it into one location, one experience. How it came to be? Unknowable. Why it came to be? Unknowable. But the nature of these characters struggling against the Cube; to unwrap it, to beat it, to thrive within it. That's the definition of the mortal human life. Of all life that exists -- to endure and pursue regardless of no ultimate explanation as to why we do it, and for what. We just simply MUST. We can struggle and attempt survival in groups, or isolated. Literally all variables of choices we can make, and the reality that at any moment, any set of variables could end with personal or gigantic catastrophe and human loss.
But the Cube will continue to rotate, unhindered by our bleeding and suffering within it.
Dude have you heard of those forgotten MTV movies my psycho sweet 16
Can you make a video about that franchise or sum
YES. The first one had amazing practical effects (the decapitation scene while the body keeps rolling from the figure skates) and a great set of characters. Skye is one of my favorite final girls of the 2010's. Really underrated horror slasher that I purchased on DVD
dust hymn fr I remember seen the movies when I was younger but I never seen anyone really mention them
I finally watched this movie after all this time and it was amazing. The production, the effects, the script, the acting, the score, the pacing, and the ending… ohhh the ending.
I was introduced to the idea of “Cube” through the fallout 3 mod called “Cube Experimental”. Great mod, even better film XD
The movie "elevated" might have been the inspiration to the movie "devil"
Haven't seen cube in ages but I remember the mystery always taking my intrigue. The sequels weren't as fun and films i'm happy to ignore.
Saw this for the first time when it aired after thumb wars on tv in the states in 1999
Terrified me but I loved it
There aren’t enough videos covering these movies and that’s a shame. Thanks for finally doing an analysis of it!
Hi! I know I'm really late to this but I just rewatched this review after exploring into more existentialist pieces of writing and the absurdist of Cube really reminds me of Kafka's Metamorphosis and the idea that you need to let go of preconceived notions to fully create your own understanding.
The creepiest part for me when I watched it back in the day half asleep and not from the beginning was that there was no real reason behind the cube's existence. No one was watching you struggle and die there through the cameras for scientific or entertainment purposes, there was no moral to any of it - just a bunch of people left to their own devices in a cruel, meaningless trap with no exit or any other output whatsoever. Of course, it's only my head canon, them people were definitely cherry picked to be able to solve the puzzle (and its sequels are all about silly conspiracies, after all). But I like to believe that this is where all the "deep meaning" ends and not caring, alien void of senselessness begins. Like someone threw a kitten into a drain pipe and walked away.
it was true for the first movie.
The white guy actually proves it.
He was part of the development. But he only knew of his part. Didn't know exactly what it was for..obviously until he was put in it.
I also think they were picked. But like a science experiment. And while they weren't being watched, the experiment was still happening...funded by a large government or dropped, but still studied by a few dedicated workers who just wanted to see it through? Idk. But I think the experiment was this:
The mental kid..the guy who was mentally handicapped, but also obviously great with patterns...he was the lab rat that has proven his skills in other situations. And like scientists do, they test that same rat in multiple situations....so he was dropped in to see if "this rat" can help save the other "rats"..the other people.
They DID choose people who had skills, but only those who also had a past deserving..or at least in the chooser's mind, deserving of anything bad that would happen to them in the cube.
And they just let it all happen. Waiting to see how many made it to the end.
@Magerma but there WAS an exit. Kazan was the only one who made it out.
I remember watching this years ago as a joke and ending up loving it.
Thanks. I really like this film (I own it). To me, it's one of those few movies that leaves the ultimate interpretation up to you (and doesn't suck by doing so). But what really fascinates me about this film is how basic it is - and how cheap it must have been to make it - yet how effective it is. They would've had to build at most 2 'cubes'. Then they'd just have to move them in relation to each other (side by side, or top to bottom), depending on how the characters are supposed to progress. After that, just change the color that lights the panels, and viola! That's brilliant. Hollywood so often gets trapped in its own hype. I'd like to see more movies of this sort of stripped-down nature (that were still sci-fi, adventure, etc.) tavi.
Donnie Darko one of my favorite films and I've seen it many times. I adore almost every part of the movie and have listened to the cast commentaries more than once. It and Nightcrawler cemented Jake Gyllenhaal as my favorite actor. I also love the cube series and have watched each of them a few times.
Not sure if you cover video games, but can you please cover Metal Gear Solid 2? It is probably the most surreal video game or movie experience I've ever witnessed.
LedZep's X i suggest you take look at Xenogears if you haven't.
I'm a huge fan of Kojima. But this game is also high level and has great themes.
As great as Metal Gear Solid series imho :)
I enjoyed Donnie Darko as a teen when it was released, I rewatched it a few years ago, it didn't age well.
There is "The Philosophy of Time Travel" by Roberta Sparrow, the book it's based on and Donnie Darko: Deus Ex Machina - The Philosophy of Donnie Darko (2016) & I would see the film, then read and watch everything about it - and then re-watch it, as it's legendary.
I remember watching this on a winter midnight, When I was 8.
I don't wanna talk about it...
Poor baby.... 🙂