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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Jun 6, 2010
Pros: Surprisingly intelligent, decidedly creepy.
Cons: Still reminescent of a Twilight Zone Episode.
Summary: The Box (2009) Directed by Richard KellyArlington Steward: I have an offer to make. If you push the button, two things will happen. First, someone, somewhere in the world, whom you don't know, will die...My Friend Tom: [Pushes ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 8, 2013
Pros: It starts with a great premise and a fair amount of potential...
Cons: ...but quickly veers off into a terrible idea and squanders any potential it had.
Summary: (Warning: semi-spoiler alert in effect) I recall being rather spellbound by Richard Kelly's hyphenate debut Donnie Darko (2001) when I first picked it up from the video store on a whim, shortly after it had been ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 10, 2012
Pros: Provocative, excellent acting
Cons: Not with me!
Summary: "The Box" is a metaphoric and atmospheric film, to say the least. That it is meant quite seriously becomes obvious through the deliberately serious acting by Cameron Diaz in a role unlike any other roles she has played.A mother close to her son ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 13, 2010
Pros: Excellent photography, special effects, and acting.
Cons: Story is sort of baffling.
Summary: If you are a sci-fi afficianado perhaps you remember a Richard Matheson short story that appeared in Playboy in 1970. In "Button, Button", middle class housewife Norma is visited by a mysterious, but well dressed, stranger. He gives her a box ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 13, 2010
Pros: initial creepy, moody morality story
Cons: spins off into non-sense and CG land
Summary: Originally produced as "Button Button", an episode on the TV series The Twilight Zone in "Button, Button" March 7, 1986 based on Richard Matheson's short story, director Richard Kelly's feature version is long, drawn out, and utterly senseless in a way ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 7, 2010
Pros: Fascinating story, truly odd, unpredicatable, interesting subtexts
Cons: Provides no easy answers or simple explanations, if that sorta thing bothers you
Summary: I don’t think Richard Kelly will ever make a film that the mass audiences will like. Although Donnie Darko is rather well received with a cult following, I don’t know too many people who’ve seen it. His last film, Southland Tales not ... read more
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Screen siren Cameron Diaz and former X-Man James Marsden star in the supernatural horror picture The Box (2008), directed by Donnie Darko cult fave Ri...
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From SOMEWHERE IN TIME to I AM LEGEND writer Richard Matheson's tales have frequently made their way to the screen and this adaptation of his story Bu...
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