Reviews

The Box has a few things going for it. I have never seen a movie take on amputees and victims of deformity in such an unusual way. At times the movie is hairs standing up on the back of your neck creepy. Still, the movie has a lot of plot holes and is a bit outlandish. The combination of conspiracy theory, aliens, supernatural, moral dilemma, Pandora's Box, the fall of man, causes this movie to have a lack of content control. There were just too many ideas that didn't blend well together. I think the movie raises some interesting questions, but when logic comes into play it's hard to give this movie any intellectual merit in a debate. Also, it is weird to see Cameron Diaz in a role like this. I think the movie was just out of tune.

Would i press a red button, gain a million dollars, and kill a random person i didn't know? Absolutely. I would like to think i wouldn't, but humans are curious creatures. Because of curiosity alone i would push the button just to see if anything happened. Also, humans are self serving,of course i would want to financially better myself, and i would hope for the best. I would hope that the one random person is a rapist. The scene were the kid humiliates Cameron Diaz's character is pivotal. It is there that they discuss how things are not so simple, not just black and white. The world is more complicated than that. It's unfair that the box seemed to only be offered to people who were down on their luck. Hey, aliens every thought about taking a more accurate sample of our species? What would happen if this opportunity was offered to rich people, or bleeding heart humanitarians, instead of people who were barley making it? And anyhow, how arrogant are these aliens, trying to tell us how to live? If we destroy our selves out of greed, that's our problem.

This move is creepy, morbid, violent, and disturbing, but it's also like a car accident; people can't help but watch. There are those who will want to lower there gaze. There are those who will think this movie is made for senseless shock value alone, but these people are the ones missing the point. This movie isn't about sugar, and spice, and everything useless unless you're baking. It's about life, the tress, the flowers, and what we are doing to it, how we are destroying it. We humans have become a force of destruction, and the earth taking notice, finally fights back, killing us just as we kill the plants. Just as the flowers drop dead, we drop dead.Just as the grass turns brown and dies, we die. In this movie humans get what's coming to them.

Some of the scenes are uniquely engaging, almost like a nightmare, and they will stay with you. I mean the opening scene alone is a handful of people jumping off a building committing suicide. I had a hard time turning the way people die off in my head at first, but a good movie does that it stays with you.

The movie in its simplest form is a campfire story with a lesson to be learned. The moral of it is to remember "The Golden Rule" do onto others as you would have them do onto you.

I have seen Match Point, and i try real hard to like it, but at best i am indifferent. At the start the movie is like a firecracker sparking off bits of sun. It is insightful. I mean the bit about luck, and how it determines life, excellent,smart script writing, very genuine. And of course, the character of Nola is very charming and sexy. The characters are all in these very interesting and awkward circumstances. I can't deny that this movie has a lot working, but that's what makes it so sad when it stops working,and starts to dysfunction like a leaky pipe going from leaving a few drops, to puddles.

The whole movie, well, it all falls apart in the end. All the artistic cleverness of this movie gets completely ruined by the murder of Nola. I mean it's like someone took a beautiful picture and lit it on fire, or someone threw paint on an original master piece before they made prints. I think the end is of such poor quality, that it actually drains the beauty out of the entire film, and it is there for shock value alone.

I'm just not impressed with this movie and let me tell you why. It's generic. It's not as intelligent as it pretends to be. No matter what people claim, you don't have to see it more then once to understand the movie. The movie is simple and not complex. I understood it completely the first time. Donnie has to die in order to keep his loved ones from dying. He realizes this, and he's brave enough to sacrifice his self for them. The 6 ft. tall bunny Rabbit named Frank roaming through the movie is annoying. And the costume is just stupid. I thought Darko's imagination would have been able to come up with something better, but i guess i was wrong. I dislike all the trailer park swearing, and how this film tries to prey on common fears that people have like, clowns. And the infomercial that constantly played on a TV somewhere about love not fear made me want to kill myself. The worse part of this whole movie was there were a handful of dead spots. I think they should have condensed the story so my tears of boredom didn't cry on for so long. However, Donnie Darko did have a handful of redeeming qualities, which is why i ranked it a 7. The acting was top notch, and for the most part the dialog was intelligent, and worth hearing. There were scenes that were so emotional and pure that i would recommend this film to be watched. The butter-fly effect came in loud and clear