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I was told there would be no math :(

posted 8 years ago by DialingForDollarhyde
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This is looking like a tepid version of Saw except that this came out 7 years earlier. That's all the math I'm capable of at the moment. I'll chime in again after I finish watching it.

"The psychologists call him a psychopath. They don't know what else to call him."
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[–] peachtea18 8 years ago

Did you finish watching it?

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves.

[–] DialingForDollarhyde 8 years ago

Barely. It sucked but had decent gore fx and production values. Script was kinda lame but I'll give it a second quick view just for weedview validation.

"The psychologists call him a psychopath. They don't know what else to call him."
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[–] peachtea18 8 years ago

Yeah, I concur that it was sort of lame. I only came upon it because I'm searching for movies like Circle (2015) and someone had mentioned the Cube series. For me the movie was just so boring. And the girl with the glasses had major mood swings.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves.

[–] DialingForDollarhyde 8 years ago

I did finish it but I barely remember anything it wasnt very notable except for the very first trap that cut that dude into cubelets. That was cool.

"The psychologists call him a psychopath. They don't know what else to call him."
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[–] donnyhacatoobon 8 years ago

You guys are looking only for gore? This isn't a movie like the new Saw films or Hostel, it's not just about people dying in traps

[–] Navaros 8 years ago

it's not just about people dying in traps

And that's one of the main reasons why this is movie is highly misleading and why it sucks.

It's a bait & switch scam. They pretend that the movie will be interesting because people are put into death traps, and then the death traps only actually take out one person in the whole film. But by the time the viewer realizes that, it is too late: he or she has already been suckered by the bait & switch scam.

If this movie isn't supposed to be about death traps, then they shouldn't have put deaths traps into it in the first place. And they especially shouldn't have pretended like the death traps are a big deal even though they are not.

If they don't want to make a death traps movie, fine. But they can't try to have their cake and eat it too. That's what they did try though. And that's why they are getting the much deserved criticism for it.

You guys are looking only for gore?

I wasn't looking for gore. But I was looking to see people use many unique & creative solutions to avoid many unique and creative death traps. Yet the film has very little of that. Instead, almost every trap's "solution" was the same, extremely sucky one: "Oh, that room is labeled with a prime number, therefore it is trapped, therefore let's avoid it!" Lazy, boring, uncreative writing.

[–] EtaoinShrdlu001 8 years ago

It's a death trap
It's a suicide pact
(. . . get out, while you're young)

You Fill Me with Inertia.

[–] Navaros 8 years ago

It sucked but had decent gore fx and production values.

That statement is only applicable for about the first 10 minutes of the film. After the first guy dies in a trap, no one else does. All the rest who die are killed by the psycho cop.

So after the first 10 minutes, the film basically devolves into a completely pointless waste of time in which a bunch of really bad actors blather to each other endlessly about nothing.

[–] RC-Cola 8 years ago

I don't really understand your thread topic.. Do you have a math phobia?

Sounds like you went into the movie with some specific expectations that weren't delivered, did someone suggest this to you as an awesome slasher/gore movie? I understand the beginning could seem like a tease of that genre, but it really isn't about that. The meat of the movie is the characters figuring out the cube as a whole and how to escape, rather than crossing individual traps, and dealing with their nerves breaking down. Unfortunately the poor acting and dialog watered the psychological-thriller side down.

[–] EtaoinShrdlu001 8 years ago

D4D,

Thread title gave me a chuckle at the end of the day.
Thanks!

You Fill Me with Inertia.