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  • The room was better than this shit.

  • for some reason, this movie succked

  • it was a fucking waste of time movie

  • Heh. Creative. Lol. Ever heard of the twilight zone? There's a little episode about a box...hmmm... Also. It was better in the twilight zone, sorry.

  • The movie took place in the 1970's because of no computers or technology or Internet.

  • i like this girl grace randolph

  • Anyone ever tell you you're a bitch? If not i'm telling you now. :)

  • My vav 10/10.

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  • I don't care if you try to be some mysterious movie by not explaining and letting the audience think about it, the story and special effects was SO bad that the only thing that could save it was a great ending, and it didn't even give me that. Fuck this movie.

    Spoilers: ----> They also hinted on two possible 'employers'= god or aliens. But it had to have been aliens.

  • But the acting was laughable, the characters were amazingly retarded(the father not even questioning why the mind controlled people are chasing him WTF, mother showing the class her disfigured foot instead of kicking the kid out of class WTF, not breaking the door down to get his son or even make sure that he's really blind and deaf WTF, not calling the police), and they didn't even explain fully at the end.

    Fuck this movie.

  • Seriously, would you kill your wife if some wack job told you that your son is blind and deaf and her death would reverse it WITHOUT seeing your goddamn kid first??? How strong do you think that padlocked door was?????

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  • i like how there people here pretending to understand some meaning in the story trying to sound smart themselves by saying "o yea its a great movie if u pay attention and good at analysing as me" but if it were true why has no one stepped up and explained the movie

  • @sebiDD7 SPOILER By pushing the button, Cameron Diazs character set into motion a series of events that would eventually lead to her death. By surrendering to her desire for material wealth over the love of her fellow man and the ensuing internal conflict she experienced, she proved that the person whom she didn't know who would die was herself. This is a great metaphor for us all, as we are all looking for what we desire at expense to ourselves in gaming systems, tvs, cases of beer, etc, etc.

  • @Buckohfive4freedom i got that but there were so many things in the movie that took a huge role in the film despite not having any reasoning as to why it was included like the old man with box and his story as well the whole secret operation being done, the movie just becomes very difficult to follow with all these events that dont need to be added to strengthen the moral of the movie which causes people to look for something further than what the movie intended throwing everyone in confusion

  • This movie is not for retards so of course most people didn't like it. Donnie Darko was retarded and therefore most people like it.

  • I thought it was great but you really have to pay attention to understand it.

  • @TastyTexasToast I just watched it today. I liked it even though the last 30 minutes got really weird...

  • Ok so I watched the movie and what I gathered is that a team of Martians shat lightning at a guy who then became a vampire this vampire then created a army of zombies who are lead by Kim Jong Ill by pushing them into a pool, then there was some unsignificant thing about a box in the begining I'm serious me and some friends wastchef this movie and that's what we gathered

  • This movie is great but also horrible if u cant follow the story

  • This movie is awesome, you get out as much as you put in. If you sit back and don't think and treat this like any other non-intelligent movie like avatar then of course you get nothing out of it! But if you think it through you see it for the masterpiece it is!

  • seemed like a cool trailer but dont let that fool o no its totally different than that the beginning was cool but when aliens and shit got involved it made no sense

  • im sorry but this movie was stupid as fuck

  • movie made no sense

  • And because I know Kelly fans know nothing about film, go look up the term "high concept", think about if it applies to this film, combine it with what you think Kelly is trying to do with this film (complex art), and prepare to relive that moment when you were younger and you found out Santa Claus wasn't real. 

  • Richard Kelly is like a thousand other clowns you'll find at film schools today. The kind that has never taken a story structure, film history or film criticism course, but yet feel that they have obtained the abilities to make a highly complex risk taking art house film, that's also combined with a bunch of high concept crap because their favorite film of all time was the Goonies up until film school. Come on he couldn't even adapt this from the short story. He adapted this from the tv show.

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  • The box is one of the worst movies i ever seen ,5 is mercy, it really sucks!!! i hate this film, its just a waste of film material, and yes i´m from the third world

  • I Don't understand why half of the scenes in the trailer are cut out of the real movie? Maybe that's why it was pushed back almost two years, who knows?

  • dat shit suckd

  • What a dumb movie. I'd have plans in place to leave town and never be seen right before I pressed that dumb-ass button.

  • just watched the movie... waste of 2 hours, the stupidest f*****g movie ever,

    what was Richard Kelly was thinking about when directing this movie... i give it a rating of 2 of 10, 1 point for effort and another for the suspense, its like your forced to watch whats going to happen after she pushes the button.

  • this movie was a pure mix of absolute ridiculous things all put in 2 hours, without having a good explaination of the plot. never gonna watch it again!

  • THIS MOVIE WAS RETARDED,

    towards the end of the movie, i was expecting the care bears and toystory 3 to team up and be the killers. this movie is the worst Stephan king attempt ive ever seen, watch this movie to make fun of, plot if you call it that had tons of holes, the whole movie was lazy and didnt answer if the care bears really were the killers. towards the end aquaman and thor ended up being the killers, who knew????

  • After the button was pushed the movie went downhill in my opinion the million dollars meant nothing and barely was any focus put on it

  • @playboi182 I also felt that they made the first focus $1mil but then went off a strange tangent about aliens or EMPLOYERS.......

    The suspense was sort of there. But a lot of the movie seemed worst than foreshadowing. Told you what was going to happen but not much of why.

  • I'd bet my last dollar that if Chris Nolan's name was above the title everybody would be calling it a masterpiece. (I'm a fan of Nolan's work so no disrespect intended)

  • Wow to the comment the next page over. Christopher Nolan and Richard Kelly's name should never be uttered in the same sentence ever again. Only a Kelly fan would come up with the dumb logic of, "well if this film had Orson Welles name written under the director's credit, then everybody would be calling it Citizen Kane 2."

  • was set in the 1976 because that's when the NASA Viking Lander Project first landed on Mars. Did anyone pay attention while watching the film or is everyone just brain-dead morons?

  • @pokerstar317 Thank you for pointing this out to all of these morons who dont pay attention!

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  • it was pretty good ... much better than Southland Tales

  • FUCK SCI FI

  • LOL, you idiots dont understand the movies background... If u think about it it has religous tune to it. It is about how naive humans are and there more about there own desires than other peolpe even...Im 15 and even grown ups cant figue this shit out...

  • i hate the ending.

    i was so dissappointed when i saw it.

    but it turned out ok.

    my opion

  • Unless you watched Twilight or are familiar with that series then you don't know why it was set in the 70's. I was in that boat. CONFUSING.

  • How does not giving a definite answer make it "horrible"? That's what made Donnie Darko so incredible. You have to see it multiple times to get it.

  • it confuses u! and its in the 1970s cuz its based on a twilight ep!

  • Can someone please write a review for what happens, I don't get whats up with two face

  • @daltonvh22 this movie is complete shit plz dont even waiste your time renting it. The plot makes no sense this man offers that they can push the button and kill someone for one million dollars. They have "money problems" although the husband works for NASA..... lol so they push the button that dude is an alien this movie suxxxxxx

  • @aunicornprincess ohhhh, wow

  • Now I know why everyone at my school says "The cake is a lie"

  • I really liked this film, something new and even though it is weird, it is slightly chilling

  • I give it a 7. Why? I found it intriguing and different, almost at times trying to be David Lynch abstract arthouse suspense. However, the ending was predictable and delibrately dark, which did not work.

  • i just watched this movie (ps3 rental) and it was creey and wierd. i liked it but then when the movie finiched, i was like "huh?"... i understood the message. Money isn't worth it. 

  • did not Edgar Allan Poe do a similar story.

    I bought the book the box, the story it was taken from was called button button.

    It was written in 1970 and renewed in 1998

    The story was written by Richard Matheson who also did other stories.

    He also wrote I am Legend.

  • give him credit for getting a 5/10 out of a short story... short story movies suck almost as much as video game movies

  • i liked this movie. very interesting, and it almost got over b4 i guessed the twist so that always a plus.

  • Why the 70's? Because that may have been when the portal opened and these ass holes were able to cross over. They moved in and took over the CIA, NASA, FBI and our government.

    Why do you think things are worse then ever now?

    The box represents our greed and desires.

  • This is a message for humanity.

    Most of you people sleep while they rule your world.

    No one will save us we must together save ourselves

  • the reason why the movie takes place in the 70's is because of the start of American fall down to economic wealth somehow the story pretails the fall of middle class begin doubt their own future their for the movie is pre of our economic status we are undoubtedly will be pushing our buttons for a little more living killing someone in return for our comfortable living think about that people if you living in America.

  • i dont understand why people didnt like it, it was amazing 9.5/10 for me, although you had to be smart and to think hard to actually understand it, although because of movies like transformers and 2012; movie-goers arnt really thinkers anymore, which might be why people didnt like it

  • This movie was fucking Bullshit....they just copied the twilight zone and extended it another HOUR....DONT WATCH IT

  • @Gator115 According to wikipedia, the film was adapted from a short story which was also made into an episode of the twilight zone

  • @KooKooKajou

    Yeah, you can call it whatever you want. "Adapted" is more like "copyright."

  • @Gator115 so that means that your saying that the twilight zone stole from the short story as well? besides this movie was amazing, you just had to think A LOT while watching it for it to actually be good, i had friends that saw it and didnt like it, but when i explained it to them, they then relized wat a great movie it was

  • @AdamBombStudios

    What are you talking about? There is no thinking involved in this abhorred movie. Its just random shit happening left and right. Judging you by your spelling, I'm pretty damn sure your explanation of the story, to your friends, was absolute trash.

  • @Gator115 I mispell a few words and all of a sudden I'm didn't explain the movie properly? and your right, it was random shit happening, but if you thought about it, all the random shit was tied together in one way or another

  • umm how does two 5/10s and one 6/10 make an overall 6/10??? this bitch is fucking retarded!

  • THUMBS DOWN ME - if the movie sucked!!!

  • i rate the movie -10000 outa 10 seriously... the movie sucks. a bunch of random events

  • I liked this movie the only reason a lot of people didn't like it is because their retarded and couldn't use their minds to figure it out.

  • ummmm, I can tell you why the movie took place in the 70's. It's because Nasa's Viking 1 mission was an integral part of the story. Were you not paying attention or something?

  • i dont understand why you people didnt like it. wtf it was a good movie! 8/10 u harsh dick weeds

  • the hell it was

  • lols ur funny

  • Movie was bad

  • @PrecizionHunting Lol I watched it again a few months ago and it sucked :P And I have a topped comment saying it is "8/10" oh the irony

  • @EvilLeparacaun lol yea I had seen trailers and thought it would be cool (esp. since I enjoyed Donnie Darko), and randomly watched it on HBO but as it went on I was just disappointed because it had such a build up and the let down was (to me at least) anti-climatic I was like :-(

  • this girl has a charming personality.

  • she is an american red neck!!!

  • loved the concept, but i think it should have remained a short story as it originated. key word being short.....the movie was like watching a monkey f*&%$ a football, awkward, unnecessary, and seeing more than two seconds of it was seeing too much.

  • This movie was soo bad....

  • This movies sucks!!! Presents a bunch of questions and doesn't answer any of them. This movie doesn't end...no ending, just keeps goings. Stupid. Bad movie. Don't watch.

  • movie is just a movie..anything can happen in the movie..either it fucked up the viewer or satisfy it. but for me, making a movie make it a real close to real situations based on real life.. in this kind of situation u recieve the money, then all of a sudden ur life had been fucked up. before shooting your wife, why he didnt try to get his son first whats happening on him.. get an axe smashed the door. or get the gun and killed that freak. that most likely satisfied the audience.

  • did they prees the button or not?... i would

  • @punishman123 LOL. I almost got in an argument with someone before i saw this movie. I was on the side of: You should never kill anyone for money. If you press the button.. Lets just say. You're entire life would be soo fucked up you would probibly want to kill yourself.

  • someone who you don't know dies for $1Mil and you don't even have to the killing. what the fuck is there to think about?!

  • @tjohn1986 I find it funny when time and again i see examples of how minorites care less about other people. You could be killing the guy who cures cancer retard.

  • @589216001 try the real world sometime, it's kill or be killed. get out of your perfect lil box sometime. and btw if you got cancer, your genetics didn't make the cut

  • @tjohn1986 How does this situation pertain survival of the fittest? It doesn't at all. Another thing is that cancer isn't dependent on genetics. Get your facts strait you ignorant fuck.

  • @punishman123

    They did and got boned in the arse

  • at the end: there's more questions than answers, that's my point of view, 7 out of 10

  • this make people ( or at least me) wonder if the paths they chose were predetermined buy a higher being.this is a good movie that most if not all donnie darko fans will love and watch many times over. just like donnie darko this movie will take a few views to fully understand.

  • the fact that the man was hit by lighting (witch comes from the sky) suggests that the thing that entered his body was from anouther world. this movie mixes suspense and a felling of ones own conscience. the only problem i had with this movie is that it has to many loose ends. many scenes have the character in a spot to chose a path and to make there own decision with no guidance.

  • i give it a 9, i gave donnie a 10. this movie is very good if u watch it with an open mind. the fact that its in the 70s is one of the main points of the movie. it is based around the time nasa got big in to mars, and in the movie thay talk about how there may be life there.

  • thumbs down

  • Damn this lady tried to make this movie seem like ass.

  • Thats because it was.

  • Movie was a piece of camel shit.

  • Donnie Darko is amazing because its original as hell.

  • the fact that its set in the 70s is very relevant to the story and if you dont know why turn your grey matter on next time you see it.

  • why didnt this lady try to make this movie shitty... this bitch is sso stupid!!!! try and get a bit more than 3 ppl to talk about the film the box.

  • Perhaps Grace could only get 3 ppl to talk at the time, perhaps nobody was seeing this movie and if they had perhaps they didn't want to talk through the camera.

  • because she's a dumb bitch..she does this with every movie

  • going from comically klutzy secretary. See this movie free @ Movie Watcher [.] US

  • i thought the box was really good kept me going and thinking.

  • I really enjoyed The Box. You have to remember this is an old school sci-fi movie, based on a short story that's more reminiscent to a classic Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits episode. It's basically a film that won't appeal to the Michael Bay short attention span generation.

  • I'll facebook you if you put up nude pictures.

  • this movie sucks

  • box is aweosme movie!its a little cofusing but its realy great and at the end is realy sad ;(

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  • AMAZING MOVIE!!!

    9.9/10

  • I love The Box, I give it a 10.

  • your a faggot. this movie sucks major C========3 i thought idt was a waste of life!!!!!!i rather have watched a regular box sit there for 2 hour then watch that sht.i rather of watch gay porn.

  • Oh this movie was beyond horrible. I give it 1 star. The trailer was very intriguing, but after that...FAIL! 70s makes no sense, the clubed foot..who cares. Anything with Cameron Diaz is always horrible. This whole twilight zone theme going on..wtf garbage...BEYOND GARBAGE!

  • @adnan39872

    So true! I just came back from the cinema and I must admit that it was the worst movie I have ever seen.

  • I speak the truth dont watch this movie' to save your life' just dont want this movie please

  • sucked i thought it could have been a bit more realistic, like the blue goo? aand coming back to live to make a box?

  • what's with people and wanting movies to be "more realisitic"? if we kept listening to whenever somebody wanted "more realism", you know how many movies would suck ass or not exist? hell! there wouldn't even be a BOX in this movie! it wouldn't even be a killer robot! movies are made to experience something that isn't usually realistic. appreciate and enjoy, or just avoid watching movies.

  • I think people won't stop complaining about wanting more realistic films until they get a film called the box which is just a guy sitting in a cubicle at work typing for 2 hours

  • I am a fan of donnie darko because of the talk of wormholes and time travel and the gary jules cover madworld.

  • the NSA is systematically kidnapping the kids of NASA employees and force them to kill their wives because they had failed a test which they will inevitably fail.

    this is a rubbish movie.

    Richard Kelly, go find another job.

  • @maximillianof98  fuck you

  • wtf why dont they just spam press that button cuse it wouldd just kill chinese and indian people and that would be good

  • @fucktheblackkids LMFAO thats disgusting and incredibly racist but i guiltily find it funny at the same time

  • sorry but its not ment to be racist, i only like to have sex with blackkids

  • Donnie Darko... was...the....best...movie...ev­er!

    We should give him another chance only cuz his dark vision can go so well.

  • completely agree favorite movie and director i actually enjoed the box i saw it with my girlfriend and were both huge Darko fans and we couldnt have been more pleased

  • if the movie was set in the 90's or in the recent years, the choice of whether to push the button or not, would make no sense...It was set in the 70's because poeple where more moral back then....

  • LOL the Cake IS a LIE. Orange Box

  • this was a story i read once! im surprised that it became a movie

  • the mans a great director and his movies are way ahead of their time so much so people cant appreciate his greative goals

  • I love that the kid thought that the movie was no good being based in the 70's when clearly he's stuck in the early 90's with his super rad taz jacket

  • he didn't say that it was stuck in the 70's.

  • I didnt say he said it was stuck in the 70's I said he said based in the 70's because he said he didnt believe anything like that would happen in the 70's

  • Could this chick be any more annoying? 'Friend me. Please, please friend me'

  • I saw this movie...it was actually confusing, but it was still averagely good!

  • If I may, I have an Interesting different version of " The Box ". Cameron Diaz " For some reason " reminded me of a 1970's Porno Actress. Must have been the dresses or the Make -Up, Anyway, Instead of a " Family " they should have used Diaz as a Late 70's Porno Actress, Stuggling with money, bills, and bad Porn Bosses. Then she would have no problem pushing the " Red Button Box " way more then once, as a means of revenge from the Devil or the Goverment ! Just a thought.........

  • instead of "The Box", shall it be call "The Shaft" ?

    instead of pushing the " Red Button Box ", she will had to stuck it in...

  • Honestly I feel bad for Richard Kelly: He's a peak-to-soon er. One great, amazing film, and nothing else to show for it.

    That being said, Donnie Darko was absolutely spectacular, and I wish he could make another movie just as good.

  • For some reason everyone had to have a southern accent,

    for some reason Cameron Diaz was missing half of her foot, for some reason there are gateways of floating water to hell

  • this movie is sick asin the child wud neva wud ve bin deaf nd blind afta 5 ,,dey jus shut d woman 4 no reason

  • TALK NORMALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

  • Im going to go with "confused the living fuck out of me" as to what this movie made me feel

    Very weird movie, not "suspensful" or thrilling at all.

    i could see the ending from a mile away!

    Dont see this movie. not worth your bucks. Watch it on HBO or something when it comes out.

  • Donnie Darko is the single greatest film of all time... but richard kelly should not ever make a movie ever again or else i will hunt him down and eat his cat

  • my mom just saw it she said it sucked

  • blahh......i saw dat movie yesterday nd it SUCKED HONESTLY!!!!!!!

  • fuck those people the movie deserves a 10 so fuck you beyond the trailer next time interview more intelligent people.

  • SUcks!!!!

  • there were some plot holes, but overall, the movie was pretty thought provoking and worth watching if you have the patience

  • Deal or No Deal

  • Donnie Darko is an original movie that helped the physcological thriller genre with twisted humor, dark stories, and superb storytelling.

  • I missed Donnie Darco.

  • Donnie Darko is one of the most overrated movies ever. It's similar to Mulholand Dr. (another incoherent mess) in that audiences seem to give it a pass just on its mystery and quirky factor. It's like they're mistaking inept story telling ability and confusing plot direction, with DEPTH. In other words, they're saying, "wow, that sort of confusing, I didn't quite get it, but they, this must be a DEEP and COMPLEX movie, 5 stars!" No.

  • Dude, Donnie Darko is definitely not a mess. And you know why it's coveted this much, since it was released? Because it was unique and mixed loads of genres. Because of this, it touched people in different ways. It definitely blew me away.

    And it all makes sense, but if you never "got" Donnie Darko, there are plenty of messageboards for that.

    You may not realise it, but sometimes you can love a movie even if you don't understand every single frame.

  • Maybe it took place in the 70's when one million dollars was worth a lot more than it is today?

  • oh my gosh old Twilight Zone! it's based off an old 80s episode. the ending of the episode was great.

  • Wow, that movie sounded like it would be really to me.

    You get FIVE stars for Diaz's scarf.

  • I'll push that button for free 600,000,0000 times

  • Kind of sad, in my opinion.

  • I still don't understand the brown acid trip through angel land. Did anyone see Carol Ann in the bright light?Everyone seems to bleed from the nose. This movie made me bleed from my ass because I just got screwed out of my money. By the end of the movie I was ready to pull the trigger and push the button. Richard Kelly need rehab