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    "The Box" Contains A Conspiracy Wrapped In a Mystery Wrapped In 70s Retro

    The Darko Mythos

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    Image of Torley Torley
    11/07/09

    In reply to "The Box" Contains A Conspiracy Wrapped In a Mystery Wrapped In 70s Retro
    Intriguing how this is setup as a "test", and at the end of the trailer, there's Charlie Clouser's "Hello Zepp" theme as featured in the SAW movies. It has the same dramatic momentum as Clint Mansell's "Lux Aeterna", and relates well here. #thebox
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    11/07/09

    In reply to The Darko Mythos
    Why do I get the feeling that the people saying Kelly's a subpar writer and Donnie Darko was pedantic and shallow are the same ones who prefer Ratner's vision of X-Men over Singer's?
    Fellahs, just because you don't "get" a genre film doesn't mean there's nothing there to be had. #thebox
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/07/09

    In reply to "The Box" Contains A Conspiracy Wrapped In a Mystery Wrapped In 70s Retro
    When the Twilight Zone adapted this same story in 1986 they kept it simple. Their version was about poor people facing the moral dilemma of killing a random stranger for 200,000 dollars.

    The original short story went further and ended with the death of the husband...his wife didn't truly know him. #thebox
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/06/09

    In reply to "The Box" Contains A Conspiracy Wrapped In a Mystery Wrapped In 70s Retro
    Hmm, I haven't seen the movie (yet) but I'm getting the feeling this story would have been better if left at it's simplest. #thebox
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    11/06/09

    In reply to "The Box" Contains A Conspiracy Wrapped In a Mystery Wrapped In 70s Retro
    "We also discover that the button is always pushed by wives, which suggests that women are the culprits holding humanity back from achieving the level of moral goodness that the aliens require in order to spare us from annihilation."

    Now, I haven't seen the movie yet but perhaps this is too simplistic of an explanation.

    Perhaps what it's saying is that women are willing to do anything for the good of the family whilst the husband is too caught up in their own prideful findings. This statement reminds me of how women are more willing to sign up for welfare, food stamps, etc whilst men find it shameful and proclaim they won't accept charity. Like in Angela's Ashes when Frank McCourt talks about how his father would never do it but his mother was more than willing to go down and grab the scraps of bread being handed out to the poor.

    More often women are willing to sacrifice their own personal morals, principles and particularly pride when it is their family at stake than men are.

    Granted, this is a very generalized statement but one that I feel has some credence.

    Granted, this might have come across better if the family was actually on hard times and not just trying to maintain some haughty lifestyle but, then, I haven't seen the movie yet so this is all conjecture. #thebox
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    11/06/09

    In reply to "The Box" Contains A Conspiracy Wrapped In a Mystery Wrapped In 70s Retro
    It's hard to read reviews that have spoilers in them for me, I have to scan for the stuff that might appeal to me without ruining the film.

    Anyway, this is one I may get out to the theater to see, I love the premise and I just love the idea of recreating the 70s but in a sincere, straightforward way. I'd be willing to see it just because of the production design.

    Plus, that Darko movie is a classic. Are there 70s proto-alt songs in the soundtrack? #thebox
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    11/06/09

    In reply to "The Box" Contains A Conspiracy Wrapped In a Mystery Wrapped In 70s Retro
    *bonk bonk bonk bonk bonk bonk* #thebox
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/06/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: Stop pushing the button

    [www.funnyordie.com] #thebox
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    11/06/09

    In reply to "The Box" Contains A Conspiracy Wrapped In a Mystery Wrapped In 70s Retro
    Whats in the box?

    Pain. #thebox
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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    11/06/09

    In reply to The Darko Mythos
    Thank you, dearest Annalee, for not including the cinematic abortion known as "S. Darko", or as I like to think of it, "DD2: The Cash-ining" #thebox
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    Image of ifsogirl81 ifsogirl81
    11/06/09

    @schrodingers-katana: kelly had nothing to do w/ that. #thebox
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    11/06/09

    @ifsogirl81: I'm well aware of that dear. However, one could make a case that it be included in the 'Mythos' (and of course they would be wrong) even though it added nothing, and if anything, made it feel even more muddled. #thebox
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    11/06/09

    In reply to The Darko Mythos
    Hmmm. I think it's a stretch to call this a "mythos."

    I never got around to seeing Darko until last year. I still managed to go in rather blind, but even then, it didn't floor me. I can see how it would appeal to a disgruntled teenager, but as a movie, it was merely okay.

    That said, I loved the cameos (especially Swayze), and until they go ahead and ruin it with taking the head off, the evil rabbit costume was one of the creepiest things on film in a long time.

    Evil rabbits are evil.
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    Image of TheGreenRanger TheGreenRanger
    11/06/09

    In reply to Why Richard Kelly Is Obsessed With Water, And Won't See the Darko Sequel
    At least there's donnie D #richardkelly
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    Image of daveNYC daveNYC
    11/06/09

    In reply to The Darko Mythos
    So what's up with people losing their eyes in his movies? #thebox
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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    11/06/09

    @daveNYC: I always took it as losing your sight to truly see, akin to when Odin sacrificed his eye to gain knowledge of rune magic. #thebox
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    Image of daveNYC daveNYC
    11/06/09

    @schrodingers-katana: That's a good way to look at it, although I don't really buy into it. In Darko, Frank was already dead, so the loss of the eye is small change, relatively speaking. In Soutland Tales, I don't think the twin who lost his eye was the one who actually understood what was happening at the end. Not like either of them really seemed to understand. Heck, not like the audience understood what the heck was going on at that point. #thebox
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    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    11/06/09

    @daveNYC: Good points. Maybe Kelly just has a closet obsession with ocular penetration? #thebox
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    Image of Dash_Stryker Dash_Stryker
    11/06/09

    In reply to Why Richard Kelly Is Obsessed With Water, And Won't See the Darko Sequel
    I thought it was just about god and junk. #richardkelly
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    11/06/09

    In reply to The Darko Mythos
    So when do the weird ideas a creative person is obsessed with become upgraded to "mythos" status. The ideas incorporated into the fiction of HP Lovecraft were only deemed a "mythos" when other writers started using them. Someone else made the sequel to Donnie Darko but I am not sure one movie outside of Kelly's own body of work makes a "mythos". #thebox
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    Image of Forsakenchild Forsakenchild
    11/06/09

    @Bill-Lee: Oh, I forgot to even touch on the first definition of "mythos", which basically states the fact that mythos is simply an abbreviated version of mythology; which can be established/created in a single work. #thebox
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    11/06/09

    @Forsakenchild: Yes, I know the definition of the term mythos. I was being facetious. #thebox
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    11/06/09

    @Bill-Lee: Had to be safe, seeing as there are like ten comments on this thread now trying to dispute the use of the word mythos in regard to Kelly and Donnie Darko, which gives the impression that a lot of people do not know the definition. #thebox
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    Image of Darklighter Darklighter
    11/05/09

    In reply to The Darko Mythos
    Southland Tales sits up there with Transformers 2 on the list of movies I wish I could forget. #thebox
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    Image of RavenNemain RavenNemain
    11/05/09

    @Darklighter: It's at the top of my "Morbid Curiosity" list - the movies that are supposed to be dreadful, but so dreadful that I want to see just how bad they really are. #thebox
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/05/09

    @RavenNemain: Yeah thats why I watched it. It was given multiple "worst movie of the year awards". #thebox
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    Image of RavenNemain RavenNemain
    11/05/09

    @tande04: That's why I watched Battlefield Earth, and WOW, it did it beat my expectations for awfulness. It is the low water mark against which I will measure all future film drek. #thebox
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    11/05/09

    @RavenNemain: Wait 'til you see this one then! #thebox
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    Image of Darklighter Darklighter
    11/05/09

    @RavenNemain: If you're feeling that masochistic, don't make the same mistake I did. Watch it with lots of alcohol. #thebox
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    Image of RavenNemain RavenNemain
    11/05/09

    @Darklighter: Duly noted... I was actually considering an event, where we watch Southland Tales and the Happening, with perhaps an encore presentation of Battlefield Earth for those not yet lucky enough to see it.

    Oh, and lots and lots of alcohol. #thebox
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    Image of Darklighter Darklighter
    11/05/09

    @RavenNemain: Look, if the objective is just to make your guests never want to watch a movie ever again, just show Manos and be done with it. #thebox
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    11/06/09

    @RavenNemain: God yes. Get some friends round, crack open heavy amounts of alcohol and watch Battlefield Earth! Awesome night! #thebox
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    Image of stereobot stereobot
    11/06/09

    @Darklighter: After watching Transformers 1, I don't know how ANYONE could willingly subject themselves to the sequel.
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    Edited by stereobot at 11/06/09 6:50 AM stereobot was starred stereobot was unstarred
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