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You wake up in a cubic room, with steel rung ladders leading to a door in every face. :eek:

What do you do? What is your strategy for survival? Leave marks? Try to head in the same direction, correcting your course after avoiding every 'trap' room? Would you work with whomever you met, or adopt a policy of murder and cannibalism?

Because you never know, our governments are up to some crazy stuff these days... :rolleyes:

You wake up in a cubic room, with steel rung ladders leading to a door in every face. :eek:
go back to sleep?;)

Ask a series of questions before trusting them, and if they fail be fed to who ever wants the meat... Except if they're a hott girl cause then we can always stay in the room a bit longer ;)

How funny I saw the film the cube last week, the lesson is stay where you are and the autistic guy always survives till the end.

I would simply light up a joint. Invariably, a cop would happen along and arrest me and take me to jail.

Making it sound as if you'll be stuck in this cube forever. There HAS to be a way out. :eek:

Making it sound as if you'll be stuck in this cube forever. There HAS to be a way out. :eek:
Problem is, in the movies it's a Rubic's Cube, and someone is playing with it. As if that wasn't bad enough, in Cube 2: Hypercube, the Cube is 4D, so Time is getting shuffled as well.

That sounds like a badass movie.

Me, I'd adopt the cannabalism plan.

Problem is, in the movies it's a Rubic's Cube, and someone is playing with it. As if that wasn't bad enough, in Cube 2: Hypercube, the Cube is 4D, so Time is getting shuffled as well.

What do you think? Person with a God complex or a little boy with an ant farm? Must be one of those two to have the mentality to create such puzzles.

Not be the first one to go into a room. That much I can say is certain. :p

I never understood those movies. What the hell was the idea behind building that thing? What was it meant for? Cube Zero was supposedly giving the answers to those questions. But it was as vague as the other movies.

That sounds like a badass movie.

Me, I'd adopt the cannabalism plan.
LOL, it's been done. If anyone hasn't seen them, they are Cube, Cube 2: Hypercube, and Cube Zero (the unspeakably dark prequel).

I never understood those movies. What the hell was the idea behind building that thing? What was it meant for? Cube Zero was supposedly giving the answers to those questions. But it was as vague as the other movies.
The purpose isn't supposed to be grasped, the people really are like rats in a maze. In Cube Zero, we find that even the operators of the Cube don't know its purpose, or how they got into the control room. It really is a sick joke.

LOL, it's been done. If anyone hasn't seen them, they are Cube, Cube 2: Hypercube, and Cube Zero (the unspeakably dark prequel).
seen Cube (good movie) Cube 2: HyperCube (not so good Sequal)
haven't seen Cube Zero yet.

The purpose isn't supposed to be grasped, the people really are like rats in a maze. In Cube Zero, we find that even the operators of the Cube don't know its purpose, or how they got into the control room. It really is a sick joke.
But I want to grasp it. :mad: I hate movies which I can't grasp.

do i get to bring beer in said cube?

go through it slowly... shit in every room i've been in and just walk away from the smell.

I really couldn't stand The Cube.

I saw it a few years ago, it's like that episode of star trek that keeps repeating the same thing over and over again till they get it right - only in this film they don't.

In my mind the whole idea of putting people into a place like that and not letting the viewer know why is one of the most infuriating things that can possibly be done.

And the fact that the autistic kid lives in the end? At that point I stopped watching it as a horror/sci-fi film and just saw it for what it is. Some psudo-psychological moral commentary, and a god damn awful one at that.

The only reason I'd ever watch any more Cube movies is to take bets on how they get killed in the next room and have a good laugh.

I started with Cube Zero. I don't think it's as far-fetched as some might say.

Sit in the first room and wait for it to move back to the entrance. Simple. Then kill the first 6 people on the outside for putting me in that ****ing hellhole.

I really couldn't stand The Cube.

I saw it a few years ago, it's like that episode of star trek that keeps repeating the same thing over and over again till they get it right - only in this film they don't.

In my mind the whole idea of putting people into a place like that and not letting the viewer know why is one of the most infuriating things that can possibly be done.

And the fact that the autistic kid lives in the end? At that point I stopped watching it as a horror/sci-fi film and just saw it for what it is. Some psudo-psychological moral commentary, and a god damn awful one at that.Funny, though I had the same observations, I felt it managed the commentary bit quite amiably.The only reason I'd ever watch any more Cube movies is to take bets on how they get killed in the next room and have a good laugh.And that's brilliant fun. Did it with both follow-ups. Some of the traps are quite ingenius. Besides, getting drunk & watching people die is always a nice way to pass the time.

How funny I saw the film the cube last week, the lesson is stay where you are and the autistic guy always survives till the end.

Ah, but Cube Zero shows us that surviving till the end (over and over again) is actually the punishment.

Funny, though I had the same observations, I felt it managed the commentary bit quite amiably.And that's brilliant fun. Did it with both follow-ups. Some of the traps are quite ingenius. Besides, getting drunk & watching people die is always a nice way to pass the time.


For me, I felt that the way the film was ended, the way it was filmed was completely over the top.

It wasn't like, he lives moral point done it was like - and he walks into the light, the meek inherit the earth etc.

If it wasn't so overstated I probably wouldn't have minded and gone, ok cool.

Anyway, back on topic, I dunno, I guess I'd just go with it, and make sure that I watch every other member of the group like a hawk, if one of them looks like going psycho I'd kill em.

Another film that's pretty similar and ended with a more sadistic twist is house of nine - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395585/ .

Although the acting in it is addmitedly alot more dodgy than the cube, the plotline for the film I considered much better. But that's me, I can be a bit sadistic - I don't like happy endings.

go through it slowly... shit in every room i've been in and just walk away from the smell.

Congratulations, you win the initiative award :D

Congratulations, you win the initiative award :D
woohoo! :)
hope my prize is some beans... or bog roll for that matter :eek: :p

lol at this thread. I've "seen" both Cube and Cube 2 (not Zero though, may have to look into that) and for both films the exact same thought flitted across my meadow of a mind, like some bautiful butterfly:

Where's the weed at?

I got so stoned at the start of both movies that I fell asleep about 40 minutes into each of them. The impression I got of the films was that the cubes were both a method of 'removing' unwanted people and testing everyone to their absolute limits in order to determine whether these people still had worth. For example, I don't know about cube (fell asleep real early in that one) but in cube 2, all of them had something to do with the cube, IIRC. Certainly, there was the woman who 'discovered' the hypercube, the guy who built the damn place, etc. I just thought the idea behind it was 'well, we could do with removing these people, but some of them may have some work left in them so if they survive, they can work for us again'.

Of course, it's 3am and I'm fucking shattered, so I could be BSing. As far as getting out goes? Survive as long as possible and keep necessary people alive. At all costs.

woohoo! :)
hope my prize is some beans... or bog roll for that matter :eek: :p

Mexican food. And lots of beer. :)

The impression I got of the films was that the cubes were both a method of 'removing' unwanted people and testing everyone to their absolute limits in order to determine whether these people still had worth.

Very humanocentric. Why assume that the people are being tested for worth when it could be the cube itself which is being tested?

Very humanocentric. Why assume that the people are being tested for worth when it could be the cube itself which is being tested?

Now that would be interesting.

In Cube Zero, the guy who survives and walks into the light is then burnt alive. Another guy who survives, gets lobotomised and sent back in. In Cube 2, the survivor is lucky - she is executed by a shot to the head.

The moral of the story is, surviving the Cube is futile. You still die.

As for what's being tested...

In Cube 2, the people who worked on the project are sent there, presumably to remove them. The main architect escapes into the cube in order to hide from the people who want them all dead. They aren't being tested, they are just being killed, or in the case of at least one of them, the Cube is actually their one remaining refuge.

In Cube Zero, the systems are being tested. As the main character tech guy explains to some of the people trapped inside, the poisons and microwaves are in part what's being tested. The victims are political prisoners being executed. It's a two-for-one deal.

As for The Cube, who knows what the hell that was about, to be honest I think the script writers didn't know, and they only worked out the details in the next two movies.

Very humanocentric. Why assume that the people are being tested for worth when it could be the cube itself which is being tested?
I see... [/shenmue]

But yeah, I do actually see. The reason for throwing in the designers of the cube could have been that they were supposed to have the greatest chance of escaping it. Since I'm assuming no-one does (see: I'm a dirty stoner post for reason) then the cube passes. Then gets used to torture people.

I see... [/shenmue]

But yeah, I do actually see. The reason for throwing in the designers of the cube could have been that they were supposed to have the greatest chance of escaping it. Since I'm assuming no-one does (see: I'm a dirty stoner post for reason) then the cube passes. Then gets used to torture people.

Why assume that it then gets used to torture people? It could also just be an artwork (or to state the obvious metaphor, the world that God created).

Why assume that it then gets used to torture people? It could also just be an artwork (or to state the obvious metaphor, the world that God created).
So the corpses encountered on tours of the artwork-as-installation are merely a feature of the exhibit?

As for The Cube, who knows what the hell that was about, to be honest I think the script writers didn't know, and they only worked out the details in the next two movies.
In that one I think it was an independent film maker thinking, "Dudes, I just thought of a badass way to make a film with just one set, and it'd be creepy as hell."

And as one myself, I salute him.

Why assume that it then gets used to torture people? It could also just be an artwork (or to state the obvious metaphor, the world that God created).

Damn die brucke movement.

In that one I think it was an independent film maker thinking, "Dudes, I just thought of a badass way to make a film with just one set, and it'd be creepy as hell."

And as one myself, I salute him.
Hell yeah. Rare to find an original concept.

So the corpses encountered on tours of the artwork-as-installation are merely a feature of the exhibit?

Nope, it cleans itself through regular incineration. Pay attention.

As for what's being tested...

In Cube 2, the people who worked on the project are sent there, presumably to remove them. The main architect escapes into the cube in order to hide from the people who want them all dead. They aren't being tested, they are just being killed, or in the case of at least one of them, the Cube is actually their one remaining refuge.

In Cube Zero, the systems are being tested. As the main character tech guy explains to some of the people trapped inside, the poisons and microwaves are in part what's being tested. The victims are political prisoners being executed. It's a two-for-one deal.

As for The Cube, who knows what the hell that was about, to be honest I think the script writers didn't know, and they only worked out the details in the next two movies.Yups. And seeing it in writing like this, being almost sober, it explains why the two follow ups dissapointed me so much.

Anyway, if I got stuck in such a cube, I think I'd kiss my ass goodbye.
I'd probably stay put untill I got weak & miserable. Then I'd go find a trap.

I'd start a cult of circles and proclaim the coming of the sphere.

I'd probably stay put untill I got weak & miserable. Then I'd go find a trap.
:p

Yeah, I guess that's how it would end for a lot of people. Problem is, what type of trap. Being cubed inside a giant egg slicer isn't much fun, nor is the designers' obsession with seeing flesh dissolve. :(

I think the spring-loaded spikes are the quickest way.

:p

Yeah, I guess that's how it would end for a lot of people. Problem is, what type of trap. Being cubed inside a giant egg slicer isn't much fun, nor is the designers' obsession with seeing flesh dissolve. :(

I think the spring-loaded spikes are the quickest way.This might sound odd, but..

It wouldn't matter overly much to me. As long as the trap kilt me thoroughly, I wouldn't lose sleep over the exact approach.
The reason I'd creep off in search of a trap wouldn't be to avoid dying, after all. It would be to avoid withering away in a corner, waking up every so often patheticly wispering for water. I'm sure staying put would be more pleasant over all - having one's face dissolved doesn't look like an easy way out exactly - but I'd rather at least be man enough to end my life 'on my own terms'.. If one can truely use that phrase here.

You wake up in a cubic room, with steel rung ladders leading to a door in every face. :eek:

What do you do? What is your strategy for survival? Leave marks? Try to head in the same direction, correcting your course after avoiding every 'trap' room? Would you work with whomever you met, or adopt a policy of murder and cannibalism?

Because you never know, our governments are up to some crazy stuff these days... :rolleyes:
Oh god, not that movie. :headbang:

It would be to avoid withering away in a corner, waking up every so often patheticly wispering for water.
Yeah. Within a couple of days, you'd be in a bad enough state not to care. :(

"This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which God intended a more divine means of consumption. Let us give praise to our Maker and glory to His bounty by learning about beer."

That sounds like a badass movie.

Me, I'd adopt the cannabalism plan.
personnaly id gain everyones trust and then go on to conquer the world! or try to . . .which, i guess is the reason for playin ns . . .

Dang I thought this was about "Dr." Gene Ray (Cubic and Wisest Human) and his Time Cube (http://www.timecube.com/).