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Sunday, September 12, 2010

CUBE


Origin: Better left to the imagination
Cherchez La Moose: Cube shivered me timbers back in high school. I hadn't heard much about it beforehand, but the movie box always seemed to stick out at my local rental store in Nanaimo. Cube proved to me that Canadian cinema can be badass. It's scary, thought-provoking, and extremely resourceful considering how much needed to be created with only a shoestring budget. The Saw franchise borrowed a lot of ideas from this movie - in fact, Saw 2 is almost the exact same movie as Cube (except it's gorier and not nearly as imaginative). Some of the acting in Cube is less than stellar, but overall it's a great premise with an awesome ending. I don't recommend the sequel, but the prequel - Cube Zero - is also worth checking out.

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