The Box

Like, why didn't you do that the first time around? But anyway...

I think it, I think the fir- for that one it was because- It really had a tough time when it came out at the box office.

Like, it came out a couple of months, uh, after 9/11, and a jet engine falling off a plane being a key plot point in the film, it just...

Uh, they reckon that's one of the reasons it just died at the box office.

Coby, what do you think, director's cut or original, to be honest?

I've only ever seen the original.

But then he made two m- he's made two more films in the last 25 years, and that's it.

His career just stalled out.

Oh.

I definitely caught it on video rental, though, because I remember, I mean, the marketing may have flubbed it, but the box art I thought was very evocative, and I do think it's emblematic of its psychological thriller aspects.

So in that capacity, I was very intrigued.

Always an Ashley Judd fan, so I definitely sought it out.

Um-

Okay

... and that, that would be Richard Kelly's The Box.

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I had this in Fun Facts later on, but I'll do it now.

Basically, Drew Barrymore's production company kicked in some money in there she's like i'll be in the movie and i'll throw in like four and a half million bucks basically the budget of the film and then i'm going to be in the movie and it prevented it from going right to video on demand or right to video not on demand then just just to video or it was gonna i read that it was gonna stream on like stars it was gonna be like a non-theater movie but basically drew bradmore got it into theaters um and it immediately made more money on dvds than it did at the box office but and

you guys know why it didn't make money in the box office it was what did it

open against uh

well

It was his first movie.

He also wrote Domino.

And then he was the writer director of Southland Tales and the box.

Paperclip on acid.

Another film people don't like, I think it's great, The Box, 2009 Richard Kelly film.

Richard Kelly made Donnie Darko, if you remember that.

Tagline to this film is, "You are the experiment." Kelly's The Box functions as a tribute to both 2001 and Kubrick, where a secret space program that uses NASA as a front is also planning on wiping out the globe through a mass occult brainwashing technique.

There's even references to 9/11 in this film, which I think is interesting.

Now, this is obviously, this is post 9/11, but, uh, it's referred to as a kind of ritual operation, which, which I, I find fascinating and probab- and very plausible.

Paperclip on acid.

Another film people don't like, I think it's great, The Box, 2009 Richard Kelly film.

Richard Kelly made Donnie Darko, if you remember that.

Tagline to this film is, "You are the experiment." Kelly's The Box functions as a tribute to both 2001 and Kubrick, where a secret space program that uses NASA as a front is also planning on wiping out the globe through a mass occult brainwashing technique.

There's even references to 9/11 in this film, which I think is interesting.

Now, this is obviously, this is post 9/11, but, uh, it's referred to as a kind of ritual operation, wha- that which I, I find fascinating and probab- and very plausible.

He's had some really, really good movies.

One of my favorite is the trifecta movies that hit with critics, fans, and in the box office.

He's got three movies there that landed with diary of a mad housewife, captain fantastic and good night and good luck.

However, From 1981 to 1991, he had five consecutive movies that flat out stunk.

Yeah.

Because theater, Broadway, GOAT, and then the films, there's some great ones, but there's so many stinkers in there too.

And I think the box office numbers kind of reflect that.

So it's going to make an interesting conversation.

This was the first one.

Then it was Domino, Southland Tales, S. Darko, which I believe is a sequel, and then The Box.

Southland? Is that a cop movie? Southland Tales.

He does The Box? Oh, thanks.

I feel like The Box was a movie I almost went and saw and didn't.

It's Cameron Diaz.

You probably did see it.

It looks like he writes thrillers.

This is a horrible film.

nasty nasty nasty manipulative stuff it's directed by son of John Cassavetes Nick Cassavetes it is a film about a small child who sues her parents for taking her bone marrow to give to her sister with leukemia Abigail Breslin is the child Cameron Diaz is the mother and the lawyer is played by Mr. Alec Baldwin this film is the oh oh it's horrible it's horrible horrible horrible and i feel like so many kids in my primary school were like obsessed with it and always talking about it and they love bringing an open conversation to make the rest of us feel sick yeah be like you want to hear about the movie about the girl with cancer and the bone marrow and the lawsuit like that just sounds horrible just a film i associate with just like a bad nasty feeling and i watched it about two years ago and i was like this is like the worst i've ever seen okay this is like gross Then she's in Richard Kelly's The Box.

This is Donnie Darko, Southland Tales, Richard Kelly.

His third and final film, Music by Arcade Fire.

Surely no one famous.

Surely not.

Pull up the box office there while I check.

I will.