mistake number one!
posted at 8:27 pm by brandon in if i was forced to cook in a turkish prison“I watch a movie. I don’t watch James Marsden.”
— the ever-quotable A — speaking to me as we were walking back to the car after having seen The Box last night — vehemently pooh-poohing my suggestion that he should have allowed his mind to wander away from the film’s mind-boggling plot and just focus on the shattering beauty of its male lead. (Which, incidentally, is exactly what I did: I fancy myself a fairly sharp guy, and I was hopelessly lost about twenty minutes in, so I sat there for the full remainder of the film admiring the flawlessly symmetrical beauty of Mr. Marsden’s mutton chop sideburns — the story is set in the late ’70s, FYI — and had a perfectly wonderful moviegoing experience. A, on the other hand, got completely wrapped up in the madly warped storyline, and as a result, had nightmares last night ruminating upon what he called “this sick movie.”)
November 11th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
The previews for The Box remind me of a classic Twilight Zone episode. Do you know if the movie is officially based on that episode by chance? And poor A for not sleeping well… *sympathy*
November 11th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Yep, Box is based on a TZ episode called “Button, Button,” which itself was based on a Richard Matheson short story of the same title. The movie is an egg-scrambling mindfuck, believe it. But the scenery is undeniably nice. 🙂
(As for A, fear not: I was able to talk him down from the ledge in my own inimitable fashion. He’s over it now. :))