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This is the first trailer for Donnie Darko/Southland Tales director Richard Kelly’s The Box. It’s based on a Richard Matheson short story called “Button, Button,” which was also made into a Twilight Zone episode. The premise is that a mysterious stranger (Frank Langella) gives a couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) a box with a button. He tells them if they press the button, they get a million dollars, but someone they don’t know will die. I guess back in the 70s this was considered a moral dilemma. If it happened today, my only question would be, “So if I press it twice, do I get two million dollars?”
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This looks okay. But I think I liked it the first time when it was called Deathnote.
BANNER PIC:
Cameron Diaz and James Marsden finding out that there is no Santa Clause
Oddly enough, the contents of Cameron Diaz box amounts to the same conflict: Saddle up, get a million dollars, but in all likelihood my penis would die.
The little red button on the box is what is called the clitoris.
Cameron Diaz looks like Drew Barrymore after a car accident. And James Marsden looks like he wants to know why he’s hanging out with Drew Barrymore after a car accident.
@SmokeEm…or so they think. Right up until Santa sets Marsden up for a T-Bone Steak at the 1:41 marker.
I like watching someone rubbing their box on someone else’s carpet.
Are they supposed to be Southern in this? Is that the accent they’re going for? I feel like they went to the Blood Diamond school of accents. It i’nt Bling Bling, it’s Bang Bang.
I don’t pull out. I prefer to Jack in The Box.
Who the fuck are they kidding? I wouldn’t give a shit if it was someone I knew that died. I can buy a couple new acquaintances with that kind of cheese.
If I mess with the button on my girlfriend’s box enough I don’t get a million dollars, but I may get to go out drinking with my buddies the next night without her bitching like a raving fucking lunatic.
I’d keep pressing that button until Tom Cruise died. I would consider it my gift to the world for saving it from having to see MI:4. Then I’d buy a new car for Katie and do her in the butt.
Great, so we finally get a new post and it’s gonna prompt 450 comments worth of movie titles with vagina puns.
James Marsden has such range as an actor: surprise, startled shock, mild anguish, confusion.
@ Stinky
It could be worse Stinky. We could have some long-winded Harry Knowles-like 8 page movie review comparing The Box to the first time he got a beer at the corner store back in 1984.
I welcome puns compared to that.
If I pressed the magic button; If I pressed the magic button, well I’d buy the victim’s family a fur coat. But not a real fur coat, that’s cruel.
So a Dick is directing a box? I always thought it was the other way around.
Can’t trust anything that bleeds for eight days and don’t die.
Eight days? You, uh, don’t really “know” too many women, do you?
New up.
Hee Hee. Chino said “Dick.”
*runs back to social studies class, trips in hallway, spilling books. Blossoming 8th grade girls point and laugh*
James Marsden keeps fumbling around with that button until the box finally fakes killing someone to get him to stop.
A million bucks? Hell I’d press it for a hundred.
I made a parody video of the original Twilight Zone episode called “Killing Button” (about a couple pressing the button MULTIPLE times for more money) and we told that story in 5 minutes. How Kelley is going to make this a feature, I have no idea, but I’m sure the Santa Claus subplot helps.
A hundred bucks? I’d press it for free.