I just watched the whole Cube series for the first time this week, knowing nothing about it and I thought all 3 were pretty cool. I can see that Cube is superior to the other two, but man there's a lot of people here who just HATED Hypercube and Cube Zero.
Just noticing...
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I saw Cube, then Hypercube, then Cube Zero. The worst of the series IMO was Cube Zero, and yet, still not God-awful. The descent into comic villainy was frustrating, irritating, and trite. And there were no women that I was ready to get excited about in CZ. ;) Of course, this is the Hypercube board so...
Hypercube had one Achilles' Heel flaw, that being the Hollywood psuedoscience explanations of what the hell was going on. If it were the exact same movie with no attempt at an explanation of what the characters were experiencing, I think it would have been a much better movie. Generally speaking, the premise thrives on mystique and revealing less rather than more, because the more you think about it the more absurd it becomes.
And yes, Mrs. Paley is freakin' ridiculous. Oh well.
I still thought it was cool overall, they nailed the villain(s) for one thing, and
And Hypercube had *3* cuties! Really liked Keri Matchett and Lindsay Connell in this. Well I liked all three of them. But, I digress.
Overall, I think not bad for a sequel. Cube fans can certainly count themselves ahead of fans of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Ghostbusters, Robocop, Star Wars, and Hobgoblins. Wait, I'm not sure on that last one. Gee whiz, that's profound. ;)
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As Cube came out in cinema, I was fascinated: fresh ideas, stunning,
intelligent, simple but impressive environment and good acting. I
refused watching the second part for years. Yesterday i did - to learn
again, why I refused it. The plot is almost the same but misses the
charming unsolved mystery of the original. All the rest I have seen a
thousand times since Star Trek. Cheap and dispensable. Is it really
necessary that always when a movie has success that they make sequels
and destroy the good memory and feeling the original leaves behind in
the audience?
Personally, I think Hypercube is my least favorite of the trilogy (hopefully it'll soon be a quadrilogy...or whatever the word is). Mainly because of the traps. I loved the design of the Cube, though I kind of wish for a color variation like in the other two films.
As for the sciences, I dismissed them as the Hypercube's program creating them: alternate gravity, alternate "realities," etc. as a way to screw with the people inside. (I mention this in another thread.)
Either way, after I decided most of the weird science stuff was just part of the program and not actually happening, I enjoyed it more, despite the acting.
I like Cube Zero better than Hypercube BECAUSE of the villain, and because of the fact that we get outside of the cube for this movie and get to see the technicians of it. I loved that. I liked when Wynn went in and walked around inside of the cube. That was pretty cool. It has a great ending, too. My only real complaint was the cube design. It was the dirtiest looking and didn't have that weird lab maze feel to it that the other two did. It seemed more like several rooms in a building strung together using ventilation shafts. The cube didn't look BAD, I just wanted something with the translucent wall panels like the first two that let the light through. I did like that they did the multicolor lights like in the original.
But Cube will always be my favorite of the trilogy. It has the best acting, the best story, it's original, it has has the best Cube design, the best traps (the first trap in Cube Zero was utterly disgusting. Most graphic death I've seen in a movie and I watch the Saw movies) and is all around a great film, inspiring feelings of claustrophobia, paranoia, etc. I didn't really feel that with the sequels as much. Hypercube especially didn't have the claustrophobia feel. I thought the Hypercube was too...open. I think it was the cube itself with the all white lightings or the constant changing of locations of cubes and so forth.
Cube--8/10
Hypercube 6.8/10
Cube Zero--7.3/10
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"When expecting booby traps...always send a boob in first." --Megatron, Beast Wars