I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Admirable film.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

No, this is not the competent little thriller from 1997 (reviewed in BATHOS #6) spawning two perfectly superfluous sequels and a lot of unpleasant nonsense about people for no good reason being tortured in small rooms by unknown assailants. It is a silly, self-complacent sketch made in 1969 and purporting to say something about something or other.Still, the basic concept (if you can call it that) is the same, a man caught inside a cube. He doesn't know why, nor has he got a lot of time to think about it, since he is constantly visited by funny guys, all presenting him with ample opportunity to escape.Of course, his situation is completely surreal, which in this case means that it makes no sense whatsoever. Except of course, as any three-year-old will have divined after five minutes, that it is all about modern man being trapped by the conventions of society.And if you haven't guessed, you will be constantly reminded by hip girls and folksingers talking and singing about how deluded we all are. Unfortunately, this is not about the games people play.It is about what underdeveloped overpaid television executives fresh out of high school think about the rotten society that gives them cameras to play with. GET A HAIRCUT!Since the guy is obviously only confined by the idiotic script, it has none of the suspense of THE PRISONER, and it's just as far from the hilariously straight-faced send-up of our television-engineered reality by the Pythons. The cube looks like a toilet, and that's where this crap belongs.Watching it is like spending an hour in a cube – make that ten hours! Stick to Muppets, Jimmy.

In 1967, Thomas M. Disch published a short story called "The Squirrel Cage." The story concerns a man who is imprisoned in a big white cube. The man doesn't know why he's there and never finds out. He never gets out of the cube.In 1969, Jim Henson wrote and directed a film called "The Cube." The film concerns a man who is imprisoned in a big white cube. The man doesn't know why he's there and never finds out. He never gets out of the cube.The details, however, are entirely different. In Disch's grim tale, the Man in the Cube is deprived of all human contact. He is provided with the daily New York Times as his only link to the outside world. He writes about various peculiar characters and creatures with no certainty that anyone outside the Cube will read his words.In Henson's version, the characters who visit the Cube are very much in the Henson mold: offbeat, wry, witty, and often just plain weird. This striking dichotomy between theme -- very dark -- and treatment -- very kooky -- makes a lot more sense if you're dealing with a Disch idea and a Henson treatment. This sort of story is Disch's bread and butter.See the movie, read the story, and then read some more of Disch's claustrophobic, hellishly imaginative visions: "Descending" and "Casablanca."

I remember The Cube, saw it on a Sunday afternoon and have been trying to find any record of it since. Does anyone remember the "Song"? "You'll never get out until you're DEAD-DEAD-DEAD" He had to find his own door to leave and couldn't use anyone else's'. I remember the guy selling "Chocolate Bunnies"? When he finally put the gun to his head and the Pall Bearers were carrying the coffin and a man came in and showed him "His door" they walked down the hall and talked ( about the chocolate bunny guy too) They told him he had to sign some papers before he left and when he did...everything disappeared and he was back in the white cube..looking for his door I imagine.

The Cube was shown on NBC as part of a series called Experiments in Television. To my knowledge it was only shown twice, but it was a wonderfully surreal program unlike anything I had ever seen before.The series showed other unusual things like a series of cartoons that were written by British playwright Harold Pinter.I certainly wish NBC would find these shows and re-air them, because in the year 2003, they would still look incredibly modern!