Talk:Cube (film)

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Contents 1 Comic Reference. 2 Merge summary of other movies 3 Alderson 4 Purpose of the Cube 5 Fatal Cubes 6 Clean Up 7 rooms 8 Rooms 9 Post-apocalyptic science fiction film 10 Worst film?

[edit] Comic Reference.

Nothing important but i belive [This] is a blatant reference to kazan. If somone could at it that would be great.

[edit] Merge summary of other movies

Added notes on the two sequels that they should be merged with this one. Cube Zero has an excellent synopsis of all three movies. Zerbey 19:00, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

This article has a synopsis of the first movie. Cube Zero perhaps should be moved to Cube (trilogy) or something, since the first movie was never called "Cube Zero". Dysprosia 00:44, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've created a new Cube series article that has the summaries of all three movies. I went with that name instead because of the naming of The Matrix series article. -- Bovineone 07:26, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alderson

I have noticed that one of the mentioned cast members - "Julian Richings as Alderson" is not mentioned anywhere else on the page. Is this a minor character?--Brendan Hide 21:31, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

He never got a line, and died about twenty seconds into the film (in the "sushi machine" mentioned). Kinitawowi 13:00, August 3, 2005 (UTC)

Alderson is not killed by the sushi machine, you'll notice that the sushi machine works and appears differently. It traps the victim within a circle of wires and then collapses towards the floor by tightening the wires. This should mean that instead of being cubed, the victim is sliced into "cake" pieces. --Gencoil 01:18, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

he's mentioned as "unnamed character" in the plot description though, not sure how to fix that (clem 23:16, 26 August 2005 (UTC))

I added a bit to the Alderson section--speculation on what his "function" in the group might have been had he survived. He is one of the most intriguing characters precisely because his presence in the Cube remains unexplained.(Smoky Topaz 8:39, 11 November 2005 (UTC))

Is he not "unnamed" because we can see his name tag on his jacket? Dikke poes 17:23, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Purpose of the Cube

No discussion of the allegorical significance that the Cube was deisgned by its victims, so added: "However, Worth's role as being a designer of the cube system albeit without any real knowledge of the task he had been working on, other than it was a 'good job' at the time, and his argument against the conspiracy theory of Holloway, argues for the film's allegorical point being that we are all trapped in a device of our own making, which was made in ignorance, and ultimately meaningless, however complex and intricate at may appear." User:User

[edit] Fatal Cubes

I'm not certain this section has any merit. Not only is it worded questionably, but I don't see what this section adds to the article. I am going to remove it, speak up if you have any objections. Satchfan 07:50, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clean Up

This article needs some serious work, in almost every section. I think there should be a section about the Allegorical Meaning of the cube, as well as much more cohesive Maths section. I say this because I think Cube is a excellent film and it deserves a better article than this. Satchfan 08:14, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Cleaned a bit --dvorak.typist

[edit] rooms

I dont get how this person got that the rooms are 15.5 feet, and not 14 feet.

[edit] Rooms

You have to add the extra legnth from when you go into the door which is roughly a foot and a half. That is how the external dimensions are 15.5 feet.

But that's still wrong. That's an extra 1.5 feet on the other side of the cube. You forgot that each door has an opposite door on the other side, so that would add another 1.5 feet to the exterior lenght of one of cubes;

The Math: 14ft (interior) + 1.5ft (doorway) + 1.5ft (opposite doorway) = 17ft^3 (exterior)

That is, of course, assuming that the lenght of doorway on a cube is 1.5ft. I actually think it's 2ft, but that's just me.--24.89.215.104 04:22, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

You're more right than I am, but we are both wrong. It is said by Worth in the film that outter shell is 434ft on one side, and Leaven deduces after pacing off the room that the number of cubes on a side within the outter shell is 26. 26 cubes high, 26 cubes wide, and 26 cubes long.

So, some more math: 434ft / 26 = 16.69ft(rounded exterior dimensions) - 14ft(interior dimensions) = 2.69ft(rounded)

It's this 2.69ft left over that when divided in by 2 (for both sides of the cube) gives us 1.34ft(rounded). That 1.34ft is the lenght of half the "hallway" between one cube, since a "hallway" is created between any 2 cubes lining up to on another.

Math was never my best, so if anyone can point out what's wrong, then by all means...

--24.89.215.104 04:42, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

However, you have to account for the fact that two adjaccent rooms share their common "hallway", i.e. every room only contributes one half, making the hallway 2.69 ft long, which is, IMHO, not too different from the length perceived when watching the movie.

Umm...the "hallway" lenght was already stated. --24.89.215.104 00:27, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Post-apocalyptic science fiction film

is it? How do we know this?

--Charlesknight 22:53, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

No dialouge in the film suggests that there was any major global conflict outside the cube and the state of global affairs are never addressed. This leads the viewer to assume that the events in the film could have happen at anytime and are not hinged upon a post-apoc world. So...no; Cube is not a post-apocalyptic sci-fi film.

[edit] Worst film?

Someone is trying to add this film to the Films considered the worst ever article. Now, I don't remember this being an awful film, in fact it was quite good, IMO. If someone who has the time and conviction feels like maybe pulling up some good reviews of the movie for some proof as to its lack of crappiness, I'm sure that would be much appreciated. --Thaddius 15:52, 25 January 2007 (UTC)