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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com
In article ,
nick wrote:
>On Nov 8, 6:13 pm, Taylor wrote:
>> On Nov 7, 9:18 pm, Taylor wrote:
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>> > Opening day: 'Christmas Carol' debut not looking too jolly
>> > November 7, 2009 | 8:45 am | ntvnat.com/achristmascarol
>> abductions in Alaska.
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>> Cameron Diaz and James Marsden's sci-fi tale "The Box" opened at No. 6
>> with $7.9 million. The Warner Bros. thriller centers on a couple given
>> a mysterious box that can provide them $1 million, but at the cost of
>> a stranger's life.
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>This is what I saw over the weekend, coupled it with the earlier
>version of the Matheson story from the eighties Twilight Zone and
>available on YouTube. Any space alien doing the same thing would
>wonder what the hell has happened to us in the intervening years.
>From the tight efficiency of the 20 minute TZ version (and an ending
>that improves on the Matheson story--something I'll take on faith
>since the Kindle free sample of "Button, Button" I downloaded cut off
>before the finish) to the gloppy foolishness of The Box . . . it's one
>of those over-the-top messes guaranteed to make Internet geeks accuse
>people who don't like it of being idiots. James Marsden was prettier
>than Cameron Diaz but it was nice hearing a Scott Walker song in a
>Hollywood movie.
FWIW, I read the original short story recently, and the ending was
basically:
SPOILER
SPOILER
"You said it wouldn't be anyone I knew!"
"Well, it seems you didn't really know him at all, did you?"
Ted
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