Pressing a Button Grants You $1 Million But a Random Person Will Die
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- A financially desperate couple receives a box with a button on it and now they have twenty-four hours to decide if pushing it, which would grant them one million dollars but also would cause the death of a person they don't know.
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I actually watched one of these movies that were recapped, and sometimes these recaps makes the movie sound better than it actually was, because externalities such as the quality of the acting are isolated.
That's probably why they make those really bad movies right? Because it sounds so good when they read the script and the final result is just bad.
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So true
And this movie is horrible.
@@vickeygaming1660 probably
The most unbelievable part of this is that the husband works at NASA but they live paycheck to paycheck.
The film takes place in 1976. A NASA engineer salary back then was less than the median average of the time.
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@@jenniferhamels1176 what are you basing this on Jennifer? I’m not saying you’re wrong but I’ve heard the opposite, but maybe you have better info than me
@Kingston
@Jennifer he's literally driving a Corvette in the next shot.
Don't tell me; in 1976 a Corvette back then was less than the median average of the time.
Most people live paycheck to paycheck due to poor budgeting and poor habits along with a myriad of other factors.
Family: lives paycheck to paycheck
Also family: Has a corvette, son in private school (even with the discount), NASA employee as a dad, and lives an overly luxurious life
Right?! I was like, something doesn't add up here and it's not the box🤨
Maybe the reason they live paycheck to paycheck is because they spend all of that money on those luxuries.
@@FeCyrineu yup, it’s the American dream you know! Americans have been taken over by consumerism
It's hilarious to me that there's a rich Hollywood script writer out there who thinks that this is what living paycheck to paycheck looks like :'D
In universe, she was probably lying. I mean they murdered someone for a $million.
I'm unashamed to admit that Dick Burns made me laugh way too much
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@@masterpanda3969 lol same
You are not alone bro 😂😂
Bruh, me too 😂
Lmfao me too 😂
I remember watching this one at the cinema and getting kinda annoyed by how illogical the story was. The characters make two crucial decisions over the course of the story: whether to push the button or not and whether to kill the person who pushed the button or not. However since both decisions are linked the entire crime-and-punishment arc falls apart. Either Cameron Diaz's character was the one who made the choice to kill the previous woman who pushed the button, which would make her husband's choice irrelevant OR it was that woman's husband's choice to kill his wife that made Cameron push the button - which means it wasn't really her choice at all and she shouldn't have been punished for it.
I think its just meant to show that pretty much everyone always presses the button so yes it’s technically not a choice one way or another but
@@corbinh5810 there is no but. The decisions are completely seperate
The movie is confusing because it was framed around the box and wether to choose to push the button or not. However the movie isn’t about the decision of wether to choose to push the button, It is wether you are willing to kill someone or not in order to get ahead or maintain your life at the cost of others. The decisions are connected because the victims of the experiment are the ones who choose to kill or destroy another life for their own sake when they didn’t have to and therefore destroyed their goodselves in the process. Only the ones who choose to push the button are the victims of their own actions later. If this still doesn’t quite make sense then take for instance how they didn’t have to kill each other afterwards when their son was disabled. Their tendency for self preservation lead to their own destruction. Therefore everyone who presses the button also ends up dying in their own way. The next people are also carefully selected as likely candidates to press the button as well.
@@carlosfontanez9804 yup makes total sense. They are screwed if they decide to press the button because if they do the next person is going to press the button on them. But they are conditioned to press the button because they are in a desperate situation.
@@RaquellyReacts The problem is they don´t know from the beguining there are more consecuences to their actions. They don´t know they are the next victims. That information is crucial when choosing if press the button or not
"Pressing a Button Grants You $1 Million But a Random Person Will Die"
Thanos: "I guess I need autoclicker"
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Underrated comment 🤣🤣🤣
Me: clicks until I die.
Thanos: I got cheated. Where's my gazillion dollars?
@@da96103 1000 x 7 billion is 7 trillion
The way Stewart does this, it’s like a test of life, seeing how and what you will do for loved ones.
Seems like a bit of a pointless movie
@@nofurtherwest3474 you think humanity is pointless? You're just like the employers.
@@nofurtherwest3474 u
@@ScribblebytesWorldwide it's kind of a random premise. like basically a spin on "would you do xyz for a million dollars". i guess it had to be made though huh. why not. was prob written by the producer's grandkid
@@nofurtherwest3474 You ever watched any Twilight Zone episodes?
Been pretty grateful finding this channel. Most of the movies covered are one that i've found mildly interesting and unsure if i'd want to commit the 90 mins discovering if worth my time. The 10-15 mins is easily digestible
Gey
this is very correct dj
Protip...Hit 2x and it's only ~6minutes
This channel makes many movies seem a lot better than they actually are. I'd say over 50% of the movies on this channel are actually elevated, and that if you were to actually watch them would realize they're kind of dog shit turn-off-your-brain flicks.
right i usually cant or wouldnt watch most these movies and on top of that u get this persons perspective on certain actions of people!! ones that i wouldnt!
This was a short story some years ago, but it was less convoluted. Basically you'd get the chance to press the button. If you don't press it your life continues normally. If you press it you get money and a random person, who you do not know, would die. Upon delivering the money the owner of the box would take it back and would assure you that the next person he gives it to would be someone who you do not know, implying that if the next person presses the button you will die. That's all there was to it.
Yeah I remember that one. I found it kind of funny.
IIRC, the original short story doesn't have the implication about the next person but the Outer Limits (or Twilight Zone?) adaptation added it.
That would have been cool.
The short story is titled Button Button and is by Richard Matheson.
The 80s reboot of The Twilight Zone has it as an episode and is much better than the movie.
That’s why my initial thought process was to press about 7 billion times in 24 hours. I then realized you could only press it once😂
The version i saw was much shorter. the wife pushes the button and within a few minutes the guy comes with the payment and collects the box. She asks who died? he replies, “The last person that pressed the button.”
It is then implied that the box will be reset and given to someone who doesn't know you.
That's literally the opposite of random. I would even go so far as to say it's a system.
It's a Twilight zone 1985 Episode. And he doesn't quite say that but that's the basic gist of it.
@@ajspiceExactly!
As far as I remember, when giving the box, the man tells the couple that someone that they don't know will die.
When he later retrieves the box, he tells them that he'll now give it to someone that they don't know.
Something like that.
I watched this movie and let me tell you this. It's actually confusing and a little boring, kind of all over the place. This channel makes it sound interesting like it would to other movies, which is actually great because its as entertaining as I did watching the movie xD of course we shouldn't discount watching the movie itselft though! We can still learn and appreciate the qualities of a movie, but also enjoy watching recaps :)
While I love the recaps, this one made me not want to watch the movie. Even with the recap it feels all over the place and kinda pointless and pretentious.
Don't worry, this recap sounds plenty confusing and all over the place.
I didn’t understood the point of the movie in this one. Even with the nice narration.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was confused 😅
honestly even in this recap it’s still confusing and all over the place. i guess it’s that bad
I remember watching this movie and thinking it was a big ass nosedive. It starts off very interesting, but as soon as they start to dive deeper into the whole Nasa/aliens/undercover employee thing with some stuff in between that may or may not be hallucinations, it starts to rattle apart very quickly. By the time I was an hour into the movie, I had stopped caring how it would go from there.
It did a good job initially grabbing your attention, but it doesn't manage to hold it for very long. At least not for me.
Same here, I think it's because they over complicated the plot with details. It's inspired by Richard Matheson's story, which is more simple and thus more understandable.
It gets very confusing around 60 minutes in, i couldnt keep up.
rich people problems.
The floating water boxes is where it went downhill fast i was like alright now wtf is this it just does not add up.
Steward: *explains the rules*
Me: *presses it 32 more times before he even finishes*
Hehe oh Stephen
after understand the rule u should press more
If this was real life, it would be the world's shortest movie, that guy would be broke in no time, leave it to movies to create drama.
Was this... À référence to the "by the way" series in Dan plan?
@@IDontGotThis you sir, are correct
@@bensonwachira328 yes 100%
One thing that I liked a lot is when Stewart picks up the box from the first family he reminds them he will take it to someone “that they don’t know” since that’s the criteria for who dies. Very foreboding.
The story it was based on was so much better. As it starts similar except that the dad says they shouldn’t do it and leaves to work. Most of the story is the wife deciding what to do she eventually hit the button and right then she gets a call her husband died and the money she was offered(less than a mill in the book) was her husband life insurance. Also in the story she wasn’t disabled and I don’t remember a son her reason for clicking the button was purely selfish.
Now I completely remember; we watched this movie in middle school because we’d read the story beforehand. I was wondering why the teacher randomly made us watch a movie lol
Huh.'
If you know the old classic story, "The Monkey's Paw," this is it, with the serial numbers filed off and a new paint job.
I dunno whether to be impressed or disappointed with Matheson for that.
What’s the name of the book?
These recaps are perfect for movies that aren't worth an hour and a half but are worth fifteen minutes.
This one was good
@@justinhunt4767no
you've missed the most important part... they collect the critical number of people pressing the button, then the aliens are wiping out everything, this is something like test, so they will know if humanity will destroy itself later or not... if yes they just do it earlier
Its not about aliens..
@@gusthavo15yearsand98 its about drive, it's about power
if it's a test it's bullshit because I'd press the botton on the grounds of it can't be real then if they give me the money and don't reveal a hidden camera show I'll report them to the cops
@@IamBean334 its about work, and the hours. We take whats ours
@@IamBean334 🤣 that's random af hehe
Would you press the button?
No, because there is either a massive catch or it's a load of BS.
Of course theres a catch, it wouldn't be an ethical dilemma without one
... or because a person would die if you did?
@@essennagerry if you don’t see it happen you probably won’t care
@@australium7374 Dude there are billions of people out there who don't know I exist and I would be extremely damn happy if they didn't choose to kill me so by the virtue of empathy of course I won't do such a thing! Imagine you click the button and then after a few years find out who it was and meet their grieving friends and family. Does it really matter if you know or not? You DO know what the tragedy of death and grief is like, there is zero need to know the person personally or know them at all, or take any notice of the death happening. I know the tragedy, pain, suffering, and I know it WILL HAPPEN if I press the button.
@@essennagerry dude wouldn't nobody care about that. if it's not somebody in their family or some close friends that they know majority of people don't really care if some stranger that they don't know dies. So I don't know what you going on about.
This was better as the short "Button, Button" from the Twilight Zone (but it's $200,000 instead). And the stipulation is "someone you don't know will die" and then when he collects the box, he just SIMPLY says that he'll give the box "to someone you don't know".
It's far more elegant than this movie.
"This news greatly distresses her, because her family is already living paycheck to paycheck. Arthur, meanwhile, GOES TO HIS JOB AT NASA"
Mr. Dick Burns? That’s just funny lol
Better rub some ointment on that lmao
thats exactly what i am wondering...
Why is no one talking about that???
xDD
So from the point that you get this box and you press this button you pretty much sign up both your own family's destruction as well as someone else's
Steward was such a horrifying person..
And the things he did and he will probably continue to do are just too cruel..
Man imagine having to choose between your wife and your son/daughter..the two most important people of your life
If that isn't cruel idk what is..
You know it’s a movie, right?
You opened the box? he came
But remember: You can avoid all this by not pushing the button.
And THAT is the point. You are aware that you will kill a person by pushing it. All the rest that follows is only triggered by this one event.
The only cruel person here is the one pressing the button, because you are willingly killing someone for money only because you doesn't know this person and do not need to see the person die.
Can always make a other kid can always find a other wife . It's what bears do if there not enough food they'll eat the cubs cause you can always make more.
I don't care, I get money
Family: Lives paycheck to paycheck
Arthur: Drives Corvette
a corvette isn't expensive
@Nicholas G it’s a c3 probably a 73 model year. They weren’t super expensive at the time
@Nicholas G Or you are living paycheck to paycheck BECAUSE you bought a brand new luxury sports car. Tons of people do this...
@Nicholas G how is it expensive it costs 60k for a base model
@@techartic4771 do you have 60k just lying around?
stewert watching me download an autoclicker as he explains how the button works:
Watching these recaps is like speed watching the actual movies, I Love it…
I come here everyday to watch movies I’ve always wanted to see but couldn’t for one reason or another
😂😂😂that as well
I find myself fast forwarding through the videos even though it’s a summary of a movie
@@yayakayla I watched this usually for recommendations of good movies
The movie had such a good premise and idea but the further the movie went on, the more it felt less authentic (sadly)
Watch the Twilight episode with the same premise, much better
@Tom Tim It was done much better in the 1980s New Twilight Zone episode "Button Button " which can be seen on RUclips.
Does no one think to question the motives of whatever group is offering $1M to push a button?
Why. People all over the world are dying as you read and downvote this…in numbers that we will never know 😞
@@obsidian00 To clarify, anything that appears to be to good to be true, is too good to be true.
@@scottys1423 Of course…but there is nothing about the scenario OR real life that IS inherently “good”.
@@obsidian00 Excuse me? There is nothing in real life that is inherently good? You believe that?
@@scottys1423 that’s just wrong lmao
Real person faces same choice: but does it have to be random? I mean, I have a whole list here. In fact you can even keep the money...
I will pay you if I can add my ex-wife to your list.
This story was actually a short story from the 80s revamp of “The Twilight Zone” . I remember watching it in 1985 I believe. I’ll never forget that short as the meaning and message of it was so profound, even for an 11 year old me at that time.
I was looking for this comment. It wasn't The Twilight Zone though, was it? I thought maybe it was Amazing Stories. EDIT: Or maybe The Ray Bradbury Theater?
@@insperatus Ot totally could be. I was thinking perhaps it was amazing stories but you remember that episode right ? At the end when the couple decided to press the button, the man showed up at the door and after he gave them the money said as he told them in the beginning “press the button and you’ll get the money but someone will die, someone you don’t even know” . This was said in the beginning and as he was leaving, she asked where he was going or something like that: and he said along the lines of it will be someone you don’t even know . I’ll never forget that. The couple is left with the horror of knowing that the next person they go to, could, like them, press the button and what if it’s all connected and they are the ones to die? Was the money even worth it then? Very profound indeed.
@@sherryab3964 I remember it indeed! Doesn't the husband open up the box and there is nothing at all inside? It's just an empty wooden box with a button on the outside and nothing connected to it.
I remember!
Was looking for this comment! Can’t believe someone made a movie based of the twzone episode but it was a good one.
Me: mashing the button like a quick time event
RAPID FIRE MODE
🤣🤣🤣 same
Yeah and then you suddenly die
@@redpandax-wing_8317 remember it said it only kills people that you don't know
@@JustKeishii Shit yes forgot that
I always loved this movie because it makes you ask so many questions. Does pushing the button really matter? If you don't push it will someone still die? What if you do push it and they don't go through killing their spouse?
You're asking way too many questions 🤣
@@tekknorat And you just don't know how to see the big picture 🤣
Uh, the two things happened at the exact same time. Either Steward is clairvoyant or he controls human behavior, and we already know he controls human behavior on a massive, massive scale. It's pretty safe to say that nobody involved had any choice at all, and the film is pointless.
@@gsofficial Obviously there is some kind of higher dimensional power in play. The film felt grounded until it went all supernatural Twilight Zone on us. Steward became "something else" when he was struck by lightning. The body of Steward is just a vessel for whatever that "something else" is.
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People who watched the twilight zone: "hey I seen this before"
Movie: "what do you mean you seen it? it's brand new"
Which episode?
@@damnjae2256 The one about the couple who receive a box from a stranger with instructions telling them if they press the button a random person will die and they'll receive a million dollars....that one.
They’re both adaptations of the short story “Button, Button”
People who watched The Dark Knight: “hey I seen this before”
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you crack me up bro
Even a 13 minute recap of this movie seems too long and convoluted. But I’m going to say thank you anyway, as you’ve spared me at least 90 minutes of my life
They did a version of this story on the rebooted The Twilight Zone from the mid 80s and this movie stretches out what is basically a 15-20 minute story in to a 2 hour long movie and makes it pretty convoluted and confusing.
The quickie summation of The Twilight Zone episode would be:
Husband and wife fight a lot.
He is a generally nice guy, she is a piece of work.
They get a "button unit" and then shortly thereafter Steward shows up with the key.
Steward explains: push the button and somebody you don't know will die... and then I will show up, give you a pile of money and take the button unit back.
The husband and wife argue over pushing the button... eventually the wife pushes it... and seemingly nothing happens.
Steward shows up the next day, says the button was pushed and gives them a briefcase full of cash.
As he takes the button unit back and is leaving the wife asks him what will happen to it and he says it will be reprogrammed and given to somebody new... she asks "to who?" and he replies "to somebody you don't know"
And then the episode ends closing in on the look of shock on her face as she realizes she will be the next to die.
They kind of got there with this movie as Cameron Diaz does eventually die in the end, as said when somebody else pushed the button... but all that extra stuff in the middle kind of muddied the plot.
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Same thing happened with me n I did same 😀
Who needs all the long action, unnecessary pacing and convoluted dialog when the plot is all that matters.
"her family already lives from paycheck to paycheck"
Arthus, meanwhile, in his dope sexy car goes to his job at NASA
uuuuuuuh.... ok?
car loan? I knew families like that with good lifestyle but too much in debts.
Which interestingly gives one a nice clue to their character.
This was inspired by a short story by Richard Matheson and had previously been adapted into an episode of the twilight zone, I didn't know they made a movie out of it!
I have watched it, early 90's ?
@@CFH1962 Much earlier. I saw a black and white version of this story from the original Twilight Zone. I think the 90's rehashed alot of the original versions.
I was going to say the same thing. It was a much shorter version then. Just to box and the money and that someone they don't know will die. The push the button and when it is picked up, they are told it will be given to someone they don't know. Implication is that they are the next who might die.
And I didn't know this was a Matheson concept, so thank you very much for posting that here.
He gets into everything, doesn't he?
It sez here (the internet, so it must be right, amirite or amirite?) that 34 movies have been made from his books (some of them multiple times).
That's like Philip K Dick or Ira Levin or John Grisham or Steven King territory.
@@gtd9536 It was from the 1980s Twilight Zone, not Rod Serlings. It was in color.
Roughly 1.6 billion random people have died since I’ve been alive and I haven’t lost a minute of sleep over it. Best believe Id be a billionaire with a button that gives me a million but a random person dies.
That logic is absurd. Would you unalive someone to steal $1 million from them if you could get away with it? Because it's essentially the same thing.
@@Vasilia4 if that was legal, the world would be a warzone by tomorrow. That's reality for you.
@@Vasilia4 if that was legal, millions and millions of people would do that.. yes.
I wouldn’t. I didn’t create anyone so I have no power to decide their fate
You’re a psychopath then
I've actually seen most of the movies he does recaps on but wow listening to him makes them even better
So the one who pressed the button before them dies? So if you press the button, pretty much means that eventually you will die? Am I understanding this correctly?
I mean, we all 'eventually' die, but yes. If you push the button, you will die sooner rather than later. Note that it was Norma who pushed the button and Norma who ends up dead at the end of the movie. Like Steward himself said: 'The only way to win is not to push the button.' You win by not playing.
I was thinking that at the start I was thinking just like jigsaw once you start playing you can never leave
@@sandwicheman9772 yeah, except the og jigsaw was actually truthful and didn't deceive his victims which is what I don't like about this movie.
@@baldawen yeah. if i know i putting my own life or my loved ones life in someone else's hand by pushing the button, hell no i'm not pushing it. :D how can someone play properly without knowing the rules?
exactly. if someone else in the family pressed it, they will die. one way to not die...take the box and kill the man that gave it to you.
Don't need to tell me twice.. *proceeds to press button 100 times*
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Just hold the Button Down .
That's horrible
Imagine that instead of killing a random person, a random person comebacks to life.
good idea until hitler appears
@@mzxsu that’s what I was thinking lmao
@@mzxsu as if he was a threat now
@x this made no sense but ok
@x Bro… basically everybody condones Hitler’s wrongdoings nowadays, so he’d have zero chance to do anything if he “came back” the way he was. Kid. 😌
I'm sorry. "Husband works for nasa" "living paycheck to paycheck"
There's a part that the recap doesn't show. Norma asks Steward about forgiveness and redemption. She is sorrowful for harming another person. Steward is surprised and not able to answer. Until her question, it was very black and white to him - bad people make bad decisions and get punished. He had just assumed people would be selfish and deserved punishment. But her question of forgiveness makes him question the system.
Side note: I always thought what happens if someone doesn't press the button - does the previous person's gun jam?
“Sir, if you press this button then, wait stop pressing it, HEY I SAID STOP, YOU’VE KILLED LIKE 180 PEOPLE! SIR!”
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If I had the choice between getting money, something that is temporary and pointless in life, to letting someone else live, I’d never press that button, for a life, human or not, is the one thing you have no right to take away from someone.
Money is far from "pointless". We need it to provide food and shelter for ourselves and our family. Are you really telling me you'd let a child rapist live instead of take the money? That you'd let a mosquito live instead of taking the money? If you said "yes" to either of those questions you're either a liar or an idiot.
So was the burned guy an alien...or wtf??? I don't get how he's so powerful.
He got struck by lightning on a mission to mars and died then came back to life mind controlled by the aliens. They locked him up in a high security prison but he started mind controlling more people but the mind control gives them nose bleeds
His employers are.
@@DrakeOola good looking out.
"if you press this button you will get 1 million dollars, but someone..."
*presses button*
"I haven't finished yet!"
*presses it again*
„living paycheck to paycheck“
next clip shows the dad with a Corvette C4😂
No wonder they live paycheck to paycheck ehh
Push this button and random people will die
Me: You have never seen me playing smash have you?
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I love channels like these because they help bring people to notice underground yet amazing movies that go unseen even though how good they are. Keep up the amazing work!!
Wouldnt say this movie is that underground
What i really mean is that they show not well known movies. And not well known actors.
Cameron Diaz is unknown?
Nvm. I think you know what I mean.
This movie is terrible though.
The hardest thing to believe in this movie is that a highschool teacher and a NASA employee would be living paycheck to paycheck
That's the easiest part to believe. A high school teacher in 1976, and a nasa employee? Their combined wage is probably just around poverty, lmao.
@@pcbangbros8350 a private school teacher was "minimum wage" and NASA being the biggest space organization and bringing a shit ton of revenue with minimum wage
@@pcbangbros8350 totally they r driving a supercar and live in a multi million dollar house the plot of that part makes no sense
@@abusacc4164 Do you think NASA makes a profit somehow? Did you think they found gold mines on the moon? Please go research the average salary of NASA employees from the 1970s, adjust it for inflation, and swallow your ignorance, chew it up, spit it out and then try to translate it from garbage to English using Google.
As for teachers... public school, middle school, the holy school of alexander the 17th, all teachers are and have always been severely underpaid. In fact, teaching used to be a volunteer role saw with great honor of guiding the next generation. Do you think teaching kids is profitable somehow?
I hope you never start a business.
Me getting the box - “ Can I pick who kicks off” ? “How many times can I push the button” ?
This is what every billionaire does every day
Welp i guess somebody gotta pay for my student loans and my dept
I mean at least it would be a good cause 👍
Wouldn’t be enough to pay off your debt and student loans.
Gotta tap it a couple more time just to make sure
so basically i can be like thanos and erase half the population if i wanted to and be rich from it
Fun fact: you die being the random person.
@@skymedia3681 the chance of you being the random person is around 0.0000000009%
@@CallMeSlade maybe, but thing is, it's still a chance. If I get lucky the first time I wouldn't press again.
@@skymedia3681 ya and ur parents and ur loved ones can die too . Too risky
@@carlosholmes5929 no its not a random person its a person u dont know and the next person who gets the box is a person u dont know !
So THIS was the dumb movie that ended Cameron’s acting career. Cool.
SSOOOOO... He works at NASA, shes a teacher, they have 1 child with no day care fees and they have trouble makin ends meet 😒😒 SOMEbody is livin beyond their means!!
As it is based on a short story, they didn't have enough material to go for a film. So stuff which doesn't make sense started to be added. That's why this film is so bad.
So the moral of the story is, "what goes comes back around"... got it. What they was willing to do to one family without no question or answers, will happen to them the same..
yup! one family gets it, presses it, the next family gets it, presses it, the previous family loses someone. rinse and repeat.
My father told me about this story when I was in elementary. I didn’t think they would make a movie about this
A life is worth more then a million dollars. Close the box and throw it away. I know that's easy to say when I'm outside looking in but I hope if I ever face a similar situation that I don't press the button.
You will not, no matter how hard life maybe, money is essential but it will never make it any easier.
Depends on the life.
The problem with the test is that it's just a little too "twilight zone"y overall.
If it was something a little less obvious and otherwordly like an italian mob boss named "Tony Ramone" maybe and he was just sitting them down and saying
"listen you press the button, million dollars. untraceable cash. some schmuck dies alright? that's the arrangement on the table.
and don't worry bout it, made sure the button's wired up nice and proper okay. otherwise how would we know that you pressed it? wouldn't make sense right?
so you can open the box up and check yourself. made sure it was wired up to something and not just a random red button connected to nothin alright so soon as you press it, we get the signal, we tell our boys to move in, and you'll know shortly.
and listen this isn't some kinda "divine judgment" thing either alright? hey no judgment here okay. i've pressed the thing a few times myself. it's not a monkey paw situation or nothing like that, believe me. no unforeseen consequences, no ramifications. just consider it a favor.
press the button, guy dies,
expect the transaction in a few weeks.
no questions asked. no harm done."
Well it is an idea from a Twilight Zone episode, so that's hardly surprising 😅
The TZ version was better!
I like how none of these stories deal with the inevitable money laundering problem
Steward only came back after them because they started too look for him. That's why he said there will be consequences. Push the button, take money, forget who he is.
How is no one talking about the name Dick Burns
LMAO 🤣🤣🤣
lol I thought I was the only one who thought it was hilarious
This is just a longer and more convoluted version of a Twilight Episode
The old voice is the back!!! But your voice is much more relaxing~
I watched this movie years ago and had forgotten the same. I’ve looked for it for years. Thank you so much!
Yeah, this is another in a long line of, "Money is evil" plays. It isn't evil, it's what you do with the power that money brings that determines good or evil. It's further irrelevant because of who the targets are: They're intentionally picking people who are near dead-on screwed, and by the setup, they even take pains to get them there, such as having the husband fail the psych test to become an astronaut, putting him in the pinch. The entire 'test' is not only irrelevant, but completely loaded from the beginning to force them into the position of pushing the button. I absolutely hate scenarios like this, and figured it would be what the movie was about.
On it's face, I agree with you. But isn't the whole point of the experiment to see if people are able to resist temptation? Obviously, I feel for the family and and see why they would press the button. But pressing the button or not was still a choice they could have made. She would live with a limp but someone else would still be alive. However, I feel like he lied and the two decisions aren't even connected. The previous person who dies does so only because of the mistake they made. So as long as the previous family wanted to save their child, they would have died regardless of whether someone pressed the button or not.
@@pa5666 Nope. The point was to force them to push the button, not tempt. You can't completely remove other options, then say they're tempted.
As a neutral experiment, it has value, but that isn't what happened here.
In real life, Mr. Steward would simply get some skin grafts on his burned face.
The real answer is to yeet the box into a furnace and burn it to a crisp. Cant have them going around killing people with a magic box, especially if they said they was bringing it to another family in 24 hours.
Concept of this movie was pretty obvious that even I was able to predict the ending just by the stated premise in the video title.
Billionaires be like:
spams the button intensely
How to solve your financial issues
1. Downsize your house
2. Sell your car for a small car
3. Stop attending expensive dinners
Not really a random kill.
They should’ve called the movie “The 1 Million Dollar Question”
This family definitely does not live "paycheck to paycheck." They might have some fanancial difficulty or large expenses coming up, but definitely doing way better than average household.
To be honest just cuz a family has a nice home doesn’t mean they don’t live paycheck to paycheck, not everyone knows how to invest and save their money wisely
I read a story like this as a child. I think the husband was the one who died though. The wife pushed the button and someone she didn’t know was supposed to die. The story ended by saying she didn’t know her husband well
That actually took me by surprise. I thought I'd figured out how they were going to be screwed over by the box and I'm pleased to admit I was wrong
I'd pull out an Autoclicker.
This was either a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episode, It's literally an elongated version of that episode. It was a story that fit well in its small tv time frame but stretching it out to a whole movie killed it. This recap is better than the movie.
it was a book turned into a twilight zone episode and now this movie. the movie...failed miserably.
I’ll click that button 1,000,000 times.
Same 🤣🤣😭
So really? We just gonna pretend like a guy named “Dick Burns” is normal? I died 😂🤣
Imagine a Psychopath, just tapping the button to their favorite song.
The guy with the briefcase being like: You only get 1 million.
The Psycho: Oh, Im just checking who dies first, you or me.
The moment you press the button, you are willingly killing a person in cold blood for money. I honestly believe the couples who agree deserve what happens to them.
Yes exactly, so many cold blooded people in the comments.
People die all the time, people are dying in petty wars for free might as well get paid and control the population. Seems like an absolute win.
"The box" is from a book called "button button" I only know this cuz of school and in the book it's a lil different from the movie
If only kids can somehow find out about their parents great sacrifice
That awkward moment when you could press the button 250,000 times and still only be the SECOND richest person on the planet 😬
me hitting the button over and over again: "you can keep the money"
Would I click the button? Probably not. I don’t have a million dollars right now. Life’s alright as it is. So, a million is not that attractive.
But, it depends on who the other person is. If they’re a diddler, I’d click it for free.
I use to work for an organisation similar to this, man I miss that job
Yeah, I can see where being a pool cleaner is a pretty sweet gig
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 yeah I did see your mother doing that and I had to deliver the box
@@K_ingh16 I remember you always put too much chlorine in the pool before they changed it to a salt system. Bleached my freakin hair.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 that was your mother who did that way before you were born kid, she was a little salty
@@K_ingh16 And you know that stuff you put in the pool to make pee turn blue? Didn't work!
One of my all time favorites. I just love this movie.
@27 Absolut It was done much better in the 1880s New Twilight Zone episode "Button Button " which can be seen on RUclips.
I'm surprised at how strongly negative the comments are. Is it that hard for people to suspend disbelief? There may be plot holes, but the journey to me was very interesting and I loved the movie as well!
I gasped in shock when she pushed the button. Good thing it's just a movie!
"lives paycheck to paycheck" very next line "dad goes to his job at NASA". ok movie.
This is like hiring a very expensive hitman
8 billion on earth. So if I press it only 80 times no one would notice right?
This recap is beautifully told. Interesting and intense.
From the comments, they say the acting and storyline isn't that great.
Its not. This movie is trash
@@natedoggcata agreed.
made me lol, when he said paycheck to paycheck and i saw the car.
Amazing. Even after having it patiently explained here, I still have no frikkin idea what went on in this movie.