Pressing a Button Grants You $1 Million But a Random Person Will Die

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  • Опубліковано 23 лис 2021
  • 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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  • @naejin
    @naejin 2 роки тому +11270

    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.

    • @vickeygaming1660
      @vickeygaming1660 2 роки тому +802

      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.

    • @leshamaisak2395
      @leshamaisak2395 2 роки тому +19

      *Hey guys I made an interesting vlog in Russian school if you Don't mind appreciate plz)*

    • @vicityy
      @vicityy 2 роки тому +8

      So true

    • @cmfant8499
      @cmfant8499 2 роки тому +62

      And this movie is horrible.

    • @harizluqman9680
      @harizluqman9680 2 роки тому +9

      @@vickeygaming1660 probably

  • @matthewcooper4248
    @matthewcooper4248 2 роки тому +11714

    The most unbelievable part of this is that the husband works at NASA but they live paycheck to paycheck.

    • @jenniferhamels1176
      @jenniferhamels1176 2 роки тому +959

      The film takes place in 1976. A NASA engineer salary back then was less than the median average of the time.

    • @leshamaisak2395
      @leshamaisak2395 2 роки тому +26

      *Hey guys I made an interesting vlog in Russian school if you Don't mind appreciate plz)*

    • @DragonsFrogs
      @DragonsFrogs 2 роки тому +128

      @@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

    • @justsomeguywithagoatee8337
      @justsomeguywithagoatee8337 2 роки тому +412

      @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.

    • @victordonavon292
      @victordonavon292 2 роки тому +318

      Most people live paycheck to paycheck due to poor budgeting and poor habits along with a myriad of other factors.

  • @PixelPawsss
    @PixelPawsss 2 роки тому +1763

    I'm unashamed to admit that Dick Burns made me laugh way too much

  • @liquidrock8388
    @liquidrock8388 2 роки тому +1124

    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.

    • @corbinh5810
      @corbinh5810 2 роки тому +59

      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

    • @TransportSupremo
      @TransportSupremo 2 роки тому +12

      @@corbinh5810 there is no but. The decisions are completely seperate

    • @carlosfontanez9804
      @carlosfontanez9804 2 роки тому +18

      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.

    • @RaquellyReacts
      @RaquellyReacts 2 роки тому +33

      @@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.

    • @vilwarin5635
      @vilwarin5635 2 роки тому +40

      @@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

  • @PinkSparklyGamer
    @PinkSparklyGamer 2 роки тому +11767

    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

    • @adriennet.3872
      @adriennet.3872 2 роки тому +926

      Right?! I was like, something doesn't add up here and it's not the box🤨

    • @FeCyrineu
      @FeCyrineu 2 роки тому +1405

      Maybe the reason they live paycheck to paycheck is because they spend all of that money on those luxuries.

    • @hrisikeshbhattacharya5467
      @hrisikeshbhattacharya5467 2 роки тому +267

      @@FeCyrineu yup, it’s the American dream you know! Americans have been taken over by consumerism

    • @Hafaechaes
      @Hafaechaes 2 роки тому +891

      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

    • @shuacliff_7029
      @shuacliff_7029 2 роки тому +22

      In universe, she was probably lying. I mean they murdered someone for a $million.

  • @Petaurista13
    @Petaurista13 2 роки тому +2876

    "Pressing a Button Grants You $1 Million But a Random Person Will Die"
    Thanos: "I guess I need autoclicker"

    • @emman100
      @emman100 2 роки тому +26

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @anjanadhingra4355
      @anjanadhingra4355 2 роки тому +19

      Underrated comment 🤣🤣🤣

    • @ProCarsGaming556
      @ProCarsGaming556 2 роки тому +32

      Me: clicks until I die.

    • @da96103
      @da96103 2 роки тому +23

      Thanos: I got cheated. Where's my gazillion dollars?

    • @johnlsmjas9192
      @johnlsmjas9192 2 роки тому

      @@da96103 1000 x 7 billion is 7 trillion

  • @ovinedreamer1451
    @ovinedreamer1451 2 роки тому +177

    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.

    • @chynaanderson494
      @chynaanderson494 Рік тому +4

      Yeah I remember that one. I found it kind of funny.

    • @ffaristocrat
      @ffaristocrat Рік тому +8

      IIRC, the original short story doesn't have the implication about the next person but the Outer Limits (or Twilight Zone?) adaptation added it.

    • @ineedhoez
      @ineedhoez Рік тому

      That would have been cool.

    • @SupermarketSweep777
      @SupermarketSweep777 8 місяців тому +6

      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.

    • @ExodiaTeamComposition
      @ExodiaTeamComposition 7 місяців тому +6

      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😂

  • @rodneysan2038
    @rodneysan2038 2 роки тому +73

    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.”

    • @tomfisher44
      @tomfisher44 2 роки тому +6

      It is then implied that the box will be reset and given to someone who doesn't know you.

    • @ajspice
      @ajspice 2 місяці тому +14

      That's literally the opposite of random. I would even go so far as to say it's a system.

    • @Kit_Bear
      @Kit_Bear 2 місяці тому +4

      It's a Twilight zone 1985 Episode. And he doesn't quite say that but that's the basic gist of it.

    • @julieoluna8887
      @julieoluna8887 Місяць тому

      ​​@@ajspiceExactly!

  • @thebestgamer9702
    @thebestgamer9702 2 роки тому +1713

    The way Stewart does this, it’s like a test of life, seeing how and what you will do for loved ones.

    • @nofurtherwest3474
      @nofurtherwest3474 2 роки тому +97

      Seems like a bit of a pointless movie

    • @ScribblebytesWorldwide
      @ScribblebytesWorldwide 2 роки тому +5

      @@nofurtherwest3474 you think humanity is pointless? You're just like the employers.

    • @zf6873
      @zf6873 2 роки тому

      @@nofurtherwest3474 u

    • @nofurtherwest3474
      @nofurtherwest3474 2 роки тому +32

      @@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

    • @modest_spice6083
      @modest_spice6083 2 роки тому +1

      @@nofurtherwest3474 You ever watched any Twilight Zone episodes?

  • @Xylarxcode
    @Xylarxcode 2 роки тому +364

    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.

    • @user-tz7rh2pt9p
      @user-tz7rh2pt9p 2 роки тому +18

      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.

    • @BrownBrown270
      @BrownBrown270 2 роки тому +7

      It gets very confusing around 60 minutes in, i couldnt keep up.

    • @tommygunz341
      @tommygunz341 Рік тому +6

      rich people problems.

    • @brandonrice1124
      @brandonrice1124 Рік тому +4

      The floating water boxes is where it went downhill fast i was like alright now wtf is this it just does not add up.

  • @jcbro86
    @jcbro86 2 роки тому +48

    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.

  • @JK-nh2it
    @JK-nh2it 2 роки тому +146

    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.

    • @zvezdoblyat
      @zvezdoblyat 2 роки тому +12

      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

    • @smartalek180
      @smartalek180 2 роки тому +11

      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.

    • @_.ndfwuuu_
      @_.ndfwuuu_ Рік тому +5

      What’s the name of the book?

  • @djdcoy
    @djdcoy 2 роки тому +1789

    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

    • @xtcchewy2483
      @xtcchewy2483 2 роки тому +1

      Gey

    • @Debtubelax
      @Debtubelax 2 роки тому +5

      this is very correct dj

    • @exoticalBecky_Miami
      @exoticalBecky_Miami 2 роки тому +4

      Protip...Hit 2x and it's only ~6minutes

    • @fireemblemaddict128
      @fireemblemaddict128 2 роки тому +3

      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.

    • @chrissinger101
      @chrissinger101 2 роки тому

      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!

  • @plat2716
    @plat2716 2 роки тому +272

    These recaps are perfect for movies that aren't worth an hour and a half but are worth fifteen minutes.

  • @sambucas.4645
    @sambucas.4645 2 роки тому +14

    I've actually seen most of the movies he does recaps on but wow listening to him makes them even better

  • @PhrontDoor
    @PhrontDoor 2 роки тому +9

    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.

  • @scarletpsychowolf3578
    @scarletpsychowolf3578 2 роки тому +2219

    Steward: *explains the rules*
    Me: *presses it 32 more times before he even finishes*
    Hehe oh Stephen

    • @potato686
      @potato686 2 роки тому +63

      after understand the rule u should press more

    • @bensonwachira328
      @bensonwachira328 2 роки тому +130

      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.

    • @IDontGotThis
      @IDontGotThis 2 роки тому +11

      Was this... À référence to the "by the way" series in Dan plan?

    • @scarletpsychowolf3578
      @scarletpsychowolf3578 2 роки тому +5

      @@IDontGotThis you sir, are correct

    • @joaopedroaguiarfmatos1473
      @joaopedroaguiarfmatos1473 2 роки тому +2

      @@bensonwachira328 yes 100%

  • @justine3658
    @justine3658 2 роки тому +1399

    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 :)

    • @user-pd1bd8bt6t
      @user-pd1bd8bt6t 2 роки тому +81

      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.

    • @Salted_Fysh
      @Salted_Fysh 2 роки тому +26

      Don't worry, this recap sounds plenty confusing and all over the place.

    • @vt4192
      @vt4192 2 роки тому +14

      I didn’t understood the point of the movie in this one. Even with the nice narration.

    • @alittledarlingwithabigstor8585
      @alittledarlingwithabigstor8585 2 роки тому +8

      I'm glad I'm not the only one who was confused 😅

    • @hitomie246
      @hitomie246 2 роки тому +6

      honestly even in this recap it’s still confusing and all over the place. i guess it’s that bad

  • @Ty-vj4wg
    @Ty-vj4wg 2 роки тому +2

    I watched this movie years ago and had forgotten the same. I’ve looked for it for years. Thank you so much!

  • @belindahawkins4083
    @belindahawkins4083 2 роки тому

    Thank u for the recap

  • @Joyousstormlove
    @Joyousstormlove 2 роки тому +118

    Mr. Dick Burns? That’s just funny lol

    • @6scar911
      @6scar911 2 роки тому +10

      Better rub some ointment on that lmao

    • @driftking8855
      @driftking8855 2 роки тому +9

      thats exactly what i am wondering...
      Why is no one talking about that???

    • @Procyon._.
      @Procyon._. 2 роки тому

      xDD

  • @georgisirakovbg4979
    @georgisirakovbg4979 2 роки тому +269

    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

    • @gusthavo15yearsand98
      @gusthavo15yearsand98 2 роки тому +2

      Its not about aliens..

    • @IamBean334
      @IamBean334 2 роки тому +81

      @@gusthavo15yearsand98 its about drive, it's about power

    • @kellynolen498
      @kellynolen498 2 роки тому +10

      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

    • @oksomynameisjeff4212
      @oksomynameisjeff4212 2 роки тому +18

      @@IamBean334 its about work, and the hours. We take whats ours

    • @ClavinZKL
      @ClavinZKL 2 роки тому +1

      @@IamBean334 🤣 that's random af hehe

  • @NikeZ-mr727
    @NikeZ-mr727 2 роки тому +8

    Watching these recaps is like speed watching the actual movies, I Love it…

  • @TheArklyte
    @TheArklyte 2 роки тому +11

    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...

  • @austingivens244
    @austingivens244 2 роки тому +257

    Family: Lives paycheck to paycheck
    Arthur: Drives Corvette

    • @techartic4771
      @techartic4771 2 роки тому

      a corvette isn't expensive

    • @benvannatta798
      @benvannatta798 2 роки тому +1

      @Nicholas G it’s a c3 probably a 73 model year. They weren’t super expensive at the time

    • @user-nh3gu1ge3d
      @user-nh3gu1ge3d 2 роки тому +16

      @Nicholas G Or you are living paycheck to paycheck BECAUSE you bought a brand new luxury sports car. Tons of people do this...

    • @techartic4771
      @techartic4771 2 роки тому +3

      @Nicholas G how is it expensive it costs 60k for a base model

    • @trapstarsean2233
      @trapstarsean2233 2 роки тому +5

      @@techartic4771 do you have 60k just lying around?

  • @yayakayla
    @yayakayla 2 роки тому +148

    I come here everyday to watch movies I’ve always wanted to see but couldn’t for one reason or another

    • @yayakayla
      @yayakayla 2 роки тому +3

      😂😂😂that as well
      I find myself fast forwarding through the videos even though it’s a summary of a movie

    • @guyincognito7979
      @guyincognito7979 2 роки тому +1

      @@yayakayla I watched this usually for recommendations of good movies

  • @professor_lembach
    @professor_lembach 2 роки тому +2

    Amazing. Even after having it patiently explained here, I still have no frikkin idea what went on in this movie.

  • @sherryab3964
    @sherryab3964 2 роки тому +19

    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.

    • @insperatus
      @insperatus 2 роки тому +2

      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?

    • @sherryab3964
      @sherryab3964 2 роки тому +4

      @@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.

    • @insperatus
      @insperatus 2 роки тому

      @@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.

    • @MarcosLopez-cu6ui
      @MarcosLopez-cu6ui 2 роки тому

      I remember!

    • @5duece
      @5duece 2 місяці тому +1

      Was looking for this comment! Can’t believe someone made a movie based of the twzone episode but it was a good one.

  • @paradox7358
    @paradox7358 2 роки тому +173

    Would you press the button?
    No, because there is either a massive catch or it's a load of BS.

    • @JohnThomas-no9hs
      @JohnThomas-no9hs 2 роки тому

      Of course theres a catch, it wouldn't be an ethical dilemma without one

    • @essennagerry
      @essennagerry 2 роки тому +7

      ... or because a person would die if you did?

    • @australium7374
      @australium7374 2 роки тому +12

      @@essennagerry if you don’t see it happen you probably won’t care

    • @essennagerry
      @essennagerry 2 роки тому +14

      @@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.

    • @pp3k3jamail
      @pp3k3jamail 2 роки тому +4

      @@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.

  • @scottys1423
    @scottys1423 2 роки тому +285

    Does no one think to question the motives of whatever group is offering $1M to push a button?

    • @obsidian00
      @obsidian00 2 роки тому +9

      Why. People all over the world are dying as you read and downvote this…in numbers that we will never know 😞

    • @scottys1423
      @scottys1423 2 роки тому +56

      @@obsidian00 To clarify, anything that appears to be to good to be true, is too good to be true.

    • @obsidian00
      @obsidian00 2 роки тому +7

      @@scottys1423 Of course…but there is nothing about the scenario OR real life that IS inherently “good”.

    • @scottys1423
      @scottys1423 2 роки тому +3

      @@obsidian00 Excuse me? There is nothing in real life that is inherently good? You believe that?

    • @henrymccoy2306
      @henrymccoy2306 2 роки тому +1

      @@scottys1423 that’s just wrong lmao

  • @isaacbarkley5053
    @isaacbarkley5053 2 роки тому

    Damn you might be my new favorite youtuber. This is the third video I just watched that blew my mind

  • @leopold7562
    @leopold7562 2 місяці тому +2

    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

  • @omnid.slayer7244
    @omnid.slayer7244 2 роки тому +897

    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..

    • @ullisbullisully
      @ullisbullisully 2 роки тому +12

      You know it’s a movie, right?

    • @fynexjeralt4186
      @fynexjeralt4186 2 роки тому +30

      You opened the box? he came

    • @Asperger0815
      @Asperger0815 2 роки тому +117

      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.

    • @alphariusomegon3965
      @alphariusomegon3965 2 роки тому +10

      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.

    • @WetBoy
      @WetBoy 2 роки тому +1

      I don't care, I get money

  • @tomtim9764
    @tomtim9764 2 роки тому +89

    The movie had such a good premise and idea but the further the movie went on, the more it felt less authentic (sadly)

    • @14s0cc3r14
      @14s0cc3r14 2 роки тому +2

      Watch the Twilight episode with the same premise, much better

    • @42NORRIS
      @42NORRIS 2 роки тому +1

      @Tom Tim It was done much better in the 1980s New Twilight Zone episode "Button Button " which can be seen on UA-cam.

  • @digitalfantasies4570
    @digitalfantasies4570 2 роки тому +8

    "This news greatly distresses her, because her family is already living paycheck to paycheck. Arthur, meanwhile, GOES TO HIS JOB AT NASA"

  • @JLMetaMix
    @JLMetaMix 2 роки тому +1

    made me lol, when he said paycheck to paycheck and i saw the car.

  • @jamespryor9699
    @jamespryor9699 2 роки тому +349

    Me: mashing the button like a quick time event

  • @ChandanKumar-fj5bo
    @ChandanKumar-fj5bo 2 роки тому +142

    I have stopped watching Netflix. So addicted to this Channel and your content.

    • @Bandstand
      @Bandstand 2 роки тому +3

      Taking in content 2021 😅

    • @khushbugurjar3217
      @khushbugurjar3217 2 роки тому +1

      Same thing happened with me n I did same 😀

    • @arryfajar2005
      @arryfajar2005 2 роки тому

      Who needs all the long action, unnecessary pacing and convoluted dialog when the plot is all that matters.

  • @souljaunt3291
    @souljaunt3291 2 роки тому +3

    This recap is beautifully told. Interesting and intense.
    From the comments, they say the acting and storyline isn't that great.

  • @mroggie8334
    @mroggie8334 2 роки тому +4

    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.

  • @Raccoon469
    @Raccoon469 2 роки тому +7

    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.

    • @rinraiden
      @rinraiden 2 місяці тому

      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.

  • @georgethomas4567
    @georgethomas4567 2 роки тому +708

    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?

    • @tekknorat
      @tekknorat 2 роки тому +35

      You're asking way too many questions 🤣

    • @capitalistball2924
      @capitalistball2924 2 роки тому +53

      @@tekknorat And you just don't know how to see the big picture 🤣

    • @gsofficial
      @gsofficial 2 роки тому +100

      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.

    • @jenniferhamels1176
      @jenniferhamels1176 2 роки тому +54

      @@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.

    • @leshamaisak2395
      @leshamaisak2395 2 роки тому +1

      *Hey guys I made an interesting vlog in Russian school if you Don't mind appreciate plz)*

  • @pulptv1332
    @pulptv1332 2 місяці тому

    So there was no resolution. Glad I saved time with the recap

  • @GaiaIbis
    @GaiaIbis Рік тому +3

    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

  • @Revy_DeaDiNsiDe
    @Revy_DeaDiNsiDe 2 роки тому +50

    So was the burned guy an alien...or wtf??? I don't get how he's so powerful.

    • @DrakeOola
      @DrakeOola 2 роки тому +41

      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

    • @ScribblebytesWorldwide
      @ScribblebytesWorldwide 2 роки тому +2

      His employers are.

    • @Revy_DeaDiNsiDe
      @Revy_DeaDiNsiDe 2 роки тому

      @@DrakeOola good looking out.

  • @tarar6302
    @tarar6302 2 роки тому +168

    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!

    • @CFH1962
      @CFH1962 2 роки тому +3

      I have watched it, early 90's ?

    • @gtd9536
      @gtd9536 2 роки тому +5

      @@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.

    • @Tomcatt817
      @Tomcatt817 2 роки тому +1

      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.

    • @smartalek180
      @smartalek180 2 роки тому

      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.

    • @brianleetch7415
      @brianleetch7415 Рік тому

      @@gtd9536 It was from the 1980s Twilight Zone, not Rod Serlings. It was in color.

  • @portatil8676
    @portatil8676 2 роки тому +1

    I remember watching this with my family when I was a kid, good times.

  • @williammorin2999
    @williammorin2999 2 роки тому +69

    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?

    • @Xylarxcode
      @Xylarxcode 2 роки тому +18

      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.

    • @sandwicheman9772
      @sandwicheman9772 2 роки тому +6

      I was thinking that at the start I was thinking just like jigsaw once you start playing you can never leave

    • @baldawen
      @baldawen 2 роки тому +5

      @@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.

    • @doublesalopetoimcre
      @doublesalopetoimcre 2 роки тому +4

      @@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?

    • @stanclark8824
      @stanclark8824 Рік тому

      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.

  • @Trixiewin
    @Trixiewin 2 роки тому +82

    Don't need to tell me twice.. *proceeds to press button 100 times*

  • @Pope_
    @Pope_ 2 роки тому +2

    stewert watching me download an autoclicker as he explains how the button works:

  • @realgaming5480
    @realgaming5480 2 роки тому

    I always have this pop in my head time to time

  • @adriantrnkach7015
    @adriantrnkach7015 2 роки тому +36

    "her family already lives from paycheck to paycheck"
    Arthus, meanwhile, in his dope sexy car goes to his job at NASA
    uuuuuuuh.... ok?

    • @travelerforever8849
      @travelerforever8849 2 роки тому

      car loan? I knew families like that with good lifestyle but too much in debts.

    • @mkshffr4936
      @mkshffr4936 2 роки тому

      Which interestingly gives one a nice clue to their character.

  • @freedomloverusa3030
    @freedomloverusa3030 2 роки тому +67

    Imagine that instead of killing a random person, a random person comebacks to life.

    • @mzxsu
      @mzxsu 2 роки тому +14

      good idea until hitler appears

    • @hagridofficial3486
      @hagridofficial3486 2 роки тому +3

      @@mzxsu that’s what I was thinking lmao

    • @eg4514
      @eg4514 2 роки тому +1

      @@mzxsu as if he was a threat now

    • @eg4514
      @eg4514 2 роки тому +3

      @x this made no sense but ok

    • @eg4514
      @eg4514 2 роки тому +1

      @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. 😌

  • @artemis7093
    @artemis7093 Рік тому

    What a convoluted story

  • @lilsprugga
    @lilsprugga Рік тому +1

    I gasped in shock when she pushed the button. Good thing it's just a movie!

  • @michaeldignan9410
    @michaeldignan9410 2 роки тому +46

    “Sir, if you press this button then, wait stop pressing it, HEY I SAID STOP, YOU’VE KILLED LIKE 180 PEOPLE! SIR!”

  • @everyday3164
    @everyday3164 2 роки тому +84

    People who watched the twilight zone: "hey I seen this before"
    Movie: "what do you mean you seen it? it's brand new"

    • @damnjae2256
      @damnjae2256 2 роки тому +1

      Which episode?

    • @dr.burtgummerfan439
      @dr.burtgummerfan439 2 роки тому +15

      @@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.

    • @jmella1788
      @jmella1788 2 роки тому +8

      They’re both adaptations of the short story “Button, Button”

    • @cainster
      @cainster 2 роки тому

      People who watched The Dark Knight: “hey I seen this before”

    • @seanmckenzie6642
      @seanmckenzie6642 2 роки тому +1

      @@dr.burtgummerfan439 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you crack me up bro

  • @XYGamingRemedyG
    @XYGamingRemedyG 2 роки тому

    Oh I remember watching this. Looking back, it's crazy to see it as the guy from Sonic

  • @marylouiseivanoff9854
    @marylouiseivanoff9854 2 роки тому

    I've never heard of this movie. Thank Goodness!

  • @YoBen100
    @YoBen100 2 роки тому +16

    Push this button and random people will die
    Me: You have never seen me playing smash have you?

    • @emman100
      @emman100 2 роки тому +2

      🤣🤣🤣

  • @karlbenito9992
    @karlbenito9992 2 роки тому +6

    My father told me about this story when I was in elementary. I didn’t think they would make a movie about this

  • @vodkat07
    @vodkat07 2 роки тому

    3:57 what a great name!

  • @electronovice7041
    @electronovice7041 2 роки тому +1

    Such an underrated movie

  • @Nickgowans
    @Nickgowans 2 роки тому +46

    The hardest thing to believe in this movie is that a highschool teacher and a NASA employee would be living paycheck to paycheck

    • @pcbangbros8350
      @pcbangbros8350 2 роки тому +3

      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.

    • @abusacc4164
      @abusacc4164 2 роки тому +1

      @@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

    • @abusacc4164
      @abusacc4164 2 роки тому +2

      @@pcbangbros8350 totally they r driving a supercar and live in a multi million dollar house the plot of that part makes no sense

    • @pcbangbros8350
      @pcbangbros8350 2 роки тому

      @@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.

  • @blackmerkit142
    @blackmerkit142 2 роки тому +178

    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!!

    • @Aaronian99
      @Aaronian99 2 роки тому +9

      Wouldnt say this movie is that underground

    • @blackmerkit142
      @blackmerkit142 2 роки тому +1

      What i really mean is that they show not well known movies. And not well known actors.

    • @andrew4787
      @andrew4787 2 роки тому +9

      Cameron Diaz is unknown?

    • @blackmerkit142
      @blackmerkit142 2 роки тому +1

      Nvm. I think you know what I mean.

    • @PopADoseYo
      @PopADoseYo 2 роки тому +4

      This movie is terrible though.

  • @dragonstryk7280
    @dragonstryk7280 2 роки тому +10

    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.

    • @pa5666
      @pa5666 7 місяців тому

      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.

    • @dragonstryk7280
      @dragonstryk7280 7 місяців тому

      @@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.

  • @pokeballer7627
    @pokeballer7627 2 роки тому

    man, the rewatch though

  • @zubquzaini
    @zubquzaini 2 роки тому +9

    The old voice is the back!!! But your voice is much more relaxing~

  • @17absolut
    @17absolut 2 роки тому +7

    One of my all time favorites. I just love this movie.

    • @42NORRIS
      @42NORRIS 2 роки тому +1

      @27 Absolut It was done much better in the 1880s New Twilight Zone episode "Button Button " which can be seen on UA-cam.

    • @pa5666
      @pa5666 7 місяців тому

      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!

  • @maxivonnebenan1137
    @maxivonnebenan1137 2 роки тому +1

    „living paycheck to paycheck“
    next clip shows the dad with a Corvette C4😂

    • @1marcelfilms
      @1marcelfilms 4 дні тому

      No wonder they live paycheck to paycheck ehh

  • @stevelibby6852
    @stevelibby6852 2 роки тому

    The College Humor of the guy who won't stop pressing the button is the best.

  • @ScribblebytesWorldwide
    @ScribblebytesWorldwide 2 роки тому +3

    This is one of my all-time favourite movies. Seen about 109 times. I just get it.

  • @discorddoge304
    @discorddoge304 2 роки тому +19

    Welp i guess somebody gotta pay for my student loans and my dept

    • @_empty_4945
      @_empty_4945 2 роки тому +5

      I mean at least it would be a good cause 👍

    • @CarterWills1
      @CarterWills1 2 роки тому +2

      Wouldn’t be enough to pay off your debt and student loans.

    • @livi1595
      @livi1595 2 роки тому +1

      Gotta tap it a couple more time just to make sure

  • @erikshure360
    @erikshure360 9 місяців тому +4

    Not really a random kill.

  • @whateverihateyouwtf
    @whateverihateyouwtf 2 роки тому

    the box guy breaks his own rule. it was never going to be a random person

  • @gwaezcieful
    @gwaezcieful 2 роки тому +2

    Can't to wait to watch the recap version on this movie

  • @pongachaman
    @pongachaman 2 роки тому +6

    Big Fan
    The way to narrate the script is very comprehensive
    Keep up the good work
    Will try to promote your work
    Keep up the good work

  • @defeatSpace
    @defeatSpace 2 роки тому +1

    So lightning turns you into a perfect quantum computer.

  • @jambof
    @jambof 2 роки тому +3

    They should’ve called the movie “The 1 Million Dollar Question”

  • @Trippp550
    @Trippp550 2 роки тому +3

    Wtf? That was the most convoluted plot line I’ve ever heard

  • @duncanchua6969
    @duncanchua6969 2 роки тому +15

    How is no one talking about the name Dick Burns

    • @emman100
      @emman100 2 роки тому +1

      LMAO 🤣🤣🤣

    • @user-es3ci2pl1c
      @user-es3ci2pl1c 2 роки тому

      lol I thought I was the only one who thought it was hilarious

  • @bruce4139
    @bruce4139 Рік тому

    Ngl these are getting me through the time between uni classes and I really love this plot line

  • @michaelmansini2307
    @michaelmansini2307 7 годин тому

    So convoluted

  • @14s0cc3r14
    @14s0cc3r14 2 роки тому +7

    This is just a longer and more convoluted version of a Twilight Episode

  • @wendelltruax6867
    @wendelltruax6867 2 роки тому +5

    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.

  • @Aaron-hs4gj
    @Aaron-hs4gj Рік тому

    Me: Presses the button ferociously

  • @themorningsky2632
    @themorningsky2632 2 роки тому +4

    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.

    • @scubatuba1083
      @scubatuba1083 Рік тому

      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

  • @DrakeDracoDragon89
    @DrakeDracoDragon89 2 роки тому +28

    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.

    • @lordokami1246
      @lordokami1246 2 роки тому +1

      You will not, no matter how hard life maybe, money is essential but it will never make it any easier.

    • @erikshure360
      @erikshure360 9 місяців тому

      Depends on the life.

  • @naejin
    @naejin 2 роки тому +14

    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.

  • @noyce.
    @noyce. Рік тому +1

    3:58 Great name

  • @PopADoseYo
    @PopADoseYo 2 роки тому +8

    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.

  • @francylouis9076
    @francylouis9076 2 роки тому +22

    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..

    • @stanclark8824
      @stanclark8824 Рік тому +1

      yup! one family gets it, presses it, the next family gets it, presses it, the previous family loses someone. rinse and repeat.

  • @lootyluvs6487
    @lootyluvs6487 2 роки тому +4

    "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

  • @oneofthechannelsofalltime
    @oneofthechannelsofalltime 2 роки тому +2

    The box is worth more than money anyway. Think of how much fun one could have with it, assuming said person isn't randomly chosen.

  • @zarathustra8776
    @zarathustra8776 2 роки тому +2

    I loved this movie

  • @baky8131
    @baky8131 2 роки тому +7

    I'd pull out an Autoclicker.

  • @BuetifullPersun
    @BuetifullPersun 2 роки тому +6

    I’ll click that button 1,000,000 times.

    • @emman100
      @emman100 2 роки тому +3

      Same 🤣🤣😭

  • @justinhunt4767
    @justinhunt4767 Рік тому

    Good movie

  • @waltercoulter5455
    @waltercoulter5455 Рік тому

    Thank you.

  • @mezzops1716
    @mezzops1716 2 роки тому +144

    so basically i can be like thanos and erase half the population if i wanted to and be rich from it

    • @skymedia3681
      @skymedia3681 2 роки тому +12

      Fun fact: you die being the random person.

    • @CallMeSlade
      @CallMeSlade 2 роки тому +10

      @@skymedia3681 the chance of you being the random person is around 0.0000000009%

    • @skymedia3681
      @skymedia3681 2 роки тому +8

      @@CallMeSlade maybe, but thing is, it's still a chance. If I get lucky the first time I wouldn't press again.

    • @carlosholmes5929
      @carlosholmes5929 2 роки тому +3

      @@skymedia3681 ya and ur parents and ur loved ones can die too . Too risky

    • @jager356
      @jager356 2 роки тому +8

      @@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 !