Why does the cube exist?

Why does the cube exist?

jews

Why does the cabin in the woods exist

According to Cube 3 basicly just for lols innit? Just so they can ask them if they believe in god at the end.

they explained why in the movie you dumb fuck

farrakhan nigger

The sequels are shit and I consider non canon

Okay what's the explanation then.

Aliens
Metaphor for purgatory

read the wikipedia you dumb fuck

it exists so it can be used

whoever designed its purpose forgot it or stopped caring tho but they spent too much money on it to shut it down

The second one started well, but then just gives up on the premise. I kind of liked Zero.

Cube Zero was good


Hypercube is one of the worst movies I've seen

My guess is that it was supposed to be used as an experiment, like a rat in the maze. Figure how quick they would escape and how they did it.

Either that or a torture device, that the government would use against people that had info.

Why does Sup Forums exist then if we should just google search anything instead of posting here. You really have trouble understanding the point of a website like this huh? It's kind of strange to find someone with such an extreme case of autism like you still around.

>this person has vital information we need
>better put them in an overly elaborate death trap that kills indiscriminately if you're not a math savant

Because someone said

>What if like, Hellraiser, but from insiiiiide the cube?

The worst analogy ever.

use for your questions

People die from torture, its just a thing that happens.

And who is to say that the person with vital information isn't a math savant? They could be nuclear technicians.

The movie also states that its purpose was lost along the lines of it being made, who is to say that it was a killing device at first? It could have been interlocking cubes like an infinite maze driving people to insanity.

>lols innit?
Are you a nigger?

>People die from torture
They do, but you have a chance to get information from them. Having them idly wonder into a face full of acid because they chose the wrong room to go in first just seems like an awful method of information extraction.

Luckily the opinions of a 90s born queer are worth less than nothing.

Leave newfag

Theres a powerful deity below ground that requires specific sacrifices I.e the virgin (who wasnt a virgin by the time she was sacrificed) the knight, etc

Did they not know what autism was in 1993? Or was the libtard doctor just retarded?

>insiiiiide the
Fuck off reddit queer

no but they knew genius

This would actually be the proper thread to use the Kafkaesque meme, lol at it not popping up. Anyways, Cube exists for same reason Gregor awoke as a cockroach, no reason at all.

GUMDROPS

>libtard doctor
conspiracy theorist who didnt want a nigger fucking a young white girl.

>GUMDROPS
I'll give you a whole box if you turn around while I rape the math qt

>Kafkaesque meme, lol
Why dont you go and shit in a simpsons thread you worthless faggot.

He did nothing wrong

Honestly? Probably.

it doesn't exist, it's merely a movie

Since when is "innit" nigger slang? It's always been British you silly cunt.

Old Ones live below earth and the modern sacrifice system involves making story outlines for them that vary from culture to culture. It's sort of
like porn, outline that facilitates a handful of bangs.

I haven't seen any of the movies, does anyone ever get out?

spiritual prequel to cabin in wuds

Yes

So Cube wasn't actually intended to be Kafkaesque? I was making fun of those that spout that and Lovecraftisn, etc. at nearly everything. In this case the Cube director was actually going for Kafkaesque, not just memeing about it. Sorry for having actually read a book, angry user.

Why not?

It seems like someone had too much money and decided to make it, most likely a corrupt goverment in which they can hide away people without leaving a body.

Hypercube was not half bad, an extention of the cube but without it taking a vary large physical form would be the perfect step. A massive device in which your enemies could be killed and nothing would be left when the cube expires.

Cube prequel was a bit meh, autist falls in love with a woman with a kid, bad guy wasnt too bad though.

or do they...

unironically kafkaesque desu

See? This guy gets it.

prime numbers

Because the makers wanted to basically re-make Alien:

-Alien was released in 1979, Cube in 1997. The years are both anagrams as well as both being prime numbers. Prime numbers are an important story element in Cube.

-Both films feature a cast of seven who are trapped together in an interesting, claustrophobic practical set, with the secondary (titular) "antagonist" being the thing that threatens their lives. As the film goes on, it becomes clear that the real, primary antagonist is a shadowy company of some kind which is responsible for throwing these people into their impossible situation.

Each cast-of-seven breaks down as follows (all white except for one black guy):

-An intelligent woman who approximates toward being a main character.
-A much weaker, more emotional woman who is generally worthless.
-a hotheaded black guy who has some constructive ideas early on but also gets in the way at times.
-a small role, a guy who doesn't do much and whose only real function in the story is to die a spectacularly violent death which lets everyone know just what the threat really is. When this guy dies, Shit Is Real Now.
-an older, grizzled veteran-guy who's seen it all. Craggy face. He's the second to die when he makes a wrong turn.
-another white guy (though these two don't really map well together)
-and finally, a cold, aloof guy that no one seems to like much. As things continue, it is revealed that he is a sort of plant and that he has inside knowledge about what the threat actually is and who's responsible, much to the resentment of the rest.

Also the math puzzle at the end of the first movie /actually isn't that hard/, not nearly as hard as the admittedly strung-out Leaven thought it was. I can expand on this (again) but only if I get a (You) and someone wants to hear more autism. The characters can be totaly excused for not getting the math puzzle though, since they were all strung out, as I say. But it's actually very easy on its own.

it was clearly intended to be wisseauesque

you're trying to hard to fit in newfriend!

i disagree it's definitely wisseauesque

I know it was user. I used to watch it on vhs. I love cube. I just didn't want the thread to fill up with memeing queers.

You're not fooling anyone reddit.

That's what he said.

its a disposition facility for political prisoners and activists.

think on Brazil´s torture facility but automated.

Holy shit.

Snyder directed Cube?

I always figured that the cube was designed by an A.I. to study human psychology.

>implying they had any idea

So the random dude that designed a part for the cube or the math chick were activists?

explain math pls

If you'd watch the movie, you'd know why to the best of its own explanation. It's some out of control experiment that was purposefully made so obfuscated, with all contributors to its manufacture kept hidden from each other, that in the end noone really knows why it was made.

It's stupid, but there's a grim message about humanity, a blender and coming out the other side in there or something.

JUST...for you

not everyone are activist against the government
just like in brazil some random joe can get fucked by the system.

I love retarded Michael Rapaport

Okay. So in the movie, Leaven quickly realizes that every cube-cell-room is represented by three three-digit numbers. For example if you're crawling into the next room you might see an inscription like

002 156 878

What Leaven realizes if that if any one of these three-digit numbers is a prime, then the room has a booby-trap. For example above, since 2 is prime, that room is definitely trapped. If a room has a prime, it has a trap. That's true and it never fails. They use this system to navigate the rooms until they move through a room with no three-digit prime numbers, which still has a trap. So Leaven's system has failed/is incomplete. So, the converse is not true: there exist trapped rooms with no primes.

Leaven clearly states that she can readily determine whether any number on the appropriate interval (000-999) is prime. She has no problem doing this mentally, and in fact there's about 168 or so primes among the first thousand numbers. The fact that Leaven can do this is what makes her later frustration a bit hard to swallow.

Because what the group realize toward the end, is that a /complete/ description of trapped rooms is given by primes, /and their powers/. So take the prime 5 for example: 005 is prime, a trap. /Its integer power 5^2= 25 = 025/ also denotes a trapped room. (IIRC in the flick "004" is on the room that got misjudged, which is just 2^2, a prime power). The trick is in realizing that you only have to compute prime powers up through 999, like we said.

The numbers also denote a coordinate system, but I leave this aside for the moment. The point is that the group can completely determine trapped rooms, but Leaven gets frustrated (understandably) and claims that the calculuation is "astronomical". In fact it isn't, but then they lean on the idiot savant Kazan to hack the rest of their path.

cont.

wow that is pretty easy actually I remembered (or rather didnt remember it) being complicated.

I've only seen the original, should I avoid the rest? Half of its appeal for me is the cube's utter lack of backstory or explanation for being. In fact that's what terrifies me more than anything, and I think expanding upon that mystery might ruin things for me

It was a metaphor for life.

PRIME NUMBERS!
what a qt :3

I think you answered your own question really, hypercube had a few cool scenes and I dont think they really try to explain anything except
>lol military/government

No cubes are prime except 1 cubed.

Interesting. Including powers of primes (less than 999) only adds 25 additional numbers

So here's my math-point about why (if she were rested and thinking straight) it should have been dead easy for Leaven to identify all trapped rooms: there are relatively few prime powers apart from the primes themselves under 1000. And it's even possible to work these out mentally, /if you know the primes up through a thousand/.

Since I know the primes up through 100 cold, I can do this mentally myself, and I will, right now. The first thing is to get an upper bound on primes which can be squared and still be under 100. IIRC 31-37 is the spot to check. Clearly 37 won't do since 37^2 = (30 + 7)(30 + 7) = (900 + 210 + 210 + 49), but 31 works since 31^2 = (30+1)(30+1) = (900 + 30 + 30 + 1) = 961. This just means that we only have to "power-the-primes" from 2 up through 31 as far as they go without going over 999, storing the list, and we're done. The number of primes from 2-31 is (let me think): {2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31} eleven primes to bump up. The table would look like part of a hyperbola since you can do several at first and then it drops down like the 31^2 bound we just did.

2^10=1024, too high. This just means that these numbers can't be raised any higher than a power of nine, which simplifies things further. The composite prime-powers of 2 apart from the prime 2 itself are then just 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512.

Let's do the powers of 3-less-prime-three until we can't anymore: 9, 27, 81, 243, 729. Getting easier!

Let's do the powers of 5-less-prime-five: 25, 125, 625.

7: 49, 343.

11: 121, 11^3 = (120 + 1)(10 + 1) = (1200 +... (stop)). Clearly everything left just has to be squared and then we're done. Find the squares of 13 (169), 17 (289), 23 (20 + 3)(20 + 3) = (400 + 129) = 529, and 29 (30 - 1)(30 - 1) = (900 - 60 + 1) 841. This like 20-or-so bits of information that Leaven should have been able to do mentally, BECAUSE WHAT SHE CAN DO ALREADY IS MUCH HARDER.

Did I fuck any up? Will I die in a trap?

Upon review I clearly missed 19^2 = (20-1)(20-1) = 400 - 40 + 1 = 361. Interestingly this is the number of spaces on a Go board.

Pic related: me.