Hey remember the good old days when to get tongues wagging a movie came up with a conundrum of whether your wife should sleep with a stranger for $1 million. But that’s so passe. We’re way past that. Now to up the ante and keep our interest they have to say “Would you kill a stranger” for $1 million.
I wonder what’s next. Combining the two in some kind of necrophilia flick? Ick.
If movies are a measure of our culture, methinks we’re in deep trouble. But this is actually a pretty funny take on it. And between you and me, I fear that it’s actually how many people would act when faced with this dilemma.
November 5, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Life was so simple back when it was "what would you do for a Klondike Bar?"
November 5, 2009 at 11:56 pm
This isn't a measure of our culture. It's a measure of how much money some pothead can make writing a script based off of one of the oldest "Whoa" Freshman philosophy questions ever.
I'm deeply looking forward to the Romantic Comedy sequel… "He's a bachelor… but he's married! Finally a movie that dares to ask the question: can one God be strong enough to lift a boulder while at the same time having the power to make it heavier than He can lift? Find out this fall in 'One God… too fun!'"
Man, I need it to be the weekend.
November 5, 2009 at 11:59 pm
That's too funny!
November 6, 2009 at 12:38 am
Very funny take, but this is not a new concept, so probably not a strong indicator of declining morals today — it's rehashed from classic Twilight Zone episode, "Button, button"…
November 6, 2009 at 12:40 am
A movie about killing someone you can't see in the hopes that your life will be better as a result… Sounds like our nation has some repressed feelings about abortion.
November 6, 2009 at 12:43 am
Pelosi: A million bucks for one kill? What a piker.
November 6, 2009 at 4:19 am
A man at a cocktail party asks a woman if she would sleep with a complete stranger for one million dollars. When she says yes, he asks, "Would you sleep with me for twenty dollars?"
Indignant, she replies, "What kind of woman do you think I am?!?!"
He shrugs, "We already know what kind of woman you are, now we're just negotiating price."
November 6, 2009 at 2:05 pm
I rememember reading the orignal short story that this movie is based on in one of my high school classes. I thought it was an entertaining read. The original story predates the Twighlight zone episode. So I have have to agree with Anon 7:38 that it is probably not a sign of declining morals. If anything it is a sign of hollywood running out of new material.
November 6, 2009 at 3:15 pm
If anything it is a sign of hollywood running out of new material.
Aye. We are now in the Age of Parody.
Scott
November 6, 2009 at 9:06 pm
I don't know. The original Twilight episode left no doubt that murder wasn't going to pay and the consequences would be grim indeed if the next stranger was as merciless as the button pusher. But the trailers appear to make this into a struggle to get out of paying those consequences. I don't know, I haven't seen the film and the trailers might be giving a wrong impression…still, it seems to lose its moral clarity.
November 8, 2009 at 12:25 am
i don't know if this is a sign of DECLINING morals, but it is indicative of our moral situation – i teach morality to high school juniors and this is exactly the mentality they have. as i was watching it, i saw my typical student in the guys attitude, his approach to…life & any dilemma, moral or not. it's purely self directed and impulsive, without any pause for thought; they don't know how to think for themselves, that is the biggest problem.