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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.”

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 :)

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.

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.

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

Mr. Dick Burns? That’s just funny lol

Family: Lives paycheck to paycheck Arthur: Drives Corvette

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.

Thank u for the recap

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

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

Not really a random kill.

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...

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..

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

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

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

Me: mashing the button like a quick time event

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

I have just thought about how these videos can be valuable to people with adhd becuase it’s easier to sit for a shorter time and it’s more Intresting because it is being explained as it goes so thank you for this

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

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

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

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

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

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!!

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.

I went to high school with Sam Oz Stone(Walter), he was one of the most genuine people I've ever met! So surreal to see someone you know in a movie or show.

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

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

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

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.

Hey! I read a story on this in class called Buttin Button I know this because of Norma and Arthur Story was different as it was a short story but it was still interesting

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

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

I always have this pop in my head time to time

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

We read this short story in middle school, and it was so much better than this. It was just focused on the husband and wife debating what to do and the button kills her husband bc of an admittedly cheap “ did you really know your husband?” But at least it was smaller scale than this

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

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

How is no one talking about the name Dick Burns

I remember reading this story in 8th grade and think it’s pretty cool that I saw this recap

3:57 what a great name!

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

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.

What a convoluted story

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.

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

"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

3:58 Great name

This story has been around for decades. It is an episode from Twilight Zone (1986). They did the whole thing half an hour with Mare Winningham, titled Button, Button.

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

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..

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

Such an underrated movie

in school i read a short story like this called “button button” with the same concept

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.

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."

Amber heard out there wishing to find one of these button 💀

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.