Equilibrium

POSTED BY: DreamReaver
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 23:57
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DREAMREAVER

Thursday, May 19, 2005 10:51 PM

Anyone else see this cool flick? Kinda 1984 meets Fahrenheit 451. Human emotions are banned, so people ate required to take an emotion inhibitor. Stars Christian Bale, the new Batman. Lower budget, but they did a good job. Rent it! Then go fly a kite.

CALLMEATH

Friday, May 20, 2005 1:55 AM

I saw the first 10 minutes of it once, and those minutes were pretty cool. A friend of mine swears that it's what the Matrix should have been, and more.

Can't find it at my crappy video store, though.

"Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!"

MANWITHPEZ

Friday, May 20, 2005 3:43 AM

I did enjoy this movie, but I found it to be unoriginal...The fight scenes were fantastic, and I did enjoy that there was an actual explanation for someone dodging bullets besides...He's really fast...

Yep...gotta learn me some of the gun-kata...

Already the master of Gymkata as it is...

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

DBELL46

Friday, May 20, 2005 4:07 AM

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Originally posted by DreamReaver:
Anyone else see this cool flick?

I saw this film in the theater and I believe it was
the most fun I had in a theater that year. For some
reason critics really hated this movie which led to
a short run in the theaters. For it's budget, the
effects were better done than the matrix' IMO. I
especially fliped over the knife fight with pistols
at the movie's climax.

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If history is remarkably clear on one point,
it's that people never learn from history.

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ANTHONYT

Friday, May 20, 2005 5:24 AM

I enjoyed the film, though I can say with certainty that it was not better than Matrix I.

I can't swallow the whole 'gun kata' thing as a component in the real world (I enjoyed that the Matrix had a good excuse for supernatural feats.) However, it was a creative and innovative idea, and I enjoyed it for that reason.

Also, I was a big fan of Ferenheit as a child, and Equilibrium brought back fond memories of it.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

YT

Friday, May 20, 2005 8:44 PM

Caught the climactic gun-kata fight @a friend's house. Bought the DVD, & was impressed by the overall film, considering it disappeared from the cinema before I'd heard of it. I'd call it a great "B" movie, without pretensions to greatness, but well written & executed.

The writer/director, Kurt Wimmer, also wrote & directed a movie called Ultraviolet, scheduled for release this August. Although it deals with vampirism, it seems to have nothing more than that & its title in common with the British series by Joe Ahearne. Nonetheless, based on my enjoyment of Equilibrium, I'm looking forward to Wimmer's Ultraviolet.

Keep the Shiny Side Up . . . (wutzon) Particle, "Below Radar", from "Launchpad"

GROUNDED

Friday, May 20, 2005 9:28 PM

My brother got me this for my birthday a while back after seeing lots of recommendations for it. It was okay, but nowhere near as special as some people were making out.

CHRISISALL

Saturday, May 21, 2005 2:27 PM

You know, I enjoyed this film immensly, thought the gun-kata was innovative, and the overall tone of the film was creepy and oppressive- mostly a near-great flick.
But the final confrontation chilled me quick. Yet another whoosh of a sword- pause- body part slides off. S@#t like that works in a Freddy film, but not here. One totally bogus moment took me out of the whole movie. A shame, 'cause it was good 'cept for that.

Whoosh-pause-oops Chrisisall

MRSKBORG

Saturday, May 21, 2005 4:40 PM

I have had this film for ages, and I gotta say for me its better than the second and third installments of the Matrix. Ok maybe the idea wasn't original, but the storyline was good, the acting was excellent, casting was perfect - Sean Pertwee,Sean Bean, Angus Mcfadyen and Christian Bale! The fight sequences were stunning. All that on the budget they had which was really pretty low.

"This movie may be a beautiful butterfly, but I loved that damn caterpillar." Joss Whedon.

CREVANREAVER

Saturday, May 21, 2005 7:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by DreamReaver:
Anyone else see this cool flick? Kinda 1984 meets Fahrenheit 451. Human emotions are banned, so people ate required to take an emotion inhibitor. Stars Christian Bale, the new Batman. Lower budget, but they did a good job. Rent it! Then go fly a kite.

Dude, FRANCO already created a thread about this movie nearly a year ago. It even has the same name - "Equilibrium" - and mentions the similarity to Fahrenheit 451.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=8&t=5948

By the way, on the page I wrote a synopsis of the history of the Equilibrium world. You might find it interesting.

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