Equilibrium
POSTED BY: franco
UPDATED: Sunday, May 22, 2005 01:24
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Kurt Wimmer - Tarantino's xeroxed magpie twin.
What an odd thing to say.
People shouldn't be REWARDED for their ignorance. "Oh, he never bothered to read George Orwell, in his life, so it's okay."
No, it's not okay. And the comparison to Tarantino doesn't sit right, either, because Tarantino sees EVERYthing. He borrows from the best and makes it his own. If Wimmer accidentally re-invents a theme from a book he hasn't read, but I'VE read it... does that make him better or worse than Quentin Tarantino?
On the originality part we can debate, but on the creativity part, it's a lot easier to BE creative when you know what's come before you. Those who don't learn history..........
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Ever since 'Empire of the Sun' I will watch any movie with Christian Bale.
I liked 'Equilibrium' much more than Matrix. Of course I didn't think much of Matrix at all.
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Christian Bale sucks. I've never seen anyone consistently praised for NOT acting. "his character is supposed to be emotionless" yeah, that's why he looks like that in every single role. "he's a crazy psychopath, and yet he looks completely calm! that's amazing!" not it isn't, it's NOT acting.
bah
Jayne: "These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me."
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Funny you should phrase it like that. The very first time I saw "Firefly" -- I saw the pilot on tape in late August 2002 -- I really disliked Nathan Fillion as Mal. I had never seen nor heard of Fillion before, and was just annoyed at how LITTLE he did with the character.
He grew on me, of course. There were lots of tiny subtleties it took me a while to pick up on, and they grew on me. He was playing the character, alright, but he wasn't Capital-A, Capital-C, Capital-T ... ing. Y'know, overdoing it.
The first thing I saw Christian Bale in was "Swing Kids," and he sucked in it, but only because he had a TV director who only got the gig because he did a few good episodes of "Miami Vice." That's not a movie, that's a TV movie.
"Empire of the Sun?" Great acting job. "American Psycho," ditto. "Reign of Fire," not a great movie, but some great acting from all 3 leads. I'm not saying I'd follow him to ANY movie he does or anything, but he does pick interesting parts and notch credible performances. If you don't believe me, look back on all the movies of his we've discussed, and imagine Keanu Reeves in the same role. 
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Originally posted by thoreau:
Christian Bale sucks. I've never seen anyone consistently praised for NOT acting. "his character is supposed to be emotionless" yeah, that's why he looks like that in every single role. "he's a crazy psychopath, and yet he looks completely calm! that's amazing!" not it isn't, it's NOT acting.
bah
An overtly crazy psychopath would get caught because he was acting, y'know, crazy. A psychopathic sociopath, now... such a person would do his best to fit in and take advantage of everyone too, and be crazy inside, and thus, y'know, appear normal.
There's a difference between "He's a psychopath" and "OMG! He's psycho!"
Mal: "We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so... very... pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."
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Regarding Ultraviolet, the theme of Vampires as a species seems to be popular these days with several failed series and a few movies.
One recent such turkey was "The Breed" with Adrian Paul. The movie was not as bad as the casting of AP.
Too bad about AP for his bad choice of roles since "Highlander". The first time I saw him in "Highlander" I thought, "my god, it's James Bond".
If he is not careful he will lose his opportunity to be the next 007 by the vacuous projects he has been associated with recently.
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Originally posted by Quicksand:Quote:
Kurt Wimmer - Tarantino's xeroxed magpie twin.
What an odd thing to say.
On the originality part we can debate, but on the creativity part, it's a lot easier to BE creative when you know what's come before you. Those who don't learn history..........
Think you misunderstand - I find it hard to believe Wimmer when he protests he hasn't seen or read these things. Tarantino indeed does take bits of other films and do some great things with them, but he is prone to forgetting that he stole some things in the first place.
"I threw up on your bed"
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Originally posted by franco:
Too bad about AP for his bad choice of roles since "Highlander". The first time I saw him in "Highlander" I thought, "my god, it's James Bond". If he is not careful he will lose his opportunity to be the next 007 by the vacuous projects he has been associated with recently.
We can but hope he has lost his shot at Bond - and having seen the trailer of King Arthur, I am a little concerned about Clive Owen (although contrary to AP, I have seen him act in roles so suspect he may be sleep walking through a bad movie).
"I threw up on your bed"
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Think you misunderstand - I find it hard to believe Wimmer when he protests he hasn't seen or read these things. Tarantino indeed does take bits of other films and do some great things with them, but he is prone to forgetting that he stole some things in the first place.
So we've got one side who does a bad thing then lies about it... and another side who isn't even aware they've done anything bad at all.
There we have it, kids, the difference between Democrats and Republicans. Who do YOU prefer?
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