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Equilibrium

POSTED BY: franco
UPDATED: Sunday, May 22, 2005 01:24
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MAKEROFPATHS

Friday, July 2, 2004 7:25 AM

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Originally posted by minh:
I highly recommend Hero if you like wire-fu/martial arts, although Jet Li performance was mediocre.

Did you see this in Asia? Seems to me it was released many months ago in Japan and other countries. Just making it here in NorthAm. It looks hot!

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"When one man chases a hare, he finds a hare. But when many men chase a hare, they find a dragon."

MINH

Friday, July 2, 2004 7:38 AM

My cousin has the imported DVD. FYI I live in Southern California

KOHAN

Saturday, July 3, 2004 3:32 AM

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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.

oh God NO~! you've just mind-raped me...

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Guess I'm just a good man.

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KOHAN

Saturday, July 3, 2004 3:45 AM

well, all I have to say is I'm REALLY excited about 2005. Not only is the BDM comming out, but because of Batman Begins, Red Dwarf: The Movie and maybe New Police Story as well.

oh yeah, if there's room left over, maybe I'll be excited for Episode III.

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"You know, they say mercy is the mark of a great man.

Guess I'm just a good man.

Well, I'm all right. "
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TURANTHOR

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 7:46 PM

Equilibrium is an excellent film.

I was heavily excited reading about it online for months before it was due to be released. Then they moved the release date to December, then they shafted it with like a 300 screen debut.

So they basically gave up on it before it ever started. However, I drove about 70 miles to a theater in a small town that for whatever reason got it, when my Capital City of 1 Million people did not?? weird.

Seeing it on the Big Screen is just awesome. It made the movie better having seen it like that at least once. Every time I watch it on DVD now I always remember that experience.

This is an awesome movie, I have not seen many in recent years that I have liked better, and certainly not any Sci-fi.

I am glad to see Christian Bale is bidding to become an action star. He is already a great actor, so it will be cool if he can break into the big action star niche as well. Would be nice to have a great actor playing all the action roles, so we can really get our money's worth.

Batman Begins definitely looks like a step in the right irection.

"I want the Fire back."

CREVANREAVER

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 8:08 PM

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Originally posted by Turanthor:
Batman Begins definitely looks like a step in the right direction.

Just in case you're interested, here is a link to the Batman Begins script!

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=8&t=5466

RHYMEPHILE

Tuesday, July 27, 2004 8:17 PM

Huh, sounds interesting enough (and summer TV being the way it is -- blargh) that I added it to my queue at Netflix. They have it, so perhaps if one were to look hard enough maybe you could find it at Blockbuster or other rental places.

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ANKHAGOGO

Saturday, August 7, 2004 4:55 PM

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Originally posted by RelFexive:
Funny with always-dies-before-film-ends Sean Pertwee too

If we're thinking of the same person, I believe the Sean you're referring to in this movie is Sean Bean, aka Boromir aka Richard Sharpe aka That Irish Terrorist Dude in Patriot Games. He does have a very bad track record when it comes to making it out of movies alive.

"You two are the two who are the two! I'm the other one!"

LUPINADDAMS

Saturday, August 7, 2004 10:42 PM

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Originally posted by RelFexive:
Funny with always-dies-before-film-ends Sean Pertwee too

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If we're thinking of the same person, I believe the Sean you're referring to in this movie is Sean Bean

No, he really does mean Sean Pertwee... he plays the Father of the Equilibrium universe and as an actor has a history of dying in pretty much every movie he's ever been in.
Confusingly, Sean Bean is Bale's first partner who dies at his hand in the church reading Yeats (one thing I love about this film is the sheer *unsubtlty* of the plot and imagery - from the burning of the Mona Lisa opening to Bale wiping out a dozen security guards to save the life of an iccle puppy dog...)

Pertwee (yes, he is the son of the third Dr. Who, Jon Pertwee) is at his best in the low-budget British werewolves-meet-squaddies flick Dog Soldiers - great fun if you have a strong stomach!

Plus FWIW I enjoyed the original Ultraviolet and I think there was a US TV remake which flopped.

"You are what you do."
Andrew Vacchs

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RELFEXIVE

Saturday, August 7, 2004 11:15 PM

Yup, I did mean *that* Sean Pertwee.

He's died before the end of every film I've seen him in... he lastest longest in Dog Soldiers, and went the quickest in Equilibrium.

And yes, that Yeats moment... Nice. I wish I could actually remember all the words of that poem instead of just the end... But here's the whole thing, anyway... just because I can.

He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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."