Equilibrium (the movie)
-
Rented that yesterday, a fun movie, story of a society gone wrong, after someone decided that to be able to remove war, crime and violence, people should remove their emotions and what brings them into life, such as books, painting, music , and doing this with a drug. The deviant that keeps arts are found by a special religious type police force, the Clerics, that focus on the firearms martial arts, the gun-kana. Anyway, it's the story of one of these clerics that misses one of his drug shot and start feeling emotions again, starts doubting the society, and eventually find himself emotion the run. He eventually find the resistance, and he brings down the 1984-esque regime. Playing the good clerics is Christian Bale, playing the bad cleric is Taye Diggs, and the one of the resistance woman is Emily Watson, who is stunningly beautifull!!! A mix of 1984, Farenheit 451, Gattaca and lo-fi Matrix.
Maximilien Lincourt For success one must aquire one's self
-
Rented that yesterday, a fun movie, story of a society gone wrong, after someone decided that to be able to remove war, crime and violence, people should remove their emotions and what brings them into life, such as books, painting, music , and doing this with a drug. The deviant that keeps arts are found by a special religious type police force, the Clerics, that focus on the firearms martial arts, the gun-kana. Anyway, it's the story of one of these clerics that misses one of his drug shot and start feeling emotions again, starts doubting the society, and eventually find himself emotion the run. He eventually find the resistance, and he brings down the 1984-esque regime. Playing the good clerics is Christian Bale, playing the bad cleric is Taye Diggs, and the one of the resistance woman is Emily Watson, who is stunningly beautifull!!! A mix of 1984, Farenheit 451, Gattaca and lo-fi Matrix.
Maximilien Lincourt For success one must aquire one's self
While the movie and plot itself takes a lot from those books - 1984, 451, etc. - not to mention the way parts of current socity is moving - it blends them together into something rather good. It's just too bad the movie didn't open wider, and never got ANY tv ads - from what I've found out, they were afraid of offending the patrotic american public (not like we've never led a revolt agaisnt an oppressive government, noooo). In any case, I had the plot (fake Father figure, setup/betrayal of the lead) figured out by the time they introduced Taye's character (quick, what major movie role did the cleric Preston executed play? And where have you seen the one resistance fighter in the opening scene recently?). What is obvious to me at the end is that Dupont was a former Cleric and that he is obviously volitating the rules of the society that he has help build (note the artwork in his office, his pleading for his life, and the reference to dreams). I think I need to go and watch it for the fifth or sixth time and count how many of the modified "T" shaped gun flashes occur.
"I was in a computer game. Funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of."
-
Rented that yesterday, a fun movie, story of a society gone wrong, after someone decided that to be able to remove war, crime and violence, people should remove their emotions and what brings them into life, such as books, painting, music , and doing this with a drug. The deviant that keeps arts are found by a special religious type police force, the Clerics, that focus on the firearms martial arts, the gun-kana. Anyway, it's the story of one of these clerics that misses one of his drug shot and start feeling emotions again, starts doubting the society, and eventually find himself emotion the run. He eventually find the resistance, and he brings down the 1984-esque regime. Playing the good clerics is Christian Bale, playing the bad cleric is Taye Diggs, and the one of the resistance woman is Emily Watson, who is stunningly beautifull!!! A mix of 1984, Farenheit 451, Gattaca and lo-fi Matrix.
Maximilien Lincourt For success one must aquire one's self
Maximilien wrote: Emily Watson, who is stunningly beautifull!!! A mix of 1984, Farenheit 451, Gattaca and lo-fi Matrix. So basically, in this movieis a movie for everybody?!
"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
sighist | Agile Programming | doxygen -
Rented that yesterday, a fun movie, story of a society gone wrong, after someone decided that to be able to remove war, crime and violence, people should remove their emotions and what brings them into life, such as books, painting, music , and doing this with a drug. The deviant that keeps arts are found by a special religious type police force, the Clerics, that focus on the firearms martial arts, the gun-kana. Anyway, it's the story of one of these clerics that misses one of his drug shot and start feeling emotions again, starts doubting the society, and eventually find himself emotion the run. He eventually find the resistance, and he brings down the 1984-esque regime. Playing the good clerics is Christian Bale, playing the bad cleric is Taye Diggs, and the one of the resistance woman is Emily Watson, who is stunningly beautifull!!! A mix of 1984, Farenheit 451, Gattaca and lo-fi Matrix.
Maximilien Lincourt For success one must aquire one's self
I saw it not too long ago, quite enjoyed it. Maximilien wrote: Emily Watson, who is stunningly beautifull! I won't argue with that. :-D
Heaven doesn't want me, and Hell's afraid I'll take over.
-
Rented that yesterday, a fun movie, story of a society gone wrong, after someone decided that to be able to remove war, crime and violence, people should remove their emotions and what brings them into life, such as books, painting, music , and doing this with a drug. The deviant that keeps arts are found by a special religious type police force, the Clerics, that focus on the firearms martial arts, the gun-kana. Anyway, it's the story of one of these clerics that misses one of his drug shot and start feeling emotions again, starts doubting the society, and eventually find himself emotion the run. He eventually find the resistance, and he brings down the 1984-esque regime. Playing the good clerics is Christian Bale, playing the bad cleric is Taye Diggs, and the one of the resistance woman is Emily Watson, who is stunningly beautifull!!! A mix of 1984, Farenheit 451, Gattaca and lo-fi Matrix.
Maximilien Lincourt For success one must aquire one's self
I went to see it with a few mates. IMHO is was a great movie. Gun-kata (?) was a great idea for making a 'plausible matrix'. However, most of the mates I went with were Matrix mad so they were blinded to see what a good movie it was. Shame. I did see the similarities as you said with 1984 etc...and in a way I didn't mind. It made for a good movie. One question, Sean Bean. A good british actor. Why is it that in every Hollywood movie he is in he HAS to either die or leave early on in the plot? ASI: LOTR:FOTR - Boromir - Shot with multiple Arrows Equilibrium - Cleric - Shot by best friend Ronin - Made a complete ass of himself and leaves :wtf: He hasn't been in all that many hollywood films, but he seems to be killed off early, is it that the US actors would be undermined and upstaged by him?
"I have a strange ginger man living on my roof!"
"One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’." -Douglas Adams
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman Homepage [www.nonny.com] [^] -
I went to see it with a few mates. IMHO is was a great movie. Gun-kata (?) was a great idea for making a 'plausible matrix'. However, most of the mates I went with were Matrix mad so they were blinded to see what a good movie it was. Shame. I did see the similarities as you said with 1984 etc...and in a way I didn't mind. It made for a good movie. One question, Sean Bean. A good british actor. Why is it that in every Hollywood movie he is in he HAS to either die or leave early on in the plot? ASI: LOTR:FOTR - Boromir - Shot with multiple Arrows Equilibrium - Cleric - Shot by best friend Ronin - Made a complete ass of himself and leaves :wtf: He hasn't been in all that many hollywood films, but he seems to be killed off early, is it that the US actors would be undermined and upstaged by him?
"I have a strange ginger man living on my roof!"
"One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’." -Douglas Adams
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman Homepage [www.nonny.com] [^] -
Dont forget the bad guy in Goldeneye, the first Brosnan Bond film... Cleve Littlefield Senior Developer Visual Office
Well, he didn't really die early on. But to make up for it they made him an evil bastard.
"I have a strange ginger man living on my roof!"
"One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’." -Douglas Adams
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman Homepage [www.nonny.com] [^] -
I went to see it with a few mates. IMHO is was a great movie. Gun-kata (?) was a great idea for making a 'plausible matrix'. However, most of the mates I went with were Matrix mad so they were blinded to see what a good movie it was. Shame. I did see the similarities as you said with 1984 etc...and in a way I didn't mind. It made for a good movie. One question, Sean Bean. A good british actor. Why is it that in every Hollywood movie he is in he HAS to either die or leave early on in the plot? ASI: LOTR:FOTR - Boromir - Shot with multiple Arrows Equilibrium - Cleric - Shot by best friend Ronin - Made a complete ass of himself and leaves :wtf: He hasn't been in all that many hollywood films, but he seems to be killed off early, is it that the US actors would be undermined and upstaged by him?
"I have a strange ginger man living on my roof!"
"One of the most important things you learn from the internet is that there is no ‘them’ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‘us’." -Douglas Adams
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman Homepage [www.nonny.com] [^]Jonny Newman wrote: He hasn't been in all that many hollywood films, but he seems to be killed off early, Maybe because he can? How many actors can (and will) give a strong, believable portrayal of the humiliation involved in such a role? I'm thinking of LOTR:FOTR and Ronin - haven't seen Equilibrium. Gavin Greig "Haw, you're no deid," girned Charon. "Get aff ma boat or ah'll report ye." Matthew Fitt - The Hoose O Haivers: The Twelve Trauchles O Heracles.