Equilibrium (2002 Christian Bale movie)
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It's a dumb movie where the action sequences are the highlight. It's a mish mash of a lot of better movies and books of it's genre and it's not particularly...smart, especially for a movie that so desperately wants to be smart and cool...
It's an odd film. It dumb, but a lot of style. I've never seen all of it, but I do have these moments where I catch it on TV, and watch lengthy sections of it. It's beautiful, but dumb.
Count me in the never bought into gun Kata crowd. The big cult leader being dead was perfectly obvious but still the most interesting thing about this movie. All the stuff about being emotionless came across as a particularly dumb version of Vulcans. Christian Bale's acting was perfectly adequate but added nothing to the movie.
Ha. I have this movie on DVD. Love it, despite it's flaws.
If anything, it really makes me want to see an adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, but done right. C'mon Frank Darabount, make this movie already!
If anything, it really makes me want to see an adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, but done right. C'mon Frank Darabount, make this movie already!
Ol Scratch
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I really enjoyed it, too. The puppy and lie detector scenes were definitely my favorites.
And they at least explaiend why the protagonist was all but untouchable in combat, as opposed to most action movies where you just have to accept it despite even greater levels of goofiness (like Rambo never getting shot amidst hundreds of machineguns and bombs). He also ran out of ammo quite frequently, unlike many other action heroes.
And they at least explaiend why the protagonist was all but untouchable in combat, as opposed to most action movies where you just have to accept it despite even greater levels of goofiness (like Rambo never getting shot amidst hundreds of machineguns and bombs). He also ran out of ammo quite frequently, unlike many other action heroes.
Well, that sums it up pretty well.
It's a pretty stupid movie with lots of plot holes and over-the-top action scenes... but I sort of enjoy watching it. Must be because of Chrstian Bale, Sean Bean, and William Fichtner.
Now just imagine they would have done this with bad actors.
This is the stupidest movie that I love.
It's like that dumbshit friend of yours that keeps asking for money and despite knowing that he's going to blow it all on meaningless crap, you give it to him anyway because he's just so much damn fun to hang around with.
Okay, it's nothing like that, but a dude gets his face cut off. That's fucking Oscar worthy*, right there.
* If the Oscars were run by a consortium of awesome.
It's like that dumbshit friend of yours that keeps asking for money and despite knowing that he's going to blow it all on meaningless crap, you give it to him anyway because he's just so much damn fun to hang around with.
Okay, it's nothing like that, but a dude gets his face cut off. That's fucking Oscar worthy*, right there.
* If the Oscars were run by a consortium of awesome.
It is - but just before that, you have a fight with em.. little daddy - earlier in the film they fight and it appears they are evenly managed and it uses all of the visual language to say "this will be the big fight later!" so when they square up, you don't expect the guy to instantly die with little effort on John's part.
I love how they play with your expectation that towards the end you are going to get this awesome fight between the two clerics (which they set up earlier) and when it comes, he just cuts the guy's face-off and that's it.
And then he plays patty-cake (with guns!) with that pudgy Scottish guy who played a conflicted former priest (is there any other kind?) in that show I liked while it was on for five minutes. Plus it has Boromir and two guys from Prison Break. BEST TERRIBLE MOVIE EVER.
I didn't know he was Scottish. Imagine! There's only about 500 of us.
