<!--QuoteBegin-GreyPaws+May 11 2004, 07:07 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (GreyPaws @ May 11 2004, 07:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> If you still hate it go rent XXX and kill more brain cells. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> That's ironic, cause I'd stick this film in the same category of 'mindless dross' as xXx.
If I want to watch an 'intelligent' film, y'know, ones with real style and integrity, I'll slap L.A. Confidential or Memento on, to name but two truly brilliant films.
classing any film whatsoever in the same category as xXx is an insult. xXx should be erased from the annuals of human history and never spoken of again... it's also the only film with vin diesel in it that's made me cringe (I loved pitch black while the fast and the furious was fun enough to watch too ^^ ).
CplDavisI hunt the arctic SnonosJoin Date: 2003-01-09Member: 12097Members
<!--QuoteBegin-Tequila+May 11 2004, 07:00 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Tequila @ May 11 2004, 07:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Equilibrium has brilliant action scenes and little else. A hackneyed, lifted plot, incoherent structure and Sean Bean dies. End of. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> WHo cares he dies in LoTR.
I think it has a great plot. Just as much as a "Thinking" type of movie than an action movie.
<!--QuoteBegin-Cpl.Davis+May 12 2004, 08:21 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cpl.Davis @ May 12 2004, 08:21 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Tequila+May 11 2004, 07:00 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Tequila @ May 11 2004, 07:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Equilibrium has brilliant action scenes and little else. A hackneyed, lifted plot, incoherent structure and Sean Bean dies. End of. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> WHo cares he dies in LoTR.
I think it has a great plot. Just as much as a "Thinking" type of movie than an action movie. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> The plot is a bastardised hybrid of 1984 and The Matrix. It doesn't even try to hide it.
Seriously, I loved the action, but that's a total of 20-odd minutes out of 107 minutes running time. The other 87 minutes I was sitting there feeling nonchalant about the fact that I had wasted money coming to see it.
The only thing I didn't like was when he cut the guys face off...it looked so corny. But during the directors comments he said somthing about not having enough money or time.
"I am a Grammaton Cleric. I detect emotion wherever it lies, and exterminate it. Curses, foiled by a 9 year old. Damn."
Flaw numero deux.
"In the future, all evil servants of the oppresive state shall wear motorcycle helmets. <b>All the time.</b>"
Sorry, that film is full of more holes than a tramp with a moth problems socks. Bad, bad bad bad film, imo. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> u want bad mate, watch Starship Troopers 2! hahah thats the worst film ive ever seen!
But Equilibruim is the best action movie i have seen for a long time, kicks the crap outta Matrix 3
CplDavisI hunt the arctic SnonosJoin Date: 2003-01-09Member: 12097Members
<!--QuoteBegin-Tequila+May 12 2004, 09:30 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Tequila @ May 12 2004, 09:30 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Cpl.Davis+May 12 2004, 08:21 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cpl.Davis @ May 12 2004, 08:21 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Tequila+May 11 2004, 07:00 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Tequila @ May 11 2004, 07:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Equilibrium has brilliant action scenes and little else. A hackneyed, lifted plot, incoherent structure and Sean Bean dies. End of. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> WHo cares he dies in LoTR.
I think it has a great plot. Just as much as a "Thinking" type of movie than an action movie. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> The plot is a bastardised hybrid of 1984 and The Matrix. It doesn't even try to hide it.
Seriously, I loved the action, but that's a total of 20-odd minutes out of 107 minutes running time. The other 87 minutes I was sitting there feeling nonchalant about the fact that I had wasted money coming to see it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> How so , using akinmo pistols has been around for ever, so have long black trench coats,
Maybe dodging bullets? People dodge bullets in every movie lol. In this one, predicting bullet tragectory is used, and thats not the same as bullet time .
maybe similarities in the high collard trench coats?
Equilibrium came out before The Matrix Reloaded, which had the similar coat that Neo wore, and the same fights inside the rich mansion type thing, and fighting with swords as well as guns.
But yea as someone said before, you cant really say one movie really rips off another,
They might add a new twist to an older plot, but thats been done for ever by any genre, just look at all those kung fu, western, end of the world, alien space invader movies out there. All the same, just builidng on each other or adding a new twist. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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That's ironic, cause I'd stick this film in the same category of 'mindless dross' as xXx.
If I want to watch an 'intelligent' film, y'know, ones with real style and integrity, I'll slap L.A. Confidential or Memento on, to name but two truly brilliant films.
xXx should be erased from the annuals of human history and never spoken of again... it's also the only film with vin diesel in it that's made me cringe (I loved pitch black while the fast and the furious was fun enough to watch too ^^ ).
Why aren't you in IRC btw.
WHo cares he dies in LoTR.
I think it has a great plot. Just as much as a "Thinking" type of movie than an action movie.
WHo cares he dies in LoTR.
I think it has a great plot. Just as much as a "Thinking" type of movie than an action movie. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
The plot is a bastardised hybrid of 1984 and The Matrix. It doesn't even try to hide it.
Seriously, I loved the action, but that's a total of 20-odd minutes out of 107 minutes running time. The other 87 minutes I was sitting there feeling nonchalant about the fact that I had wasted money coming to see it.
'nuff said
'nuff said <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Correct.
The plot was very... original. And the action scenes were COOOOL^2. Currently I have the Equilibrium pistol as my NS pistol model.
but then i stopped playing TS
"I am a Grammaton Cleric. I detect emotion wherever it lies, and exterminate it. Curses, foiled by a 9 year old. Damn."
Flaw numero deux.
"In the future, all evil servants of the oppresive state shall wear motorcycle helmets. <b>All the time.</b>"
Sorry, that film is full of more holes than a tramp with a moth problems socks. Bad, bad bad bad film, imo. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
u want bad mate, watch Starship Troopers 2! hahah thats the worst film ive ever seen!
But Equilibruim is the best action movie i have seen for a long time, kicks the crap outta Matrix 3
WHo cares he dies in LoTR.
I think it has a great plot. Just as much as a "Thinking" type of movie than an action movie. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The plot is a bastardised hybrid of 1984 and The Matrix. It doesn't even try to hide it.
Seriously, I loved the action, but that's a total of 20-odd minutes out of 107 minutes running time. The other 87 minutes I was sitting there feeling nonchalant about the fact that I had wasted money coming to see it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
How so , using akinmo pistols has been around for ever, so have long black trench coats,
Maybe dodging bullets?
People dodge bullets in every movie lol. In this one, predicting bullet tragectory is used, and thats not the same as bullet time .
maybe similarities in the high collard trench coats?
Equilibrium came out before The Matrix Reloaded, which had the similar coat that Neo wore, and the same fights inside the rich mansion type thing, and fighting with swords as well as guns.
But yea as someone said before, you cant really say one movie really rips off another,
They might add a new twist to an older plot, but thats been done for ever by any genre, just look at all those kung fu, western, end of the world, alien space invader movies out there. All the same, just builidng on each other or adding a new twist. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->