Equilibrium

[Susan]

Has anyone seen this movie yet? IMDB has given it pretty high score. I couldn't help but notice the plot seems alot like "fahrenheit 451", and I know that movie is being remade.  Is it a worthwhile see?

[jimbp]

I saw it last week and LOVED IT!

[J.R.]

It's one of those ones that the guys at CHUD or Ain't It Cool absolutely whore whenever they get the chance (and even when they don't).  I enjoy hard science fiction, but to me this looks too much like several others like Fahrenheit 451, Minority Report and a few others, with Matrix style thrown in. And why, just out of curiosity, does seemingly every sci-fi story about a future society center on an enforcer of the rules who winds up on the wrong side of the law?

[Squishy]

Tycho at Penny Arcade (try the comic! a bit gamer-centric, but...) may be a smug bastard, but he liked it too. It seems the critics all came to the same conclusion that J.R. did--it's hard not to see the almost proudly derivative nature of the trailer--but the few people who have seen it seem to have enjoyed it.

I'm just...I...if I see one more "bullet-time" sequence...I'm gonna SNAP.

One critic who panned "Equilibrium" was fixated on the fact that Bale's character, before realizing the Error of His Ways, executes a very large number of Thought Criminals; because of this, the critic found it impossible to sympathize with Bale later on. I guess Anakin Skywalker, Doug Quaid and Logan Five might be better able to understand Bale's situation...

[Susan]

Sorry It took me awhile to actually find this thread again..lol

For a movie that's gotten alot of praise i still haven't seem much about it, hell I think I only saw a preview on tv for it once and I still don't know if it's even playing around here anymore. I still want to see it tho, I love sci-fi and dark futuristic societies where one man struggles against the machine..lol. Yeah not all that original but I need some form of escapism. ;-)

I suspenct studios tend to peek at what eachother is doing scriptwise and when something like minority report comes out they all sort of follow suit with a same type of story but different hoping someone will cash in (since you never know if the "big" pic will bomb or be a hit and someone could ride their coattails or steal their wind) Whether it does well in theaters or not I bet it'll really rake it in when it hits video stores.

As for bullet-time yeah, so many films are copying it now. I think the Matrix showed that there is still so much undiscovered fronteir left as far as effects go, i just think that filmmakers should try more at tapping into that vs. copying