Whee.

[xyzzysqrl]

Watched Equilibrium tonight with the boyfriend. General consensus: It was like Farenheight 451 and 1984 were mugged by the "yay for firearms!" genre of anime in a back alley and stripped of their basic themes, the first twenty minutes are spent with the "SUBTLE" knob cranked to zero and the screenwriters attacking the audience with The Hammer of Plot to be sure everyone's up to speed, AND it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Puppies are one of the Tools of the Revolution.

I liked it a lot anyway. Really fun movie to watch, and once it got past the opening it tossed a couple of pitches I didn't see coming. So, yeah, good film. Recommended.

Comments

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

I liked it alot. In fact, I bought it on DVD, and I'm loosely basing a Shadowrun character on John Preston. I was really surprised that they did combats much better than The Matrix (What was it you dubbed it? "Techno-Jesus versus the CyberZombies"?) on a fraction of the budget.

And them just panning back after Preston killed Father and seeing Tae Diggs face laying on the floor was just hilarious IMO

-K

[xyzzysqrl]

It just goes to show... (wait for it)

...if you're gonna be one of the most up-and-coming young stars of the 'police' force, the one thing you can't afford to do... (here it comes)

...is lose face.

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

*rimshot*

-K

[slipscale.livejournal.com]

Just love that movie. Love it so much. 1984 meets the Matrix.

'Be careful, Preston. You're treading on my dreams.'

LOVE it!

Equilibrium

[seawasp]

... is too bloody cool for words. I was even able to overlook the WSOD-Shattering plot hole at the end because it WAS so cool.

And Christian Bale IS the perfect choice for the new Batman.

Re: Equilibrium

[xyzzysqrl]

He's the new Batman?

...It could work. My first thought was "Hey, Christian Bale is like Keanu Reeves lite edition", but then he started being able to ACT. (If Keanu had that role, you wouldn't have been able to tell when he went off his meds.)

So yes. I'll be waiting for -that- one eagerly.

[orrin.livejournal.com]

I love Equilibrium. So does, frankly, everyone I know. But what I wanted to stick up here was that I actually sorta like the fact that the intro scenes are totally unsubtle because it allows them to get the plot set up and out of the way so the rest of the movie can move at a much brisker pace than it otherwise probably would have.

[xyzzysqrl]

...good point there actually.

"This is our PLOT. PLOT. HERE IT IS. EVERYONE SEE IT? THE PLOT. Okay, let's get on with the damn movie already."

Wouldn't work for a lot of movies, but... yeah.

[talas.livejournal.com]

You don't know me and I still love it.

Maybe I love it despite you not knowing me!

Of course, I could just be feverish and bouncing randomly around LiveJournal.

[rancourt.livejournal.com]

Equilibrium was a wonderful example of a film too good to suck, despite trying in a few places. The gun-fu was hugely implausible (it seemed to rely on a circle of attackers being awed by the amazing gun kata and unable to pull the damn trigger already), the plot had similar holes and gaps, but the tone was spot on. I didn't mind that it should have sucked. I loved it.

(And I had to bite my tongue to keep from singing "Puppies aren't just cute like everyboOOOOoooody suppoOOOOOossses..." at the key doogie moment.)

[xyzzysqrl]

The thing about the gunkata stuff was that it does not DO what it says it does.

Movie explanation: "This allows you to not be where the bullets are, and allows you to pose impressively."
What actually happened: "This turns you into a firearm-wielding WIND NINJA capable of moving at three hundred MPH and moving through streams of bullets without actually being shot."

So, yeah. In spite of little things like his daughter accidentally sliding through a plot hole and vanishing forever (Maybe she'll show up in another movie somewhere, later on) and the fact that Preston flip-flops between being impressively psychic and having the perceptional abilities of wheat toast (The man is screaming and thumping the table at you, Preston, perhaps he too is mildly emotional), I loved it as well.

Saw it largely on your reccomendation, at that, as I recall.