Equilibrium

Posted by Rick in Uncategorized (Wednesday June 25, 2003 at 11:15 pm)

I watched Equilibrium today. All I can say is, “Wow”. It’s Brave New World meets The Matrix action scenes…actually, I think the action scenes are cooler than The Matrix. Pretty cool.

9 Responses to “Equilibrium”

  1. Lesley Says:
    June 26th, 2003 at 2:09 am

    but (to play devil’s advocate) do you not think they could have put in some more character development? I wanted to know more about the people themselves. It was cool though.

  2. Christin Says:
    June 26th, 2003 at 6:27 am

    I thought Equilibrium was a great movie. I think the lack of character development fit in with the story. No one in that world would really get to know each other since they’re not allowed to have feelings, therefore, the director of the movie chose to keep the audience at a distance too.

  3. Beer Says:
    June 26th, 2003 at 1:31 pm

    Hello! It has Sean Bean in it! Now I have to see it. Bean is da MAN.

  4. Josh McInnis Says:
    June 26th, 2003 at 7:56 pm

    I watched that corny movie last week, and here you are saying the same thing about the action scenes that some of my friends said as well. At least they laughed at the movie as a whole.
    Sense offences. Clever. The movie was full of horrible dialogue and shallow symbolism.

  5. Nathan Says:
    June 26th, 2003 at 8:22 pm

    Zounds Josh, someone writes an intriguing look at human nature, the essence of conflict, and makes it decent on top of all that, and we reformed folk spurn it outright? That can’t be helpful.

    I’ve shown that movie to no less than 15 of my reformed friends, all but one of them loved it(including several reformed pastors). Yes, sense offenses sound absurd, but so do ‘class offenses’, and yet the Soviets tried to do the impossible for nigh on 7 decades. The director simply made a paradigm of that. The message is good if qualified: a purposeful, imperfect world with conflict is infinitely more preferable to a ‘peaceful’ world without purpose.
    What’s the big deal man?

  6. scott cunningham Says:
    June 27th, 2003 at 9:01 am

    What’s being reformed got to do with it? That doesn’t obligate us to like or not like movies. It sounds like Josh just wasn’t impressed with it. We can all have different opinions.

  7. Nathan Says:
    June 27th, 2003 at 10:53 am

    Absolutely, I’m not trying coerce anyone, I wish to understand them better. I was simply making a case that the ideals behind the movie weren’t that bad. I just was asking him to clarify further, my post was an apologia and a simple question.

  8. Josh McInnis Says:
    June 27th, 2003 at 4:16 pm

    The swat team is after me for my having some feelings, contrary to the norm. Heh, just teasing Nathan.
    Nothing’s the big deal, I just didn’t enjoy the movie, that’s all. Message aside, I stand by my negative opinion of the movie: the creativity seemed lacking, and the fight scenes ridiculously absurd and unenthusiastic. I don’t mind one bit if any one of you slicked your hair back after watching the movie and pretended you were standing in a circle of twenty armed soldiers shooting them all, or if you found something charming in the story chosen to convey the message.

  9. jon sutton Says:
    June 27th, 2003 at 9:28 pm

    I didn’t like it, and I don’t judge movies based on how much I agree with the message. Sure, it’s better to have a good message than a bad one, but if you’re going to alienate your audience, I think it’s better to turn them off from a bad message than a good one. Both good and bad messages alike are hurt by poor presentation.

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