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March 6, 2004 at 3:52 am #4387Someguy03Member
I bought Equilibrium a week after a friend brought it over on DVD and I watched it. The movie looks beautiful, Its got a great plot, and the fight seens are very cool.
There doesn’t seem to be a site for the movie, (stuped dimension films) so I will write up a quick overview for it (this isn’t a spoiler)
Basically, the whole world has been terrorized by war. (not like terminator, where everything has been completly destroyed) A regime has built a large city (more like a state) and decided that the only way to stop crime was to eliminate emotion. A pill called Prozium, a mind-alterering drug that hinders emotion, was created. Everyone in the city takes it when an alarm on a government required wrist band sounds. Nothing in the city that might even result in feeling is allowed. (Ex: paintings, colors, window curtains) Those who do not accept the pill are joined in a group called the underground, a hidden organization made up of people who feel. The government, in the movie, is working on finding a way into the underground to kill these people. Those who stay above ground hide out in abandoned buildings a way out from the cities. There are government teams wich are sent out to hunt down these people. Except you are not brought to court when you are caught, you are simply killed on the spot.
The government has kept peace by forming futuristic forces of police, wich moniter the city in tank like bus’s. If the police defense fails, trained clerics come in. They function as both the city’s last defense, and a high positioned general. These celerics begin training as just a child, and become virtually perfect at combat. One thing they learn is perfect motion and mathematics. For example, they can enter a room, find out how many men are in the room, and shoot all of them without moving any part of their body but their arms. Not even the government’s own police (wich go in groups of 5+) are a match for them.
One of the clerics, supposedly the best one, one day misses his Prozium pill, and is introduced to emotion. And once he enters the world of feeling, there is no turning back. The one that has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it.
Check out the trailer here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/equilibrium.html
March 6, 2004 at 3:53 am #48652shadowmasterx90Memberthat movie was awesome I saw it like last year or something and I loved it the effects arent the best in the world but the fighting and the actual story were great!!!
March 6, 2004 at 8:15 pm #48651Someguy03MemberI know the effects weren’t the best, but it was a low budget movie. (they did a great job none the less)
The sad thing I find is that the 2nd Matrix’s must have had triple the budget Equilibrium had, and yet they were alot worse than it.
March 6, 2004 at 8:29 pm #48648Jeff HesterKeymasterthat seems like its trying really hard to be the matrix. Ill have to check that out sometime
March 8, 2004 at 1:44 pm #48649OctoberTheHottieMemberI saw this movie and loved it immediatley too, it has driven me crazy that they did no advertising so know one has heard of it?!?! BUT, some one did tell me about a site, it is a fan site I believe, but you should be able to find it in a search….. maybe not, I will get back on that, lol…
March 8, 2004 at 10:00 pm #48650Someguy03MemberYa there is a site I found a few days ago: http://www.freewebs.com/equilibrium-movie/
It may be freewebs but the site layout is awesome and the forums are huge.
March 9, 2004 at 2:19 am #48653ShadowcrestMemberWhoa! The trailer is awesome! Looks like another winner I’mma have to see real soon! 😀
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