• edric@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    I loved Equilibrium and was surprised it wasn’t rated as good.

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      2 hours ago

      Back when Netflix had everything I watched that one thinking it would be a cool scifi film, but turns out its a kong fu movie and I was not in the mood for a that so I was disappointed. The sound track slapped though!

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      6 hours ago

      I’ve never met a person who I know has seen it but doesn’t like Equilibrium.

      …And it’s at a 7.3 on IMDb. That’s a pretty good rating.

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        6 hours ago

        Huh that’s interesting. I kinda remember it not being that well received at the time. It did get a cult following over the years so maybe the IMDb rating has gone up since then?

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          5 hours ago

          It flopped at the box and was regarded as a ripoff of the matrix’s aesthetics by critics. But it was well received by home audiences. I remember it fondly as a quick to syndication movie. It definitely has some lows in quality at points and the plot could’ve been stronger. But its highs were very solid.

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          4 hours ago

          It was widely compared to the matrix which I did, but watching later it is a great movie in its own right

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      4 hours ago

      Equilibrium is great but it’s hard to see it as something else than a b-movie even with my rose tinted glasses

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      4 hours ago

      I cried harder at that dog scene in that movie than any other movie ever. Even right now I’m tearing up thinking about it. It may have been in part because I watched it alone so I didn’t feel the need to filter myself at all and there wasn’t anyone to comfort me. Fuck, man. Fuck.

      But yeah, apart from that, I liked it too. It’s a bit cheesy, sure, but I really enjoyed a lot of it. I thought the gun stuff was cool. I forget the name they have it. Gun Kata or something? Like when they’d slide into a pitch black room and just shoot all around them. That was cool. It’s such a cheesy thing but so cool lol.

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      6 hours ago

      I nearly literally started a friendship based on showing the other person this movie. It’s a fantastic movie and apparently why Christian Bale was chosen as Batman.