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CULT MOVIE REVIEW: Equilibrium (2002)

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2008-10-04 09:02:00 by John Kenneth Muir in John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Film/TV
...Equilibrium I had absolutely no idea what my friends were doing, and worried that some of them had gone inexplicably bonkers. Then Tony Mercer -- glock in hand -- explained to me about Equilibrium (and "Gun-Kata"). Backing away slowly from my armed friend, I made a note to myself that I needed to see this movie And voila - I've finally seen...
 
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Equilibrium (No Spoilers)

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2007-12-05 22:38:00 by Mrs. Thuro in Mrs. Thuro's Movie Rants & Raves
Equilibrium (2002 Directed By: Kurt Wimmer Written By: Kurt Wimmer Starring: Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Taye Diggs, Sean Bean, William Fitchner Rated: R Running Time: 107 minutes Genre: Sci-Fi, Action So many mixed emotions about a movie where emotions are illegal. Irony? I think so...but first, the plot Near the beginning of the 21st century...
 
Tags: emotions, invokes emotions, preston attempts, preston, mixed emotions, action sequences, action, mindless action genre, kurt wimmer
 
 
 
 
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Movie Clip of the Moment: Gun Kata from Equilibrium

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2008-03-07 14:04:00 by Editor in Cinema Fusion
 
...Equilibrium , I thought it was a cheap Matrix knock-off. And while I was only half right (there were no sentinels) the idea of rebellion through gunplay mixed with fighting still rung true. Heres a montage of the Gun Kata fighting style, used to cheesy/cool effect by an early Christian Bale . I love the comment from a Youtube viewer too cool...
 
Tags: gun kata, cheap matrix knock-off, extremely fake, cool, gunplay mixed, christian bale, cheesycool effect, youtube viewer, equilibrium
 
 
 
 
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Metal Gear Solid Gets a Writer?

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2008-03-14 13:31:00 by GMAN in GMAN's Film Blog
...Equilibrium") will be handling the writing for a live action adaptation of "Metal Gear Solid Apparently, awhile back, when "Equilibrium" came out, video game fans were clamoring for Wimmer to both write and direct a movie based on some video game. That wish may come true. Producer De Luca will have a meeting with Wimmer in a few weeks about...
 
Tags: metal gear solid, wimmer, kurt wimmer, wimmer writes, video game, video game fans, equilibrium, producer michael, producer
 
 
 
 
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Our future depicted in the movies...

2006-11-03 06:59:00 by Do Hyun Chung in Do Hyun's Movie Reviews
 
...equilibrium http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/island http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/v for vendetta http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/aeon flux There have been quite a big shift in the way that the moviemakers see our future In the old days, the future in the movies were always full of machines, robots, aliens and clones. The world ruled by...
 
Tags: movies, world ruled, rottentomatoes, totalitarian government claims, humans, government, world, future, machines
 
 
 
 
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'Street Fighter the Chun-Li' Trailer Gets Domestic

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2009-01-07 18:47:58 by HASH0x8b2e5a8 in I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever
Since everyone was loving that Japanese version of the Street Fighter trailer from last week, here's the higher quality English edition from IGN . Now you can truly hear the powerful narration describing the delicate balance between two primary forces in our universe. Good and evil? Light and dark? So you'd think! No, it's beauty and terror....
 
Tags: quality english edition, street fighter trailer, absolute beauty, utter terror, beauty, terror, osama bin, simultaneous existence, japanese version
 
 
 
 
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Thoughts on TV crime drama: Cracker, Prime Suspect...

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2007-01-25 10:25:00 by adrian chan in Reviews and analysis of significant films and movies, on dvd and in theaters
...equilibrium or the reestablishment of it, a process of restitution that allows a society, at the limits of cynicism, to hide what it wants to hide, reveal what it wants to reveal, deny all evidence, and champion the improbable. The killer still at large may be killed for still other errors, and so it is that these compensations have no other...
 
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Jamie Foxx Becomes A Law Abiding Citizen

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2008-10-09 20:24:06 by Larry Carroll in MTV Movies Blog
...Equilibrium, and mix them in with Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx? Thanks to a Law Abiding Citizen, film fans will soon find out Foxx has signed on to the psychological cop thriller, in which hell play a Death Wish-like vigilante who considers himself a victim of the legal systems shortcomings. After one of the men who killed his wife and...
 
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Gilles Deleuze and Contemplative Cinema

2007-01-27 12:08:00 by adrian chan in Reviews and analysis of significant films and movies, on dvd and in theaters
 
...equilibrium between stimulus and response (as in the scene with the little maid in Umberto D), suddenly to free itself from the laws of this schema and reveal itself in a visual and sound nakedness, crudeness and brutality which make it unbearable, giving it the pace of a dream or a nightmare. There is, therefore, a necessary passage from the...
 
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