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Offline Pera

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on: July 20, 2003, 03:39:29 pm
...is a very good movie. Has anyone here at HLP seen it?

It's a sort of a sci-fi film about a future society where emotions are outlawed, and people are forced to take drugs to remove their ability to feel.  I won't spoil more than that, but it's got an interesting story, and some very cool action scenes, especially when you remember how small budget they had. :nod:

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Reply #1 on: July 20, 2003, 04:05:45 pm
Seen it ages ago. Very cool though.
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Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #2 on: July 20, 2003, 04:16:56 pm
This film is possesed of great 1337ness
 

Offline EdwinDLT

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Reply #3 on: July 20, 2003, 05:36:42 pm
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Originally posted by Pera
...is a very good movie. Has anyone here at HLP seen it?

It's a sort of a sci-fi film about a future society where emotions are outlawed, and people are forced to take drugs to remove their ability to feel.  I won't spoil more than that, but it's got an interesting story, and some very cool action scenes, especially when you remember how small budget they had. :nod:

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0238380


I was going to see that film, my local cinema only shows Matrix:Reloaded and LOTR:Two Towers. :no:
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Offline Bri_Dog

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Reply #4 on: July 20, 2003, 05:41:27 pm
Gunkata kicks ass :cool:
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Offline vyper

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Reply #5 on: July 20, 2003, 06:07:02 pm
Saw it ages ago, me and my girlfriend both thought it was great.
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Offline Stunaep

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Reply #6 on: July 20, 2003, 06:13:36 pm
Aside from the fact that it rips off every piece of Sci-fi literature and movies written in the last 50 years or so, from 1984 to the Matrix, it rocks.

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Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #7 on: July 20, 2003, 06:51:15 pm
Oh, well, yes, less than 5% of the material is original in any way shape or form, but as long as you don't let that distract you... after all, the fighting puts the Matrix to shame :nod:
 

Offline NecroBob

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Reply #8 on: July 20, 2003, 10:42:03 pm
yay! I'm not alone! only a few other people I know have seen equilibrium :(

equilibrium = pie; pie = good

i love the whole smacking around of the two shotguns and capping those two dudes in the face when they find the dog in his trunk :D

"no!" "****!!!" *BLAAAM*...  "what??"

but yeah, I want to record it to VHS so my g/f and I can watch it, I think she'd really like it.  her comp = no l33t
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Reply #9 on: March 24, 2004, 02:55:15 pm
UBER-BUMPAGE! (Hey, it was either bumpage or new-threadage :p)

;) Just saw this movie - very cool. Reminded me of a cross between Minority Report, Matrix, and any Steven Segal movie.

Course I've never seen 1984; my dad said it reminded him of Soylent Green, yet another movie I never saw.
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Reply #10 on: March 24, 2004, 03:09:25 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich
UBER-BUMPAGE! (Hey, it was either bumpage or new-threadage :p)

;) Just saw this movie - very cool. Reminded me of a cross between Minority Report, Matrix, and any Steven Segal movie.

Course I've never seen 1984; my dad said it reminded him of Soylent Green, yet another movie I never saw.


Do you know someone with acces to TCN? It goes after Cartoon Network on this part of the globe and they show all kinds of old, but good movies.
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Offline Sheepy

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Reply #11 on: March 24, 2004, 03:10:50 pm
Twas good indeed, but have to say I cant help but think "Metropolis with guns" anymore.
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Offline Liberator

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Reply #12 on: March 24, 2004, 03:18:04 pm
Okay, I will rent tonight then.  One question though, it is there any nudity or excessive foul language?
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Offline Tiara

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Reply #13 on: March 24, 2004, 03:28:01 pm
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Originally posted by Liberator
Okay, I will rent tonight then.  One question though, it is there any nudity or excessive foul language?

I believe there is "some" but certainly not excessive. Merely as much as needed and that wasn't much in this film. Another plus in my book.

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Reply #14 on: March 24, 2004, 03:44:14 pm
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Originally posted by Liberator
Okay, I will rent tonight then.  One question though, it is there any nudity or excessive foul language?


No nudity, foul language I don't recall any whatsoever. Lemme check.

Bah, there's no entry at kidsinmind.com. It has an R rating for violence. Nothing about anything else is mentioned.
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
  

Offline Liberator

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Reply #15 on: March 24, 2004, 03:48:55 pm
Cool
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

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Offline Dark_4ce

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Reply #16 on: March 24, 2004, 04:12:12 pm
It is an awesome movie! And you cant go wrong with a finale like that! :D
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Reply #17 on: March 24, 2004, 04:58:04 pm
*Agrees with Dark_4ce*
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Offline diamondgeezer

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Reply #18 on: March 24, 2004, 05:35:17 pm
I restate my vote of 133ness for this film

Happarently Christian Bale is teh new Batman as well :nod:

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Reply #19 on: March 24, 2004, 07:40:25 pm
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Course I've never seen 1984; my dad said it reminded him of Soylent Green, yet another movie I never saw.


Soylent Green and 1984 are two movies (and stories) that must be experienced by ANYONE who gives a damn about government, politics, corporations or society.
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