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10/24/2011 4:49:18 PM EDT
I saw the movie when it first came out, own the dvd and am still watching it on TV right now.  My question is why didn't this awesome movie catch on and do better?
10/24/2011 4:54:35 PM EDT
[#1]
Good question.  Still in my top 10.
10/24/2011 4:55:52 PM EDT
[#2]
I love that movie, the gun kata is ahead of its time. The movie has a pretty good cult following.

I think it flopped because of limited marketing and Christian Bale wasn't a big name until Batman a few years later.
10/24/2011 4:56:10 PM EDT
[#3]
I love that movie.  The end scene is just incredible.
10/24/2011 4:56:22 PM EDT
[#4]
Didn't do good because it came out around the same time as the Matrix movies and the commercial for it when it was in theaters made it look like a Matrix rip-off.
I like it.
10/24/2011 4:57:08 PM EDT
[#5]
'cause it is a little retarded.
10/24/2011 5:00:13 PM EDT
[#6]
There's some SERIOUS conspiring and double crossing in that movie.
10/24/2011 5:00:44 PM EDT
[#7]
Quoted:
'cause it is a little retarded.


10/24/2011 5:00:59 PM EDT
[#8]



Quoted:


Didn't do good because it came out around the same time as the Matrix movies and the commercial for it when it was in theaters made it look like a Matrix rip-off.

I like it.


Are you thinking of this movie, or the 13th Floor?



 
10/24/2011 5:01:54 PM EDT
[#9]
horrible release conflict with The Matrix and too far out there for the regular action movie fan.

Kharn

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10/24/2011 5:02:35 PM EDT
[#10]
Awesome fucking movie.
10/24/2011 5:04:17 PM EDT
[#11]
Quoted:
There's some SERIOUS conspiring and double crossing in that movie.


oh yeah when I first saw it & realized what was going down I was oh snap!!  with all the action and all in it the story is actually really powerful and telling.  I love how the guards are like oh shit when they realize that he's a "sense offender"
10/24/2011 5:04:21 PM EDT
[#12]
meh
10/24/2011 5:04:29 PM EDT
[#13]
Quoted:
'cause it is a little retarded.


fify
10/24/2011 5:06:49 PM EDT
[#14]
Some dumb but fun to watch Gun Kata crap but the plot itself.............shades of V but using pretty much what a huge part of society already uses, IE, emotion numbing meds, to achieve it.
10/24/2011 5:10:37 PM EDT
[#15]
It is one of my favorite movies.
10/24/2011 5:15:23 PM EDT
[#16]
I thoroughly enjoyed it.  I'm glad there was atleast some attempt to explain the gun kata stuff, otherwise it would have just looked like over stylized crap to me.
10/24/2011 5:18:43 PM EDT
[#17]
What is this " Equilibrium " of which you speak?
10/24/2011 5:20:47 PM EDT
[#18]
Quoted:
What is this " Equilibrium " of which you speak?


Movie with Christian Bale in the lead role.
10/24/2011 5:21:46 PM EDT
[#19]



Quoted:



Quoted:

What is this " Equilibrium " of which you speak?





Movie with Christian Bale in the lead role.


He knows.  Look at his avatar.



 
10/24/2011 5:22:46 PM EDT
[#20]
Quoted:
What is this " Equilibrium " of which you speak?


Here

ETA: ok you got me mister sneaky. lol
10/24/2011 5:23:01 PM EDT
[#21]
Quoted:

Quoted:
Quoted:
What is this " Equilibrium " of which you speak?


Movie with Christian Bale in the lead role.

He knows.  Look at his avatar.
 


DOH!!!!!!!!
10/24/2011 5:23:13 PM EDT
[#22]
Quoted:
Quoted:
What is this " Equilibrium " of which you speak?


Movie with Christian Bale in the lead role.


Really? REALLY ????


Look at my avatar. I was kidding.


10/24/2011 5:25:56 PM EDT
[#23]
Quoted:

Quoted:
Didn't do good because it came out around the same time as the Matrix movies and the commercial for it when it was in theaters made it look like a Matrix rip-off.
I like it.

Are you thinking of this movie, or the 13th Floor?
 

The commercial for Equilibrium showed people dressed in all black doing all sorts of crazy shooting. People unfortunately dismissed it as a Matrix rip-off based on that.
10/24/2011 5:28:57 PM EDT
[#24]
Not. Without. Incident.
10/24/2011 5:32:22 PM EDT
[#25]




Dunno why they dubbed music over it.
10/24/2011 5:34:57 PM EDT
[#26]
as cool as the final fight scene is my favorites or still the early ones before he feels.  the opening scene with the pitch black room.... awesome!
10/24/2011 5:38:57 PM EDT
[#27]
Quoted:
as cool as the final fight scene is my favorites or still the early ones before he feels.  the opening scene with the pitch black room.... awesome!


Hell yeah, love that movie.

10/24/2011 5:44:47 PM EDT
[#28]




Quoted:

Awesome fucking movie.




10/24/2011 5:46:14 PM EDT
[#29]
It looked and felt like a movie made specifically for the Walmart $5 bin.



I enjoyed it, but it's kind of cheezy IMHO.
10/24/2011 6:03:32 PM EDT
[#30]
Quoted:
as cool as the final fight scene is my favorites or still the early ones before he feels.  the opening scene with the pitch black room.... awesome!


Disagree. The time he takes out the guards because they are about to find his dog is the best.

"Ah shit! Shoot him, shoot him, shoot him!"
10/24/2011 6:06:19 PM EDT
[#31]
Quoted:
Quoted:
as cool as the final fight scene is my favorites or still the early ones before he feels.  the opening scene with the pitch black room.... awesome!


Disagree. The time he takes out the guards because they are about to find his dog is the best.

"Ah shit! Shoot him, shoot him, shoot him!"




10/24/2011 7:32:34 PM EDT
[#32]
Quoted:
as cool as the final fight scene is my favorites or still the early ones before he feels.  the opening scene with the pitch black room.... awesome!


Yea that was my favorite as well from it.

Also man someone destroyed that ending fight with the dubbed music.
10/24/2011 7:34:26 PM EDT
[#33]

Quoted:



Quoted:




Quoted:

Didn't
do good because it came out around the same time as the Matrix movies
and the commercial for it when it was in theaters made it look like a
Matrix rip-off.

I like it.


Are you thinking of this movie, or the 13th Floor?

 


The
commercial for Equilibrium showed people dressed in all black doing all
sorts of crazy shooting. People unfortunately dismissed it as a Matrix
rip-off based on that.

well it did come out 3 years after the matrix

I like it too but it is medium budget straight to DVD quality
as for computer generated world movies



it is interesting that



matrix , 13th floor and eXistenZ all released within a couple months of each other in 1999
 
10/24/2011 7:35:39 PM EDT
[#34]
Our local Fred Meyer has in it in the bulk Blu-Ray bin for $7.
10/24/2011 9:01:47 PM EDT
[#35]
one of my favorites!!