Based on this thread, I put "Equilibrium" on my Netflix queue and just finished watching it. I'm not as enamored of it as many of you are, but I did enjoy it a lot. I, too, thought it was head and shoulders above all the Matrixes (Matrices?). The gun play scenes were phenomenal. I love that stuff.
It carried more weight for me, cerebrally speaking, than Matrix. You can't stuff emotions without paying a heavy price, and you can't live without feeling them. I saw this movie as the end result of over-use of psychotropic medication, Prozac nation personified. But mother nature, with all her magnificent irregularities, will prevail.
I'm a big Christian Bale fan. I watched "Empire of the Sun" again not long ago and was blown away, yet again. I think it's Speilberg's best movie, along with "ET," IMHO.
I just took a look at "Batman Begins" on IMDB....Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldham and Rutger Hauer...OMG what a cast! Can't wait to see it. It will be very interesting to see what Christopher Nolan does with it. "Memento" is on my ever-expanding list of top 10 films, and I really enjoyed "Insomnia," too.
Reading is freedom.
The mind soars, no earthly cares,
no limitations.
A Maggers Haiku, 2005
Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant."
Well, for years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.
You may quote me.
Elwood P. Dowd