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Equilibrium

Posted by michael on from the balanced-review dept.

The_Hiro writes ""Farenheit 451 - meets - Brave New World - meets - Matrix" (minus the overdone wire work). Created on a limited budget, Equilibrium combines the best of sci-fi with the action genre. Unfortunately, the marketing droids at Dimension have neglected to promote the film (release date: Dec. 6th). Chud.com has a glowing review of the film and some pretty pictures. Check out the trailer also."

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  1. seems cool.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Obligatory Internet Movie Database and MovieTickets links (although showtimes, if any, will undoubtedly only be posted closer to next Friday). The movie poster looks cool.

    It seems cool, I'll try to see it if it ever plays anywhere in Colorado. From scanning the article, it seems cool, but the article has that fanboy edge to it that seems like it's going to give too much away if you actually *read* it.

  2. The Giver by Stinson · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not sure if anyone else noticed, but the premise of the beginning of this movie seems quite like in the book, "The Giver" by Louis Lowry. In the book, everyone has no real emotion, and has to conform into their spots in society, all emotions are kept by The Giver, i'm not going to go farther into the book, for fear of spoiling, but there definitly seems to be some similarities. Definitly a recomended book to check out

    1. Re:The Giver by Faizdog · · Score: 2, Informative

      The Giver went a lot deeper than that. Due to there being no emotion, people couldn't even see color. Everything was grey scale. Kinda like Pleasentville.

      That's just one example of how The Giver was different from F451 and Brave New World. It was a similar genre/type of book though.

      --
      -"Those who fought today will die tommorow."-
  3. Re:Trailer by The+Bungi · · Score: 1, Informative

    C'mon moderators on crack, this is funny. Did you watch the fscking trailer? Don't be so anal.

  4. Re:Oh, someone explain to me by Its,+not+It's+Guy · · Score: 1, Informative

    In the true spirit of /. pedantry, please note that "it's" is a contraction of "it is", whereas "its" indicates that "it" is in possession of something (in this case (potential) glory).

    Best Wishes,
    Its, not It's Guy

  5. HOW TO DOWNLOAD THE TRAILER LOCALLY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ignoring your question, here's how you can actually CAN download it:

    Clicky for ASFRecorder!.

    Point it at:

    http://mfile.akamai.com/7357/asf/hollywood.downl oa d.akamai.com/7287/windows/equilibrium_t_700.asx

    ...and you're set. As I pointed out in another thread (trying to get this to play under FreeBSD), you can also save using 'mplayer -dumpfile eq.asf -dumpstream [url]'

  6. Re:Oh, someone explain to me by Bishop · · Score: 5, Informative

    Annoying as hell isn't it. The following seems to work:

    mencoder -o equilib.avi -oac copy -ovc copy "mms://a1919.v7287f.c7287.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/ 1919/7287/v0001/hollywood.download.akamai.com/7287 /windows/equilibrium_t_300.asf"

  7. Re:Oh, someone explain to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The 700Kbps trailers don't seem to be available atm because their links are for "javascript:void(0)". However their 300Kbps trailer is available and works just fine for me with Konqueror and Real Player.

  8. Re:The other way around by Jonathan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, perhaps the best way to look at this was to see what the original source (Orwell's novels) actually contained. It is a cliche to say "Orwell wasn't talking about the Soviet Union; he was talking about where Western society was headed". But that just isn't supported by the books.

    In both 1984 and Animal Farm, all the main characters were exact analogies for Soviet figures. Big Brother and Napoleon were obviously Stalin, and Goldstein and Snowball were obviously Trotsky. The problems of Western society, as real as they are, just didn't enter into the equation.

  9. Re:Trailer by Fweeky · · Score: 5, Informative
    Can I have my "no 5 funny posts" filter

    Er, yes?

    Preferences -> Reason Modifier -> Funny

    Set to -2 or so, and Funny mods will never get above +3.
  10. Re:Trailer by The+Bungi · · Score: 2, Informative
    Dude, a word of advice - don't let this "moderation" thing get to your head. It's really not a position of power, nor is it the most important thing in the world. Take a deep breath, and most importantly, stick your mod points and stick them where the sun don't shine.

    People like you (moderators on crack) are one of the reasons why /. has been going down the drain lately.

    And I expect this to be modded to heck, but I hope you read it (since you're too goddamn chicken to post as yourself and burn some "precious karma") and try to understand what I'm saying.

    Trust me, the last thing I need to hear is why you people moderate as bad as you do. I'd rather you keep your opinions to yourselves and just get on with playing god from afar. It's so much cleaner and painless that way.

  11. Trailer Download: Working Link (for now anyways) by Kowh · · Score: 2, Informative

    Like the parent comment suggested, using asfrecorder does work, but the provided link to the trailer didn't.

    "mms://a1919.v7287f.c7287.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/ 1919/7287/v0001/hollywood.download.akamai.com/7287 /windows/equilibrium_t_700.asf" does work (for now anyways) and runs about 12.4 MB (be sure to delete the space after the /7/).

    Note that I obtained the URL by changing 300 to 700 in a link mentioned in another comment, and you can likely access whatever format you prefer by changing the URL accordingly.

  12. Re:Oh, someone explain to me by Jano-r · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is there a windoze util that will allow someone to d/l these damn asf mss streams and the annoying quicktime ones also?

    yes, StreamBox VCR