I have missed something

[Cruis.In]

maybe it is just me....but i have missed a big thing.

I dont see anything tangible in this movie that can be construed as a matrix rip off...

not one scene...not one line...not the story....not the style of action....how do people get it in there heads this is a matrix rip off/ or compare it to Matrix? the only thing they can be compared in is because they are both scifi genre movies...

Matrix is about AI taking over the world and enslaving the human body to provide power for them, and the program to keep them running. (basic)

we all know what EQ is about.....the only thing similiar about the two movies is that they are both far fetched ideas of our future...extremely far fetched...

oh and that each has a Hero.

but what is really so ripped? maybe its because both protagonists in each film wear black? no really.

anyway i just dont see it...when i saw matrix in 1999 on video....i liked it but didn't really feel about it how much I like EQ...nor reloaded. Even though I enjoyed the agent fight scene the most.

[Imylover]

I agree! I don't really like it when people compare Matrix & EQ because they are a lot more different than simular. It's really just the genre that makes them "look" like each other.

What the critics mostly have thought was a rip off was the Gun Kata! At least, that's the impression i've got from reviews. For some stupid reason they think it's the same thing as the hand-to-hand martial arts going on in Matrix. When Gun Kata is an entirely new inviented fighting style by Mr Wimmer & has no hand-to-hand combat at all & only uses weapons.
To me, the fighting styles in each film are very different!

Then there might be the comparision of dark futures & makind living in slavery. The slavery part I agree with but that is all. They are slaves in very different ways & the futures are just as different. In EQ it's still human controlled! No such thing in Matrix.

Not even the clothes I wish to compare. More or less just as cool & beautiful, what they wear have no reasemblence either. Neo & his gang were clothes that make them look cool. The Clerics were uniforms in their line of duty that are practical & just happens to look cool but that is hardly the intnetion in their unfeeling society.

The Matrix is still the most modern movie that comes at hand when you wish to comapre EQ with something. But it's still a poor example to compare with. Sure, both are about saving the world & human kind but going into details there's not much left. EQ is NO rip off! the ones who claim that haven't paid much attention.

[StarDancer]

The DVD box says "Forget the Matrix, this movie will blow you away." There's who got that started.

[ManaBurrn]

The Matrix guys are just pissed because Christian Bale doesn't need cables and bullet time to look cool.

[Imylover]

ManaBurrn said:

The Matrix guys are just pissed because Christian Bale doesn't need cables and bullet time to look cool.

AMEN!

Just one gaze with those serious eyes of his & Chris is as cool as any man can be! And EQ is not the only film he gives us those looks!

[Me]

The fashion is very similar.

They both have action scenes that takes place in a lobby.

Hmm.. that is all I can think of.

[ManaBurrn]

LOL ;D

[JD]

I agree how the hell can people get the greatest film ever made (EQUILIBRIUM) mixed up with the matrix?