Reading reviews for movies like Equilibrium before watching them is a good way to be disappointed. I mean, in what way would you compare The Matrix to Equilibrium? Costumes? Everything else was different. The atmosphere was different. The fighting was wayyyyy different. Action in Equilibrium was visceral. In the Matrix the action was premature.
So then, what was the problem with Equilibrium? That it wasn't as much like the Matrix as you thought it would be? Well, sounds like you robbed yourself of a good experience through ignorant assumptions and the advice of idiots.
The Crow was excellent and fun. If someone says they didn't enjoy it, I have no choice but to laugh, because really, what does that person enjoy? That's like the person who can't enjoy vaginal sex anymore because anal has twisted his mind. I feel so bad for that person.
Donnie Darko was fun too. Lots of fun, and an interesting approach in the science fiction genre that was very different for a movie in 2001. It's a period piece that was very loyal to the 1980s. I don't know what someone would want from Donnie Darko that it didn't deliver. Maybe if no one else watched it, and you were the only person who knew about it, then you could enjoy it. Kind of like that girl in highschool who gave everyone blowjobs, and you knew she was cute, and if she sucked only you off, and no one else, you would have maybe asked her to go steady with you, but everyone had a go, and for that you scorned her. Worse than that, you didn't get a blowjob. In your mind, you were too good for her fellatio. Yet in reality, you robbed yourself of living.
