Posted on 08/12/2013 5:56:37 AM PDT by jdsteel
After reading some positive FR reviews I decided to give the movie a try. Yes, the movie is blatantly political. The plot revolves around a mishmash of liberal lunacy about healthcare and immigration. But the worst thing I can say is the movie stinks. Damon's acting is weak. The plot has huge holes in it. The characters are one dimensional. The big fight scene at the end looks like a bad imitation of a WWE fight. Worst of all, the futuristic scenario is not written in a way that has any logic of its own. Sure, I could believe that there is a machine that cures peoples illnesses and the rich folks all have one in their home but there was no good reason given why they didn't have any on earth. It's one thing to believe a factory computer is smart enough to figure out that Damon is stuck in a room that has deadly radiation but another thing to believe it is too dumb to do anything about it other than ring warning bells, or that Damon couldn't have just blocked the door open in the first place. It's one thing to believe that a central computer can control many aspects of Elysium but it is another to believe that the politicians there are stupid enough to have the computer be able to control who is in charge.
Other than True Grit and the Informant....I don’t think Damon can act. Those are the only two movies that I thought he did a good job, but if you ask me....he just plays Matt Damon the character....of each movie.
My 40 year old son went to see the movie. His review - save your $10.
Most of the Hollywood so called A-listers have no talent anyway. They have a luck with talented actors in supporting roles,good script writers and good story.
I saw The Conjuring this weekend. It wasn’t bad as far as horror movies go. It was filmed in the 1970’s and I kind of thought the camera’s they used seemed 1970ish, which added on to the creepiness.
It seemed sort of like an old fashioned movie because it had little or no swearing, nudity, or excessive violence that I can remember. On it, priests were good, and baby killing witches were bad.
Me and a friend would love to make a movie like this except the people on the station are all conservatives and the people down on earth are all liberals.
The planet would quickly go to hell while everything on the station would run like a well oiled machine.
The planet would quickly go to hell while everything on the station would run like a well oiled machine.
Until somebody mentions Abe Lincoln in the station break room.
Conjuring is really good and one of the top box officer earners based on expenses alone. Embarrassingly, the script was actually pitched to us here in L.A. but we passed. I think it was the third draft and we thought it needed more polish.
If Jodie Foster stated it’s political, why should I watch it? I’d rather watch Pacific Rim and don’t listen to the idiot critics, it’s an entertaining popcorn movie that doesn’t inject politics in it. Just robots fighting monsters.
I beklieve I read an article the other day that said people were not flocking to this movie.
The film takes place on both a ravaged Earth and a luxurious space habitat called Elysium. It explores political and sociological themes such as immigration, health care and class issues. When asked whether the film reveals how he sees Earth turning out in 140 years, director Blomkamp responded “No, no, no. This isn’t science fiction. This is today. This is now.”
I saw it just for the action and visuals. The plot is schlock, but whoever designed the visuals on the station was visionary. Wait for it to come out on the cable channels and watch it with the sound off.
As for other movies, I saw the second Percy Jackson film. Though it is about Greek mythology, it had a more believable plot than Elysium.
It's perfectly logical. Rich people are mean. They got rich by being mean. They just want to deny the poor.
</liberal logic>
Visionary ?? Pal, google “Gerald K. O’Neill” and “L-5”.
That’s a Stanford Torus-type space habitat, and the original design was late 1960s - early 1970s. . .
On the other hand, there's We're the Millers...it's raunchy, crude, oblivious to political and cultural correctness...and hilarious. It's plot actually makes more sense than what happened to the storyline in Eliseum.
I call it visionary because few movies up to now have shown it. I am more preferential to the orbital cylinders (called Sides or Plants)of the Gundam Series.
Those are also a design from the ‘70s. The remake of Lockout with Guy Pearce also had good space visuals of a potential near-future station.
The interesting part of the Elysium colony is the open side. Even if you spin the colony sufficiently to produce ground-level acceleration to simulate gravity, the size of the colony is not large enough to produce the proper breathable air density at ground level. They must leak tons of atmosphere every day.
There was a first?
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