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.
Exactly. YOU are talking fictional designs. **I** am talking actual, if rough, designs for actual stations / colonies. . .
You'd think that Jews would vote Republican, too. Sometimes the only answer is "liberalism is a mental disease".
Sometimes the only answer is “liberalism is a mental disease”.
Agreed. In my experience most liberals not only lack reasoning skills but have a complete lack of common sense, and they confuse their education for intelligence. And then so many liberals are so overwhelmed by hysteria that I really wonder whether they are emotionally disturbed or unbalanced if not outright suffering from some mental disease.
I saw it last Saturday. I walked out thinking, “That should have been called ‘Idiocracy: The Prequel.’”
The one-percenters leave the entire planet to billions of people—”Here! You can have it! We’re leaving! We’re just taking our stuff with us!”—and they can’t figure out what to do with it.
No, the rest of humanity can’t figure it out for themselves, so they have to go on slim-to-no-chance rocket rides to break into the Haves’ tiny ring-world to cure them of whatever ails them.
I loved Matt and his boss at the factory:
Boss: “Aaay! I can’t let ya woik widda busted arm like dat! Off da line!”
Matt: “Aw, c’mon, mang! I gots a cast! I can work! Nooo problem!”
Later...
Matt: “Aw, boss! Da door won’t close, mang! Tryin’ ta reset it!”
Boss: “We’re behind schedule! Get in dere and figzit or I’ll find someones WHO WILL!”
Classic. One minute, the boss is looking out for Matt’s welfare, but Matt says he’s tough. The next, boss is practically ordering him to his death (busted arm and all) and Matt just shrugs his shoulders and goes to his doom.
And really? No other place on earth has those magic gizmos standing by in case one of the elite who are slummin’ it on Earth gets an owie and 19 minutes is too long a ride? Right.
Idiocracy: The Prequel!
August 18 weekend update from Box Office Mojo: “Elysium [which cost $115 million to make] narrowly took third place ahead of Planes and Kick-Ass 2. The Matt Damon sci-fi flick fell 54 percent to $13.7 million, and through 10 days has earned $56 million. It currently trails District 9 by around $17 million, and officially has no chance of reaching $100 million.”
So, some rich people build themselves a nice place to live in space, keep the scumbags out, and, for some reason, the scumbags are supposed to be in the right for shooting their way in?
Yeah. Pay attention. There are lots of people who really think this way. Some of ‘em are making Federal policy.
“Pacific Rim” was awesome. Did you or your company have anything to do with it?
““Pacific Rim” was awesome. Did you or your company have anything to do with it?”
100% :) (to avoid the trolls, let’s leave it at that)
SyFy could probably save some money if they produce a show in South Korea, those crazy fools make 2 episodes a week working like dogs. They take their drama seriously.
It could be about a single US agent (Bruce Campbell?) and a team of South Korean agents (shouldn’t be too hard to find some who speak English,like Han Ye-Seul) trying to track down a cell of North Korean agents who had a radical American (possibly Chinese-American) Marxist working for them.
We’d need a K-pop cameo, of course, I’m thinking a naive member of a girl band was used as a patsy who would get blamed for “helping” terrorists. (Amber Lui of F(X) who is Chinese-American might be perfect for that)
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