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my head is spinning....from the reviews. This movie starts with the premise of a future world in which 1% of the population has acquired all of the wealth and power and has isolated itself from the overpopulated and destroyed world. Since they have no use for the unsustainable population, they hold their survival and well being in low regard.

HG Wells TIME MACHINE and many other movies did it better, in that they follow through on the premise with a vision of where it leads. Instead this movie becomes a Hollyweird shoot-'em-up. It never does resolve the issue of what's going to happen to the other 99% when the elite are blown up.

Better choices...WE'RE THE MILLERS is totally not about politics or visions of the future. It's raunchy, crude, hilarious, and its plot is actually rational compared to ELYSIUM. Rent TIME MACHINE for a better vision of where the future is going. Or rent IDIOCRACY, a very funny sci-fi (documentary?) about a nation that's deteriorated so badly that someone such as Obama could become President (and it was filmed before Obama's time)

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If I understand, the movie message is that the OWS folks were given the entire world, and got their wish that the 1%ers all went away, which they did to some space station.

But then the OWS folks figure out that they are all idiots, and can’t run a city, much less a world, and they are all going to die because with nobody to actually work and run things everything is going to hell.

And also, while they “hate money”, it turns out money can buy cool things like a machine that cures cancer, and the OWS folks don’t know why they should not get the reward of success, even while decrying success.

So they decide to destroy the people with money, and thus the machines that cure cancer, and any hope of ever making anything better. Kind of like killing the goose that lays the golden egg.

Somehow, liberals think this is a great message — but liberals also thought the Batman movie was a great message, when it really just showed how unthinking liberals are only a “good leader” away from being Nazi death-camp workers.