Elysium trailer

[Deberg_1990]

Neill (District 9) Blomkamp


Im in!

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by jiveturkey

I liked it. There's a lot of gore, cool weapons, interesting fight scenes and leave it to a bunch of Mexicans to try and illegally immigrate to a space station.

It's far from perfect but it's fun.

Pretty much.

I found a lot of similarities of the Matrix to it. My mind is still getting blown, though I've been out of the theater for 20 minutes or so.

[Tribal Warfare]

Originally Posted by Rams Fan

Pretty much.

I found a lot of similarities of the Matrix to it. My mind is still getting blown, though I've been out of the theater for 20 minutes or so.

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The biggest plot hole was if Kruger can be resurrected while his head was blown off, why couldn't Matt Damon come back from the dead?

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by Tribal Warfare

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The biggest plot hole was if Kruger can be resurrected while his head was blown off, why couldn't Matt Damon come back from the dead?

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I don't 100% quite that either, but Blomkamp made a cop out. I think there was some process that would have kept Max alive, but would have taken a long time, which is what Foster's character opted against. The option she opted for, and what Spider did, is what killed him. Like I said, I don't understand it either, but it's Blomkamp's cop out.

[Rams Fan]

My biggest complaints:

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I thought some of the slow mo was not needed. Didn't like how they skipped from Max being knocked out cold to him being strapped to the table. Granted, I realize it isn't a huge deal, but even a 1 minute ****ing scene of him being taken there would have been appreciated. IMO, the movie could have been enhanced with more background of Elysium being created. Lastly, Max should have been weaker, even with the exoskeleton on. It didn't prevent him from a decline in his physical state. And it's ****ing bullshit that he was popping pills and still looked normal, even after the accident.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by frazod

This.

Plus, it sounds like it's little more than bullshit liberal pro-illegal-immigration propaganda rapped in a CGI shell.

Will not watch.

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Blomkamp wrote it (he's South African as I recall) so I think it's less about immigration than about the Rich versus the poor. I don't have a problem with that. What i have a problem with is not doing it well. Apparently he just beats you over the head with it for 2 hours.

It was decent action, but the anchor around it's neck for me was the heavy handed leftwing political theme. It wasn't smart or interesting. It was what you'd expect from a movie if loneiguana wrote it. It could have been so much better.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by patteeu

It was decent action, but the anchor around it's neck for me was the heavy handed leftwing political theme. It wasn't smart or interesting. It was what you'd expect from a movie if loneiguana wrote it. It could have been so much better.

Ewww.

[Pepe Silvia]

Maaatt Daaaamon!

[Chiefspants]

Originally Posted by patteeu

It was decent action, but the anchor around it's neck for me was the heavy handed leftwing political theme. It wasn't smart or interesting. It was what you'd expect from a movie if loneiguana wrote it. It could have been so much better.

Couldn't you argue that the movie represented the outcome of an out of control, tyrannical government which had no checks or balances?

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by Chiefspants

Couldn't you argue that the movie represented the outcome of an out of control, tyrannical government which had no checks or balances?

Yes. It had the kind of out of control, tyrannical government that a leftwinger might imagine you'd get (incorrectly, of course) if there were no checks or balances to keep Republicans from having their evil way. At least that's how I saw it.

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by PackerinMo

Maaatt Daaaamon!

[aturnis]

Not sure if it's been discussed, but to me, it's basically an answer to the Atlas Shrugged mentality. If the rich try to leave us behind, we will eventually **** them up.

[-King-]

4/10.

Movie just kept making up shit as it went along. Sucked.

[Sure-Oz]

I expected better since I liked District 9. Not enough depth and Damon wasn't much of a badass. 5/10

[Shogun]

Rented it on comcast on demand. Sucked. Could have been much more.

[Molitoth]

I love me some Sci-fi, so I enjoyed it.

It wasn't anything groundbreaking or blow your mind, but it wasn't a waste of my time either.