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    Elysium Review

    ELYSIUM (REVIEW)

    Anyone see it?

    Watched it last night. Was disappointed. I had really high hopes and expectations for this movie: written, directed, and co-produced by Neill Blomkamp, who put out a great sci fi movie in District 9. Top notch actors. Great story plot. Big budget...A formula for a great movie, maybe even Blade Runner great, but it was not to be. Had this movie been done right, it could have been in the all time classic Sc Fi category.

    The actors did their jobs commendably, the visuals are very good, but the story line falls very short and I was unable and unwilling to suspend my disbelief over constant stuff that made no sense, or were just convenient to keep the movie moving at the pace the Director wanted. And they attach the cool exoskeleton to him for no other reason than they have an extra one lying around (what?), and he doesn't even utilize it all that much. It tries far too hard to send a social message about the haves and haves nots, but beats you over the head with it. The ending also makes no real sense, but I wont say why as to not spoil that.

    It's not a bad movie by any means. I'd give it a solid B, maybe even B+, but it had so much potential that anything short of great (A+) fell short for me. If you do want to see a really good movie by this director/writer, see District 9. It's a cult classic at this point and rightly so and a better movie (done on a far smaller budget) than Elysium.

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    same here: disappointed. Very much so.

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    I saw it in theaters with a friend and agree that it kind of fell short. Had a lot more potential that it delivered and being beaten over the head with the whole message did get preachy to me after a while.
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    Pure eye candy. Saw it in the theater and I enjoyed it. I'm a sucker for the dystopian sci-fi genre. I like how they show the Earth being over crowded, Kalifornia as Mexcio North. As with Avatar I found myself rooting for the "bad guys" in this one. Loved Sharlto Copley's character, Kruger he got ripped for that role. Couldn't believe what a hard ass bad guy he can play as we usually see him play nerdy good guy types (A-Team, District 9). Nice touch with the South African mercs, cool toys.

    They attempted to explore "Class Warfare" a bit, per Hollywood SOP they go full retard with the progressive bovine feces.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moose-Knuckle View Post
    Pure eye candy. Saw it in the theater and I enjoyed it. I'm a sucker for the dystopian sci-fi genre. I like how they show the Earth being over crowded, Kalifornia as Mexcio North. As with Avatar I found myself rooting for the "bad guys" in this one. Loved Sharlto Copley's character, Kruger he got ripped for that role. Couldn't believe what a hard ass bad guy he can play as we usually see him play nerdy good guy types (A-Team, District 9). Nice touch with the South African mercs, cool toys.

    They attempted to explore "Class Warfare" a bit, per Hollywood SOP they go full retard with the progressive bovine feces.
    Agreed with bold, but this movie could have been and should have been far more then that.
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    Matt Damon has gone out of his way to make his views known. Not surprised this movie was about a liberal view of things.

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    Hope I am not the only one but the underlying political message that slapped me in the face was Elysium is the United States and earth is Mexico/Latin America and we need to take down the boarders and let everyone into America.
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    Quote Originally Posted by murphman View Post
    Hope I am not the only one but the underlying political message that slapped me in the face was Elysium is the United States and earth is Mexico/Latin America and we need to take down the boarders and let everyone into America.
    It's the classic globalist one world utopia wet dream.
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    Seemed like a metaphor for the current universal healthcare issue.
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    Aside for the "evil" black ops team leader being funny as hell I give Damon a C- for his overall performance.

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