WHAT a surprise!
Posted on 08/08/2013 1:39:31 PM PDT by EveningStar
The new movie Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, is more loaded with liberal politics than an Organizing For America fundraising pitch. It’s more loaded with liberalism than an Ivy League gender studies department. More loaded, even, than an MSNBC roundtable discussion.
Still, it’s a pretty cool movie, featuring an intelligent, if scary, take on the future. And so it merits our attention, because even if one doesn’t agree with its liberal slant, one must realize that liberals have half, at least, of the marbles in American politics--that is, the White House, the Senate, and, of course, the media, of which Elysium is a part.
So if liberals are making noise about something, then conservatives have to think about it, too--if only to react and to combat.
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WHAT a surprise!
lol! Hey you might be onto something there. As we have seen with John Wilkes Booth, Democrat actors have an issue with Republican Presidents.
They can fantasize all they want. As long as there is a second amendment, they are just pi$$ing into the wind.
Well....we shall see how Mr. Damon & company do with this flick!!! Fact is: It’s the Obamabots that are the rich & elite who are destroying our country!!! Me......not a cent for these low life hypocrites!!!!
I can enjoy a liberal movie if it’s good, China Syndrome is a favorite and total propaganda.
I see from the review they pegged Asians as evil too. Now Asians in America to my knowledge don’t have any great racist history, so I guess Asians are evil for being smart and successful.
And the Hispanics down on earth - they have a whole world of Hispanics and they can’t do anything unless they take over the rich people in a space station?
Isn’t this movie preaching that hispanics are inferior?
Oh, and the poor world is all hispanics and they need white Matt Damon to save them? Isn’t that totally racist?
Liberals make a lot of movies like this, but don’t understand that they are making movies about themselves. As San Fransisco became an enclave of white liberals, blacks had to move over to Oakland.
LOL! That is the greatest ever made.
So basically the movie is about the rich liberals living in Hollywood and their poor servants and gardeners living in South Central Los Angeles, only Hollywood liberals do not understand that they are describing themselves.
The movie misses the basic point that if a bunch of rich people left Earth for a space station, they would leave all the resources behind. The people on the station would quickly become poor, and some other people on Earth would become rich.
“...liberals have half, at least, of the marbles...”
One could say they’ve lost some of their own marbles.
Because we don't actually have substantial space colonies today ...
Or at least sooner than 2154?
Do people really pay attention to the dates in science fiction?
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The movie got mixed reviews -- some pretty good, some bad, most somewhere in-between. The consensus seems to be that Blomkamp didn't live up to his potential, that didn't do as well with Elysium as he did with District 9. There were plot holes, and even some liberal reviewers and bloggers objected to the simplistic politics.
But the idea of the rich space colonies and the poor home planet (or vice versa) is an established SF trope -- up there with the dying earth and the necessary escape to other planets. It's one of the things that filmmakers come back to over and over again
I can’t understand how a South African could make this movie:
Does he think what SA has become is somehow BETTER than what it was before..?
Other than SA’s corrupt leaders, almost no one there would say that, certainly not anyone old enough to personally remember the old SA.
How can someone LIVE through the whole enCrapification process, but then ask that the process be REPLICATED elsewhere..?
Oh, Soylent Green did this years ago and I’m sure with more intelligence.
White Hispanics or plain jane brown ones?/s
Not for me.
Liberals are too stupid to know where technology comes from. These idiots literally think that it grows on trees and is supplied “by Obama”. So it is impossible for them to understand the implications of uneducated and illiterate illegals taking the jobs, healthcare, housing, and basic necessities away from bright kids attempting to pay for their future in technical education.
You make a valid point, except that liberals don’t understand the basics of what makes people wealthy. They think it’s just a form of oppression.
On a related note of hypocrisy, a friend has relatives in Hollywood who are friends with stars including Steven Spielberg. They are so privileged and used to worship that even if you are their “friend” and stop over to pick your kid up or whatever, they may not even look up or answer when you speak to them. You’re just not there.
Also he claims they despise self made men, and they love old money, that they only respect those who came from money and that many of the successful stars are the kids of rich parents.
Just sharing.
Elysium sounds to me like a leftist Utopia, with the rest of the world resembling what the left is creating. Keep voting for Democrats (socialists), and some form of Elysium will be the result.
It’s a rip off of a 60s Star Trek episode called: The Cloud Minders - Kirk and Spock are caught up in a revolution on a planet where intellectuals and artists live on a utopian city in the sky while the rest of the population toils in mines on the barren surface below.
What I mean is, if the space station is competely disconnected from the economy of the Earth, it will have the economy and resources of a small city. The Earth will still have all the resources of the Earth, plus the labor pool of a whole planet. And since wealth is created by filling others needs, it is easier to become wealthy on Earth than on Elisium, since Earth still would have a larger population.
If they are not completely disconnected from Earth, but depend on Earth for resources, then it would be vastly more expensive to send those resources up to Elisium than to use them on Earth. Earthlings and Earth companies still win. Elisium would have to trade a lot of intellectual capital to get raw materials sent to the station, which would benefit Earth.
And finally, the movie seems to claim that in 2134 that the Earth will be overpopulated, which is another old liberal meme which will not come true. We will be lucky if we have half the current population by then.
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It's not a new theme, Roddenberry did it in 1969.
“It’s a rip off of a 60s Star Trek episode called: The Cloud Minders - Kirk and Spock are caught up in a revolution on a planet where intellectuals and artists live on a utopian city in the sky while the rest of the population toils in mines on the barren surface below.”
I can’t believe how many movies today are simply re-treads of old ones; in some cases just slight changes to the title and throw it back out there...
I am convinced that damn near every sci-fi movie produced in the western world over the last 20 years is a rip-off of a 1970’s Doctor Who episode, but with big-name actors and a bigger SFX budget.
“but with big-name actors and a bigger SFX budget.”
Well put; I’m still waiting for the special effects to put these actors out of work; then they can go back to their lives as amoral junkies and prostitutes who take their clothes off for money.
I stopped watching anything with Damon in it, along with several others.
Unless Jodie Foster shoots down Damon and he dies a fiery death, I don’t want to see it.
Once the capabilities to build such a space structure are achieved, all the resources of the solar system are also available. The applied technical achievement of a human habitat implies learning to sustain oneself from resources gathered in place and not shipped from Earth. The pioneers that succeed will be makers not takers.
Stop right there. Don't waste money on this dystopia, it is a Komplete Kolossal Krap with a Kapital K.
I don't really give away any of the plot by saying that they start the movie with inequity/inequality, immediately swerving into illegal immigration and end the movie with everybody becoming legal and having Universal Healthcare.
There are no "good guys."
The music is typical "dramatic," loud and unmemorable.
The "kick-ass" action is bland, unexciting and missing the kick.
There is plenty of advanced killing technologies to have someone killed fast and efficiently. Sometimes they feel like using it, but then, when it's most useful... sometimes they don't.
The supposedly "emotional" moments are impersonal, leave you cold and are "mailed-in" without even pretense at real emotion. The movie is just boring and drones on and on - feels like there should be a fast-forward/skip button.
The movie relies on "star power" (Damon, Foster, Braga) and the "99% / Occupy" crowd to sell tickets. Due to the "action" and "social justice" theme, it also should do somewhat OK BO overseas, on which Hollywood is having to rely more and more.
There are also serious gaps in logic, and some are obviously unintended (as they blow up the theme) but the crew knows their audience will not ask simple questions like:
Why does 2154 Los Angeles look and feel like 2013 Detroit, only with about 90% Hispanics instead of 90% of blacks? And how and why did it become so, and who (if any) should take responsibility for this vision of the "melting pot"? {pun intended}
Why are people on Earth, those who are lucky to have a job, doing the jobs that the many advanced robots in the movie are more than capable of doing better and more efficiently, and presumably, cheaper - in fact, today's robots are already capable and are doing these jobs.
Why, after practically destroying and trashing the Elysium, is the super-advanced medical instruments and technology is still available and becoming immediately accessible to the population of Earth which is [apparently] is at least 99 times bigger than population of Elysium.
If you want a good dystopian movie, watch Director's cut of Blade Runner or original Total Recall (1990 edition, not horrible 2012 remake) - both based on Philip K. Dick's short stories - or buy/rent Atlas Shrugged I and II DVDs.
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