Posted on 08/10/2013 6:04:07 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
One smart-as-a-whip sci-fi thriller does not a summer make, but "Elysium" is good enough to suggest that the cyborgs of Hollywood have not, in fact, risen up and taken over. Starring Matt Damon in extra muscles and a shaven skull, it contains enough hardware for all the Home Depots of the future, and an atmosphere of grimy oppression one can almost taste....
The year is 2154. A dusty, rusted, wasted Earth has become the despoiled home of the have-nots; the haves are in residence aboard a wagon-wheel-shaped space station named for the Elysian Fields of the ancients Greeks, the inside of which looks like Beverly Hills with better gardening and where each home is equipped with a medical pod designed to cure everything from mosquito bites to leukemia. Max (Mr. Damon), an ex-youthful ex-offender trying to toe the dictatorial line at his robot-factory job, is exposed to lethal radiation, given some painkillers, and told to go home and die. He opts to join a plan to breach Elysium, and liberate health care for the masses below....
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
I do not care HOW well it is packaged, I will NOT support this crap.
I have seen the previews, though, and cannot help but think how the "rich" area in the film reminds one of Martha's Vineyard....you know, places frequented by il douche.
Elysium, the abode of the super rich, is a place where the occupants live in luxury. Some of them even buy $38,000 hand bags.....
Good one! Lol
The reviewer makes it sound like a movie that is boring and silly at the same time.
This movie is a ripoff of Star Trek’s “The Cloud Minders” episode. Hollywood has truly run out of new ideas. They need to keep recycling old plots, story lines and sometimes entire movies in the hope that the audience is to young or too stupid to remember the original.
Love Science Fiction but will pass on this one. Will wait for Riddick I guess.
In fact, this stuff is a science fiction staple.
;-)
Simpsons did it!
(obscure reference to the Simpsons show and plot lines)
Elysium stunk. Just like 0bamacare.
I haven’t seen the movie but I find it interesting that the “elite” live in this out of touch world and the commoners live in the waste land of former earth. So the people in charge, the “elites” either destroyed the world or were at least responsible for it getting that bad. After all their ideas failed they moved away from the common people whose lives and world they destroyed.
Sort of sounds like America today. The elites party on Martha’s Vineyard while the nation suffers. The elites change the way healthcare is delivered and exempt themselves from it. Millions on food stamps and crooks fill their pockets with tax dollars to failed companies. Our justice Department is encouraging racial crime at the same time trying to disarm us. The list goes on.
How could the entire crew working on this picture not see the irony of producing this picture?
You could almost see the construction sign outside the White House
“Future home of Elysium”,
Obama’s stimulus package #52,
Your tax dollars at work
We watched Pacific Rim last night.
No political agenda, just a giant monster vs. giant robot movie with undertones of duty, teamwork, and self-sacrifice.
We watched Pacific Rim last night.
No political agenda, just a giant monster vs. giant robot movie with undertones of duty, teamwork, and self-sacrifice.
My ability to accept Damon as an action hero was destroyed by his pantie wetting fear of Sarah Palin.
Sounds right.
Obamacare is explicitly set up as a caste system of health care ... Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Medicaid (expanded for the expanded lower caste).
If you are deemed below a certain income level (now much raised in the ‘expanded Medicaid’) you are not even allowed to purchase insurance on the so-called ‘exchanges’, even if you apply for subsidies. You MUST sign up for Medicaid ... or presumably go without insurance if you refuse.
The whole thing is a perfect metaphor for the Utopia envisioned by the elite leftists who of course will “meet the requirements” for the platinum and gold plans.
Oh, yeah. It was just a quick comment from one character. I don’t get all bent out of shape about that sort of thing. You’ll get worse in the first 5 minutes at any zoo in America.
We already have a defacto "Elysium" here on Earth. The elites (like Soros) still occupy the same planet but live behind walls, penthouses, islands, etc. They go between secure locations on helicopters, bulletproof tank vehicles and private airports/planes. Some even have private mini hospitals for only their immediate family. Their social circle is an echo chamber of near identical people from closed social clubs. They are insulated from average people like never before in history.
Yet another take on the corrupt ultra wealthy hiding in a "perfect" gated community, this time in another universe parallel to ours.
So far it is pretty good for something written 20 years ago.
From walled communities to hiding out of touch in a space station, looks like human nature hasn't changed much in 6000 years. Great wealth (power, fame) almost always tends to corrupt people.
have seen the previews, though, and cannot help but think how the “rich” area in the film reminds one of Martha’s Vineyard....you know, places frequented by il douche.
Elysium, the abode of the super rich, is a place where the occupants live in luxury. Some of them even buy $38,000 hand bags.....
Modesitt is at the top of my list as a SF writer. His Recluse opus is nonpareil! He is a prolific writer and belts out new material at a satisfying high rate.
Regards,
GtG
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