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Yet another Elysium review: It IS political, and it stinks.
08/12/2013 | jdsteel

Posted on 08/12/2013 5:56:37 AM PDT by jdsteel

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Please don't waste your money like I did.
1 posted on 08/12/2013 5:56:37 AM PDT by jdsteel
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It's just a flick, and sounds like a stupid flick at that. Somewhere along the way Hollywood forgot they were supposed to entertain, now they lecture. Anything with Matt Damon is way - WAY! - down my list.
2 posted on 08/12/2013 6:05:06 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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Other than True Grit and the Informant....I don’t think Damon can act. Those are the only two movies that I thought he did a good job, but if you ask me....he just plays Matt Damon the character....of each movie.


3 posted on 08/12/2013 6:05:13 AM PDT by pepsionice
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My 40 year old son went to see the movie. His review - save your $10.


5 posted on 08/12/2013 6:11:31 AM PDT by rstrahan
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Most of the Hollywood so called A-listers have no talent anyway. They have a luck with talented actors in supporting roles,good script writers and good story.


6 posted on 08/12/2013 6:11:51 AM PDT by QQQQ
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I saw The Conjuring this weekend. It wasn’t bad as far as horror movies go. It was filmed in the 1970’s and I kind of thought the camera’s they used seemed 1970ish, which added on to the creepiness.

It seemed sort of like an old fashioned movie because it had little or no swearing, nudity, or excessive violence that I can remember. On it, priests were good, and baby killing witches were bad.


7 posted on 08/12/2013 6:12:33 AM PDT by MNDude (The system worked!)
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Me and a friend would love to make a movie like this except the people on the station are all conservatives and the people down on earth are all liberals.

The planet would quickly go to hell while everything on the station would run like a well oiled machine.


8 posted on 08/12/2013 6:14:31 AM PDT by TheRhinelander
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Maaaaaaaaatt Damon !!!
9 posted on 08/12/2013 6:23:39 AM PDT by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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Me and a friend would love to make a movie like this except the people on the station are all conservatives and the people down on earth are all liberals.

The planet would quickly go to hell while everything on the station would run like a well oiled machine.

Until somebody mentions Abe Lincoln in the station break room.

10 posted on 08/12/2013 6:25:34 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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Conjuring is really good and one of the top box officer earners based on expenses alone. Embarrassingly, the script was actually pitched to us here in L.A. but we passed. I think it was the third draft and we thought it needed more polish.


11 posted on 08/12/2013 6:41:03 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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If Jodie Foster stated it’s political, why should I watch it? I’d rather watch Pacific Rim and don’t listen to the idiot critics, it’s an entertaining popcorn movie that doesn’t inject politics in it. Just robots fighting monsters.


12 posted on 08/12/2013 6:43:55 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: rstrahan

I beklieve I read an article the other day that said people were not flocking to this movie.


13 posted on 08/12/2013 6:49:31 AM PDT by dforest (BR)
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The film takes place on both a ravaged Earth and a luxurious space habitat called Elysium. It explores political and sociological themes such as immigration, health care and class issues. When asked whether the film reveals how he sees Earth turning out in 140 years, director Blomkamp responded “No, no, no. This isn’t science fiction. This is today. This is now.”


14 posted on 08/12/2013 6:52:56 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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I saw it just for the action and visuals. The plot is schlock, but whoever designed the visuals on the station was visionary. Wait for it to come out on the cable channels and watch it with the sound off.

As for other movies, I saw the second Percy Jackson film. Though it is about Greek mythology, it had a more believable plot than Elysium.


15 posted on 08/12/2013 6:58:20 AM PDT by Seraphicaviary (St. Michael is gearing up. The angels are on the ready line.)
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Sure, I could believe that there is a machine that cures peoples illnesses and the rich folks all have one in their home but there was no good reason given why they didn't have any on earth.

It's perfectly logical. Rich people are mean. They got rich by being mean. They just want to deny the poor.

</liberal logic>

16 posted on 08/12/2013 7:10:14 AM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (No I'm just being a punk.)
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Visionary ?? Pal, google “Gerald K. O’Neill” and “L-5”.

That’s a Stanford Torus-type space habitat, and the original design was late 1960s - early 1970s. . .


17 posted on 08/12/2013 9:04:00 AM PDT by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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The premise of the movie was that the 1% of the population of a destroyed and overpopulated earth controls the other 99% and doesn't need all that many of them for survival. Then it becomes a Hollywood fiasco about blowing things up and having fights. There's no resolution to the premise...it just goes Hollyweird.

On the other hand, there's We're the Millers...it's raunchy, crude, oblivious to political and cultural correctness...and hilarious. It's plot actually makes more sense than what happened to the storyline in Eliseum.

18 posted on 08/12/2013 9:16:29 AM PDT by grania
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I call it visionary because few movies up to now have shown it. I am more preferential to the orbital cylinders (called Sides or Plants)of the Gundam Series.

Those are also a design from the ‘70s. The remake of Lockout with Guy Pearce also had good space visuals of a potential near-future station.

The interesting part of the Elysium colony is the open side. Even if you spin the colony sufficiently to produce ground-level acceleration to simulate gravity, the size of the colony is not large enough to produce the proper breathable air density at ground level. They must leak tons of atmosphere every day.


19 posted on 08/12/2013 9:55:36 AM PDT by Seraphicaviary (St. Michael is gearing up. The angels are on the ready line.)
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I saw the second Percy Jackson film.

There was a first?

20 posted on 08/12/2013 11:12:13 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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