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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
It's perfectly logical. Rich people are mean. They got rich by being mean. They just want to deny the poor.
</liberal logic>
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.
I have heard that this so-called corporation in the film could not care less about maximizing profits and shareholder value. Sounds more like a government agency.
I wasn't a great fan, but that movie certainly wasn't simplistically propagandistic.
I figured that Blomkamp, a White South African, would probably have a more complicated, nuanced take on politics.
I saw it last Saturday. I walked out thinking, “That should have been called ‘Idiocracy: The Prequel.’”
The one-percenters leave the entire planet to billions of people—”Here! You can have it! We’re leaving! We’re just taking our stuff with us!”—and they can’t figure out what to do with it.
No, the rest of humanity can’t figure it out for themselves, so they have to go on slim-to-no-chance rocket rides to break into the Haves’ tiny ring-world to cure them of whatever ails them.
I loved Matt and his boss at the factory:
Boss: “Aaay! I can’t let ya woik widda busted arm like dat! Off da line!”
Matt: “Aw, c’mon, mang! I gots a cast! I can work! Nooo problem!”
Later...
Matt: “Aw, boss! Da door won’t close, mang! Tryin’ ta reset it!”
Boss: “We’re behind schedule! Get in dere and figzit or I’ll find someones WHO WILL!”
Classic. One minute, the boss is looking out for Matt’s welfare, but Matt says he’s tough. The next, boss is practically ordering him to his death (busted arm and all) and Matt just shrugs his shoulders and goes to his doom.
And really? No other place on earth has those magic gizmos standing by in case one of the elite who are slummin’ it on Earth gets an owie and 19 minutes is too long a ride? Right.
Idiocracy: The Prequel!
August 18 weekend update from Box Office Mojo: “Elysium [which cost $115 million to make] narrowly took third place ahead of Planes and Kick-Ass 2. The Matt Damon sci-fi flick fell 54 percent to $13.7 million, and through 10 days has earned $56 million. It currently trails District 9 by around $17 million, and officially has no chance of reaching $100 million.”