New Matt Damon movie predicts future where the one per cent lives on luxury space colony

Daily Mail ^ | August 8, 2013 | David McCormack

[driftdiver]

And his political activism makes that reality more likely. The slum part not the space part.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“If Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Brentwood are the “luxury space station” and the typical Obamaville town in AmeriKKKa is Los Angeles, the movie has already come to pass.”

Excellent observation..

[DemforBush]

I was thinking the same thing: the plot sounds a lot like the old Star Trek episode “The Cloud Minders” (I think that was the title.

[Peet]

Funny thing is I’ve seen this movie described several times and it just hit me:

It sounds like a crappy re-write of Zardoz.

I’ll bet it bears as much resemblence to the “plageree” (to coin a word) as the remake of Vanishing Point did to the original; none.

[silverleaf]

what’s the zip code for Elysium? 90210?

[Excellence]

Where does Matt Damon live, in a house on a middle-class cul-de-sac?

[jersey117]

That would be him and his elitist peers. Go for it Matt.

[ctdonath2]

“So does this suggest that, whilst the 1% are capable of building a perfect world elsewhere, the 99% are so useless that the earth goes to rack and ruin when they are left in charge?”

Devastating. Worth repeating.

Alas, the left will just blather about the 1% retaining control of the means of production and actively keeping the 99% down.

[exPBRrat]

‘Elysium is Hollywood’...thanks for another opportunity to vote with my pocketbook.

[Stosh]

Anybody ask him if those folks up in space are sending their kids to public school?

[vg0va3]

Thanks. That was great.

[mykroar]

But, but, but : they say it's not political at all... Nothing to see here

[drpix]

Damon's mansion may be a 1 percenter's, in an elite 1 percenter luxury gated community, but...

... Matt, would-be hero of the downtrodden masses, does allow many "immigrant" invaders into his domain - provided they're well trained & subservient domestics and gardener!

[libertarian27]

Thanks for the link.
(Always good to have another - Is it a decent site?)

I watch here:
http://board.dailyflix.net/

and here:
http://www.primewire.ag/

[SC_Pete]

The 1% are the elite: including Hollywood, college professors, the professional political class, the Wall Street banksters, and the crony-capitalists manipulating the tax code to their advantage.

The race pimps and community organizers and the inhabitants of the urban plantations are useful idiots.

ALL career politicians aspire to be in the 1%—and that explains RINOS. Term limits and citizen representation is the antidote. 18th Century concepts of freedom and liberty are the bane of Marxists.

[MasterGunner01]

Oh, goody! Hollywood serves up a copy of the 1966 Star Trek episode “The Cloud Minders”. Star Trek did it better without the fancy CGI special effects. Matt Damon is no Capt. James t. Kirk.

[SampleMan]

Interesting premise that if the 1% take their ball and leave, the 99% will live in squalor. Reminds me of Detroit.

[Thorliveshere]

I liked Blomkamp’s “District 9,” which I’m sure had some political message in it. I think I might Elysium if I pretend the elites are Democrats.

[Bratch]

[commish]

While I have no doubt that “Elysium’ has a political message, if you think about almost all Sci-fi follows the same general path — the Evil Corporation, the evil government, the evil cyborgs that control all vs. the downtrodden masses.