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.
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.
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.