Posted on 08/03/2013 9:05:47 AM PDT by rhema
The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy shouldn't be surprised that director Neil Blokamp's "latest politically tinged sci-fi feature" falls apart during the third act. So did Blokamp's first politically tinged sci-fi feature, the overrated but promising "District 9." According to McCarthy's astute review, though, "Elysium" goes a step further into the arena of wild left-wing, Hollywood hypocrisy.
Here is how McCarthy describes the world and plot of what is likely another box-office bomb from star Matt Damon:
Blomkamp sets the dystopian juices flowing with images of future sprawling slums and urban ruin that one might initially take to be Mexico City or Sao Paulo but that are soon identified as belonging to Los Angeles in 2154. Most of the beleaguered inhabitants seem to speak Spanish and do menial labor if they do anything at all, while good health care is very difficult to come by.
By contrast, hovering far above Earth and appearing like a five-spoked wheel in the sky is Elysium, an enormous space station where the rich live in a stress-free country club environment enhanced by marvelous technology that can cure any ailment, meaning that life can theoretically go on indefinitely.
Dude, if McCarthy's description is accurate (I haven't seen the movie) that is not Los Angeles in the year 2154, that is Los Angeles today. The only difference is that the "five-spoked wheel in the sky" called Elysium is really -- wait for it -- the Hollywood Hills.
While I have no doubt Blokamp and Damon snickered wildly as they went over the script (probably in the thousand-dollar-a-night Caligula Suite at the W on Sunset Boulevard), what these two left-wing rocket scientists probably missed is that their lofty metaphor (likely aimed at America and Republicans), isn't really a metaphor.
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Pandorum took place on a ship called The Elysium.
I liked District 9.
Could you go a bit slower with the clicks there, it sounded like you said *three years*...
District 9 was cool
what was so overrated about it? It demonstrated a lot of how the government is evil, too...
I really like Sharlto Copley. He was great in the A Team movie as well.
yup... 
Matt Damon?
Hopefully, another summertime movie blockbusted.
I know I won’t be contributing...not even RedBox.
Film Actors Guild!
I agree with Copley, and sometimes he had to suppress his Akrikaner accent during some scenes of the A Team.
Some didn’t like District 9 because they say it showed anti immigrant sentiment in a bad light but I thought the show gave a very fair view of the problems created by dumping new aliens into a population.
Today's Hollywood is wildly left wing-(actors addressing serious subjects or telling us how we should guide our government on the principles expounded by Tom Cruise!)-therefore one should expect left wing drivel whenever a Sci-Fi movie is released.
No matter what you are, no matter who you are, no matter where you are, it just plain sucks to be a refugee.
The only thing that sucks worse is not getting refuge.
The good part is that it highlights just how bad their ability to central plan a utopia really is!
Thanks. However, I doubt I will see it.
I saw something weird the other day. Can’t remember the context, but Ben Affleck and his daughter were washing their classic car and he was wearing a Team Jesus tshirt.
Something happen to him?
Neill Blomkamp is a (White) South African who got much grief from the left for District 9.
Elysium sounds similar and will probably also face such criticism.
Whatever hidden criticism the author "finds" in the movie was almost certainly put there by Blomkamp.
I'd have to call whoever wrote this an idiot or a moron for missing that.
I wish there were harsher words.
Also, to say Matt Damon "stands" for anything is to give him way too much credit.
Matt Damon - another leftist on my list of no capitalist profit from this family.
I might, eventually, if it’s free, there’s nothing else on, and I’m bored.
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