Elysium

Was going to see this tonight.. but shakey cam? No thanks, I'll pass.

Sadly I think 3D is the only thing that prevents movies from shaky cam these days, and Elysium choose to forgo 3D.

bourne supremacy and ultimatum,which i really like both,have the same shaky shit.maybe it's a matt damon's demand ahah

I heard Jodie Foster is barely in this movie. True?

I agree completely, those robots were incredible and we didn't get to see near enough of them. I think all the best robot scenes were in the trailer, which made me think this was going to be a movie about a cybernetic enhanced guy fighting an army of robots. I thought the actors were good, Foster was good but had a funky accent, William Fichtner is a boss in every movie he is in.

Liked it a lot, I can see the point about the robots but overall the movie was solid with some decent action. While the setting of the semi near future felt very similar to the one he had for District 9, he builds a somewhat believable "world" with it. Sharlto Copley was fucking nuts...loved him.

It covers the gamut of political ideas from universal healthcare to corporate underpinnings of government to blackwater style contractors.

Aside from Jodie Foster the elite population weren't portrayed as the bad guys, in fact they barely gave any screen time for ordinary Elysium citizens. She was the focus and even though her accent was a little over the top she certainly can play the mean vindictive bitch characters.

Only thing I noticed was a muted musical score during dramatic scenes, definitely could have added to the mood there.

Malakriss_sl said:

Aside from Jodie Foster the elite population weren't portrayed as the bad guys, in fact they barely gave any screen time for ordinary Elysium citizens. She was the focus and even though her accent was a little over the top she certainly can play the mean vindictive bitch characters.

Only thing I noticed was a muted musical score during dramatic scenes, definitely could have added to the mood there.

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You're forgetting the head of the company that acts like a complete dick, even going so far as to ask one of his factory managers to "not breathe on him". He also gives two shits about Damon's character's incident at work.

Otherwise they don't portray them as bad guys per se, although at the very end you're left wondering how detached they can be with how easy it is to fix some of the pressing issues below.

Another theme is, "ROBOTS TOOK ERRR JOBS", and any form of dissent, defiance being considered unlawful. The only jobs in the movie are building the robots which are used as paramilitary/police against citizens, LOL IRONY!!!! Good movie, Kruger is my favorite villian/man with too much anti-social personality disorder I've seen since The Joker in DK. His character is completely accurate to how all the true crazies I've met bouncing act, vaguely calm, something causes them to become frustrated, they become so fucking pissed off there is no reasoning with them.

Merrith_sl said:

You're forgetting the head of the company that acts like a complete dick, even going so far as to ask one of his factory managers to "not breathe on him". He also gives two shits about Damon's character's incident at work.

Otherwise they don't portray them as bad guys per se, although at the very end you're left wondering how detached they can be with how easy it is to fix some of the pressing issues below.

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It happens now go look up Bangladeshi factory collapses and what not. The only reason the heads of the companies in reality claim to care is because there is public outrage, what would that outrage mean to people living literally not on Earth with an army of robot security programmed to do what they are told. Its not even detachment, I am sure they "get" why its a steaming shithole its just that they do not care because there is NO reason to care. You think the Kosh brothers wouldn't fit this bill perfectly? Hell you could have put them in the movie told them to act as themselves and they would have fit perfectly. And people worship those asshole because they are so great at whatever it is they do. This is why I liked this movie because while people go "ohhh i get it in the future they wont give a shit because of x and y" and the reality is no they do not give a flying fuck now. Yes it took it to an extreme in that an entire planet is reduced to being subservient but that was the point.

I really liked the movie and thought it had a lot of Cyberpunk/Shadowrun/Neuromancer aspects to it.

Similar pacing to District 9.

enjoyable movie, don't think there was anything particular that made it a must-see-in-theaters experience, definitely want to see more of Elysium itself. I think the ending could have been better, but overall the writing was very solid and there was "depth" to the characters who felt like believable people, not cardboard comic-book characters like many movies now. That said, the rich vs poor got hammered in a little too hard I think.

It was just ok. There was too much action and it detracted from the storytelling.