Elysium trailer
 

Neill (District 9) Blomkamp


Im in!



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Looks good

hi

Has potential.

Ill catch it.

Hope it's better than District 9. I never did understand all the hype surrounding that movie. I mean, it was decent, but people raved about it like it was Blade Runner. Not even close.

I loved it. We dont get much "heady" sci-fi anymore from hollywood. Most of it is junk like Transformers or Battleship.

Blomkamp reminds me of a young James Cameron, with maybe a little more social commentary mixed in.

I've been looking forward to this since it was announced.

Looks pretty good.

I always thought that Matt Damon was like a Streisand, but I think he's rockin' the shit in this

My first minor complaint with the movie -

How can you have people scavenging for food and water on an overpopulated world and have Damon looking like Baby Love Chunks?

I agree. I was disappointed.

I want to know how his hands are able to rip everything apart without destroying his fingers. Sure the exoskeleton makes him strong but it isn't attached to his fingers.:evil:

Yeah, he does sort of have that Private Pyle from Full Metal Jacket thing going on. :D

considering it was a sci fi film that was only made on a 30 million dollar budget I'd say it was more than just decent. I thought it was one of the best films of 2009.

And I can't wait for Elysium.

the funny part is his character is actually dieing/deteriorating from radiation and you can still think that he looks like Baby Love Chunks

Year 2154 and he rolls with AK47. Nice.

I'll see this....I liked how different District 9 was.

Always been a fan of Damon

new extended 3 minute trailer. ****in A badass!



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im in~

I'm sold that this will be the best film of the summer

Definitely looking forward to this!

I thought District 9 blew, one of the most overhyped movie let-downs I can remember, but I'm a big Damon fan, so I'm in.

I'm with you. I saw D9 on HBO or whatever and found it boring and way overhyped. I like Damon but this is a cable viewing for me.

The story is overplayed (dystopic future where it's wealthy versus poor). His last film was some kind of take on Aparthied as well.

Meh.

I thought District 9 was amazing (especially considering the film was made on a 30 million dollar budget). Elysium has like a 100 million dollar budget. Just imagine what Neil can do with that amount of money.

I just hope Elysium isnt too preachy which was only the minor problem I had with District 9

Psh, eat a sandwich, haters.

District 9 was the Peas and Carrots, Cat's Pajamas, Bee's Knees and Elephant's Instep compressed in one Sharlto Copley approved can of cat food.

I'm a Damon fan and District 9 I thought was decent. I'll likely see this in theaters

That's my obstacle to it: Occupy in Space.

Looks incredible! can't wait. And personally I thought district 9 was awesome. I think I even saw d9 multiple times when it was in theaters

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holy crap

This

Wow. I will be seeing this now.

In other news. I'd still hit Jodie Foster. She's old as hell, but still want.

OK. Now I'm interested

I'm interested in" "whoever has this can override their whole system" statement. If anyone can wear that enhancement gear then why don't they send large group to Elysium with the same tech?

Because they were only able to make one and if they had the tech to make them all there would be no purpose for making the movie.;)

The only other explanation is that the enhancement gear operation is very brutal ,and thus lethal which is the reason why there isn't any volunteers because everyone has died during the procedure.

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Reading reviews, it sounds like a dud, which is unfortunately what I expected after the overrated District 9.

This.

Plus, it sounds like it's little more than bullshit liberal pro-illegal-immigration propaganda rapped in a CGI shell.

Will not watch.

It's actually pretty good Sharlto Copley plays his role excellently.

Blomkamp wrote it (he's South African as I recall) so I think it's less about immigration than about the Rich versus the poor. I don't have a problem with that. What i have a problem with is not doing it well. Apparently he just beats you over the head with it for 2 hours.

Well, not me personally.

You didn't go to the special Chicago screening? I heard it only hurts the first time he hits you with the film canister.

I'll go and see this, then listen to the Eagles' Long Road out of Eden. That should put me in the right mindset to give all my possessions to the nearest Indian and then use a hemp rope to hang myself from an endangered species tree. :D

I liked it. There's a lot of gore, cool weapons, interesting fight scenes and leave it to a bunch of Mexicans to try and illegally immigrate to a space station. o:-)

It's far from perfect but it's fun.

Pretty much.

I found a lot of similarities of the Matrix to it. My mind is still getting blown, though I've been out of the theater for 20 minutes or so.

My biggest complaints:

It was decent action, but the anchor around it's neck for me was the heavy handed leftwing political theme. It wasn't smart or interesting. It was what you'd expect from a movie if loneiguana wrote it. It could have been so much better.

Ewww.

Maaatt Daaaamon!

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Couldn't you argue that the movie represented the outcome of an out of control, tyrannical government which had no checks or balances?

Yes. It had the kind of out of control, tyrannical government that a leftwinger might imagine you'd get (incorrectly, of course) if there were no checks or balances to keep Republicans from having their evil way. At least that's how I saw it.

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Not sure if it's been discussed, but to me, it's basically an answer to the Atlas Shrugged mentality. If the rich try to leave us behind, we will eventually **** them up.

4/10.

Movie just kept making up shit as it went along. Sucked.

I expected better since I liked District 9. Not enough depth and Damon wasn't much of a badass. 5/10

Rented it on comcast on demand. Sucked. Could have been much more.

I love me some Sci-fi, so I enjoyed it.

It wasn't anything groundbreaking or blow your mind, but it wasn't a waste of my time either.

Very disappointing.

3/10

The last 1/3 or so of this movie was just complete ass. Surprisingly bad...

When the guy got his face reconstructed and pretty much came back to life, that was the last straw for me. I was pretty much done with it at that point.

That was so dumb

there could have been a good movie somewhere..witers totally screwed up a potential good movie

This movie got a 69% overall score on RT...Did i miss something? I'd say 50% at best

This movie pretty much was a waste of my money....

I enjoyed it for what it was.

This for me. Got it at the Redbox, nothing groundbreaking, but an enjoyable enough waste of time on a lazy Christmas morning.

Well damn. I was looking forward to watching this, but after reading this thread it sounds like it might just disappoint me.

62% audience score. That speaks volumes. Those are people that actively seeking out the movie. Not just a critic that has to watch it. That is how Tyler Perry's movies do so well. His xmas movie is getting 75% audience rating now.

On rotten tomatoes, a movie is truely bad when it gets less than 75% audience rating. I have loved movies that have horrible scores on RT.

Yeah, i have never really paid attention to the viewer ratings and I noticed a good chunk of movies with middle type ratings usually have a score higher or much higher. I need to view that more often.

I saw Thor Dark World for Ex have a 62% but audience gave it a 83% which i more so agreed with

I just watched it. I thought it was very good. Yea, i get that some didnt like the heavy handed message but to me thats what makes good sci-fi. Taking a modern day political message and build a sci-fi theme around it. Pretty cool to me.

Only thing i didnt like was Shartlo Copleys unintelligible accent. He definately played his creepy part well though.

Ill take thinking mans action movies anyday over Transformers crap.

The rich will always need the poor or middle class. They do they jobs the rich dont want to do.

I always thought Atlas Shrugged was more that the poor and middle class need the rich to provide them jobs?

I saw the film and was disappointed.

I expected to see a sci-fi action film with a large amount of left wing social commentary. I was okay with that. It's fine to express your beliefs through film. I mean forrest gump is full of it, but many people don't NOTICE the commentary because the film is good. I still like forrest gump, even though the message it's giving is total horse shit (believe in god, do what you're told, everything will work out for you...even though you're a moron...rebel and you will get AIDS and die.)

This film is not good. It's not terrible either, but that's largely due to budget and SFX. It was not visually disappointing. As a story, I'd say it crosses the thin line between social commentary and flat out propaganda. It's so busy hammering it's commentary down that the characters are left bare and the story full of holes.

There was a lot left on the table here IMO. The setting had great potential, but I wasn't impressed. Some people may enjoy it, but I was pretty 'meh'. I think the best it offered was visuals, and those were very good.

Good assessment.

I know I saw this when it came out, but I honestly can't remember much about it. It was pretty much a forgettable movie. Sad, because I expected a lot out of this one.

I just thought I'd ask about the political comments here though. Specifically (since I don't remember the movie much), which scenes make you believe the upper class were right wing? I don't want to piss anyone off or get this moved to DC, so I won't respond to comments. I'm just curious as to whether my views are based more on when I was raised or how (direct influence of family or indirect influence of event and times). As a kid Russia was usually the enemy in the movies I watched.

I'm just asking because when I see movies like this I usually see the bad government as a cross between Russia/China/North Korea. All extreme left wing styles of government with an absurd split between the upper and lower classes in terms of wealth.

I thought the plot was pretty much rich vs poor. Same as it has been forever, like Robin Hood. Not really right vs left. And just like the Hunger Games, they present this world in the most reeruned way possible.

I found it more to be an allegory for immigration reform.

Space station = America

Earth = Mexico

It was NOT subtle. The evil kill bots were called 'homeland security' or something like that. I felt this was the political message being hammered home more than a 1% type of thing. It just felt more like a PSA to me than a sci fi flick...and that's pretty bad because sci fi flicks are almost always robust with social and political commentary.