Elysium
So last night I went to see Elysium before it left my area.
My expectations were VERY low because I had heard all the complaints about the heavy handed social message and the plot holes....
and consequently I really enjoyed the movie! LOL
The 'art' is gorgeous, I had no trouble accepting the sky satellite where the very rich live since the Earth has been hopelessly polluted. The message is obvious & heavy handed, but no more so than a lot (most?) of Rod Serling's writing... or Gene Roddenberry's! And I LOVED those guys! And in spite of a convoluted story that is full of plot holes, the director, Neill Blomkamp (who also wrote and directed the brilliant District 9) did a great job of keeping the audience on top of what was going on and why it was happening.
In fact this movie was far less disappointing in terms of ridiculous storytelling (in my opinion) than Iron Man 3, The Wolverine, and Pacific Rim (which are the only big Sci-fi films I've watched this Summer... I skipped Brad Pitt's World War Z which really sounded both boring and awful). I'm not claiming that Elysium is a great film, I'm just saying it is no worse than all the other lame sci-fi movies that we've been given this Summer. If that sounds like damning with faint praise? Then you don't know what a relief it is to escape this heat wave into a nice cool dark movie theater!
edited to add: Jody Foster is amazing in this! So funny.
But WTF is it w/the 'love interest' age discrepancy? When Max and Fray are children she looks a couple of years older than him, certainly not a day younger...
but as a adults she is 13 years younger but looks more like 20 years younger! Stupid casting (I have no quarrel with the performances, but it was lame to make that age difference so obviously off).
My expectations were VERY low because I had heard all the complaints about the heavy handed social message and the plot holes....
and consequently I really enjoyed the movie! LOL
The 'art' is gorgeous, I had no trouble accepting the sky satellite where the very rich live since the Earth has been hopelessly polluted. The message is obvious & heavy handed, but no more so than a lot (most?) of Rod Serling's writing... or Gene Roddenberry's! And I LOVED those guys! And in spite of a convoluted story that is full of plot holes, the director, Neill Blomkamp (who also wrote and directed the brilliant District 9) did a great job of keeping the audience on top of what was going on and why it was happening.
In fact this movie was far less disappointing in terms of ridiculous storytelling (in my opinion) than Iron Man 3, The Wolverine, and Pacific Rim (which are the only big Sci-fi films I've watched this Summer... I skipped Brad Pitt's World War Z which really sounded both boring and awful). I'm not claiming that Elysium is a great film, I'm just saying it is no worse than all the other lame sci-fi movies that we've been given this Summer. If that sounds like damning with faint praise? Then you don't know what a relief it is to escape this heat wave into a nice cool dark movie theater!
edited to add: Jody Foster is amazing in this! So funny.
But WTF is it w/the 'love interest' age discrepancy? When Max and Fray are children she looks a couple of years older than him, certainly not a day younger...
but as a adults she is 13 years younger but looks more like 20 years younger! Stupid casting (I have no quarrel with the performances, but it was lame to make that age difference so obviously off).