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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > Elysium (2013) - Fight The 1%!
 
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James Hardon
May 31, 2006
 It sucked.

* # ¿ May 10, 2014 23:06
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James Hardon
May 31, 2006
 I can't decide if Ghostbusters, Pacific Rim or Elysium is my favorite movie but I love endlessly talking about each of them with equal enthusiasm.

* # ¿ May 11, 2014 00:57
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James Hardon
May 31, 2006

SALT CURES HAM posted:

Eh. It really kind of comes with the territory, given that the movie is basically about a violent Marxist revolution portrayed sympathetically and was released primarily in a country that largely has no clue what Marxism even is other than "BAD THING." When you don't have the proper frame of reference to interpret a movie, you end up with some weird poo poo sometimes.

e: And yeah, if you thought Elysium was Blomkamp's "whoops, just kidding" moment, I kinda wonder if we watched the same movie. It's not as deep as District 9, and it's very very unsubtle about its politics, but it's really a drat fun movie; just looking at it purely as an action movie rather than a political tract, I'd only put it a hair behind Dredd.

The "cures" meme.

* # ¿ May 11, 2014 22:28
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James Hardon
May 31, 2006

RandomCheese posted:

I liked the film enough but really he would have ended up as fleshy pulp limply hanging from a ghetto exoskeleton after the first robot throwdown. Gluing a watermelon to the front fender of a military vehicle does not result in a suddenly invunerable piece of fruit.

Same RandomCheese.

* # ¿ May 12, 2014 17:12
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James Hardon
May 31, 2006
 You are all incredibly retarded.

* # ¿ May 12, 2014 23:34
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James Hardon
May 31, 2006

SALT CURES HAM posted:

Those places don't suddenly vanish into thin air, and a lot of the new citizens are the people who were building the space station parts (and drone parts and etc) in the first place.

Really, you could come up with a decent argument for either side, the film doesn't give us enough info for a conclusive answer; we're never shown how Elysium was built or what kind of tech it uses, we just get dropped in x years later.

The "cures" meme.

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James Hardon
May 31, 2006

SALT CURES HAM posted:

This is a pretty good summation of why Elysium is loving awesome. It's a leftist propaganda piece, essentially, but it doesn't get bogged down in it; instead, it has fun with the concept. It's an action movie first and LF: The Movie second.

The "cures" meme.

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