Have you ever seen Moon (2009)?? One of my favorite movies of the past 10 years.
Re: Movie: Elysium (Matt Damon)
Posted: Thu April 11, 2013 2:30 am
by red calzolaio
Harry Lime wrote:
turned2black wrote:I'm starting to hate sci-fi.
Have you ever seen Moon (2009)?? One of my favorite movies of the past 10 years.
love that movie. and District 9.
probably won't see Oblivion because the plot is pretty obvious...oh, and just a lot of Tom Cruise running around.
can't wait for this Elysium. looking forward to this more than any other movie this summer.
Re: Movie: Elysium (Matt Damon)
Posted: Thu April 11, 2013 2:58 am
by nyquillyn
Harry Lime wrote:
turned2black wrote:I'm starting to hate sci-fi.
Have you ever seen Moon (2009)?? One of my favorite movies of the past 10 years.
Yes, loved it. Duncan Jones was my pick for director of the new Star Wars movie.
Re: Movie: Elysium (Matt Damon)
Posted: Thu April 11, 2013 1:51 pm
by broken iris
red calzolaio wrote:
Harry Lime wrote:
turned2black wrote:I'm starting to hate sci-fi.
Have you ever seen Moon (2009)?? One of my favorite movies of the past 10 years.
love that movie. and District 9.
Those are two very different movies. Moon was more classic sci-fi (I think of original Solaris or the first 2/3 of Sunshine) while D9 was more like standard big-chase action fare with shallow social commentary and sci-fi elements (done better in Children of Men). I enjoyed Moon much more than D9.
Re: Movie: Elysium (Matt Damon)
Posted: Thu April 11, 2013 10:23 pm
by red calzolaio
broken iris wrote:
red calzolaio wrote:
Harry Lime wrote:
turned2black wrote:I'm starting to hate sci-fi.
Have you ever seen Moon (2009)?? One of my favorite movies of the past 10 years.
love that movie. and District 9.
Those are two very different movies. Moon was more classic sci-fi (I think of original Solaris or the first 2/3 of Sunshine) while D9 was more like standard big-chase action fare with shallow social commentary and sci-fi elements (done better in Children of Men). I enjoyed Moon much more than D9.
very different and loved them equally.
ha, Children of Men. i prefer Babylon A.D. over that flick...no, seriously.
Re: Movie: Elysium (Matt Damon)
Posted: Thu April 11, 2013 10:36 pm
by BurtReynolds
i am fully onboard with this.
Re: Movie: Elysium (Matt Damon)
Posted: Fri April 12, 2013 2:39 pm
by VinylGuy
the trailer bored me.
Re: Movie: Elysium (Matt Damon)
Posted: Fri April 12, 2013 2:44 pm
by elliseamos
VinylGuy wrote:the trailer bored me.
Re: Movie: Elysium (Matt Damon)
Posted: Fri April 12, 2013 3:31 pm
by red calzolaio
the trailer was pretty much crap.
Re: Movie: Elysium (Matt Damon)
Posted: Sun August 11, 2013 8:57 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
This was ok. Kept my interest. The lead guy from District 9 doesn't play a very good "badass" character though.
Re: Movie: Elysium (Matt Damon)
Posted: Mon August 12, 2013 6:33 am
by BurtReynolds
never before have I accidentally blurted out "oh fuck you" in a movie. That is until I saw the last few minutes of Elysium. The utterly unimaginable suspension of disbelief required for that last act... it can't be done. Just bizarre plothole after contrivance after plothole. holy fucking shit.
Well the first 2/3rds or so was pretty good.
Re: Movie: Elysium (Matt Damon)
Posted: Mon August 12, 2013 9:33 am
by harmless
BurtReynolds wrote:never before have I accidentally blurted out "oh fuck you" in a movie. That is until I saw the last few minutes of Elysium. The utterly unimaginable suspension of belief required for that last act... it can't be done. Just bizarre plothole after contrivance after plothole. holy fucking shit.
Well the first 2/3rds or so was pretty good.
This is every action movie for me.
Re: Movie: Elysium (Matt Damon)
Posted: Thu August 15, 2013 4:49 pm
by intodeep
I was not impressed.
The political commentary was very heavy handed. Mind you i lean towards agreeing with it and i did not care for it. I thought some of the plot was not buit enough. some of the action was good though.
Overall a C movie.
District 9 was so good. I read a review that said:
“Elysium had almost four times the budget of District 9, and only a small fraction of the imagination.”
I tend to agree with this.
Re: Movie: Elysium (Matt Damon)
Posted: Thu August 15, 2013 4:59 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
intodeep wrote:I was not impressed.
The political commentary was very heavy handed. Mind you i lean towards agreeing with it and i did not care for it. I thought some of the plot was not buit enough. some of the action was good though.
Overall a C movie.
District 9 was so good. I read a review that said:
“Elysium had almost four times the budget of District 9, and only a small fraction of the imagination.”
They just rushed into the whole "let's put this robotic exoskeleton on you" without explaining really how these things worked, etc. They just showed them drilling a bunch of crap into Matt Damon and BOOM! he's a robot.
Re: Movie: Elysium (Matt Damon)
Posted: Thu August 15, 2013 6:43 pm
by lowlight79
I saw it not bad, but a step back from D9, I feel this guy is going to be a great director one day. I feel he is the one that should have got the nod for the new star wars movies. Copley was great as the villian, just awesome.