Elysium

[Fresh Tendrils]

From the director of District 9 and starring Matt Damon.

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[Beantown]

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Looks interesting bordering on awesome.

[Leon]

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Looks like the Citadel from Mass Effect.

And lol at one of the comments. "Why do poor people ruin everything?"

[st67]

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Looks pretty cool; same guy who did District 9.

Apparently he was in line to do a Halo movie, but it fell through and instead this is what we're getting. Apparently the name of the movie is even a city from the Halo series. Glad it fell through because this looks great and I've got absolutely no interest in Halo.

[Candyman5]

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Looks pretty cool; same guy who did District 9.

Apparently he was in line to do a Halo movie, but it fell through and instead this is what we're getting. Apparently the name of the movie is even a city from the Halo series. Glad it fell through because this looks great and I've got absolutely no interest in Halo.

District 9 was suppose to be Halo

[mestevo]

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Looks really good, like what I've seen of it much more than the other SciFi offerings coming/released (Oblivion, After Earth)

[jfsolo]

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I'll see it opening weekend for sure.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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This and Pacific Rim have me pumped. I couldn't care less about anything else.

[LingeringRegime]

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Saw this preview yesterday when I saw Star Trek: ID. Since District 9 is in my top 3 Sci-Fi movies I will be seeing this asap.

[Hiro1]

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I loved it.

[LBzrule]

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Saw it last night. One of the best, if not the best, of the summer for me. Movie is very real. Ohh and Jodie Foster's personal trainer needs to get paid big time. The legs she's rocking in here are unbelievable.

[spankdatazz22]

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Saw it last night in IMAX with the gf. Sad to say I came away disappointed - probably because I went in expecting District 9-level storytelling and that may have been a bit unfair. I was rolling my eyes halfway through the movie. Given the director and Matt Damon's/Jodi Foster's involvement I thought it'd be a lot better. Although I agree Jodi Foster has fantastic legs although she's getting a little too skinny for my tastes. Check them out in Inside Man (w/Denzel Washington) - some really nice leg shots of her there.

Spoiler

I couldn't reconcile the movie's premise is the world's rich are able to live on Elysium but the movie only seemed to focus on Los Angeles and Elysium - it was like nothing else existed in the world. In District 9 everything was confined to South Africa, which made the story believeable/somewhat plausible. I kept wondering why people weren't trying to get to Elysium from all over the world, not just LA.

Also didn't like how the law enforcement robots seemed to have personalities, mainly of the arrogant LA-cop stereotype. The robots didn't seem very logical; seems like it would've been better to have humans displaying their disdain for the lower classes.

There were other things I had problems with plot/story-wise but overall thought it was kind of a wasted effort. There were some nice effects here and there but overall this was the most disappointing movie I've seen in a while. But think part of that's because it scored decently on Rottentomatoes and I expected more.

[LingeringRegime]

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Spoiler

Meh. I had high hopes for this one. I was looking forward to it all summer. The characters were very superficial. I didn't care who lived or died. I loved District 9, this was no District 9. Everything felt way too forced. 3 Stars for me.

[daflyboys]

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Saw it. Came away pretty "meh". The villian was atrociously annoying. I was waiting for him to pop open a Foster's any second along the way. Speaking of Foster....ya, she has amazing legs for a 50 yo, but I found her character not believable. I guess you could say she was miscast.