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Aug 28, 2013 - 11:31 PM |
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Elysium |
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I forgot I saw this. Says a lot, don't it?
I liked this movie and it was extremely forgettable. I enjoyed District 9 well enough so I figured this movie would be fun to watch with my family while they visited and so we did. It's got action, it's got some suspense, and it's got a message that any dope post lobotomy would catch. Honestly, I know D9 wasn't exactly subtle, but it was just one level above this in regard to knee-jerked, hamfisted messages. Or message, actually, which was Mexicans are people too!
I do mean Mexicans here, specifically, and Mexico as a country, which just like modern times includes the state of California. These people aren't displaced, no, they are lingering on a world abandoned by the super-rich. Everyone wants to get to Elysium, or basically Canada, but it's just too "above" them to reach and nobody likes elitists, just their pretty things. Like space violins.
They all want what Space Canadia has and that's free healthcare. What the residents of the space donut don't know is that apparently these machines that cure all kinds of Mexican AIDS, including radiation, is that they work without any actual, physical cost to operate and healing the sickly brown people on Earth wouldn't be a burden on their elitist lives. But they're all jerks up there, floating around. Like jerks.
So Mexican Matt Damon puts on an exoskeleton because "why not" and goes to space to battle a South African samurai who's face blowed up and then unblowed up then fell, like, all the way down to the floor. Then Mexi-Matt's brain gets fried at the last minute when he decides at the last minute to save the earth at the last minute. And when I say "save the earth" I mean "give brown people un-broken legs with robots and space beds."
Oh yeah, there was this villain! She was totally unsypathetic, ruthless, ready to get what she wanted at all costs and then she died suddenly. Whoops!
Oh, and Space Matt was really into this girl at the beginning of the movie and then he was all, like, "uh, I suddenly don't care about you, only me, I'm selfish, I don't want to cure your dumb kid with stupidly contrived stories told to me at a time that is convenient for the plot at this moment which I am totally unaware of (hint hint, audience, I'll be sacrificing myself later on!)" then for reasons that would be cool and, uh, like, totally relatable, he's a hero at the end, but at the cost of his own life. Pretty wicked cool, huh?
I guess the movie was kind of dumb, and the message was hammy, and the characters are all either dumb, die conveniently, or change their outlook on society and their situation conveniently, but the trailer was pretty cool.
Not an awful movie, just dumb. And obvious.
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