Elysium. Been wanting to see it. Got into orbiting space colonies when I was a kid. This one looked good in the previews.
Started out on the wrong foot by giving little explanations. Didn’t need that. In 2154 Earth is an overpopulated mess, with the elites living in perpetual luxury far overhead. Not hard to figure out. Matt Damon is a hard-luck have-not who gets mixed up with some bad-ass criminal freedom fighters and even badder-ass mercenaries, Jodie Foster directing the carnage. LA looks like TJ, the space colony Elysium is aptly named, and disparities of wealth are ridiculous. Of course sci-fi is always oversimplified, but the story had heart-tuggers and a happy ending. I liked it fine. Kinda bloody, but would recommend it, and see it again.
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6 comments:
I'm glad I'm not well-versed in science and physics so that I can enjoy sci-fi outer spacey stuff like that. I saw E and also the one with Tom Cruise based on some complex novel. Enjoyed both. May see Interstellar one of these days.
I avoid TC flicks mostly these days because they usually put him into a role where he's supposed to be young and hot and he is neither. That, and his income supports a religion I find more objectionable than most. Which is kinda a shame because some of the sci-fi flix he gets to be in would be fun to see.
I enjoyed Elysium. I find it relatively easy to not pick apart the faux science in them. But then, I've always liked sci fi novels, at least the ones from the 60s/70s and a little into the 80s. Haven't read any new ones that I know.
I just saw Mockingjay, at last. Was going to go when it came out, but was so tired from travel.
Disappointed only in that they pulled that stupid stupid stunt of extending their ability to maximize their profit by breaking a normal length film into a two-parter. Just fucking get the story told, dammit! I read all the novels and have seen the other two movies, of course.
Yeah, you're right, Mockingjay was just part of a movie. She barely got into any fights, but was mainly getting groomed to be the focus of freedom-fighter propaganda. I imagine that will go awry at some point. There were a lot of intentional reminders of other struggles, in Palestine and Cuba and other places. I missed the second movie and never read any of the books.
I saw Interstellar a second time, this time in IMAX. Loved the big huge scenes. Also loved that the director refuses to do 3D.
I'm hoping 3D goes the way of the Quadraphonic sound systems. (I've only got two ears, man!)
Realize you're talking about movies, but about the faux science and all that, I read a scifi novel that was totally awesome in this regard:
The Martian, Andy Weir. Science is right on, a very good book especially if you like the old "hard-core" scifi books that were heavy on the "sci." And, as a bonus, it starts out:
"I'm pretty much fucked."
You don't need a link do you . . . . no.
The Martian ROCKS. I listened to the audio version. Omg. Read it. Do.
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