Even The DIRECTOR Said He *beep* Up The Movie!
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osubuckeye420 — 10 years ago(June 08, 2015 09:14 AM)
I agree with him. The movie was fine, but it could have been so much more.
Visually it was a solid movie. The performances were adequate, for the most part.
You had your main plotline, which was that Damon was dying and he needed to get to Elysium. That's all well and good.
Where it all fell apart, was in the details and secondary characters. The "good guys" behaved a lot of the time like bad guys. The "bad guys" motivation for being bad was never really fleshed out. Why wouldn't they share their medical resources? Was there a finate number of times that they could be used?
The movie made sense at the basic level, but when you started to pick away at it's layers, it all fell apart.
Anyways, it wasn't a terrible movie it just could have been a lot better if more attention would have been paid to the details/secondary characters and plotlines. -
Jnbfwc — 10 years ago(February 26, 2016 11:44 AM)
"The movie made sense at the basic level, but when you started to pick away at it's layers, it all fell apart."
Keep in mind that it's not an average movie because later on we all thought about it and realized that it doesn't hold water; it's an average movie because as you are watching it, you are not feeling anything more than the superficial rush of decent action sequences and a mild mystery. -
Mr_Recchia — 10 years ago(March 27, 2016 01:31 PM)
Screenwriters, actors and directors have historically been the worst critics of their own product. Some of the greatest masterpieces of all time are despised by their makers. For example, Marlon Brando thought he was terrible in On The Waterfront and the screenwriter of Anie Hall stated he'd go back and give it a million re-writes. It's part of being an artist, the work is never good enough in their mind no matter how hard they try.
Try again. Something as common as a director not being satisfied with their work doesn't clear anything up.
Officially Canadian for 27 years. Never heard "aboot." -
criztu — 10 years ago(April 02, 2016 10:15 AM)
Elysium was a mediocre film from a very talented director
from a very bad writer dude writes Christian Sci-Fi:
District 9 : Father Christ(opher) and his son have to ascend to heavens - a ship in the sky - to get salvation for his kin, fallen into a miserable way of life on Earth
Elysium 9 : Maxican has to ascend to heavens - a ship in the sky - to get salvation for his kin, fallen into a miserable way of life on Earth
These two movies are basically the same Christ story, with random variations. -
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bwiggins-1 — 9 years ago(June 05, 2016 02:13 AM)
Lazy, plot-driven script writing. Stereotypical characters with virtually no development and depth. The acting choices from everyone, Foster especially, ranged from hammy to nonsensical. Given the unquestioned talent and experience of the director and cast, it's weird how so much could go so seriously wrong in the making of this film.
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vesil_vesalier — 9 years ago(June 25, 2016 03:06 PM)
You can make the argument that ELYSIUM wasn't perfect, but to say the movie was mediocre? Come on.
2 FAST 2 FURIOUS was mediocre. THE HOBBIT trilogy was mediocre. MINIONS Well that was less than mediocre.
I'd take ELYSIUM over any of them, any day of the week. Sure, it wasn't perfect. Yes, DISTRICT 9 was a much better film.
But you can't hit it out of the park every single time you get to bat. Nobody can. I'll take Neil's imperfect over most of Hollywood's crappy any day of the week.
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jaseace — 9 years ago(July 23, 2016 08:36 PM)
Elysium could have been a sci-fi masterpiece but yeah, they screwed up by biting off more then they could chew. It's still a cool sci-fi movie I think, you just have to accept it for what it is. It deep and doesn't raise philosophical questions like blade runner but is still fun to watch.. the concepts and visuals were still solid.