Elysium Poster (Blomkamp + Damon)

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Trailer at 7PM EST tomorrow.

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In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government official will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max (Matt Damon) is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that if successful will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.
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Can we play Angry Birds on Matt Damon's head?
 
Aw yeah. Poster's sorta... eh. I like it, but I'm not blown away. But I'm excited for this flick. Loved District 9. Excited for Damon and Copley.
 
The obvious allegory aspect to this reminds me a lot of District 9. It's fine if Blompkamp has found a niche, but this might run the risk of feeling derivative. Very curious to see the trailer.
 
Mushroomer25 said:
The obvious allegory aspect to this reminds me a lot of District 9. It's fine if Blompkamp has found a niche, but this might run the risk of feeling derivative. Very curious to see the trailer.
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I think there is at least one or two movies that come out a year that has this plot.
 
I'm going to be perfectly honest I thought of Final Fantasy XIII.

edit: Disc 1 of FF7 too I suppose.

Man this is not an original concept.
 
District 9 was a great surprise. The poster looks lame, in my opinion, but with him at the helm, and Foster/ Damon in the mix with very recognizable themes of illegal immigration, I'm in for this.
 
Became really disinterested in this it became obvious that Wagner Moura's role in this will be minimal.
 
Awww yeahhhhhhh!

Mushroomer25 said:
The obvious allegory aspect to this reminds me a lot of District 9. It's fine if Blompkamp has found a niche, but this might run the risk of feeling derivative. Very curious to see the trailer.
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He said that his first priority is to make a good action, sci-fi movie. The underlying messages are there (as they are in most flicks of this genre) but it was not the reason he chose to make it.
 
I'm excited just because I want to see Sharlto Copley as a badass hobo-bounty hunter.

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Honestly the plot sounds terrible and obvious. Bioschock Infinite probably has a better story to tell with more meaning.
 
Plot sounds intriguing, and District 9 was incredible considering the budget and it was his first movie. Definitely looking forward to this.

JB1981 said:
Honestly the plot sounds terrible and obvious. Bioschock Infinite probably has a better story to tell with more meaning.
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You can't tell how good a plot will be from a two sentence summary. Let's see what he does with it before we judge.
 
io9 got to see the trailer and 10 minutes of footage from the movie. Described here:

http://io9.com/weve-seen-10-minutes-of-neil-blomkamps-elysium-and-i-471353469

Stuck everything in spoiler tags for the spoiler averse among you. Description of the trailer, some footage involving Damon, William Fichtner, Jodie Foster, and Sharlto Copley. Describes set up of the movie.

Neill Blomkamp rocked our eyeballs with District 9, so expectations are high for his second movie Elysium. We just attended a press preview, where we saw a brand new trailer, plus some other new footage. Here are our first impressions.

The trailer is a set-up for the entire film, and includes some high quality shots of the lovely living quarters in the space habitat Elysium. Think Halo with swimming pools and loads of skinny white people.

This also sets the scene for the first We Missed You Neill moment. A gorgeous woman is seen lounging in a Versace-esque body scanner. Whilst she's in the futuristic tanning bed-like contraption, her body is stoked by a laser. The machine then announces, "traces of cancer discovered." A new set of lasers glide over the woman, her skin puckers. It's REMOVING her cancer. "Cancer Free," the machine bleeps (or something akin to that) I don't know because I was too busy smashing my face with a hammer out of sheer despair that Neill Blomkamp can't just make all of the science fiction movies right now. All this from a trailer, which will be out tomorrow (and we'll be sure to post it).

The Footage:

The bulk of what was screened takes place back on Earth, not the luxurious Elysium. As you can imagine, Earth sucks. It's overcrowded with the less-than-desirables who can't afford to pay their way into a better life, among the stars. Earth isn't just an overpopulated mess teaming with sickness and dirt, it's also completely wrecked from (we're assuming) pollution. The only terrain we get a look at is a desert.

The day-to-day life on future Earth is pretty terrible as well. We follow Max (played by the bald Matt Damon) through his dangerous job where he's constantly badgered, manipulated and has his pay docked. Think In Time, if In Time was actually set in a plausible reality. Max just can't catch a break — but thankfully with Damon behind the wheel we're already seeing a range of desperation and anger building up behind his sweat-covered brow. Shit is about to hit the fan for Max.

One particularly brilliant moment showcases Max arguing with the frozen face of Elysium's Big Boy-channeling realtor robot. "You seem agitated," the computer says. "Would you like a pill?" And just like that a filthy tray with an assortment of rainbow colored pellets appears. Max is pissed.

But back to the fan-hitting. At work, Max is given an ultimatum when he loses something important inside the machine he operates. Go inside and risk your health to fix the problem, or pack up your shit and leave. Max concedes, and the next thing you know he's trapped in some sort of a Watchmen/Hulk situation. But instead of getting super human strength, Max gets a fatal illness. A robot wakes him up, throws a bottle of pills at him and chirps, "You have five days to live, thank you for your service."

This is when things shifts from the crappy middle class existence to the even dirtier underbelly of Earth's black market. With only a few days to live, Max realizes he needs to get to the sexy tanning beds of Elysium or die in the dust on Earth. And he's willing to do anything to get there. Cue William Fichtner and his baller ass Bugatti spaceship.

All Max and friends have to do is hijack Ficther, download this brocades into Max's brain (which you can see has no been fitted with a little screen), and boom — they can get him into Elysium. In order to battle his rapidly failing health, Max is fitted with the harness that will make him "as strong as a droid." Which, we soon learn, is insanely strong. The droids have the robotic arms that are constantly showering Damon with problems and grenades. The droids are awesome, and if you loved the video game warfare from District 9, you're gonna love the slomo hellfire of bullets into the faces of the robot attackers.

Not surprisingly in a movie of this sort, the man they plan to rob is much more important to Elysium than this gang originally intended. When they download his brain into Damon's, the code reveals something that can bring down the whole upper-class resort. And the wealthy will hound Max to the ends of the Earth to get this information back.

Jodi Foster, who plays Elysium's Secretary Delacour, unleashes her best weapon: Kruger (Sharlto Copley). Under a hailstorm of bullets, Kruger appears.

Everything else from there is a series of crazy hyper-cuts that mostly showcase Kruger vs. Max (including one bad-ass scene where Kruger pulls out a katana). At some point it appears that Damon makes it onto Elysium, but not after copies amounts of blood loss. It's just everywhere, pouring out of his newly mechanized joints.

And that's that. The clock is ticking for both Max and Elysium. We're sure there are plenty more plot twists to come, but the parts that stuck with us the most weren't't the acting or dialogue — it was the dirty bioware hellhole that Blomkamp is once again creating in this movie. Everyone is plugged in — as we mentioned earlier, you don't scan a finger, you scan a brain. Wires stitch out names across the faces of the wealthy, while the poor have giant jacks marring their faces. You can even see some sort of plug apparatus on Krueger's face here.

This film looks like it has everything we've been missing in the science fiction world since District 9. We know we're just looking at a carefully assembled collection of footage, and not the whole thing — but hot damn if it didn't get us excited. Even the hallways of Elysium didn't look like the clean cut CG sets Hollywood has been churning out, they felt real. No detail is missed: Plants decorate the pristine walls of Elysium (presumably to help the habitat), while dust fills the beards and goggles of the civilians on ruined Earth. It just looks raw and real. And most importantly, like a whole lot of fun.
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NotTheGuyYouKill said:
It's like his second movie. Give him a chance.



... right. Well, you can make any movie sound like it has a terrible and obvious plot based on a few sentences.
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Sophmore efforts of acclaimed freshmen efforts rarely outdo the original (note i said RARELY, not NEVER). History is against this being acclaimed and successful.

That being said... My guess is I will enjoy it more than Oblivion or After Earth :P
 
Looking forward to the trailer. Got high expectations.

Also, Sharlto Copley is a badass hobo-bounty hunter samurai.

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Expendable. said:
The amount of crow that will be eaten in this thread is going to be amazing.
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Screenplay was mediocre :)

A lot of it reads like some dude whose never been in an American project wrote a movie about an American project based on what they'd seen in movies. It's offensively bad. I hope he had someone rewrite those aspects of it.
 
You know, I always thought Sharlto Copley was like a Streisand, but he look's like he'll be rockin' the shit in this one!
 
harSon said:
Screenplay was mediocre :)

A lot of it reads like some dude whose never been in an American project wrote a movie about an American project based on what they'd seen in movies. It's offensively bad. I hope he had someone rewrite those aspects of it.
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I read about that. Apparently Elysium was the first thing he ever wrote though D9 went into production first. Hope it turned out well. High hopes.
 
harSon said:
Screenplay was mediocre :)

A lot of it reads like some dude whose never been in an American project wrote a movie about an American project based on what they'd seen in movies. It's offensively bad. I hope he had someone rewrite those aspects of it.
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How old is the draft you read? Could you PM me a link or something? I'm about to finish The Royal Tenenbaums and I'll need something to pick up.
 
Can't wait. Really excited for this movie.

And yeah, I'm a fan of Damon, so that doesn't help. Haven't seen him in a film with some action after this one.

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