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What is the biggest problem with
Elysium? Like most movies
this summer, Elysium suffers from
an overabundance of dumb and
overcomplicated plot points. To
be fair, Elysium is the least dumb
of the dumb summer movies. But,
considering how Blomkamp avoided this in District 9, it’s surprising
and disappointing.
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If you’re going to be blurbed in
this weekend’s commercials for
Elysium, what do you hope your quote
would be? “Elysium is the least
dumb of the dumb summer movies!” — Mike Ryan, The Huffington Post
What’s an example of an overcomplicated plot point? As we know, Max
needs to get to Elysium. Along the
way he plans to kidnap the owner
of the factory in which he used
to work, John Carlyle (played by
William Fichtner). It just so happens on this particular day John
Carlyle had embedded covert information about Elysium that he
plans to bring to the Secretary of
Defense (Jodie Foster) — infor mation that Max accidentally steals
from John Carlyle. (It gets even
more complicated because there’s
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a strange fail-safe installed with
this information that I honestly
can’t figure out, and if I tried to
explain it would spoil important
parts of the movie.)
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Please tell me there’s not a
brave little boy traveling along
with Max in Elysium? Well, there is a
brave little girl, but it’s not as bad
as it sounds.
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What’s the best part about
Elysium? Matt Damon is
solid as Max. Above all, it’s one
of the first movies of the CGI era
in which I didn’t feel like I was
watching CGI. There are robots in
this movie that look like real robots. Actually, I have no reason to
believe that they are not real robots. Elysium is worth seeing for
the effects alone.
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Who is the most disappointing
character in Elysium? Jodie
Foster’s Secretary of Defense
Delacourt, for at least 50 reasons.
Who is the oddest character in Elysium?
Sharlto Copley’s Agent Kruger,
who seems like he’s in a completely different movie than Elysium.
Now, I should add, the other movie that Kruger is in looks terrific,
but he’s definitely not in the same
Elysium movie that everyone else is in.
HUFFINGTON
08.11.13