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Five Reasons 'Elysium' Is the Stupidest Movie Ever Made

posted 11 years ago by Satan2016
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By John Nolte http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/12/30/five-reasons-elysium -is-the-stupidest-movie-ever-made

The film's primary problem is that the world Blomkamp creates makes absolutely no sense. In a heavy-handed and boorish way, Blomkamp wants to create an allegory about the plight of Mexican illegals.

The space station Elysium is an obvious stand-in for evil, rich, selfish America (which in reality is the most generous and pro-immigration country in history). Those left behind on Earth are stand-ins for the illegals who desperately want to come to America.

What sinks a promising adventure is that Blomkamp puts his political agenda so far above logic that you are constantly jolted out of the story to try to make sense of why any of this is necessary.

1. On Earth, the rebels have the technological know-how and resources necessary to engineer (or maintain) all kinds of things, including rocketships loaded with passengers that can take off, fly into space, land on Elysium, and then return safely to earth.

We are supposed to believe the rebels are capable of this but cannot build one of those miracle-cure machines?

2. The desperate passengers flying to Elysium on these rebel ships are doing so as a way to gain access to the miracle-cure machines. They jump off the ship, break into some unsuspecting Eysium resident's Mc-Mansion, toss their sick child into the machine, cure it, run back to the ship, and fly home.

And those are the lucky ones. The unlucky ones are either shot down by Elysium's evil Homeland Security Director (Jodie Foster -- who deserves better) or are caught, arrested, and shipped home.

Wouldn’t it be easier for the rebels to simply steal a few miracle-cure machines and bring them back to earth, instead of sending innocent women and children up to be killed?

3. The rebels have the technology to create the fake citizen IDs needed to receive the life-saving scan. These IDs are burned into the wrist using a sophisticated laser.

Again, if the rebels can recreate or steal this technology, why not the miracle-cure machines?

4. The rebels have the technology to hack into a person's brain and eventually use that technology as a way to make everyone a legal resident of Elysium. (No, that's not a joke.)

Wouldn’t it be easier to hack your way to the miracle-cure machine's blueprints, give them to everyone on Earth, and simply rebuild them?

5. Elysium has force field technology, at least on a scale where an individual can protect one's self from bullets.

Why isn't Elysium using or in the process of building that same technology around itself to keep out the riff raff?

Why is the board for such a bad movie so active?

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[–] davidlau17 10 years ago

Of course Breitbart.com would consider Elysium the stupidest movie ever made. The movie's agenda goes against their own agenda.

All films have small (or large) logical inconsistencies if you look hard enough. Even the classics. These so-called errors seem more like nitpicks than legitimate criticisms.

[–] nascentt 9 years ago

I think most of his points are stupid.

1. On Earth, the rebels have the technological know-how and resources necessary to engineer (or maintain) all kinds of things, including rocketships loaded with passengers that can take off, fly into space, land on Elysium, and then return safely to earth.

We are supposed to believe the rebels are capable of this but cannot build one of those miracle-cure machines?

Who says the rebels built these ships, and they werent hijacked?

Why does the ability to build one type of technology mean they could build another type. If I have the ability to build a Toaster, does it also mean I have the ability to build an MRI Machine?

2. The desperate passengers flying to Elysium on these rebel ships are doing so as a way to gain access to the miracle-cure machines. They jump off the ship, break into some unsuspecting Eysium resident's Mc-Mansion, toss their sick child into the machine, cure it, run back to the ship, and fly home.

They have citizen tags, they could blend into Elysium. Who says their plan was to fly back to Earth?

Also trying to disassemble and transport volotile medical machinary would've taken far too long to do, the droids would've interrupted them, and flying back off the planet would require a fuel top up and possibly other materials they probably cant acquire from a random home or garden they land in.

3. The rebels have the technology to create the fake citizen IDs needed to receive the life-saving scan. These IDs are burned into the wrist using a sophisticated laser.
Again, if the rebels can recreate or steal this technology, why not the miracle-cure machines?

Again, If i build a Toaster why can I build an MRI machine?

4. The rebels have the technology to hack into a person's brain and eventually use that technology as a way to make everyone a legal resident of Elysium. (No, that's not a joke.)

Wouldn’t it be easier to hack your way to the miracle-cure machine's blueprints, give them to everyone on Earth, and simply rebuild them?

Again, this is stolen equipment, with blood still on it from the original host, they didn't build this. The only data they can hack is the info they extract from the host's head... why would they have blueprints in peoples head? Also if I have the blueprints for a nuclear power reactor, does it mean I can build one?

5. 5. Elysium has force field technology, at least on a scale where an individual can protect one's self from bullets.

Why isn't Elysium using or in the process of building that same technology around itself to keep out the riff raff?

There could be multiple reasons, lack of enough energy to cosntantly pump a shield around the entire 'planet'. This was the first successful invasion, and such a scneario hadn't been predicted. We jump into the film with the invasion, we dont know the story of the setup for it, maybe like later in the movie, they intercepted a return journey from a resident.

Koalas are telepathic. Plus, they control the weather.

[–] tebor79 9 years ago

The worst part for me was the industrial accident. All this technology and they don't have a safety stop for a pallet jam. We've have that technology for decades already.
Having worked in industrial settings with potential deadly safety hazards, this took me right out of the movie.