12:06 pm - 11/19/2012
Neill Blomkamp‘s Elysium was one of the best-looking films I saw at Comic-Con this year. The film is set in 2159, and two classes of people are divided: the wealthy live on a man-made space station called Elysium, while the rest of the humans inhabit an overpopulated and ruined Earth. Elysium was on track for a March 2013 release, but then the movie was pushed back to August 2013, and that’s probably the smart decision. March has become insanely crowded, and Elysium feels like a big summer movie anyway (it’s also coming out the same week as District 9 did back in 2009). Today, a new image of star Matt Damon has been released. Damon plays a man who’s forced to become a cyborg (lol what?) and travel to Elysium in order to retrieve a cure that would save his life.
Hit the jump to check out the image. The film also stars Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, William Fichtner, and Diego Luna. Elysium opens August 9, 2013.
Sauce
Ugh, I'm so excited for this movie, I dont care if it is coming out in August 2013 (better chances of me seeing it midnight premiere, tbh), but can we please get a picture of Sharlto Copley next time? :(
Holy shit y'all, there is a new Elysium photo!
Neill Blomkamp‘s Elysium was one of the best-looking films I saw at Comic-Con this year. The film is set in 2159, and two classes of people are divided: the wealthy live on a man-made space station called Elysium, while the rest of the humans inhabit an overpopulated and ruined Earth. Elysium was on track for a March 2013 release, but then the movie was pushed back to August 2013, and that’s probably the smart decision. March has become insanely crowded, and Elysium feels like a big summer movie anyway (it’s also coming out the same week as District 9 did back in 2009). Today, a new image of star Matt Damon has been released. Damon plays a man who’s forced to become a cyborg (lol what?) and travel to Elysium in order to retrieve a cure that would save his life.
Hit the jump to check out the image. The film also stars Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, William Fichtner, and Diego Luna. Elysium opens August 9, 2013.
Sauce
Ugh, I'm so excited for this movie, I dont care if it is coming out in August 2013 (better chances of me seeing it midnight premiere, tbh), but can we please get a picture of Sharlto Copley next time? :(
see, I didn't see it that way at all-- I saw it as him being assumed to have this life that inclined him toward bad behaviour (see: he'd already killed people by whatever-years-old-he-was in the movie), with Willis's role in his mother's death making him go specifically down the path that led to Loopers getting killed/his wife's death/the movie plot. It would have given him a guarantee to go into/against loopers as he went older. The way they framed it-- the idea that mother would love him as a child and give him a chance to be good-- doesn't say at ALL that he won't grow up to be a terror/mob-boss, especially because loldistopian future, and unless there was something after the credits, we can only ~guess about what the mother was supposed to be able to help him grow into. No matter what the mother raised him to be, he's still going to be this freak telekenetic game changer.
but lol yeah we do seem to agree, and that's why I never said it was bad-- it was fine for what it was, and it worked for you that's great, but it just felt like they took a lot of cheap shortcuts. Like I said somewhere above, the movie itself didn't live up to the creative awesomeness of its concept.