Maybe that’s what they should have tried for, because in the rush to fit everything into two hours, this film makes leaps of logic vast enough to reach into space. This could have been turned into a magnificent HBO series, I think. The premise of the film (the Earth turned into an immense slum as rich people flee to orbital comfort) is valid as metaphor for the haves and have-nots of our times. I like and respect Matt Damon and Jodie Foster as actors. I was all set to see what happened when the director of District 9, Neill Blomkamp, got sprayed with the money hose. Like I lot of people, I thought it was a can’t-miss prospect. The answer is easily, unquestionably, Elysium. Oscars 2023: Best Original Screenplay Predictions
#MOUSTERPIECE CINEMA FROZEN MOVIE#
The Future of Movie Streaming Is an 'Exhausting' 'Beautiful Nightmare'Īfter 25 Years, These Are the 'Friends' Characters Critics Love the Most Mark Young, Sound on Sight, The New York Movie Klub And yet, the potential is right there, the entire movie, just begging to be made into a better movie. It was too grim and gritty to be good cheesy fun and too dumb to be the action movie with a brain and conscience it seemed to want to be. But it could have been the skillfully mounted backdrop for a good action movie, instead of the headache-inducing mess it ended up being. It didn’t even need to make that the main point it could have just been the backdrop for an action movie (which it ended up being). It could have been an extraordinarily relevant look, through the time-honored prism of science fiction, at how the moneyed few abuse and subjugate the less privileged many. In terms not just of expectations beforehand but actual potential, the movie that most brought out my inner Michael Corleone in Havana was Elysium.
0 kommentar(er)
