I think the redemption is there - it's not completely life-altering, but it shows there's more to Moses than just thuggery.  He volunteers to take on the beasts alone, to save everyone else.  But it doesn't make him an instant saint and he still goes to jail, because he should.

I doubt he's gonna take the fall for killing those cops, though - presumably versions of these events played out a dozen times across London that night and there are alien corpses all over the damn place.  It's not going to be much of a mystery as to how those cops got mutilated.

Yeah, the "every movie must save the world" mentality also applies to characters.  It's important to have a character or characters change over the course of the movie, but it doesn't have to be a galactic change.   An ending where Moses announces his decision to go to law school, or in which he and British Felicia Day get married, would have been more than a little ridiculous.

Instead, the change is just that the main characters - who started out seeing each other as faceless thugs vs unimportant victim - now see each other as people.   Moses is probably gonna do some time, but overall this experience may have set him on a different path in life.   That's not a big change, but it's a change, and that can be enough.

So Daario is actually a Faceless Man?  This changes everything!

Actually, I'm okay with this.  There was something about the original Daario actor that seemed "off" to me.  Can't put my finger on why, but for me he never seemed to fit into that world.  Too slick and handsome maybe?  I dunno.

LOL

Just to be clear - I agree with the Doctor's review as far as content, just not as vehemently.   And even with all that, Elysium is still FAR better than ST:ID.

What he said.

Well, my list plays out a little bit differently because home video and cable movie channels weren't a factor in my childhood or adolescence.   The only way to see a movie multiple times was to keep going back to the theater, or scour the tv listings to try and catch it whenever it aired.    That's right, kids - in my day sometimes we had to set the alarm and get up at 3 AM just to see a movie a second time. 

So with that level of effort involved, for a movie to make MY list it was obviously a pretty big deal.   

I'll start with the obvious one:

1.  Star Wars (1977)
I mean, duh.    Ten or more viewings in the theater during the original release, and several re-release viewings after that.  As soon as "home video" was no longer exclusive to millionaires it was one of my first video purchases, but I was out of my teens by then.

2.  The Ωmega Man.  (1971)
Damn right I used the symbol to spell the title properly because RESPECT.

I was not yet a teen when this was made but was too young to see it at the time.  I discovered it on tv a few years later, and from that day forward I watched the shit out of it every chance I got.  My well-documented love of downer apocalypse movies follows a straight line leading right back to The Omega Man.

3.  Harold and Maude (also 1971)
Did not see this during its original release either (see above) but neither did nobody else.  But then H&M became of the most popular "midnight movies" of the '70s (second only to Rocky Horror, pretty much).   So it was possible to catch a screening of H&M pretty much any weekend of my teen years.  Which I did, at every opportunity.

If there's any single movie that determined my worldview to this day, it's Harold and Maude.  To know it is to know me.  If you dare.

I will be happy to, when we do it. 

If that trailer was on Funny or Die, it'd be their best video ever.   Thing is, that trailer IS the whole joke.   It won't get any funnier at 90 minutes, quite the opposite.

However, it is possible there could be a whole movie there.  If they set up the joke quickly ("it's about killer squirrels, everybody clear on this?") but then tell an actual compelling story about that, it could work.   

That kinda high-wire act has been done successfully... but not very often.   Usually those movies fall back on retelling the joke over and over again.  "See, it's funny because it's squirrels!  Right?  Right?"

I would absolutely go see that.

Yeah, 'cause a strong dramatic acting resume is real important when casting the role of Batman. 

Based on the available evidence, pretty much anyone with a chin can handle the role.

DOROTHY IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO WEAR THE SLIPPERS.  SHOW US THE LONG FORM DEATH CERTIFICATE!

- Munchkinland Teaparty Guild

Surely THAT mashup is on YouTube somewhere....