I was watching something with my mom the other day and a TV spot for this appeared. She said to me: "That video game looks really silly." I explained to her it was a movie and she couldn't understand why or how it got made. She legitimately thought I, Frankenstein was a video game because of all the crappy looking effects and color correction. I think that perfectly captures the general public's reaction to this turd.

Never forget.

I just saw Captain Phillips and I do not understand the awards hype for Barkhad Abdi at all. Of the Somali pirates, I thought Faysal Ahmed as Najee gave a far more intense and compelling performance.

No way, no how, did Star Trek have better visual effects than Elysium.

Jackass: Bad Grandpa got a nomination for best makeup, which means that Jackass is now an Academy Award nominated series. Meanwhile, The Butler didn't receive a single nomination. And that's just way too funny for words.

Although I don't think the third act specifically paid off what it was previously setting up, I did enjoy the payoffs. I thought the whole thing with Kruger's Crew versus everyone was a nice twist and pretty entertaining. I wanted to see Kruger and his boys get their shit destroyed by Max, so I consider it a success in that regard. And although the whole situation could have been easily solved, it wasn't, because everyone up on Elysium were a bunch of cunts without empathy for anyone on Earth, which I think was the point. Also, I really liked the action scenes in the third act, with the exception of a few shaky cam moments here and there. I mean shit, regardless of how dumb any movie could be, if it features stuff like this in the third act, I'm going to be entertained:

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I just have a major soft spot for r-rated sci-fi action, regardless of the logistics of why it's happening.

Yeah, I checked out of your review when you said this:

Have you seen The Happening?

Fair enough. The thing I don't understand is someone calling it outright terrible or even the worst movie they saw in 2013. I just cannot comprehend how anyone could think it was among the worst films of the year, considering this year featured:

Now You See Me
After Earth
A Good Day to Die Hard
Olympus Has Fallen
R.I.P.D.
Paranoia
Getaway (GO AWAY GETAWAY, STAY AWAY GETAWAY)
The Mortal Instruments
Grown Ups 2
Movie 43
Scary Movie 5
A Haunted House
The Starving Games

Granted, I only saw one off that list, but from the trailers alone for the rest, there is no fucking way they were better than Elysium.

I personally loved the hell out of Elysium. It didn't have the deepest characters by any means but that shit almost never bothers me if the plot, setting, and action entertain me; which they all did. Also, Sharlto Copley ruled as Kruger, just like he rules with everything he does.

Every time I hear someone talk about Her, I have flashbacks to this:

I'm not bashing your point of view but I can't be the only one who realizes this sounds exactly the same as someone saying "Their first album was better".