This was so much fun I kind of wish I could go back and do it again.    At least we'll always have the audio.

I could almost sympathize with his anger at being under constant public scrutiny -- something any celebrity might grow tired of -- if not for the fact that he's mainly just mad it meant he couldn't get away with plagiarism.

It's like FORREST GUMP, it there were no flashbacks, and he wasn't retarded but his story was.

Let's be honest, it wasn't handled with any particular elegance in the books, either. His interest in her just suddenly appeared in HBP.

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If ELYSIUM is trying to be some kind of satire, it's doing a poor job of it. If it's trying to be serious, it's doing a poor job of that, too.

But that ISN'T real life. In REAL LIFE resources are limited and people hoard them and cling to their possessions because they see it as a zero-sum game. To reduce it to "dicks for no reason" makes the movie NOT an exploration of our real world circumstances, which makes it a failure of science fiction.

EDIT: I mean, the example given of "Sure, sometimes you get a Bill Gates or Warren buffet, but" -- but in ELYSIUM the one guy setting up this system is all you need. There were NONE of them on Elysium? Can't buy it. Stories are about the human experience, you can't populate them with completely inhuman characters.