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Topic: Elysium

I am amazed that this is the first I've heard of it, but I guess it could have gotten lost with all these other big Sci-fi movies coming out, Tom Cruise's Oblivion, and Will Smith's After Earth.

Is this line of big action Sci-fi films coming out because of the success of Star Trek and District 9? I'm really surprised all these still happened, despite bombs like John Carter, and the Total Recall remake.

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Re: Elysium

Everything about this looks amazing. Just visually, on the surface its got the Dystopian District 9/Dredd look, but look at all the great use of bright primary colors on Elysium and the robots and stuff. It immediately sidesteps the overdone to death sleek ultra-white Minority report look (most recently ripped off in Total Recall).

Look at the gun from the screengrab above, its 100 years in the future but he's still using just a super kitted out AK-47....LOVE IT.

Shalto Copley with a samurai sword, like some kind of crazy Terminator antagonist.
And we already know it's rated hard R, which is kind of a miracle for a 100 mil original sci-fi movie like this.
If this delivers, it could be up there with James Cameron in his prime.

Just please don't be another Prometheus.....I can't take that again.

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BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHMMMMMMM.


Alright now that that's out of my system. Looks freaking awesome.

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Well, if District 9 is any indication, this looks quite promising.  I think this is probably one of my most anticipated films of the year along with   Ender's Game and the ridiculous robot porn that is Pacific Rim

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I'm going to try and go in completely cold on this one. Don't know anything about it and going to keep it that way!

In fact, generally, I'm trying to avoid trailers these days - they give away way too much.

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Re: Elysium

This better be good.

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Re: Elysium

Actually, it looks really cool. I'm curious to see if his opponents are robots, or more like him?

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I refuse to get my hopes up. Dorkman tweeted about being done with trailers and I agree. They're not a gauge of anything other than how good the trailer production house is.

That said, I'll be seeing this on opening night.

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The premise is intriguing (similar to Niccol's In Time), and production design top notch, but if it devolves into just another superhero one-on-one WWF-like fight (this time superpowers are achieved via mechanical augmentation) then zzzzzzz.

not long to go now...

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Re: Elysium

Squiggly_P wrote:

FireFighter, it's no wonder you've not heard about it. I've been actively following it and all I knew about it until the trailer got released was that it had Matt Damon in a weird suit and was directed by Blomkamp. They've been especially secretive about this film, and only in the last couple of weeks has any real info or photos started to trickle out about it.

It does look pretty good, too.

This. I've been following every IMDB update possible on Blomkamp since District 9 came out. I cannot wait for Elysium. It's easily my most anticipated movie of the year.

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