Elysium - When a Movie has the Wrong Story | Anatomy of a Failure
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Elysium is writer-director Neill Blomkamp's follow-up to District 9, with Matt Damon and exosuits and futuristic weapons. It was a letdown, though, thanks to one key thing: it had the wrong story/plot. So in today's Anatomy of a Failure, let's see what that means for Elysium and what to keep in mind when choosing the plot for your movie to explore your movie's special world with.
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Elysium (2013)
In a future in which the privileged reside on an Earth-orbiting space station named Elysium and the less fortunate live on the surface of the blighted, overpopulated planet below, one man dares to defy the strict anti-immigration laws that separate the two disparate worlds in order to save all of mankind in this visceral sci-fi action thriller from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp. The year is 2154, and the division between social classes has grown wider than ever before. As the rich enjoy a life of luxury and access to cutting-edge medical technology on Elysium, the rest of the human race contend with poverty, crime, and disease on the surface of planet Earth. Meanwhile, hard-line immigration laws ensure that only those who have been explicitly approved will ever set foot on the elusive paradise in the stars. 36-year-old Max (Matt Damon) lives in an L.A. shantytown and earns his living by working on an Armadyne assembly line. He's had a rough past, but he's struggling to stay on the right side of the law when he realizes that his only hope for survival after being exposed to deadly radiation is to elysium exosuit scene heist scene everything wrong with elysium honest trailer watch elysium full movie online free 4k clip hd best moments best sci-fi movies worst sci-fi movies reach Elysium. Should Max succeed, he will strike a major blow for equality in the eyes of his fellow surface dwellers; should he fail, it will mean certain death. In his quest to become the hero who can restore the balance between the rich and the poor, however, Max must first do battle with Elysium's hawkish Secretary of Defense Delacourt (Jodie Foster), who has devoted her entire career to maintaining that division, and whose key enforcer Kruger (Sharlto Copley) is notorious for his brutal tactics in driving out illegals. With the fates of millions hanging in the balance, Max sets his sights on Elysium and never looks back.
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District 9 (2009)
Director Neill Blomkamp teams with producer Peter Jackson for this tale of extraterrestrial refugees stuck in contemporary South Africa. It's been 28 years since the aliens made first contact, but there was never any attack from the skies, nor any profound technological revelation capable of advancing our society. Instead, the aliens were treated as refugees. They were the last of their kind, and in order to accommodate them, the government of South Africa set up a makeshift home in District 9 as politicians and world leaders debated how to handle the situation. As the humans begin to grow wary of the unwelcome intruders, a private company called Multi-National United (MNU) is assigned the task of controlling the aliens. But MNU is less interested in the aliens' welfare than attempting to understand how their weaponry works. Should they manage to make that breakthrough, they will receive tremendous profits to fund their research. Unfortunately, the highly advanced weaponry requires alien DNA in order to be activated. When MNU field operative Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley) is exposed to biotechnology that causes his DNA to mutate, the tensions between the aliens and the humans intensifies. Wikus is the key to unlocking the alien's technology, and he quickly becomes the most wanted man on the planet. Ostracized and isolated, Wikus retreats to District 9 in a desperate bid to shake his dogged pursuers.~Jason Buchanan - Krátké a kreslené filmy
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This seems to be a recurring problem with Matt Damon films; this, Suburbicon, & Downsizing all have interesting story ideas, but the overall plot is kind of boring.
@Filmento, would you make any video essay on video games?
I think it could be a perfect update for your channel.
I just wanted to tell you that I am impressed not only with the quality of your content but also with the way you edit it. It is simply impressive and I wanted to congratulate you, the passion with which you make the videos is noticeable
I will say if this movie had the money to use the Imagine fragons song radioactive, I think that would have helped the trailer pull morte people.
@Filmento are you going to sell hardcopy of the book? I really want to get one! =D
Actually Elysium didn't do that bad at the box office and with critics. It was Chappie that put the nail in Blomkamps Hollywood career.
Agreed, Chappie sucked hard compared to his other movies.
Not saying this is wrong, I did like Chappie tho
I actually enjoyed Elysium tbh
I never saw chappie and i happy I never did cuz I knew from the trailer that it would suck, district 9 is just on another level
@@hunterg1088 The worst thing about Chappie movie is that they tried to make Ninja and his girlfriend's characters to be sympathetic when in the movie they committed crime and Ninja being asshole to Chappie and took advantage of him, smh. The movie should have been about the relationship between Dave Patel and Chappie, kind of like Short Circuit, and not Chappie learning to be a gangster.
I don’t think Max’s lack of a reason to live was really a problem for Elysium, but I think you’re very right about the fact that the goalposts changing in the movie. When the movie was just “break into elysium, get healed and then try to get out before you get arrested” it was better and more believable than “break in and change the social structure of a country so that a girl you hardly know with leukemia can get in and hope she doesn’t get arrested afterwords because of magic”
After your childhood love fucks some other guy
I agree with this, to a point. I think the goalposts only changed once they found out they key could unlock the doors for eveyone.
Being realistic here, if you are going to die and found out you could save yourself or eveyone, could you really choose yourself? I'm sure some people would, but if your life was nothing but a fight and pain, it's almost like a gift, to go out and change the world.
I loved the movie. The only area I did not like was bringing back Kruger. Adding in Kruger little plan at the end was a bit much.
It wasn't perfect, but I fundamentally believe Blomkamp's gritty, realistic feeling action scenes are amongst the best.
I knew Elysium was gonna suck but I saw it because I knew there would be some killer action scenes and future tech. Also the Wikus guy from D9 got to play a psycho assassin which he pulled off awesomely
@@worsethanhitlerpt.2539 preach. Kruger was awesome and him and his two Merc buddies were cool; as well as the gear they used.
Plus, watching the one of them get shredded by a rail gun was gnarly. 😂
The scene attacking the boss for his data chip was bliss in terms of action, too.
Lmao. Wickus is Kruger? A beard n some weight pump change so much much
Bloomkamp has a villain problem in all his movies.
"Why do people do bad things?"
"Because they're EVIL."
"Thanks for breaking that down for me, Neil."
Some people are just psychopaths you know
@@Rubenz343 A psychopath still has his reasons.
@Rubenz343 even for psychos, it has to serve some sort of purpose that gets established somewhere in the film. Maybe they do it because they enjoy suffering, but that needs to be established in an engaging way that isn't just "haha I shot the puppy lmao."
Fully agree. Crappie (thanks auto correct, I meant Chappie) I specially I was halfway rooting for the “evil corporation” because the gangster thugs had no redeeming features. took years to watch the movie despite liking D9 as their looks put me off then when I do watch it they are even worse than expected.
Likewise this movie has a bunch of people going smash n grab on some orbital hab block but zero reasons given as to why only those orbital communities had the tech despite all the meaningful resources in a gravity well being on the damned planet not floating precariously in “easily” disturbed orbits/locations.
That's fine to do for certain villains like Palpatine and the Sith and I know REAL LIFE business people are REALY greedy and selfish like the stockholders at EA but in fiction, you gotta do a bit more to flesh them out them as people than just stuck up people who are completely cut off from the rest of society, no matter how realistic that is.
Think of the story what you want but visually neil is a mastermind. His sci fi visions are breathtaking
the score is good too
I want him to make a full length version of that really depressing short where people have to fight lizard aliens with machetes.
It's blood diamond in space. That's no bad thing.
@@howarddavies136 i didn't hate it either but it's definitely more controversial than the setting/sci fi style which is just so so good imho
I agree. His visuals are absolutely incredible.
Watching Sharlto go from weak Wikus to this guy was all I needed to see how excellent an actor he is. His character is genuinely intimidating and Wikus couldn't intimidate a puppy.
He kind of did that transformation in D9 with the help of an Alien Combat Destruction Suit.
My question is why didn’t they merge the two core concepts? For example, the main character, Max, is trying to save himself and his little sister from radiation poisoning. These orphans are unable to afford the treatment and only have two days before the poison kills them, so they must break into a house in Elyisum to illegally access the machine. Meanwhile, these corporate figureheads are lobbying their Government to prevent this treatment from going to Earth in a week. That way they can minimize competition and keep their prices high.
that isn't his little sister nor was she dying of radiation poison
@@toomanyaccounts That's my point, you would fuse the concept.
Because that would be too similar to what happens in the real world. Big pharma shareholders also invest in Hollywood. They would object to such a clear anti-capitalist message. Hollywood serves rich interests so that limits some types of stories it can tell. That's why your, otherwise great, idea would not be implemented on such a major budget movie.
@@daddy_1453 Good point.
@@daddy_1453
It wouldn't be anti-capitalist, it would be anti-corporatist.
Monopolies are antithetical to capitalism when its defined as a market free from government intervention, yet monopolies require government intervention to their favor.
Would definitely piss them off
This movie is a classic case of having "the message" take the place of an actual plot. The director was so desperate to say "greedy rich people = bad" that he forgot about things like character development, motivations, etc.
The worst part was watching the usual suspects fawn over it as an example of 'how easy it would be to solve the world's problems' as if it wasn't entirely reliant on Hand-waved Technology-based Post-scarcity even beyond that of Star Trek TNG.
But it is true though.
Craven rich ghouls do in fact
= Bad. Very bad.
@@simo3873 Right. The problem is that you start with ghouls, end up attacking the small business owners too.
Seems to be a rather common problem these days
@@simo3873, yeah sure.
"You know that group of people different from me? They're bad"
Where did I heard that before?
Can’t believe you made a video on this movie, my dad and I were just trying to figure out what it was called 😂 we enjoyed rewatching it lol
how did you enjoy rewatching a movie you know in 5 minutes, i call that bs with a scent of cap on top 🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢
@@breevonnebenan794 what? I was just saying that we forgot the name and when we remembered it we saw it again 😂 this was like a week ago that’s why I find it funny lol
I’m so proud of you, writing a book is a huge accomplishment.
There were a lot of things that were silly in this film, like the human traffickers with hearts of gold and why the healing station are exclusively on the Elysium but Sharlto Copley and Matt Damon easily carried this film into guilty pleasure for me.
Yeah the healing stations only being on the satellite was a silly idea. You’d assume in a capitalist environment the company would want to sell as many as possible
There are all sorts of motivations for good people to be bad and bad people to be good.
I was named after my parents coyotes " human traffickers" because he had a heart of gold. Not really silly
It’s to show the disparity between class. The earthlings have nothing, only hospitals stuck in the past, while the elite have a automated healing pod at every home.
Like wise 👏
Elysium is like Prometheus to me. I see all the flaws and problems with it, but I still think it's a great sci-fi ride.
I remember me and my sister watching Prometheus on cinemas and loving it
Until we found out it was an Alien movie
Somehow we managed to avoid all info about this particular element of the story and that made the movie better since we had no established lore to anchor it
Still on re-watch I've become aware of the many nonsensical things that happen on it
The action in this movie is flawless
I wish they'd utilised his exoskeleton more though.
@@peteyd1984 yep
Holy shit yeah it was! The scene where he completely dissolved a dude through a wall still sticks in my mind
@@peteyd1984 i wish they would swap the bad guys to bad robots instead. That would be awesome. I kinda find the bad guys here are irritating to watch.
The guy who played the main character in d9 assuming the role of the psycho jar head spec ops guy he played opposite was a nice touch
Kruger. Just remembered his name lol
I actually enjoyed this film, District 9 is still Blonkamp's best film and my favorite, but Elysium is not too shabby.
It’s sad that simply being original is so rare in Hollywood that it blows their minds.
7:10 good to see Charlie back at it again acting at an extremely important scene what a legend
was that actually Charlie tho? i don't see a video of his on Elysium
@@xulqarnaen Little bit late to reply but it was an AI voice
i dont think the plot being 'he wants to live' is an issue considering so many other stories are built on that premise. Infact, a majority of action/survival/combat stories can be boiled down to 'they want to live'.
although I think the issue is that after he DOES get to live in the movie, we dont see him do anything with it. He doesn't change his life for the better or anything like that
Usually wanting to live is the starting driving goal, and as the story progresses stakes increase to add gravity and weight to the character's actions, if you keep "I want to live" as the main focus through and through you gotta either do more with it or add bigger stakes than it, one life on top of another is falling short, making everyone a citizen of elysium should've been the original stake-rising goal, then you could make it so that there's a twist, like that Elysium is just a smaller space station, that humans from up there had been expanding to other planets and had disregarded earth as a whole, say leaving it in charge of the president while the intergalactic government rules over several colonies that span from earth to the entire milky way, and he has not only to bring down the magic medic capsules but he also ends up exposing the crimes of the corrupt government to the expanded humanity, raising awareness and bringing change to earth turning it a patrimony of humanity as the cradle of humankind.
@@danello9091 not offense man, but that does not sound like an interesting story
@@danello9091 that's sounds like too much going on for no reason.
That's exactly what he said.
@@alerav4826 I think it starded really well. If the movie endend with this plot twist that there are other colonies and stuff it would be nice. But all that "Expose the corruption" part seams kinda unnecessary. Maybe a hint to a galactic war against the colonies? But that seams a little too big for that first movie.
Kruger was hands down the best part of Elysium
He was the 🐐
Sharlto Copley crushes damn near every role he gets, regardless of how good or bad the rest of the film is.
Dude deserves a lot more work - he’s a seriously underrated actor.
Yeah the actor is a true chameleon. Hard to grasp that it's the same person here and in D9 and in A Team
@@Filmento Kinda sad this genre died down.
Though speaking of old movies. I'd be hella interested in hearing your thoughts about Dredd (2012), since it relates to characterization trough action.
You're right, boykie
5:30 this is a very good point. It always seemed like the girl friend was a bit extraneous. If instead she was his ex-wife and the girl was his daughter and he was trying to fix his marriage, that would have tied a few elements of the story together a little bit better. Also, If Max worked at a factory that manufactured the healing machines and it was seen that the healing machine factory was running out of resources and they had a limited time up on Elysium in which to use the healing machines, that would have also tied together motivations a little bit better.
Imagine if someone accidentally mixed up pages of Elysium and Time scripts? We could have gotten one whole great movie😅
I loved the movie and still do. Love your video as well bro
Your editing always amazes me, the perfect way to enhance your writing 👏🏻
"I can't help her" says the man wearing an exo suit that's specifically meant to help him reach Elysium
Movies has conditioned me to suspend my disbelief from the start, as a kid I learned not to question the writing because I always assumed the grownups who did the writing knew better (I.E. Prometheus school of running away from things, I thought I shouldn't question that sort of thing), so I always end up turning my brain off when watching movies.
Elysium is the only movie that got me constantly questioning the plot throughout the whole thing.
For any faults, big and small, Elysium is still a very entertaining movie.
Only if you can get past the preaching that refuses to provide a reason as to why the “other” side are unrepentantly evil.
Bloody sad movie, 😔
I just wish the "good guys" lost though.
It is strange when someone else has to explain to me why I haven't bothered rewatching a film. I usually know but, for this one . . ? It has sat in its shelf space, gathering dust, since the day after I bought it. I remember who is in it and think "oooh" but, before my hand has reached its plastic case, my eyes/mind fall upon something else I'm far more likely to watch. This has been happening for nearly 10 years now.
It happened to me with the Star Wars Prequels. I watched them as a kid. But never actually got back to watch them. I always felt something was off with the movies. Then as an adult i watched the Plinkett Reviews and then it made sense.
Elysium, Chappie and District 9 were all great movies imo, love them
No dude, they were good movies. Improve your tarstes.
I find it hilarious that one of the major issues with the story is that Max is too much of a total loser to justify trying to save his own life
I feel like they should've built up the first two-thirds more, then maybe leave Elysium out of it, sort of like a mystery that shouldn't really be explored too much, almost like end it after the main characters finally make it, similar to Alita's floating city.
Isn't the motivation of him getting to Elysium, healing his radiation poisoning and saving himself from dying not enough?
It is in my opinion. He argues that the protagonist has "no life" to return to once healed, which is wrong, because even tho his life sucks, he wants to make it better, as he doesn't want to get involved with crime and wants to "climb the ladder" at his job.
Even without this, not wanting to die is motivation enough for anyone who's put in that position.
Once again I knew something bothered me but you perfectly articulate why in an easy to understand and fun way. I’m keeping an eye on Amazon for those physical copies of your book once you’re done checking! 📖
Same here! I wondered why this movie failed to move me. I thought it was just Matt Demon's wooden attempt at acting. He was perfect as a monotone, emotionless , brainwashed assassin in Bourne, but that was really his match, and he fails badly when anything requires a level of character waaay beyond his limited po-faced abilities.
I remember I was on my way to watch this with friends and I accidentally spoiled the entire movie without having watched a single trailer. They were very pissed yet very surprised when the movie was over.
How’d you accidentally spoil it? Just a lucky guess?
@@John-Doe-Yo yeah he's making a criticism that "matt damon wants to save his own life but then dies to save everyone instead" isn't a twist it's the most obvious thing ever
I'm still sad we didn't get an alien movie from neil instead we got the Prometheus movies from scott which were an absolute disaster 😭
Thank you so much for the subtitles man. English is not my main language and this helps a lot
TO THE CREATOR: Yo, just got your book. I don't think you're always wrong. I've been to film school. I've read numerous screenwriting books, some of which I like. But you put everything so clear, concise, and entertaining the way cinema can be. If anything, why do you think filmmakers get this stuff wrong so often? Is it that some productions are so big the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing? To me, the mysteries of cinema shouldn't be that mysterious because they're in the movies themselves which are recorded and can be played back, that's the whole point isn't it?
It’s actually unbelievable just how better the film would have been with those slight changes. Giving him a grander purpose, developing the girl and her mum a little more, interconnecting the overthrowing plot with the reason why the protagonist was rushed and injured, reducing the severity of the entire overthrowing thing and giving a proper reason as to why they can’t have the healing pods on earth.
Doing all this could have made this one of the better sci-fi films.
Elysium really felt underwhelming and preachy. D9 was a far better movie and the message was more low key and didnt outshine any of the other stuff in it
I had such high hopes for this film. It’s not terrible, but it should have been so much better.
I actually love this movie for the message it has. This hit hard back in the day, and now hits even harder. Btw, Chappie was cool af.
A man of class in the comments.
Yep. I wondered why this movie failed to move me. I thought it was just Matt Demon's wooden attempt at acting. He was perfect as a monotone, emotionless , brainwashed assassin in Bourne, but that was really his match, and he fails badly when anything requires a level of character waaay beyond his limited po-faced abilities.
Blomkamp's heritage shines so strongly in all of his films that I think sometimes the themes he presents justify themselves for him, without feeling like he needs to do more with them. This simultaneously makes some of them feel more heavy handed and less relatable to people who haven't been educated on Apartheid
Maybe some people don't want to get "educated" by movies and just have a good time watching them?!
@@ricardoklement-yj8sr Perhaps sesame street is more your speed.
@@MichaelCasanovaMusic
Projecting hard, snowflake?! 😂
I love your breakdown of what gives movies substance or lack thereof. I tell people all the time that great movies should be art. That's why they are called motion pictures.
Thank God you did a book!!. Now i can stop writing your key points on my office wall.
I really enjoyed Elysium, but I've noticed that when I want a Blomkampf fix, I always go back to District 9.
God I love these videos Soooooo much man. All the little jokes and references you make I always catch like the comparison to fight club at 4:20. Most other film analysis channels can come off as know-it-all’s, but you have such a great senses of humor that accompanies your discussions that always makes me want to watch to the end. I really appreciate the work you put into each video. Keep em coming!
The MC does have a motivation tho, he does next to nothing, he tries and fails then wants to give up, but once he meets some random girl he wants to help. The main thing I have with the film is the MC's back story, he comes across as a guy with military training, and during the story he fights actual soldiers and robots, not something some random former common criminal from the streets could learn to do.
But its matt damon therefore mindless action man is what you're likely to get.
It's nice to see someone mention the difference between plot and story. Plot is one of an infinite number of journeys through the story. I agree with you 100%.
out of topic. but recently finished cyberpunk 2077, now i understand how important the sense of urgency is. also, i agree that making your hero gradually get worse is good way for showing that
Biggest issue Elysium had was that the movie was so focused on telling you rich people are evil, it forgot to give you the reason why the rich elite in the movie are evil and forgot to develop any characters or plot. The why to everything is “rich people are evil” with no basis in any reality or world, including the world the movie creates.
I recommend the manga Battle Angel Alita if you want to read a great “elite sky city” vs “poor underworld” setup for a world. The movie for it just scratches the surface of what’s in the original manga.
I really enjoyed this film, real shame Blomkamp isn't doing more, I think his work is brilliant
He seems to be a concept man, not really a narrative man.
Every movie he's made has brilliant concepts, but only D9 landed on the story department too.
Doesn't matter how awesome a concept is, of we can't get behind the characters/story then its all wasted potential.
@@jamiekeane471 Yeah; seeing _Elysium_ and _Chappie_ fall so hard despite their immensely promising concepts make me wish Blomkamp simply stuck with Peter Jackson following their success together on _District 9._ Blomkamp has an abundance of original stories and a unique visual style that pairs well with Jackson’s penchant for high-concept storytelling.
Seems he's completely abandoned the whole OATS Studio thing as well
Really going all out with the editing; loved it
Filmento always comes thru with epic editing etc. Never stop stopping, Fam
The one thing that I really truly loved in Elysium was the effect they used to show his enhanced abilities when using the exoskeleton. It's wild in it's amazing simplicity too. All they did was stabilize the shaky footage and crop in. That way you get these really amazing motion blurs on everything but can still understand what's going on.
At they none of them failed art school or else we would’ve had a much bigger problem to worry about.
I love the editing in your videos. The clip of Jeff Bezos laughing like a maniac got me haha
your videos always help me better my stories, i deeply appreciate you man!
His Gran Turismo project could hopefully be a nice turning point for his career. No political commentary, no over the top conceptual ideas. Just a simple plot that could hopefully be made in creative ways.
With that maybe we can see his Aliens idea that was almost picked up before Ridley Scott took the project back.
When you describe the movie Elysium should've been, you're essentially describing Snowpiercer.
And yet, Snowpiercer is not a better film.
I love watching your videos. You have single handedly helped me write better stories.
I'd love to read your book on paper so I'll wait for phisical copies to buy one. Also awesome video!
There should have been only one healing station instead of everyone owning one. That way some stakes could have been established.
Actually, I think that having a piece of media where a person originally driven by blunt survival instinct stumbles upon a meaningful purpose (or "changes stakes" as you put it) is a great idea.
It's hard to make it justice over a film rather than a TV series though.
It's so cool that you have a book with all the concepts from your videos
Great to see you have written a book about all the finer points from your vids...
cheers
This man vie always reminded me 100% of COD Advanced Warfare. When I was younger I genuinely thought it was.
I remember watching this movie
I forgot most of it except for one thing which you mentioned:
The whole magic healing machines being only on Elysium made no sense since everyone and their mothers seems to have cancer on earth and if everyone on earth dies who's going to do the grunt work the rich would not do?
Same as why I hated the plot of the Total recall remake, same nonsense, even worse since in that movie they don't have a legion of robots who in theory could be repurposed for grunt work
Just to say your channel is amazing. A lot of reviews, for any medium I see really, fall into this pattern of only reviewing bad things they hated, just to proceed to hate on them for 30 minutes.
I love that you take everything you loved about movies to highlight it, and review the bad parts in a constructive manner. It really shows that you are actually just someone that loves movies with passion, and it's extremely refreshing.
Thanks for making this! It explains an issue with many films that i have gone into wanting to love and come away feeling like something was just not working despite many great elements. I remember when i first saw Elysium i was pretty young, a teenager, and it was probably the first R rated film my dad took me to see actually. I remember feeling like the story was “random” that it was just kinda this contrived series of events to justify the world the movie created. I couldn’t articulate this beyond saying “the movie had a random story” but this video perfectly explains what i was thinking when i first saw Elysium and a number of other films. Random is still not a bad way to describe the endemic plot issue.
I'm a big fan of Neil Blomkamp and I will watch anything he is involved in just because I love his style. District 9 and Chappie are great to me and I even enjoyed Elysium and Jodie Foster's calves even though I get what you are saying in this video.
Great news about your book but I am really waiting for your movie. Movie when?
Jodie Foster's calves also starred in Inside Man. Great performance from her calves in that one.
@@tommylakindasorta3068 Great shout, I knew I'd seen them somewhere else.
I love this movie despite its flaws.
The intro had more meaing in it with the little girl being healed in this film 😂😂
Just bought the book. Keep up the good work!
I love this movie so much, hate how its ignored
I remember i watching in a cinema...
Don't remember anything beyond that. Truely, one of the movies ever made.
Good video, makes me want to go rewatch District 9.
Scenes with Mr. Amazon-priceless! What a absolute brilliant editing
Funny, I remember kinda liking this movie, but also feeling it just could have been "more". Great analysis as always!
Also kudos on writing that book! Nice work, will definitely buy the physical copy!
Appropriately, in Tyler Mowery's (also a CZcamsr) practical screenwriting course, the Elysium script is used as a case study on how not to write a story ^^
Too bad no one's listening
The way you make your videos is just genius!
love your videos.
This seems to be a recurring problem with Matt Damon films; this, Suburbicon, & Downsizing all have interesting story ideas, but the overall plot is kind of boring.
Absolutely. I believe he's a big part of the problem. In fact, at first when. I wondered why this movie failed to move me, I thought it was just Matt Demon's wooden attempt at acting. He was perfect as a monotone, emotionless , brainwashed assassin in Bourne, but that was really his match, and he fails badly when anything requires a level of character waaay beyond his limited po-faced abilities. He brings literally NOTHING to this movie.
@@goldeneddie I tend to agree with this assessment of Damon, though I would suggest checking out "The Informant". A damn good movie with pretty nuanced acting from Damon.
@@princejellyfish3945 Hey, you know what - I appreciate that response. It's a rare thing on yt to have balanced view presented, so I will respect your suggestion and check that movie out. Cheers.
@@goldeneddie Cheers, hope you enjoy it.
New to the channel and I've been binge watching your video's. I get to learn alot from writing important story elements and to introduce/write characters. Writing a book atm so I want to thank you for all the help and support
Hope you have a wonderful day!
Beautiful execution on this video. I love the splicing of GTA into the game and subtle layering of music. *Chef's kiss*
Even though I like to write short stories and novels, I'll buy your book. There have been numerous times when what you said had an impact on how I think about writing. Here's hoping you'll make another one of these books in the future.
-District 9 was a good start.
-Elysium was a rocky mid ground.
-Chappie sadly was the nail in Blomkamps filmmaking career.
I actualy liked this movie, I watch it from time to time.
Subscribed, could only listen because at work, but I dig it.
Great video
Great movie. Loved everything about it.
I actually really like this movie
Just reminded me to rewatch this fantastic film thanks!
Congrats on your new book 🥳🥳
I really loved this film.
Hey I'm first and I love all your videos sir!!
Thanks for watching!
That little snippet of Where is My Mind by Pixies at 4:15 is gonna drive me insane because it's already stuck in my head again
Mate, sell the hell out of that book, seriously.
The are the most talented and detailed movie analyst I've seen on CZcams. That book is next on my reading list.
Can't wait. :)
I haven’t seen the movie in a while but isnt the fact that Max is alone and doesn’t have much of a life before the accident kind of the point? It works for his character arc by the end when he makes the sacrifice for the mother and daughter.
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Did the movie establish that Max was looking for something greater in his life which is later fulfilled by the sacrifice?
@@ArifRWinandar idk I thought it was about how he realized he wasn’t living much of a life to begin with, and so he decided to give up his own to save the little girl.
"if you don't have family you should die for people who have families" is a pretty bad moral imo
@@alexlazzerly3677 did he at any point in the movie realize that even if he managed to heal himself he won't have much of a life to go back to?
I totally forgot this movie existed but it looks really good. Is it worth watching?
Yes.
yeah there are a lot of cool elements in it. I still think Blomkamp has some really amazing visual ideas as a director
@@Filmento I would recommend it just for the cast. Jodie Foster is too rarely in movies, and it has Wagner Moura (Pablo Escobar, Death from Puss in Boots II) and Diego Luna (star of the other Narcos Netflix series and Andor) making their first major Hollywood picture. Just for that, I think it is worth checking out as a fun piece of movie archeology.
If it's on TV - sure, but otherwise is pretty bleak. I don't remember if we're even shown why the rich guys are guilty for the situation on Earth, and even if we are, it's not memorable, so I can't really cheered for their world to be ruined. As for people on Earth we're not shown anything except cancer is really solved for them so there's no real celebration at the ending either.
I personally didn't enjoy it. Many of the reasons why being pointed out in this video.
The movie is a blatant appeal that "The US should open its borders and allow in all the immigrants with full citizenship and benefits." and that "Rich white people are evil because they're rich and white and being evil is what they do best.".
Thank you for making your point and your explanation simple enough for me to understand. Great job on the vid as well.
Filmanto is the only CZcams channel where I have to watch a video twice to understand it. Which is a good thing.