This movie is a wretched piece of shit.<\/p>\n
Am I being overly harsh?\u00a0 Is that really important right now with people dying in Syria?<\/p>\n
Anyway the commercial for this was one of the best I’ve seen.\u00a0 I had a Sci hard on.\u00a0 It looked like the movie was going to do a little Tarrantinoesque borrowing and have some Neuromancer<\/em> fight scenes which, combined with the direction of Neil Blomkamp (who burst onto the scene with District 9<\/em>, his sci-fi\/kafka epic, which has made me wetter for a sequel than any movie since Starman<\/em>) and the acting talents of Sharlto Copley, Matt Damon, and Jodie Foster would at least be okay.\u00a0 And probably epic.\u00a0 Well it was epic.\u00a0 It was an epic abortion.<\/p>\n The movie has the basic issue of being boring and preachy but I’ll get back to that in a moment.\u00a0 It has a basic plot issue that annoyed me for the whole movie.\u00a0 Attend:<\/p>\n All the rich people in the future are white or Indian (dot) and live off Earth on a luxury space station.\u00a0 All the poor people on Earth are Mexican or Matt Damon.\u00a0 The rich have these special beds which can restructure your atoms and as such can cure most (all? it was unclear) disease.\u00a0 Every so often the poor people get together to launch a spaceship to try and land on the space station and try to storm someone’s house to get their sick kids or what have you into one of the beds.\u00a0 (the space station security isn’t allowed to shoot them if they can land their ship)\u00a0 Let that sink in for a moment.<\/p>\n Matt Damon, who’s trying to keep clean and fly straight ends up sick with something and needs to storm the station.\u00a0 He chats up his former criminal friends and they graft a cybernetic exoskeleton onto his spine in some dude’s garage and they go attack the station to make the beds open for all.<\/p>\n So why does a group of people who posses the engineering knowledge to regularly launch precision space attacks from a planet to a satellite and the medical chops to perform a spinal cyborg graft in some dude’s garage need to go through all this effort for healthcare?\u00a0 Seriously?\u00a0 If you can do some garage spine surgery I think you can handle cutting out some cancer cells.\u00a0 Also assaulting the country club death star also speaks of a rather firm command of science.\u00a0 And the people in the station?\u00a0 How many missiles does a magic healing bed cost?\u00a0 I bet you’ve spent that many so far.\u00a0 The conflict at the center of the film is essentially just fucking stupid and that effects the entire film.<\/p>\n The actors are all their awesome selves.\u00a0 Although it seems like Jodie Foster is aware how dumb her character is and is deliberately being a caricature.\u00a0 Some of the future stuff like the automated parole officer could have been good if the core of the movie wasn’t lazy.\u00a0 Which just makes you further annoyed by the heavy immigration\/racial social commentary.<\/p>\n But Killer Klowns from Outer Space has a better plot.\u00a0 Avoid this piece of shit.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This movie is a wretched piece of shit. Am I being overly harsh?\u00a0 Is that really important right now with people dying in Syria? Anyway the commercial for this was one of the best I’ve seen.\u00a0 I had a Sci … Continue reading