@JohnEkdahl @AceofSpadesHQ I personally couldn't wait to not see it
— BDJinCO (@DissidentBiker) August 13, 2013
“Elysium” is currently the No. 1 movie in America, but that doesn’t necessarily make it a hit. The Matt Damon film grossed a marginally OK $30 million in its first weekend, but it has a long way to go to earn back its estimated $115 million production budget and please the capitalist masters who funded it. Add several million more for the marketing budget, although Media Matters is doing what it can to drum up publicity for the film, which it says “forces the right to confront the world their ideology creates.” Sony should slap that on a poster and see how many tickets it sells.
If you haven’t heard, “Elysium” features Damon trying to escape a future earth that looks a lot like Detroit for an orbiting paradise called Elysium, where rich Hollywood types live in luxury like they do here on earth.
Speaking of Detroit, outlets like Media Matters are again trying to suggest that conservative policies are responsible for the downfall of cities where Democratic leadership has been entrenched for decades. “The right’s real objection to ‘Elyisum,'” says Media Matters, “is that the very nature of the economic disparity at the heart of the story illustrates a world suffering the consequences of the policies conservatives advocate.” So, now how much would you pay not to see “Elysium”?
Not watching Elysium has now become water-cooler conversation across the country. People just can't stop talking about not seeing it.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) August 13, 2013
Indeed.
not watching Elysium had such an emotional impact on me I can't even imagine anymore what not not seeing it would be like
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) August 13, 2013
https://twitter.com/AsgardNorth/status/367098640549941249
Not watching Elysium, because #ScienceSaysSo.
— Patrick "Wear a Damn Mask" H. (@trogdor8768) August 13, 2013
Less than 24 hours ago I was thinking about not watching Elysium, & now I've accomplished that goal.
— Palfreyribbes I½ (@mount_ufs) August 13, 2013
@AceofSpadesHQ I've not watched Elysium 4 days in a row. I'm planning on not watching every day for the rest of my life. It's that not good.
— CrossbarHockey (@CrossbarHockey) August 13, 2013
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/367374276862550016
@charlescwcooke Did you enjoy not watching Elysium this weekend as much as I did?
— American Journalists Publish Chinese Propaganda (@JohnEkdahl) August 13, 2013
@JohnEkdahl I had a great weekend not watching Elysium, yes. I didn't watch it in England and then I didn't watch it in New York.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) August 13, 2013
@charlescwcooke @JohnEkdahl funny you should mention it. I happen to be not watching Elysium right now. Small world.
— Andrew Colclough (@wtc) August 13, 2013
Fortunately, the fun of not watching “Elysium” doesn’t end when it leaves theaters.
@AceofSpadesHQ I loved not watching Elysium so much that I’ve already not preordered the Blu-Ray.
— Master Mirror (@Aurvant) August 13, 2013
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