Nerd in the 'Noke

Elysium (2013), R, 109 minutes - I have been looking forward to Elysium for four years.  No joke, four years. Since before I even knew what Elysium was going to be.  That's a long time and one may even ask how I can put such a specific time frame on such a thing.   Well, I know that it has been four years because I've been anticipating it since the moment I finished watching District 9 for the first time.  Elysium is the follow up to that film from writer/director Neill Blomkamp. Elysium is an absolutely gorgeous sci-fi tale that takes place in the year 2154.  The Earth is in ruins, the majority of the planet reduced to third world slums.  The wealthy have quarantined themselves high above the planet on a Utopian space station known as Elysium.  The wealth of its inhabitants and the technology it affords has rid them of sickness, disease, or disability.  But the citizens of Elysium have become greedy and unwilling to share these technological...

Wow.  This first trailer for Elysium looks amazing.  I'm not really sure what else to say.  I've been eagerly anticipating the next Neill Blomkamp project since walking out of the theater after seeing District 9 a few years ago.  Before today, we've only seen a couple of production stills.  Now we've got a full fledged trailer for his latest writing/directing effort and it completely justifies my placing it sight unseen at number three on my Most Anticipated Films of 2013  list. Set in the year 2159, Elysium is the virtual utopia that is home to the wealthy.  As the trailer says the rest of us live on Earth, which is a planet in ruin.  We are not told how or why Earth is the shell of its former self that is, but it has basically become a slum much like District 9 in Blomkamp's last outing.  Matt Damon is Max, and appears to be the lead of some sort of rebellion.  Elysium looks to be very similar to District 9 in that it me...