It is no doubt that Neil Blomkamp is one of the most talented directors working today, and we are finally getting another science fiction tale from him that features Matt Damon, Sharlto Copley, and Jodie Foster in the year of 2159. The basic plot of the movie has the super-rich abandoned the sick Earth for a Stanford Torus designed space station in GSO called Elysium. Prices for citizenship packages start at one billion dollars, allowing for the few to leave the many behind to die slowly on the polluted planet below to live in paradise.
This setup reminds me of the first episode of the old NBC 1994 sci-fi show
Earth 2. Matt Damon plays Max, a man with a portable rail gun rifle mounted to an exoskeleton designed to adsorb the recoil and sent on a mission to Elysium who will die in five days. We will seem what the world of 2159 is like on March 1, 2013 and t
he director has confirmed that NASA helped with the design for Elysium. So, Neil, where the hell is my HALO movie?
hello this is not related to the above article but here goes: have you or could you write an article on mechs? will they ever exist? not the huge 30-40 meters tall type, we knows thats not going to happen. more masamune shirrow type landmates, those could see light one day. or maybe not?
ReplyDeleteMecha has always been close to my heart ever since watching Gundam in the late 1970's,and FWS will be writting a huge blogpost on Mecha. That blogpost has been on the books for two years, along with an armored power suit blogpost, which the two are related. I will bump up the blogpost, and begin the research needed for such an endeavor. Thanks for the suggestion and how you continue to read FWS!
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing to me how much of my early years were spent with mecha...ah...memories.
Mechas "Kuratas"
ReplyDeletejust look video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iZ0WuNvHr8