Elysium...no wonder the RW is pissed (some spoilers)

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12. A friend of mine shared a rant she recieved from a libertarian "friend" about the movie.

He of course lamented that it was "liberal nonsense filtered through Hollywood" and was "pro-Obamacare, pro-Illegal immigration"...

But what cracked me up was this guy's litany of other sci-fi franchises he thinks the movie "stole" from, including - this one made me laugh the hardest - Ringworld. Oh, Elysium is a ring-shaped space station, but you might as well compare it to Halo or ANY space station from sci-fi. I concluded this guy's either never seen the movie nor read Ringworld

My only problem is that max is a pretty unlikeable character. Sympathetic perhaps, but his personality is one of selfish entitlement. Maybe that's intentional, some sort of meta-story, the selfish jerk opening up just as Elysium does. But it still leaves us with Matt Damon being sort o a floppy prick for the first two acts.