The movie was a nice, light entertainment. I've definitely seen worse.
Yes. Typically in this genre, if a movie is "bad," it will be disjointed, non-sensible, kind of glaring logic farts, and totally wooden acting. This didn't really have that, it was just more that it didn't ascend to any sort of height. The story was pretty basic, not really delved into on a personal level, and there were no real surprises. I think Oblivion tried to be more noble in some ways than this movie, which is kind of unexpected.
Agreed. I really like Foster as an actress, but her appearance in this movie almost felt like a cameo just to attract viewers with some big names.
Yes, she seemed sort of miscast if you know what I mean -- like she wasn't really comfortable with the part. Have she and William Fichtner acted together since Contact? In that movie, they had more rapport.
The President is played by the first captain in the opening moments of Star Trek (2009). I leaned over to my friend and said, "Hey, what's Star Fleet doing in this movie?"
Foster is actually fluent in French, so the French part sounded good to an untrained ear. I just figured that since this is 2154 and the world is what it is, a citizen of Elysium might not supposed to have a consistent accent.
Well, to my mind is a person's attempt to speak one language while having been born and raised with the phonetics of a different one, so those sounds/phonetics are being used as substitutes for the real ones they cannot emulate. So there should be some consistency there. It wasn't as bad as Planet Earth (which was pretty dreadful), but it definitely seemed like sometimes her accent would be heavy on some words, then on the same sounds in other words it was not. It also felt very forced.
That of course is being said as an observer and someone who can't speak another language anyway.
But it is distracting when, instead of focusing on the movie, you catch yourself wondering about the accents and how Foster's backside could have used a more flattering garment.
it was just odd seeing all the close-ups with the lines visible around her eyes. Jodie Foster is getting old? Say it ain't so!
And Sharlto Copley is a native of South Africa, hence the more genuine accent.
The South African accent is a weird half dutch/half australian thing.
Thanks, it sounded more consistent to me even if I couldn't place what it was.