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[Xantalos]

They killed Brian from Family Guy.
You basterds!

Wait what?

[Ultimuh]

They killed Brian from Family Guy.
You basterds!

Meh, I don't watch Family Guy.. I Don't like the show any way.
Reason? Why do I need a reason?

[da_nang]

"How many fingers are on a human hand?"

Oh I don't know, do we include genetic defects?

[Helgoland]

They killed Brian from Family Guy.
You basterds!

Excuse me. *lights massively oversized pipe* You called?

I didn't know I could summon Nazi war criminals... Interesting. And profitable, possibly.

[NobodyPro]

Elysium was an enjoyable movie but through the whole thing I couldn't stop asking questions in my head.

Spoiler: Elysium questions and spoilers (click to show/hide)

How could a man-portable weapon missile reach escape velocity and intercept a shuttle more than half-way to its destination?
Has a terrorist organisation ever launched missiles at Elysium?
Does Elysium have point defense systems?
Why doesn't the autodock cross-reference a list of citizens and refuse treatment to the cripple?
Why does the irradiation chamber seem to burn his hand when he touches the window but not burn his face when he passes out on the metal floor?
Why does Matt drop the airburst AK, which surely has more than three rounds in it, in favour of the other rifle?
Why is an authorized craft experiencing an emergency mid-transit and crashing in suburbia an act of war and not, say, an act of terrorism or an accident?
Why does nobody question this?
Why aren't the mother and daughter immediately taken to deportation?
Why are they kept in the same room as Matt?
Why are keycards/ID cards used in the infirmary when every person on Elysium has a machine scanable ID on their skin?
Why wasn't Spider's crew intercepted by security robots like the illegals in the opening sequence?
Why aren't the railguns locked biometrically or electronically (eg. keyed to a glove) to prevent exactly this?
Why are the railguns stored loaded?
Why does the Elysium mainframe have an 'earth_citizen_status' variable as opposed to a database of citizens that can be modified?
How does spider know about this variable?
How does the autodoc know the kid's name when previously it said "No citizen found" as opposed to "Error: ID tag not found", a probable error if someone got their tagged arm cut off in a freak accident.
Why did the security robots disarm the security personnel?
Why do the security personnel exist if they are outranked by security robots?
Why are the security robots programmed to not arrest Elysium citizens? Are Elysium citizens paragons of virtue, held in step by fluoride-spiked water?
Did Elysium just biometrically scan the population of Los Angeles from orbit?
Did Elysium just biometrically scan the population of earth from orbit?
No seriously, did Elysium just biometrically scan the population of earth from orbit?
How does it know that these nameless citizens are sick if it didn't?
What's that over there?
Is that the script?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

"How many fingers are on a human hand?"

Oh I don't know, do we include genetic defects?

At least one isn't a defect, the gene for six fingers is dominant and it doesn't cause any problems beyond not being compatible with devices designed for five fingers.

Elysium was an enjoyable movie but through the whole thing I couldn't stop asking questions in my head.

Spoiler: Elysium questions and spoilers (click to show/hide)

How could a man-portable weapon missile reach escape velocity and intercept a shuttle more than half-way to its destination?
It couldn't, unless antimatter fueled anti-material rockets have been invented.
Has a terrorist organisation ever launched missiles at Elysium?
Does Elysium have point defense systems?
Presumably, Elysium could defend itself.
Why doesn't the autodock cross-reference a list of citizens and refuse treatment to the cripple?
Elysium appears to be unaware that Spider has found out a way to pirate their ID tattoos, and so this is an unnecessary security measure. Besides, even so, Elysium is still in space, which is a far larger barrier than the ID.
Why is an authorized craft experiencing an emergency mid-transit and crashing in suburbia an act of war and not, say, an act of terrorism or an accident?
Paranoid rich people.
Why aren't the mother and daughter immediately taken to deportation?
Why are they kept in the same room as Matt?
To figure out why the hell they all crashed in Elysium despite technically having flight clearance.
Why are keycards/ID cards used in the infirmary when every person on Elysium has a machine scanable ID on their skin?
The skin IDs are just for citizenship. You don't want someone to always have irremovable access to sensitive materials, do you?
Why wasn't Spider's crew intercepted by security robots like the illegals in the opening sequence?
The security system is very busy trying to lock down the insane trio of mercenaries in the central mainframe of Elysium.
Why does the Elysium mainframe have an 'earth_citizen_status' variable as opposed to a database of citizens that can be modified?
There's evidence that by this point there's a world government, and so in the end it gets divided between Earth and Elysium.
How does spider know about this variable?
Because he's been trying to do something like this for years. It's not even the first time he's gotten people up to Elysium.
Why did the security robots disarm the security personnel?
Because they were pointing guns at a guy who, by their programming, is just standing there.
Why do the security personnel exist if they are outranked by security robots?
Higher reasoning, arresting people when Elysium's systems won't, etc. They aren't so much outranked as they had no reason to believe that the robots would come into conflict with them before then.
Why are the security robots programmed to not arrest Elysium citizens? Are Elysium citizens paragons of virtue, held in step by fluoride-spiked water?
They can probably arrest Elysium citizens just fine, Spider just wasn't doing anything as far as they could tell, and there's probably a clause against unjustified detention for Elysium citizens.
Did Elysium just biometrically scan the population of Los Angeles from orbit?
Did Elysium just biometrically scan the population of earth from orbit?
No seriously, did Elysium just biometrically scan the population of earth from orbit?
How does it know that these nameless citizens are sick if it didn't?
To the computer system, it probably came out to something like "8,542,623,132 citizens have not reported for routine medical scans in the last 100 years, and are out of range of all Elysium medical facilities. Therefore, deploy medical fleet to Earth."

[GlyphGryph]

note to self : add  top hat and monocle to avatar when I get home

[LordSlowpoke]

note to self : add  top hat and monocle to avatar when I get home

...hey can you try mine while you're at it

[Hanslanda]

I'd put a monocle and top hat on your avatar if you would use proper capitalization.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

note to self : add  top hat and monocle to avatar when I get home

...hey can you try mine while you're at it

It begins.

[acetech09]

Are we really doing this yes lets do it

*boots photoshop*

[kaenneth]

So Elysium is basically political commentary on Obamacare/ACA?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

No. Elysium is a story about rich people living in a space station. It's not political commentary in any way other than "extreme wealth and technology divides are bad".

[10ebbor10]

They tried to drop a certain Aesop so hard, it accidentally started orbiting the planet.

[Neonivek]

As putnam says. Regardless, one is more "manly" by telling societal standards to piss off, not by fellating the memetic phallus of "proper masculine action". What spineless wuss cares two whits what others think of the masculinity of their actions? Assess objects for their cuteness as much as you please. You define manhood by personal action, not by outside assignation. The fool that thinks a man in a dress squeeing over dolls is not a man may have definite proof placed upon their crown and wiggled mightily. Handstands whoresons, there is no escape.

You may flip gender statements as you please. It is a human condition not limited to particular sexes.

It sort of reminds me of an episode of "Cow and Chicken" that I felt was oddly profound in a certain sense.

In it Chicken and his friends were trying to become men... so in a cave the manliest man (his title... though I probably don't remember) is convinced to teach them to be men. So he mades them do crazy things like try to shave with smooth rocks stating that "real men use the smooth ones". He seems crazy but when chicken and his friends wake up they are heavily muscled and hairy.

Yet the next thing they are made to do by their trainer... is have a tea party with Cow and playing with dolls. To the disdain of chicken as his friends.

Now this seems simple but it made me realize one thing: If men are supposed to be so tough to the extent that they will do anything no matter how dangerous or filthy or unpleasant... why is it mutually exclusive to them doing "girly things"? As silly as it is, it was thing that made me realize that what makes a "man" is purely subjective, it is made up... There is no "manly" only a list of traits people associate with it.