ArnoldRimmer on 08 August 2014
Don't know if it's a rip-off, as I haven't watched the movie.
But I found it quite interesting when I recently read that the movie was actually a kind of metaphor, that "Elysium" represents the USA (apparently "Elysium" was a kind of code word that freemasons and illuminati used two hundred years ago to refer to the US), and that the story was really about how rich countries (like the US) /rich people are nowadays trying to shield themselves off from the evergrowing masses of less fortunate/poor people.
