Looks interesting - Aeonflux

[Skrit]

Unless the Movie proves me wrong, the old Liquid Television Aeon Flux is the only Aeon Flux! HEHEHE

 

[Cthulhudrew]

The trailer looks like a bit of a mess to me. The kicker was when the two women were seen leaping around, trying to evade security and *razorblades of grass* planted in *easily avoided* large planters are shown to be a huge danger.

Worse, the woman with Aeon spouts a dreck line that is in the most horribly cliched stock- "I'd keep off the grass." Ugh.

Still, I'll remain open-minded enough to read some reviews and see whether it might be worthwhile.

 

[sniffles]

I enjoyed the cartoon and my wife loved it. So this is a must see movie for us.

Sadly I don't think the movie is going to be much like the animated series. Not only have they lost the weird visual style of the animation, they've also lost the sense of moral ambiguity it had. Now I realize that for a larger viewing audience that ambiguity wouldn't be a good thing, at least in the eyes of the Hollywood suits, but the ambiguity was one of the things I really liked about the animated series. Plus, in the original episodes on Liquid Television, Aeon Flux died at the end of almost every episode.

 

[IcyCool]

Sadly I don't think the movie is going to be much like the animated series. Not only have they lost the weird visual style of the animation, they've also lost the sense of moral ambiguity it had. Now I realize that for a larger viewing audience that ambiguity wouldn't be a good thing, at least in the eyes of the Hollywood suits, but the ambiguity was one of the things I really liked about the animated series. Plus, in the original episodes on Liquid Television, Aeon Flux died at the end of almost every episode.

As an aside, the costuming for the character was originally a lot closer to the cartoon before Charlize Theron torpedoed it.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Reverse: I found it quiet quirky, and every night it came on. I was taping it. And was sad, when it ended.

I found the cartoon repulsive and overly posed, but the movie is beginning to look like something I might like. Maybe.

 

[Crothian]

In the preview I saw it had the over voice mentioneing that people would dispear and then it showed someone being taken on the street with the red scarf falling down. And yet no one else on the street even reacts to it. That lost me right there. I never say the cartoon, but the preview seems to be a perfect worlkd that is not so perfect. A world that controls everything excpet for the secret hiding place the rebels can train. It made little sense.

 

[Larcen]

Charlize frippin' Theron.

Nuff Said.

I'm seeing it.

 

[Aaron2]

Plus, in the original episodes on Liquid Television, Aeon Flux died at the end of almost every episode.

Wasn't she a clone or something? Sent out on secret government missions.


Aaron

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

What kicks me is some of the complaints leveled at the movie are, I'm pretty sure, stuff from the cartoon.

Like the bit with the grass. I think I remember that episode.

I might see it, but Charlize Theron wouldn't be my first choice for Aeon. In fact, I'd rather see a no-name in the spot if they could get somebody with angular features and the hunger to be willing to bend for the art instead of making the art bend to them. The costume isn't enough Aeon.

--fje

 

[Baron Opal]

I'll see it, especially as it isn't a cartoon. Hated the cartoon art.