Aeon Flux movie trailer is up

[Malt Refund]

If Milla got the role it would have been too Resident Evil for me. I mean lets face it Aeon Flux is just going to be RE without the zombies.

[adam]

Okay, I know this could suck. I'm not saying it's not going to suck.

I'm saying, as a fan of the cartoon, as someone who owned the VHS boxed set, I see nothing in the trailer I've watched to indicate that it is going to suck. It looks exactly, so far, like a live action version of that cartoon should.

It may suck, but so far I haven't seen evidence that it will.

I know, I'll probably be proven wrong, but...*fingers crossed*.

[kagenaki koe]

Originally Posted by adam

I'm saying, as a fan of the cartoon, as someone who owned the VHS boxed set,

there's a new remastered 3 dvd set that was released last tuesday of all the entire Aeon Flux series (the regular TV series and Liquid television shorts). Best Buy seems to have the cheapest price ($26.99 i just bought it a few hours ago)

the only disc i've watched is the 3rd disc (the Liquid TV collection). lots of cool extras, like the interviews with the co-writer of the regular series (really uh...kooky guy) plus the history of how Aeon Flux came about with Peter Chung basically saying "I got bored with Rugrats"

[Animal Boything]

Saw it, total trainwreck pretty much, but it had its moments. I pretty much called it, the problem was not the plot so much as the fact that it had one... all the worst scenes were dialogue and exposition, but the action and freaky sci-fi nonsense were a lot of fun. I was also right about a proper DVD release of the cartoon, I got a copy and I look forward to watching it.

[grady]

Holy Jebus this was a pile of shit, or a train wreck as animal boything pointed out.

I took this in on a whim and since it was free why not be able to say I saw that film in the cinema. After about 15 minutes I started trying to imagine a different film, or a different chain of events.

Like say, they fired the director half way through and brough in Wong Kar-Wai because some idiot exec. at Paramount saw the 2046 trailer and thought it was entirely a sci-fi piece and baited Wong Kar-Wai with enough money and gave him unlimited time and space and money to work with because the go to guy in situations like this, Renny Harlin(see Exorcist prequel) was unavailable.

Suddenly Aeon Flux no longer has a script that they're shooting from but instead a one page treatment composed of three dense paragraphs. Suddenly the film bares no resemblence to the original cartoon and becomes something else.

Cue the Film Comment cover story. Cue the New York Times Sunday Magazine 'think piece' by AO Scott on the films 'post-modern symbolic referencing to current events.'

One can imagine these things.

I almost left the film but I wanted to see how bad it was, and since I wasn't paying it didn't matter.

[bklyndv]

I dunno -- the only thing less believable than Charlize Theron as an ass-kicking assassin, would be Milla Jovovich as an ass-kicking assassin.

[adam]

Milla can do anything.

[adam]

I don't think this was nearly as bad as you guys did. However, I did see it with nearly zero expectations.

I saw it despite all the criticism because it occured to me that if they had made a movie that was totally true to the spirit of the cartoon, that would likely get panned as well. That is, the cartoon had some crazy bullshit moments, and a lot of nonsense, and a reviewer unfamiliar with the cartoon might take intentional moments like those as what-the-fuck-is-this-crap, whereas someone who loved the cartoon (like myself) might view those moments in a different light.

I think, now, having seen it, that about the half the criticism the movie received was due to what I was saying, and half was just straight up legitimate criticism.

Example: when the flower comes out of the Monocan leader-woman's mouth and sprays Aeon with pollen for pretty much no reason. My reaction: Hey! Just like the cartoon! Normal person's reactioin: What the fuck is this shit?

Now, it definitely had its flaws, but as a fan of the cartoon, I'm glad I saw it. I think Trevor and Aeon were well cast, and they did a passable job of trying to combine the nonsense of the cartoon with the plot of a movie. That's "passable", not "good."

I wish Peter Cheung (sp?) had got a regular cartoon series from all this. I did really enjoy the series. Time-travelling fat mutant baby episode is classic.