Knowledge of the Aeon Flux series is inversely proportional to opinion of the film. I expect most of the mainstream critics in my area to give the film a good review. However, the critics at the free alternative papers will be familiar with AF from the appearances on Liquid Television, and the half hour series and will savage the film, recommend strongly against seeing it, and wish painful death on many involved in making it.
There was an interview with Peter Chung in Wired this month. Basically he said that he had nothing to do with the film, it didn’t bear much resembelence to the cartoon he created, and that he like the way they did Aeon’s hair.
Onion AV report gave it a decent review as well. I think doccathode is right, this will be like I Robot, in that it will be a decent action/scifi movie attached to the name of a popular source that it will bear little resemblence to.
Fun to watch at least once. It was really painful to see Aeon and some unnamed courier both be dressed in black, with him in enough eye liner to be straight out of A Clockwork Orange, just like every other cool person in black, but there’s only a few cliches here and there like that. The acting and the action were pretty spiffy. Better to see than to buy the DVD.
As for the cloninig, they use it in a sensible and scientific way…except for the whole vauge memories being retained somehow…thing. Still, I’m prepared to accept one big, silly stretch of reality per movie. This one had just one, which is more than I can say for most Science Fiction movies.
No clones in Gattaca. Just embryos selected for optimal genetic traits. [/nitpick]
They did use exactly the same technology on the TV show.
Don’t click if you want to see the movie.
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So do I!
Shouldn’t it be “Ӕon Flux”? 
I think your computer disagrees. 
Well, I left that comment to mellow overnight, but it looks like it killed the thread. (Or perhaps people simply ran out of things to talk about.)
Anyway, it appears that Marley23’s computer disagrees with him. Mine is displaying the Ash just fine. For those whose computers are displaying boxes instead, the Latin letter Ash appears to be a “A” fused with a “E”, as if by some hideous mutation at the hands of a crazed doctor.
Just for the hell of it, here is a list of words that can be spelled with a Ash.
I saw it on Friday, not knowing about the previous versions until just before the movie started. I found it entertaining. Charlize is always fun to watch. Sickboy and Celeborn were a little on the understated side, but they weren’t overacting which is always a good thing as “bad guys” in a sci-fi movie.
I liked the scenery, a lot of curves and straight lines, dark and light contrasts. In almost every scene Aeon’s curves accent the straight lines and then in one scene on a curved well lit embankment she lies down and becomes the straight line in the scene.
It was worth my 8 bucks, but as I said I did not know about the earlier stuff.
Aeon Flux was only interesting when she didn’t speak (ocassionally other characters would talk in a Sims-esque giberish) and died horribly after 10 minutes of blowing the crap out of a bunch off oddballs in goofie costumes.
Nothing in the trailer leads me to believe that the movie kept to the essence of Aeon Flux.
On the whole I like the half-hour episodes better. Some of the shorts are great, though.
I just saw it at a matinee, yesterday.
Basically…eh. It wasn’t a bad movie, but it wasn’t really great, either. Effects were nice, though not spectacular. On the whole, a few steps above “mediocre.” Like a nice bowl of tapioca.
Keep in mind, though, I wasn’t a regular viewer of the show—I think I saw a few episodes when they reran them, one night, a few years ago.
The Boys from Brazil.
I was hoping that, to keep the spirit of the original shorts, Aeon would die at the end of every big action set piece in the movie.
Bonus points if they never explained how she was alive for the next one.
I think to truly capture the bizarre spirit of the original show, someone like maybe Terry Gilliam (The Brothers Grimm, 12 Monkeys) or Tim Burton would have had to direct. At least it might have been interesting instead of just a mediocre chick-kicking-ass flick.
Oh, man, you’re cow-orkers!
That was indeed my first slightly stunned thought! The thread’s also timely for me as we got a free screening of Aeon Flux last week. However on sober reflection it is quite possible Zebra is a US doper, in which case we have no unnatural bovine practices.
So Zebra, spit it out. Where’re you at?!
Actually, I think it’s ‘spoilerize’; the act of which is spoilerization; an article that has received this treatment can be described as spoilerizationified.