When I heard that Aeon Flux was being made into a full-length feature film, I danced a jig eight times with joy. When I found out that it wasn’t animated, I nearly choked on my tears. As excited as I am that the Aeon Flux phenomenon is being revisited, I am worried that Charlize Theron won’t be able to do justice to the part. Ah yes, I remember the days of my friends and I sneaking peeks at Aeon Flux episode VHS tapes at the age of 12 and turning it off at the sound of a grownup’s footsteps. We were enthralled by the twisted storylines, Aeon’s complete lack of empathy for bad guys, and the sauciness of her barely-there leather suit and five foot long legs. Those strangely long legs will be sorely missed in the new film, as will the rest of the beautiful animation by Peter Chung. Since chances are low that the film will eloquently introduce Aeon to popular culture, we can at least hope that it will create enough hype for Chung to produce modern animated episodes.
The movie comes out December 12th, but even more exciting, the digitally re-mastered DVD collection of all of the animated episodes comes out November 22nd!
Dude your so right!!! I felt the same way when i found out about the movie. The thing that bothers me is... when will producers draw the line. I honestly don't want to see DBZ or Ghost in the Shell or any other anime transformed into movies with bloated budgets, starring pretty people who more than likely would have never knew that the genere even exsisted if it weren't for the massive amounts of people that are truly intrigue and captivated by the beautiful essence of anime. I guess you could say Anime is underground art in the sense that america seems to embrace Da Vinci, Vango and Disney, I'd hate to see my favorite style of art to be overly criticised by people who just don't understand the creative aspects of Anime. As it stands it is a double edge sword- and only time will tell.
See ya on the flip side, one!
Posted by: Sebastian | December 05, 2005 at 05:14 PM
This movie really rocks.
Keep it gangsta, Aeon!
Posted by: PJkiwi | January 17, 2007 at 11:50 AM