Æon Flux

i can neither get behind people who say this is terrible, nor the people who say this is great. whatever weird shit is left over from the cartoon isn't enough to make this truly misguided enough to be a good time. from the writing team of ripd and jackie chan's the tuxedo? i believe it. why is frances mcdormand in this as the the mc from pixar's brave? read more

the real star of this movie is all of jean paul gaultier's outfits that he designed for aeon. this movie is a fascinating oddity. it's so much more willfully bizarre and vividly artistic than your average hollywood blockbuster. instead of blade runner-esque cityscapes or even the kind of near-future aesthetics that movies like minority report and i,robot have, aeon flux opts instead for something clean and organic looking. plants and biology play a huge part in this movie, both literally and visually. the movie plays like a collection of bold choices™ that you'd think wouldn't have ever been... read more

Man I always heard this was pretty bad, and I didn't care for it. I think they were just going for a hyper stylized matrix kind of thing but the editing was so jarring because they felt they needed to cut every few seconds. Sometimes, like in Warcraft when you copy things from the source material it just kind of doesn't work out. I thought the scenes where she was crawling looked too goofy to take seriously and just reminded me I was watching trash. Underneath all this, there might be kind of an interesting story, but from this movie you'd never know what it's potential could be. I became... read more