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This hype for the Aeon Flux movie is so full of shit:
"Aeon Flux is set 400 years in the future, in a supposedly utopian society, where a secret rebellion is brewing. In the coming war between the totalitarian government, who impose order with ruthless efficiency, and those who oppose it with ruthless abandon, the one person who may prove that individuals still matter is Aeon Flux. Flux (Charlize Theron) is the top operative in the underground "Monican" rebellion and when her assignment is to assassinate a leading government official she begins to realize that there is more to uncover than even she expected."All Hollywood adaptations now are about normalizing the weird. Find me some sort of moral in the cartoon series on which this movie is based. "Supposedly utopian?" Dystopian from the get-go. Ruthless efficiency vs ruthless abandon? The Breens and Monicans never fell into such neat categories. The amoral Aeon proved that individuals still matter by regularly playing tongue hockey with Trevor, the dictator. Such a bunch of crap comes out of Tinseltown. I don't want to see this one. I did just order the refurbished cartoon on DVD and am curious to see what was restored. Like, will the pool of blood Aeon kept waking up in in "Chronophasia" be returned to the original red color? (MTV freaked and tinted it brown.)
(Illustration from Mike Russell's "Not So Secret History of Aeon Flux"--thanks to the Eyebeam reBlog for spotting it.)