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Saturday, December 03, 2005
A Great Movie…
...opens your imagination wider than it's ever been opened before.
...has a compelling plot whose elements converge on a powerful, inexorable climax, but with at least one major surprise along the way, and preferably more.
...is intelligently scripted, such that the characters don't seem to be striking poses and mouthing memorized lines, but acting, reacting, and speaking spontaneously.
...is convincingly acted, such that actors don't play their characters but become their characters, so completely that they cease to remind you of their off-screen identities.
...presents the viewer with an important moral or ethical crisis, of the sort that even persons utterly certain of the rightness of their convictions must ponder for more than a moment.
...depicts the most powerful of all the virtues, love and courage, locked in combat with their polar opposites, hatred and fear.
...is very like a great book, albeit a lot more visual and kinetic.
Aeon Flux, starring Charlize Theron and Marton Csokas, based on the dark, chaotic animated fantasies of Peter Chung, is a great movie.
See it.
Comments
Looks like it’s gonna be good. Hope to see it soon.
Posted by og on 12/03/2005 at 08:15 PMI’m quite surprised to read this. It’s been thorougly panned elswhere.
Posted by Kevin Baker on 12/03/2005 at 08:53 PMWell,I had been thinking that because it seems obviously different from the original show and all that ("obviously," it “had” to be--I mean,that hair? That costume?),and because the show’s creator wasn’t involved, that maybe it won’t be so good…
Besides, I find that my taste for action flicks have been waning lately…
Well, since Fran thinks it’s great, maybe it’ll be *at least* good. So my mind’s made up, I’m checking it out! (And besides, the main star’s the criminally-photogenic Charlize Theron.)
Hmm...this has me wondering… What would the movie adaptation of the “Uncle Louis” short will be like? I wonder who the star of *that* would be?
Posted by Jay on 12/04/2005 at 08:45 PMInteresting take, Francis. Maybe my POV was jaundiced by the sophomoric nature of the original cartoon’s philosophy, but this movie was more Matrix: Revolutions than Matrix to me, if you know what I mean.
I certainly see where you are coming from, tho.
Posted by on 12/06/2005 at 02:50 PMWhen critics blast a movie like “Aeon Flux” with reckless abandon, then it’s time for me to see it. And I saw it. And it was great.
Live long and prosper.
Posted by T-Steel on 12/06/2005 at 03:05 PM
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