Aeon Flux

[simon_belanger]

Downloaded and watched Aeon Flux.... Spoiler-less but bitterness-filled review to follow.

Things I shouted at the screen while watching:
- What?
- WHAT!?
- What the fuck just happened

Comments

[simon_belanger]

Episodes?
Ohh...right. It used to be one of those cartoons with that kind of squirmy, creepy animation that fucks with your eyes.

I could accept the grappling-hook tongue thing, but only if they provided some kind of explanation for it... like super-fast molecular reconstruction or some such, plus a *severe* reinforcement of the tongue with diamondoid muscle fibres or something like that so that your tongue wouldn't get torn out of your mouth. And even then, you'd probably talk like you had a speech impediment.
And I'd still be all like, "Wtf! Put it in your WRIST or something!"

[syrius328]

Sci-fi does not mesh with you unless it's by physicists, does it?

But then, even I was like "Wtf?" with "2 eigen volts"

[simon_belanger]

No, it doesn't. The entire reason I watch and read science fiction is so that I can, for a time, picture myself in the same world, playing around with the presented ideas. I want sci fi to inspire those wonderful tangents of thought...to give me an example of a cool idea so that I can think of ways that I would use that idea.
How would I have superhuman strength? How would I learn to fight with godlike agility and grace? How would I build a spaceship? How would I modify my brain for faster thought, additional computation, and wireless communication? And then what would I do with it all? These are the tangents I go off on when something cool happens on screen. Mostly, I'm totally ignoring the characters themselves. I don't give a damn what happens to them, unless they're smart enough to keep presenting me with fun ideas.

So, yeah. If I see some sci fi that presents ideas that simply don't work, then I can't play with them. All I see is why that shouldn't happen. No playground for the mind, then.

[aisling_kate]

I completely agree with your review. I thought the movie was messed up and half the time I didn't really know what was happening. Feet for hands...? I like me feet thank you:)