Aeon Flux Trailer [Archive]

mister_slim

08-19-2005, 01:48 PM

Apple (http://www.apple.com/trailers/) has a trailer for Aeon Flux (http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/aeon_flux/) up.

Also, check out the Transporter 2 (http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/transporter_2/) trailer.

fitbabits

08-19-2005, 02:16 PM

I watched the Aeon Flux one last night! Looks passable. The fact that Charlize Theron is in it has nothing to do with why I'm going to go see it, though.

bapenguin

08-19-2005, 02:30 PM

AoenFlux looks like a decent cheesey action flick....

I fucking loved the Transporter and Statham....#2 looks just as good.

Dirty Harry

08-19-2005, 02:49 PM

AoenFlux looks like a decent cheesey action flick....

I fucking loved the Transporter and Statham....#2 looks just as good.
Hah see the thing is there is a comic book and even animated series for this aeon flux and to be honest, its not some cheesy action flic, as you put it.
So you do see why i have a problem with this movie adaptation?

mister_slim

08-19-2005, 03:01 PM

Forgot to link this (http://ffmovies.ign.com/filmforce/video/article/639/639702/transporter_hose_080505_qtlowwide.mov) for some reason.

Also, I love Luc Besson.

Liquidize105

08-19-2005, 03:02 PM

Hmm... Aeon's not for serious movie goers.

Also, Jason Statham is THE farmer from Dungeon Siege, I can't wait :rolleyes: I mean he was off to a good start with Snatch, but oh boy how quickly it went downhill.

Bushido

08-19-2005, 03:50 PM

Aeon Flux was awesome as a silent anime/ sci-fi thriller. I have doubts of the movie.

The Iron Weasel

08-19-2005, 03:53 PM

Transporter 2 looks pretty cool to my surprise

Xerxes

08-19-2005, 04:10 PM

I'm sorry the fact that Charlize requested that crazy full body outfit turned me off... I mean are those heels orthopetic?

Transporter 2 does look cool but it reminds me kinda of a Man on Fire...

thecrazyd

08-19-2005, 04:13 PM

Forgot to link this (http://ffmovies.ign.com/filmforce/video/article/639/639702/transporter_hose_080505_qtlowwide.mov) for some reason.

Also, I love Luc Besson.
That hose fight is the most rediculous thing I have seen since the oiled up bicycle pedal fight in the original Transporter. This movie will be awesome.

Heretic Machine

08-19-2005, 04:46 PM

Aeon Flux... live action... WTF?

Hieremias

08-19-2005, 05:06 PM

Yeah, I just watched the Aeon Flux trailer, and.... guys, there's a reason these movies are released in the fall. :)

Kelegacy

08-19-2005, 05:31 PM

The first Transporter was a laugh-riot because of it's impossibility. I cant actually believe there's a sequel. Anyway, I'm a huge Aeon Flux fan (it creeped me out as a young adult on Liquid Television--hell, all of LTV messed me up) so i'm interested already.

Another show that sometimes freaked me out late at night as a kid? Duckman. Funny as hell, but also sometimes pretty risque. That show rocked. The theme music still haunts my dreams, because I was the only person in the house who stayed up to watch it...in the dark. Weird nostagia.

Draft

08-19-2005, 05:57 PM

Aeon Flux is one of my favorite things ever. This movie is going to rape the franchise, but maybe, just MAYBE, it will be popular enough to prompt MTV into creating a full series box set.

Dirty Harry

08-19-2005, 06:09 PM

Zeal

08-19-2005, 06:17 PM

Looks good.

Kelegacy

08-19-2005, 06:20 PM

Aeon was the first "Kenny", dying in most of her cartoon shorts, but reappearing again in the next episode. At least, before the complete series on MTV.

Bushido

08-19-2005, 06:26 PM

Yeah the thousand lives of Aeon flux, they tied it into her being cloned.

Xerxes

08-19-2005, 07:15 PM

Even in the series she died at the end...

Monroeski

08-19-2005, 07:47 PM

Okay, I never saw the original Transporter, but that hose fight was very, very stupid.

Like, VERY stupid.

Also - Duckman is awesome.

Draft

08-19-2005, 08:15 PM

Yeah the thousand lives of Aeon flux, they tied it into her being cloned.No, she wasn't a clone. There was a storyline where she was cloned, but that's not why she could die and then reappear good as new in the next episode. That was just Peter Chung's wacked out sense of storytelling.

Remember how Aeon would catch a fly in her eyelashes during the opening credits? The fly is a korean symbol of death, and her snagging it illustrated that the character Aeon was beyond death. I wouldn't go so far as to say she's like South Park's Kenny, who's numerous deaths and ressurections are something that's recognized by the shows other characters. In Aeon Flux, the happenings of one episode may or may not have any bearing on the next one. When Aeon bites it, things snap back to square one, and the characters continue on like nothing happened.

Gorilla800lbs

08-19-2005, 08:44 PM

Fight scenes by Corey Yuen. Can't miss it.

Liquidize105

08-19-2005, 09:23 PM

Hey 800lbs, haven't seen one of your posts in a long while.

Fonz

08-19-2005, 11:27 PM

Does anyone else think other than me that choosing Vin Diesel as Agent 47 was the most idiotic decision ever when we have Jason Statham who a 5 yr old could say is Hitman.

Oh and on the note of Aeon Flux, now well have every 13 yr old out there Fantacising about Charlize theron. That whole trailer I was waiting to hear the queue of some cheesy static-x,korn song while guns fired away at brick walls that fall apart too easily. I guess well have to wait and see.

Intruder

08-20-2005, 12:09 AM

The Transporter movies are full on fun actions movies. You can't take anything seriously in them. They are pure entertainment. If you go in expecting more, then you are gonna get screwed.

Evil Avatar

08-20-2005, 01:14 AM

The Transporter movies are full on fun actions movies. You can't take anything seriously in them. They are pure entertainment. If you go in expecting more, then you are gonna get screwed.

The Transporter movies are the reason the Blockbuster DVD club was invented. Guilt free. :)

Mason

08-20-2005, 01:18 AM

It's kind of weird to think that someone could watch Aeon Flux and end up making that movie. Huh.

MasterKwan

08-20-2005, 07:04 AM

What made AEON Flux what it was, were the bizarre plots and the tension between her and Trevor. As a straight up action movie, it holds no interest for me. Sometimes Aeon was evil, sometimes good. I enjoyed not knowing from week to week what was happening next. Chung tried a straight anime story with "Alexander". It was just too run of the mill.

"That which doesn't kill you makes you stranger".

One of my favorite quotes from the original.

I'd much rather see the originals out on DVD. I had them on tape (and have since given them away) and I have electronic copies as well.

Gorilla800lbs

08-20-2005, 07:18 AM

Hello there Liquid! I do visit the site very regularly but don't post quite as often. :)

Xerxes

08-20-2005, 08:45 AM

Actually on the series I think a few episodes she lived on as a clone... Trevor made like 10 of them... And I am sure there was another that had her living on to the next episode after dying...

Leaving Hope

08-20-2005, 12:12 PM

I'm another one who loved the Transporter. It was a great action flic, and while some of the stunts were a little outrageous, it was great fun. If you're reading this and you haven't seen Transporter 1, please give the DVD a rental.

On the DVD commentary for Transporter 1 they talked about how their budget was much lower than what they needed. It looks like Transporter 2 got the budget they deserved.

With Serenity, Final Fantasy: Advent Children, and Transporter 2 coming out this month, I'm going to be a happy camper. I don't have much desire to see Aeon Flux, though.

Crabby

08-20-2005, 12:58 PM

Here's the reason why I enjoyed the first Transporter so much: fresh action choreography. It was all over when he sprayed that oil slick and used the bike. Judging the second already, I won't be disappointed.

CapnBob

08-20-2005, 01:02 PM

I was a huge fan of the original short clips from Liquid Television, where there was no dialog and the story had to be told entirely by the visuals. Once they started talking, I lost a lot of interest in it.

kid cabelgo

08-20-2005, 08:54 PM

Okay, I never saw the original Transporter, but that hose fight was very, very stupid.

Like, VERY stupid.

Also - Duckman is awesome.

Oh god. The whole movie looks to be even more retarded than the hose fight. How about the stupid chick in the bra with bad makeup?

I'm just hoping that this thread is full of trolls...

And yes, I did see the original Transporter, and yes, it was not good. AT ALL.

Adam Blue

08-20-2005, 10:55 PM

The first half of Transporter was good. LIke a comercial for Jason Statham doing 'cool things'.

This 2nd one looks good though.

Aeon Flux looks like crap.

AboveAvgCharles

08-24-2005, 12:18 PM

Part of what made Aeon Flux engaging in the first place was the striking visuals. Take it over to live action, and that style and energy is gone. Hooray for Charlize Theron and all, but honestly, I just don't find her very exciting as Aeon Flux. Hell, Carrie Anne Moss as Trinity was a hell of a lot closer to what the live action representation of Aeon Flux should have been.

As for the Transporter, I enjoyed the first one immensely as a fun action movie, and I'm a huge Jason Statham fan. He is one delicious piece of meat, and he pulls off his action scenes very convincingly.

It's a sin against all that is sacred that Statham isn't playing Agent 47 in the Hitman movie. No, it's Vin Diesel. Vin Diesel.

I guess they got the "bald" part right, at least.

Xerxes

08-24-2005, 01:50 PM

Whatever... Everyone can clearly see Patrick Stewart should of been 47... O_o

AboveAvgCharles

08-24-2005, 02:10 PM

Whatever... Everyone can clearly see Patrick Stewart should of been 47... O_o

I don't think I could buy him as an action hero, though. I'm imagining a CGI-transposed head ontop of a stuntman's body, a la Christopher Lee in the Star Wars prequels. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that's a good thing.

But damn, think of the delivery he'd give! :D