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Glamcookie - Aug 18, 2005 9:24:52 am PDT #6564 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
beekaytee - Aug 18, 2005 11:00:52 am PDT #6565 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
I just watched the Aeon Flux trailer and, besides, "Get on whichyerasskicking self Charlize", all I could think was...how tragically Equilibrium. (minus the Bale)
§ ita § - Aug 18, 2005 11:06:15 am PDT #6566 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think Charlize has a perfectly slow and threatening yet female voice, but her physicality doesn't work for me. Extensive FX not helping.
Gris - Aug 18, 2005 11:12:21 am PDT #6567 of 10002
Hey. New board.
(shrug) I'm neutral on that trailer. It looks pretty cool in lots of ways (I did like the cartoon, complete lack of understanding aside), but I see your point, ita, about her physicality.
I guess i'll decide come December.
Glamcookie - Aug 18, 2005 11:16:21 am PDT #6568 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Loved the cartoon. Am "eh" on the live action.
Strega - Aug 18, 2005 11:18:57 am PDT #6569 of 10002
That doesn't look nearly funny enough. Not that I really expected them to do a 90-minute shaggy dog story, but... they should have. Just for me.
Kalshane - Aug 18, 2005 11:21:15 am PDT #6570 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Yeah, the FX are too much. There's stretching believability and there's shattering it into little tiny pieces. When something is live-action, I need some kind of acceptable premis to explain people doing super-human things or it else it just takes me right out of it. I'm much forgiving with animation, though I'm not sure why beyond the fact that it's "less real."
§ ita § - Aug 18, 2005 11:23:09 am PDT #6571 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I need some kind of acceptable premis to explain people doing super-human things or it else it just takes me right out of it
Me too. Although "Hong Kong" is acceptable to me.
Maybe that's the last city! Hong K...nah, doesn't fix things.
beekaytee - Aug 18, 2005 11:54:01 am PDT #6572 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
The first scene's fx screamed X-Men on the Statue of Liberty to me.
§ ita § - Aug 18, 2005 11:58:50 am PDT #6573 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It was Underworld to me.