Aeon Flux, Talk Amongst Yourselves

Kasracer writes "The movie Aeon Flux has been getting a mixture of reviews since its debut and most tend to be on the negative side. A review posted on BinaryIdiot goes a bit more in-depth than most reviews and gives the movie a fair shot. From the review: "First of all, I have to say that I'm disappointed, but not altogether surprised by the reviews I've seen thus far. Those who review films for a living are notoriously unreliable, and in many cases, they miss the whole point altogether. Rest assured, even though I'm as skeptical as they come, and can find a flaw in absolutely anything, I won't pick on this movie simply because the plot may be too hard for some people to understand." "

Comments

I, for one, am shocked!

[Telecommando]

Aeon Flux had a plot?

That's news to me.

Difficult plot?

[yahyamf]

I won't pick on this movie simply because the plot may be too hard for some people to understand." Who cares for the plot? I only saw this movie because of Charlize Theron, and I understood all about her

Synopsis: if you don't get it you're dumb

[httpamphibio.us]

Did Taco actually RTFA? This isn't a review at all, it's just some TNA starved sci-fi geek saying "no, it isn't" a whole bunch.

The movie has a bad plot. No, it doesn't!
The movie has bad characters. No, it doesn't!
The movie has poor special effects. No, it doesn't!

How very very useful... the only thing that's correct about the review is the fact that it's on a site with "idiot" in the domain name. It's a good thing this made the front page so the guy can get some extra banner ad clicks.

Heh heh...you said "parahraph"!

[Anonymous Coward]

Smaller, stouter cousin of the gihraph, of course.

Re:Low Budget

[greginnj]

...It was helluva lot better than SW Ep I-III acting.

Wow, your standards are low!

Re:Review summary

[BarryNorton]

You're reading a movie review on a geek site on a Sunday!

The conclusion was only better

[Poltras]

Bottom-line: A fantastic thriller with a rare combination of action and imagination; two entities that we rarely see together on the same screen. Even more, it fucking rules.

This guy knows how to finish a "serious" review with a NPOV. It looks very ethical and pro.

Re:Slashdot "experts" strike again.

[foniksonik]

Does this also apply to analyzing people you've never met and don't know a thing about? If so , then you're spot on.

Re: This was a review? This is news?

[Black Parrot]

> Oh, I don't know. I think that Slashdot has always been much like it is today. You can see it as a good thing, or a bad thing, but at least they are consistent. Poor spelling, off base comments at the ends of postings, lame articles that make the front page, and the dubious practice of calling themselves editors when they don't have been here at least as long as I have, back in '96 or '97.

See? Nothing changes.

Re:Low Budget

[Quelain]

I don't watch a lot of TV, I prefer wasting my time playing Anarchy Online, which is a sci-fi MMORPG.

The funny thing is that I had seen the in-game video billboards showing advertising for 'Aeon Flux', which I assumed was a bit of a joke by the Funcom developers about crappy sci-fi movies still existing in the year 29000.

I was quite surprised when I found out it was for real.

The orginal cartoon portrayal

[Rogerborg]

Has about a 12 inch waist. No adult female can look anything like that. Please feel free to go back to wanking over drawings of pre-adolescent girls with implants.

Re:This was a review? This is news?

[teslar]

He attacks others . . . but fails offer a convincing opinion of his own . . . except that it was an "awesome" film.

This is called Intelligent Review and it should be offered alongside the blasphemous Theory of Reviewtion so that people can make up their informed minds.

Re:Waxing Autoerotic

[StikyPad]

Exactly. The way you tell it, ninjas sound like they'd be able to beat pirates, but only a ninja fanboy would believe that.