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- From: rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte)
- Newsgroups: alt.tv.liquid-tv
- Subject: Re: Aeon Flux = bad animation
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:54:03 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- olson@ac.dal.ca writes:
-
- >It's funny, when I posted my complaints about the one episode of
- >Aeon Flux I had seen, half of the people that responded supported
- >the contrived aspect of the animation, the illogical basis of it etc...
- >saying that I was missing the artistic value etc...
- >Then, another half of the posters said my complaints were sort of
- >valid, but that they were too serious because the things I
- >complained of were deliberate attempts at parody by the animator.
- >Well, for one thing, perhaps the animator did fail
- >in making it a clear parody, since the only one's who recognized this
- >were people who had heard/seen the animator explain this.
-
-
- I disagree. When you see the hero of a series get repeatedly
- snuffed, you have to wonder. The first episode of 'flux I ever saw
- showed the aftermath of one of her incredible (literally -- as in,
- "not credible" dives into hoards of pistol brandishing enemy soldiers.
- Stacks of them lay everwhere; blood poured from the masses (blood? on
- an enemy?). You may not have immediately figured out, "ah, of
- course, a parody of action/adventure films. What a striking
- commmentary!", but you DID get the sense of something quite unusual,
- quite wrong.
-
- It's not the greatest animation I've ever seen, and I have to
- question how seriously the average person takes his mission, but it is
- unique, distinctive, and interesting. That's enough for me to keep
- watching.
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