A “travesty”? Come on. That implies a massive fall from grace/greatness, which in this case is simply not possible. Greatness must first exist for it to be desecrated/lost.
I saw the animated series when it was new, on Liquid Television. It was amazing and incredible to me then, with visuals that were simply beyond both belief and description: grandiose and grotesque.
But I also had NO FCKEN IDEA what was going on, nor do I now looking back on it.
So if all you’re looking for is a collection of fantastic someone-else’s-dreamscape images to stare at and go “Wow…” to, this film treatment won’t do it. Watch the original.
But I’ve reached the point in the growth of my somewhat-limited creativity/imagination that I can conjure up my own surreal dreamscapes if/when I want to by the simple expedient of closing my eyes, and I can imbue them with my OWN meaning…not wonder what some other guy was thinking when he made up his.
Unlike the original, there’s a coherent story that you can follow here, if you want to…nothing amazing or incredible, but at least comprehensible. And somewhat interesting. And it’s only “not weird” in comparison to the series…it’s VERY weird.
“Dumbed-down-for-the-masses” this ain’t. “Made-sensible-for-the-sane”, more like it.
Aeon’s incredible acrobatic abilities and precision and a lot of this movie’s FX are like the attempt to climb the north face of the Uxbridge Road: Like them or not, you’ve got to admire the skill that goes into them.
Inspirational Quote: “We’re meant to die. That’s what makes anything about us matter.”
AND…”Whatever we are, we’re not anarchists. There have to be rules.”
Grade: C+