MTV: "When we hired you, Peter, we were getting the best man in the business. You're the only one that can accomplish this task."
Peter: "We'll need another - his methods are... unconventional."
MTV: "We trust you can control him?"
Peter: (silence)
INT. SMOKEY BAR, BACK ROOM.
Peter: "I need you. This mission can't go through without your help."
Mark: "NO PROBLEM MAN, I'LL BE THERE."
Peter: "I'm counting on you."
Mark: "I SAID NO PROBLEM, NOW GET OUT OF HERE SO I CAN PLAN... PROJECT DEATHTOY!"
~FIN~
What was awesome was that on the commentaries, he was just like the guy we know and love from the forums.
Other favorite commentary moments (potentially paraphrased from my memory):Mark Mars: "She's gonna die!"
Peter Gaffney: "I'd just like to make one thing clear: everything else in this series is a drug reference except this episode."
Drew Neumann: "So can you explain the blue guy, Peter?"Peter Chung: "Uhh... [blue guy licks Aeon's feet] ...I'd rather not."
― skye, Sunday, 4 December 2005 06:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lady Morgan (Lady Morgan), Monday, 5 December 2005 01:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nhex (Nhex), Monday, 5 December 2005 07:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Barb e (Barb e), Saturday, 10 December 2005 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link
But I can't think of anyone else who could have written a seduction scene like:Sybil: We knooow what we're talking about, what we're thinking and what we are doing!Trevor: Well, "moderation in all things", you know.Sybil: Moderation is not abstinence. Moderation necessarily connotes USE.Trevor: Use...?!Sybil: So uuuse me, Trevor. You must. Trevor: I've no choice.Sybil: Lest you abandon your argument.Trevor: Abandon - all argument?
And here's some of Eric Singer's work on the Purge which I felt sorry to have to cut for length:
Hostess Contessa: (pointing to the guns) "Nothing like a little judicious levity" - I always say....Trevor: Welcome. Welcome all over again.Aeon: What is this? What's going on?Trevor: Ask yourself the questions: can you give yourself your own evil and your own good? Can you hang your own will over yourself as law. Can you be your own judge and avenger of your law?Hostess Contessa: You think you think; therefore you think you are... But do you really know? Are you really sure?Aeon: Don't make the mistake of fencing with me... I know who I am and what I'm still capable of.Trevor: Yes, you have a very black mind indeed... You and your Comrades nearly ruined everything. But now that I have you in my custody, I may do with you what I please.Aeon: I thought you already had...Trevor: I had, I have, I will, I did. Don't I? Isn't that right, Comrade Judy?
In any case, the word is getting out. (I know, shameless of me- but there is the upside):
http://www.hometheaterfocus.com/blog/archive/2005/11/23/2570.aspx
http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Reviews/A/Aeon_Flux/2005/12/03/1335658.html
http://www.ugo.com/channels/DVD/article.asp?articleID=16744
http://www.whatdvd.net/review.asp?Review=725
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=931897125818920cce8fd247ec97fd22&t=270910
http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/aeonfluxseries.php
http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/2704/47/
http://www.dvd-dweeb.com/tv/aeonfluxanimated.htm
http://www.cinegeek.com/DVD_reviews/dvd_reviews_2005/aeon_flux_animated.htm
http://www.currentfilm.com/dvdreviews7/aeonfluxseriesdvd.html
http://www.feeds4all.nl/Itemdetails.aspx?ItemID=8368916
http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_id=2465
― Peter Chung, Thursday, 15 December 2005 08:22 (eighteen years ago) link
(To think I used to really like the sound of her name...)
― Peter Chung, Saturday, 17 December 2005 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Peter Chung, Saturday, 17 December 2005 02:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Barb e (Barb e), Saturday, 17 December 2005 03:46 (eighteen years ago) link
It opens in the UK Feb 17, 2006
Series DVD not yet available.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A3DBBM/026-1323022-2114820
― Peter Chung, Sunday, 18 December 2005 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm also glad that I didn't offend anyone with my... errr "interpretation" of how Mark got on the show. It really would have been a lesser show without the odd personalities of everyone involved, and watching the commentaries certainly made that clear.
That extended scene would have been awesome - I think it's a shame so many good ideas got nixed by MTV. The unusual ways in which stories became images became the show really are part of what made the show great.
One more great commentary moment:(On screen, "You are three increments from hooligan status!")Someone (can't remember who): "Hooligan status!"Everyone: *cracks up for the rest of the scene*
― skye, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Peter Chung, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anthony Hudson (fabhappyfruit), Thursday, 29 December 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Barb e (Barb e), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Aeon-Flux-Blu-ray-Release/12856
November 23rd!
― Nhex, Saturday, 24 October 2009 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Holy shit! "Heat" and "Aeon" on blue-ray the same month? :D
― nalle, Saturday, 24 October 2009 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
uh oh. no longer available...
― Nhex, Friday, 6 November 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn. Any news about this? Region 2 Blu-Ray, please?
― StanM, Thursday, 3 June 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link