<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(#BlakhOle# @ Jun 8 2006, 09:51 AM) [snapback]235200[/snapback]</div>
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Oh really it was a series was it? I never knew that. All my friends say the movie was great but i havent seen it yet. Is the show old or more recent?
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It was a bunch of cartoon shorts first (part of MTV's show "liquid television") and later turned into a half-hour series. The movie was almost entirely unrelated.
The show was "weird," it wasn't contiguous, and it rarely made much sense from an overall perspective. It was more a collection of really neat ideas, intelligent dialogue, and grotesque fun. Characters didn't have defined roles beyond employment/political alignment and it was never really clear what the true nature of Aeon and Trevor's relationship was. They slept togeather, they fought constantly against each other, they tried to kill each other, they saved each other, etc. Aeon was neither good nor bad (rather nihilistic, actually), and Trevor was the same. Hell, there was an entire season where each episode ended with Aeon's death. The show was abstract modern art meets postmodern philisophy.
The movie, on the other hand, made Aeon an underdog fighting the good fight against an evil totalitarian regime and Trevor a flawed -- but nonetheless good -- leader. There was a coherent plot, morals, character roles, and a continuity which were nowhere to be found -- or even suggested at -- in the original series. The movie was nothing more than another Hollywood attempt to cash in on "old" pop culture. Whereas the original series was postmodern art and philisophy, the movie was a feel-good action-romance.
The movie isn't worth going to any great lengths to see (wait for it to hit HBO), but the DVD collection is worth every penny (and is only about $30 USD).