Aeon Flux
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
4.8 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Hands for feet! Sexy diaper pajamas! Frances McDormand going full ginger! This week, Chris & Lizzie exhume Karyn Kusama’s sci-fi misfire, Aeon Flux. We (attempt to) cover issues of representation in Hollywood, director’s jail, and Charlize Theron’s trajectory as one of cinema’s most legit bone crushers.
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| 0:00.0 | Caw. |
| 0:01.0 | Caw. |
| 0:02.0 | Caw. |
| 0:04.0 | Caw. |
| 0:05.0 | Caw. Hello and welcome back to what went wrong. We are a podcast that explores what went wrong behind the scenes on your favorite Hollywood |
| 0:26.0 | Blockbusters and also massive belly flops. |
| 0:29.0 | And today we are unfortunately talking about the latter. We're gonna be talking about a movie |
| 0:34.0 | that I had never seen before and that I would argue |
| 0:36.4 | it turns out I didn't need to see. |
| 0:38.8 | So, Chris, what are we talking about today? |
| 0:42.3 | Just a reminder, that was Lizzie Bassett and I am your co-host Chris Winterbauer. |
| 0:48.0 | Today we are talking about the 2005 science fiction action film Charlize Theron vehicle Eon Flux which I'm |
| 1:00.9 | guessing very few of you have seen but we're talking before we get |
| 1:04.6 | exactly we're talking about this movie for a very specific reason that we |
| 1:10.1 | want to I want to tee up so last week Lizzy alerted me that Netflix released a |
| 1:15.8 | movie called The Old Guard which is a sci-fi fantasy action thriller based on a |
| 1:21.1 | comic book that stars Charlie's Tharren who is action thriller getting a lot of positive reviews. I loved it. Fresh Summer Blockbuster, but most notably it's the first comic book movie to be directed by a black woman. |
| 1:38.0 | Gina, Prince Bythwood, and I apologize if I pronounced that last name wrong. |
| 1:43.0 | If you haven't seen it, check it out. |
| 1:44.0 | Also, Charlize Theron might actually be immortal. |
| 1:46.0 | She doesn't seem to have aged between Eon Flax and this movie, |
| 1:50.0 | even though 15 years have passed between the two of them. |
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