<![CDATA[io9: aeon flux]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: aeon flux]]> http://io9.com/tag/aeonflux http://io9.com/tag/aeonflux <![CDATA[Why Do the Worst Movies Have the Coolest Depictions of Post-Singularity Tech?]]> While I was a huge fan of the anime AEon Flux, I'm willing to admit that the Charlize Theron movie based on the series flopped for good reason. The plot felt cliched, the dialogue was bad, and Theron never convinced me she was a badass. I mean, she never even grits her teeth ferchrissake. But the concept design in AEon Flux was positively breathtaking, as you can see in this clip.

Here superninja AEon and her pupil are penetrating the defenses on a building that belongs to the family that fascistically controls the entire society where AEon lives. The premise is that most of the human race was wiped out by plague 400 years ago, and the descendants of the few remaining millions live in a single, techno-perfect city controlled by the Goodchild family. Where the design gets great is in the organic look of the technology: here you can see what are basically fruit-weapons. In other scenes, there are computers made of water (which look a lot like the cylon computers from Battlestar Galactica, actually). I like the way this film evokes a future world without resorting to the usual "blinky lights and computers" look.

Plus, the genemod feet! So cool. It makes no sense that there wouldn't be tons of other genemods running around in this flick, but that's just one of a zillion plotholes. For now, just enjoy the coolness. [AEon Flux via IMDB]

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<![CDATA[Britney Spears Is Our Future Champion]]> This anime superheroine isn't the latest Japanese import, it's Britney Spears, restyled into an assassin/spy/freedom fighter from a future dystopia for her next music video, "Break The Ice." Britney's Aeon Flux riff makes her just the latest over-produced, programmed and processed songstress to reach for a dystopian future image, after Janet Jackson's much-maligned depiction as an airbrushed bondage robot. Click through for more images of animated Britney and the dark cityscape she protects.

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