Aeon Flux and King Kong (was: [Vision2020] Winter)

[Chasuk]

> About Kill Bill -- I liked both Volumes One and Two, but to tell the
> truth, I much preferred Jet Li's Hero.  Bearing that in mind, has
> anyone seen Aeon Flux, starring Carl's future ex-wife, Charlize Theron,
> or Peter Jackson's King Kong, starring Carl's future ex-mistress Naomi
> Watts?  I hear the latter is brilliant, but . . . um . . . I really
> want to see Charlize Theron in black leather, kicking butt.  (Yeah,
> yeah, I know.  And I prefer Barbarella to Citizen Kane.  What can I
> say?  My brow is so low, it's practically a goatee.)

Aeon Flux was fun, and Charlize Theron looked wonderful in black
leather.  I'm a self-confessed fan of women-who-kick-ass-believably
films.  The original Charlie's Angels and Police Woman failed the
believability test, but the Drew Barrymore Charlie's Angels films were
awesome (the first one, at least).

My favorite women-who-kick-ass-believably film is Sin City.  I'm
drooling for the sequels already.  Of course, there is that scene from
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, in which our 98 pound heroine takes on
zillions of guys and wins.  I loved that scene!  On second thought, I
might have just described the whole movie.

Battle Angel Alita is an anime that you might like, Joan.  James
Cameron is slated to make a live-action version.  Sort of a
Japanese-style Dark Angel.  I loved Dark Angel.  And I love Alias. 
Then of course there is Adrenalynn, the probably-scrapped film in
which Christina Ricci was going to play/will play an "orphan turned
into a half human-half cyborg, programmed to destroy" (from IMDB).  O
course, Natalie Portman was great as the junior wannabe assassin in
The Professional...

And Drew Barrymore is still apparently developing Barbarella!