Aeon Flush

Feeling less than my best. I have a rather sore throat and now wonder if that accounts for my low energy the last few days. But, on the bright side, I haven't lost my voice, which, for a teacher, is suboptimal.

Watched Aeon Flux last night, but I wasn't tremendously impressed. I enjoyed the visual side of the film: great costumes, cool sets, and invigorating shots of Charlize Theron doing impossible leaps across the screen, etc. On the advice of a friend, I kept my eyes peeled for Marton Csokas, the New Zealand actor, and he, in fact, was one of the best things in it. The storyline, however, was rather hackneyed and unexciting, which disappointed me. You'd think they could come up with something a little more interesting for a bigtime scifi film than factions fighting over cloning vs fertility. On that subject, I'm quite keen to see the upcoming adaptation of P.D. James's The Children of Men with Clive Owen.