I think my favorite TV guide blurb is the one written for the original Highlander movie (and I seen its exact wording multiple times, so somewhere there's a database of movie blurbs that weekly guides pull from, or something...):
It was something to the effect of "Sean Connory and Christopher Lambert travel back and forth through time, fighting evil...."
Ummm.... Yes, the story shifts back and forth through time, but that doesn't mean that the characters are actually doing so. Clearly written by someone who, at best, was watching the movie while doing about sixteen other things.
Metacritic is up to 71/100 with 8 reviews counted.
Yeah, she really agonizes over that one.
Well, I suppose it tested her loyalty to Mal. And found it wanting...
Not even that, I says. I all but guarantee you that 1) Mal would have wanted her to take Wash over him and 2) she knew this about him.
I think it tested her patience, but that's about it.
And possibly her dry cleaner, with the bloody ear and all.
Joss Whedon's science-fiction adventure is "more engaging than any of George Lucas's recent screen entertainments," says the front page of theNY Times website.
Back with a spoiler report as soon as I go read it.
ETA: Only the vaguest of spoilers, if that.
I may have mentioned once or twice (or possibly ten times) today (and maybe a couple of times earlier in the week) that I was going to see
Serenity
tomorrow.
So as I'm leaving work today, a co-worker cheerily calls out... "Happy Serenity Day tomorrow!" It's so nice that they humor me in my geeky exuberance.
Cool! Serenity trailer during Alias tonight. It almost seems like U is going super-overboard on the advertising so no craxy fans can come back and say "it's all your fault for not doing x, y and z" (ala Fox).
Not that there will be cause to blame, understand.
The optimist in me hopes that
Serenity
will sell out this weekend, and the pessimist in me feared that I might not get in to see it, so yesterday I went to buy my ticket in advance. I walked up to the counter and said to the teenybopper, "I'd like a ticket for Friday, please...
Serenity,
seven o'clock showing."
She popped her gum, blinked, and tapped at her ticket machine. Then she said, "Sorry, we're not showing any movie called
Friday."
It took her
three tries
to figure out what I was asking for.
Oy.