Just back from the movie. I was totally unspoiled, although I had an idea River would kick some ass. Overall, I liked it. There were, however, maybe 15 people in the theater, but I don't think Sanford, NC is representative of the nation as a whole.
I was sad about Wash dying. I had sort of forgotten this was *Joss* we were dealing with. Bond:Simon bugged me a lot - I had the impression from the pilot that River was smuggled out to him, not him smuggling.
There were lots of indivudal moments I liked and I'm glad to know where the Reavers came from.
I just went with the retcon, even though I had more of a problem after my first viewing than this time around.
Slate has a fun review of the movie--he saw the film first, then got the DVD and became a Firefly fanatic.
What a show: like Star Wars if it was just the stuff on the Millennium Falcon minus the fast-food Zen plus hipper quips and knottier relationships; or like Star Trek and its spinoffs if the characters had been on coffee and cigarettes (and bourbon) instead of Valium; or like Stagecoach if the Indians had spaceships and ate people.
Sanford has the moving pictures?
t ducking and running
amych, you aren't running from me. I make the same joke all. the. time.
eta: I actually have to be careful.
and now, good night all!
Oh look! A movie for Nutty:
Duma is the story of a boy and a cheetah
I saw it in Evanston. It was a full theater, with lots of people in costume.
The scene where Wash was a leaf on the wind? everyone was cheering and laughing. I was thinking, "just wait," and mine was an evil laugh.
One thing I only noticed this time: When Jayne says, "Shepherd Book always said, 'If you can't do something smart, do something right.'" Then he takes a swig of booze and passes the bottle to Simon. So maybe he accepts Simon now.
Also, there seemed to be more special effects (except my crappy eye was making it difficult to see what was going on sometimes). When they were passing the Reaver ships, Serenity was trailing a bit of 'uncontained radiation' behind her - I think that was new.
There were some other places where I noticed tighter editing, but I can't recall them at the moment....
The Simon thing is a retcon and Joss has copped to it. There was interview I'll have to see if I can dig up where he was talking about how in the original script, we saw a bunch of guys rescue River and pass her off to Simon, like Simon told the crew, but he felt having a bunch of people in the beginning we never see again detracted from the flow of the story. So he changed it to Simon rescuing her.
Basically, the retcon probably wouldn't have happened if he didn't have to bring non-fans up to speed.
I griped about it a bunch in the Spoilers thread and I'm still not happy with it, but at this point I'm just accepting it as a concession that had to be made for the sake of this being a mass-market movie.
Which show did you see, tommyrot? I was at the 7:45 in Evanston.
Also, was annoyed that they cut off the last line. (The credits were also messed up, but that didn't matter so much.)
Which show did you see, tommyrot? I was at the 7:45 in Evanston.
Me too. The big-ass theater (Century something?) across from the book store? I think that's the only theater in Evanston playing it.
I was sitting in the middle of the first row of the stadium seating (not the front section of seating).
eta: What was the last line?
What was the last line?
"Ewww, fucking girls is weird."
