There's no other way I would have felt terror for each and every BDH, watching the gang make a last stand against the reavers. Nobody was safe.
Yeah - I was really off balance after Wash with respect to who else would make it.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
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Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
JenP - Oct 02, 2005 12:46:13 pm PDT #5633 of 10001
d - Oct 02, 2005 1:40:34 pm PDT #5634 of 10001
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.
I was really off balance after Wash with respect to who else would make it.
Me too. Except for River. I totally expected her to make it through, at least against the Reavers. It was slightly touch and go there with the Alliance at the end but not so much as to make me REALLY fear for her life.
Simon - Oct 02, 2005 1:41:15 pm PDT #5635 of 10001
The basic fan reaction to the box office performance seems to be either "Oh we're all doomed" or "Hey Number 2 isn't that bad". Expect much navel gazing and blame casting (if that indeed is a phrase) if the movie has got no legs at all.
Kristen - Oct 02, 2005 1:45:41 pm PDT #5636 of 10001
I've been reading the reaction, Simon. (It's addictive.)
I'll be very interested to see what next weekend's numbers are.
Allyson - Oct 02, 2005 1:46:12 pm PDT #5637 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
The Browncoats are scaring me.
Simon, hold me.
bon bon - Oct 02, 2005 1:46:49 pm PDT #5638 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Expect much navel gazing and blame casting (if that indeed is a phrase) if the movie has got no legs at all.
FWIW I have no quarrel with the advertising campaign. They did a great job with the trailers and blanketing the ads on the last week and, with one exception, the ads were really good. (I didn't like the ones that pointed to magazine and newspaper "buzz" about Serenity/Firefly/Whedon since those articles implied that it was a nerd phenomenon, which is not a selling point.)
tommyrot - Oct 02, 2005 1:47:12 pm PDT #5639 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I was really off balance after Wash with respect to who else would make it.
I can't remember another movie where I was so emotionally invested in the fates of the (remaining) characters after Wash bought it. It definitely stripped away most all the emotional distance I typically feel about the fates of movie characters.
And yeah, Tara getting shot was probably the last time I felt that much of a shock over the death of a fictional character.
JenP - Oct 02, 2005 1:49:47 pm PDT #5640 of 10001
I've been reading the reaction, Simon. (It's addictive.)
The Browncoats are scaring me.
Well, now I have to go look.
le nubian - Oct 02, 2005 1:52:18 pm PDT #5641 of 10001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Hard to draw comparisons between "Firefly" and other movies, but if you look at the September box office charts from last year the 9/17 weekend has a comparable movie "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."
That movie is also considered "science fiction" and it made about $15.5 million on more screens or a $4915 screen average. If the weekend estimates are correct (and we need to see the final numbers tomorrow to know for certain), "Serenity" did a decent job compared to that movie last year same month. Its reported per screen is $4634.
I didn't make any predictions for this weekend, but I think $10-$13 would have probably be about right given time of year and # of screens.
Kristen - Oct 02, 2005 1:53:13 pm PDT #5642 of 10001
Better look now, Jen, before the comments break the 200 threshold.