But really how funny to have Fox confused with UPN.
These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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.
sumi - Oct 06, 2005 7:53:22 am PDT #5972 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Sean K - Oct 06, 2005 7:58:09 am PDT #5973 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Oh, I can see how very easy a mistake it was to make. Serenity is a Universal property, so obviously Firefly must have broadcast on their network.
JZ - Oct 06, 2005 7:59:03 am PDT #5974 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I don't even care about that error. It's such a birth-of-a-fanboy review I find the whole thing just adorable. I want to pinch its cheeks, Maoism ruminations and all.
The Partyman - Oct 06, 2005 7:59:07 am PDT #5975 of 10001
[insert something funny here]
YAY! I have seen Serenity! At long last!
Thoroughly enjoyed it. :)
As did one of my best mates, who has never seen Firefly, but who I found sitting in the second row as an eager Whedon Fan, as I entered the cinema for our first local screening - He scared the hell outta me! I had no idea he would be there. :)
manzo - Oct 06, 2005 10:11:43 am PDT #5976 of 10001
If we're really lucky, they'll do it in that order...
Well, the film's getting good reviews in the UK so far. The BBC show Film 2005 loved it, and the presenter hadn't seen Firefly.
My overriding thought as the credits rolled was: "Why on earth couldn't the three most recent Star Wars films have been a third as good as this.?" With its swashbuckling fun and occasional moments of intelligent heroics this film has the qualities which the early instalments in George Lucas's saga possessed, and which the later ones so horribly lacked.
On another BBC show, it gets the film of the week.
Random paraphrasing:
If the TV series was half as good as this film, it makes you wonder what the TV bosses were thinking.
If you are tired of the infantileness of Star Wars, this witty film is for you.
Right, I should think about leaving soon to get to the cinema. I'm glad that I've seen the film already (well, duh), as it means that I won't have to spend a week catching up with this thread!
Topic!Cindy - Oct 06, 2005 10:35:26 am PDT #5977 of 10001
What is even happening?
Christianity Today has collected Serenity reviews by Christian reviewers. Overall, it's been quite positively received. [link]
The Serenity review excerpts and links are grouped together, and make up the first 1/3 or so of the page. SPOILER AVERSE WARNING: Reviews for other films follow.
Foxhunter - Oct 06, 2005 10:43:06 am PDT #5978 of 10001
When we kill people it makes the policemen flustered and stern.
If Star Wars is the Wagner of space operas, this is Gilbert and Sullivan.Couldn't have said it better.
lori - Oct 06, 2005 1:07:07 pm PDT #5979 of 10001
LATimes has a big story in the business section:
Down-home directing: Joss Whedon used every cost-cutting trick he knew — or could invent — to keep production of the sci-fi feature "Serenity" in L.A.
It talks about how he made the whole film locally. Which I knew, and yet that didn't stop me from saying "oh look, this moon is in Southern California, oh wait, so is this planet, and this one..."
manzo - Oct 06, 2005 1:35:34 pm PDT #5980 of 10001
If we're really lucky, they'll do it in that order...
Interview with Joss in the Guardian:
From the Reaver quote that's from the series (the one that my tag is taken from), I'm going to hazard a guess that the interviewer's a Firefly fan.
manzo - Oct 06, 2005 1:52:12 pm PDT #5981 of 10001
If we're really lucky, they'll do it in that order...
Oh, obviously I'm back from the cinema, and whilst me and the wife thoroughly enjoyed the film in August, it was definitely better the second time around. It was all the little things you could pick up in the background. Wash's death still, well, it still hurts, even though I'd seen it before, but you can see that the crew do react, which is something I missed the first time (probably due me being all "Nooooooooooooooooo!" first time around).
I still don't get why some reviews accuse the CGI of being a bit shoddy/amateurish. They look fine to me. I'm wondering if they're mistaking the deliberate hand-held camera effect thing with cheapness?
Anyway, I'm still loving this film, and I think that a third viewing might have to be done next weekend.