Speaking as a Bay Area native: I love our movie palaces.
I seen you without your clothes on before. Never thought I'd see you naked.
Mal ,'Trash'
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.
Mikey - Nov 01, 2005 1:19:34 pm PST #7169 of 10001
All this time, I thought Hunter was a bitch. Turns out she was just hungry.
dcp - Nov 01, 2005 2:06:55 pm PST #7170 of 10001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Two pieces of Serenity news.
The title bar of www.serenitymovie.com now reads:
"Serenity DVD | Serenity movie - firefly serenity movie"
No DVD or purchase links on the site yet, though.
dvdanswers.com has official artwork from the DVD: [link]
Universal has today officially announced Serenity which stars Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk. This Joss Whedon directed sci-fi will be available to own from the 20th December, priced at around $29.98. The film itself will be presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, along with English and French Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks. Extras will include a feature commentary with writer/director Joss Whedon, a director introduction, deleted scenes, outtakes, a Future History: The Story of Earth That Was featurette, a What's in a Firefly featurette and a Re-Lighting the Firefly featurette.
Nothing at Universal Studios Home Entertainment [link] yet.
libkitty - Nov 01, 2005 2:16:01 pm PST #7171 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Don't much like the artwork. It's nice to be able to see the actors better, but what's with the flames (or whatever) between Mal and Zoe?
Also, I'll still buy this, but I was hoping for a price closer to $20. I had planned to buy this for presents. Now, perhaps not.
I don't want to say that marketing, etc., is bad, because I really know not of what I speak. Still, I wish it were better, because it seems like maybe they don't either.
JZ - Nov 01, 2005 2:16:23 pm PST #7172 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.
Speaking as a Bay Area native: I love our movie palaces.
Well, neither the Parkway nor the Red Vic could conceivably be described as palatial, but they are very cozy. The Parkway lets you order beer and a pizza and slounge on a couch (if you get there early enough) while watching your movie, and the Red Vic pops popcorn from scratch for every show and covers it with actual butter like God intended. Also, the Red Vic had couches way before the Parkway.
We have some splendid palaces, too, of course.
Zenkitty - Nov 01, 2005 2:19:50 pm PST #7173 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
The cover art makes it look like a cheesy B flick. I'm surprised it's going to be nearly $30. But I'm buying it anyway, of course.
libkitty - Nov 01, 2005 2:26:52 pm PST #7174 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
See, that's the thing. The marketing all seems to be for cheesy B flick, not for a good movie. Even when there were wonderful reviews from respected reviewers, they chose quotes from folks I've never heard of for their flyers (for fans to distribute). They had a beautiful Serenity logo, then used the blue poster for everything. Bah.
DavidS - Nov 01, 2005 2:29:42 pm PST #7175 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The marketing all seems to be for cheesy B flick, not for a good movie.
A lot of the reviews took this slant too. Even some of the positive ones called it a cheesy B flick. Of course, the original reviews for Star Wars were like that as well.
Wolfram - Nov 01, 2005 2:32:44 pm PST #7176 of 10001
Visilurking
30 bucks is insane. Even corporadisney streets their DVDs in the $20 range. Also 15 hours of firefly at $35 doesn't really make $30 for 2 hours seem very fair.
Tamara - Nov 01, 2005 2:55:55 pm PST #7177 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Firefly has a suggested retail of what? $50 $60? It regularly sells for $29 to $35. Serenity will have the same type of discounts. Look for it to be less than $20 at Amazon and probably less than that at Wal-Mart.
KernelM - Nov 01, 2005 2:56:51 pm PST #7178 of 10001
Ankh-Morpork Watchman, Dreamer, Scooby, Minister of Grace, Still Flyin' in a Zoo2 World
$30 is MSRP. It'll be at most $20 street. Firefly's MSRP is $50.