Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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Maybe that's my issue...I don't feel overly strongly about it either way and I kind of expected to. I walked into it as I do every comic movie...hoping for the best, trying not to expect anything...and I walked out going "Huh."
That seems to have been the general reaction in the theater I saw it in (downtown Evanston) which seemed to be largely fannish-type folk. Except for the old-ish couple, who upon leaving, said, "That was a terrible movie."
Ailleann, so you would have preferred the exploding psychic space squid? Why? (I'm just curious; haven't seen the movie yet.)
I think it isn't so much she wanted that entity, but that there was no action necessitating cooperation given the way the movie resolved this issue. Terrorism acts were done, and I guess we are to infer that people saw the devastation and decided by themselves that war was futile and they should cooperate? The connection between A and B wasn't made well.
I'm not sure what the graphic novel says about this, but if Ozymandias had such a low opinion of humanity, why would he assume that this new level of cooperation would stick for more than 10 years?
it probably could have been longer
speaking on behalf of the exhibition industry, might I suggest two movies? Either that or we need to start charging more for the longer ones. Most movies we can show five times a day. The three hour beasties we can only show four times.
MM I beg you on behalf of all iphone users please use the quick edit for spoilers!
Signed, Stuck in the park until D wakes up from his stroller nap with only the interwebs for company.
please use the quick edit for spoilers!
Or, if you don't want to use the quickedit, DON'T use <font color="white">. Use <span class="spoiler">.
I still haven't seen it, but I am not bothered by reading all the spoilers (it's not like I don't know what happens).
It sounds like, as I feared, Zack Snyder is very capable of framing and digitally color timing every shot so it looks just like the comic.
But the story? He didn't get it. That, or somehow he thinks Alan Moore is exactly the same person as Frank Miller, and that they tell basically identical stories.
Sean, that was my feeling exactly. Alieann's forest/trees analogy is pretty much dead on.
(Oh and my complaint to MM is that I can't read his whitefont because I can't highlight text on my phone. My personal css displays the spoiler class as grey. )
I wonder if I loved it mostly because it could have been so much worse. Way back when MM was dream casting Gibson as The Comedian I was casting Tim Robbins as Night Owl.
Okay, I apologize for the old skool spoiler font.
You kids today and your newfangled css and autogyros. Back in my day we threw carved tablets at each others faces and called *that* the Interwhatevers.