Serenity (yeah right)

ejsmith on 27/9/2005 at 23:50

Please tell me more about the stapled-ghun thing. If it's a good movie, just as if it's a good game or a good book, you cannot possibly "spoil" it for me.

In other news, Christ Jesus -- Himself -- knows that the Cliff Notes to "The Sound and the Fury," by William Faulker, will, in no way, spoil the book. Quite the opposite, in fact. Just like the Rosetta Stone.

A primer.

BlackErtai on 28/9/2005 at 00:48

I've got a "rabid" friend in one of my apartment mates, who's been eagerly showing all of us his favorite series for the last week straight. I must say, the show makes much more sense when you watch it in the right order, and on DVD where the sound isn't shitty.

I still cringe at some of the writing, but hopefully with all the great reviews this movie has recieved, I'll enjoy it alittle more than I enjoyed the series.

P.S. - Book and the Companion were the most interesting characters on the ship, and from what I understand, they STILL haven't done anything with them. My preview seeing friends said that it focuses almost exclusively on River, who I hated. DAMNIT.

Master Villain on 28/9/2005 at 00:55

Quote Posted by ejsmith

Please tell me more about the stapled-ghun thing. If it's a good movie, just as if it's a good game or a good book, you cannot possibly "spoil" it for me.

Well, okay then...

[SPOILER]To get to an isolated mystery planet they have to fly through Reaver Space, which is where these utterly insane space crazies sit in their ships waiting to send out raiding parties. The Reavers are psychotic cannibal rapists who fly in dilapidated, jury-rigged ships, so to get there they ugly up the ship and part of this includes sticking a peice of artilery on the back to look the part.[/SPOILER]

Deep Qantas on 28/9/2005 at 02:17

I understand this little speech has been shown in the prescreenings (confirm/deny). I remember reading it from some forums before, but I thought I'd share.

It's rather emotional. :p

Quote Posted by "Joss Whedon"

Hi I’m Joss Whedon. Before we begin this special screening, I have a little story I want to tell you. It’s about a TV show called Firefly. Firefly went on the air a few years ago and was instantly hailed by critics as one of the most cancelled shows of the year. It was ignored and abandoned, and the story should end there. But it doesn’t, because the people who made the show and the people who saw the show—which is roughly the same number of people—fell in love with it a little bit too much to let it go, too much to lay down arms when the battle looked pretty much lost.

In Hollywood, people like that are called unrealistic, quixotic, obsessive. In my world, they’re called Browncoats. Now whether you watched the show on TV or saw the DVDs—or whether you never set foot in the Firefly universe before tonight—the fact that you’re here means that you’re part of something, something that is a little bit remarkable. This movie should not exist. Failed TV shows don’t get made into major motion pictures—unless the creator, the cast and the fans believe beyond reason. That’s what I have felt, and that’s what I have seen in the DVD sales, the booths at the cons run by fans, the web sites and the fundraisers—all the work the fans have done helped make this movie.

It is, in an unprecedented sense, your movie. Which means…if it sucks, it’s your fault. You blew it. You let us down. But let’s not dwell on your failures, because the work is not done. I have to finish making it. This is not quite a final cut, and you’ll notice some placeholders in music and FX. But we are very close, and once we are finished…you have to get people to see it.

Now obviously the studio will do its thing. There will be ads and trailers and all that joy, but this movie does not have stars. It doesn’t have a giant mega budget. It doesn’t even have a simple saleable premise. What it has is us—the people who believed unreasonably. If this movie matters to you, let somebody know. Let everybody know. Make yourselves heard.

If you don’t like the movie…this is a time for quiet, for months of silent contemplation. But when the unfinished credits roll—if you still call yourself a Browncoat—remember the millions of people who don’t…who might. I want us to do this together. The cast will be appearing wherever they can. I will be blogging and stumping and whatever I can think of. We have CantStoptheSignal.com up and running.

I’m fairly certain we’re all doing everything we can to make this the event it should be. Because remember: they tried to kill us. They did kill us, and here we are. We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty. Thank you for helping getting this movie as far as it has gotten. Welcome to Serenity.

Aerothorn on 28/9/2005 at 03:57

Bleh, I might rent this, but I don't feel I can really trust any reviews...even if everyone says it rocks, everyone said Firefly rocked, too.

BlackErtai on 28/9/2005 at 04:22

Yeah, that was my problem with it too. But there isn't anything else coming out this weekend, and my college has a by week in football. So, why not?

YogSo on 28/9/2005 at 11:39

Another spoiler-free question to whoever has already seen the movie:

What about the musical score? Is it like the one from the series?

What I really want to know is: the horrible 'Poul Anderson-esque action music' that was featured in the trailer is also in the movie?

pakmannen on 28/9/2005 at 13:11

Quote Posted by YogSo

The score was okey. Nothing too spectacular, except the main theme or whatever when you first see Serenity. I liked that. :cheeky:

And that (horrible) trailer song is not in the movie. That scene is really cool actually, plays sorta like a dream-sequence and has no background music at all.

Agent Monkeysee on 28/9/2005 at 16:04

I checked out the Sci-Fi marathon last night and from what I saw this show was pretty good. I'll probably see the movie.

Hewer on 28/9/2005 at 16:18

Man, I so cannot wait to see this movie- Thanks for the review Pak- I'm worked up into a froth now. :thumb:

Hey! I'm finally a 'member' now!