Hmmm, I gave this film a watch, and perhaps I was expecting too much but I wasnt really impressed or blown away like I hoped after reading everyones comments and hearing how great it was. I think Joss Whedon is a great guy and a great writer but I guess this just didnt appeal to me. I felt it was well written and produced mind you, so I'll put this one in the "good, but not my cup of tea" category. I think, however my dissapoint may lie in that on flyers and posters I saw what looked like massive LOTR scale ground-based battles between those Reaver things and humans and there wasnt anything like that in the film.
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So here I am to give my review of Serenity.
Spoiler:THAT MOVIE WAS FRAKKIN AWESOME.
It must have been confusing for all those who went to see it but have never seen Firefly before, musn't it? lol I thought that all of the references to the series were well met but like previously said, it must have confused some people.
My brother has seen Serenity and when I asked him if it was any good (before I had seen it) he replied 'yep, it's great!' and then I asked him 'So you've seen Firefly I take it?' and he said '....huh?.....what's Firefly?'
lol true story, they should make a sequel.
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I saw Serenity before i saw Firefly, and i wasnt all that confused by the movie. I can see why it would be better to see the show 1st though, as it gives good background info.Science Fiction is an existential metaphor; it allows us to tell stories about the human condition.
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Originally posted by MB.Eddie View PostI saw Serenity before i saw Firefly, and i wasnt all that confused by the movie. I can see why it would be better to see the show 1st though, as it gives good background info.
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Originally posted by Shep'sSocks View PostDid you see it at one of the Browncoat previews? I saw it three times, including the Melbourne Q&A with Joss.Science Fiction is an existential metaphor; it allows us to tell stories about the human condition.
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Originally posted by Shep'sSocks View PostDid you see it at one of the Browncoat previews? I saw it three times, including the Melbourne Q&A with Joss.
Originally posted by MB.Eddie View PostNo. I saw it before i even knew what a Browncoat was. I remember seeing the adds on tv while it was at the movies, and thought it sounded cool, but never got round to seeing it on the big screen. I ended up seeing it on dvd, and then got into the series a few months later, and havent looked back since
Sad thing is that the movie was advertised, and advertised and advertised- I couldn't watch anything on SPACE without seeing a Serenity advert- and I thought it looked so cool! And then it was in theaters for like 2 seconds. Talk about let-down, if I'd seen it in theaters once, I probably would have gone at least twice more from liking it so much.
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I have seen the film like three times now and i Love it. (Still don't understand they layout of the solar system they live in? I mean how many planets are there and how can they all be in the habitable zone? As they are all Earth like?). Anyways a great film with great charcters.
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quick question. I saw FF a while ago, and just saw Serenity.
First, love the movie. If only it didn't stop
Second, why was River in a box on that first FF episode? Didn't they say she got shipped/smuggled out? Yet in the beginning of Serenity you see her getting out via that airlift along with Simon. Why was she in a box?
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i watched this movie the other day- and it is brilliant.
Loved it when river killed all those reavers! Pity that wash died at the end thoughThankyou SG-1 for 10 great years!
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Originally posted by Team SG-1*save the show* View Posti watched this movie the other day- and it is brilliant.
Loved it when river killed all those reavers! Pity that wash died at the end though
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Originally posted by MechaThor View PostI am sure they felt like they had to kill someone off to show "the risk" of the mission but WHY Wash? Why not his wife she was boring.
Seen the movie 4 times and I love it; as well as the tvshow. I miss FF
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I just saw the movie a couple of weeks and I had mixed feeling about the movie. I think as a movie by itself it is great but when you connect it to Firefly it has lost some of the feeling.
Pros
Good acting
Good CG
Good sets
Good rehash of the whole Firefly 'verse for people who never saw the show
Summer shows that she can cross her dancing with fighting look out Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen
So far I have not found any crew members show up on a fancy set in a Hawaiian shirt and shorts walk in the sence(Shindig Blooper)
Cons
To many changes to Serenity's look such as engine
Some of the story and character interactions didn't flow with the last episode
Some of the costuming lost the western feel and took a Sci-Fi feel
The lens and film grain was to clear unlike show so it lost show's feel
Characters where to physically clean and makeuped dirt at times looked like makeup
Mixed
Wash's death I didn't like but it did help add a feeling of how bad things are in the situation
Book's death I felt was to early in the flim
Make up could have been better to make main character's dirtier but the Revear's makeup was greatLast edited by Apollodragon; 01 September 2007, 11:34 PM.
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