Serenity (2005) Discussion Thread Contains All Manner of Spoilers

[Easter Lily]

This thread is for those who have seen Joss Whedon's film Serenity based on the television series Firefly. It will contain spoilers from the film and those who enter into it, enter at their own risk.

Tread no further... reading this thread without having first seen the film with seriously impair your enjoyment of it...

[Shep'sSocks]

Mal's read a poem!

[Immy]

YAY spoiler central

Ok this is for anyone who wonders in, and hasn't seen the film yet.

GO AWAY

This is a film best seen unspoiled

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ok consider your self warned

[Blue Banrigh]

Enough warnings? I think Eemo has done a good job.

Jayne plays a guitar!!!

What poem was it that Mal read?

[Easter Lily]

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge...
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Co...t_Mariner.html

This is the part that Mal was referring to:

At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came ;
As if it had been a Christian soul,
We hailed it in God's name.

It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
And round and round it flew.
The ice did split with a thunder-fit ;
The helmsman steered us through !

And lo ! the Albatross proveth a bird of good omen, and followeth the ship as it returned northward through fog and floating ice.

And a good south wind sprung up behind ;
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariner's hollo !

In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine ;
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'

[Shep'sSocks]

Mal's read The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

[Easter Lily]

Enough warnings? I think Eemo has done a good job.

Jayne plays a guitar!!!

You know, I thought he was going to sing for a moment there...
The Hero of Canton, in particular...

[Shep'sSocks]

I missed most of the end credits cos I zipped out to speak to the guy from UIP. No song?

[Easter Lily]

No... we stayed right up to the end... No song...
A member of the audience said... "Arrrrgh..." when the credits finished rolling in...

[Blue Banrigh]

Nice, thanks. I'm hopeless when it comes to poetry.

Favourite line:
River: I swallowed a bug.

Mal: Dear Buddha, I'd like a pony and a plastic rocket.

Funniest moment: Kaylee and deciding to live.

I love this movie.

[Easter Lily]

I was relieved to see that all that Whedonesque humour was intact...

Did you find the Mal with a screwdriver scene funny? I thought it was... but hubs and other guy friends didn't think so.

[Blue Banrigh]

You know, I thought he was going to sing for a moment there...
The Hero of Canton, in particular...

Lol, maybe it'll be in a deleted scene.

What I'd give to see the director's cut. I'd sit through a four hour version of Serenity.

[Immy]

Thought I might give us a little treat for our shiny new thread A lovely bunch of clips.

http://river.cantstopthesignal.co.uk...clip_01_dl.mov - Reaver chase scene
http://river.cantstopthesignal.co.uk...clip_02_dl.mov - River fight scene in bar
http://river.cantstopthesignal.co.uk...clip_03_dl.mov - Mal arriving to 'rescue' Inara. (Includes Buddah scene)
http://river.cantstopthesignal.co.uk...clip_04_dl.mov - Continuation of above scene
http://river.cantstopthesignal.co.uk...clip_05_dl.mov - Scene in 'lounge' with argument between Mal and Jayne about River http://river.cantstopthesignal.co.uk...clip_06_dl.mov - River and Mal in cockpit (extended piece from trailer)
http://river.cantstopthesignal.co.uk...clip_07_dl.mov - "Watch how I soar/me soar"

[Shep'sSocks]

Nice, thanks. I'm hopeless when it comes to poetry.

Unless there's another poem about an albatross.

Favourite line:
River: I swallowed a bug.

That one's hilarious because of what they'd just gone through with the Reavers.

Mal: Dear Buddha, I'd like a pony and a plastic rocket.

What did you think of Inara's lack of being in the film?

Funniest moment: Kaylee and deciding to live.

Oooh, I dunno. I think Kaylee's funniest moment was the "twixt my nether regions" line.

I love this movie.

So, so funny.

[Easter Lily]

Thanks Eemo...
Very nice...
*Goes off momentarily to watch Mal in Dear Buddha scene*