A very good movie.... I hope there will be more...
I suggest you all go out to the movies and see it.
And see the series: Firefly.
That is all.
(P.S. It's a really great movie. If you don't enjoy it, you're not human.)
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Serenity.
by UIUCstudent01 » Sat 01 Oct 2005, 01:22:29
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Re: Serenity.
by evilmonkeyspanker » Sat 01 Oct 2005, 01:37:46
I guess I am not human.
Joss Whedon had one hit
Now that show is over
He should retire
Joss Whedon had one hit
Now that show is over
He should retire
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Re: Serenity.
by UIUCstudent01 » Sat 01 Oct 2005, 01:45:52
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('auctionmonster', 'I') guess I am not human.
Joss Whedon had one hit
Now that show is over
He should retire
Joss Whedon had one hit
Now that show is over
He should retire
Opposite day already?
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Re: Serenity.
by MicroHydro » Sat 01 Oct 2005, 03:00:26
Sorry, but Fireflop failed for a good reason. It did not speak to any significant audience in any meaningful way. If you can't sell your SciFi vision to viewers on the Scifi Channel, your vision stinks. Sure, George Lucas stuck baby boomer cinema audiences with WWII fighters and (noisy???) aircraft carriers banking and dogfighting (in a vacuum???) as the 'New Western' way back in 1977. Television soon cemented the link with Lorne Greene (Ben Cartwright of Bonanza) on the dreadful original Battlestar Galactica series.
Whedon merely drove a tired brain dead genre to new depths. His attempt to create an 'Outlaw Josey Wales' post civil war losers ensemble series in space was just weird and pointless. The modern audience lives on a real life Kafkaesque/Orwellian Prison Planet where the oil age infinite mobility of Firefly is a fading memory. Come on, these poor outlaws own a starship and can afford the fuel to visit a different star system every week. Good grief. For boomers who came of age in the cheap gasoline 1960s era USA, it was once possible to buy food to eat and gasoline to travel by begging for just an hour a day. One could take a couple years off from work and school to travel thousands of miles to sort out one's issues, or just get high and get laid. No wonder the wealth and mobility of Star Trek seemed reasonable to the boomers. Those days are gone. Whedon needs to join the 21st century and get a clue.
In my opinion, the only TV show to come close to addressing 21st century reality was Dark Angel, which had a martial law, economic depression, and peak oil motif.
Whedon merely drove a tired brain dead genre to new depths. His attempt to create an 'Outlaw Josey Wales' post civil war losers ensemble series in space was just weird and pointless. The modern audience lives on a real life Kafkaesque/Orwellian Prison Planet where the oil age infinite mobility of Firefly is a fading memory. Come on, these poor outlaws own a starship and can afford the fuel to visit a different star system every week. Good grief. For boomers who came of age in the cheap gasoline 1960s era USA, it was once possible to buy food to eat and gasoline to travel by begging for just an hour a day. One could take a couple years off from work and school to travel thousands of miles to sort out one's issues, or just get high and get laid. No wonder the wealth and mobility of Star Trek seemed reasonable to the boomers. Those days are gone. Whedon needs to join the 21st century and get a clue.
In my opinion, the only TV show to come close to addressing 21st century reality was Dark Angel, which had a martial law, economic depression, and peak oil motif.
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Re: Serenity.
by Falconoffury » Sat 01 Oct 2005, 15:40:45
When you say that Firefly failed, do you mean that it will be taken off the air?
"If humans don't control their numbers, nature will." -Pimentel
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Re: Serenity.
by UIUCstudent01 » Sat 01 Oct 2005, 17:32:01
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falconoffury', 'W')hen you say that Firefly failed, do you mean that it will be taken off the air?
It was taken off the air.. but it was a damn good show to watch without the commercials interrupting (i.e. DVD). The higher ups showed the series out of order... and just stopped it at a point... But since the DVD sales took off - Whedon got the chance to the movie...
The show is excellent. The movie is filled with entertaining quips and jokes, action, and awesome character interaction. It is pure awesome.
Go see Serenity - you won't be disappointed if you spend 6-8 dollars seeing it in a theater... Or if you must, you could probably download it off the internet somewhere... but then go buy the DVD's then...
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Re: Serenity.
by Sencha » Mon 03 Oct 2005, 20:40:52
'Scuse me, but Battlestar Galatica was one of the greatest Science fiction shows of all time. No sarcasm, I'm serious. That was a damn good show. Ok, it had the mentality of a comic book, but so what? It was fun to watch.
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Re: Serenity.
by UIUCstudent01 » Mon 03 Oct 2005, 22:43:59
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sencha', ''')Scuse me, but Battlestar Galatica was one of the greatest Science fiction shows of all time. No sarcasm, I'm serious. That was a damn good show. Ok, it had the mentality of a comic book, but so what? It was fun to watch.
Never saw the old battlestar galactica series.. the new ones are pretty awesome.. (as is SG-1 and Atlantis on Sci-fi)
Firefly is one of the best shows around...
I won't be surprised if it gets another movie or another try for T.V.
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Re: Serenity.
by Falconoffury » Mon 03 Oct 2005, 22:45:30
I saw the movie today, and I thought it kicked ass.
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Re: Serenity.
by Omnitir » Mon 03 Oct 2005, 22:56:54
I really enjoyed it also. I hope they make more, or bring back the serries.
I loved the "federation" type people being depicted as the evil ruthless tyrant. Like an anti-globalisation, anti-corporation metaphor. And the characters were great. Awesome action too.
And all for about half what a typical Hollywood sci-fi action type production costs.
I loved the "federation" type people being depicted as the evil ruthless tyrant. Like an anti-globalisation, anti-corporation metaphor. And the characters were great. Awesome action too.
And all for about half what a typical Hollywood sci-fi action type production costs.
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