The Shrine

fantastic flick. and I wasn't even that big a fan of the tv show. I'll start with the plussed

+ Acting. That was always my big qualm with the TV show. The characters at timed slipped in and out of their roles. here that wasn't the case as much. there were times when some lines seemed a bit forced but it was definitely a lot better.

+ Bringing the funny. This is definitely one of Joss Wheedons stregths. scenes are hilairious with both dumb funny one liners but subtle humor as well. there are points where you can start laughing and wonder why.

+ Respectful Deaths. Characters die. And guess what, it's kind of sad when they do. One dies as you are laughing. middle of a pretty funny scene and bam out of nowhere. bvut it's handled so well I'm almost willing to forgive Joss his crappy colossus resurection story. actually this same wscene was in one of his x-men issues in a way. just watch and you will see.

+ Reavers are scary as hell. yep they made them into something scary. we also get to find out just what the hell they are and why they rape you to death and war your skin afterward.

- The deaths. Yes it was handled well but they killed some of my favorite characters. very depressing at times.

- the bad guy's fate. He was just so sadistic, so evil, and such a bastard that his fate is somewhat dissapointing.

- bad timing on one-liners. This isn't buffy. spouting off one liners every few minutes causes a break from the tension and while most of them are great some of them just seem really out of place.

- The ass hole that was sitting behind me. ok what kind of retard brings their damned 5 year old to a PG-13 movie. and calling the kid 5 is being generous. looked 4 or even younger. started crying right in the middle of the flick. so what did they do. they just took the kid to the isle. you know what. your damn kid starts crying, take him outside to the hallway you stupid retard. not to mention before that the guy's cell phone went off and he actually answered it and started talking. GAH!

well that's enough for now. all in all it was a great movie and finally got my brain off the horrible flightplan movie.

Okay. If I want to retain any of my geek cred, I'd better see this.

I'm waiting to watch the series on Sci-Fi first.

I just got Season 4 of Seinfeld a week ago =)

I can't wait until season 5.

Er, what?

I've been a fan of Firefly for a long time, and was lucky enough to attend the pre-release fan only showing of Serenity, where we got to chat with Adam Baldwin and Gina Torres after the screening. My view is obviously gonna be a little biased, but even so, this movie really does rock. If you like well done sci-fi movies, then you should make an effort to see this.

Im off to see it again tomorrow.

The Seeker wrote:I just got Season 4 of Seinfeld a week ago =)

I can't wait until season 5.

I can't wait for season 5 of Firefly.

Oh wait...

I finally saw Serenity yesterday. It rocked my world. It was baiscally season two with a <i>much</i> higher budget and done in two hours. I hope they can make more.

The Seeker wrote:

Chris Hansbrough wrote:seek if I didn't know you I wouldn'ty flip you shit. it's Derithian. I've been part of this cacaphony of arguing and poo flinging for years. just figured I'd join the fun by responding to a stupid comment with a stupid comment. I "pulled a seeker" if you will :p

Oh, alright, I didn't know it was you, cool then =)

damn right bitch......now make me a goddamn fish taco.....I'm hungry...

oh and go see Serenity because it rocked. except for one scene that had me laughing hilairiously and then wanting to cry and wonder how the next mopvie can be as funny.......those who have seen it will know why.....made me cry

I'm a huge Firefly fanboy so I totally creamed my pants. Sin City is the only movie released this year that tops it for me.

batman and sin city for me

Great, great movie. More impactful for fans of Firefly of course, but I think anyone can enjoy this movie.

Couple of random, unrelated points:

-Some have said that the mystery of River is solved, but after seeing the movie, there are still lots of questions surrounding her.

- Great villian

- Cool backstory for the Reavers, even if I did semi-predict it.

- There needs to be a sequal...but I don't know if it'll earn enough for studios to greenlight one.

- I don't understand the complaints about the film.

Ishamael wrote:Great, great movie. More impactful for fans of Firefly of course, but I think anyone can enjoy this movie.

Couple of random, unrelated points:

-Some have said that the mystery of River is solved, but after seeing the movie, there are still lots of questions surrounding her.

- Great villian

- Cool backstory for the Reavers, even if I did semi-predict it.

- There needs to be a sequal...but I don't know if it'll earn enough for studios to greenlight one.

- I don't understand the complaints about the film.

well some things have buigged me since the tv series about the reaves. they are relentless savages and kill everyone running opurely on instinct......but shit they are good fucking pilots

just some news from the UK.

Firefly seems to have the best following in the world here, not only did we get the world premier, the first ever firefly convention, show all the episodes correctly etc we managed to ensure Serenity opened at box office number one for opening weekend.

We're off to see it tomorrow with a bunch of Browncoats to help the second week takings put in an equally strong performance.

News from Joss is that he is definately looking at a trilogy. Yay!

I had no idea Serenity was the Firefly movie. I never even watched the show, so a lot of the movie was probably lost on me. That does explain why I thought the characterization seemed really off though, the death scenes especially. Man, those must've been as impactful as Otimus Prime's death in the Transformers movie(best example I can think of at the moment). That said, I thought it was a decent movie with an excellent villain, and it does make me want to check out the series sometime later.

Hah!

Does anyone besides me think that, for a kids' movie, the Transformers movie was a great piece of entertainment?

Transformers movie was an excellent animated movie. I still watch it from time to time, it ruled