But just please validate my parking and let me leave in peace, please.
It’s a nice place to very rarely visit, and it’s great you can parrot all the “cool” Buffy/ Angel/Firefly dialogue to each other as a method of recognition at Applebee’s and geek conventions.
So, sorry Whedon-freaks, but this is one geek who didn’t get sucked into your Whedon-verse via my Serenity film ticket.
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I walked out happy, but without plans to pick up the series on DVD or even to purposely click onto and continuously watch any of the episodes replayed on television. I’m curious what my Mutant brethren think, since I’m fairly certain a couple are Firefly enthusiasts. Still, I just can’t go crazy recommending Serenity, because while it’s solid sci-fi and the blending of western/civil war themes into the mix is more deftly handled than I expected, it just wasn’t memorable. They probably got a lot more out of the film than people like me did, but I’m pretty sure we all left entertained. At certain points in the film (you’ll know them when they happen) a few audience members reacted so strongly it was clear they were Firefly devotees. And my showing wasn’t besieged by those “browncoat” Whedon superfans that get made fun of and occasionally wear shirts proclaiming “Joss Whedon is My Master Now” (in Star Wars font, taking a nice deserved swipe at George Lucas) so you probably don’t have to worry about fanboy stench or overactive laughs or stuff like that. I was able everything in the film without knowing the television show, so don’t be worried. No, you know what? Summer Glau IS attractive. My perceptions from seeing ten accumulated minutes on television carried over the to the film: Fillion is a great tortured heroic lead, that lady was on 24, her husband is lame, that selfish guy is so untrustworthy omg why do they keep him around lol!!!!, ooh Glau and the mechanic girl are very attractive, well, I can’t tell if Glau is attractive or not and this companion woman is attractive as well or maybe she just stands out or something, is she trying too hard? I can’t put my finger on it.
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The women are all certainly attractive and the guys have a good grasp of physical and comedic action, but otherwise they’re fairly bland.Īnd don’t tell me the movie had to streamline everything, because I flipped through a few episodes of Firefly and no one really stood out too impressively. I guess the major strength of Serenity is that is properly plays around with the fact that our characters in a spaceship (as in visiting plenty of different places, instead of the usual sci-if convention of the characters capable of interstellar travel but sticking to like two planets), everything is fairly logical, there are none of the usual great big emotional moments of spontaneous character development/upheaval, and it puts all its chip on Mal (Nathan Fillion) and River (Summer Glau). I’ll certainly agree it was better than Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, but so was The Dukes of Hazard. I’m a little torn over whether I should say “I liked it a lot!” or “I liked it quite a bit.” It was a fun experience not one I’m in a hurry to repeat and I can’t imagine I’ll want to see it on enough of a regular basis to ever buy it, even if it was used and dirt cheap.
I can respect Serenity as well because I liked it. I do enjoy the genre-busting he is often credited for, since if nothing else it’s pretty obvious Whedon has watched a lot of television and films and knows about the usual cliches and wants his work to flirt with them but confound them as well. His dialogue isn’t the end-all-be-all, his characters are realistic but not necessarily memorable, and his plotting is only occasionally mind-blowing. Sorry, but Joss Whedon is just hugely overrated as far as I’m concerned. Kyle’s review: Now, I never watched Firefly when it was television or when it was being broadcast in marathons a ton of times to build up hype for the film. But throw in sci-fi and it’s surprisingly tasty! Kyle’s rating: I really don’t like westerns. Summary: A group of space rebels out only for themselves find out perhaps everyone has a destiny after all The Scoop: 2005 PG-13, directed by Joss Whedon and starring Nathan Fillion, Summer Glau and Alan Tudyk
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