Am I the only one to hate Serenity the movie.
POSTED BY: Apollo_Master
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Hi, I'm Clément, from France. Huge fan of Firefly (I think i'm not the only one here) Today, i just found Serinity on the UK netflix (It is not avaible on DVD in France) I watched it, and i have to say I hate everything single part of this film.
I looked for review on Imdb, rotten tomatoes, and they say it's a very good movie. So I ask myself : Am I dumb ? I mean, the movie itself, it's bad, too much budget, the shoots are bad, lights are awful (not always though) but It's not what I expected and I'm so disapointed.
For me, every single characters are totally f***** up in the movie. There is a lot of part where i just stopped and said : "WHYYYYY ?" however The plot itself is ... good enough. But once again it's cliché ! The bad guy is know a good guy, the Alliance is wounded, maybe to death, the truth is exposed, Mal and Inara are back together, Simon and Kaylee are in love. Ok this is great but this is once a again a boring ending (Even though I was glad for them).
And there is some mistakes, for me, the Great Alliance of the Planets are made up by USA and China, that's why they speak chinese, and the culture is chinese and american. BUT WHY THE HELL THERE IS SOME JAPANESE, ARAB writings on their computers ? That's little mistakes, but for me it's the ground of the series that was spoiled by this movie.
I love firefly because it's cheap, sfx are not the greatest and it's more focus on the plot. In Serenity, we have a lot of PEW PEW and cliché scenes. Serenity is the Star Wars prequel of Firefly
Maybe, Whedon had to do this by the producers in order to make a blockbuster, but for me it's more a fan service movie than an ending
Please, don't be mad at me, I may be wrong, I'm looking for help to understand why this movie disapointed me so much, maybe you liked it and I must know why.
Btw sorry if there is mistakes in my post, i'm French, my english is not the best in town.
Thank you very much for your reply, I hope we'll be able to speak and I'll learn from your knowledge.
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I don't think you're alone, but others might not go so far as to say 'hate.'
I like it, maybe even love it a little, but not as much as I love Firefly.
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
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Hello Thanks for your reply
I understand, maybe the word hate is a little bit hard, but it's the only short word I know :D
I cannot say it's was the worst movie i've seen, in the end, i was glad to see their all good to go ... (not all but ..) but I was frustrated by all the movie
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It would probably help if you understood that there were reasons why Joss did what he did. First, Ron Glass and Alan Tudyk could not have committed to anything further than the movie, so that's why he had to kill them off.
Some people here still pine for Wash, but Shepard Book was the one that killed me as he had so much as a character to give and to tell. But
I understand, compromises have to be made in Hollyweird sometimes.
Two, I think that the series had the larger end goal of saying just how far a gov't would go in it's own interests and NOT of the people's interests, and he got the chance to do that in the movie and ran with it. I've always suspected that that larger goal was what got the series canned to begin with. He has my respect for that, because even though this is America, that theme is not really an allowed subject for the mainstream- they usually relegate it to fringe "weirdos" like X-files type conspiracy nuts.
Three, the movie was filmed from the perspective that many people still had not even HEARD of the series and he wrote it from an "re-introductory" position, as for the people who were meeting the characters for the first time (I was one who saw the movie first as well). It's choppy in parts, but the main goals were accomplished and with what he had to work with, both in back story and in budgeting- it's amazing he accomplished what he did....
Might wanna cut it some slack there...
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Well thank you very much, I understand better now. what you said about the gvt plot, and this is what expected, to understand why the Alliance is so bad, and when "the operator" says "we are not just the evil empire" ... Well tell us why ! I have more question question now than before seeing the movie. I understand, and i respect the work of Whedon, but I think we can agree that the movie was just for Hollywood, even though it gave us some key to understand the Allinance, the story of River and Simon .. but not enough. Thank you, you really helped me :)
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Quote:
Originally posted by Apollo_Master:
"we are not just the evil empire" ...
The Operative believed that unification and having central rule was for the greater good and that is what allowed him to do the horrible things he did and to justify it. By the end of the movie I think even he could see that central rule was more about ego and subjugation and less about any sense of freedom, as it always becomes when one is ruled by others.
By the way, this is the moment I spent a horrible semester with Mrs. Ozete in French class for.... It is ALL that I remember from 15 years ago...
Où est la salle de bains? and...
Est-ce je peux avoir la carte s'il vous plait?
So I have to say your English is much much better than my French!
"It is NOT our mission to impose Federation or Earth values on any others in the Galaxy" -Captain Jean-Luc Picard
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Here's the review I wrote ten years ago: http://templetongate.net/serenity-fullreview.htm
wo men ren ran zai fei xing.
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Quote:I hate the scene in Serenity where Mal shoots at the Operative and misses. What is wrong with you, Mal? But in the 190 pages long version of the Serenity script, that scene played out differently and it made perfect sense that Mal would miss.
Originally posted by Apollo_Master:
I love firefly because it's cheap, sfx are not the greatest and it's more focus on the plot. In Serenity, we have a lot of PEW PEW and cliché scenes.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Also, Jayne being harpooned in the leg by Reavers, but still walking on the leg for the rest of the movie? That is not possible. Jayne does not even limp!
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