Matrix vs. Firefly
POSTED BY: reginaroadie
UPDATED: Thursday, July 14, 2016 06:09
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Aargh!!! The dreaded "This Movie Sucks Because Its Not Like or Too Much Like this Other Movie" thread.
Matrix 1: A benchmark in moviemaking whose impact still can be felt in other movies for good or ill. I loved it for many reasons including its use of cool kung fu. I don't acknowledge the sequels and pretend that it ended with the first movie (just as I did with the original Highlander).
Firefly the Series: The best scifi series of all time in my opinion. Can you imagine if it would have gone on for at least 5 seasons? Almost too good to imagine. The strength of Firefly is the characters and Joss's undeniable mastery of making plots work in an exciting and entertaining fashion. I can only assume Serenity the movie will be of the same quality.
Dark City: Good movie with excellent atmosphere. I didn't find it as entertaining as the Matrix 1 or Firefly the series, but I still like it. Even if it had an influence on the Matrix (which I haven't seen proof or admission by the makers) the two movies are very different in outlook and execution.
There is my opinion. I like all three. Oh yeah. Back to the Future should have ended with the first as well 
although I did like the train scene from the third.
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Originally posted by MynameisJonas:
You can go on and on about how it can't fail because its made by JOSS, but the only movies that make money are the ones that have lots of ads on tv, with big name actors blowing stuff up and opera music playing.
You really have a small view of movies. Look at the top five grossing movies:
Titanic
Star Wars IV
Shrek 2
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Star Wars I
Only Two had more than one big name or popular actors- Titanic and Star Wars I (Counting if they were a big name actor at the time of release, discounting voice work), 1 road the coattails of its successful predecessor (Shrek 2 also EP I but I bunched that up with the previous statement) while two were ground breaking movies (ET and Star Wars).
(Strange only one of those movies is on my top ten list)
Now I'm not a big Joss fan, in fact I do not like Buffy or Angel and didn't think Alien 4 was any good. However Firefly has some thing that all the recent “Blockbuster” movies didn’t have- a meticulously crafted plot and 10 (yes 10) well thought up main characters.
Serenity may not make billions, or be hyped to death on Entertainment Tonight (For some reason I have a vision of Nathan and Adam savagely beating Billy Bush) but its going to be one of those movies that sets the standard for movies to come just like Das Boot, or The Sand Pebbles, or 2001.
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Originally posted by MynameisJonas:
Brown isn't cool
black trenchcoats and black sunglasses is cool.
whatching the badguys standing still shooting, then the good guys shooting, then the bad guys falling over isn't cool.
whatching the good guys jumping round a room in slow motion shooting machine guns diving behind pillars and doing cool looking martial arts moves is cool.
some lame story where a special agent is chasing a fugitive girl is only cool if she is looking for a mate and takes her clothes off alot.
having a special agent looking for a cool computer hacker who can save the world by doing cool martial arts moves is cool.
oh and southern accents is definately not cool
I know. I know. Don't feed the troll. blah blah blah
You can't compare apples to oranges here. One movie is an action movie the other has character development. Obviously the action sequences in The Matrix are cooler and the character development in Serenity is going to be superior. I fail to see how that makes one or the other better. While I really doubt Serenity will out perform The Matrix at the box office, I still think it has great potential to be a fan favorite and also cool.
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I just read that The Matrix could have been a disaster by having Will Smith as Neo. Fortunately Fresh Prince turned it down in favor of Wild Wild West, which he also tanked.
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