Serenity Reviews
POSTED BY: Zarquon
UPDATED: Saturday, December 18, 2004 01:33
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Ignore the comments by the small-minded twits. They are all either jealous of Joss's success, or stupid little jerks wanting to act tough.
The reviews are great. The only thing I take exception to is Herc's saying that our BDH's are all "Han-Solo caliber." Han is a great character, but I think our gang is ten times better.
These reviews have gotten me more pumped about Serenity than ever. Wish I could have been there to see the screening myself!
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This is indeed very shiny news. Just awesome.
Quote:*notices unattended brain-melter on the ground*
Originally posted by huitzil:
my eyes are bleeding with glee!
Huh. Wondered where I left that. Sorry.
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WOW, WOW, WOW.
OK, I don't need to read another review.
It is glorious news!!!
Bernie
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I have NEVER understood why AINC is so popular. The 'news' is often amateurish and hardley ever well written (I'd expect much more from a website that's been around this long) and the fanbase has to be the bottom rung of the internet. Rather, they can't even REACH the bottom rung if they had a stepladder.
That being said, I do occassionally check out links there (and did this one). Sometimes I'm not dissappointed. This time, though, I wasn't overly excited by what they had to say. It's good, yes, that they enjoyed the film. But they don't really tell me more than I already know... I'd like to know from someone who has never even heard of Joss Whedon what they think. I'd like to know from someone who doesn't normally LIKE Sci-fi what THEY think.
Oh, and there IS something that could be considered a major spoiler [if you don't want to know how the movie begins]. I would have rather avoided it, but not overly upset about reading it.
"FOX! Where the shit hits the fans." - Tim Minear
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I just read the review and... well... 'I'll be in my bunk'. WOW!
"Gorramit Mal... I've forgotten my line."
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This is fantastic news. I'm going to tell my friends and family to go see this movie. I really liked the TV show and love Joss, so this is great news. Hopefully it's enough to get him in the X3 director's chair!
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Originally posted by AnotherFireflyfan:
Can someone copy and paste it, removing all the spoilery parts?
I'll give it a shot...
Nonspoilery Version
The version of “Serenity” that screened in Chatsworth Tuesday evening isn’t quite the movie we’ll be seeing next fall. The music was temporary and the special effects were only about half-baked, with Adam Baldwin hanging off wires and many spaceships lurching about without texture and detail.
Still, in many ways the film is already a great antidote for those of us so terrifically bored by the “Star Wars” prequels. The lion’s share of my own disappointment with “The Phantom Menace” and “Attack of the Clones” can be traced to an absence of players as compelling and likeable as Han and Leia.
“Serenity,” by contrast, returns to “Firefly” fans better than half a dozen Solo-caliber characters to sink our teeth into: thuggish Jayne, heartsick Kaylee, conflicted Mal, aristocratic Inara, heroic Simon and damaged River. In addition, [spoilers deleted]
The new film is smart, romantic, moving, fast-paced, action-packed and, most crucially, one of the funniest films you’ll see next year. It’s certain to be a must-see for every “Firefly” fan, as it answers every question devotees may have harbored with regard to [spoilers deleted]
But Herc loving a new Joss Whedon project hardly warrents a headline, yes? The better news is that "Serenity" is garnering raves from others who caught the screening, like “The Scientist”:
Hey Herc! The Scientist here with a quick review of Serenity, although I suspect that you'll be sending a review as well since I saw you at the screening. I tried to stay impartial throughout the viewing of the movie since I'm an unabashed lover of the show and think that Objects in Space is one of the finest hours to ever air on the small screen. That being said, I'll try to break down my review for two audiences: the newbies and the oldbies.
Non-Firefly viewers: First, if you've never seen the show before, the movie does a fantastic job of establishing all of the characters over again so you don't have to worry about coming in unprepared. Also, the more overt western aspects of the show have been tremendously tamed down, so it plays more straight-forward in a scifi universe, but all without losing the grittiness and rawness that made the worlds on the show so special. It's extremely funny, almost always surprising, and kick-ass. I especially think that those of you who like operatic martial arts films will enjoy the choreographed fights that appear now and then. Just wait until you see the first trailer, cause I'm guessing you'll all flip.
Firefly droolers: [spoilers deleted] More shocks than you can shake a stick at! You can't take the sky from me! But seriously, when this thing gets through with all the post-prod. stuff, you're going to be peeing in your brown leather coats because it'll be like the clocks were rewound and you were in 2002 again. It's not perfect yet, mind you. I think that [spoilers deleted] and a couple of the new additions to the 'Verse are weak, but that's nitpicking the absolute blast I had seeing everybody again. Plus, there's some wicked gorram action that would have been way out of budget for the TV show.
The temp tracks and rough cg sometimes detracted from the film and the editing is still rough in spots, but this thing doesn't come out for over 8 months! The only other extremely early preview I've been this excited about was when I was much more wee and saw a super rough cut of Toy Story (Hey! That's another one Joss had his hand in.) Start getting excited everybody, this one's a winner!
The aptly-named “Happily Surprised” adds:
Tonight, in Chatsworth, CA, I think I stumbled across the geek Holy Grail. Upon the announcement of said Holy Grail, cheers erupted from the crowd… For what we were “the first audience ever” to view was… Serenity.
Since this has been the subject of much banter on this site and I’m sure there will be a million of other reviews, I’ll skip any other
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This is great news!!
Even with it being in an unfinished state, people are going nuts about it!
I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS MOVIE!!!
(ok, I'm officially whipped in to a frenzy now - and I have to wait!!! AUGH!)
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MAL: Everybody's makin' a fuss.
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There are a few more spoilers and some more details about the screening on whedonesque.com.
Cardie
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Well, I'm definitely all teary-eyed over it. Wow. We just might have made it, folks. I'm thinking nice big trilogy coming up.
All right, wiping the eyes. Getting back to work. Wow...
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