Joss Comments on Some Unruly Browncoats (You know who you are)
POSTED BY: Oxyopia
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 4, 2005 16:31
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Now that's just uncool. I agree with those who are saying that the Browncoat community as a whole needs to find a way to denounce this behavior publicly in some way to both Joss and the Universal execs, lest this incident turn into a case of people perceiving that 'a few bad apples spoil the barrel', as it were.
Take my love
Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care
I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell 'em I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I've found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me
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Whoa!!! Waaaaay uncool. In the words of Buffy, "Threatening is not cool." (replace threatening with fighting, and you'll get the real quote).
Unbelievable. A few dumbass apples have to ruin it for the rest of us. There are waaaaay more important things to get riled up about; modern day slavery, people who profit/create child porn, abuse of the environment, dirty cops, animal abuse, etc. blah, blah, blah. Not whether a film you want to see is going to be previewed in your local theatre. Good lord, those people need to learn how to think about something other than themselves
Peace out :)
Nothing savages my moral sensibilities more cruely than a beautiful girl. - Sean Patrick Flanery
Current favorite things: Anything Wedonverse, Henry Rollins, The Boondock Saints, The IMDb, Madonna, Babble, Maya Rudolph, and many other things too numerous to list...
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They actually threatened? Did they expect to get somthing out of that??
"Oh yeah, sure. No problem. Since you only threaten me, I'll give you a ticket for this movie that will be showing again in about 5 months. No worries. "
And they call themselves Browncoats.
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"A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step."- Lao Tzo
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I hope the idiots who did this remember that the movie is a TEST screening. It is NOT a final version of the movie.
I would love to know which theaters had this experience, maybe we can send some flowers or something.
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If these threats are real (as in, made by a fan), I'm ashamed to be a browncoat right now.
I've sent Joss this, posting online too;
"
Just to be clear, this may or may not be related, but these forums have had a visitor since the trailer went out who's been posting all kind of crap and threats here. 'Serenity_Leader' has removed their access now - for a few days we had rape threats etc posted on the forums (Nathan also posted a few days ago, and this person replied calling him a cunt straight away). The idiot also started a topic encouraging people to sneak cameras into the test screenings to record the movie to put it online.
It's possible whoever our forum idiot was has been phoning around theatres making threats.
I'm organising a UK screening with the distributors here and I've had no hassle, just lots of kind emails. If the threats truly did emerge from a geninue fan, I feel ashamed. Perspective is needed. It's only a film. It's a very, very good film (Joss, you are too hard on yourself at times) having seen it - but it's still only a film.
Kevin"
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Quote:
Originally posted by Granite:
maybe we can send some flowers or something.
personally I think it might be better to leave the theater owners alone for the week so everything can calm down,
and then on Thursday night we can quietly thank them as we pick up our tickets and file into the theater in an orderly fashion.
And of course buying lots of candy and popcorn is always a way to 'thank the theater'
LOL
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I wholeheartedly agree with a previous post that the movies that I've like the most are the ones I heard the least about (Slingblade, O Brother Where art Tho? etc) and the ones I've been the most disappointed with are the over-hyped ones (Blind Date, Something About Mary, Daredevil).
That said, we have to remember that there are people out there that argue just for the sake of arguing. You all have seen/heard them. In lines at you local Walmart, McDonalds, Canadian Tire, Target. They have no thought to how they look and sound like idiots, they just think that if they make enough noise, they'll get what they want.
While they won't go away, and seem to be breeding like rabbits, anyone who thinks that these peoples actions are indicative of the whole...need to give their GORRAM heads a shake. We all know, and hope that the higher ups know, that this individual is less of a "Browncoat" and more of a Yellow-belly.
How's that bumper sticker go..."God must like stupid people, he made so many of them"
But I like this better "Judge me based on my actions, not the actions of others"
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Quote:
Originally posted by needleseye:
I'm with those in thinkin' Reavers done it.
It was Fox network thugs!
Just kidding, ain't THAT much of a conspiracy nut.
Was surfing some other sci-fi sites this week and read posts that sounded amazingly like that recent troll who shall remain nameless, it was freaky! By no means sayin' it was he that did such stuff, just sayin' every site and event attracts its share o' nuts lookin' for attention.
Browncoats ain't like that.
True believer Chrisisall
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Quote:
Originally posted by Granite:
maybe we can send some flowers or something.
I'm actually all for this idea. Gift baskets or flowers or something.
How cool would that be for universal to hear that the browncoats sent each theater gifts for showing the screening.
I'll donate some money to the cause. Can anybody find a nice gift basket to send and set up a paypal account for the funds? I've never really organized something like this before so if there's a pro around I'll defer to them. hehe maybe someone could make gift baskets...you know...so they can include some very shiny dvds perhaps
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Quote:
Originally posted by WhoIsRiver:
Nathan also posted a few days ago
Could you please link me to Nathan's post, please? Anybody?
Thanks in advance,
Tracy (who thinks there's a severe case of the stupids going around...)
MAL: If anyone gets nosy, just, you know... shoot 'em.
ZOE: Shoot 'em?
MAL: Politely.
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