Great article about the BDM

POSTED BY: LeeH
UPDATED: Saturday, July 9, 2005 06:24
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SIGNYM

Tuesday, July 5, 2005 11:04 PM

Ooooohhh!!! I LOVED the review! Thanks for the link!

MUTT999

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 12:30 AM

"It makes Star Wars look like vacant, plastic eye candy in comparison." Man, I love that quote!

"That's the buffet table....."

LISTER

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 7:14 PM

I would very much like to read his review of the DVD's.

Run to the Tower, and call out the Magus
If he has caused this, we'll tear out his pages
Throw him in shackles, AND REMOVE HIS HANDS!
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SLGN

Friday, July 8, 2005 3:57 PM

Xie xie LEEH for posting this.

If you enjoyed the article, send the author some Browncoat love: pflowers@sun-sentinel.com

Per Lister's request, her FF review (reposted from WHEDONesque):

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Few viewers to glow over Fox's Firefly
by Phoebe Flowers
Film Writer The Associated Press
Posted December 14 2003

In one of the features on the DVD of his short-lived series Firefly, creator Joss Whedon calls the show "the source of more joy and pain than anything I've done." Whedon, rightfully beloved for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff, Angel, may well have felt such passion about the occasionally amusing but forgettable sci-fi/western hybrid. But little of it comes through on the 14 episodes presented in the four-disc set -- three of which never aired.

It's not that Firefly is a bad show, by any means; it's just largely unremarkable. A few of the episodes -- not coincidentally, the ones that Whedon himself wrote and directed -- showcase enough spark beneath the rote plot lines to give you hope that the series could have matured into something more compelling. At the very least, more shows would presumably have better developed the nine (nine!) lead characters.

As it is, none of the talented cast ever gets much of a chance to shine. Nathan Fillion, who had a crucial role in the last season of Buffy, plays Malcolm Reynolds, the captain of a spaceship 500 years in the future struggling to fly below the radar of a totalitarian regime. He and his crew flit around doing jobs of varying legality and, in the pilot, taking in a young doctor, his psychologically wounded sister, and an older preacher who would be more mysterious if you really cared what the mystery was. Because this modern world has reverted to a wild-west aesthetic, the characters distractingly and unconvincingly say "ain't" and "shucks" a lot. Bad English, it seems, is timeless.

Better than the episodes themselves are Whedon's commentaries on several of them, as well as a handful of behind-the-scenes features, all of which showcase what a bright, funny, talented guy he is. But Firefly is a disappointing addition to his often excellent body of work.

Firefly -- The Complete Series, not rated, 135 minutes, $49.98.

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CALLMESERENITY

Friday, July 8, 2005 4:15 PM

Thanks for sharing both the article and the review. Maybe this person will go back and give the DVDs a second chance now they've seen the movie. Who knows?

"Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us." ~Jerry Garcia

CHEESYPOOF

Saturday, July 9, 2005 6:24 AM

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and an older preacher who would be more mysterious if you really cared what the mystery was.

What? How...That strikes me as the comment of a lazy viewer. Someone who doesn't invest any thought into watching these things.

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