Firefly Conversion Stories

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KIZYR

Monday, September 26, 2005 7:35 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Asa:
There are two soundtracks. The one you're referring to is the CD soundtrack for the movie serenity. As far as I know the soundtrack to the Tv series is only available digitally.

Oh go-se... This means I very well may have to get both. I'll wait to pick up the movie soundtrack, though, and see if it doesn't satisfy me enough. But, I really dislike having my music in multiple file formats, particularly restricted ones... Are there any tracks which are the same between the two of them? Or are they 100% different? KF

~Kaiser Farooque

ZOE: Preacher, don’t the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?
BOOK: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps...

JAEDE77

Tuesday, September 27, 2005 1:58 PM

I was hanging out with a buddy of mine last night. I had never even mentioned Firefly or Serenity to him yet, but he trusts my judgement. So I suggested that we watch the true pilot of Firefly and see what he thinks.

It was such a neat experience to watch it with someone who was watching it and experiencing it for the first time. For instance, he had a "what the hell?" moment when he first saw Wash playing with the dinos. He laughed hysterically at the "gynecologist" line from Jayne. He was shocked at the "Kaylee's dead" line... but only for a few seconds. He was positive that Simon was a bad guy from the cinematography and music when we are first introduced to him. He guessed that River and Simon were sister and brother before Simon said it. He LOVED the Reaver chase at the end, and loved the "Dobson shot in the head" moment.

He loved it. It may take a few more episodes to make him a true browncoat, but he is willing to see the movie... and that's something...

I love evangelizing Firefly!!!

“Can I suggest something that doesn't involve violence, or is this the wrong crowd?”
–Wash

HOMESPUN

Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:42 PM

Late to the party but an enthusiastic dancer...

I was converted in late August and since then, through DVD lending and LJ evangelizing (with photos), have converted a solid 10. There's not much quality viewing out there - so when you find something like Firefly, you just gotta share it

ASA

Wednesday, September 28, 2005 2:14 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kizyr:

Oh go-se... This means I very well may have to get both. I'll wait to pick up the movie soundtrack, though, and see if it doesn't satisfy me enough. But, I really dislike having my music in multiple file formats, particularly restricted ones... Are there any tracks which are the same between the two of them? Or are they 100% different? KF

~Kaiser Farooque

The two soundtracks are by completely different composers, so the is no overlap. You can buy a CD of the music from the movie, or you can download WMA or .mp3 files of music from the TV show. People complained by the proprietary WMA file format, but I think the .mp3 files should be easy to use. Greg Edmonson did the TV score and David Newman did the movie score.

Beware, the track listings for the movie CD contains some spoilers.

ENGINEANGEL

Thursday, September 29, 2005 3:21 AM

Quote:

Late to the party but an enthusiastic dancer...

it's better late than later.

great job converting 10 people. That's awesome!!! I actually have recently converted ... well ... i don't know exactly how many, but i'm hoping a lot of people ... to the Serenity movie. I know that i have because i now here people talking about the movie all the time at my school - they say "have you heard about that movie Serenity? I'm so going to see it. It is going to be awesome."

I promoted the movie by hanging up posters around my school promoting Serenity. That's not exactly allowed at my school but oh well. I am sooo obsessed that i don't care.

(ok, i admit it ... i have a problem.) you can see these posters on the main page of this website: they are entitled - SERENITY POSTER/FLYER #2 and SERENITY PROMO POSTER/FLYER 1. Both are posted by AINTWEJUST.

Keep flying!!!

EngineAngel

listen to THE SIGNAL - the only podcast devoted to promoting and discussing Firefly and Serenity - the movie. Then look at the thread, THE SIGNAL, on www.fireflyfans.net.

River: There's too much snow on top. It's going to cave in. His brain is in grave danger.
Zoe: River, honey. He's putting the hair away now.
River: It doesn't matter. It'll still be there. Waiting.

ENGINEANGEL

Monday, October 10, 2005 1:36 AM

i'm sure there are sooooooo many more convertions to be told about because of the movie. Is there anyone that was converted because of the movie?

CAVILO1066

Tuesday, October 11, 2005 8:58 PM

That's my cue to step out of lurkage. Hiya. Never heard of Joss Whedon before about two months ago, when I heard something or other about "Firefly" on the KotOR boards and asked a friend what it was. She explained it to me, and it sounded interesting, but I wasn't quite hooked. I mean, obviously I like the space opera sorta stuff, but the space-western idea sounded a bit strange. She told me about the movie. I was mildly interested, said I'd think about it, and promptly forgot all about it.

Well, opening night rolled around. I was free. I was browsing the movie listings...saw Serenity...called up another friend and informed her that we were going to see it.

I came out of that theater two hours later and went on a brief rampage, turning up a shiny new copy of the "Firefly" DVD set and liberating it from its owner. I watched it a grand total of three times over the weekend (sleep? who needs sleep?), and saw the movie another two times. Have officially managed to convert my roommate, the friend I went with the first time, and two online buddies since seeing Serenity for the first time. Buahahahaha!

So that's my conversion story.

*relurks*

ENGINEANGEL

Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:29 PM

welcome to the browncoats. i'm glad that you decided to watch the movie and join us on the message boards. You obviously enjoyed the movie, but what was your favorite part and those of the people that you went with? Remember to put this in spoiler quotes.

keep flyin'
EngineAngel

CAVILO1066

Tuesday, October 11, 2005 9:52 PM

Er...thanks? I did enjoy the movie--will bring my mom to see it on Friday when she comes to visit. She's mildly Trekkie, so it ought to be interesting to see her reaction.

As for favorite quotes...well, the rest of this post is going to be one big ***SPOILER*** after another, so if you aren't down with that sorta thing, just keep walking.

Ahem. Well, I loved the whole opening sequence. I didn't know much about the world to start with, but I had Simon figured out before his "she always did love to dance" line and was tickled pink when I was right. Then the "experience some turbulence...and explode" line was hilarious. Not to mention the "if anything happens to her, I swear to you, I will get really choked up. Seriously, there could be tears"...I'm paraphrasing here. I haven't seen it often enough to quote verbatim from memory. But Jayne's running grenade joke, and "define 'disappeared'" and "at last, we can retire and give up this life of crime,"...

There were a lot of good quotes. But what was best about that movie was how much I was able to sympathize with the characters. I can watch horribly bloody horror and laugh my way through it, but the Reavers scared the crap out of me...because I was IN there, with the crew. I didn't want to see anything bad happen to them.

So, naturally, "I am a leaf on the wind, watch me--GGGGK" was NOT my favorite quote. Ack. Didn't see that one coming. And it wasn't much easier to watch the second and third times through. For a few very tense minutes there, I thought they were all dead meat. And then River...ha. River's awesome. They're all awesome. 'Nuff said? Never. But I'm babbling, so I'll shut up.

Except to share with you that the last time I went, I came out of the theater and realized that I was wearing a brown coat. Couldn't stop laughing.

ACG2002

Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:38 PM

Heh! Not only did I convert all my friends -right now working with my mum, who does not speak english, but...- but I also manage to bring 7 people to the premiere in Sitges (Spain). And none of us lived there :)

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