My interpretation of the crappy Serenity DVD cover
POSTED BY: nakedandarticulate
UPDATED: Sunday, November 6, 2005 03:16
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So if I had never heard of Serenity,this is what I would think the film was about by just judging it from the cover.
So I guess that woman in the corner is like an evil Queen or somethin,and there is some space battles with lasers comin from every ship,the people on the bottom must be protecting the group of people,possibly just leaving a football game gone horribly wrong--wait,is that a llama??????? Oh,okay,so those people must be in some sort of religion that worships these magical llamas and the Queen must want it,she probably says something like"Get me that llama!" A very special llama called Serenity......this film looks stoopid. 
"It's about how much freedom you can take away from somebody before they either fold or fight," Whedon says. "It's about the right to be wrong and the nature of human beings, that they need the freedom to be wrong. That they cannot be made to be better or perfect."--Joss Whedon on Serenity
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anybody else? :)
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Originally posted by nakedandarticulate:
anybody else? :)
I never look at the covers,
I would flip it over on the back and think
"oh yeah, I remember the ads for this, it looked good"
or
"two thumbs up and I like Sci-fi...I'll try it"
or
"wasn't this mentioned online? I think my friends were mad at me for missing this when it came out"
do you REALLY decide about a DVD because of the cover picture? Because I never have.
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and buy the 'Serenity' comics published by Dark Horse,
and have you joined the Browncoats yet?
http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/?fuseaction=tools.invlink
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shit i watch MTV so much (damn'd mid shifts) that i'd know the movie just from there, and woulda alrdy seen it.
MTV news didn't shut up about it, it was sweet. lol
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First off i'm kidding,unfortunately--yeah,I do think there are people out there who just look at the front of a dvd at a store or video store and just walk on by.And before anyone says"Well we don't want them to watch it" Guess why the film bombed--because they only maketed it toward sci-fi fans.I don't love this movie/show for the sci-fi,I love it for the comedy,action,romance,but most of all the characters.This film has a lot to offer,and this cover tells you nothing about the movie.The point of the thread was to have fun and just make up stupid things other people may think of if they have never seen anything on this movie.
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I'd just like to know why people seem to think that everything has to be just the way they want it or else we'll start a big f
ing petition. Jesus. Grow up.
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First off i'm kidding,
sorry about that...
I've just seen the petition and the posts of people who are really NOT kidding...
I should have realized it ... being you.
But frankly people who hate sci-fi won't give it a chance anyway (the only failures I had w/my 'Firefly' DVDs are people who just won't open up to a sci-fi and give it a chance)
It isn't an easy sell no matter what you put on the cover, fact is that we'll keep growning an audience but it'll never be a fast & easy process,
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watch the R. Tam Session vids: http://www.hittarivertam.nu/
and buy the 'Serenity' comics published by Dark Horse,
and have you joined the Browncoats yet?
http://browncoats.serenitymovie.com/serenity/?fuseaction=tools.invlink
&u=embers&linkID=36
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...the Hell?
First, hysterical post. My, that was funny.
Second, OF COURSE PEOPLE LOOK AT THE COVERS of DVDs, books, movie posters, etc., etc. Why else would they have made River look like a 17-year-old whore? Why does Playboy have 99% naked babes on the cover? It could just say "Playboy" on the cover, have nothing else, and not take crap from store owners for having stuff that's too provacative on the cover. How many times have any of us been in Hollywood or Blockbuster and overheard a 60-year-old woman say, "Oh look, this one looks nice." Why would there be a saying "Don't judge a book by it's cover..." if NO ONE looked at the covers?
The Serenity cover is a crappy cover, no question. It's terrible. I'm not saying let's start a petition to change the crappy cover, but I am saying let's call a Spade a Spade. There are fifty things that make this cover stupid, and it's a shame. e.g. for some reason, they try to make the teenager the sex object, and completely leave the whore off the cover. Somebody really wasn't thinking.
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actually I have converted 3(out of 7)people to loving this show,who don't like sci-fi--it can be done.
The thing about the cover is this...river with glowing green eyes,okay? whatever. Zoe and Mal--cool....Serenity shooting laser beams and a large crowd of people and a llama?!?!!?! If I did rent this film,I would be pissed like"come on use your laser beams already!!!!" and "where's the llama?!!" I dont care what is on a cover,but clearly this cover isn't truthful.Personally I love llama's,and if I was a llama lover I would be very angry at Universal for lying about false advertising.In fact i'm gonna start a petition now on CGI-ing in atleast 2 or 3 llamas into the film before the DVD release! The(dvd) petition wont work,I know that but maybe when the (possible) special edition happens, they will spend more than an hour on photoshop.
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Can someone please tell me what is so wrong with the cover art? Seriously. I like it. I don't see what the big deal with it is.
More importantly, what would you do instead?
What is so amazing about this whole silly thing is Amazon no sooner posted the picture and every FF board was immeditely "I hate it." Why? Talk about knee-jerk.
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