Serenity is my favourite film of all time (or at least my the top ten) thread

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Friday, January 13, 2006 13:00
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CHRISISALL

Sunday, January 8, 2006 5:08 PM

Okay, another list! Identify yourself if Serenity resonated with you enough to rate as your favourite, bestest, shiny movie ever (or really up there...)! I've had enough "not western enough", "Simon's too tough", "movie's too dark", "Mal's too pissed", "Mal's not pissed enough", FRAK all that!
I LOVED IT!!!

For me: She's right up there with Blade Runner (and leading by a nose)!

Who else loved it as much or more than I?

Chrisistheeleventhcharacter

SHINGY

Sunday, January 8, 2006 6:43 PM

I agree

FOLLOWMAL

Sunday, January 8, 2006 7:04 PM

Count me in, Chrisisall... as I've said before, Serenity is my all time favorite movie, better hands down than anything else I've ever seen.

I love this movie. Better than Bladerunner, better than the Star Wars, better than the Aliens, better than the Treks, better than "Tombstone" which is going some for me.
Because after watching that again last night, I remembered I liked that too. But.... Serenity is something else entirely.

I think it's the change in Mal that does it for me. The rest of the characters have their story arc.... but what happens to Mal just stops me in my tracks. The process of watching him go thru what he does, make the decisions he makes, and come to the place where he is at in the end.... touches me in a way no other movie has.

"You don't want to make it look like you just gave up" - Mal

20THCENTFOXHATER

Sunday, January 8, 2006 7:07 PM

I saw Serenity before the series, so I can't really compare them all too accurately. But, I would have to say that characters DO evolve (such as Simon and Mal) and are not always the same, as that would get incredibly boring. As I have now seen the series about 4 times over since early October, I wish there was more Western feel to Serenity, but the overall feeling of the movie suits it.

My favourite movies are:

1. Serenity
2. Braveheart
3. Gladiator
4. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
5. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
6. The Last Samurai
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
9. Donnie Darko
10. Crash
11. Black Hawk Down
12. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
13. Sin City ReCut, Extended, Unrated
14. Lord of War

Plus many others, such as: Batman Begins, King Arthur, 12 Monkeys, X-Men, X2, Titan A.E., The Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean, Shaun of the Dead, the other two LOTR movies, Ginger Snaps, Closer and Desperado.

"I aim to misbehave."
"Can't do something smart, do something right".

HOMER: "Oh Lisa, you and your stories; Bart is a vampire, beer kills brain cells. Now lets go back to that... building thingy... where our beds and T.V.... is".

CARTOON

Sunday, January 8, 2006 7:14 PM

I'm a very tough movie critic. A couple of years ago, I made my all-time favorite 100 films list. The most recent film on that list was from 1998, and nothing has been added to the list, that has come out after that.

Until "Serenity".

"Serenity" is currently #18 on my list. That may not seem like much, but for me, it's indeed high praise -- indeed, being on the list at all is high praise, considering that in my lifetime (between TV and theatres) I've seen probably tens of thousands of films.

"Serenity" also holds the only distinction of my having watched it five times in three days.

ETHAN

Sunday, January 8, 2006 7:42 PM

Serenity rates second on my all-time Scifi list. It's too tough to come up with an all-time all-time list. This top ten itself was extremely hard to produce.

1. Gattica
2. Serenity
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. Return of the King
5. Return of the Jedi
6. ET
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
9. Blade Runner
10. The Two Towers

BLINKER

Sunday, January 8, 2006 8:11 PM

My personal Top 10 shouldn't even count, as I've only seen about eight or nine films in my life, but the BDM is definitely on it.

_________
Sliders: Gate Haven - http://slidersweb.net/blinker

PSOLARIS

Sunday, January 8, 2006 9:58 PM

Count me in on that! It's easily in my top 10 flicks.

Psolaris

"Ten percent of nuthin' is...let me do the math here...nuthin' into nuthin'...carry the nuthin'"

CHRISISALL

Sunday, January 8, 2006 10:48 PM

I would have thought, this bein' the site that it is, more Browncoats woulda chimed in with Serenity bein' their favourite, or close to it.
But what the Heck, maybe they all need years of perspective is all.
We here see it right away, I recon.

Here's an additional wrinkle: If the FF pilot was classified as a movie, would it also make your top ten- and would it be above or below Serenity?

For me- sadly- I couldn't include it in my top ten; I don't feel it's a very good 'movie', and was not constructed as such. It is an EXCELLENT intro to our BDH's and their worlds, but it ain't exactly stand alone cinematic material IMHO.

Chrisisall, fruity oaty critic

FOLLOWMAL

Sunday, January 8, 2006 11:09 PM

Once again, I have to agree with you Chrisisall, "Serenity 1 and 2" the pilot for the show, is not movie material. I love it as a pilot, an introduction to the series, but movie it is not.

I was surprised that the BDM wasn't at the top of every Browncoats list.... hmmmm. Just surprised is all.

I still say it's #1 for me... I'm watching it now.

"There are many fine ways to die, and I aint' waitin' for the Alliance to choose mine." Mal

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