What if the firefly movie does "sucks" at the box office?

POSTED BY: Evilbunnyjoey
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 2, 2004 19:00
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WINTERFELL

Wednesday, February 25, 2004 8:00 PM

here's the thing... we had the tv series.. it got cancelled.. that sucked.. we shopped it around.. no one picked it up... we have the dvd's.. that's cool.. but it ain't new firefly.. now we have a movie.. if no one but myself sees it, it will be worth it.. if it totally bombs, and there are no more movies, no more shows after the movies, whatever..

I will still be pretty gorram happy that i got to see my crew one last damn time.. and it was on our damn terms.

DECKROID

Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:05 PM

I dont think it will bomb... but... "what if it does" just means that it bombed by popular opinion.

Can you think of any movie someone told you sucked, and you didnt go see it, then you rented it and said "AW, huh choo-shang tza-jiao duh tzang-huo! That lying bastard lied to me! That was a great movie!"?

I can.

But I dont think this movie will suck. If its a farewell to all us Browncoats, so be it. If its a spring-board to bringing it back to TV on some channel other than luh-suh FOX (spit!), so be it. If it is hacked to bits by Universal to where it sucks total ass, so be it. I will buy it on DVD, and whatever the case, I shall place it next to the series as a reminder of what happens when good shows get screwed.

Just a side note... the dude who wrote the article said something about a Buffy movie. Uh, wasnt there already one? I think I remember some cute blondie Christy Somebody jumping across the screen with Donald Sutherland and Pee Wee Herman.

I call her "Vera"

KNIBBLET

Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:05 PM

Quote:
What if the firefly movie does 'sucks' at the box office?

I have a huge pack of girl friends. They trust me to put together a chick flick night every couple of months. They have done this since I was first put in charge of chick flick planning and chose "Gladiator".
I can hear you muttering, "Gladiator? A chick flick?
HELL YEA! It's got gorgeous, muscular men getting all sweaty and swordfighting. The lead female wasn't just a pretty bracelet on some man's arm, she had brains of her own.
My girlies will trust me and on opening night, 20 of us will be elbowing each other out of the nachos and staring at 'Cap'n Tight Pants'.

My point? We will fill those theatres to capacity and keep on filling them until the boneheads at Fox are executed in their parking lot for letting such a gem die an early death.

"Just keep walkin, preacher man."

STATIC

Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:35 PM

I know that JW has fought tooth and nail to maintain creative control, so I'm pretty sure the movie will do great. (Side note. . .that "Hollywood does Firefly" thing scared me and made my fiancee cry)

The thing that I am personally trying to prepare myself for is the damn marketing. . .

Firefly Doritos
Firefly Coke products
Firefly Playstation game (if it's NOT a well-thought-out multi character RP, but rather a two-dimentional, side-scrolling thing where you control Mal or Jayne shooting alliance feds or reavers)

Firefly Soundtrack (ABOUT GORRAMN TIME!!!)
Firefly "Limited Edition Collector's Movie Mags (gimme a ruttin' break)

Firefly halloween costumes (I'm sorry. . .Zoe's cool vest done in cheap vinyl, or Inara's gowns in that cheap nylon satin stuff just pisses me off.)

Toy "Light and sound" versions of Vera, Mal's pistol, Zoe's rifle. . .

And to top it all off. . .

THE FIREFLY HAPPY MEAL. Unless the toy that week is the "Jayne" action figure, in which case it's the Firefly UNhappy meal.

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"Wash. . .we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss."

IZZOW

Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:47 PM

Once the movie is made, it'll be up to the fans to make sure Firefly keeps flying. And if I've learned anything from visiting this site, it's that we're not about to let Firefly get grounded.

FREMDFIRMA

Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:56 PM

>>"what if firefly bombs"<<

It can't.

There's too many of us, who'll storm the theatres and pack em, and Universal, unlike fux nutworx, are NOT morons - they full and well know this, and if they didn't, Joss told em.

For Universal it's win-win, such guarantees are extremely rare (save for sequels, which is why hollywood milks em) and thus, treasured.

As they stand to make a damned good bit of money off of this, and if they "pull it off supremo" stand to make a whole lot more - off a guaranteed, rabidly-loyal fan base with sufficient disposable income to make the DVD set an Amazon best seller...

NO way is Universal dumb enough to screw this up, and if they're really slick, they might well enlist us existing browncoats as extra PR for the movie..
(Having seen one post, it seems they might not even need to ask us, heh)

You can damn well bet some of those guys are positively drooooling over the mountains of income they plan to rake in from merch deals on action figures, t-shirts and the like..

You hear that Universal ? you make some replica "browncoat" jackets for us, and we'll buy the damned things OUT.

Win-Win, we get our movie/show... you get your money.

Do the job... get paid.

Make us proud,

-frem
go-U-go

SUINEGAGPF

Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:01 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
they might well enlist us existing browncoats as extra PR for the movie..

On a related note, just a reminder that some browncoats are planning on creating a Firefly presence at the upcoming Marcon: www.marcon.org .

-Dave

EVILBUNNYJOEY

Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:27 AM

I thought it was just an article so he could write about something, am i 100% sure this movie will make money no, but i am 100% my friends and i would watch a firefly movie 3 times at leats!!!!1

Hopefully it will be half as good as the buffy movie...hmmmmmm

SHSSAY

Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:01 AM

Well, I've already pledged that if the movie does come out, I will be there on opening night, and every night after until it closes to ensure that it makes a lot of money off me. I'm also lining up people to drag into the theater to see it with me. I'm going to do all I can to contribute to making the movie a big hit.

"Two by two, hands of blue." -River Tam

DAVEB

Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:12 AM

I'm going to force everyone I know into seeing this film whether they like it or not and I'll see it at least 5 times at the cinema. If all of us do this how could it bomb?

"Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."

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