Serenity cops a beating on Maxim.com

POSTED BY: Leonidas
UPDATED: Saturday, October 6, 2007 06:49
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LEONIDAS

Thursday, October 4, 2007 9:06 AM

Was browsing though some things and was shocked to come across this...

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MOST MISLEADING MOVIE TITLES

8. Serenity

You see a title like that, and you expect the movie equivalent of chamomile tea. You also expect it to be English, and star some actress with three names like Kristin Scott Thomas or somebody. You don't expect a sci-fi flick about a ragtag group of space pirates. That must be why the movie tanked so hard. Well, that and the fact that no one watched the TV show it was based on either. You don't have to be a psychic to see how that one was going to play out.

Suggested Accurate Title: Firefly Fans and the Last-Ditch Write-In Campaign

These guys are mean.

http://www.maxim.com/slideshows/index.aspx?slideId=3517&imgCollectId=1
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THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, October 4, 2007 10:30 AM

Basically it just highlights the extent of poor journalism.

It may be me but most of the reviews you read these days are just the writer showing off with a quip or a rant. Seems to be all the trend these days to "have a rant'. This is no exception. The writer seems to be keen in taking a cheap shot more than it does about actually understanding the subject matter or presenting a genuine point.

I mean really, with a brief like "Most misleading movie titles". What value is there in that. It's pathetic!

And his argument about it being about camomile tea! Its hardly insightful is it. Just stating the bleeding obvious. No frankly I'm glad that the clowns who write for things like maxim find it too difficult to comprehend a great film like SERENITY and find it a struggle to get past the title.

Fact is it is a GREAT film and if simple yahoos at magazines get left behind then so much the better.

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MOOSE

Thursday, October 4, 2007 10:47 AM

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Basically it just highlights the extent of poor journalism.

I don't think maxim can be considered journalism at all...

THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, October 4, 2007 10:49 AM

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Originally posted by Moose:
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Basically it just highlights the extent of poor journalism.

I don't think maxim can be considered journalism at all...

yeah, he, he I like that

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BROWNCOAT1

Thursday, October 4, 2007 11:33 AM

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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
Basically it just highlights the extent of poor journalism.

It may be me but most of the reviews you read these days are just the writer showing off with a quip or a rant. Seems to be all the trend these days to "have a rant'. This is no exception. The writer seems to be keen in taking a cheap shot more than it does about actually understanding the subject matter or presenting a genuine point.

I mean really, with a brief like "Most misleading movie titles". What value is there in that. It's pathetic!

And his argument about it being about camomile tea! Its hardly insightful is it. Just stating the bleeding obvious. No frankly I'm glad that the clowns who write for things like maxim find it too difficult to comprehend a great film like SERENITY and find it a struggle to get past the title.

Well said and I completely agree. Did this so called "writer" watch the series? Did he or she watch Serenity? Somehow I highly doubt it, which further discredits the value of this "article".

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Originally posted by Moose:
I don't think maxim can be considered journalism at all...

Very true.

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Thursday, October 4, 2007 11:49 AM

LOL... I guess I never thought about it before, but the name Serenity is very Joss, isn't it? Like a vampire slayer named Buffy. A ship - a beatup workhorse of a ship - with a crew that, while not exactly "space pirates," certainly lives a life that is serene in no sense of the word. It's wishful thinking. It's a beautiful word, serenity, and it has a beautiful meaning, but for most people, it is an unattainable state, and therefore an excellent name for a ship of dreams.

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JOSSISAGOD

Thursday, October 4, 2007 12:07 PM

That tears it! I'm cancelling my subscription! They went to crap when they changed editors anyway!

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BULLET0IN0THE0BRAINPAN0SQUISH

Thursday, October 4, 2007 12:21 PM

I knew it! The reason mankind needed to terra-form new planets is because the Earth-That-Was was being infested by stupid.

maxim.com

teehee.

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JONGSSTRAW

Thursday, October 4, 2007 12:47 PM

Before everybody gets on the bash Maxim bandwagon, think back to when they ran that pictorial of Grace Park posing seductively in her black lace thong underwear....if you never saw the pictures, just Google her name for images....oh my!

One writer's un-educated opinion of Firely should not be enough to brand the magazine as reaver territory.

JOSSISAGOD

Thursday, October 4, 2007 1:21 PM

I'm not sure, but, I think Grace posed before they changed editors. That said, that pictorial is my screensaver!

Fe'nos Tol
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