'Serenity' Listed as One of the Most Unfortunate Movies Titles Ever
POSTED BY: cbsteve
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This one took me by surprise. The writer of this article basically blames the title of the movie "Serenity" for it's failure at the box office. If you look at the list of ten movies he choses at least four or five of them are classics, which unfortunately failed at the box office, succes at which is the Hollywood mark of excellence. Of course, making movies is all about making money, right? What? Not about artistic vision and good old fashion story telling? Well, guess that's why crap like the Star Wars prequels are such big money makers, but don't hold a candle to great movies like Serenity. Here's the link.
http://www.reelzchannel.com/article/457/the-10-most-unfortunate-movie-
%20titles-ever
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Guess I'll reply on this thread, rather than the other.
gotta admit, I don't think much of the title either.
Makes me think I'm about to see an Alcoholics Anonymous movie of some sort.
But what else are ya gonna call the BDM? After alll, *C*A*N*'*T* just call it " The B D M".
Alternate titles, Browncoats?
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"The Amazing Adventures of Anti-Gravity!River and the Merry Band of Big Damn Heroes"?
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What a load of Dog Bollocks, most of these films in my opinion didn't do very well at the Box Office because the Distributors (Fox,Universal,Sony,WB, etc) didn't back the films, didn't give them the publicity they needed. Take Serenity for instance, Universal decided screw expensive advertising lets try this new virtually untested technique called Viral Marketing by uploading these weird videos on the internet of the River sessions which nobody understands apart from Browncoats and hope people start talking about the film a lot which backfired big time. Come on I never ever saw one single poster on a bus stop, etc and only saw the Serenity trailer on TV once.
And not too many people know this but Serenity was originally gonna come out around April just before all the Big Blockbusters hit the silver screens but the film was delayed because of some production work and the music so was put back to September which is one of the lowest months for Box Office take, Serenity was doomed before it even came out.
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Originally posted by cbsteve:
This one took me by surprise. The writer of this article basically blames the title of the movie "Serenity" for it's failure at the box office. If you look at the list of ten movies he choses at least four or five of them are classics, which unfortunately failed at the box office, succes at which is the Hollywood mark of excellence. Of course, making movies is all about making money, right? What? Not about artistic vision and good old fashion story telling? Well, guess that's why crap like the Star Wars prequels are such big money makers, but don't hold a candle to great movies like Serenity. Here's the link.
http://www.reelzchannel.com/article/457/the-10-most-unfortunate-movie-
%20titles-ever
Also it was not big because of its limited releases. If it's on 14 screens at one theater, it's going to make more money than 2 screens in an entire metropolitan area.
Besides, the BDM is still making money at the box office. There is an artsy theater here in KC that showed it in September of this year. I would say at least 50 people were in the audience, which wasn't bad seeing as the theater only held 55.
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Ok that was a difficult read. *takes deep breath*
Not only does he take a pop at Serenity but he also goes and has a dig at one of the greatest books ever:
Love in the Time Of Cholera.
Come to think about it, he probably doesn't even know it's based on the book. I shouldn't get so upset.
However if I had a penny for everytime I heard someone say how Serenity makes them wanna take a nap or sit in a field.... 
*walk away, just walk away*
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Originally posted by AgentRouka:
"The Amazing Adventures of Anti-Gravity!River and the Merry Band of Big Damn Heroes"?
Or how about Serenity: Firefly Class
But then maybe they couldn't even use Firefly anywhere in the title at all.
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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Alternate titles, Browncoats?
"The Battle Of Serenity"
"Malcolm Reynolds And The Reavers Of Doom"
"After The Earth That Was"
"Space Pirate Wars"
That's all I got Chrisisall
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Well maybe they should have gone with something like
Serenity- The reaver menace
Serenity Apocalypse
Serenity Strikes Back
So the man's an idiot...what else is new?
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It's a great title if you're a Browncoat but for everyone else not so much. Unfortunately the title is akin to an inside joke, it really doesn't give an outsider any indication of what the movie is about. Here is how I imagine a conversation between 2 non-Browncoats would have sounded when the BDM was released.
"You wanna check out that new movie Serenity?"
"What the hell is that some faggy chick flick?"
"I read online it's about people on a spaceship fighting against an evil government of some kind."
"That sounds like Star Wars. I didn't like that so why should I pay to see this?"
"I guess you're right let's see something else."
A bit oversimplified but I have a feeling scenarios like this happened quite a bit.
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