'Serenity' Listed as One of the Most Unfortunate Movies Titles Ever
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UPDATED: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 20:16
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Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat:
Alternate titles, Browncoats?
"A River Runs Through It, and Then Kicks Reaver A**"
"Like A Leaf In A Hurricane"
That's all I got...
I'd rather be a smartass than a dumbass...
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Some possible alternate titles to Serenity that may have appealed to a wider audience:
Bad Boys In Space
Reaver Madness
A Little Girl and Her Spaceship
Star Whores
Black Hole Banditos
No Tickee, No Spaceshipee
Dirty Dancing Girl
Freedom Fighters of The Future
Journey T'wixt The Netherlands
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"Like a Leaf in a Hurricane"
You made me use an Emote for the first time.
Now for my alternate title -
"They're the Bad Guys"
"I'm not going to say Serenity is the greatest SciFi movie ever; oh wait yes I am." - Orson Scott Card
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Originally posted by Darkfly:
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.
I totally agree. I saw a poster for Serenity when I drove past the theatre and just thought, "cliched sf action flick; I'll wait and hire the dvd." I never saw anything else and I didn't know Firefly. Much as I like the River Tam Sessions, they only preach to the choir. Universal stuffed up.
Re. the article comment: Star Wars was heavily pushed; 2001 was a comercial flop until it was remarketted to the hippy culture with the tagline "The ultimate trip"; Star Trek had over a decade of syndicated tv success prior to being a movie and was then heavily pushed. Marketting remains the key to commercial success, not quality.
Having said that, it's nice to see Serenity in a list with so many good films.
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I definitely would have watched something called Space Whores.
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I can't say much for most of those titles. 'Serenity' isn't particularly appealing I suppose, though I can't think of anything better suited at this juncture. As a firefly fan I just accepted it but I'm sure it appeared somewhat dubious for newbies.
However I feel I have to go on the defensive for Blade Runner - it's probably one of the best titles ever, Science Fiction or otherwise. It's unique and strange, and sure it doesn't make sense right away but it sounds tough and violent and catches your attention.
The writer says for some people it "...conjures up unpleasant images of bloody feet..." but I doubt that very much. It's like saying when you heard 'Star Wars' you conjured images of stars shooting each other with machine guns or when you heard 'House of Flying Daggers' you immediately thought of a family of knives with wings flying around their home.
With the exception of children and the child-like I don't think many people automatically generate literal translations in their mind like that. I could be wrong but I don't think that it's the case.
Anyway I wasn't around back then so I don't know what people were actually saying about it but for me I thought it was an extremely cool title.
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When I first saw the previews the title confused me. The preview I saw was great, and hooked me right in, but then I was like "What the heck is Serenity?" I concluded that it was the girl's name. Then I saw the movie and found out her name was River and the ship was Serenity.
I guess the point, though, is that the trailer hooked me. If they'd shown that trailer more, I think it would have hooked others.
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I was around when "Blade Runner" first came out and saw it in its first run, when they still had that awful voiceover by Harrison Ford. Many peole wnet to see Blade Runner because it starred Harrison Ford, Han Solo of Star Wars. we all expected the same thing, sci/fi space battles and laser blasts. What we got was this deep thinking man's sci/fi which I couldn't appreciate at the time because I was 16 years old. I love the movie now but when I saw it the first time I almost left the theater. I think it was the expectations for that movie that killed it more than anything. After the first week, not to many people went.
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However, the dude DOES call us the "Cult-Like" followers of Joss WHedon. That gave a giggle, if anything. Mostly, the dude seems to be full of hot air. Movies don't flop due to names. It's either that they suck, or, as in our case, folks don't seem to get the word.
Shame.
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Mary Parent, Vice-Chairman of Universal Pictures, could have truthfully said, "Sorry, Joss, we can't use Serenity as a title for your movie because Serenity® disposable absorbent underwear has enormous brand recognition in North America. You've seen the ads with gray haired ladies doing Tai-Chi exercises. An action movie with the name of an adult diaper will turn away a large segment of our target audience - everyone not wetting themselves. On the bright side, we will totally capture the 65 years and older demographic if we stay with Serenity for a title."
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