'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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"Serenity - The Chick that Pwned"
Sall I got...
Sayne like the rest of us.
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Speaking as a person who got into this series and movie last month I'd have to agree with the guy who wrote the article. Serenity just didn't do it for me. Of course the whole "Martial Arts Matrix-like Chick" that the two commercials I actually saw for it made me even less interested, with the final nail in the coffin being "From the Creator Of Buffy the Vampire Slayer!". Also it came out slightly after the last new Star Wars movie and some critics said it was similar to Star Wars, which put me off because of how much I disliked the prequels (now a-days I claim not to be a fan of Star Wars, just the Empire).
Finally on Blade Runner; I think I saw the voice over version once and I preferred it and its noir style. I honestly don't understand the movie anymore; I recently saw the newest version in theaters and had to have the whole significance of the Unicorn explained to me.
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Also, what's with the idea the Deckard's a replicant? If he was, how come he got his arse beaten so badly in a physical fight by the real replicants? If I had decided to program one to be a blade runner, I'd make him stronger then the other types; no point in having one that is basically just a human-why not just use a human instead?
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There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun;
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
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Originally posted by MidnightObsidian:
Okay...honestly..this guy can simply kiss my browncoat tushie! You want to know why Serenity didn't do well...Because Universal Studios are a bunch of money grubbing, no soul having, absolute piles of go se! With the exception of one trailer, which in my opinion nearly made me need a change of pants after seeing it due to my very excitement. (Well that and the classic Wash line "Things are going to get exciting" "How Exciting" "Oh God we're all gonna die!!!" yes I know I paraphrased ..don't kill me..its still funny) I didn't see one bit of advertising about Serenity. NOT ONE BIT! What...did they all think were like River and would just KNOW what theater to go to in order to see it? I mean honestly, what the hell have these people been smoking? The sign of a movie's true sucess is its longevity at the Movie Rentals and DVD sales. I STILL can't get a copy of Serenity at both my local Blockbuster or Hollywood Rental. I have a copy of the movie...and I refuse to take it out because I'm just that much of a sentimental fool because its just so DAMN SHINY!!
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it Universal!
The difference between "involvement" and "commitment" is like a egg and ham breakfast, the Chicken was involved, but the pig was committed.
The powers that be are a great team with their promotional Skill in marketing manage to keep the series FF secret, never heard of it ,found Serenity on HBO in the fall of 07.BRILANT,This whole war has already been fought without me ever hearing about it.
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Ok... So yeah the title kind of turned me off to the movie at first but it turned out, to me, to really fit once I saw the movie. Maybe a more appropriate title would have been "Miranda", not really but it would have helped people seem to get it. Maybe "River", or "Crew" but now it seems as if nothing else would fit but "Serenity"
I don't know. I'm kind of liking this whole poetry idea.
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What’s in a title? The movie Blade Runner is based (loosely) on a story by Phillip K. Dick entitled Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Would you have gone to see that movie? The title Blade Runner is from a story by Alan E. Nourse with a very different theme. I went to see Blade Runner when it first came out expecting to see the Nourse story. I liked the movie, it just was not what I had been expecting.
BTW; Dick got screen credit for the story and Nourse got screen credit for the title.
As others have said the title Serenity ties in well with the series Firefly. If you were no familiar with the series you probably won't understand what Serenity is about just from the title. (I sure didn't. It wasn't until last month when a friend sat me down to watch the DVD that I saw Serenity. I was instantly hooked. But not because of the title. It was a friend's recommendation.)
Phil
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Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.
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