'This just don't sit well with me...'

POSTED BY: pizmobeach
UPDATED: Monday, February 7, 2011 19:36
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PIZMOBEACH

Monday, February 7, 2011 1:35 AM

"I'm interested, I'm curious, I'll probably watch it, I may even enjoy it, but it feels like a favorite show of mine has been co-opted for someone else's profit... and that doesn't sit well with me..."

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KWICKO

Monday, February 7, 2011 2:20 AM

Wife had the same reaction: "It looks like Firefly rip-off. Why don't they just make Serenity II already?"

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WISHIMAY

Monday, February 7, 2011 2:34 AM

Hmm. Harrison Ford, Yay...
Daniel Craig, eh...(sorry, NOT attractive to me, at ALL)
And that cat-eyed chick from House that looks remarkably like River in this trailor...

Oye, I'm hopin' it's got some spectacular one liners, 'cause it's gonna need 'em...

On the other hand, it's awful nice of 'em to be making movies specific to us, heh...

DOCTOROSSI

Monday, February 7, 2011 2:52 AM

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Daniel Craig, eh...(sorry, NOT attractive to me, at ALL)

Does he need to be? Can he not just be a good actor?

RIONAEIRE

Monday, February 7, 2011 4:48 AM

I'll see it, in the theater or on video, whatever, we'll see if its good or not, could go either way.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

WISHIMAY

Monday, February 7, 2011 4:58 AM

Well, If I gotta go there... I was trying to be nice, but I'm not in love with his acting skills either...Expressionless and lackluster.
And if you gotta look at 'em for and hour and a half-yeah, it helps if to find the leading man in some way attractive. I've found a few of the more homely actors attractive because they can bring game, so no, I'm not entirely superficial...

I just don't like the guy...nothin' personal...just MY opinion...carry on...

Though now that I think about it, a couple gals I know don't think that much of him either...

LILI

Monday, February 7, 2011 5:01 AM

Um, Cowboys and Aliens is a comic book. It was created in 1997 or sooner depending on where you look, and I remember hearing that it was the original inspiration for Men in Black, a good five years before Firefly. Of course, the full-length graphic novel didn't come out until 2006, so it could well have some Firefly influence, but the original concept is older.

And the gorgeous cat-eyed woman from House is Olivia Wilde, by the way.

Facts are stubborn things.

DREAMTROVE

Monday, February 7, 2011 2:02 PM

It's hardly an original idea either way. I mean, sure, there are individual shots in the preview that were clearly taken from firefly episodes, but there were individual shots in Firefly that were taken from Outlaw Star, Bebop, etc.

As Joss said himself "All my work is derivative."

Spacewestern itself is not new, I'd be hard pressed to say who came up with the idea. I mean, it appears, at least in shades, in golden age. As for putting it on screen, firefly is by no means the first. Maybe the first live action, but then, it's really sort of a subgenre of steampunk. Particularly, this film even seems a little more steampunk than spacewestern in general.

What was that Don Bluth film that was heavily derivative off of some comic book, and what was the comic? I think the movie was Titan ae.

(again, what isn't derivative. Is firefly farscape? or wild wild west? or is it just live action cowboy bebop or outlaw star?)

Let Favreau take a stab at it, see if he comes up with something interesting.

ZEEK

Monday, February 7, 2011 2:40 PM

It looked like a basic action flick to me. I wouldn't expect anything deep from it. So, basically I'm saying it's going to make like 10x the money of Serenity. *sigh*

STORYMARK

Monday, February 7, 2011 5:20 PM

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Wife had the same reaction: "It looks like Firefly rip-off. Why don't they just make Serenity II already?"

Uh... Firefly wasn't the first to do a western/scifi mix, and beyond those very surfacy details, I don't see that much in common between our show and this film.

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