Who're you gonna watch Serenity with?

POSTED BY: Aramina
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 1, 2005 19:58
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ARAMINA

Saturday, January 29, 2005 10:49 PM

I don't know anyone IRL who likes Firefly *sigh* Looks like it could be my first trip to the cinema alone :(

JEWEL

Saturday, January 29, 2005 11:26 PM

So, invite a friend. Maybe you'll get them hooked and then they will get the DVD's to see what they missed out on.

I've lent my DVD's out to just about everyone I know in an effort to spread the word. I'm gonna get as many of them as I can to the theater to see Serenity. Preferably more than once.

SIMONWHO

Saturday, January 29, 2005 11:27 PM

Your first trip to the cinema alone? Wow, I normally prefer to go to the cinema alone, I generally can't stand my friends asking me where they recognise someone from, what happened while they were in the toilet and stealing my popcorn.

But I'm going to the preview screening on Tuesday week with an old university friend. Wow, that's just 930,231 seconds until I see the Big Damn Movie (or at least the rough cut).

She better not steal my popcorn.

ARAMINA

Saturday, January 29, 2005 11:29 PM

You're assuming I have friends? How kind :)

Nah, all my friends pretty much look down on everything I like film, TV and book wise. Ruddy chick-flickers!

I may be able to persuade my mum and auntie to come along. Just lent my DVDs to my aunt, she says she's watched the first three eps and wasn't too impressed. No substance to them apparently.

ARAMINA

Saturday, January 29, 2005 11:32 PM

I have a friend who I only went to the cinema with once and then refused to go with her again. She kept jumping at bits that weren't even scary and saying things like "oh my god". Grrr.

I have another friend who whistles through his nose while he breathes and that's may more annoying than popcorn pinching.

NESS

Saturday, January 29, 2005 11:47 PM

If Serenity was still being released in April, I would have gone with the only friend I have who cares about Firefly. As it is now, I'm probably going with my sister and any other Browncoats I can round up.

You might end up going alone but I bet you'll meet another Browncoat in line or something. Just start singing the theme song and see if anyone joins you.

"Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing." - Zoe

ARAMINA

Saturday, January 29, 2005 11:58 PM

Actually, I'm kinda expecting Serenity to come out straight to DVD here. That would be a shame. Gotta see that lovely doctor on the big screen. Homana homana homana.

KNIBBLET

Sunday, January 30, 2005 12:39 AM

Who're you gonna watch Serenity with?

Did anyone else misread that and almost think it was Mal asking the question of Inara?

I'm going to be watching on opening night with,
Handsome Husband
Brother and Sister-in-Law
Next door neighbor and her daughter
Two door down neighbor and his two kids (probably his wife too).
Other Browncoats.

We're going to attempt to get an opening night shindig going at a local theatre.

"Just keep walkin, preacher man."

MONTANAGIRL

Sunday, January 30, 2005 4:49 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SimonWho:
Your first trip to the cinema alone? Wow, I normally prefer to go to the cinema alone. . .

I used to feel weird about going to movies by myself, but now I do it all the time. I don't work Mondays, so I can wait and go to a matinee on Monday and not have to deal with the weekend crowds/kids/etc. I just bring a good book to read until the movie starts.

Anyway, I'll probably see the BDM with my best friend who I'm sure I will have converted by then, and if not she'll still go with me because she loves me. (Not in a Willow way. Not that there's anything wrong with that

.)

Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.

ZOID

Sunday, January 30, 2005 6:32 AM

Aramina wrote:

Quote:
Actually, I'm kinda expecting Serenity to come out straight to DVD here...

Where do you live? Sri Lanka?

I looked on your profile page, but no info (grrr).

v/r,
-zed

MINIME

Sunday, January 30, 2005 6:40 AM

i'm not sure (no release dates yet for australia) but it is entirely possibly that I will be in outback Papua New Guinea when the BDM is released (no internet, no movies, etc)... which is sort of an issue for me. not sure how to get around it.

RIVERGIRL

Sunday, January 30, 2005 6:43 AM

test

Also, I can kill you with my brain.

FINN MAC CUMHAL

Sunday, January 30, 2005 6:46 AM

Some girl.

REGRESSION

Sunday, January 30, 2005 6:48 AM

Actually, Serenity is coming out on 10/11 in Australia.
But thats real tough bout being in PNG. Must really stink

FREDIKAYLLOW

Sunday, January 30, 2005 6:55 AM

i'm hoping that i will be able to travel 600km's to my sisters place so i can see it with her. i know, what your thinking- why go 600k's away when you have a pefectly good movie theatre where you live. well, although i have converted a few people in my home town, i'd rather see it with my sister and her flatmate, as they are the only other people i know that are absolutely obsessed with this show. fortunately, sept 30 fall right in the middle of my holidays, so i should have no problem getting down there. of course, when i get home i will have to drag all my friends to see it, not to mention all my other family members and everyone else i have ever met!!

No Power In The 'Verse Can Stop Me!!

MINIME

Sunday, January 30, 2005 6:59 AM

Really??? Ta for the info. I may be home by then, not sure... depends on work status.

NOODLE

Sunday, January 30, 2005 7:41 AM

I'm planning to watch with anyone of my friends- anyone willing to see an action flick or however I spin it. Remember, Joss didn't write this film only for Browncoats- it was so that the uninitiated could enjoy it too.
I'm not telling people to drag people to the movie- but just ask people to go watch it with you- even if they don't end up being hardcore Serenity fans- they'll at least be engaged for 2 hours. I'm going to take my friends and family- most have never even heard about Firefly.
I'm not going to tell them it will be a great film, but I'll tell them that I've heard a lot of great things about it and I'm pretty sure they'll want to see it.

JUSTASHEPHERD

Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:52 AM

Which time?

I'll probably go opening day by myself, as I plan to see it multiple times that day. (Obsessed? Me? Nah!) I'll probably see it again that weekend with some friends who are Browncoats. And then, depending on when the PA Shindig is this year, there has been some talk of the lot of us going to see it, so there's another possible trip.

-----------------------------------------------
WWRD

THEREAVER

Sunday, January 30, 2005 11:56 AM

I dunno who I'll see it with. Maybe my friends maybe my father.

I'll rape you to death.
I'll eat your flesh.
I'll sew your skin into my clothes.
If you're very very lucky, I'll do it in that order - TheReaver

CORNCOBB

Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:56 PM

I will be going to see serenity with as many friends as i can convince to come along. We'll have a few more converts after the BDM, mark my words. On the topic of recruitment, Im lending my Firefly DVD's to my university classmate, Chris, when I see him next week. We tend to like all the same things, so I'm sure he'll get a kick out of it.

"Gorramit Mal... I've forgotten my line."

PHOEBE

Sunday, January 30, 2005 2:05 PM

I WAS going to see it with, well, everyone I know. I was gonna force everyone I know to go see it with me multiple times LOL, and believe me when I say, I would make them, and they WOULD enjoy it. However, September is gonna be my first week moving into uni, so unless I can find a group of Firefly fans, looks like I'll be going to the cinema alone in a strange city! Woohoo for date changes! [/sarcasm]

HARDWARE

Sunday, January 30, 2005 4:22 PM

I will most likely go see it on opening day with all the other Delaware browncoats and or their friends/family/significant others.

I know Malicious has already mentioned a premiere shindig. I'm hoping we can all find someplace afterwards to come down from all that shindig-ety goodness of the BDM together.

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

AURAPTOR

Sunday, January 30, 2005 5:09 PM

Hey, I've got no problem going to a movie alone. I can watch w/ out being distracted and don't have to share my popcorn w/ nobody.
But as for Serenity, I plan on taking at least 2 friends, hopefully more. On opening day. After that, I'll prob go see it again - alone.

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

ARAMINA

Sunday, January 30, 2005 5:44 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:

Where do you live? Sri Lanka?

I looked on your profile page, but no info (grrr).

I live in England. Someone else actually suggested it would only come out on DVD and it just seemed to make sense to me.

We have profile pages????

DARKJESTER

Sunday, January 30, 2005 6:06 PM

I may be headed down to North Carolina to crash the shindig/premier party Static has talked about arranging. See, my son's in South Carolina with his mom, so maybe I could swing by down there and pick him up and bring him along too. If that doesn't work out, I'll just go to the local theatre by myself, most like, and hope to run into some other fans.

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

EMZ

Sunday, January 30, 2005 6:13 PM

I'm going to the screening in London by myself but i wanna see the finished version with friends. By the time the finished version is released i will hopefully have converted one of my friends and brother, who are both Buffy fans but haven't seen Firefly, and will go with either one.

CASUALTY

Sunday, January 30, 2005 8:13 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Phoebe:
However, September is gonna be my first week moving into uni, so unless I can find a group of Firefly fans, looks like I'll be going to the cinema alone in a strange city! Woohoo for date changes! [/sarcasm]

Where sre you going to Uni? We only use the word Uni in England right? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe we should sort out some sort of screening for us British browncoats whether it gets released in the cinema or not.

I'm gonna see it with my Mum who may have turned in to an even bigger fan than me. My brothers a reluctant fan but I'm sure I can bribe him to come along!

"If nothing we do means anything then the only thing that means anything is what we do"

MONTANAGIRL

Sunday, January 30, 2005 8:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Aramina:
We have profile pages????

Up at the top, one of the options is MY FIREFLY. If you click on that, it brings up your profile page. Then you click on EDIT PROFILE on the left to enter/change your info.

PS. Zoid gets irritated when people don't have any information on their profile page, especially if he doesn't know if you are male or female for his responses.

Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.

MALICIOUS

Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Hardware:
I know Malicious has already mentioned a premiere shindig. I'm hoping we can all find someplace afterwards to come down from all that shindig-ety goodness of the BDM together.

Uh, I ASSUMED we'd just stay for the next showing. Am I WRONG in this assumption? Nah. I know, I didn't think so either.

Mal-licious

Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell

ARAMINA

Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:10 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by montanagirl:
Zoid gets irritated when people don't have any information on their profile page, especially if he doesn't know if you are male or female for his responses.

Well heaven forbid I irritate Zoid. I now have a profile, though it aint that exciting.

And I'm female. I think. *checks* Yup, definitely female.

When I think of an interesting signature you'll be the first to know.

PETITRHINO

Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Emz:
I'm going to the screening in London by myself

Me too, but I hope to meet some browncoats afterwards.

For the finished version. I hope I'll have converted some people. I may go alone on opening night. Then I'll drag as many people as I can the 2d, 3d, 4th time

NOODLE

Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:25 PM

The more people you bring the better- don't you guys want to see a trilogy dangit?!?!?!?!

ZOID

Monday, January 31, 2005 12:39 AM

Aramina wrote:

Quote:
Well heaven forbid I irritate Zoid. I now have a profile, though it aint that exciting.

And I'm female. I think. *checks* Yup, definitely female.

When I think of an interesting signature you'll be the first to know.

First, I'm not so much annoyed as exasperated.

It gets really tiresome saying 'he/she', especially since it sounds mildly insulting. I always presume that the person whom I am addressing is very specific, genderwise. They're just keeping secrets, if they don't utilize their profile page.

Age, color, creed, etc., are really of no import to me (although if one includes one's age, I'll know if arguing the merits of 1982's Bladerunner is lost on someone born the same year).

So, I read your profile and it turns out you're distinctly female. If you're married to Johnny Depp, you're Vanessa Chantal Paradis. Nice work.

Investigatively,

zoid
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity

MONTANAGIRL

Monday, January 31, 2005 12:46 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:
First, I'm not so much annoyed as exasperated.

Sorry, zoid, that was me putting words in your mouth. *slaps self on hand a few times* I should know better than to invade your territory, O Master of the Written Word. I was just in a hurry and wanted to reply to Aramina and didn't stop to think of EXACTLY the right word to use. *bows in humble supplication* I'll just let myself out the back door, ok?

Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.

ZOID

Monday, January 31, 2005 12:51 AM

Aramina:

I will definitely be going alone the first time I see Serenity. Hopefully at a nearly-deserted midnight or matinee showing. I really would prefer to have the entire theatre to myself, if at all practicable.

After that, I and the kids will go once the first week, and then as many times as they'd like the second week. If they decide one viewing is enough and don't want to go the second week, I'll just ground them to their rooms with no TV, computers or gaming systems and go by myself at least twice. (NB: Ahhh! The joys of parenting!)

And of course, I'll be buying a seat and a soda at each showing for Lux Luthor, a Browncoat through-and-through, gone but not forgotten. Yes, all this will prove very expensive. But what was I planning on spending the money on otherwise? Food and housing? Ya' gotta have priorities, I always say...

Decidedly,

zoid
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity

ZOID

Monday, January 31, 2005 1:05 AM

montanagirl:

Don't be too hard on yerself. Please note the after that sentence. Exasperated and annoyed have similar meanings (that was the 'joke' at which I winked). 'Annoyed' is what I get when someone tells me I can't have something; 'exasperated' is what I become when I experience difficulty explaining some tricky concept, like the difference between 'annoyed' and 'exasperated'. (Did'ja see? I did it again!)

I didn't mean you any distress, mg. You know I love ya'.

v/r,
-zed

P.S.
I like self-referential explanations. GNU stands for 'GNU is Not UNIX'. See what I mean?

MALICIOUS

Monday, January 31, 2005 2:30 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:
You know I love ya'.

I thought you loved me!

Also, the title of this thread appears at first glance to say "Whore" you gonna watch Serenity with?

I assumed it was an insult.

Mal-licious

Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell

ZOID

Monday, January 31, 2005 3:35 AM

'Lishus:
What can I say? I'm a shameless lothario. So many women, so little time...

You are still mi primo amore.

Precariously,

zoid

ALIENZOOKEEPER

Monday, January 31, 2005 5:23 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Hardware:
I will most likely go see it on opening day with all the other Delaware browncoats and or their friends/family/significant others.

I know Malicious has already mentioned a premiere shindig. I'm hoping we can all find someplace afterwards to come down from all that shindig-ety goodness of the BDM together.

I was figuring on Peoples Plaza, myself, and go to Denny's or something, afterwards. If we get to see a midnight showing, we could have breakfast! (It was really weird, not staying up till 4 in the morning for another installment of LOTR, this December 8-)

Vince

BROWNCOAT1

Monday, January 31, 2005 2:35 PM

I am of the same mind as Zoid, in that I will be going alone for my first viewing of the BDM at the theatre. As I have taken opening day off for the premiere, I most likely will see it twice.

The weekend of the premiere I will be taking my wife and the kids as they are all Firefly fans. I will be going at least 4-6 more times in the first two weeks the BDM is out, going w/ my converts and the local Firefly Meetup group.

Sorry to hear you have no one to go to the movie with Aramina. September is still a good way off, perhaps you will have someone to go with by that time. All you have to do is share the DVD set w/ a few people and I am sure you will have some converts.

__________________________________________

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Meet Up:
http://firefly.meetup.com/9/boards/

BLACKSHAMROCK5

Monday, January 31, 2005 3:43 PM

anyone I can get my grubby little hands on

Shamrock

ARCBEATLE

Monday, January 31, 2005 3:53 PM

Well my girl friend has known since before we even started going out that we would be going to this movie together when it comes out... She will come even if if I have to give up steak for horses at dinertime.

She hasn't seen FireFly... But with Joss whedons comments about how hard he worked to make this a seperate entity it should work out well enough.

"You are the stupidest Smart person I have ever met!" -Detective Spooner

ARAMINA

Monday, January 31, 2005 6:47 PM

Quote:
I'll know if arguing the merits of 1982's Bladerunner is lost on someone born the same year.

So, I read your profile and it turns out you're distinctly female. If you're married to Johnny Depp, you're Vanessa Chantal Paradis. Nice work.

Just coz I was born in the same year as Bladerunner, doesn't mean I haven't seen it.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." Classic.

Affirmatively female.

Aramina

When I think of an interesting signature you'll be the first to know.

THATWEIRDGIRL

Monday, January 31, 2005 9:05 PM

I assume, ya I know, the entire local browncoat population. I mean, come on, you have to go to the first showing.

I'll be taking Jake with me. I'm sure my folks will be there. Um, maybe some of the guys Jake works with; we usually all get together for the sci-fi stuff. I hope some of my coworkers. Perhaps the regulars and staff at my favorite watering hole.

You'll know it's me because I'll be singing the theme song and several of Lux's catchy songs. If Jake has anything to say on it, and he does, I might not be in costume. I'm still practicing my powers of persuasion.

www.thatweirdgirl.com

ZOID

Monday, January 31, 2005 9:51 PM

Aramina:

Especially, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

I don't believe any single line of soliloquy has had a greater impact on my philosophical outlook. That, combined with a line I can't recall the source of (paraphrased): "One hundred years from today, you and everyone you know and love -- your children -- will be dead and gone."

Humanity and all our appurtenances -- culture and society and righteous causes -- are not so much a solid, as they are a slow-flowing liquid. Like glass. One hundred years from today, these thoughts, these cares, the wealth I might scheme to attain, will be lost like tears in rain; expunged from any record by the slow rub of Time, and the indolent meanderings of the river of Humanity.

The only record that can hope to remain is Art. Ars Longa, Vita Brevis. In every sense.

Respectfully,

zoid

P.S.
Ars Longa and Vita Brevis are the names of Heinlein's Lazarus Long's pack mules. The saying is also the stem of "So many women, so little time". Just to tie things up with a neat little bow.
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity

ZEEK

Monday, January 31, 2005 9:56 PM

I think I'm going for a solo trip to the theater myself. That depends on two things though. 1.) if there is a midnight showing here 2.) if I dress up as Wash

If either of those occur I'll be going alone. Otherwise I might be able to drag some friends to it. I expect to see it with them in one of my viewings at least.

ZOID

Monday, January 31, 2005 10:16 PM

Zeek wrote:

Quote:
...if I dress up as Wash

If either of those occur I'll be going alone. Otherwise I might be able to drag some friends to it.

Dude. Depending on the weather, I'll either be dressed as Wash or Jayne. But only because that's how I normally dress (casual). If it's warm: sunglasses, Hawaiian shirt, Chinese military pants, sandals. If it's too coolish: long-sleeved Izod knit shirt (vee or mock turtle necks), Chinese military or USAF BDU pants, Nike ACGs (hiking boots). Those are about the only things I wear after business hours.

So, I don't see where going dressed as Wash is going to make you look like a hopeless fanboy. Maybe a slob with no sense of style; but, hey, I --like Wash and Jayne -- am all about comfort and utility. Everyone offended by my dress habits can osculate my gluteals...

Sartorially,

zoid
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take my BDUs from me." The Ballad of 'Elbow Room' (If You Know What I Mean)

ARAMINA

Monday, January 31, 2005 10:26 PM

Whoa! Deep. Perhaps a little too deep for me. I'm only a masters student.

When reading through your post I was thinking that a hundred years from now everything will be recorded so nothing will be 'lost'. Those moments will all be like hail stones in rain... floating away but remaining for a time until they too melt away.

When I think of an interesting signature you'll be the first to know.

ZEEK

Monday, January 31, 2005 10:38 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by zoid:

Zeek wrote:
Quote:
...if I dress up as Wash

If either of those occur I'll be going alone. Otherwise I might be able to drag some friends to it.

Dude. Depending on the weather, I'll either be dressed as Wash or Jayne. But only because that's how I normally dress (casual). If it's warm: sunglasses, Hawaiian shirt, Chinese military pants, sandals. If it's too coolish: long-sleeved Izod knit shirt (vee or mock turtle necks), Chinese military or USAF BDU pants, Nike ACGs (hiking boots). Those are about the only things I wear after business hours.

So, I don't see where going dressed as Wash is going to make you look like a hopeless fanboy. Maybe a slob with no sense of style; but, hey, I --like Wash and Jayne -- am all about comfort and utility. Everyone offended by my dress habits can osculate my gluteals...

Sartorially,

zoid
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take my BDUs from me." The Ballad of 'Elbow Room' (If You Know What I Mean)

So..........................you're sayin....you know where I can get some Wash pants? Lead the way oh zoid.

ZOID

Monday, January 31, 2005 11:05 PM

Zeek:

Army/Navy Surplus. Even in the 'wannabe' city I live in we've got three or four. I've probably got 20 pair of the Chinese ones (c. $27 each), in various states of wear. Some are only fit for mowing the lawn, anymore. I like the Chinese ones because they're baggier, with bigger pockets and more breathable fabric than the USAF ones. When winter hits, I put on a pair of sweat pants underneath them (I refer to this combination as 'shells and sweats'); I stay warm outdoors, even with Midwest winds sweeping in from across several flat states, and I'm comfortable indoors, too.

I've got desert-issue and forest camo summer-weight BDUs for everything else. I couldn't go back to jeans if I tried...

v/r,
-zed

ZOID

Monday, January 31, 2005 11:45 PM

Aramina opined:

Quote:
...When reading through your post I was thinking that a hundred years from now everything will be recorded so nothing will be 'lost'. Those moments will all be like hail stones in rain... floating away but remaining for a time until they too melt away...

The question is: Who will care? Who will replay those recordings with such attention to the details that their own lives are diminished? Would you really want some distant descendant to savor the moments of your life, to the detriment of their own experiences? More likely, if everything does eventually get recorded, it will sit in some dusty archive until the media it's recorded on rots to dust (or until it becomes evidence in your trial).

Here's another thought by another great man (my father-in-law): Once people come to the realization that their lives are not going to be exceptional, that they will live and die in obscurity, then they can truly begin to enjoy their lives.

Oh, yeah, it may not be true for everyone. But for the vast majority of people -- regardless how hard they strive to make their mark on History -- life is humdrum and workaday and unexceptional. God willing, your life doesn't get exciting.

Part of our obsession with pop culture is a growing ignorance of the beauty of simply being. Until being ceases. Even though 99.999% of us are simply droplets in the great river of humanity, we still have an abiding sense of deep personal meaning; it's my world, everyone else is just living in it. That's where greed and selfishness (and a lot of other dark attributes) come from.

But the sooner we can accept that we're not going to be "millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars", the faster we can come to the realization that we're ordinary, we're sufficient for the world, and that's all we have to be. We can get on with enjoying our lives and helping where we can, because we're not so focused on ourselves anymore.

Pseudo-Intellectually (per T.S. Eliot, the snob!),

zoid

P.S.
Name the movie from which the excerpted 'rock stars' quote comes. It's one of my very favorite movies, if for no other reason than it scares the living bejeezus out of 'real world' BlueSun types. I also believe it's the reference from whence Mal's "terrifying space monkeys" comes. No wonder F*x cancelled Firefly: Some thoughts cannot be allowed to propagate.
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity

SIMONWHO

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 12:46 AM

I hate that movie. Seriously, loathe it. Anyone who wants to follow the leadership of someone with serious mental health problems who almost gets his own balls cut off needs help. Maybe a therapy group...

Plus, you know, he gets both himself and his girlfriend killed so...

ZOID

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 1:10 AM

SimonWho:

Take it easy! It's only a movie. I absolutely love allegorical tales. It's the ideas that matter, not the details. If the main character had been a charismatic figure, wanting to overthrow the religious establishment of the day and, just for instance, throw all the money-changers out of the places of worship: How would you have felt about the movie then?

Or is it just the idea of radical change that's so scary?

I, for one, don't mind the mental picture of the TRW stockholders' meeting in the wake of the movie, in which the fatcat shareholders discuss the possibility of the movie becoming true. Very amusing. And I can just imagine them double-tipping their waiters, for a couple of weeks.

On the other hand, it's not going to happen. Ultimately, we are grounded by our families, if nothing else. We all have parents and children and teachers and policemen and clergy members that we love and couldn't just chuck into the midden along with the rubble of civilization.

Still, it doesn't hurt to daydream. Clam chowder, anyone?

Respectfully,

zoid

P.S.
"So when the snooty cat and the courageous dog with the celebrity voices meet for the first time in reel three, that's when you'll catch a flash of Tyler's contribution to the film." C'mon, Joss: A single frame in Serenity. (Mal-Licious smiles, Ebo cries.)
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity

MINIME

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 3:45 AM

hobbit-ward thoughts to be applauded and courageously lived.

YT

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 7:04 AM

I don't know.

I don't care, beyond that, @least the first time, I don't want to hear anyone talking during the BDM.

I'm sure I'll go with friends @least once on opening weekend, probably once during the second week, and maybe during the third week. I mean, I'm sure I'll go all three weeks, just not sure about the company.

Keep the Shiny Side Up

Wutzon: the Calling, "Wherever You Will Go", from "Camino Palmero"

MACBAKER

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 7:49 AM

Who I take, will depend on where I am in September.

If I'm home in Missouri, I'll take my family (wife and two Browncoat kids), and at least 4 friends who are now hooked on the show.

If I'm working out in LA, I'll go with two of my production partners, who are already Joss fans and recient converts to Firefly, and the two leads in our film, who are also fans of the show.

Hopefully, between now and the premere, I'll be able to convert more friends into Browncoats.

That should be a challenge to all of us, to recruit at least two new Browncoats into the Firefly/Serenity fold before the movie comes out. No matter how Universal promotes the film, ultimately the future of this franchise will be in our hands (as it always has been). We can make a difference.

I'd given some thought to movin' off the edge -- not an ideal location -- thinkin' a place in the middle.

NUISANCE

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 11:28 AM

I have every intention of making Serenity a family outing. My brother and I have a pact that if the movie is good we must go see it at least three times.

CALHOUN

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 12:07 PM

I am intentionally going to go alone the first time around so I am not obliged to talk to anyone at any stage during the show.

Subsequent viewings will be with family, friends and any strangers I can coax in.

TJ63

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 12:50 PM

I'm dragging my wife along. We made a deal when I went with her to watch Bridget Jones.

"I'm only coming with you to see that if you come with me to Serenity."

She won't go on her own, so the deal was done.

Might see if I can persuade my sons to come along as well.

TJ

"Best not be taking it as a suggestion"

SIMONWHO

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 2:01 PM

Well, I don't agree with the allegory either: the economic damage that would do would be global and devestating and guess what: the rich wouldn't suffer too badly. Granted, they'd miss the odd ivory plated backscratcher but it's always going to be the little guy that catches it in the pants.

I don't think it works very well as a movie either. Still, at least it was intelligent and thought provoking, as was Moulin Rouge, another Fox release of the same time. But then neither got instant dollars at the box office and so the people who commissioned them got the boot before the DVD payout began.

Besides, they've already turned Fight Club into a merchandising movie, just like Star Wars. How counter culture can you be?

Sorry, I'm hijacking threads again. Who do I think I am, Malicious?

PALADIN

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 2:45 PM

I'm going to watch it with as many people as I can talk in to going. I don't care how many times I have to see it to complete that task either.

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"If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of Hell, a level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater." -Book

ARAMINA

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 6:50 PM

Zoid:

It doesn't matter whether or not anyone would care enough to re-watch the recordings. They would still be there, for a certain amount of time until they turn to dust (like spores in a sandstorm... )

What you say about accepting the hum drumness of life does make a certain amount of sense, but I'm still clinging to my imminent fame... it's just around the corner.

TJ63:

I admire the sacrifice you were willing to make for Serenity.

When I think of an interesting signature you'll be the first to know.

MALICIOUS

Tuesday, February 1, 2005 7:58 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SimonWho:
Who do I think I am, Malicious?

Oh, no! Not YOU too!

Mal-licious

Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell