Okay Browncoats, were your expectations of the BDM met, or exceeded?

POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 4, 2005 15:14
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CHRISISALL

Monday, October 3, 2005 11:58 PM

I expected the movie to be very good, great even, but it went much farther than I'd expected it to.
The questions it answered and 'underlying evil' story it told were amazing.

How about it, were y'all:

A) Seein' it coming, and happy as Heck
B) Blown away even more than you thought possible
or
C) Too hurt at this time of grief to care

Chrisisall checks the 'B'

UNCHARTEDOUTLAW

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 12:19 AM

Blown away! Saw it twice in two nights! And I still managed to be outdone by a student who saw it three times over the weekend! :D

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EMBERS

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 12:41 AM

How about thrilled beyond belief?
and the second time I saw it I was swept away with enjoyment?
and the third time I saw it I was happy and excited...
then there was the fourth time I saw the BDM and I was STILL on the edge of my seat, laughing and crying....

we'll see if I can take it for granted the 5th time I see it...
but I doubt it.

CHRISISALL

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 12:53 AM

The very last time I walked out of a theatre feeling (close to) this shaken was The Matrix, only Serenity outdid it!!!!!!

Ouch.

Please excuse me, my brain is melting.....

ChrisisallinReavermaddness

CALLIOPE79

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 3:10 AM

Absolutely blown away!! It was all at once the most fun I've had in 2 hours, emotionally taxing, thrilling, sad, scary... and probably the best movie-going experience I've ever had! Thank you Joss, Universal, and all our Big Damn Heroes!!!

Sadly, I've only seen it once. It's not because I didn't adore it (because I really, truly do)... nope, I'm just completely flat out broke ;) Trust me when I say, though, as soon as I can find a way - I'll be going back to see it and will continue to do so whenever I can until it's out of the theatres... and then I'll buy the DVD *g*

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TIGER

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 3:31 AM

Slightly disappointed in a few minor things.
As good as I expected for a lot of it.
Totally blown away by the majority.

Saw it twice this past weekend, and I've never done that for any other movie. I plan to see it again next weekend.

TMURRIE

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 3:51 AM

I'm too grief stricken at this moment to express how much this movie rocked my world. But it seems that everytime I watch it, I'm filled with lots (and lots) of different emotions. On the one hand there's the thing about the movie completly awesome and then on the other hand you got your

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dead book and wash.

I dunno, I'll go see it again in a week and see if I'm ready to accept what has happened.

But it was sorta like the matrix revolutions, I had this idea about the plot of Serenity, and for months I just KNEW that the movie had to be about my idea, and then I saw the movie, and I was like, ...oh...well I guess that's good too.

/thought matrix revolutions was actually going to be about a matrix within another matrix, thats why Neo could do all that crazy stuff in Xion...guess I was wrongo

MOHRSTOUTBEARD

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 5:30 AM

I'm going to go with "B." I walked in figuring "Serenity" would have a firm place in my top 10 somewhere, but never did I imagine that it would be the absolutely, hands-down, most intense cinematic experience ever. Never have I reacted to a movie the way I reacted to "Serenity" (read: profuse weeping and laughter and every emotion known to man).

Keep in mind, I consider myself something of a cineaste. My favorite films range from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" to "The Big Lebowski" to "Dr. Strangelove" to "Rushmore" to "Ran", so I'm not a complete backbirth.

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KAREL

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 5:44 AM

I have to go with 'B'. The first time, I couldn't bring myself to stand up when it was done. Just about the time my legs jelled, the "re-engineered" Firefly Theme started. Back into the seat *thud*. I heard a few people singing along.

I only saw it twice this weekend. The second time was even more enjoyable because I caught more and I wasn't as much in shock.

I won't be able to see it next weekend, but the weekend after that, we're going again.

Hold the valley!

FREMDFIRMA

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 5:51 AM

Sadly, I felt it did not live up to expectations.

The explaination is very spoilerriffic, soo..

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WTF was up with Mal's totally drastic personality change, he start smokin crack or what ?

Jayne came across so thin and weak character-wise I was looking to see around the edges of the cardboard cutout they must have been using to replace Adam with..

Where did that wonderful crew-chemistry go, they're all suddenly strangers to each other all of the sudden ??

Where went that wonderful westernish element that made serenity something other than just another sci-fi yawner ?

Can we please, PLEASE shoot the guy who did the scoring and bring back Greg ? pretty please ?

Why did Joss lift a really bad plot line from Johnny Mnemonic instead of going with the now-mysteriously-evaporated blue hand guys ?

I know that Joss originally wanted Mal to be 'darker' and for Simon to be somewhat nefarious, but what came to be in actuality was something special, and I just feel Joss kind of hosed it by going back and radically changing characters we had grown attached to.. it did not connect, lacked the chemistry, and just felt entirely forced.. although I tried very hard to lose myself in the movie, the jarring raw notes just kept kickin me back out, and it's sad too, cause I desperately WANTED to love this movie.

And I don't.

It breaks my heart to say this, but I give it 6/10.

-Frem

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