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Joss Whedon's Firefly Coming To The Big Screen
lhouk281 writes "According to this article in the Hollywood Reporter, Universal is turning Firefly into a movie. Firefly lives!" This show deserved a chance to run a full season. If this comes out, I'll sure be there opening weekend.
Fox is more interested in MONEY. Firefly (I never watched it myself which means that most of the general population did not either) wouldn't make them money like reality-TV does.
As far as Fox only being interested in reality-TV. I highly doubt that. That 70s Show, The Simpsons, 24, sports, etc, are all just as big as their reality shows.
But, I will tell you this... Women don't care about much other than reality-TV. I have to curtail my football watching so that my gf can tune into Temptation Island and Paradise Hotel. The women at work ONLY care about Paradise Hotel and the like.
MONEY > *, please don't be confused.
I'll meta moderate just a diligently, and I'll slap a funny rating on it. Big surprise, not everyone agrees on what is funny.
It's nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand.
it was boring and stupid
In reply to your first sentence...
I'm not really a TV person or anything - I don't even have TV reception, which very possibily disqualifies from making any statements in this discussion at all, but as I understand things, Cartoon Network mostly shows 1. Dumb Hannah-Barbera cartoons from the 60s & 70s, which is to say, crap. 2. Recent cartoons of its own devising that have similar writing and production values to #1 (I sat through the Powerpuff Girls movie. That's 80 minutes of my life I'll never get back) and 3. Dubbed Anime (I sat through Akira and the Cowboy Bebop in the theater. See previous parenthetical comment for my thoughts on those).
Since I don't see the appeal of anime (unless you mean "Huge-eyed Schoolgirls meet the Evil Nazi Rape Machine" and you're REALLY hard up for actual porn, in which case, I guess you're forgiven), I really have to wonder what the appeal of Cartoon Network is. Anime doesn't seem to be better-written than Western stuff. It LOOKS better, fine, but if that's the whole appeal surely there are better ways to find something interesting to look at.
Where does it say that "Anime" == "Good TV" or "Anime" == "Thing Geeks Like"?
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
The implication of the parent post is that Geeks like the Cartoon network, which would itself imply that the majority of geeks have ascribed a postive value to the programming presented by the Cartoon Network.
I simply cannot believe that this is the case, given what I know about the Cartoon Network's programming.
I'm not a Grisham fan, either.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
Sadly, Firefly sucked anyway. Can't believe they pulled Dark Angel for that "Hey look, it's a poorly acted space western" POS.
While I grant that Buffy was entertaining light horror/comedy, Whedon's one trick pony recipe of teen angst and sarcastic quips worn pretty thin after three TV series and some dumb movie dialogue. That last thing we need is to be tortured with more low rent shlock from hack Whedon.
Josh Whedon sucks monkey butt. No talent, one dimensional, tasteless cretin. I read an interview where he complained about Halle Berry not delivering his "what happens to a toad when it get's struck by lightning?" line in a sufficiently tongue-in-cheek manner. She delivered it fine, chump. Whedon's not happy unless every girl delivers her lines in smirky teen slayer style
The public got sick of Whedon's monotonous and endless high school hell. Most of his fans were pre-teen girls who eventually grew up and moved on (to such fine fare as "the Bachelor").
And geeks. Sarah Michelle Gellar and Allyssa Hannigan had fantastic geek appeal. Farscape kicks Buffy's pasty ass.