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Serenity Trailer Finally Released
ShinyHat writes "Browncoats Rejoice! The trailer for Joss Whedon's Serenity, based on his unjustly cancelled Firefly television series, was released on the QuickTime Movie Trailers page. Thanks to its new September 30th release date it won't be completely overshadowed by Star Wars. Talk is, if the movie does well enough, Universal will pick it up for a second and third installment." (As promised.)
...is here!
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity/ serenity_m480.mov
Fullscreen Version (640x480)
The music at the beginning of the trailer is Kasabian's song "Club Foot" --- and yes, the movie looks hot. Although the young-girl-fighting-people-using-Buffy-techniques- thing was a bit odd. Another downside: I have no idea what the movie is about. Although that could be good too.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
I'm assuming you're referring to River - which any Firefly can tell you is not a damsel in distress. She can take care of herself just fine actually.
Rumor is, that Book has only a very small role in the movie. Not all of the orginal cast could be gathered together; frankly, we're lucky we got as many as we did.
Although there was some doubt precisely which character wasn't back for much, there was little doubt that one of the actors couldn't be signed--Joss was just vague about which one. But the preview (and other speculation) sure makes it look like it's Book.
Better him that Inara, I guess
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If you can't get it to work, grab a copy of vlc http://www.videolan.org/ - I've had files that media player makes unwatchable run fine in it... Should (iirc) also come with a whole bunch of codecs included as well...
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I read an interview today that implied that this movie will address who Book really is as well. As far as I know, the entire cast is back, even if they did leave a few of them out of the trailer. SPOILERS Also, reavers.
Book is in the film. Just not the trailer.
Direct Files
/ serenity_m240.mov
/ serenity_m320.mov
/ serenity_m480.mov
/ serenity_ifs2.mov
small
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity
4.83 MB
Medium
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity
8.5 MB
Large
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity
21 MB
Full screen:
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity
41MB
Book is in the trailer. Background, 1 min 56 secs in.
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"Take sea going activities and extrapolate into space."
:)
I believe by "unique" they were referring to the blend of Sci-Fi and Western that Whedon went with... unfortunately, that isn't unique either.
The conflict before the movie is akin to the US Civil War. The colony planets (in a "state's rights" fashion) resist domination by the Alliance. (No slavery in the story though so no idealogical high ground for the Alliance).
The frontier is much like the American West after the Civil War. The Alliance is powerful but remote authority. Some of the main characters were rebels and wore brown (thus brown coats) much like some western characters (ie, the Outlaw Josey Wales) were former confederates.
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Actually, if you watch closely I think all the sound effects happened when you could clearly see atmospheric effects around the edges of the ship. There is a *lot* of sound durring re-entry. :)
River - which any Firefly can tell you is not a damsel in distress. She can take care of herself just fine actually.
Actually, no she can't. She's insane and needs constant medical attention supervision so that she will not harm herself or others.
Her brother threw away all he had to save this damsel.
The fact that she's a psychic supersoldier in potentia doesn't make her any less vulnarable in the state she was in through the first episodes.
You can't take the sky from me...
Hell no, *buy* the fricking DVD. Honestly, you probably spend $20 every time you go out for a meal. "I like SF, so I download episodes of what I could otherwise buy" really doesn't cut it as a sustainable attitude. Because the big studios simply won't be in a mood to release good SF if they never learn that it pays. Sad truth, but that's the way capitalism works.
She's there. Stop the trailer at the point where you see several actors on the bridge. She's in at least two shots.
The plants growing on Wash's console though are concerning....
My roomate just called to tell me the news. Apparently he was able to score 8 tickets for the Chicago showing.
The plants growing on Wash's console though are concerning....
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