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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.)
My girlfriend has been "geeking out" (her words, not mine) over the new website all day. She's even more excited about this than I am.
;)
Note to self: she's a keeper
...is here!
Serenity now!!!
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.
http://movies.apple.com/movies/universal/serenity/ serenity_m480.mov
That trailer makes the Star Wars III trailer look like a stupid cartoon.
I'm so jacked up to see this, I'll probably skip "Revenge of the Sith" entirely and see "Serenity" one extra time with the eight bucks I save!
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
ohhh finally, Serenity has come, Serenity has come. Ohhhhhh finally, Serenity has come, and a kingdom come!
Fullscreen Version (640x480)
Why is there suddenly sounds in space?!?
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.
I'll be in my bunk...
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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WHERE THE HELL IS BOOK?!
God.....
Damnit!
I want to know what the hell is up with BOOK! Who the hell is he?!
Son of a BITCH!
I mean... River is cute and all... you'd think they'd at least continue on with Book's character and give us fans some insight into his past.
I mean... please. The character "River" is so cliché. Book is a real enigma.
Fuck.
I for one welcome our new blue handed overlords!
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
With a big rubber dick. I'll wait until it comes out on DVD and I can rent it.
THIS, however, is something I want to see on opening night.
Direct Files
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/ serenity_m480.mov
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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
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I've noticed that, most of the time, when someone says they were modded down for "going against slashthink", what they really mean is... ...they were modded down for being gratuitously insulting.
...they spent a half hour carefully crafting a post that explained in lengthy detail why they didn't care about the story, and why anyone who did care about it was an idiot.
...their rebuttal was so riddled with factual inaccuracies that it undermined the point they were trying to make.
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Of course, bad moderation happens, and bad moderators exist. But a solid 80% of the time, it's just people being shocked to learn that they're not a tenth as brilliant or convincing as they would like to think.
In your case, you're trying to make much of semantics, and going about it a little wrongheadedly. Since nobody but you called it a "shocking" or "brutal" injustice, you've apparently tried to blow our miffed feelings way out of proportion. Injustices come in a wide variety of sizes, from kicking the family dog to wholesale genocide.
Yeah, it was just a show. But it was a good show, and deserved better treatment than FOX gave it. I think the word "unjust" is apt.
YMMV, IANAL, PBUH.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
Ironically, Her Brother is more of a 'Damsel in Distress'
Was anyone else bothered by the 'turning away' from the western aspect of the series? I kept an eye out when I heard the techno/industrial song, but all I caught was a glimpse or two of revolvers. I fully imagine that the movie will be true to the series, but I still feel a bit let down that I didn't hear "Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me" in the preview...
It's been running through my head ever since Joss said the trailer was coming...
Sigh...
(Still looks cool as heck though)
'Life is like a spoonful of Drain-O, it feels good on the way down but leaves you feeling hollow inside'
Don't get me wrong, I liked the series, and this is one film that will persuade me to drag my ass to the cinema to endure the neck creaking, rustling, coughing and sweating, not to mention the washed out scratchy picture and unsatisfactory sound rendering; in order to see it before it premiers for real - on a disc I can play at home - on something a bit less agricultural, while I have a drink, but enough of my cinema pet hates rant :P
I have to take issue with this statement though - this vision of the future is hardly unique. In fact, it's a fairly standard issue vision of the future as proposed by Poul Anderson (Trader Team, The long night, Mirkheim etc), Marc Miller (Traveller et al), Bell & Braben (Elite) George Lucas (Star Wars), Harry Harrison (Rat series):-
Take sea going activities and extrapolate into space. Merchant ships, pirates, busy ports, adventure on the high, er.. volumes of near vacuum... and so on.
That said, it happens to be a vision I like - a working, slightly dirty and worn around the edges future filled with real looking objects - a vision that could be said to have been pioneered by Lucas, at least on screen.
I hope the soundtrack on that trailer isn't indicative though - cheap music will really feck this movie up. Using current pop output to score a film like this will date it in months.
Definately see the series in some form or another before going to see the movie. The movie appears to deal with the whole back-story that was floating around since the first episode.
It's really a good series, but I know some that didn't like it. Personally I wasn't a big fan of it when it was first on TV, but I downloaded the first ep and got hooked. Bought the DVD boxed set the very next day.
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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where she shoots several men straight with amazing accuracy.
Oh come on, that doesn't do it justice. River sees the three men (who are shooting in her direction), has the gun, but doesn't want to see them get shot. So she turns away and, not looking at them, takes the three of them out with three well-placed shots. Kaylee is there (she'd dropped the gun), and that's the event that makes Kaylee a little afraid of River in the subsequent shows.
-- Alastair
blarg.
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...