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Serenity Screenings Sell Out
DizzyEllie writes "Last Wednesday, Universal offered fans of Joss Whedon's Serenity the unique opportunity to screen an unfinished version of the movie in ten cities. This was originally intended to pull both fans and non-fans into the fold, but the screenings sold out so quickly (less than a day for all cities to sell-out, but reportably just a few minutes in a couple of locations), it is clear that only the hard-core fanbase will make it in. This seemed to be completely unexpected by Universal, as ads were appearing in newspapers after the sell out, and incentives for the fans to promote the screenings were removed. The screenings will be held in 10 cities on May 5. Serenity: The Official Movie Website" Definitely a unique promo thing. Shows serious stones too- I mean, if the movie sucked, they wouldn't dare do something like this. Hopefully someone will post a review for us on wednesday. And the rest of us suckers have to wait until September. Bah.
The Sun rose again this morning.
Seriously, if it were Joss Whedon's "Grocery Store Trip" it'd sell out. He has many fans.
Just who is this Joss Whedon by the way? I plead ignorance!!! and incidently ignorance is bliss! ;-)
They would still dare to do something like this... :P
Matrix anyone?
It's fairly common for studios to show workprints to test audiences during the editing phase to get a sense for what works and what doesn't. I'm not so sure what makes this any different.
There was Cowboy Neal at the wheel of a bus to never-ever land.
I was skeptical that this would ever really happen. Having seen the trailer, I'm very glad I was wrong. It's been a while since I've rewatched the DVD so I don't remember some of the characters names, but these clips from the trailer were hilarious, and a kind of humor sadly absent from most movies:
pilot: (flying into a battle) This is about to get interesting.
captiain: Define "interesting."
pilot: "Interesting: Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?"
bad guy: This destruction, this is your fault.
pilot: No, *I* don't murder children.
bad guy: [smiling] Oh, well I do.
Take any movie of any size and have screenings in 10 cities. It WILL sell out. With ~300M people and lets say 1000 seats, it is not hard to find a few people excited to see it.
No sneak peeks for Canadians... :(
With a small but very vocal group of fanatic followers. They're like al Quaeda, small and insignificant but so loud and extreme as to be an annoyance. Kinda like a mosquito.
Doesn't this suggest (I didn't say prove, just suggest) that they're making the movie by committee with focus group data?
I don't know if that's a good thing or not. Most good movies are more organic -- they're the result of someone's vision, expressed with comparatively small amounts of interference.
But then again, I'm already planning on not going to the last Star Wars movie, so I'm out of step.
So they fished out the tapes from the garbage can and showed to people ? Or they still finishing the movie in the next 10 days !!
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How can you mod something that isn't rated overrated. Mod offtopic or something.
The networks really seem to have a love hate relationship with Sci-Fi Fantasy fans. They are not content to cater to a smaller demographic. While that same demographic will none the less be loyal and unwavering for a good show, and support said show with DVD purchases and Fan sites, proving while maybe a 1/2 to 1/3 the normal demographic for other fair, the long term property value is much Higher. Sci-Fi fans should let advertisers know that they are major consumers and will well reward brands that support our hunger for good alternate fair on TV.
I will probably hear some boos on this, but I find it ironic that Enterprise has been exceptional the last few episodes. I liked it in general, though it could have been better. I was not obsessive about its departure, but now they've decided to go out with a bang and have plots that are not retellings of TOS I am vexed. It would seem we will never get a third Evil-Universe story, it seemed like a cliffhanger. Granted the Evil-Universe thing was used kind of gimmicky in the DS9 series, but Enterprise has it right by leaving the main universe out. Probably just get tired of seeing all the PC hand ringing our characters do, and enjoying seeing people give into some raw animal emotions.
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ha, I figured out why they wanted this posted:
See the u=dizzyellie in the article link?
That's to get them credits when you sign up for the site to browse! SNEAKY! (wish I thought of it)
(credits let them get free t-shirts and posters and such)
That depends. After the screenings, a screener on p2p seems inevitable. (Now there's a conflict of /. ethics!)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Wasn't the Serenity trailer supposed to play before Hitchhiker's Guide? I know of several people who went to see HHGG but the Serenity trailer wasn't shown. What happened?
Actually, there are already a few reviews out there from an Australian screening. Here's one...
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20089
Its by a big Whedon fan, so probably a little biast.
Is it really so difficult to make good CGI cities? It seems that adding some dirt and dents would make things look a whole lot better. Also for some reason rapid fly-bys always look awful, too "clean" in my opinion, it should look more like it was filmed with a camera, with all the visual artifacts that comes from that.
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There's already been a couple of reviews to hit the net. Here is one of them based on a screening in Australia.
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Apple has an H.264 version of the trailer at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/
At some stage, the money invested becomes large enough that the execs become nervous. To ease the cramps in their wallets, as an antacid, they want things to blow up, go bang, crash, make loud noises and anything else that has sold well in the past.
Story, plot, subject matter, appropriateness are all plowed under for a six seconds of basically orange tinted celluloid showing some geographic background and a big fractal/dynamic fluid flow pattern.
If you want inventiveness and daring, challenging writing, look for some small unit who can't do the concept justice. (They just don't have the resources.)
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With an announcement by Joss Whedon at the Serenity official web site, the tickets to this event went on sale at just after midnight Wednesday morning. By dawn, most of the cities were sold out. By 9 a.m., all of the cities were sold out.
I happened to trip over the announcement at 1 a.m, woke the wife, and scored our tickets. We're very excited about it!!!
What's it about? One good quote that I read was, "Imagine if Star Wars had been about Han instead of Luke." (but with much, much better writing and no damned cutsie aliens).
There have been several test screenings in the past to tune the movie. Almost always, the word leaked and these turned into flash mob events for Firefly/Whedon fans. This 10 city screening is a little different. The movie is nearly the finished product, but the purpose is to incite the fan base into a word-of-mouth guerilla marketing machine.
Universal apparently thought that there was going to be trouble getting butts into seats, and created a marketing campaign and ads just for this screening. With 30,000+ registered fans at the official Serenity website, they need not have worried about that. A couple of folks have even put their tickets on eBay with bidding now at absurd levels.
This promises to be big! Check out the trailer!
I must admit to not loving the series - yes, get over the shock. The movie looks a lot better tho, and I am looking forward to its release.
Granted "Buffy" and "Angel" have enormous fanbases, I've never been really that much of a fan of Joss Whedon's work. ...until Firefly.
...any... tv shows anymore and the fact that FOX canceled it so soon can only be a testament to how good it is. .. I mean, its FOX..
...Nanny 911...and...a bunch of stupid people standing up and becoming prefabricated no-talent celebrities based on looks and popularity without even having to sleep with anyone to get there?
It has a wonderful lasting quality that you don't see in
They really have good programming on there... man... like
I expect the movie to appeal to a broader audience than the hardcore fanbase though. The trailer looked a bit more "actiony" than the series is.
I just got a new 17" iMac G5 with Tiger two days ago. I just loved watching this trailer in a big window instead of a little dinky plug-in on a web page.
:-)
Of course, watching it on the gorgeous flat screen helped.
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The post for folks whose UNCOOL dial reaches 11.
The Serenity HD Trailer using H.264 is quite impressive.
Reminds me of this past post:
MS: Beta Software Good Enough for Production Use
(Only, this time they're charging.)
The people that are interested don't care that it is still beta. The people that do not want to consume an unfinished product will stay away.
When I saw the parent, it was rated "+2 Insightful". How the hell does this happen?
A one line flame can never be "Insightful". Opinions can't be insightful, unless you provide some *insight* into why you think what you think.
Anyone rating this type of flame as insightful should not complain when their mod-points are meta-moderated away. The correct answer was "+1 Flamebait", whether you like the show or not.
A few years back I worked at a company that did visual effects. The director of a highly succesful movie had come in to make the movie that he really wanted to make and we were going to do the effects. This was story that he really believed in and he told people this. The succesful movie: Mask. The director: Chuck Russell. The movie he truly wanted to make: er...um...Bless the Child.
When a director has freedom to make what they want, it's time to run.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
80mb ultra high res XVID trailer
It's 80mb. Well above DVD quality.
Needs Xvid. In linux, use mplayer -framedrop (you may also need "-vo x11" in linux if your graphics card doesn't handle very mad resolutions).
Also, whilst I've got your attention: I've seen the movie in London last month with the UK distributors (UIP), and it was freakin' brilliant.
I hope you didn't mean that there are about ~300M people in 10 major cities combined, because that's the impression I got from reading your post. The USA* itself only has ~281M people, and Chicago (the largest city that the preview is being shown in) has only about ~3M in the city itself.
Furthermore, I'd be curious to hear where you got your "1000 seats" number, as there is no actual article linking any solid information, other than the official website, which only lists the cities being shown.
*And before anyone accuses me of being a excessively US-centric, the website lists the 10 cities, and they're all here in the USA.
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Shit. I should have paid more attention. Normally cool shit like this never comes to vegas. Its all LA, NYC, Chicago, ATL, somewhere in texas, SF, etc.
Damnit.
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If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
Then kudos to them.
Slashdot is a "link site", not really a news site. Journalistic integrity is neither its strong point, nor a requirement.
If the submitter gets free goodies for being the first to send in the link, more power to them.
But back on topic:
As for whether the movie is good or not... if it's as good as any of the episodes were, but with a bigger effects budget, then it's already more than worth the money that many people spend to go see utter crap in the theatre. Joss is getting my money, it's already a given.
Given that a lot of the Firefly episodes were written/directed by Joss, I'm not sure how he was trying to do an impression of himself.
If the movie sucked, they would just not put it on as many screens.
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Not that I was after a +1, Insightful, but not all insights need be 32 volume, 60,000 page treatises full of words that break the 8 syllable barrier.
And it wasn't flamebait. Maybe that means I think Mutant X was superior, or the person who modded me thought that.
If Whedon was a horror novelist, his works would be Goosebumps instead of Lovecraft.
If he was a fantasy novelist, his works would be Harry Potter, not Lord of the Rings.
He wants to grow up so much, to be more than the guy that does Buffy... but Firefly should have been named Buffy 20x6.
Where is his science? Hell, even as space fantasy goes, it's subpar. I'd rather watch Enterprise, it was that bad.
B5 needs a second chance. Star Trek needs a 4th chance. Hell, I'd give Lucas another shot at a trilogy before I'd give Whedon the time of day. There are thousands of talented science fiction story tellers out there that deserve their shot at it.
He is the perfect example of fanboy phenomenon. No one would give a rat's ass if Firefly was made by anyone else.
The worst episode of Space: Above and Beyond had more going for it than the cumulative aborted season of Firefly.
There. Is that better than my previous "one line flame" ?
I've seen a movie before where, in the future, some people are protecting a girl who turns out to be a very able fighter.
Is anyone else reminded of "The Fifth Element" by the trailer for "Serenity?"
Do you think that maybe, just maybe, the studio might have emphasized those points for mass appeal? Or should they have run down the plot in the trailer for you? Trailers aren't designed to tell the story (which is where Wheadon's talent is), it's there to get the most butts in the seats. Give the movie a damn chance before you write it off based on the trailer.
There's really nothing unusual about this. It is common practice for unfinished prints to be screened for test audiences. Out here in Los Angeles you can see up to a half dozen movies a year for free, as long as you don't mind that the movies will be unfiished prints lacking final visual effects, musical scores, ADR, and final editing.
Its a trip watching these things, with their rough editing and poor continuity. All of that stuff is added later, in response to the questionaires that the audience fills out after the movie.
I saw an old Gene Hackman movie, The Package, that way. They ask you all sorts of questions about the movie and your impressions of it, and modify bits of it according to the audience's answers. Its well worth your time to see one of these screenings. Just be sure to go and see the movie when it is officially released, just to see what they changed.
I suspect that this is nothing more than a typical early screening, and really doesn't have anything to say about whether the studio thinks they have a hit or not. Wait until a few weeks after its release to find out the answer to that question.
You might think it sucks...good for you. Buit as for thsi:
/not have sound in space/! You know, just like in real life? And the reason for using oldfashioned six-shooter type guns is pretty decently explained in the series itself.
"Where is his science?"
Well, Firefly is just about the only sci-fi series to actually
So whilst you might not like Firefly (I do, because it doesn't resemble Buffy much at all: Firefly is funny and has well thought out, rounded characters instead of the buffy-characiture), you can't say the show's science is bad.
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
Whedon's Grocery List will be shown at 12:07am so that we may show baseball. Sorry for the inconvience.
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Star Wars itself lifted concepts and even entire scenes, right down to the wipes, from "The Hidden Fortress" as well as numerous other sources. You'd be surprised at just how good Lucas was at ripping things off. Go watch some old republic serials sometime. In any case, who cares? Star Wars combined what it ripped off in new ways and it was good. Damned good.
If you want to draw parallel's between Han Solo and Firefly's captain, who both happen to wear remarkably similar pants, might I point out that's a friggin' good thing. Firefly's captain isn't the digitally sanitized Han Solo of today, or any of the revoltingly bland characters from the new Star Wars series. He's not some up-tight stick in the mud like every Star Trek Captain since Picard. (Kirk was perhaps a little too loose I admit... He had serious issues keeping it in his pants!) We're talking about a died-in-the-wool loveable scoundrel. Sci-Fi hasn't had one in ages!
Oh, he could. Charlie Chaplin once impersonated himself in a contest, and didn't even make it to the finals.
Probably a lot like how this new movie by the Jumanji director seems like a cheap imitation of Jumanji, and the new Star Wars movies seem like a cheap imitation of Star Wars.
Well, look at everybody so excited to see the latest film. Funny how the MPAA criticism dies down entirely when there's a new geeky movie available.
Oh, you're right. I forgot to add "in my opinion". Sorry if you confused my criticism for established scientific fact. I suppose that's why whenever you read a movie review, or a book review, or an editorial, the author always begins every statement that others may disagree with with the phrase "in my opinion". I mean, seriously. If they didn't say that, how would you know? You're not a mind reader. You need things spelled out for you.
Because you're a fucking retard. In my opinion.
I agree that the trailer is formulaic. That was a marketing strategy to pull in the mainstream "i want to see shit explode" audience.
But the show itself is not formulaic. It subverts a lot of different "sci-fi" and even TV-series-in-general expectations. No vinyl-clad halloween-esque aliens with more make-up than my dead grandfather, no scantily clad crew members who have no real business being scantily clad (Inara's a Companion. Dressing beautifully is part of her job description. and she's never scantily clad anyway), the dialogue is FUNNY and entirely character driven... and the characters are complex rather than based on single opposing traits.
In the "literary" sense, the series really doesn't belong on mainstream tv at all because that's not the kind of thing that gets played on mainstream tv.
Buffy had a fanbase because it had pretty faces, yes. But this series has a fanbase (much bigger and with a higher average IQ than the buffy fanbase) because it's a GOOD series.
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I can't stand Joss Wheedon's other work. But firefly was a superb work of innovative space fiction. The fact that it doesn't have a particle of the week, or that it doesn't have ridiculous aliens with rubber prosthetics doesn't mean that it's bad.
Then again, this is coming from someone who actually liked B5... I think we all can agree that this invalidates your viewpoint.
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Not significantly better than your "one line flame," no. Basically, that post was seven one-line flames in sequence. Putting them together, they're no stronger than the sum of their parts.
You compare his work to that of children's authors, claim without support that Firefly somehow rehashes Buffy (what? Do you have the secret scripts from Firefly Season 2 that has Simon losing his soul and trying to kill Kaylee?)
His science is fine. Whedon just isn't bothered when his characters say "fuel" instead of "dilithium crystals". Tech babble is nothing but mindless hand-waving trying to cover up the fact that the writers wrote themselves into a corner and needed a deus ex machina to get them back out. I'm glad that sort of thing was jettisoned for Firefly.
#5 and #7 are basically you saying "I liked these other series better." Yay for you.
Which leaves the fanboy accusation. Sorry, but having seen Firefly, I know beyond reasonable doubt that I would have loved it regardless of whose name was listed under "creator". We like Joss Whedon because he was able to bring certain things to "Buffy" and "Angel" that we came to love and appreciate. If you didn't love or appreciate those things, no skin off my butt. But when you want to convince the fans of a series that the series sucked, saying "the series sucked" seven times without evidence does nothing to promote that goal.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
Actually, when I saw Firefly for the first time on TV, I didn't know of Joss Whedon, and hadn't watched Buffy or Angel. Yet, I still loved the show.
Where is his science? First off, nothing in Firefly is unrealistic, given the setting; and second, is that why you watch TV? For the science?
No, you're wildly incorrect. Yes, I'm a huge fan of Joss Whedon, now; but it's *because* of Firefly, and not the other way around.
Where is his science?
I won't touch on anything else you said, but Firefly did have one scientific truth that almost every other sci-fi outing has ignored or forgotten.
Every explosion, engine burn, weapons fire, or blown hatch performed in the vacuum of space is bereft of sound on the show. Now, this novel idea seems to have been lost in the movie translation. But, it was nice to see while it lasted.
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But this series has a fanbase (much bigger and with a higher average IQ than the buffy fanbase)
There have been studies done or are you just making fun of blondes and the stereotypical "teenage angst" angle?
The only thing I can think is that being a SciFi/space genre, it fits the big screen better. But this is just speculation. How did Joss get a studio to green light on a show that didn't make it out of its first season?
Maybe I am asking the wrong crowd here about mass market appeal, since many of you think that Linux will topple Windows any day now...
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The company that did the SFX for Firefly also did the work for the new BSG. While BSG has sound, it has the same "real" feel to the effects and camera movements. IIRC, Serenity makes a brief appearance in the fleet in the mini-series.
"Where is his science? " In between the well-shaped characters, plots, interesting sociological obsevations and beautiful dialogue. No wonder you don't think it's very good science fiction. "If he was a fantasy novelist, his works would be Harry Potter, not Lord of the Rings." Have you read Lord of the Rings? It is aimless, boring crap with no story arc and a denouement that goes on for 1/2 of the last book. Its characters are souless, sexless, rather traitless and form 1D relationships with each other. It is breathtakingly boring.
Also, this makes real sense from a business perspective. This is an unknown property, valliantly held onto by a raving group of internet fanboys. If they did a Enterprise movie, dont you think they'd show it to some test audiences of trekkies to see if it could sell any tickets?
Physics is nothing like religion. If it was, we'd have an easier time trying to raise money!
All,
/. I started watching Firefly. Loved the show. Heck my wife even likes it and she hates Sci-Fi shows. She liked it for the well-rounded and likable characters. I liked the concepts behind the world. For instance, in Firefly, the culture and language is a mix of (American) English and Chinese. I can imagine a future where this is the case. Sometimes the wide disparities of past and future tech colliding were a little much but I understood where the writers were going.
Just chiming in w/ my support for Serenity. I never watched Buffy or Angel but after a posting on
Anyway, I hope Serenity stays true to the series. It will definitely have 2 fans lining up to see it.
Chris
I know only very little about the movie but I think that at least a small part of the movies fast sell-outs could be due to Gabe and Tycho's promotion of the movie over at Penny-Arcade.
I didn't get tickets, but I would be interested in talking to someone who might have bought tickets for the Austin show, who might have bought them as an investment...
Carthago delenda est!
I suspect the hardcore Whedon fans will love this, but others will be left cold. CHUD.com had an early review of a test screening, hardcore Whedon fans loved it, those who didn't know him from Adam (most of the universe) thought the movie was "Star Trek Motion Picture Bad."
... soak the Whedonites for all their cash, by pricing the DVD at something approaching $30 rather than $15. You can still make money that way, if you can't break out from the true believers which I think is the case.
Box office wise, the studio doesn't seem too enthusiastic, shortly after the early test screenings the movie was pulled from a month BEFORE Star Wars to September, possibly the worst time for sci-fi movies. These current test screenings probably will be useless, Whedon's fans will love him regardless, but how many of them are there, and are they enough to make lots of money? I suspect the answer is no to the latter.
The movie itself seems a copy of Chronicles of Riddick, without Vin Diesel. That movie blew big time in box office, but made lots of money on DVD sales. To me this seems Universal's strategy
Forget theatrical, look at the DVD schedule (does it come out before Christmas?) and price (mass market or niche/expensive?) Studios make about twice as much revenue on DVDs as theatrical (20.5 billion vs. 9.1).
As for Firely, I tried it and didn't like it. Too many characters, characters I didn't care about, a romance-less romance between a bandit and a hooker (why the hell didn't he just buy her, she's a prostitute?) and worn out 70's era pop psychology cliches like Stockholm Syndrome that DIE HARD made fun of twenty years ago. The show played out like the illegitimate love child of Andrea Dworkin and Barbara Cartland. Ugh.
.. when the trailer came out it shot up to 19.
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Look, I *LOVE* the no sounds in space (the preview seems to have them, but hopefully it's just for the trailer).
But what's their reason for revolvers? I don't recall them addressing it, and I've seen the entire season on DVD. I don't recall it being a big issue all the time, either. I know that the bad guys (the statist big government types) have energy weapons, and pretty much no one else, which seems either well explained or is strongly implied. But do they address revolvers over autoloaders? Cause a big famous design in autoloaders here in realworld is the 1911, named for the year, and it's quite popular still.
These are the ten cities for the screenings May 5;
Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX
Boston, MA
Chicago, IL
Denver, CO
Las Vegas, NV
Portland, OR
Sacramento, CA
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
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What's it about? One good quote that I read was, "Imagine if Star Wars had been about Han instead of Luke." (but with much, much better writing and no damned cutsie aliens).
Surprisingly, I didn't catch this while firefly was on the air, nor after I watched the DVDs. I was describing the show to a friend of mine, and he says "So it's basically the adventures of Han Solo?" It's really the best synopsis I've heard, and he hadn't watched the show.
I wonder if that's what Whedon had in mind the whole time?
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Now Spike and Faith, there's a show that I would Season Pass (hey, TiVos are still a lot cheaper than the home brews).
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Right, Buffy Fans aren't bright. That is why there are so many College professors writing and teaching about the show and so many fans reading those papers. Across the spectrum of possible college subjects, it is being studied in depth.
You didn't like Buffy, fine. Some people didn't. But don't fall into the trap of believing that since you didn't like it, it was crap. Because it suggests that you are a little afraid that you just didn't get it.
I took a class that was titled "The Films of Spielberg and Lucas." Our teacher showed us this clip from an old black and white about these WWII bomber pilots and the bombs they had to drop to blow up German dams. You watch it, then watch A New Hope, and you will be amazed at how identical Lucas' version is, except the x-wings replace the planes, and the laser turrets replace the AA guns. Aside from that, it is identical.
Yeah, but there's a fatal flaw in their plan: nobody ever reads the article ...
The real Captain Avatar is a fictional character, so I suppose he doesn't mind if I impersonate him.
Hey all you excited folks - What are the ten cities?
Because my friend knew a guy who works for Fox, I got to see this movie last Thursday. It was excellent - fans of the show will not be disappointed. There is a heck of a lot more to the movie than what they show in the trailer, and lots of suprises. It was so suspenseful that I left the theater feeling physically and emotionally drained, which doesn't happen all that often. There is also enough humor that it doesn't get on your nerves. A few parts are slightly predictable, but they throw in some small twists to keep it interesting. That said, people who haven't watched the show will likely be lost for the first half. I only had two complaints, and one's a bit of a spoiler, but the other was that the theme song wasn't anywhere in the movie... hopefully they'll add it in later! The credits weren't done, so perhaps it'll go in there.
Yeah, I DID think of it...
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I submitted a story very similar to this 2 days ago, plugging the Serenity trailer (which I'm sorry to see they didn't mention anywhere in the Slastdot blurb.)
And I also mentioned the passing of the 30,000th member on the Browncoats site that DizzyEllie got the link credit for... But they didn't mention that either.
Yeah, yeah, sour grapes. I know.
Go ahead and mod me OffTopic if ya wanna, but I had to get that one off my chest!
Mean ol'Slashdot... Unfair... Growl, grumble...
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think Whedon's dumps could write better than the Harry Potter hack ;-)
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that is because Blake's 7 is better :)
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not full of Canadianness is it?
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Blakes 7 no matter how good has 2 things going against it.
1. It's no being shown on TV anywhere that I am aware of.
2. It is not being made into a movie or series of movies.
So untill a month ago B7 fans had nothing but a upcoming DVD release. I'll take what good entertainment I can get and Firefly movies will be at least that.
Maybe one day we will be lucky and get good re-makes of shows like Blakes 7 and The Prisoner.
Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.