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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.
This has very little to do with the article, but a few days ago the L.A. Times published an article regarding the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit that focused on their fight against child pornography ("Sifting Clues to an Unsmiling Girl"). They are the law enforcement organization that photoshopped the victims out of child porn photos in order to get the public's assistance in identifying the backgrounds (it worked). In any case, the article had this amazing claim:
Wow. All but one in four years. Seemed rather unlikely to me.
So, I called the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit and spoke to Det. Ian Lamond, who was familiar with the Times article.
He claims they were misquoted, or if that figure was given it was done so jokingly. Of course, even if the figure was given jokingly, shouldn't the Times reporter have clarified something that seems rather odd? Shouldn't her editors have questioned her sources?
Nevertheless, Det. Lamond does confirm that a majority of those arrested show "at least a passing interest in Star Trek, if not a strong interest." They've arrested well over one hundred people over the past four years and they can gauge this interest in Star Trek by the arrestees' "paraphenalia, books, videotapes and DVDs."
I asked Det. Lamond if this wasn't simply a general interest in science fiction and fantasy, such as Star Wars or Harry Potter or similar.
Paraphrasing his answer, he said, while there was sometimes other science fiction and fantasy paraphenalia, Star Trek was the most consistent and when he referred to a majority of the arrestees being Star Trek fans, it was Star Trek-specific.
They would still dare to do something like this... :P
Matrix anyone?
It's a star wars ripoff. Loner working, picks up 2 people, turns out they are fugitives from the gov't that wants them captured
I can't wait til we here that there are 3 more movies that explain how they became fugitives because the "Gedeyes" were all killed and the gov't taken over by a senator turned Emperor.
But Firefly is to good scifi what Mutant X is to X-Men 2.
Seriously, you could throw "limited release" on somebody's bowel movement, and people would flock to buy it...
The thing is, "Firefly" wasn't interesting. At best, it reminded me of some of the better episodes of post-Season 3 "Buffy", which isn't saying all that much.
"Firefly", just like later episodes of "Buffy", felt like they were written/directed by people trying to do a Joss Whedon *impersonation*, and failing. The pieces were all there, but they just didn't click.
It looked more like another Joss Whedon anime ripoff personally, but that's just me. :D
(Outlaw Star instead of Devil Hunter Yoko this time.)
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. -- Francis Bacon