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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.
Sucked that badly, eh? And yet Slashdot fanboys, believing that they are a market force to be reconned with, continue to foam at the mouth about how wonderful it is. Typical!
Hey, geniuses!! A couple of hundred thousand freeloaders that think that spending money is evil are not a market force to be reconned with.
Never heard of it.. watched the trailer.. lets see.. Group of hot 20 to early 30 somethings stuck on a spaceship. -Check. Explosions. -Check. Cheesy one liners. -Check. Chicks doing karate to high-intensity techno. -Check. So what hollywood spin-the-action-movie-wheel-for-a-plot have you guys bought into this time? And whos the guy who did something creative once so they can stick his name on it to attempt to give it some sort of nerd legitimacy?
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No matter how thin you slice it, its still baloney.
Not to be picky, but boy, that is some bad acting. I've seen better on Blake's Seven.
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" ?
Woo! Three cheers for cliched hot chicks with dark secrets and KUNG-FU POWERS! It's so original because there's kind of some Chinese stuff going on and also because it gives me a massive boner.
Let's all go together and jerk off.
This is ridiculous. Star Wars is much better written than anything Wedon has written. The prequel movies are a different matter. Maybe not though. Even Jar Jar is probably better than some of the Episodes of Angel and Buffy. Still Star Wars and even the Empire Strikes back and the Return of the Jedi are on a different plane than Wedon's Serenity. Mention it not. Star Wars has the Emperor and Darth Vader and the Lightsaber plus the Hoth scene is way better. In CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION GEORGE LUCAS ROCKS WEDON'S WORLD.
Josh Wedon is no George Lucus. Saying that Star Wars should be written about Han is so absent mindedly lame it's no wonder Wedon fans watched the Angel disaster err Apocolypse.
At least George Lucas came up with Indiana Jones which is something that is way better than anything written by Wedon. Wedon is about 2 billion dollars behind George in the Bank Account and George Lucas basically invented modern Sci Fi and created the Sci Fi Opera with a John Williams Score for Star Wars. This is a pathetic comment by a pathetic fan from a pathetic Star Wars Wannabe who made B TV shows.
Let's not forget the first Buffy movie. If anyone even remembers it.