Second Round of Serenity Screenings Sold Out

j1ggl3x writes "From a Rotten Tomatoes news article: 'Following the sell-out success of the May 5th pre-screenings, creator Joss Whedon recently announced that more advance previews of his movie Serenity would appear at twenty theaters in twenty cities, this time on May 26th. By the next morning, well before the official list of cities was posted, fans on the Serenity movie site and elsewhere had diligently located half the listings through trial and error and several of the locations were already sold out. Serenity hits theaters on September 30th.'"

Comments

Who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is news how? A movie sold out, BFD.

Re:I'm going to be asked to turn in my geek badge.

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

And is he proud of creating Crap, Teen Crap, More Teen Crap, and a few other things?

AICN Reviews

[Anonymous Coward]

Were mixed. Die hard Whedon fans loved the movie, while those who had no clue about him or the series (a decided minority in the screenings) didn't like the movie, beefs being too many characters and confusing plot lines, unlikeable characters.

I'm sure hard core fans will show up; if there's only two million of them that's not much box office.

However ... Universal (Fox passed on the project) can soak the true believers but good on DVD sales where the real money is. Price em at say $40 per and yeah, no one but the hard core will buy but I suspect that's the case anyway.

Saw the preview for the movie and did not look good. Kept flogging the TV show which to me screams it doesn't stand on its own as a movie.

My own take is that Whedon's a cult figure like John Waters. Nothing wrong with that but I don't think his movie will find wide acceptance.

moD d$own

[Anonymous Coward]

Clean For the next to happen. My

I just never "got" it.

[DwarfGoanna]

A friend of mine hounded me forever to watch Firefly on disc, and I just couldn't get into it at all. Whedon's good name hold absolutely no water with me ( vampires? sorry. Alien Resurrection? puke.), and I was actually turned off by the whole western motif. The only redeeming factor (imo) was falling out of my chair laughing when the bad guys uniforms looked exactly like Spaceballs. My friend was stunned, as I'm sure most here would be, but I actually would rather watch *any* Star Trek (/me dodges rotten cabbage)....even Voyager (/me dodges multiple large rocks).