New International Serenity Trailer Released

Tenken writes "The international Serenity trailer has just popped up online and it looks to be even shinier than the first. This new trailer doesn't really spell out the plot of the film as explicitly as the first one, but for that reason it may play better with fans. Chiwetel Ejiofor's "Operative" character is also shaping up to be one of those memorable Whedon villains along the lines of Jubal Early from the episode "Objects in Space.""

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will someone please explain this to me

[ashpool7]

trailers, screeners, etc... why all the hype and no theatrical release?

Am I the only one?

[TheCabal]

Am I the only one who found Firefly to be dull and boring? I couldn't even make it through the first episode, and didn't miss it when it got axed. Why is everyone gushing orgasmic over a show that couldn't even make it through one season?

good movie?

[mnemonic_]

Must one be a Firefly cult fan to be excited about this movie? It just looks like a sci-fi B-movie with completely tired "bad boy" characters and mediocre fight scenes.

wrong name of the movie

[tont0r]

this should be called '5th element 2'... or maybe '6th element' because it looks like the same damn movie. you compare them... 5th element
Serenity

Re:Can't wait!

[BewireNomali]

Agreed!

I actually find it really interesting that Josh Whedon gets so much love here given how unimaginative his stuff is, for the most part.

I'll get modded down, I'm sure... but this looks lame.

I work in film, and from my experience, far more imaginative and progressive sci-fi gets passed on regularly because the audience settles for this stuff. It makes financial sense for the industry to be "dumber" than its audience, or as smart or smarter. Just general understanding of human nature reveals that most people would rather have the satisfaction of having figured out something (which is why hollywood uses the formula that my nephew's already deciphered) rather than original shit that leads the audience to believe that there might be some smart people out there. Fundamentally, the state of Hollywood is that, for the most part, it reflects its audience. We don't want something novel, we want overstimulation to the point of numbness.

For the most part, this movie has the things that bore me in movies, unrealistic fight scenes that insult the intelligence (let's all attack the guy one at a time; even though we all have guns and could end this.... no, wait your turn to get your ass kicked), shitty dialogue peppered with trendy but utterly anachronistic one-liners, cookie cutter set and ship design from the same guys who bought you Star Trek Deep Space 94 and Andromeda.

Oh, and cue the messianic character....

It's just more of the same.

As a matter of fact, if you guys took a book, any sci fi book or graphic novel. Say Slashdot decided to host a petition to get a film done: half a million unique signatures would get that book serious consideration by a studio or independent investor. Find an obscure book and buy the option from the author for pennies before you pitch it here so when the studios come calling, you can up the price and profit (with flowthrough to the original author, of course) Anything would be better than this Whedon guy.

Let the mod-downs begin. *bows*

THIS Is Why I Hate Windows!!

[Master of Transhuman]

What has this got to do with "Serenity"?

I downloaded the trailer which is in Quicktime MOV format. Knowing Firefox would probably fuck it up, I downloaded it, then double-clicked it to run it.

It ran. At least I got to see most of it. Toward the end it locked up Windows XP totally. I finally managed to get the Task Manager to come up after a long time, and told it to kill the fucking QuickTime player. No effect.

After getting the Task Manager up a second or third time, I managed to tell Windows to restart.

It then proceeded to repeatedly tell me that Task Manager DLL initialization failed because Windows was shutting down - oh, fucking brilliant, Bill!

Then it proceeded to tell me every single program in the System Tray was being shut down and if I ended them, I'd "lose any data" - another brilliant fucking message, Bill!!

Now I have to click on a dozen messages to get the system to shut the hell down.

JUST END THE FUCKING PROGRAMS AND SHUT THE FUCKING SYSTEM DOWN, YOU MORON!

This is the SECOND fucking time in FOUR HOURS I've had Windows XP totally unable to handle a screwed up application!

JESUS BARON VON CHRIST! I HATE FUCKING WINDOWS!

I should have booted into Mandrake to run this trailer.

Windows as a multimedia player plays everything out there, someone said here the other day. Oh, yeah, right, moron.