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Another New Serenity Trailer
CABridges writes "Brand new U.S. trailer for Serenity debuted on the SciFi channel tonight, and went online immediately afterwards. A combination of the first trailer and the international trailer, with more new stuff lines. Spoiler virgins beware: some plot is revealed."
Can't wait for this film.
I still put a weekly curse on the executives who cancelled the TV series before it could find it's feet.
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Anyone got a downloadable link?
Am I the only one for whom the video runs about double-speed while the audio plays normally? Any suggestions on how to watch the trailer with sync?
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Downloadable link
Right click 'Save Link As...'
To confirm you're not a script,
please type the word in this image: arrack
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"This is going to get interesting"
:)
"define 'interesting'"
"oh god, oh god we're all going to die?"
Loved the delivery, can't wait to see this
How much money does the film have to make before they bring back the series?
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I would say it looks ok, the 'science' part seems (on the surface, pun intended) a little shallow - and the effects look like starwars episode 4 (the dodging of shots on the moving hover vehicles).
But, that aside, I hope the acting and story can push this into a mainstream audience, and perhaps even entertain!
Aside from this, the 'unique future' seems a little cliche actually, and tired formula, are there any new concepts in this?
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Shiny!
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Nice gesture, wrong trailer.
That file is trailer 1.
The one this story is about is trailer 2.
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Trailer 2 here, right click and save file as...
They had trailer 2 above trailer 1, a bit counter intuitive... (or not for bloggites).
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Without typo link - fsk it!!!
Yeah, I typo'd it seeing if I could get a higher res version...
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thats not the trailer download link. thats the mov metafile.
i guess it looks kinda fun
it reminds me that one of the neat things about the movie Aliens was
how the hero didn't overcome by some inherent, over even trained,
super skills. in fact, it is the inherently skilled (the android
bishop) or trained ones who all die. it's so rare to have superheros
these days that overcome through perseverance and wisdom and intuition
(not knowing fancy fighting skills like they show in the Serenity
trailer, or how to build things or hotwire --- just knowing what makes
sense to do at any one time)
i also liked the whole inverted parenting themes (super corporations
and military as caretakers; the aliens breeding by growing inside of
foreign hosts, ripley being a good mother to someone she doesn't even
know)
but serenity looks like it might be fun
Serenity definitely looks cool. With a broadband internet, we may be entering a time when cool, emerging shows dont get cancelled because they cannot find a big enough audience on TV or cable. Remember Star Trek was cancelled in the sixties for that reason and brought back via movies because of a core, but economically small audience. With the internet, audiences can be smaller and still allow the producers and distributors to make a profit. The day of broadband doing an end run around cable and TV are near. More here: http://mp.blogs.com/mp/2005/07/on_broadband_co.htm l
I'm trying to play this on SuSE9.3 with mplayer and the codecs package. The video is perfect, but the audio is absent. Anyone have any suggestions?
Maybe it's time to turn in my Geek card, but I fail to see the appeal of this. I'm a sci-fi nut & tried to watch the show when it was on but I thought it was some of the lamest acting and plot I'd ever seen. It was like a really bad western in space. I can't see why people are drooling over this movie coming out. I liked Buffy as much as the next person, but this seemed really weak to me.
People on slashdot have an orgasm every time this movie is mentioned...I just don't get it.
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I just recently started watching Firefly from the beginning on the Sci-fi channel (I missed it the first time around). I cannot believe that this show was cancelled! The writing is phenomenal, and the acting is great! Then again, Fox is the network of idiots that cancelled Family Guy. One can only hope that Sci-fi will pick it up if it does well in the Friday time slot. (And also that Fox lets them; isn't there some kind of legal crap there?)
Regarding the trailer, the best line by far has to be (from memory, so bear with), "Ladies and gentlemen, we could may experience some slight turbulence... and then explode." Perfect delivery. I can't wait for this movie!
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never mind the effects and the acting, they're a minor distraction. If Joss didn't need actors and a set then you'd still get the best bits - the plot and the script. Joss really should try going to radio (whoops! I meant podcasts ;) ...
The last bit of the first (?) trailer has a clue to the brilliance of his work. That's why we're all so excited about it.
Wouldn't it be cool if the production team from the new Battlestar Galactica got together with Joss
I think I was one of the whiners who complained last time that the first trailer gave away too much. I appreciate the warning this time around. Luckily I now forgot a lot of what happened in the first trailer. Good. I can't wait for the movie!
- actually talking about Alien Resurrection (also known as Alien 4),
- which was written (in part) by Joss Whedon, the creator of Firefly (and Serenity, the movie under discussion).
And yes, Serenity is a lot of fun, right up until the last reel (6/23 preview), which I'm still kind of hoping was a Whedon/Universal fake-out, anyway."Do you know what your sin is?"
"No, but I'm leaning towards wrath."
Carthago delenda est!
Is Shepherd Book in the movie?
I had heard he wasn't coming back, but IMBD has him on the cast page.
He also isn't in the trailers.
May I remind you, the question isn't why am I, the question is why are you.
Rent the DVDs. I cannot stress this enough. Even out of people who saw a couple out-of-sequence airings on Fox and were underwhelmed, I don't know anyone who wasn't blown away by watching the series on DVD. I mean, I'm sure it's not for _everyone_, but if you're reading Slashdot, it's probably for you.
... is that by the end of then DVD set; it was fairly obvious that the alliance was modding River into some sort of super assassin/warrior chick. This being something so overdone that it's cliche. That made Shepherd Book, to me, a much more enigmatic, and therefore more interesting, character.
But he's, again, conspicuously absent from a trailer. Yeah, I remember a few trailers ago when someone claimed that you can frame-by-frame it, and see a shot or two of him. I didn't actually bother, because even if he's THERE, it's still obvious that his role is very much reduced. And that's a shame. I think it'd have been more interesting to see what Books past was, and have it catch up to him; than it will be to see River turn into a standard-issue warrior-babe.
cya,
john
Imagine all the people...
As mentioned in the post displaying above this one, what is looking so incredibly fantastic about this (a month to go, woop) is the fact that Joss Whedon is possibly the best screen writer around. The guy is just phenomenal. And I have to say, he probably became my favourite comic book writer with Fray too.
If you go back and watch Buffy, and the Joss episodes particularly, you can see just how good he is, but Firefly is something special. I guess I'm also biased in that the setting just felt so right for me.
Eeeeeeee!
Thanks.
As I type, this is what is installed on the computer: This is the error message that I get when I try to run the file "serenityT1_720p_8mbit_LTRT_NR.wmv": I guess we were wrong about Joss.
There's a cool chat room (*no* registration required) to chat about the movie. http://www.karbonized.com/firefly/ship/
I thought the actors gave lovely downplayed performances. I thought the visuals were stylish and captivating. I thought the writing was sharp and incisive and funny.
But hey, apparently there's no accounting for taste. Just skip all of the future Serenity threads.
One thing I can say is that I felt that the earliest episodes were not the strongest. You could try Shindig, which was one of the funniest episodes, but whether it would work if you weren't already into the characters, I just can't say.
Also, if you have ever seen Firefly, you'd know that there *is* a story, the characters are anything but flat, and Joss Whedon is a terrific writer.
I dunno who it is
but it prolly is fhqwhgads.
I thought the TV series was smartly written and had pretty cool stories to tell (hey, what's original anymore anyway?), but what didn't work for me was the Western+Space Adventure aspect of the series. You might as well cast Britney Spears as Xena, Warrior Princess, or Andy Dick as The Thing. Westerns turn most people off, and everything western about Firefly/Serenity is going to be a turnoff as well, including the theme music.
is that MPAA seems to have re-rated Serenity. The fan showings were all rated R, this is Rated PG-13. One of the things I love about the movie is how intense it is. Hopefully, it doesn't loose that intensity.
Is... is that Gravity Kills I heard in the background at the end of the trailer?
Holy 1997, Batman.
Even Jesus hates listening to Creed.
Not the trailer. The movie. Pre-release, complete with opening spiel by Whedon himself.
If you saw the tv shows, it's good. It's really good. But if not, go buy the DVDs, watch them, then go see the movie when it's out. You'll see why Firefly has such a loyal following.
i saw the movie too i didnt think it was that good oh well
"Did you know, that if you want to avoid an R rating, you can only use the F-word once? Do you know what I say to that?" --Chilli
Dude, Firefly is one big allegory of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. It even had Injuns. ('Cept they called 'em "Reavers". Still, they ate flesh and raped the wimminfolk.)
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Here: I loved Angel, too. That series was brilliant.
There. I can't WAIT until an AC pounces on me, too!
Westerns never made it... Shows like Gunsmoke and Bonanza were never much of a success, besides... those people are all dead now anyway.
Book's in the movie, it's interesting how he's absent in the trailer and the other movie propaganda I've seen so far (like posters and other things, I saw one of the previews a while back).
Question. Why does every single link on that site insist on opening in a pop-up window? Christ that's annoying.
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I have very little country music on my CD collection (mostly progressive rock, some folk and old-time synth stuff), but I quite liked the particular song in the intro.
Everyone who makes generalizations should be shot.
Whedon at times is OK, in the early part of Buffy and Angel. But just like Tim Burton he keeps writing the same thing over and over and over again.
Nasty cold bitca with superpowers? [Faith, Buffy, River, X-Fred, etc] Check.
Cold removed bastich/bitca hero who is always right just because? [Angel, Buffy, Captain Mal] Check.
Thug-with-schmoopiness? [Spike, Jayne] Check.
Breathy babytalk nerd girl turned hot? [Willow, Fred, the Serenity gal] Check.
Serenity is to the last few seasons of Buffy/Angel as Corpse Bride is to Nightmare Before Christmas. You might or might not like it. It's not particularly original, he's done it before. And before. And before.
Let's not forget in movies, Joss usually to be honest stinks. Alien Resurrection, Titan AE, Buffy the Movie, all stunk writing wise. Movies require tighter plots, character development, and punch than what Joss has. Joss is good at dialogue and leisurely characterization over a TV season with others (when he listens, S6-7 stunk because he wouldn't listen).
Whedon couldn't write and direct something like Memento, or Die Hard, or the Limey. He's a TV guy and that's nothing bad. But it doesn't bode well for the Movie given that he's got around 2 hrs to work with and hasn't done a good movie yet.
Jayne!
The Man they call Jayne!
Oh, He robbed from the rich
and he gave to the poor.
Stood up to the man
and he gave him what for.
Our love for him now
ain't hard to explain.
The hero of Canton
the man they call Jayne.
Our Jayne saw the mudders' backs breakin'.
He saw the mudders' lament.
And he saw the Magistrate takin'
every dollar and leavin' five cents.
So he said: "You can't do that to my people."
said "You can't crush them under your heel."
So Jayne strapped on his hat
and in 5 seconds flat
stole everythin' Boss Higgins had to steal.
Oh, He robbed from the rich
and he gave to the poor.
Stood up to the man
and he gave him what for.
Our love for him now
ain't hard to explain.
The hero of Canton
the man they call Jayne.
Now here is what separates heroes
from common folk like you and I.
The man they call Jayne
he turned 'round his plane
and let that money hit sky.
He dropped it onto our houses
he dropped it into our yards.
The man they called Jayne
he stole away our pain
and headed out for the stars!
(Here we go!)
He robbed from the rich
and he gave to the poor.
Stood up to the man
and he gave him what for.
Our love for him now
ain't hard to explain.
The hero of Canton
the man they call Jayne...
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Out of 100 people 1 doesn't like it - you are the one, just live with it :)
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Don't compare it to Star Trek. I really don't want to watch Serenity 6: Shootout at the Sombrero Galaxy.
Sad thing is I know I probably would watch it.
It's true that Fox has a crappy contract which, in essence, kills Firefly on the small screen. However, Universal has said that if Serenity does well, they will make it a trilogy. Be sure to watch early, watch often, and bring your friends and family!
Apparently you missed the word "or" in between the two songs.
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and miss a chance to research the lyrics, bite you tongue!
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Nope, there are people who didn't/don't like it. Tastes vary. Kinda ticked you dismiss people who do enjoy it as drooling fanboys while simultaneously complaining that you'll get flamed for expressing an opinion (you can't like Firefly unless you're a drooling fanboy?), but no reason you have to like what I like.
Nope, this is the new trailer. Different scenes, different lines, a lot more of the plot. There's also an internationalv ersion that launched a week or so ago that's different from both, it's at www.cantstopthesignal.co.uk.
Different trailers. And, considering the amount of comments, it's a popular topic.
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I believe it was on the DVD's, or in an interview with Joss Whedon. He explained the western aspect. Earth is no more (I think they said "It got used up") so colonies were created throughout the galaxy, many too far for regular supply routes. Much like the first American colonies they have to rely on what they have available. Some technology, but not much, so they use horses for transportation, build their own homes, etc. Also, I love the theme. If you have the DVD's, find the easter egg of Adam Baldwin singing Jaynes song.