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."

Comments

Can't wait

[TheShadowHawk]

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.

Serenity NOW!

Re:Can't wait

[bigman2003]

I was in some stupid 'team building' meeting at work the other day. It was one of those things where they hired a motivational speaker to come in and tell us all how to be good people.

At one point, the speaker was talking about the 'Serenity Poem' and asked if anyone knew it.

So, I raised my hand, and I was sitting there thinking, "Oh yeah, I know that one!"

The instructor called on someone else, and she recited the "God give me the serenity to accept things I cannot change...blah blah blah..."

Whoops, I'm glad she didn't call on me...because I really thought she was looking for the, "Serenity Now, Serenity Now, Serenity Now" mantra from George's dad on Seinfeld.

That probably would have looked stupid...

Re:Can't wait

[Anonymous Coward]

> That probably would have looked stupid...

You were in a rah-rah meeting, and worrying about looking stupid? Words escape me, I can't even think of a bod metaphore....

Re:Can't wait

[Pedrito]

That's the Serenity "Prayer", not "Poem." The Serenity Prayer originated in an obituary in 1942 and was later adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous (and later, other twelve-step programs) as a part of the program.

For those who cannot 'view source' on teh intarweb

[tod_miller]

Downloadable link

Right click 'Save Link As...'

To confirm you're not a script,
please type the word in this image: arrack

Re:Download link?

[mboverload]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/serenity/t railer_2/large.html

Not downloadable, but it actually works, unlike the one on the site. At least for me.

Quote

[superid]

"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 :)

The real question is...

[WebHostingGuy]

How much money does the film have to make before they bring back the series?

Re:The real question is...

[Adrilla]

From what I remember from previous stories, there's contracts with the tv show producers that wont let it comeback on tv for something like 10 years. But there is a 3 picture deal, so the question is "How much money does it have to make to get a sequel?"

Re:Download link?

[NetNifty]

Here.

Gotta say it...

[The I Shing]

Shiny!

(WORKING):Trailer 2 Download link

[tod_miller]

Without typo link - fsk it!!!

Yeah, I typo'd it seeing if I could get a higher res version...

Cool Sci Fi shows and cancellations

[Ohmster]

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

Re:Download link?

[mboverload]

Also, if you would like the play the trailer outside of the webpage and fullscreen use this Firefox extension. http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/mediapla yerconnectivity Although VLC will play it outside I suggest Quicktime because it looks like it is the only player that buffers the stream. You can stretch the video to as big as your screen, which is really cool.

Huh?

[healy]

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.

Re:Huh?

[PenguinOpus]

Watch the DVD set in its intended order and the show is much easier to appreciate. The apparently really botched it when they aired it originally. Another reason to pray for the (corporate) deaths of the executives at Fox who managed this.

(I watched 7 seasons of Buffy on DVD and the found Firefly on DVD and really enjoyed it)

Re:Huh?

[Rayston]

I have learned to just agree to disagree with opinions like this. You think the first 3 seasons of buffy were the best? I liked them the least. I thought the plot really got good and interesting after that, I think fireflys plot was the absoloute best series joss ever did, and possibly the best series on TV.

Neither of us are "wrong". Its just a difference in taste, I like the exact kinds of plots that you apparently dislike.

Ever heard of the Series "A song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R Martin? Its a plot intrigue fantasy book. I LOVE this series. I recommended it to a friend, not really thinking about his normal taste in books. He hated all the plot intrigue and deception stuff, I couldnt relate, the whole reason I liked the books in the first place was the intrigue and deception angle, which is exactly what he hated about it.

Difference of opinion, I think stuff like that is good, he didnt.

You think the "monster of the week" and dramatic love story of angel buffy that were the focus in seasons 1-3 were good. I think they were overdone and some of joss's most "just okay" work.

I like the plots and characters presented after season 3 for various reasons, you apparently think they were weak.

Thats ok.

we simply dont like the same things.

I hate when the "geek" community gets in a silly argument about which scifi show is better, sometimes theres truly atrocious shows that noone with any taste should consider, but far more often theres just different scifi for different people. Me? Ill take my western in space and have fun thank you very much.

Thanx

Rayston

Re:Huh?

[mkv]

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.

    Some wise guy once said "opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one" and I have to agree with the smarta*s.. To me, Firefly was a great show that combined all my favourite elements from SciFi, comedy and westerns with a funny plot and a couple foxy chicks into what turned out to be one of my all-time favourite tv shows. I really wanted to murder somebody when I found out there were no more of it coming.
    Talking about Buffy, I fail to see it's appeal tho'.. never liked that kind of generic blondes.

This show was CANCELLED?!?!

[kaellinn18]

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!

Re:This show was CANCELLED?!?!

[jacen_sunstrider]

I rather preferred..."Define interesting." "Oh god, oh god, we're all going to die?"

As for sci-fi picking it up...from what I read, which is based entirely off comments I've read in other threads, Fox has some kind of insane contract which makes picking ip Firefly impossible; it stipulates there being no new episodes. However, it didn't say anything about a movie, so, here's a movie!

Someone more informed should correct me about the contract if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's not that far off the mark.

Re:This show was CANCELLED?!?!

[Kesh]

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?)

Yep. Fox owns all the rights to Firefly on television, and likely won't give any other channel the rights to pick it up again without paying hordes of cash. Same thing happened with TNT and Babylon 5: Crusade: Sci-Fi wanted to pick it up, TNT demanded way too much money, so it didn't happen.

Rent it, rent it, rent it.

[malex23]

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.

Re:No audio?

[unigolyn]

"I can't play a movie trailer" "Compile mplayer or switch distributions" Well, that does it. Linux just hit critical desktop mass.

Re:Out of sync

[Linus Torvaalds]

Have you been overclocking your eyes again?

Re:Out of sync

[exp(pi*sqrt(163))]

You mean 'underclocking'. Movies look fast if you underclock your eyes. I mean, like, everyone knows that dude.