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Watch the First 9 Minutes of Serenity
An anonymous reader writes "As reported on FireflyFans.net, Universal is attempting further promotion of the sci-fi action film Serenity by making the first 9 minutes of the movie available online. The clip contains the opening backstory that sets an Alliance assassin on the trail of the ship's crew; it's an effective hook. On Yahoo movies, Serenity is ranked as the number 1 film currently in theaters and is hanging in a top-ten spot in the highest rated movies of all time. Slashdot has previously covered Orson Scott Card's review, the film's opening, an interview with Joss Whedon, and much more. It's all out of love..."
Okay now I'm gonna go see this.
Serenity NOW!!!!!!!!!
(OK, someone had to do it)
I have to wonder, if this works to boost revenue for Serenity, what will the MPAA's response be? It only took them, what, ten years to realize the internet can help them?
" On Yahoo movies, Serenity is ranked as the number 1 film currently in theaters and is hanging in a top-ten spot in the highest rated movies of all time."
What's it's ranking on P2P?
I went to the video site with Mozilla under Linux and got this message:
Unfortunately, the Operating System you are currently using is unsupported.
Anybody got a way around this under Linux?
All I get is:Unfortunately, the Operating System you are currently using is unsupported.
Any advice?
Is just the bestest thing since sliced bread and soft butter...... Wait, or is that Wil Wheaton I always get those two mixed up.
The movie depends quite a bit on the overall backstory from the one season of the television show. If you haven't seen the show, it doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense.
Luckily "Firefly - The Complete Series" is available on DVD.
I do not deploy Linux. Ever.
"Unfortunately, the Operating System you are currently using is unsupported."
Not a good sign :(
Unfortunately, the Operating System you are currently using is unsupported.
It gave enough backstory for my girlfriend (who never saw the series) to know what was going on, and even covered some stuff I missed in the series (like the setting being one big solar system, not interstellar).
Evidently it only works for people with the "right operating systems".
Is it so hard to use a standard media type?
Why do companies feel like it's right to mave stuff like this that's actually MORE trouble to make incompatible with non-MS/Mac systems?
Seriously. I just do not get this mindset.
Shiny. Let's be bad guys.
currently using is unsupported.
Gee, thanks guys.
...how about improving downloads by using a better format, such as XVID or Quicktime?
Come on now, it's obvious to me that Serenity's fans are boosting the review averages all over the place. Nothing wrong about that, but keep that in mind. Best film of all time?? Let's get serious here, it's a good 2 hours of entertainment, nothing earth shattering here.
Thanks for using a proprietary video format.
On Yahoo movies, Serenity is ranked as the number 1 film currently in theaters and is hanging in a top-ten spot in the highest rated movies of all time.
As with the majority of slashdot posters on here, I am a total sci-fi junkie, but does Serenity really qualify to be within the top 10 movies of all time? Granted, this is a yahoo poll and probably was saturated by people so desperate for anything with a futuristic theme they're willing to hump a movie which was written by a guy who make a witch turn lesbian in another show with declining ratings.
I seriously cannot understand what is so great and original about this movie. Sci-fi meets cowboy theme has already been stretched in 26 episodes (plus a movie) of Cowboy Bebop.
I don't even see Bladerunner on this Yahoo top 10 of all time list. Dune? Seriously, are you going to tell me Serenity is better than Bladerunner?
What I said when I got to their website was "Unfortunately, the web site you are using is undesired." And then I left, never to return. Bye asshats. I don't care if you close the gate in your fence to me. There are lots of other playgrounds for me to play in.
Oh, PS, think I'll skip the movie now, too.
This phenomenon you are experiencing has a name. It is denominated as "Whoops. We backfired."
Serenity is a REALLY REALLY good movie...but to be in the top ten movies of all time?
I don't see the hype personally, sure it's an ok tv show but it's nothing special. Some nice looking girls, a few gags, some spaceships and that's about it. Better than most but not great.
Mod me as a troll if you like but I know there are a few people that think like this so *shrugs*
"I have to wonder, if this works to boost revenue for Serenity"
That was the pirates argument. Not the MPAAs
"what will the MPAA's response be?"
Play by our rules, and everyone benefits.
"It only took them, what, ten years to realize the internet can help them?"
When "The Internet" played by it's rules, it didn't. When "The Internet " plays by the MPAA rules, then it does.
I saw a few (600MB+) copies of this on gnutella recently. Probably the whole movie. Good luck.
>It's all out of love..." ...and increased page views...
but i have my theory: with no new star trek and star wars fare in the pipe, desperate sci fi serial pulp fans are jumping ship and clinging to this piece of driftwood
yeah, serenty is ok, but it's no alien or blade runner
you may now mod me into oblivion for not blindly stating my allegiance to the high school clique and mindlessly jumping on the hype machine
so sorry, pfffffft
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
The parent is totally right. We are in a total drought of good sci fi. Action + Space/Future theme does not necessarily equate to sci-fi or anything a geek should watch. Please, guys, have some taste.
Universal Exec : Ok guys, let's do something completely new : We will make the first nine minutes of Serenity available online !
Henchman : Ok, but how much do we charge them for it ?
Universal Exec : Nothing, we just let them see the first...
Henchman : Ok, popups ? Right, popups ?!
Universal Exec : No, we will just let them see...
Henchman : I got you : Ads, right ? Banners !
Universal Exec : No, we will JUST let them see the first nine...
Henchman : Ok, but we HAVE to annoy them somehow... How about some proprietary plugin instead of going for the normal formats ? Let's screw a littlebit with their minds before they get their free content.
Universal Exec : Fuckit, it's lunchtime.
The movie has a 'cheap' made-for-tv feel to it. The actual plot/conflict is absurdly pointless. Aside from the initial sequence, I never feel convinced that any of the effort by the 'good side' or the 'bad side' is significantly important to those characters. The plot is boring, the monologues are bad, and their attempt at humor is sub-par. It's not as bad as Chronicles of Riddick or Battlefield Earth, but I would stick to movies like "Proof" for the weekend.
http://halflife2.zoy.org/hello.jpg?torrents.php/to rrents/4124/Serenity-T4C.torrent
Fun first nine minutes. Very exciting. These people are idiots, though. The beginning was so awesome I definitely would have paid four or five bucks to watch it after watching the beginning. I'll go to the theater to see it, but I doubt they'll see four or five dollars of my money once the theater cut is out of the way.
Cluetrain coming? Someday soon.
The only shame I feel about this movie is that it is a gem released during such a mundane (IMHO) year for theatrical releases, so although it stands out from the 2005 crowd, that in itself unfortunately isn't saying much at all. Still, I'd recommend it very highly to those who havn't seen it yet. And if you are even a more moderate fan of the series, then what the hell are you waiting for? Gogogo.
One thing that did dissapoint me was the lack of the theme tune, unless I missed it, but I didn't hear even a snippet during the whole movie :-(
She's built like a steak house, but she handles like a bistro....
Not really representative of the series or much of the rest of the movie. Although...
since its the first 9 minutes exactly as seen in the theatre, it doesn't give away any of the rest. Rest assured, there are many good bits to be given away!
I hope this becomes a more common practice in the future; I believe this is a far better hook than a trailer.
Performing sanity checks on your own beliefs is vital in avoiding poisoned koolaid.
This ad sounds like a cry of desperation, since the firefly movie has proven to be a huge bomb, taking in only ten million dollars for the entire week.
And here comes yet another bloody Serenity post. Stop the free advertising already.
Not all "Nerds" want to hear about Manga or Serenity every other day for the last month
Get rid of that poll too, it's tired and doesn't have a "Serenity, WTF is that?" option!
Proceed to MOD me down! My views don't agree with
Orationem pulchram non habens, scribo ista linea in lingua Latina
I think that one of the most impressive things is that the video link survived the slashdot effect. Or am I too late?
What if I'm using Safari with a popup blocker? What if reloading without blocking returns the exact same page? Why can't you can't provide a plugin-free experience like Google Video? Wankers.
Good thing I've already seen the movie and don't need enticing.
Am I the only one distrubed by JW's obsession with them?
I haven't really seen this discussed anywhere. On the other hand, I haven't looked very hard.
Just curious.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
http://torrentspy.com/search.asp?query=serenity
The neat thing about this is their content delivery method. It's a Java app.
It worked perfectly on my WindowsXP machine AND my friend's OS X machine. How about Linux? Has anyone tried running it on their Java-enabled phone?
"it's an effective hook"
what? a DRM proprietary video streaming method and you're creaming your pants over it?
you goddamn hypocrite.
I would neither set flash gordon not any of the start wars films very high on the "originality" or "story" scale, so i dont think that example is _that_ convincing.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
Correction to the submission: this is being released by United International Pictures, the company responsible for international release of Serenity. Since UIP is partially owned by Universal, it might be seen as semantics, but UIP has a distinct marketing plan for the movie from that of Universal.
It's also important to note, because it might seem like odd timing for Universal to release new marketing materials for a movie already released - it might even seem a move of desperation to get "butts in seats" before it leaves theaters... but it makes more sense as new marketing released by UIP for a movie they are opening today or within the next few weeks.
Best. movie. ever.
... format please...
i hate these proprietary fuckers. what are they doing anyways.. they wana publically advertise for their movie and their goals should actually be to make as many people as possible to take part in this, and not to invent yet another file and streaming format to exclude as many people as possible...
are they a complete bunch of moronish fewlz?
FUCK THESE COMPANIES FOR GOOD
I like the voiceover version of Blade Runner better!
There - I've said it - let the pillory | hanging | pressing begin.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
The player that is - at least under Tiger on an original Dual USB G3. A/V syncing is perfect at "small" - all "sizes" play full screen anyway. The film is the bomb.
"Pyxis Supply Station" - hunh. Glad to see Sony's two pound, First Generation GPS receiver design is finally being put to use. Glad I held onto mine.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
...psychics in glowey blue rooms.
Okay.
I'm one of those people who reads slashdot regularly, runs linux on his computer, and has NOT watched the show Firefly and did NOT go see the movie the week it opened.
However, I do love sci-fi, I just never took the opportunity to get hooked on this show. (I have enough vices already!)
In any case, look: Advertising, after a movie has been released, is to encourage those who have not seen the movie or may not have been following it so closely but who _might_ be interested, to fork out the $10 and go check it out. I admit, the trailer was sort of interesting but nothing that really grabbed my attention. Mostly it's the hype I've read on this website that has kept me interested, and is what is making me want to go see it. I have no idea about the Firefly story, but since everyone seems to think it's so amazing I might be pursuaded to go see it, especially with a little enticement like showing me the first few minutes of the movie.
Now. I run linux. So I can't watch this "teaser". Let me repeat: I AM PRECISELY THE TARGET AUDIENCE for this advertisement, and yet the message I get when I actually make the effort of clicking on the link and going to the website to check it out is: You can't watch this, your operating system is not supported. This is not something that happens by accident. They are ACTIVELY dissuading linux users from watching the teaser. I had to click "view source" just to find the file, and I'm downloading it, but I realize it's very unlikely I'll be able to watch it. They are publishing in some stupid non-standard format. And for what reason? I can't think of a single one. They are giving it away for FREE, why would they be worried about copyright? At the VERY least, if you don't want to get into weird IP battles by using "frowned upon" formats like DivX (though I don't see the problem with OSS formats like Xvid), publish it in straight MPEG, even if it's low resolution, but my goodness, don't DENY your target audience the ability to watch it.
Whoever is in charge of marketing has no clue.
As it is, I still don't know if I'll bother going to see it, especially considering how expensive the theaters are these days and how little time I have.
If only I could watch the teaser...
It finished downloading by the time I typed this out. And look, mplayer and VLC are both out of luck.
It's all relative. What's more likely to rot your brain, Firefly or Survivor/American Idol/"Reality Show VII - the really crap one"? Personally I love Firefly, but I think before you say it's really bad tv you should take a look at what the average idiot is watching.
How is parent flamebait? It's the persons opinion. Has slashdot become the republican party, where we must supress views we don't agree with?
I'm unaffiliated with their site! That being said...
/. had it up. /. readers who might care about Serenity have already seen it in the theater.
This same story was posted on www.digg.com about 30 hours before
That, and I'd bet that a lot of the
Plus, its not a linux-compatible stream.
This movie is being promoted via blogspace with private screenings and who knows what other incentives for those who mention and promote it. First the poll, now the article. Maybe it's a good movie, but this astroturf hyping is kind of lame. It is suspect.
The movie would have been better if it was made in DLP. http://www.dlp.com/ film is so... ...old.
Those things she mentions in the song are unfortunate
3. Situational Irony.
Situational irony defies logical cause/effect relationships and justifiable expectations. For example, if a greedy millionaire were to buy a lottery ticket and win additional millions, the irony would be situational because such a circumstance cannot be explained logically. Such a circumstance seems "unfair." This sense of being "unfair" or "unfortunate" is a trademark of situational irony. Because people cannot explain the unfairness, it causes them to question whether or not the world makes sense.
Just because you are ignorant to other types of irony, doesn't make the song wrong.
No unauthorized use. Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.
Do you see it as only being for sexual fantasy, for leering? I see these girls as empowered, which makes good role model material for teens IRL.
It would be strictly correct to chastise them for dropping the ball by removing Linux (and apparantly any non-Windows platform) compatibility.
The worst thing is that there is probably just a stupid if statement at the start of the applet that aborts if the JVM is not being run on Windows!
Morons, I'm surrounded by morons!
It's a freakin' awful movie. Are you people that starved for good entertainment?
Definitely not in the top ten. Whoever claimed that is an expert bullshitter.
Find some GOOD movies at an old Slashdot favourite: http://bigempire.com/filthy/
I've already seen the film twice, so what really shocked me is how well that worked. The video started almost instantly, and I'm on a modest DSL line shared with a neighbor. Good quality. Some noticable compression artifacts and the sound was just slightly out of sync, but still, very good for what it is.
And to those complaining about free advertising: Let's complain instead about the granularity of SlashCode's RSS. There should be a seperate feed for each section, and some way of getting your customized index as a feed. Then you can easily exclude Sci-Fi stuff you think is so off topic.
But I digress. Everything the studio can do to help Sereinty/Firefly/Whedon Enterprises is good. I hope we see more quality naturalistic science fiction like this and Battlestar Gallactica in the future.
I agree. It's horrible. The cliches, the cliches...
I don't know what else is on television right now, because I don't watch television (I borrowed it on DVD), but if this is the BEST TV SHOW EVAR, this really, really makes me glad that I gave up on network television. Holy crap.
It's like Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Even More Indulgent And Forcefully Quirky (WINK WINK WINK WINK WINK WINK WINK). Oh yeah, I forgot to add a few pop culture references and snarky one-liners. Zing! There, that should do it.
I can't stand Joss Whedon's writing. He's actually arguably worse than Joe Eszterhas, the man responsible for Showgirls.
Amazing how those nine mins just totally changed my mind. I thought Serenity looked pretty dumb and campy from the trailers, but now I'm actually going to go see it. Go figure.
I already wanted to see the movie, but didn't have the motivation to drag my less geeky friends out with me. Now I definitely do. What would have been even better is if you would have offered me the rest of the movie in H.264, XviD, or Theora for $20 or so. I would have bitten without a second thought and I'm sure my friends would have done the same after they each watched the trailer from the link I'll IM.
Game... blouses.
I probably would not have gone to see this movie. Now, I think I will. The acting doesn't seem to shabby, and the plot moves along fast enough for you not predict every tangent. Of course, this is just the first few minutes, the rest could be aweful. But I know I've seen far worse scifi flicks within the same opening-sequence timeframe. Cheers!
Watching the start of Serenity has made me even more determined to watch the full film... ...but I can't.
The premiere date here is in December. I'll probably end up downloading it instead of waiting any longer than I already have. Which is kind of ironic, since I am willing to pay to see this movie, here, now. But there aren't anybody around to take up my offer. So I turn to the pirates, which offer it for free, and can deliver faster than any legitimate channels.
When will the media companies learn that the globe is just a little bit bigger than the United States of America?
... River is supposed to be 17 and the actress is 24. Those who are most free with their money at the boxoffice are the young ones... besides, Whedon wishes to change society so better start with them before they get too brainwashed ;)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
by a guy who make a witch turn lesbian in another show with declining ratings.
No, no. When the ratings started to decline, he had one lesbian die, so she was the dead lesbian, and then the other lesbian turned evil, so she was the evil lesbian. This is called the dead and evil lesbian cliche, and I assure you that Joss wasn't the first one to do it. Hell, they even had it on Babylon 5.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Willow was shown kissing Tara in 5x16, "The Body". It was a big episode for other reasons; Joss had said that he didn't want it to be a big "OMFG LESBO KISS EPISODE", and so he made it incidental. So that was probably a good idea on his part.
Now, Willow was shown in bed and implicitly naked with Tara, with the implication that exciting action had been going on, in 6x19, "Seeing Red". When Tara finally did get dressed, she got shot by Warren, because lesbians are only okay if they're implicit (floating magical orbs and whatnot, not naked girls under the sheets). Joss thus honked off the lesbian Buffy fan club, who have gone off and formed their own alternate universe in protest. His attempts to break ground by showing the first lesbian sex on network TV. Of course, this was done two episodes before the series finale, in 7x20, "Touched", when he didn't have to worry about getting renewed. Season seven was a mess, anyway.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Of course not. Don't you know that we're 'X' number of completely random individuals, that could never form something as coherent as the Republican party...or a Geek site.
Sorry, I must have been fooled by the giant UNIVERSAL logo right at the beginning of the video.
I wonder.
I can't think of a single good reason to put the "list of everyone who participated" on the film at either end of a movie. At the begining of a film, it's usually just annoying to go through all the people who have to be mentioned while essencially nothing happens. (a very few films have made this work) At the end of the film, no one sticks around long enough to find out who the assistant grip was or who was the best boy let alone even know what those things are. So why are they there in the production run of every feature film?
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
I'm using beta 2 of FireFox in OS X right now, and the movie played in high resolution mode for me, including sound. Looked great in fact. (Using a dual 2.0Ghz PowerMac G5)
Of their demo files
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
OK guys, I had high hopes, took my girlfriend to watch this movie in Noosa, Australia -
OMG - What bad movie, the cast can't act , it reminds me of a low-budget television quality movie.
About 90 mins in my girlfriend couldn't stand it and opted to sleep in the car instead. I hung in for another 10 mins, but ditched it myself.
Please, we need better sci-fi then this, its so poor!
maybe if you took the time to watch the entire series in order you'd have fleshed out the characters more in your head. freakin genius.
... many fans say you need to know nothing about the series. And so do people who haven't seen it. Like when they reviewed it on The BBC (27 minuttes in)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
yeah, serenty is ok, but it's no alien or blade runner
Thank god!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
I DIDN'T like the series. I tried watching Firefly 2 or 3 times since I enjoyed Buffy and Angel quite a lot.
I am ESTATIC over how good Serenity is. The plot was much better than adequate. The character exposition and development were top notch. The humor in the dialog was brilliant. The effects were outstanding. It is by far the best sci-fi I've seen since Empire Strikes back.
I didn't go to the movie thinking I would react to the movie this way. I wasn't impressed with the trailers and the advertising is just average. It was the good word of mouth that it got that lured me into the theatre.
Serenity is just that good and deserves the hype.
Saw the movie today, quite good, enjoyed it a lot. Im not saying its Star Wars (the first 2) but it still definetley worth going to see.
Other 110 minutes here or here.
Actually, it's not available.
All there is is an image containing no picture, but rather rendered text that tells me I have to click on some pop-up to "authorize" a player. Yet the pop-up doesn't show up, of course, as it's probably dependent upon my letting the site run code on my computer -- not going to happen.
What I've learned from this: The studio's marketing group quite sucks. Plus, this "Vividas" junk is something to avoid in the future as well. They've pegged the lameness meter. More, they've bent the needle.
I think the two main reasons for the custom video type is to make it easier for end users. The viewer is the a fullscreen viewer that streams really well, and i suspect their file format has to do with it. They do support a varity of platforms, more than most:
Minimum machine software specification
PC Compatible Apple Macintosh Linux (still in testing)
Operating System:
Microsoft Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP
Browsers:
Internet Explorer 5 or better.
Mozilla 1.0 or better
Firefox 1.0 or better
Opera 7.0 or better
(May work in other browsers, however these are untested)
Browser Extensions:
An Active X enabled browser ~ or ~ Sun Java 1.3.0 ~ or ~ better ~ or ~ Microsoft Java
Operating System:
OSX version 10.2.7 or better (with all current patches)
Browsers:
Safari version 1.2.4 or better (fully patched)
Mozilla and IE are not always supported, as they lack javascript to java connectors.
Browser Extensions:
Any Sun Java except un-patched 10.3.9.
Operating system:
Debian, Red hat, Suse
Emulators:
Only Wine has been tested
Emulated Browsers:
Firefox and IE
Emulated Browser Extensions:
Sun JVM 1.4 or better.
Waffles rock.
These 9 minutes are there to reassure people that no, you will get something out of it even if you don't know the show. And I think it's a good idea. I hope it works, because I really think this Firefly thing should go on. Like the Matrix, it might take some time and good word-of-mouth to drive up ticket sales. Of course, the sequels to Serenity, if they come, had better not suck like the Matrix sequels did!
Won't work under linux.
Can anyone re-encode to avi or mpeg-4?
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
I agree, the show and the movie (I saw it for free and want my money back) were awful.
Boring, dislikeable characters, many of whom don't even register on either big or small screen.
A lot just BAD actors (looking at you Summer Glau, and you Nathan Fillion, and you "Zoe").
Pointless plots, way too campy dialogue, crappy fight scenes (wait for it, hold it, hold on, just a minute, there now I can kick you sloooooooowly) and other cheezy stuff like bad TV quality CGI and idiotic stuff like Confederate Chic. If you want to see the Outlaw Josey Wales, go see Josey Wales. With Clint. It's at your DVD selection in classics at Best Buy. Cheaper than Fireflop and more fun too. Actual acting and a story.
I think, as a rule, anyone who posts "this show sucks" should also list their five favourite shows, so readers can see what it's being compared with.
The more I learn about the Internet, the more amazed I am that it works at all.
History of Violence. (Well, until today)
Check the reviews. Check the tomatometer. It beats out Serenity with the broad spectrum of critics and it beats it out handily if you only go with the pros.
Great movie.
I haven't seen Serenity yet, but I plan to see that too.
Actually, Wallace & Gromit opened today and it's out doing both of them.
On the Tomatometer, Serenity is also outdone by Corpse Bride. That makes Serenity the 4th best movie in theaters right now. Seems like a pretty good time to go to theater actually, especially given how bad this year has been.
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Too bad the bad guys were caused by the government and the good guys will win in the end anyway.
Great trailer, I must check out the movie this weekend.
One thing that caught my attention is one of the buildings at the begining of the trailer looks like an exact match to the Emirates Towers.
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Great trailer, I must check out the movie this weekend.
One thing that caught my attention in the trailer is one of the buildings at the begining of the trailer looks like an exact match to the Emirates Towers in Dubai.
Check out my blog for a comparison shot.
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I wasnt teased at all by that sign telling me you need Windows to watch the trailer. They should smack the idiot who sold them their media server upside their head and demand support for a usable format like mpeg, rm or just about anything that isnt highly obscure.
HTTP/1.1 400
yea i too watched the dvd because the hype and was dissapointed. it is really just a bunch of cliches in an absurd universe running through rather thin plots with paper thin characters who try to make up for lack of substance with witty remarks. it was rather dissapointing to say the least. nothing original or ground breaking about it. just a politically correct cast tones of cowboy bebop... but without the style and believability:P the movies not much better. firefly is on par with other cheesy cheap and tacky scifi like andromeda or such. truely good scifi is not absent at all right now, theres battlestar galactica which has been very good for two seasons already.
and it shows you something how the movie opened so poorly. the geek fanboys keep whining and whining but the dvd series has been out for 2 years already. the early screenings were done months ago. how much word of mouth and hype does a movie need? even with the geek turn out the movie actually dropped on each day of its release weekend. there was no friday to saturday jump as is usual. and all the geek turn out could muster was that pathetic showing. it got beat by 50% by a mediocre jodie foster movie on its second week. and now they are just grasping at straws.
i think the josh wedon cult has broken a new record for zealous geeks desperatly using the net in a vain effort to change opinion on a film. just look at the amazon.com reviews. its flooded by the fanboy posts, hundreds. they even took the time to vote down the more level headed reviews. and they've done the same with the yahoo movie rating. they just don't know when to stop. they are just creating a massive distortion that leads to many people being dissapointed. and i'm sure many who got the dvds pushed on them just were left asking wheres the beef.
It's using on2's VP7 codec, but it's a custom container of some kind.e s/?id=254
http://www.on2.com/company/news-room/press-releas
video direct download
I've got the codecs installed but not even mplayer can deal with it.
right on every point. predictable poor plots, cliche for characters, simplistic, absurd, stupid ship that looks like a chicken, and sh*t dialog. fox did us a favor by killing off this dud.
the dvds been out for 2 years, the show is even older. thats quite a bit of time for the geeks to spread the word, yet each and every day of the piss poor opening was worse then the day before. its time to give up. frankly i think more people would have gone to see it if they had not been turned off by watching the dvd series and being sorely dissapointed lol:)
Yes - Pyxis was a Sony GPS reciever - I have one sitting right here.t /Praktikum/Pyxis.jpg
Here's a picture of one http://ivvgeo.uni-muenster.de/Vorlesung/GPS_Scrip
It's also something else that was in the movie.
It was a joke.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
IFilm now has the first nine minutes available in three other formats: streaming Windows Media, QuickTime and Real Player
Are those more accessible to your OS?
Yes I expect this applies less to people working in areas of IT but I bet it is still more the vase than not. So choosing a neutral (standard) format probably just wasn't an issue that crossed anyones mind.
How is this "flamebait"?
No only it uses a plugin, it also uses VBS.
http://video.google.com/jslib/misc.vbs contains:
Function VBGetSwfVer(i)
on error resume next
Dim swControl, swVersion
swVersion = 0
set swControl = CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." + CStr(i))
if (IsObject(swControl)) then
swVersion = swControl.GetVariable("$version")
end if
VBGetSwfVer = swVersion
End Function
The question here is: Why does it actually *work* in Firefox?? I thought i disables windows scripting host, and firefox does only true javascript...
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Why does it come that in "medium quality" this thing looks better than an SVCD in full screen??
;)
:)
On a 2048 kb/s DSL line? Impressing!
With a java app? Would be even more impressing, if it would not use some lame dll that my firewall warns me about*.
Does anyone know the internal format?
Btw: Space is pause. In case you have to go to the toilet.
* I have the Agnitum Outpost firewall. Prety sure the best windows FW out there.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
First of all, the MPAA isn't against movies being given away on the internet. They're for the makers of the movies having the control over whether or not they are given away on the internet.
When the makers give away 9 minutes of this movie, they're advertising.
When you steal someone's movie from them, you are not "helping them advertise". Okay?
Second, if the MPAA was going take notice of this, they would have taken notice when it was done before. There have been several movies where they gave away the first 9 minutes on www.apple.com/quicktime (or whatever it is) as a publicity stunt. I believe the first one was Super Troopers. And it worked greet for them, BTW. That movie made more money at the box office than a small-time comedy like that would have otherwise (IMHO).
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/20/95
It's now up on iFilm in WMP and QT formats. So that should solve all troubles.
For slashdotters "available online" means a link starting with http:/// or ftp:// and ending in .wmv or .mov or .avi or .mpg (or the newcomer .torrent). KISS.
True story: William Shakespeare wrote The Merchant of Venice because a wealthy patron wanted a play that was like Marlowe's The Jew of Malta.
sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});
Here's a version that (I am told) is viewable under Linux:
t v=12&htv=12&htv=12&htv=12
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2681478?htv=12&h
Here's a version that (I am told) is viewable under Linux:
t v=12&htv=12&htv=12&htv=12
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2681478?htv=12&h
Oops. Screwed up my cut-and-paste on that last one. Here's a corrected link:
t v=12&htv=12&htv=12
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2681478?htv=12&h
It appears that you are the one that needs to be straightened out. Interstellar travel is not shown because traveling outside the solar system would effectively cut off that ship from the rest of civilization for many, many years. In a relatively dense solar system, these kinds of delays are avoidable.
Firefly is actually one of the MOST realistic shows because it does not conviently introduce the extremely implausible/impossible concept of FLT travel without time dialation. Warp drive, hyperspace, worm holes and jump gates are fairly unscientific plot devices almost always used without considering the theoretical consequences (such as the fact that you CANNOT posses FLT travel without also possesing time travel. This is blatantly obvious to anyone with a basic understanding of Special and General Relativity. No, you can't get around this via wormholes or some such nonsense. If wormholes warp spacetime enough to allow you to effectly travel faster than light, then they also warp it enough to allow you to go back in time.)
The solution to your problem is rather straightforward: the original settlers of the solar system came here on interstellar ships. They either used some form of hibernation, lived their lives normally (with perhaps many generations living and dying on the spacecraft, if the distance was very great), or they traveled at high Relativistic speeds, completing the journey in mere hours/days/months (from THEIR point of view--in the rest of the universe, hundreds or thousands or millions of years might have passed.) The reason why you don't see any ships using this same interstellar tech is because it would mean cutting themselves off from the rest of civilization (and cutting themselves out of the main storyline in the process.)
Btw, there's nothing to indicate that the colony ships carried hundreds of millions of people. I don't believe that Joss has given any indication as to how much time has passed--for all we know, only a few hundred colonists made it to the new solar system.
not as good quality but it will play on virtually anything, here:o v
http://download.ifilm.com/qt/portal/2681479_300.m
Using firefox I was about to find out the filename after it interpreted all that javascript for me. These are the 300K quicktime ones:
? e=1128865200&h=d3950f00de4368120de7f5c268a3ae3fe =1128865200&h=506b32a69c83686efac27d14a6f3bad4
http://secure.ifilm.com/qt/portal/2681479_300.mov
http://secure.ifilm.com/qt/portalnav/getnext.mov?
I'm one of those who completely missed the "Firefly" series...
(working too hard, i guess)
but I saw the movie "Serenity" last week, and liked it.
a lot.
On Saturday, I decided to purchase the "Firefly" box-set.
and now I've seen the first 4 episodes of that.
I'm really enjoying this. It is well made and engaging.
This is the first time I have ever purchased a box-set like this.
I disagree with those who say the movie doesn't work unless you've
first seen the show. I found the movie quite easy to follow.
In fact, it might even be better to watch the series *after* seeing
Serenity.
As for the gripe about the word "galaxy" - I just look at that as
a slang term for their star system. Why not call it a galaxy?
That is quite in character with the show's tounge-in-cheek dialog.