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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..."
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."
but man that *really* is some bad tv. You Firefly geeks have got to get out more (and not just to see Serenity).
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
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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.
You're an idiot. Go get the figures for desktop operating system market share.
Done that?
Apply half a brainpower to the figures you now have.
Windows is the majority. They made a player solution that the masses will use to watch the 9 minutes.
If you really can't accept than your OS isn't "compatible", then do us all a favour - buy a VMWare licence and stop whining. YOU chose to use Mr Free OS, YOU chose to ignore the 'standard', YOU chose to not watch this preview.
I said the same thing before, but with more reasons why so. It sucks. The characters are not well developed. Like the shepherd who is alive for 5 mins of the movie and is killed. I could feel no emotional bond between that character, the spaceship's captain and myself. Bad acting? Something else is wrong? I don't know, but I can't connect even slightly to the characters of that movie. It seemed like a bunch of boring nonsense.
:)
It amazes me to no end how much hype this movie is getting. It's mostly undeserved in my opinion, but whatever. Since when did my opinion mattered, eh?
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/
a large chunk of their target audience uses something other then Windows?
Define "large chunk." In real terms, we're probably talking about tens of thousands of people. If it's a hundred thousand, I'll eat my shoe. (And please don't tell me that Boonooboo Lunix was downloaded sixty-seven skrillion times in the past hour. Everybody knows that Linux runs primarily on servers, not PCs.)
Sorry, friend, but Linux users just don't count. They're statistically insignificant. They round down to zero.
Or, if you prefer, I could give you the standard Linux answer: If you want a Java runtime that can support this application, write one yourself!
(Snicker.)