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Serenity Trounces Star Wars
DogBotherer writes "The BBC is reporting that the film Serenity has been voted the number-one Sci Fi film of all time. Serenity is a followup to the series Firefly. The 2005 film beat out Star Wars better than two-to-one for the top honors. This result came in a poll of 3000 readers of SFX magazine.
Thing I can't understand is, who on earth voted for Star Wars?!
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Blade Runner is a convoluted mess of crap, with all the watchability of a movie-adaptation of the 2006 Congressional Budget. I'm sorry, but I'm no Blade Runner fanboy.
The movie was in love with itself, a marriage of endless scenes of dreary, dirty, rainy dystopian insanity and a plot that made the final 10 minutes of 2001 seem easy-to-follow by comparison. You and others equate this style of writing and directing with high-brow Sci-Fi, but the rest of us know it as utterly, utterly boring tripe.
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1) The whole "western in space" setting. (just doesnt make sense at all, no matter how you try to justify it)
2) The reavers. Those guys wouldnt be able to keep _cars_ running. "rocket science" as a qualifier anyone? Spacesfleets are a bit maintainance intensitive.
3) River. Would fit perfectly in dragonball Z, though. Or in a fanfic called "mary sues space adventures".
Those three together really tortured my suspension of disbelieve to death. While i acknowledge that the movie had intersting scenes/ideas, its impossible to take it serious in any lenghts.
Contrast this with the blind zealotry of serenity fans ("You dont like firefly/serenity? Easy, its just because you are too stupid!!11" (just read the IMDB forums...)).
All together it leads to a (a bit knee-jerk, but still justified) "i wont touch this shit again" reaction on my side.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
i hate to disapoint you, but the gp is correct.. serenity was a hyped up bad scifi-movie.. and i've seen a lot of them.. i laughed hard when i saw the article headline.. that movie sucks.. the series was ok.. somewhat lame in the last episodes.. but still.. nowhere near Blade Runner, Star Wars, Aliens or other great movies.. :D
i find your lack of faith in science disturbing!
Apparently some people got drank enough not to realize that April fools is over. How can one seriously consider Serenity as number 1 Sci-Fi film ? I'm not a big Star Wars fan, but Serenity just sucks.
All true (exaggerations aside), but nevertheless, Serenity was a work of art and Star Wars a piece of shit (unless you treat it as a movie for kids, which it actually was. In that case it's a decent one). Serenity won't be talked about in mainstream media, but people with good taste will remember it fondly and recommend it to future generations, and it would probably still be enjoyed by fringe audiences for at least as long as the original Star Wars movies will last.
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