Slashdot Mirror
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.
What the hell are you brits thinking!?
I thought SciFi had something to do with Science in a fictional sense, not fantasy in space...
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
What is Serenity?
Sorry. I don't mean to sound ignorant or anything. My wife says I already watch more than my fair share of Sci-Fi.
None of my friends ever spoke of it either.
Was this some special interest poll?
I would like to know if it was really good. Maybe I'll rent it.
I fell asleep when trying to watch Serenity (I got it from a friend [DivX] after reading about all the hype here in slashdot) and could not finish watching it... I was watching it with my girlfriend and she was just as bored as I was. And she BOUGHT the starwars trilogy (ep. 4, 5 and 6) DVD as she really likes it and I *love* science fiction (Asimov is my favorite author, I like Bradbury and I also liked Star wars, Star Trek, Darkcity, floor 13th and so far [gosh I even *kind of* liked Starship Troopers because it was set on the space]...
Having said that, I agree with the sentiment of some other people here who said that Serenity is just *another* scifi movie which will be remembered by some people but in no way will approach the fame of Star Wars. I think one of the differences is that, to make Star Wars Lucas needed to employ several new technology, be inventive and really think outside of the box while Serenity is just *another* Computer Graphics fest.
And using the analogy someone else has used I would say that:
Star Wars is to Windows as what
Serenity is to OpenBSD
Because only a handful of people think it is really good... I will say Linux is more akin to Star Trek
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'