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Yes, I was a lucky bastard and saw it last time at the Prescreening in Albany. Serenity is freaking amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you loved Firefly you'll definitely love Serenity. I also took a friend who hadn't (wouldn't) seen Firefly but I got him to go to the prescreening (free food always works). He went in as a skeptic sort of knowing he would hate it but came out telling me "...this is the best movie I ever seen..." And he had never even seen Firefly. That has to tell you something.

A word to the warning: Serenity starts up and doesn't let go. It doesn't give you time to breath. It is scary, sad, extremely funny, packs in a lot of action, but at the same time stays true to the characters and the heart of the show.

This is one of the best movie I have ever seen putting aside my Browncoat. I'll post a more spoilery review and more details later but I have to work this morning.

I can't wait to see the Final Cut. For the most part is seems everything is in place. This movie was color corrected, all the CGI was there (the other two screening seemed to not be color corrected and CGI was missing at parts from what I hear). The only thing needed is the music to be place which from hearing music at the beginning and at the end that seems to be Firefly like but not quite it sounds to be good.

Ah, I can't stop writing. I'll be back later or I'll be late for work.

Yeh, really lucky guy!

Is it just me or does anybody else not have a clue what Serenity or Firefly is?

I know what Firefly is...but for Serenity I dont have a clue.

Firefly is like space cowboys . They fly around in ther ship tieing people to railroads and stuff...

I find it amusing that he misspelt the title of this thread...

The Surly Cantrian wrote:I find it amusing that he misspelt the title of this thread...

he was probably to excited...

@McManus:

Serenity is the movie coming out in theaters that is a follow up to the tv series, Firefly. The TV show ended without any real closure. I think the movie is supposed to fill in that gap.

If you have spent any time on this forum and he hasn't been able to make you know what Firefly or Serenity is then you are...um....let me see....Oh, yes! This will describe it.

GINORMOUS TOOLS!!!

Fools?

Nixit wrote:Fools?

hmm, thats what i was thinking it should be...

seems nobody can spell right when it comes to serenity...


by the way, really... all you have to do is look in the forums... about every other thread is about Firefly, which is a good thing... firefly rocks!

Cookie Monster wrote:Yeh, really lucky guy!

Is it just me or does anybody else not have a clue what Serenity or Firefly is?

You'll soon hear about it. You Brits don't get Serenity until November. But the international trailer will be premiering at Comic Con.

Hell, the US Serenity Teaser Trailer has been out for over a month and it is just now starting to appear more often in front of movies.

Non-Fan Reviews of Serenity

http://www.drewprops.com/mt-weblog/turb ... yle(dynamo).php4&entryid=134

This week I attended a special screening of the film 'Serenity', the third such pre-release audience test screening to visit Atlanta in the last eight weeks. Based on the failed FOX network series 'Firefly', this movie represents a Very Big Thing to the world of science fiction fandom; one of the very few times that a cancelled television show is moved up to the silver screen with creator, cast and crew intact (think: Star Trek). Before the movie began there was a brief, pre-recorded introduction by the show's creator/director, Joss Whedon (aka Joyce Wilber, aka Jox Wheaty, aka Jake Wheelbarrow and any other other intentional mispronunciation I could think of to elicit wails of frustration from the man's fans).

In his introduction Jazz Wheedle artfully describes how utterly unlikely it was that this film could have ever gotten made. It is obvious that he loves his creation and that he is moved by the groundswell of fans who have supported a show that was dead before it even had a chance to live. Likening the show's fanbase to the brown coat wearing revolutionaries of the 'Firefly' universe, he issues a call-to-arms for all his faithful to help get the word out to the rest of the world, to the people who know nothing of the show. It's a modern sci-fi version of Jesus' "Great Commission" (Mark 16:15-16: "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel unto every person. He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned."). It's a great introduction to the film and a direct tribute to the fans.

And damned I'd be by those fans if I dared give this film a bad review. Fortunately (for me), I can't give this film ANY review because it's technically not yet finished. What I can do is to tell you that this movie has more heart than the last three Star Wars movies lashed together and dipped in hearty sauce.

The film, like the series, is based on the adventures of the crew of the small starship 'Serenity'. Captained by a veteran of a galactic civil war, the ship and its crew flit around the edges of the galaxy taking on petty jobs to survive - driven to this state by an all-powerful galactic government. Couched more in the style of 'Wagon Train' than Star Trek ever was, Whedon and his art department do a fine job of painting the outskirts of the galaxy like Indian Territory circa 1850 without dropping into lazy stereotypes or directly applied metaphors from the American West.

The speech patterns of the captain and some of his crew does smack of something akin to Amish-lite: the kind of way you speak when you're being proper, good and true. Contrasted against the citified lingo of the film's government officials it is endearing without being cloying or sounding like Yoda-speak. I did, however, at some point expect to see someone to pull out a banjo and sing a song about Tom Sawyer and the Exposition of 1880. I suspect the Jeb Weevil went aboard The Great American Freedom Train and exited the 1970's with that strange bicentennial fervor injected into the water system at the time.

I was very impressed with the look of the film, from cinematography to production design. The first five (probably more) minutes of the movie is one continuous steadicam move designed to simultaneously cover exposition and to provide us some geography and sense of scale for the size of the ship 'Serenity'. I've worked days where we set up for long steadicam shots and they're incredibly adventurous endeavors for every department, from the steadicam operator and his guardian grip to the boom operator sneaking along trying to keep the mouse out of shot. Fortunately this was shot on stage, so I expect that the electricians had more control on their pre-rig.

If Jars Whizzle shot this scene once he shot it twenty times.

As with Star Trek, the 'Firefly' universe is of course best appreciated by fans of the television series but not being one of those fans I am happy to say that the movie is emminently accessible by non-fans. The witty dialogue, the unexpected, non-formulaic actions by the characters and the pre-existing relationships by all involved work together to create something that the trainwreck called 'Andromeda' never accomplished, regardless of its (questionable) lineage from Gene Roddenberry's hand.

Will you leave this movie on September 30th (the release date) as a fan of 'Firefly'? You just might.

You'll certainly leave it with respect for Jaxx Windham's love for his baby and for his fans.

You might even leave it as a Brown Coat.

angelus wrote:

Nixit wrote:Fools?

hmm, thats what i was thinking it should be...

seems nobody can spell right when it comes to serenity...


by the way, really... all you have to do is look in the forums... about every other thread is about Firefly, which is a good thing... firefly rocks!

No, I meant to say Tools. It's a real slang term. At least it was in the 90s... Am I that old now?


Can't wait for the film to come out. I got got hooked on the the show long after it was gone.

Calling me a tool is a good way to make sure I never read the forums.

I didn't realize we cared one way or the other

But RKL: I can't wait for Serenity. I'm so pumped.

(RKL aka Serenity is the one to blame for me becoming a Browncoat)

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