Serenity...

[Spinward Scout]

Ok, I never watched Firefly on TV. After going to see Serenity tonite, I found out what I was missing. This movie ROCKED! You're going to be shocked, dismayed, and have a rip-roaring good time!

I'm not saying anything else,

Dameon

 

[mike wightman]

Keep spreading the word

Best film I've seen in ages

 

[zakrol]

It is excellent. Thoroughly recommended.

 

[grymlocke]

I regretted having to go pee in the middle...now I have to see it again for the minute I missed...

anyway, there was talk on another thread about tripping the rift, I can now link that show with serenity...

I starting traveller WAAAAY back in '79 in my second year of HS, then our traveller games WHERE 'tripping the rift', while Serenity/firefly left me thinking: now, "THATS traveller AS IT SHOULD BE PLAYED..."

ooh the differences a few decades make and countless HUNDREDS of crappy scifi that is just plain awful with a shallow story, 2-D characters and over played effects it is pleasing to find something put to screen that is as good as any paper-based (ie..a book) story that is just as exciting.....I think I would classify this movie as the equivelant of one of those books that would leave me reading in bed until 130-2ish in the morning....

 

[Klaus]

Serenity's almost the best film of 05.... Downfall pips it, methinks, and I expect Wallace and Gromit will hit every button, but it's stands head and shoulders above all the other big adventure movies, sci-fi or not. Hotdog magazine said in it's review that it was the best sf movie since The Matrix.

Having seen it 3 times now Serenity seems to be suffering a similar condition to Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars - the incredible shrinking spaceship. Serenity itself looks 25% smaller than in the tv show (most especially the cockpit and cargobay), just as did Moya (smaller doors and narrower corridors).

 

[Jame]

I've seen it now. I might see it again, if I can talk my parents into paying for it again.

Yes, it's Traveller, but more Solomani Confederation than 3I. Also, the Serenity is what I've always pictured Tl-9/10 to be, while the Alliance is always what I've pictured Tl12 to be (and it struck me that a lot of Tl15 advances should be put into Tl12...).

 

[kafka47]

For me, it depends one one's TU...I have also found it to be very remincent of the Solomani Confederation with one crucial exception that most overlook, the Browncoats are the Solomani and the Alliance represents the Imperium.

But, hey, I have always had a soft spot for the underdog and know the tendency of democracies to turn into tyrannies in history. Therefore, however, noble the 3I may have begun, it was destined to form a corrupt and nepotistic government that we see in the late CT/early MT era.

 

[BetterThanLife]

I felt it definitely didn't stand alone. If you hadn't seen the series there were dots that weren't connected. If you saw the series but didn't see the episodes that didn't actually air, there were still dots that weren't connected.

Fortunately I did manage to pick up the series on DVD before going to see the movie and along those lines the movie definitely was great and a must see. But I definitely don't think, because things were assumed that you knew from the series, that it will be as popular, mainstream, as something like "The Matrix."

Based on that, I place the chances of a sequel, as cool as that would be, as slim.

 

[stofsk]

Based on that, I place the chances of a sequel, as cool as that would be, as slim.

Stranger things have happened.

Granted, Hollywood is already a strange place...

 

[Straybow]

Can anyone say Highlander 2?? Highlander wasn't exactly boxoffice wildfire, and if a script that crappy can pass muster in Hollywood...

 

[archhealer]

Actually, a number of my friends who had never seen the series LOVED it, and while they had a couple of questions about the movie, they didn't fail to see much.

Two most frequently asked questions: "Who was the preacher guy?" and "Inara and Mal weren't together? What?"

 

[Uncle Bob]

Originally posted by Straybow:
Can anyone say Highlander 2?? Highlander wasn't exactly boxoffice wildfire, and if a script that crappy can pass muster in Hollywood...

Yeah, Highlander did so well that Hollywood produced a sequal, even though it was a steaming pile.

Without a good track record on "Serenity" they won't make a sequal no matter how good.

 

[Spud]

I have already heard of one instance where someone who had not been a fan went and bought the DVDs after seeing Serenity. Sure as I know anything, I know this: I'm buying 'Serenity: the DVD' ASAP. Aren't you? That will make for numbers too big to be ignored. There will be more.

 

[Falkayn]

I have a sneaking feeling that Santa (my wife in this case) might be including that set of DVDs in my Christmas stocking ... and I know she is interested in it having seen the movie.

 

[aramis]

I have not seen Serenity yet....

Last night, was talking about Trek & Firefly (which I had yet to see). The following needed to be shared with y'all:

S: "Trek was billed as Wagon Train in Space, but really it was PT-109 in space. Firefly, now that is Wagon Train in space!"

This prompted me to go purchase the Firefly DVD set....

Firefly is DEFINITELY a Traveller ATU.

 

[mike wightman]

Originally posted by Aramis:
I have not seen Serenity yet....

Last night, was talking about Trek & Firefly (which I had yet to see). The following needed to be shared with y'all:

S: "Trek was billed as Wagon Train in Space, but really it was PT-109 in space. Firefly, now that is Wagon Train in space!"

This prompted me to go purchase the Firefly DVD set....

Firefly is DEFINITELY a Traveller ATU.

Couldn't agree more

Now go and see the movie - oh, and try to pick up the rpg, there's some excellent ideas in it IMHO

 

[mike wightman]

And an update on the sales front, Serenity needs to make another $8.5million to break even with production costs.

Anyone know if Firefly was popular in Japan?

 

[Scarecrow]

Originally posted by Aramis:
...but really it was PT-109 in space.

WOW! That's really wierd. My wife was watching a clip of PT-109 yesterday and I happened into the room and chuckled, 'That looks like an episode of Star Trek' (meaning TOS).

Crow

 

[stofsk]

Originally posted by Aramis:
S: "Trek was billed as Wagon Train in Space, but really it was PT-109 in space. Firefly, now that is Wagon Train in space!"

I don't know what Wagon Train was, but if any comparison is to be made on TOS it is to Horatio Hornblower. That was the true inspiration behind the character of Kirk, and the actual setting of the starship Enterprise.

 

[jappel]

Sadly, some international fans aren't going to get to see Serenity in the theaters. In Argentina, Thailand, Taiwan and Brazil the distributors have pulled plans to show the film in theaters and instead will be going direct to DVD. Details can be found on the official Universal board (requires registration) here.

It will be released in Germany for sure; haven't scanned to see about the rest of Europe where it hasn't come out (in some cases, that date is two weeks or more away).

Hopes for a sequel or some other on-screen continuation are starting to dim, though we'll see how the DVD sales go.

-John