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Yes, Serenity should be a great movie. I bought the DVD set, seen it several times, and loaned it out to friends and have hooked them. I think I'll be leaving work early the day it comes out to catch it. I also hear that it was a 3 movie contract, so there are going to be 2 other movies after this. I would love it to come back as a TV series.

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Word from Adam and Nathan is that the 2 follow-up movies depend on Serenity making $80 million domestic. As to back on TV, when Universal bought the rights from Fox, there was a stipulation that Universal wouldn't be allowed to put it on TV for 7 years (I think...). Funny they would cancel it as being a loser and then prohibit anyone else from putting it on TV. Anyway, this info is pretty much dependable (if you can believe what the actors are saying).

Oh, and Adam donated all the money he made from Dragon*Con to help Katrina victims.

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Well even if the movie is bad, I will still go see it twice just to help put a dent in that 80 million dollars.

Fox is just evil.... they really are when it comes to shows and selling the rights. If we don't like it and don't want to run it, then NO ONE should. Selfish jerks!

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7 years? Well, it's on the Sci Fi channel now, they've been replaying the original episodes for several weeks. Maybe it's the movie that can't go on TV for 7 years?

Still, I will have to watch it several times too, to ensure it makes 80+ mil. I think it will, there are lots of closet Firefly fans. Yes, Fox was crazy to cancel the series.

I wouldn't mind going to any *Con event, if I knew the cast would be there. Hmmm, to see the cast in person, that would be cool.

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Yeah, I've really had it with Fox. I mean, they almost canceled (the series) 24 about halfway through the first year...and now look.

It's such a rare event that fans can make so much noise that a company decides to buy the rights and make a movie that another (small) video company is making a documentary of how the fans help bring the movie back to life (and a lot of other stuff that happened between canceling of the show and the making of the movie). The site is here.

Wifey and I were interviewed as Firefly/Serenity fans, signed a release, and were told we may or may not be on the DVD they are releasing. The DVD will contain all the footage from several "cons" where the cast showed up. We've already ordered ours. The guy who owns the company (a really nice guy named Jeremy) was also in the movie (a bald-headed monk...LOL). He's done a lot to promote the movie gaining life as well.

And speaking of being in movies, the cast was so amazed by the fans that they approached Universal about letting the Firefly fans be extras in the Serenity movie. As a result, Universal said, "if you can get to the studio, we'll use you as extras in scenes". So, we met several people at the con who were in the movie, had photos to share, and stories to tell about the cast that were interesting...LOL...like the time some of them got caught peeping through the bushes onto the set at the Universal lot.

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I rented Hitchhikers Guide to the the Universe and I have to honestly say this: I am very relieved that I never read the book. After seeing the movie, nearly two hours of my life that I will never get back, I am estatic that I never wasted my time to read such a tripely written, contrived, poorly humored, peace of [censored] lititure. If I am alone in my opinion, then so be it. I can live the knowledge that I have been spared the honor of having read such a widely loved book.

I found the movie to be utterly STUPID and demanded my money back from Block Buster and was granted instore credit. I have never before been so utterly put off by a movie that I returned it the same day, within hours of renting it, demanding my money back. I would sit through a 100 xXx State of the Unions rather than watch another second of that movie. I say burn the negatives, the DVD's and the VHS. Hell BURN THE BOOK!

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Yeah, the movie wasn't very good. I didn't think it was as bad as you said it was, but maybe that's just because I got more of the 'in' jokes from reading the books.

If you don't like British humour (eg Monty Python), you won't like the books. I think part of the reason the movie wasn't good was because it tried to move British-style jokes into a more American context of slapstick. British humour is not slapstick. So, there wasn't much wit, and the rest of it was subpar anyway, so... bad movie.

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I would defend the Hitchhikers books, but I don't think AT would like them. They are massively better than the film and an excellent read, but if you hated the film that much it's going to colour your viewpoint so much there's no point.

After the LoTR films I decided I probably should read the books. My god I thought they were terrible, and that was from a film I really liked. But that could just be me.

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I will conceed that books are ALWAYS better than the movies they spawn, well except for Star Trek V, that was just bad both ways.

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Dear god alive they did a book of that?

They only good thing about V was Scotty's
"I know this ship like the back of my hand." and then walking into a girder.