Any One Going To Go See Serenity?

[Atrocities]

NullAshton said:
Why does that sound too much like Farscape? The whole 'people are stuck on a starship running from stuff' plot, with someone trying to shoot them down/kill them/torture them...

By the way, Sci-Fi is showing a 'new' series called Firefly, with pretty graphical effects. Wonder if the two are related...

I think your not following the concept Null. This show IS nothing like Farscape. In fact they are so vastly differant that to compare them would be like comparing Little House On The Prairy to Star Wars.

Firefly was a FOX series back in 2000 I believe. It was cancelled after only 13 episodes, which is something that FOX is well known for.

[Gozra]

I saw the movie twice and it was great each time. It had my wife cussing at one or two points. Both of us are Serenity fans and watched the series. I will be seing it a third time if I can help it. the only thing I did not like was they had to rush everything. I would have liked to have seen the first episode on the big screen followed by the movie.
'Lord of War' is an antigun film that shows how stupid the antigun people are.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Uh-oh...

[Slynky]

Wifey and I will be going again today! Will be the first movie I've ever seen twice at the theatre.

[Joachim]

Yep, just did - it is most fine. We had to re-watch all of Firefly in the last two weeks so we could go see the movie.

'You can't take the sky from me'.....

[Fyron]

I found it bizarre that there was Chinese writing all over everything, but there were no Asians anywhere in the movie... Maybe the odd one in a big crowd, but that was it.

It was a descent movie. The acting was iffy at times, and the plot was often predictable, but overall it was not bad.

Going to the theater yesterday reminded me why I do not go to the movie theaters anymore... Yay for paying $7.50 (for a matinee!) to be bombarded with ads that tell me to come even earlier so I won't miss the ads they just told me I missed! And they say file trading is why movie ticket sales are down...

[Slynky]

Imperator Fyron said:
I found it bizarre that there was Chinese writing all over everything, but there were no Asians anywhere in the movie... Maybe the odd one in a big crowd, but that was it.

I can't remember why it is (without loading up my DVD of Firefly) but Joss explained why he wanted some "bastardized" version of Chinese as some sort of "throwback" language the characters used when upset or frustrated. It seemed to make sense (but I forgot what it was).

As to acting, I think Nathan did a good job. Everyone else seemed adequate except for Summer's performace which I found to be in-character quite well.

Even seeing it the second time at the theatre (to help with weekend sales), I found myself on the edge of my seat quite a bit (though I knew what was going to happen).

[Alneyan]

The Companion looked kind of Asian to me, but I am *very* poor in the "look at someone and figure out something (age, origin...)" department.

Other than that, it is a matter of politics I think: there is an Anglo-Chinese alliance, so it seems natural that some Chinese phrases would become widely used in English (I cannot speak about the movie, but I know there are more than a few such phrases in the series).

[Slynky]

Alneyan said:
The Companion looked kind of Asian to me, but I am *very* poor in the "look at someone and figure out something (age, origin...)" department.

Morena Baccarin was born in Rio de Janeiro (sp.?) Brazil.

Like to see a photo of me with my arm around her?

[Alneyan]

Braggart.



I should have checked her name *before* posting. Well, the original inhabitants of America are said to come from Asia, so, you know... Point taken.