"Serenity"--a gun slinging libertarian western in space (SPOILERS)

[jason10mm]

My guess for future Firefly events is that Zoe is pregnant with Wash's baby and one of Book's young adult kids comes a'callin.

I was initially VERY upset with Wash dying, but since it would be pretty easy to introduce another comic relief character that can also serve as plot extrapolation (Wash's primary job for the writers, along with Simon), this would give Zoe a lot more room to grow. I do think this is probably all the forward movement we will see for Firefly. I can see books and comics having adventures set within the series timeframe, but nothing after the movie till Joss personally takes it up again. But I'm gonna do my best to help them hit that magic 80 million B.O. and see it again this weekend.

As for the firearms, I think they kept the slug guns making those wimpy laser sounds. I wish they would officially decide what the hell those things shoot.v At least the Starship Troopers guys didn't make an appearance As for that AAA cannon, all we saw was them taking it off the top of the ship, who knows where it went after that! Though I suppose if Mal wanted a cannon on the Serenity he would have armed it long ago.

 

[Rob1035]

saw it again this afternoon, just too much fun

 

[Carl N. Brown]

gotta love it

I went to post a review of Serenity on the IMDb site.
The IMDb movie data base already has 396 reviews of
Serenity and 8,004 voters rate it 8.6 on a scale of 10.

To think that a few months ago I saw a thread on
The High Road title "Guns of Firefly" and asked myself
Firefly, wasn't that a series I missed on Fox? Thank
you High Road.

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Added: never watched "Buffy" or "Angel" so viewed
the fight sequences with River on their own: fighting a
psychic who has combat training? Bad way to die.

 

[Rob1035]

yup, I noticed the very good ratings on IMDB as well, #136 on the top rated list, not too shabby...

$10.1 million for the weekend, how good or bad is that?

 

[ckyllo]

it looks like it came in 2nd place, had a income of $10.1 million. hope it makes the $40 mil mark to get another one made.

 

[ScorpioVI]

New bumper sticker:

Guns don't kill people. Jayne kills people.

 

[Dr.Rob]

Only if they had it comin'... or if he thought they had it comin'... or if he got paid enough... still he don't eat people.

"Gee, wouldn't it be lucky if we say had some grenades!"

"Please tell me you brought them this time!"

I can't think of the pre-heist scene in Serenity where Jayne is just dripping guns without thinking of some of you... and you know who you are.

 

[Skofnung]

What a great flick. My only quibbles are as follows:

1) Mal not shooting the operative in the face the second time around. That just seemed so... un-Mal like.

2) Simon seemed more "badass" than I would have imagined him when he rescued River.

3) The Reavers looked too much like Uruk-Hai. Not that Uruk-Hai look bad...


All things considered, it is the best movie I have seen in quite some time.
I will go again this week sometime.

 

[joedimaster]

As for the lounge room outside the infirmary someone mentioned, that was one of the most redesigned parts of the ship. The lounge off the dining room was a little different too, I think, but they never spent much time there on the show. What I missed was the passenger dorms, which just didnt really come up.

I'll see if I can find a picture of that gun I mentioned.
Edit - here, this is a bit blurry, but anyway.

 

[Flyboy]

Apparently, Joss just likes to kill off characters. He did it a lot in Buffy and Angel, it seems.

It's not just that he wants to kill characters; yes, a lot of people get dead, and it seems senseless, but it's always a balancing act, a counter to something good happening. In this case, they'd just escaped both the reavers and the Alliance; Wash's life was the price of that victory. If you go back and watch Buffy and Angel, the same thing happens: every victory comes with a price. It keeps things grounded, rather than having the whole world hunky-dorey at the end of the episode.

Also, unless the six or eight of us were all seeing things, Mr. Universe's fembot was none other than Sarah Michelle Gellar. IMDB is telling no tales, though.

 

[ZeroX]

It's not just that he wants to kill characters; yes, a lot of people get dead, and it seems senseless, but it's always a balancing act, a counter to something good happening. In this case, they'd just escaped both the reavers and the Alliance; Wash's life was the price of that victory. If you go back and watch Buffy and Angel, the same thing happens: every victory comes with a price. It keeps things grounded, rather than having the whole world hunky-dorey at the end of the episode.

Also, unless the six or eight of us were all seeing things, Mr. Universe's fembot was none other than Sarah Michelle Gellar. IMDB is telling no tales, though.

Naaaaaahhh.

 

[Rob1035]

i can't find an actress listing for the fembot anywhere, maybe it was a real robot?

 

[ScorpioVI]

Lenore (fembot) is played by Nectar Rose.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0741592/

 

[raz-0]

I think the pistol is the sp-21 with some bondo on the grip and a cowling attached to the tac-rail.

I'm basing this on some scenes in the movie where you see the gun from the side. But it is hard to see throughout the movie.

 

[Razor]

I posted another pic of River's pistol on pg 10 of the Guns of Firefly thread. I'm not sure what it is.

 

[JShirley]

Just watched it again. Maybe better the 2nd time.

John

 

[enfield303]

Saw it last night. Bloody WOW!

 

[M-Rex]

I posted another pic of River's pistol on pg 10 of the Guns of Firefly thread. I'm not sure what it is.

It's a 1911 of some sort, with a few doo-dads added to it. In that pic, the safety, slide release, and front barrel bushing are clear.

 

[Justin]

It appears to have a full-length dust cover as well, which is what has me thinking it might be an STI.

 

[wingnutx]

one of Book's young adult kids comes a'callin.

Book has no children, or so he tells both Kayle and a tout for another ship at the beginning of the first episode.

 

[Cosmoline]

I love Jayne's discussion of how he's different from the Reavers because he only kills in self defense. And if he knows the other guy is going to kill him. And if he's being paid. Etc.

 

[Rob1035]

I'm with the Book=Operative thing, although I liked the theory about him being an Alliance commander at the Battle of Serenity too...

 

[enfield303]

Where can I find some backstory about Serenity Valley? Anybody got the story on what all happened there?

 

[Cosmoline]

The end of the battle is at the start of the pilot episode. The sense I got was that Mal was holding the line on tactical high ground with everything he had, losing almost all his men, in the hopes that a promised reserve force was about to come. What arrived instead were huge Alliance troop ships.

 

[Strings]

Well... kinda. He hadn't lost all his forces yet, or even most. The feeling I got (from both the included scene, and the deleted) was that they could've won had the Independants' air support showed up. The Indy Generals though, decided to withdraw (and there's some suggestion that right after was when they surrendered), leaving Mal's forces on the ground. For several weeks, without aid of any kind. This is when Mal's faith got lost...