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I know I'm dating myself but I really liked the Serenity movie. It had a lot of interesting ideas about the role of government and about governmental initiatives to "make people safer."

It's hard to discuss this movie without spoiling it, but I imagine most of the fans of the series have seen it already.

I hope that someone brings back firefly with Whedon at the helm again.
 
I also liked it, although a couple elements of the storyline surprised me. I won't say disappointed me, since they introduce some interesting possibilities.

I also liked the cultural and political elements of the short-lived series and the movie. A lot.

I'd be very surprised to see Whedon attempt, or even favor, bringing this back to the small screen. He's made comments that he would only consider further movies, and no return to a TV series ... but I'm sure that sort of thing could easily change depending on a different network and his control over production/direction.

I'd like to see the TV series return, but I can see how it might be able to maintain a better level of overall quality if it were to continue as a short series of theatrical releases ...
 
MINOR SPOILER!!!!




But he KILLED MAIN CHARACTERS!

I mean, I can respect that. but after only one season? we hardly knew them...

I miss them already....
 
In any case, I think that Whedon will continue to produce well received works of fiction, which is good. Judging from Serenity especially, there seems to be a huge streak of libertarianism and perhaps objectivism in his work.

The concept of an independent minded privateer as a good guy with a meddlesome and evil nanny-state as a bad guy isnt something you see on the big screen very much. The closest parallel I can think of would be the much less capably executed Star Wars series.
 
I never saw the series

but I really liked the movie, sort of the anti star trek I guess.
I really felt for the charaters, especially the girl who needed sex...I felt her pain & wanted to help her...
that lever action one of the girls had looked like a cut down guide gun or one of those alaska wild west thingy's.....

speaking of which what has happened to wildalaska?
 
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You owe it to yourself to rent the DVD set of the series and watch it in the proper order the episodes were really filmed. It provides for some good background on the characters, and lends a fuller flavor to the movie.

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I've read the DVD of the movie will be out December 20.

I believe the movie broke even (US sales + foreign sales +anticipated DVD sales). I don't know if that's good enough for a sequel or not. Maybe if enough people rent the DVD at Blockbuster somebody will figure that there's now an enlarged fan base, making a sequel a good risk.

Meanwhile ... as someone said, get the Firefly series DVD set.
 
I did a thread on the film after it came out:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=158825&highlight=Serenity

Better hurry if you want to see it in the theater. Box office on it has been so-so, but it should break even with foreign BO in the mix. The big money for this film will be in DVD sales, just like the series. It draws an older demographic than the teen idiots who are most frequently at the movie theaters these days.
 
You owe it to yourself to rent the DVD set of the series and watch it in the proper order the episodes were really filmed. It provides for some good background on the characters, and lends a fuller flavor to the movie.
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+1

You'll come away from it with much greater background detail and a lot more info about the 'evil' government and what they're up to.
 
Earlier this week I finally had a night to myself and though" I'm going to see the Serenity movie. Or, the Doom movie." Needless to say, they were way, way out of most theatres, and showing nowhere near.

You wait a few weeks to see what you want, and your chance is gone, man, gone!

-James
 
I missed the show when fox had it, and I believe fox has some sort of contract on any more shows for a long period of time so when it has been discussed before it was a general consensus that no more tv shows would be forth coming.

I think most folks said there could be a total of 3 movies already in the planning stages, serenity counts as the first one.

I saw the dvds a couple months ago and really liked them. I have yet to decide if I want my own set but I think I might buy them since they are relatively cheap compared to some tv dvd sets.

I will buy my own copy of the serenity the movie because I liked the movie.

I can strongly recomend the dvds if you liked the movie. The movie was a lot faster paced from what many people have posted, but the dvds were good and you learn a lot more about the back story and the characters.

I am strongly hoping the other movies get made. I went and saw the movie in the theater during its first week but I made sure to go early in the day when the place was almost empty.
 
Am I the only one who thinks the series and movie drew way too much adolescent sexual undertones from the Anime subculture? What is this fascination with teenagers of superhuman powers and overt sexuality? Frankly, many segments of the movie had really uncomfortable ambiguities of veiled perversion because of it.

Other than that I do agree it is nice to see a movie that shows what society might look like when gov grows too big and is entwined too closely with corp interests.

Still, the acting was weak (though not as weak as the new Star Wars movies) and many of the interpersonal conflicts seemed overstated and fake.
 
It does draw from Anime, esp. the excellent "Cowboy Bebop." But at heart it's a western, esp. the series. The film is somewhat more sexualized than the series, but I didn't find it that distracting. It was very mild compared with the positively pornographic stuff that gets foisted on us in the all-too-common "American Pie" style garbage. I saw no veiled perversion in "Serenity" or "Firefly."

I did miss the horses, though.
 
More specifics:

I read Serenity cost $39 million to make.

Well, according to this site

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2005&p=.htm

Serenity is so far 77th for year 2005 domestic sales

and according to this site

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2005&p=.htm

is 86th for year 2005 world wide sales, with a total of $36.3 million.

Assuming these numbers are confined to theater ticket sales, I would think DVD sales and DVD rentals would push them over the top of the $39 million, except I don’t know how much post-production costs are incurred by the studios, such as advertising, making the tapes, and distributing them to theaters.

I'm hopeful but not quite optimistic.
 
That's great!

I'm one that actually watched it when Fox had it on tv and garbled it up. I have the dvds for Firefly, and Serenity on order.

I know I sound like a broken record, but to me, Firefly was one of the best television programs I ever saw. Not just science fiction, but programs in general. It's one of the very very few that I've been watching over and over.
 
Of course, if Yoda were to make an appearance in the Firefly universe it wouldn't be long before Jayne bagged him and sold him off to the highest bidder. It's what I love so much about that show--it's the antithesis of the psycho-babble So Cal nonsense that Lucas has been spewing at us.
 
Yes, love the Yoda poster !

It amazes me just how many fans of Firefly/Serenity are out there.
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I don't get the feeling there are all that many, but the ones who are fans are zealots (like me).

If you look at my box office links, you'll notice that there are many movies that have sold many multiples more tickets than Serenity, even though those movies themselves weren't very good. Like Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The ads looked interesting so I went and saw it, but it was one the worst movie I've seen this year. I think it sold well because of its two stars, not because of any quality of the movie. I pretty much never choose a movie based on who is in it. (An exception: almost any Harrison Ford movie of the 1980s was very good, and I sought them out). Mainstream America, though, has a fascination with "stars", something which Serenity was short on.

Well, the Serenity DVD is due out in exactly one more month. It will be a welcome addition to my relatively small DVD set, because I'm already wearing out my Firefly DVD set.

I'm not a movie collector. I hate to fill up shelf space with DVD after DVD (or VHS), so I limit myself to buying movies that meet one (or more) of the following criteria: 1) a movie that I want to see many times; 2) a movie that I want to have on hand when friends or relatives are visiting; 3) a movie that, for whatever reason, is important to me. A very few movies meet all three criteria. Blade Runner comes to mind, and I think Serenity will also.
 
Yoda were to make an appearance in the Firefly universe it wouldn't be long before Jayne bagged him and sold him off to the highest bidder.
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I'll thank you to speak with a little more respect when you talk about the Hero of Canton! ;)

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I just watched Jaynestown and Our Mrs Reynolds again tonight and I have to say that I really cannot comprehend why they cancelled the show.

After a duel that Mal has just won and people are expecting him to finish the guy off:
Mal: mercy is the mark of a great man.
*stabs the guy lightly*
"I'm just a pretty good man."
*stabs him again*
"I guess I'm just all right."
*walks off*
 
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