Rate Serenity

[Welverin]

It was better without music, but it's still good.

 

[Silver Moon]

the movie I base all my opinions on is The Shawshank Redemption. If I feel a movie is as good as that, I give it a ten. Needless to say, I haven't felt we've had a ten movie in a while.

Well, IMO if Shawshank Redemption is your standard I'd say you'll only find a ten once every decade or so, as I consider that one of the best movies ever made.

I'd give Serenity a solid 7, possibly an 8.

 

[Fast Learner]

I liked it much more with the right music. They managed to get me worked up over stuff in the second viewing, even though I knew what was going to happen, and I give the music a lot of credit for that.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Just got back from a second viewing, and if I had to rate Serenity again, I'd definitely give it a 10 this time. Even better secondhand.

I think it was just the shock of the first time that dropped it to a 9, really.

 

[Zander]

Definately can't wait to see it again, though I wonder how the crowd reactions would be if the theater had folks who hadn't seen the series... Would people who went into this cold have gotten as much out of it?

I went in so cold that I didn't know until reading this thread that there was a TV series or associated comics.

Although I enjoyed the film and understood what was going on, I felt after seeing it (and before discovering this thread) that too much was packed into the movie and that there was more to the setting and characters that needed to be explained. It's not that you couldn't follow the plot line or character development without it, it's more a feeling that the film was 'choppy' or 'bitty' with too many interesting ideas that weren't fully explored.

I suspect I would have liked it a lot more with additional background material. I gave it a 6.

I did find the somewhat realistic dialogue refreshing.

 

[amethal]

Finally saw the film yesterday.

I really enjoyed it, and it was perfectly easy to follow even though I've never seen so much as a trailer for Firefly. I gave it an 8. I love the dialogue in particular. (Its what makes Buffy watchable for me, which is handy because my wife is a fanatical Buffy fan.)

I'm looking forward to watching Firefly, then watching the film again. It might get a higher mark from me next time round.

 

[Shard O'Glase]

I'm litterally boggled by the high reviews this keeps getting, especially from firefly fans. Virtually all the good lines were in the comercials, so maybe if I'd gone in blind it would of been better but it just wasn't that great. It's like 3 connected below average episodes of firefly whoose ramifications make me never want to see another movie. The only way I'd see anymore firefly is if the first scene of the next movie they snap rivers neck and she's dead. I thought it looked worse, I didn't lile the mods to the ship, or the costumes for example. But hey there were good lines, some good action, and a good story for most of the movie, though there were some story elements that were flat out bad. But really what wrecks the movie for me is how some things were resolved makes every furture movie a world of suck ass.

This is what it feels like to e in D&D terms. Your playing a forgotten realms campaign you get you characters up to 10th level and the DM says here's a new NPC that will be tagging along you may recognize him its elminster it will be fun having him solve all the problems, don't worry I'll occasionally write in a part where he lets you shine.

But hey if you like super ninja, mechanic, pilot, mind reader, hot chick movies the next movies will be for you.

 

[Mark Chance]

Like everything Whedon writes: trite, fairly predictable, flash over substance with tissue thin characterization. I should've gone to see Wallace and Gromit instead.

Still, with all of that said, Serenity was bucket-loads better than RotS.

 

[Neo]

I saw it and really enjoyed it, personally I hope they make more..

Only had one disappointment for me.. but that was more a personal preference than a flaw with the film..

All in all thought it was very good

 

[Rel]

Saw it yesterday, and I give it a 9. I thought this was a GREAT movie and it's been a long time since I saw a GREAT movie (probably The Incredibles was the last one).

My only other comment is that this whole linear 1-10 rating system for movies has got to go. Are we not D&D geeks?! We need a 3-18 bell curve rating system!