Serenity DVD [SPOILERS]

[Hijinks]

I find it somewhat difficult to believe that Inara could be completely clueless about how to use a gun but skilled with a bow (especially being around types like Mal and Jayne, who definately like their guns). It's even harder considering that becoming a good shot with a bow is harder than becoming a good shot with a gun.

Hmm. I guess I didn't make myself clearer.

I never understood that Inara was "clueless" about guns, but that she preferred weapons that took style, finesse, and skill to use. Any idiot can shoot a gun and with luck hit a target, but a bow requires much practice and innate skill to use well. Inara is not a thug. She is not going to use a brute force weapon. She's going to use a weapon that suits her, rather than a weapon that necessarily might work better.

Why does Wolverine of the X-Men use claws instead of a gun? Because the claws are him, not because they're better in a fight.

I, personally, think it's silly to expect everyone to use what YOU consider to be the perfect weapon, just because it has the best chance of success. We don't know what weapon she was using, frankly, only that it appeared to be a bow. I thought it suited her character very well, and I do not expect fictional characters in movies to only do the most practical thing every single time. I LIKED the bow, because it suited her character, even if I don't particularly like her character (which I don't), and that's all that matters to me.

*shrug*

 

[Dark Jezter]

Any idiot can shoot a gun and with luck hit a target, but a bow requires much practice and innate skill to use well. Inara is not a thug. She is not going to use a brute force weapon. She's going to use a weapon that suits her, rather than a weapon that necessarily might work better.

I'm sorry, but while bows do require lots of practice to use well, the notion that any idiot can be good with guns and that they're a "thug" weapon is downright absurd.

Why does Wolverine of the X-Men use claws instead of a gun? Because the claws are him, not because they're better in a fight.

In a close-quarters battle like the fight at the end of Serenity, Wolverine's claws would be a lot more useful than a bow.

I, personally, think it's silly to expect everyone to use what YOU consider to be the perfect weapon, just because it has the best chance of success.

Would you use a shotgun against a tank? Would you use a javelin (the throwing spear, not the guided antitank missile) against a helicopter gunship? You you use a sword against a machine gun nest?

Inara's choice of a using a bow to defend against a close-quarters human wave assault was more than just slightly-less-than-optimal. It was completely devoid of common sense or any logic whatsoever. Anybody who would endanger themselves and their comrades like that just to make a fashion statement dosen't earn much respect in my book.

 

[Joker]

I really did like the movie. It was fun and simply an enjoyable thing to watch.

What I especially like (besides the assasin) is the space battle. I really got the feeling of it being a space battle with three dimensions. Most films with space battles emphasize the horizontal. Take the last SW flick. The battle in the beginning. It was like they were in the water. The broadside cannons didn't help much, either .

 

[Dagger75]

The novelization of the movie described companions as training in bows. Zen like and all that crap. Considered a high society weapon, like a sword.

 

[Jeremy]

Hawkeye feels that the bow is a great weapon in any situation.

Of course, I've seen him die twice lately. But only one of those times would having a gun have helped him.

But in a situation where people are coming to rape, kill, skin, and eat you (hopefully in that order--er, put kill first).. They're banging at the door, you've got no hope of survival... I gotta imagine that's gotta be a little unnerving. Maybe a bow ain't the smartest choice of weapon, but breaking cover and charging the door with a shotgun that only has 4 shells in it wasn't too bright either. And that was done by the career military one.

The bow afforded her a sense of .... hee hee... serenity as that's the kind of weapon it is, it harkens back to her elegant training not in killing, banditry, and siege warefare but in calligraphy, archery, poetry, and whoring.

Oops. Don't know how that last one got in there.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Maybe a bow ain't the smartest choice of weapon, but breaking cover and charging the door with a shotgun that only has 4 shells in it wasn't too bright either. And that was done by the career military one.

I too was a little suprised that a former career soldier like Zoe would do such a stupid thing, but I just attributed it to a desire for vengeance (the reavers did just kill her husband, after all) overriding her good judgement.

 

[Jeremy]

Yup. People have their limits. What Joss did to Zoe far exceeded hers. And she had quite a high threshold. Ask Niska.

 

[Dark Psion]

My one complaint is that the best line in the movie is in the deleted scenes.

Mal and the Operative's chat is longer and as Mal goes back into the ship;

"What a Whiner!"

 

[Eosin the Red]

My one complaint is that the best line in the movie is in the deleted scenes.

Mal and the Operative's chat is longer and as Mal goes back into the ship;

"What a Whiner!"

LMAO on that one.

 

[Hijinks]

Any idiot can shoot a gun and with luck hit a target

the notion that any idiot can be good with guns and that they're a "thug" weapon is downright absurd.

Hmm. I never said "shoot a gun well," i.e. be "good" with a gun. Oh well. You took what you wanted from it. *shrug* I do believe guns are thug weapons compared to bows or knives. That's my personal opinion. Kindly respect it.

I too was a little suprised that a former career soldier like Zoe would do such a stupid thing, but I just attributed it to a desire for vengeance (the reavers did just kill her husband, after all) overriding her good judgement.

I personally think she briefly was trying to commit suicide, then came to her senses. Perhaps the shock of the wound jarred her back to reality and she gave up any notion of a noble throwing-oneself-on-one's-sword, which would also be a tie-in to the Operative.