Serenity takes Star War's crown!

[Plane Sailing]

Interesting to see that a recent poll of 3000 readers of SFx magazine put Serenity in the number 1 sport, just ahead of Star Wars in 2 and Blade Runner in 3

http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=43666&in_page_id=7&in_a_source=

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

...Joss Whedon is my master now.

 

[Mark CMG]

April 1st on the article's date?

 

[Umbran]

It is entirely plausible - recent films often rank higher on opinion polls than older ones. The question is whether they'll give them similar rankings 5 years from now.

 

[Plane Sailing]

It is entirely plausible - recent films often rank higher on opinion polls than older ones. The question is whether they'll give them similar rankings 5 years from now.

Exactly.

When my age you reach, look as good you will not is likely to be applicable here...

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

...Joss Whedon is my master now.

I would easily rank the collective Firefly TV shows and Serenity above the collective six Star Wars movies, but I would not go so far as to put Serenity above Episode IV in a head-to-head comparison.

I'm curious as to how the 3000 people polled were selected. Browncoats are very good at rallying to a call if it was by voluntary submission, such as an online poll or reader response card.

 

[jonathan swift]

Yeah, I don't see it lasting. I've now seen Serenity three times and each time I come away less impressed with the film. Episode IV however, actually the whole original trilogy, I've seen dozens of times each and they all still leave me feeling excited. Same with Blade Runner actually.

 

[Wystan]

I love Star Wars... Heck, I'm 33 and I still buy figures to open. But I have to say...I feel that the new 3 movies deadened Star Wars a bit for me. (And I fall asleep when watching E4 now... )

 

[Hand of Evil]

Where were all these people when it hit the big screen?

Budget: 39 Mill
Take: Domestic: $25,514,517 (65.6%) + Foreign: $13,354,947 (34.4%) = Worldwide: $38,869,464

 

[trancejeremy]

Serenity/Firefly fans are the new trekkies, basically. Incredibly small in number, but extremely vocal.

In this case, it was apparently an online poll, and all the serenity/firefly fansites got their minions to stuff the ballot.

http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=lord_of_the_fireflies#comments

(One of the comments has a link to one such post on a firefly site)

That said, they probably saw the movie 20 times in the theater each, so they were responsible for making as much money as it did.

Anyway, what bugs me is "Back to the Future" was on the top ten list, but not "Aliens". Back to the Future is an good movie, and cute, but not that great. "Aliens" is a masterpiece of Sci-Fi.