Super SPOILER FILLED Serenity thread

[Truth Seeker]

I found the sharp camera cuts and moving cameras fairly distracting in the first half-hour or so. The man antagonist was very good but I think Joss missed an opportunity not casting a better know actor in that role to draw in a new and bigger audience, the part was certainly large enough and well enough written that an A-list or high B-list actor would have gone for it. I also though that many of the fights were way more Buffy/Angel than Firefly. The biggest problem was his playing down the 'Western' themes, which is the part of the show that I enjoyed the most. Overall though, very good.

Made with 45 million budget, and noting Joss' taste on he feels, can bring it to the screen.

The actor in question...did and carried the part of being Mr. Monster, very well.

 

[Dark Jezter]

The biggest problem was his playing down the 'Western' themes, which is the part of the show that I enjoyed the most. Overall though, very good.

I agree 100%. One of the biggest things I liked about the series was the "Space Western" aspect, but the movie really toned that part down and made it more of a straight up sci-fi movie. Too bad.

 

[stevelabny]

What's interesting is that they killed the western parts, and the no-sound-in-space, and the theme song, and a few other bits the fans love to try to make the movie more mainstream.

and the movie tanked anyway.

so I wonder if they will try to director's cut some of those back into the DVD.

Or, if DVD sales are big enough to get another low-budget sequel, I wonder if they'll be put back into a sequel.

Whatever, as long as Joss's message to the fans from the preview screenings is on the DVD I don't really care what else is there. If that message and the Firefly theme aren't somewhere on the DVD there will be fighting words.

And seeing the movie in May in a roomful of hardcore fans was different than seeing the midnight first show with big geeks and was a huge difference from seeing it with a 1/2 empty "mainstream" audience a week later.

The different reactions to the witty dialogue are amazing. Also, the mainstream audience seemed much more uncomfortable with the crew fighting amonst themselves.

It is also proved to me once again that it is ALWAYS better to see a movie in a packed house (preferably on opening night) More people, sure, but always more well behaved because they REALLY want to see the movie. And always a better reaction. People laugh and clap and gasp in unison, which relaxes other people enough to vocalize their reactions.

 

[Silver Moon]

...and the theme song

It was there....at the very end of the closing credits.


There were only eleven people in the theater that I saw it in.

 

[stevelabny]

It was instrumental only.

And at the end of the credits doesn't count as being part of the movie.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

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[Quasqueton]

What's interesting is that they killed the western parts, and the no-sound-in-space, and the theme song, and a few other bits the fans love to try to make the movie more mainstream.

and the movie tanked anyway.

Note: I have never seen Firefly.

I thought the movie was very "westernish". I noted that feel in the very beginning (the "bank robbery").

I noticed the no sound in space, and I liked it. The only time there was sound in space was when Jane was firing the top-mount gun -- and that seemed more like "feeling" the gun go off than really hearing it.

I have no idea about the theme song. I stayed till after the credits, but I didn't notice any big song.

The movie tanked?

Quasqueton

 

[Nareau]

What's interesting is that they killed the western parts, and the no-sound-in-space, and the theme song, and a few other bits the fans love to try to make the movie more mainstream.

Some of these issues are addressed by Joss here.

There are fewer horses and heads of cattle in “Serenity” than in the “Firefly” TV series. Do you suspect perhaps the series was somehow hobbled in the early going by its more overtly “Western” visual elements?
Yes and no. I think Fox was terrified of the Western concept. The fact that there are no horses in this movie is only by virtue of the fact I didn’t find a place for them. Not by virtue of the fact that I deliberately avoided them. Because the Western element is still a part of the story. It’s a frontier story. For example, I did look back at the series and say, “Okay, Mal being thrown through the holographic bar window is maybe a little jokey for the movie.” It’s a good shorthand for the series but I think for a movie you have to work through the logic just a hair more. But the ship scaring the horses that we used in the credits? The last image of the credits in “Firefly”? That works great. That to me is a timeless image that combines the two just fine. It just didn’t happen in this movie, ‘cause, well, a lot of things didn’t happen in this movie. Because I had two hours instead of seven seasons.

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In the TV show, there was no sound in space. Will space, as rumored, be noisier in the big-screen version?
Yes and no. We’ve kept space sound-free. But the climactic battle takes place just at the edge of the atmosphere of the satellite moon where Mr. Universe lives, and because it’s inside the ion cloud, we don’t actually see any stars. They’re inside this big cloud formation above the planet. And so, because of the way it was playing, it just started to be more and more apparent that we did need to have a battle going on in there, and we couldn’t just hear it when we cut inside the ships. So we sort of – I don’t want to say “cheated,” because that would sound too true – but since we’re not looking at the stars, since we’re close to atmosphere, let’s just turn this into a big loud scary battle so that we can experience what they’re experiencing. And in that sense there has been a slight shift.

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[Just_Hal]

Yes it is not doing so well BUT look at what came out this week and made less than Serenity did in week 1

In Her Shoes
Two for the Money
The Gospel
Waiting

So.....yes bad but in comparison, not so bad. Hope it keeps going in theatres and makes some OK money in US and goes nuts overseas.

Theme song is "owned" by Fox like the rights to the TV airing, so the musical rendition was at the end. It was less westerny then some episodes but not all of 'em.

 

[glass]

Went to see it twice this weekend (which is opening weekend here in the UK). Loved it just as much the second time as the first. I thought there were plenty of western trappings: The accents, the clothes, the vocabulary, the guns. True, they were mixed up with other stuff, but then they always were.

As it was about to start (the first viewing), I thought 'this is going to be great', followed by 'oh god, am I setting myself up for massive disappointment'. I wasn't.

I didn't even mind the new slimline Kaylee, which was the one thing I was worried about. I guess Jewel Staite can't just look bad whatever she does. Plus, with the comments about food shortages, her weightloss kinda made sense.



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