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Serenity · Oct 8, 06:30 PM

“This is the captain. We may experience some slight turbulence, and then explode.”

Let me preface me review with an ackowlegdment that Serenity has weaknesses, because whenever a review is prefaced that like, it innevitably goes strongly—too strongly—in the opposite direction. Case in point:

Serenity was better than the last three Star Wars episodes rolled together with a decagram of pure Afghani heroin and delivered along with a case of champagne by Brad Pitt before he hands you the keys to your new Audi and then asks if he can sleep over with his puppydog eyes. ...let’s just pretend that sentence was never written, and get back to what I want to remember about Serenity.

It’s not a big-screen movie: it lacks cussing and coarse dialog, sex, or even nudity. It does have violent imagery. The dialog and camera-work are more made-for-tv than made-for-easy-translation and subsequent exportation-to-international-markets. It’s also pretty decent soft sci-fi—I’m off to track down episodes of Firefly now.

directed: Joss Weddon, 2005.
summary: Joss Weddon vs. Cowboy Bebop (live action)

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  1. You lost me after the part about the Audi. FWD may be nice, but they’re so… yeck. — Dave    Oct 9, 10:11 PM    #

  2. We just saw Serenity last night, and I was sooooo happy. It was almost as good as a roomful of puppies. — Katie    Oct 10, 02:54 PM    #

  3. Dave: I make no apologies for my taste in cars. Feel free to substitute a Mustang or Prius or something.

    Katie: a roomful of puppies would be a great Super Secret Government Weapon. With extra evil training we might be able to get them to pee on stuff, important stuff. — Tom    Oct 11, 08:21 AM    #

  4. I can’t imagine anything less good than a roomful of puppies. As Dante’s travels explained,”... the fourth level was ciruclar with only 3 corners. My host’s smile extended beyond his ears, with the corners of his lips crossing just above his manubrium. The room was full of puppies. They squirmed like hungry cherubs. Their yawning maws nipping the folded ears of their brethren. We next moved into an area reserved for the ancient pseudo-authors. Pseudo-Bede and Pseudo-Philo were arguing over hair styles and eating chicken wings, perpetually. The cast-off bones were then tossed onto a pile of neoplatonists. They gurgled and tore nebulas in the outermost sphere beyond Saturn…” — Chris    Oct 11, 11:16 AM    #

  5. What! You saw it before I did!!!! I waited for years to see it! I now need a date to go see it. Know any single, decent looking girl?

    Puppies? They taste great then when are young. — Yin    Oct 12, 02:15 AM    #

  6. Yin, if you want to see this movie, you don’t need a date. If you want a date, you don’t need to see this movie (there are other good date movies available, most likely). — Tom    Oct 12, 06:53 PM    #

  7. Yin always needs a date.

    As for the movie, I just saw it tonight: you are right, the small-screen heritage never seems far away. And for all the problems it brings, I personally like strange-for-its-own-sake weirdness, ala Lynch’s Dune or even its highly derivative but better funded cousin, The Chronicles of Riddick. There was precious little of that in this movie… which sort of places it into the “Gee, I don’t know what to think” category, a realm filled with things like Good Episodes of Star Trek Voyager, Cube, bad Asimov short stories, and the Planet of the Apes sequels. — Dave    Oct 15, 03:25 AM    #

  8. Dave, you “don’t know what to think” about the PotA sequels? I agree that Serenity wasn’t a strange movie, but come on. All those sequels (.e.g Return to the Escape of the Apes from the Planet of the Apes) sucked—what else is there to know? — Tom    Oct 15, 09:39 PM    #

  9. Contrary to the hype, Serenity was not that impressive. However, I have recognized the good side of the film particularly the acting. On the average, it may still rank as one of the worthy movies to view. Serenity is not weird at all. I can see it as an ordinary plot depicted by the cast in an extraordinary manner. — Jim Online    Nov 10, 04:36 AM    #

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