Comments on: Serenity One Last Time

By: SpongBo

SpongBo — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 22:30:06 +0000

Inara didn’t seem to get enough screen/plot time, and I agree, there was something a bit different about her bigscreen – it’s as if she was used as the boobs of the movie. Not much speaking, lots of bouncing.

And Mal was just plain nasty for the first half of the movie… but I think that was an “everybody hates me” thing. AND he spoke mainly in weirdo English, which was kinda hard to follow the first time (though it might have been the “it’s a movie, let’s have some background noise” thing). Kaylee always rocked.

I thought Summer did a really good job, except that the “duh” bit on “am I talking to Miranda now?” never seemed to draw the laugh I thought it could have.

I didn’t think canon was betrayed. I’m sure it was shot digitally.

By: Shifty

Shifty — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:41:04 +0000

And I would have to say, as a guy, that Kaylee was the female draw in this movie. I have always been an Inara man, but she lost something in the translation to the big screen. Zoe’s dress was pretty good though.

I know that there is a whole Summer Glau fanboy culture out there but it is not for me.

By: Shifty

Shifty — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:36:02 +0000

Kip: everything in NL is behind, except beer technology.

Spong: Mal might have been angular due to the higher resolution of the cinema screen, much as Serenity gained extra panels and stuff that you just couldn’t make out on the TV. And let’s not forget the “futuristic” suspenders. The thing that made Mal less appealing, to me, was that he wasn’t as likeable. He was more selfish and his jokes weren’t funny. Commitee jokes.

Sith had the following over Serenity:
Lightsabres
Satisfactorily explaining everything without betraying canon
Budget
Lightsabres

By: SpongBo

SpongBo — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:58:24 +0000

Mal looked a little… um… over-angular in the movie, for my money. And the blow-dry seemed to waft a lot.

According to a UIP post, it’s going direct to DVD in most other countries.

So, I guess we know what a fanatical Internet audience buys you for a movie: about $US 30 million at theatrical release.

Note to United Pictures: please advertise better next time. The movie was better than Sith in just about every way.

Hopefully, it’ll do a Transporter and make it back on DVD, and we might get the Real Trilogy.

By: Kip

Kip — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:18:45 +0000

Forget Simon- I say Mal!
ps I can’t believe it’s going on DVD in Aus & it is STILL not out in the movies in the NL’s…I don’t think people believe in space movies over here