Serenity

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I've seen the trailer, it looked pretty bad. :guilty: I really liked Chiwetel Ejiofor in "Dirty Pretty Things" with Audrey Tatou, but doesn't look that great in the trailer. I will rent it.
 
I never saw 'Firefly" during its all too brief run on fox only comming across the lattest re-run on the Sci-Fi channel. However I quickly became a big fan. There is just something very compelling about the characters in the show that draws you in.

I must admit I went into this film thinking it was just going to be another TV movie but was actually blown away by just how good I thought the film was. It is a very adult bit of Sci-Fi which in a genre which is all too often dominated by the complete pap that Star Trek has become is a very welcome change.

I honestly cannot recomend the film highly enough. I'm not sure how well people that haven't seen the series could pick it up just from the film. They do a pretty good atempt in the first 15 mins of explaining the series but I think you really need to have invested the time in the series to really care about the characters which will really make some moments of the film shock you.

If nothing else though people should see this just to encourage the studios to spend more time developing adult Sci-Fi and sparing us all from more todays Sci-Fi light.
 
I got to see it on DVD tonight, not bad at all. I'm not familiar with the series at all, but it was really easy to follow the story. Characters smartassing each other got little bit overboard and the movie really didn't bring anything new to the table, but I thought it was a very well excuted movie. Sadly, that's pretty rare in the film industry these days. Chiwetel Ejiofor was awesome in this. 👍
 
saw the movie..
i wasn't sure if this was a B movie or not..

It's "alright" the whole story is kinda weak..the special affects are "alright"

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the Reavers are a lame plot..
the whole "we started the reavers thing" was expected..
The people actually RELOADED their weapons..that was nice..

but..I don't see how psycho canibals who act like zombies......can pilot vehicles and shoot accurately..


oh well..

"ALRIGHT"
 
Driftster
saw the movie..
i wasn't sure if this was a B movie or not..

It's "alright" the whole story is kinda weak..the special affects are "alright"

spoiler:


the Reavers are a lame plot..
the whole "we started the reavers thing" was expected..
The people actually RELOADED their weapons..that was nice..

but..I don't see how psycho canibals who act like zombies......can pilot vehicles and shoot accurately..


oh well..

"ALRIGHT"
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I agree with you there. Psychos were attacking and eating people(alive), but they could also pilot spaceships in combat. That part did bother me a bit.
 
Driftster
but..I don't see how psycho canibals who act like zombies......can pilot vehicles and shoot accurately..


oh well..

"ALRIGHT"
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They don't act like Zombies. The drugs that they were fed just gave them an incredible aggression drive. They still have the same skills they had before the drugs affected them its just that now they are driven by base instinct to kill, rape and torture. They operate in groups in the same way that pack animals do to achieve a common goal.
 
they dont act like zombies?
so piling into a metal screen biting and scratching on it isn't like a zombie?
running and diving on people isn't like a zombie..when they had weapons?
 
I think you may need to go look up the definition of Zombie.

A Zombie is a dead body reanimated by a supernatural force. They have traditionaly been depicted in film as brain dead automons lurching forward with no inteligence behind their actions. Only very recently ie '28 days latter' being shown as fast but still not overly intelligent.

Clawing and chewing at a metal grate to get through it is, like i said, aggression driven to the extreeme. They claw through the metal grate to get past it and then DO use weapons. Kayle is shot with poision darts, Simon is shot in the stomach. Zoe is sliced with a knife. They are also rushing the group so they can overcome them with overwhelming numbers which is a very aggressive way of dealing with a well armed group in a confined space.

I just don't see how that can be described as Zombie like behaviour. Reavers have always been shown using weapons...They are just wildly aggressive with it because of the drugs they were exposed to.
 
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Well considering the nerdery of your post and your "deffinition" of a zombie....

I'm going to stick by what I said, because I speak on behalf of the populus..not the select few that are level 47 dragon lords at the local Atomic Comics....

From the Zombie movies i've seen......they fit the description of a zombie...

Extreme agression doesn't affect the natural need of self presurvation...which includes bathing...and not letting your teeth turn into ragged shark teeth and faces turned into monkey men
 
As I saw it in the movie, they were not zombies. They were normal human beings who's aggression drive was off the charts. Driven to the point, that they accepted cannabilism as part of their diet.

They were not unintelligent, or mindless. They were overloaded with aggression. They only thing they had on their mind was eating and destroying.

Self preservation may not have been affected, but it certainly wasn't on the top of their list.

I'll have to rewatch the movie so I can expand upon this.

btw: I'm not seeing any nerdery in his post, and you shouldn't either. He has a well defined analysis of Zombies.
 
I agree with DaveS1138 and Der Alta, I didn't think for one moment during the film that they were zombies.
 
No one on this end of the pc for one moment thought they were zombie's either..

just like in a number of other movies/stores where people are "mutated by a virus and become people eaters".

Don't turn this into a wether or not they're zombie's arguement..because no one said they were zombies...

they ACTED like zombie's in cheap gorilla suits
 
Again, I agree with Drifster. Zombies or not, those people's aggression level skyrocketed to a level of p*ssed off pit bull. On top of that, they were eating other people. I didn't see anything in the movie that suggested that these "Reavers" could maintain and pilot spaceships. They were acting like mindless, violent animals, acting on instincts.

It didn't bother me that much, but it didn't seem right either.
 
Oh BTW...remember they didn't eat Dead people..

so WHY would they deliberately shoot down ships and aim for arteries with blow guns etc.....

all things that would KILL their meals...
 
Driftster
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Well considering the nerdery of your post and your "deffinition" of a zombie....

I'm going to stick by what I said, because I speak on behalf of the populus..not the select few that are level 47 dragon lords at the local Atomic Comics....

From the Zombie movies i've seen......they fit the description of a zombie...

Extreme agression doesn't affect the natural need of self presurvation...which includes bathing...and not letting your teeth turn into ragged shark teeth and faces turned into monkey men
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A little bit of an unnecessary personal attack dont you think? I was just expressing an opinion.

As for speaking for the populus. I prefer to stick to my own opinions instead of what the populus tell me I should think any day.
 
not really a personal attack as much as a light hearted joke that I felt everyone sitting infront of a computer on a forum about a video game could get a chuckle at...
my appologize for hurting your feelings if that happened.
 
Guys, it's really just a popcorn movie which isn't worth having an argument over. Just call them Reavers, that's what they are.
That said, I thought it was a very entertaining and reasonably well acted movie. Pretty funny on occasion too. I'll buy it on DVD when it comes out 👍
 
I imported the American release of Serenity into the UK and watched the movie for the first time just before Christmas. I did enjoy it and thought it made a good addition to the cancelled TV series.
 
I'm not sure what it was about the series that drew me in when it was on FOX, there was just something about it. Not an outstanding television show, but not half as bad as other crap that ran for much longer than Firefly.

As a general rule, I try to stay away from written reviews of a movie until I see it for myself. I watched Serenity this weekend wondering how they were going to play it out. Were they going to have a completely stand alone movie? How much of the TV show would you need to see for the movie to make sense?

All told, I thought they did a very good job of making a stand alone movie, but also not boring the people that had watched the series with information that we already knew. There were questions, many about the Reavers, that I wanted answered, and they hit many of them.

Joss Whedon - "For God's sake, have a hovercraft chase scene." :lol:

Personally, I think it was as good as it could have been, unlike other movies I've seen.
 
I had no idea what to expect going into this one. I remember seeing previews and thinking "that could be good... or really bad". I didn't know anything about the people or the plot, all I knew was that it was Sci-Fi.

This is a popcorn movie. You can't think about it too much or it will fall apart. Don't think about things like "why don't the reavers attack each other?" or "doesn't it seem odd that they have behavior control that they send out in the form of gas in the air?" or even "Why isn't the guy attacking the computer equipment instead of the other dude - that's all he has to do to accomplish his goal... take out the equipment!"

Anyway if you don't think about all that stuff, the movie does have charisma. The characters are fun - even if they are 1-dimensional. But what this movie lacks is the ability to really get the audience attached to the characters. That's difficult to do in a movie that doesn't feel real at all. All in all I'd say it's worth watching... once.
 
Keep in mind that this movie was also to wrap up where the series left off. When the show was cancelled, there were a ton of pissed of people. This was their was of making them happy. If you had watched the series, you would have had a bit more background and been somewhat more "attached" to them. Ultimately, you really aren't missing much, though. :)
 
Sorry for the BUMP of this thread, but ive just got my copy as it only came out the other day, and I can really say that from the trailers and TV spots, i thought this film looked a bit poor, I had never seen the TV show but i had sympathy for the fans of it as si-fi shut down Farscape and that P*ssed me off. So anyway I popped the dvd into the player and watched the extras, then onto the film, and boy was i pleased. The film was very good and well acted story was a little lame, but seeing as it was a wrap up for a TV show and not a standalone movie i could look past it. CG was top notch, ans special effects were adequate. i may even get hold of firefly now just to see what it was like. was it me or did this draw some resemblance to Hans Solo or what film would be like if it was just him and the crew of the Millennium Falcon?
 
sprite
Sorry for the BUMP of this thread, but ive just got my copy as it only came out the other day, and I can really say that from the trailers and TV spots, i thought this film looked a bit poor, I had never seen the TV show but i had sympathy for the fans of it as si-fi shut down Farscape and that P*ssed me off. So anyway I popped the dvd into the player and watched the extras, then onto the film, and boy was i pleased. The film was very good and well acted story was a little lame, but seeing as it was a wrap up for a TV show and not a standalone movie i could look past it. CG was top notch, ans special effects were adequate. i may even get hold of firefly now just to see what it was like. was it me or did this draw some resemblance to Hans Solo or what film would be like if it was just him and the crew of the Millennium Falcon?
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Great post. 👍 I had same reaction to both the trailer, then the actual movie as well. :D

I can't believe I didn't see the Han Solo/Millennium Falcon resemblance, but that's so true.
 

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