Sunday, October 16, 2005

Movie review time

OK, so last night I went to see "Serenity". I'm pretty sure that there are no spoilers in this review so read on unabashed.

Serenity is a movie where the bad priest guy from Buffy the Angel Slayer has somehow got in charge of a spaceship in order to get away from Buffy. The bad guy from the X Files is also in it (not a very popular bad guy) and a girl who is kind of weird in the brain. Anyway! It is like Battlestar Galacticas without Lorne Green. At some point there were bad, scary men who I assume are very disenfranchised because it is the future. Also there was a black man who was a Very Good Actor.

One thing about this movie that annoyed me was that they seemed to have stolen a lot of ideas from "Firefly" off the TV. But don't let that distract you from the fighting.

Watch this movie if: you like bad vicars in space kicking off some excellent fights.
Avoid this movie if: you are no fan of "entertainment".

Serenity: a good movie!

13 comments:

eye candy said...

Your rundown of the movie left my brain a bit confused, but that's easy to do regardless, so it is alright. You leave me wondering, though, why did you use quotation marks on the word entertainment?

Magnu-tron said...

I am not sure whether I am ashamed or proud of the fact that I've never been into 'firefly'. Buffy was a good time, and I watched Angel for a couple of seasons despite it being simply 'ok'. (Depression. This is also how I saw every 'Law and Order' ever produced)(Also Wesley had good hair, but that can only keep you hooked for so long).

Given your review I have decided I am not missing anything...did see corpse bride on Friday. That was cute. No fighting, tho.

John A said...

"It is Firefly. The movie."

Wow, you're kidding! i couldn't believe all the coincidences, like the identical cast, characters and plots! Does Joss Whedon know someone made a movie of his TV show? I bet he's really pissed off!!!

Mizufae said...

criminy, am i the only one who sees through john a's sarcasm, or are your comments some further form of sarcasm, to which john replies with his next layer???? *head explodes*

Stu Popp said...

I think that Poly-Sarcasm would be a better word here because it causes me to think of some prismatic shape formed entirely of sarcasm. Each new facet of sarcasm refracting, dividing, and refocusing the previous sarcasm into a newer, more powerful form.

Corwin said...

I can't believe they killed him. Holy crap, he was my favourite character after Jayne. It makes me very emotional...

Also, there's a lot of that Battlestar Galactica without Lorne Greene going around. Is it a cause for concern?

Mizufae said...

dont ruin it you bastard! that's the most amazing part of the movie!

on a completely different note, now that you (john A) are all happy with the hand drawring (me too, me too) and the adding walk-ons in the background, have you thought of possible contests/money getting schemes that involve you putting us real life folks into the backgrounds of SGR? i think it would be fun to have a halloween contest of some sort. best scarygoround themed costume?

i digress. as usual.

Magnu-tron said...

Sometimes I think I have solved physics problems in my sleep, but then I really haven't, I've just convinced myself that I have. The plot hole may not actually be.

Maybe there should be a sarcasm indicator, as a new form of punctuation, such as /S/insert sarcastic sentence here/S/. It would be a trade off...less fun, but also less frustrating. It seems like sarcasm as a whole is on its way out of vogue, anyway, and is being replaced by vaguely absurd yet upbeat blatent mockery, which would be even harder to indicate with punctuation.

Magnu-tron said...

Agreed. Maybe they don't read SGR and were just doing a blogger search on firefly or serenity?

Christophe said...

Hey.

It's fun to be pedantic.

Corwin said...

Explosions are fun too.

I can delete my previous post if people think it's too spoilery. I tried to be as vague as possible while still getting the sentiment across.

John A said...

Bethesda: a very clean town. Very tidy, neat signage. A credit to its local populace.

I am not a big drinker these days, "travb", and I divide pubs into two boolean categories: "agreeable" and "disagreeable". I probably only visited one bar, it was agreeable.

Bethesda: AGREEABLE!

thatweirdgirl said...

ooh! explosions! ooh! someone fell down...shiny.

Polysarcasm is my new favorite word.