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Serenity

Posted by Mark | Filed under Movies, Reviews

As my long time read­ers might recall, I watched a show called Fire­fly a while back and greatly enjoyed it. This week, thanks to one of my co-workers, I had an opporunity to drive 5 & 1/2 hours to plant my butt in a packed movie the­ater at 10 o’clock with a bro­ken air con­di­tioner. That is to say, I was able to attend a spe­cial pre­view show­ing of the Fire­fly movie, Seren­ity. Though the movie hasn’t quite been com­pleted yet; it was fanatastic!

It started off with a short speech by Joss Whe­don. He basi­cally thanks the fans for their sup­port and asked them to con­tinue that sup­port by ask­ing them to help pro­mote the movie. Then the movie was off and run­ning. It appears to pick up at least a cou­ple of years after the t.v. show ended¹. Not all of the crew is still fly­ing on Seren­ity though most are. The Alliance is still after River and they seem more des­per­ate than ever to get her back. Des­per­ate to the point where they’ve sent an unamed agent after her. Dur­ing this agent’s intro­duc­tion, we get treated to see a holo­graphic record­ing of Simon res­cu­ing River from the facil­ity where they were exper­i­ment­ing on her; as well as find­ing out one of the rea­sons the Alliance wants her back so badly.² Over­all, I thought the story worked very well for fans of Fire­fly but I’m not sure how well it will play with peo­ple who never watched the tv show. The movie doesn’t have any big-name actors and it hasn’t been get­ting much in the way of pro­mo­tion from the stu­dio. I hope it does well at the box office (mostly in hopes of the tv show being revived).

Clos­ing thougts about the pre­view:³

• The pre­view didn’t have much in the way of music. This really both­ered some peo­ple and it is one of the things that they’re still work­ing on.
• There weren’t any cred­its; again this is some­thing they’re work­ing on.
• Sup­pos­edly there were some place­hold­ers for spe­cial effects that aren’t com­plete yet, but I didn’t catch them.

¹ Sup­pos­edly there is a comic book com­ing out in July (?) that cov­ers what hap­pens between the show & the movie.
² I bet you’d like it if I told you why, wouldn’t you?. Too bad, this preview-review is going to be spoiler free. :p
³ Sorry, but 11 hours of dri­ving in 2 days plus watch­ing the movie at 10 o’clock, star­ing straight up at the screen from the front row, doesn’t exactly leave me pumped up for writ­ing an indepth review. Maybe I’ll have some­thing more to say after the offi­cial open­ing on 30 Sept 2005.

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