WOW - the trailer rocks *warning this thread may contain spoilers* by Zol

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WOW - the trailer rocks *warning this thread may contain spoilers*

POSTED BY: ZOL
UPDATED: Sunday, May 22, 2005 14:00
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:00 AM

2 Sets of Three Words:

River

Kicking

Ass!

AND

Oh

My

God!

'Nuff Said.

Inara: What did I say to you about barging in to my shuttle?
Mal: That it was manly and impulsive?
Inara: Yes, precisely, only the exact phrase I used was "don't."

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:00 AM

P1NKISPUNK

The song is entitled "Club Foot"

My thoughts on the Serenity trailer, one day later....

Well the trailer is appealing to the mainstream masses, with it's formulaic lay out (as someone mentioned that the Hitcchiker's Guide to the Galaxy amusingly noted) and implication that it is a simply good vs. bad choice.

This to me is an incredibly smart move on the part of Joss and Universal. The film needs to make money...lots of people coming to watch it will make it money. Perhaps a few will be confused or feel cheated that this is not their usual, same-storyline-different-pretty-actors-and-excessive-uses-of-fights-and-killings-and-sex movie, but it doesn't matter, they've spent the money..

They are also trying to reel in sci-fi fans which this does very well, and I suspect that though the movie will probably be dramatically less western than the series, there will probably be a lot of western influences still present.

It seems to me that trailers rarely give a big sense of the movie or the plot these days, but is a marketing technique. Lots of explosions, lots of cool one liners, lots of danger, a big scary villain, a big shiny space ship..set to rock music etc...

Also, personally I think referencing Buffy and Angel will pull in many folk who just thought it was another Hellboy or suchlike, and then remembered that funny show from a few years back (I know many people who thought it was cool and watched it, but werent overly obsessed with it like I.)

Finally....damn I just love it so much. There's such potential, you see such flashings, almost subliminal messages to the hardcore fans, and I'm sure "You can't stop the signal" is a huge plot device, but Joss must have noticed the double meaning. When I realised what it was implying..danced like an E-numbered child did I. It offers such a God-damn lot to us and I'm incredibly grateful, and again incredibly over excited.

I need a good flannel and a good lie down....

"This mummy hand has ceased to exist! It is an ex-mummy hand!"

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:01 AM

FINE

yeah yeah yeah, all very fanboy. did no one else see how hot jayne was looking? get your priorities straight people... i think joss had seen inside my head with the ripping open the jacket to reveal large gun scene. if i can ever get myself out of my bunk i may sue.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:05 AM

P1NKISPUNK

Also, did anyone tear up at the "And loved by millions of fans worldwide"

It was like a little shoutout or a little thank-you *sniffs*

"You paid money for this? On purpose?"

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:07 AM

PSYCHICRIVER

Hmm...maybe the signal thing...could be about River...and they have some kind of trigger... this would explain why she kicks Simon... and Jayne's "The only people she's a threat to is us on this boat."

But then again he never was a big River fan.

PsychicRiver

"Two by two, hands of blue."

"We can take care of each other. I'll knit!"

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:12 AM

PSYCHICRIVER

Quote:
Originally posted by p1nkispunk:
It seems to me that trailers rarely give a big sense of the movie or the plot these days, but is a marketing technique. Lots of explosions, lots of cool one liners, lots of danger, a big scary villain, a big shiny space ship..set to rock music etc...

Yeah, I remember going to see "The Village" last year, expecting a horror, and getting something very different.

PsychicRiver

"Two by two, hands of blue."

"We can take care of each other. I'll knit!"

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:15 AM

REKA

Hi, I'm jumping out of "mostly lurker" status, too. I can't find the words to express how thrilled I am to see the trailer...

uh.. words? where are you? help!

This is MOST exciting!

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:44 AM

ZOL

Quote:
Originally posted by PsychicRiver:
Hmm...maybe the signal thing...could be about River...and they have some kind of trigger... this would explain why she kicks Simon... and Jayne's "The only people she's a threat to is us on this boat."

But then again he never was a big River fan.

PsychicRiver

"Two by two, hands of blue."
"We can take care of each other. I'll knit!"

Can`t stop the signal is rather specific - River is involved, yes!

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 11:20 AM

CHRISISALL

P1nkispunk, you're right. I watched the trailer as if I hadn't seen the series, and as a sci-fi fan only, it made me want to see the movie. That's so rare, trailers usually turn me OFF to a movie 'cause it's always same-o same-o, but Serenity's trailer screams originality! And effects that put Attack of the Clones to shame!! Technical brilliance can't beat creativity and a love of the project.

My only question: Greg Edmundson? Western music? No?

Hyped to the hilt Chrisisall

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:54 PM

JCOBB

Quote:
Originally posted by GreenFaerie:
Hard to tell. Maybe. I definitely think the Universal logo at the 00:26 mark is the Earth that was... I have a feeling we'll be learning more about that.

Nah, it's clearly Earth.

Check out 00:56 to see what I am talking about. You can see Florida, Cuba, the Yucatan Peninsula, etc...

I don't care, I'm still free.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 2:38 PM

RAIFTEL

Righty oh... if anybody wants it below is a download for the song used in the trailer called Club Foot by Kasabian (this is a cd rip so it is great quality).

http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0OHZSR0PC53QC0KPVGQMS4KWA4

I was blown away by the design of the trailer although I thought the quotes were hellishly tacky and made me dig the film less...

I have a hypothesis... judging from that first shot of earth..

Select to view spoiler:

do you think that Earth could be the reaver homeworld that people have been getting so excited about 'cos that would be cool.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 3:45 PM

MARKSANGEL

Hell ya it was totally awsome! all the fighting and
" I'm not armed."
"Good" *shoot*
that was great well i g2g ttyal (talk to ya all later)

~STR~
"When you can't run you crawl...and when you can't do that you find someone to carry you"

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:07 PM

SERGEANTX

double post....sorry

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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 4:07 PM

SERGEANTX

Quote:
Here's my problem though: it's so BIG. The plot, I mean. It seems so epic. One of the things I like so much about Firefly is that it's NOT the fate of the universe that's threatened. It's just them, plus the people they encounter directly. We definitely see a strong undercurrent of the power-centres in the universe (Alliance, mainly), but these powers affect them far more than they affect the powers. It's real, and it's personal - allowing for things like the funny exchanges between characters, marital spats, ongoing tensions, running jokes... I guess I'm just worried that everything I like best about the show will be lost when it's blown up into a movie. The trailer shows armadas of ships and what looked like destroyed cities - this makes me very worried.

And besides, if my expectations are low, I'll like the BDM even better, right?

And of course this didn't stop me from watching the trailer three or four times at 4:04 in the afternoon...

This sums up my concerns from the moment the movie project was announced. We may just have to accept the fact that our favorite elements of the show won't be returning, at least not as the focus. And that sucks, but I think it'll be a LONG way from a BDAM (Big Dumb Action Movie)

SergeantX

"Dream a little dream or you can live a little dream. I'd rather live it, cause dreamers always chase but never get it." Aesop Rock

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Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:59 AM

FANTASTICLAUGHINGFAIRY

I can't get the GORRAM TRAILER I can't get Quicktime, the computer's a pile of Gou shi!(Go-se) I mean for cryin out loud! I'm gonna go find somewhere I can play it before I die of excitement!

...and we will call it...this land...

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Thursday, April 28, 2005 5:08 AM

FRAY101

Quote:
Originally posted by Beatle:
Dinosaurs!!! I saw plastic dinosaurs.

That was one of the things I was most excited about!

How sad....

http://disneypix.tripod.com/destiny

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Thursday, April 28, 2005 5:18 AM

HARDY

ok fellows

i just spend a few hours to watch all the 3349 picutres of the fullscreen-trailer to make 284 screenshots out of it...

http://www.beam.to/firefly/screenshots.html

the pics are 640x300

enjoy the details...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mal: "Everybody dies alone"
http://beam.to/firefly (deutsche fanpage)
http://48688.forum.onetwomax.de (deutsches forum)

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Thursday, April 28, 2005 5:42 AM

FRAY101

Quote:
Originally posted by Hardy:
ok fellows

i just spend a few hours to watch all the 3349 picutres of the fullscreen-trailer to make 284 screenshots out of it...

http://www.beam.to/firefly/screenshots.html

the pics are 640x300

enjoy the details...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mal: "Everybody dies alone"
http://beam.to/firefly (deutsche fanpage)
http://48688.forum.onetwomax.de (deutsches forum)

Jeez, I though I got carried away with just over 100! You put me to shame.

http://disneypix.tripod.com/destiny

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Thursday, April 28, 2005 6:03 AM

EGERBIL

Indeed the trailer does rock, however I share some of the same concerns about it as others. For one, I've been through it a fair few times and it definitely seems like there's sound in space. So unless this is just a trailer-gimmick, this is not a good thing.
Also, it seems a little too heavy on the action/sci-fi thing. There's lots of big space 'splodes and battles and the like, but very little of the smaller-scale stuff you get in the series. I'm not saying that large-scale is bad, just that it might not fit with traditional Firefly.

The trailer seems a little too mainstream. I've got a friend who's seen it and commented that it just looks like another cheesy action/sci-fi film. Perhaps some more of the Firefly uniqueness could have been used to grab the attention of thems as aren't familiar with the series.

All-in-all, I'm in two minds about the film. On one side, I've got my brain jumping up and down with glee shouting "eeeeeeeeee!". On the other side, I've got the more sensible side of my brain pondering if Joss had to make too many concessions to the regular movie-going plebs out there for the film to be more than a shadow of the Firefly we all know and love.
I guess I've just got to wait and see what else I see, and trust that Joss gave us what we all want and hope for :).

On a related note, much happy that Kaylee's in the film, albeit not much in the trailer. Had to go frame-by-frame to confirm that she was there :).

And yes. Wash has the greatest line in the history of fantastic trailer lines.

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Sunday, May 22, 2005 2:00 PM

THEGERG

What in heavens name happened with my discussion post? I send one and my browser sends 4. I have a feeling that, being the day of the trailer release, all of me went a little insane.

Still. Have now downloaded that gorgeous Hi Def version and I'd just like to say that it looks even more gorgeous in Hi Def. Although my video driver crashed so I had to download an update - yowser, that hi def stuff finds video drivers hard to use!

But it was worth it - smoother, cleaner, and Kaylee lookin even more pretty. If that is at all possible! Though it seems to be your classic

trailer!

Sound in space? Hmmmm! I'm wondering if you can actually get sound from an explosion if you are surrounded by it... after all, if the explosion is coming from an internal area that has air, as long as the air has not expanded too much, sound would travel. But if it's the good ole Star Trek hum of engines through a vacuum, then - Joss what happened?

Finally, reckon Book must be in it now as he mentions the movie in the Comic Con clip - thank god! Not that he's my favourite character, but the team needs to stick together because Mal says so!

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