Maxim's Movie Review by PenguinRTR

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Maxim's Movie Review

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UPDATED: Thursday, October 6, 2005 10:44
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Wednesday, October 5, 2005 4:28 PM

I don't think this guy watched the movie. The magazine gave the tv series a bad review also. These guys are very much on the surface kind of people.

Serenity
Reviewed by Pete Hammond

Writer/director Joss Whedon took a flop movie, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and turned it into a hit TV series. Now with Serenity, he hopes to take his flop 2002 TV show, Firefly, and turn it into a hit movie. You gotta admit, the guy has balls. Serenity picks up where the show left off, which is great for the seven people who watched it. In the movie, the captain of the Serenity ends up on the losing side of a galactic war with only his trusty crew to depend on. But just when teamwork seems ready to prevail, two people from the evil alliance come aboard and tell him a secret that puts everyone in danger…or something like that. The plot is slightly incomprehensible and the cast…well, let's just say members of the Nathan Fillion and Gina Torres fan clubs will be psyched. As with the original TV show, the no-namers help make this sci-fi/Indiana Jones—style hybrid into a fairly entertaining romp. But if people wouldn't watch this for free, what makes Whedon think they're gonna pay 10 bucks?

http://www.maximonline.com/entertainment/reviews/review_movies_10703.h
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TV Series Review Link
http://www.maximonline.com/entertainment/reviews/review_tv_4009.html

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Wednesday, October 5, 2005 4:42 PM

GIANTEVILHEAD

Maxim is a softcore porn magazine, the hell do they know about movies?

"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam

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Wednesday, October 5, 2005 5:39 PM

INEVITABLEBETRAYAL

Don't so much care about Maxim, as for all those young male readers. What's the core audience for sci-fi? Oh yeah, young males.

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Wednesday, October 5, 2005 6:04 PM

GIANTEVILHEAD

Serenity ain't the average sci-fi. A large number of fans are over 30 and a lot of fans are *gasp* women!

"I swallowed a bug." -River Tam

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Wednesday, October 5, 2005 7:15 PM

3HEADEDMONKEY

maxim writes reviews? i thought they just show pics of half naked girls!

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 3:40 AM

INEVITABLEBETRAYAL

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Originally posted by Giantevilhead:
Serenity ain't the average sci-fi. A large number of fans are over 30 and a lot of fans are *gasp* women!

I know they are, and believe me, I'm all manner of tickled about that. But the hard fact of the matter is that young males are the core audience for sci-fi. A young man who's never even heard of firefly is more likely to go to serenity sight unseen than a young woman. That's just statistics, sorry. Movies used to be marketed for mass audience, so that they'd appeal to just about everyone (cf. "It's a Wonderful Life"). But these days, they're conceived and marketed to very specific audiences. The very specific audience for sci-fi tends to be young males. Again, that's just statistics. My point with regard to Maxim's review was that our BDM is being smeared in a magazine that appeals to the key demographic of sci-fi.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 3:55 AM

THEPLAGUE

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Originally posted by PenguinRTR:
I don't think this guy watched the movie. The magazine gave the tv series a bad review also. These guys are very much on the surface kind of people.

Serenity
Reviewed by Pete Hammond

Writer/director Joss Whedon took a flop movie, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and turned it into a hit TV series. Now with Serenity, he hopes to take his flop 2002 TV show, Firefly, and turn it into a hit movie. You gotta admit, the guy has balls. Serenity picks up where the show left off, which is great for the seven people who watched it. In the movie, the captain of the Serenity ends up on the losing side of a galactic war with only his trusty crew to depend on. But just when teamwork seems ready to prevail, two people from the evil alliance come aboard and tell him a secret that puts everyone in danger…or something like that. The plot is slightly incomprehensible and the cast…well, let's just say members of the Nathan Fillion and Gina Torres fan clubs will be psyched. As with the original TV show, the no-namers help make this sci-fi/Indiana Jones—style hybrid into a fairly entertaining romp. But if people wouldn't watch this for free, what makes Whedon think they're gonna pay 10 bucks?

Wow, that reviewer makes JeffK look like Dostoyevsky.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 3:59 AM

KIZYR

I don't know about y'all, but I would've been worried if Maxim gave Serenity a good review. The text is all filler. If they gave Serenity a fair nod, it'd probably be the only worthwhile filler text they've ever done. Can't break traditions. KF

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 4:13 AM

TRESCHONDE

I know that lots of us flans would like to think that a large portion of the fanbase is female (especially the women).. but I read a census(?) about the ticket buyers for Serenity on opening weekend, and it came out at about 85% male. Polls aren't always the most accurate, but nonetheless kinda hard to neglect that the average person seeing the movie, aside from flans, will be guys.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 4:15 AM

SAMWIBATT

Quote:
Originally posted by Giantevilhead:
Maxim is a softcore porn magazine, the hell do they know about movies?

That's about what I thought. I've never read Maxim; the closest I've gotten was to look at the pictures of Grace Park they published. I always figured the mag was a watered-down version of Playboy or Hustler for guys who are too embarrassed just to buy the real thing - which may be unfair of me, but this review does nothing to raise my opinion of the magazine.

Re: demographics, I agree that Maxim is a young-male thing and sci-fi is (traditionally) a young-male thing. But does anyone read Maxim's reviews, or are they too busy looking at the photos?

Plus, there are different kinds of young males. There are the geeky ones and the jock ones, among others; Maxim skews toward the jock ones as far as I can tell.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 5:39 AM

WRIGLEYVILLER

A movie with witty banter, complex characters, and underlying political/philosophical dilemmas. I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that Maxim can't wrap its head around this one.

Let's just say that my days of not taking Maxim seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 5:56 AM

INEVITABLEBETRAYAL

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Originally posted by Wrigleyviller:
A movie with witty banter, complex characters, and underlying political/philosophical dilemmas. I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that Maxim can't wrap its head around this one.

Let's just say that my days of not taking Maxim seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

*blows gasket laughing*

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 8:56 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Guess the movie didn't have enough T & A in it for the people at Maxim. I bet if the ladies of the cast had run around in bikinis or gotten into pillow fights they would have raved about it.

I also reckon the Maxim writers aren't burdened with an overabundance of schoolin'.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 9:57 AM

STORMWOLFDAWN

Don't worry too much about Maxim. The only time I ever saw that stupid magazine was in the bunks of inmates at prison I worked at as a guard. Don't think those guys will be going to see that movie anytime soon.

Let's be bad guys.

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Thursday, October 6, 2005 10:44 AM

REALLYKAYLEE

. . . if they just put a (fully-clothed) picture of summer or gina in it . . .

shakespeare: more words than God.

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