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Read The Pathetic Ranting Of A Sad, Bitter Individual...

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Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:03 AM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/

The user comments.

Quote:
jellyneckr
Virginia

Date: 24 July 2004
Summary: The worst show of all time next to The O.C.

The 2002-2003 television season featured tons of unwatchable shows, more unwatchable shows than any other recent television season. Out of all of the unwatchable shows put out that season, this was the worst one. Then again, it was created by the guy that gave us "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" so of coarse it was going to suck. I considered this the worst show of all time until The O.C. came on the air last summer. Maybe this show would have been watchable if the acting and special effects weren't so unbelievably bad. Yet despite the atrocious special effects and acting, the show somehow developed legions of fans and found its way onto DVD. Now a FIREFLY movie is being made. It will no doubt be the worst movie ever made, even worse than YOU GOT SERVED.

Anyone feel like writing up something more appropriate and submitting it? I am not sure how IMDB selects their user comments that get displayed, I think they may simply display the latest ones that are submitted. Reading the comments of that loser, I realize that they are so lacking in substance that it is quite possible that individual has never seen the show.

-ShotgunSteven

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Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:20 AM

NOOCYTE

Meh.

I say leave him be. Strongly suspect he is a troll anyway; this may have been the coded intent of putting YOU GOT SERVED in all caps. For my part, I don't consider it to be "On," and would just as soon let his little rant fade, unanswered, into obscurity.

Of course, if any of us want to post honest (positive) reviews --without referencing this schmuck at all-- it could do no harm...

Department of Redundancy Department

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Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:48 AM

BROWNCOAT1

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

I agree w/ Noocyte, leave the troll alone. Many of these slanderous "reviews" (I use the term very loosely) are nothing more than trolls baiting fans. Odds are this individual has not even seen the series; at most they may have watched one episode.

Some people just seem to find it necessary to bash things they have not given a chance. It just seems to give them their cheap jollies.

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

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Wednesday, August 11, 2004 6:26 AM

SHEPHERDQ

My money is on.....

( a Fox exec did it )

The Journey is the worthier part.
www.southdownabby.com

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Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:18 AM

SHIKSA

Even sad, bitter individuals need hobbies.

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Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:37 AM

MRSKBORG

Oh dear. Has this put me off watching Firefly ....erm nope. Will it stop me from telling other folks to watch it, gee lemme think - nope again. Does it make me upset or angry. No. Sounds to me like the troll didn't watch the same show I watched but hey do I care! Counting the days to Serenity anyway. I have faith in Joss!

Not so sure the troll was wrong about the OC though. (apologies to any OC fans)

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Friday, August 13, 2004 4:13 AM

PEARLAT32

Yes, a sad little king of a sad little hill.

Call me if anyone interesting shows up...

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They were little geisha dolls with big heads that WOBBLED!

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Friday, August 13, 2004 4:17 AM

GHOULMAN

Quote:
Originally posted by ShotgunSteven:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/

The user comments.
CRAAAP!

Hmm. Yes, I have been surprised by the incredible number of Joss haters on the Net. Now, how come Joss Whedon is exclusively singled out by these people?

Speculation - they are paid too.

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Friday, August 13, 2004 4:51 AM

ROBINHOOD

Ha, its just a childish windup, why give it any responce at all?

Yep..........................that went well!

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Friday, August 13, 2004 5:37 AM

GHOULMAN

^^^ because it works.

A real Firefly fan would go out onto the cyber waves and hound anyone making these posts, asking them why they feel this way.

My experience - they always disappear mysteriously.

Check those IP numbers and traces.

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Friday, August 13, 2004 7:23 AM

LTNOWIS

Well, I used to irrationally dislike things I hadn't seen before. Than I turned 12. What's really funny is people who have said things like "There won't be any Firefly DVDs," or "Only Whedon fails to realize that Firefly is dead forever." You can see some of that on this site, a philosophy board where they discussed Firefly.

http://www.solohq.com/Articles/Bushnell/Firefly.shtml

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Friday, August 13, 2004 8:11 AM

SACHMO

If that's their opinion, they are entitled to it. My thought is that it's just a troll, but it's possible they hated the show that much. Who cares?

Now, if they want to have a political debate... :D

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Friday, August 13, 2004 8:40 AM

BLACKOUTZONE

the guy just wants attention. it's as simple as that. he knows there's a massive amount of btvs and firefly fans, and he just wants attention, or a bunch of bitter replies. it's saddening that there are people like that. :/

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Friday, August 13, 2004 9:49 AM

WITLESSCHUM

The internet enables poor impulse control to a degree not previously seen in history outside of child kings and crown princes.

Dan

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Friday, August 13, 2004 10:15 AM

JUSTANOTHERMUDDER

Quote:
Originally posted by Ghoulman:

Hmm. Yes, I have been surprised by the incredible number of Joss haters on the Net. Now, how come Joss Whedon is exclusively singled out by these people?

Speculation - they are paid too.

I was thinking something less sinister.... Jealousy.

"Always be yourself. Unless you suck." Joss Whedon
"Where else are you going to get a love story that begins:
Boy meets girl. Girl kicks boy's ass." NYPinTA @WatchFarscape.com

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Friday, August 13, 2004 10:27 AM

SARDONICA

Aside from the great premise, great acting, story, and so on and so on and so on... assuming the troll just has extremely bad taste and Firefly wasn't his cup of tea...

How can ANYONE say that the SFX are bad? Firefly has, hands down, the best SFX I've ever seen on the small screen.

Chief Editor, AFM
www.apocalypsefiction.com
Writer/Producer, The NUKE Brothers
www.nukebrothers.com

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Friday, August 13, 2004 2:19 PM

DECKROID

Uh...

"...special effects weren't so unbelievably bad. Yet despite the atrocious special effects and acting..."

But...

I...

Wha..

*Sigh*

Man, what show was this dude watching?
Better yet, did he even watch? I have found that most of the haters out there either watched like 10 minutes of the show and called it quits or just heard about the show from someone who watched 10 minutes and called it quits.

Oh well. I maintain that its the closed minded haters that will lose on this. They wont go see the BDM... and that's alright by me. I will just have to see it a couple of more times in the theater and love it all the more.

I call her "Vera"

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Saturday, August 14, 2004 4:11 AM

ROBINHOOD

Quote:
Originally posted by Sardonica:
Aside from the great premise, great acting, story, and so on and so on and so on... assuming the troll just has extremely bad taste and Firefly wasn't his cup of tea...

How can ANYONE say that the SFX are bad? Firefly has, hands down, the best SFX I've ever seen on the small screen.

Chief Editor, AFM
www.apocalypsefiction.com
Writer/Producer, The NUKE Brothers
www.nukebrothers.com

Well thats where his frail critisism falls flat. FF's effects are, like you say, simply the best ever seen in a TV show, thats not an opinion, just a plain simple fact, alot better than many a big budget big screen movie.
Its best just to ignore people like that, their statements are so poorly thought out that very few people will take note anyway.

Yep..........................that went well!

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Saturday, August 14, 2004 4:36 AM

CHANNAIN

i DO aim to misbehave

This person's obviously delusional. No sense feeding such negative phsycological conditions. Not that it wasn't reeeeeealy tempting. There's better ways to use bandwidth than that.

We have art so as not to die of truth ~ Neitzsche
http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?rid=7922

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Saturday, August 14, 2004 11:59 AM

SHOTGUNSTEVEN

Definitely a better focus of my energies to make a site extolling the many virtues of Firefly and Serenity than to waste it replying to brainless gits that haven't the mental capacity to comprehend any television show beyond Barney.

Besides, when they show up on your own site, then you can just ban them for violating the rules on stupidity. ;)

-ShotgunSteven

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Saturday, August 14, 2004 12:36 PM

GREATEACHER

Actually rival studio execs do write reviews tainting projects from other studios. In this case that's highly unlikely. Fox still has a stake in Joss.

Besides that I've been on the IMDB boards for years. There's an element of fan who like to bash works that other users like. It's a way, in their minds to buck the status quo. It's also rather silly.

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Sunday, August 15, 2004 12:22 AM

ROBINHOOD

LOL, some other moron mentioned that there should be a proper sick bay on board...I wonder where he/she got that idea from. Er..let me think?

Yep..........................that went well!

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007 6:24 AM

FIREFLYBLOWS

I completly agree with the perfect man's review. I love him! He completly rulez your pathetic lives.

BLOW ME!

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007 1:00 PM

BROWNCOATSANDINISTA

I'm trying to decide if the above person is truely as immature as they sound or if they are trying to overcome their immaturity with sarcasm.

If its the latter ((And I do so applaud your effort in that case)) try logic, proper spelling, and changing your sig ((Unless of course you're refrencing Alan Tudyk's part when he was in Spamalot on broadway.))

"I'm not going to say Serenity is the greatest SciFi movie ever; oh wait yes I am." - Orson Scott Card

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007 1:13 PM

MSG

I am forced to resort to quoting Toy Story
"You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity. Farewell."

"I'm not all that interested in the mental health of people who want to kill me. "- Leroy Jethro Gibbs

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Thursday, June 7, 2007 1:21 PM

CLJOHNSTON108

Quote:
Originally posted by msg:
I am forced to resort to quoting Toy Story
"You are a sad, strange little man, and you have my pity. Farewell."

I'd found a similarly trollish review of the BDM online a while ago, and used that same quote when I posted it here, trying to incite my fellow Browncoats to flame the guy.

SigmaNunki set me straight, though.
He wrote a great blog entry on the subject...

Everybody's so angry
http://fireflyfans.net/showblog.asp?b=3409

BTW, the Television Academy doesn't award Emmys for "atrocious special effects", so that alone should tell you what this individual's opinion is worth.

We've got a 9.5/10 rating (10,666 votes) on IMDb, and out of 465 User Comments, only 27 (6%) come up under the "Hated It" filter.

Star Wars gets an 8.8/10 rating (200,309 votes), and out of 1,091 comments, 217 (20%) hated it!

I don't think we have to worry about the nay-sayers!

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Thursday, June 7, 2007 4:49 PM

MAGHAFFAR

The great thing about extremes of opinion is they usually motivate most people to make their own decision by checking out the acclaimed or declaimed item for themselves. Let him rant.

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