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Originally posted by bluesuncompanyman:

I never felt that the movie betrayed me, like others did. But I will say that it exists as a shadow of what should have happened.

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Originally posted by ecgordon:

Chris, we're well aware of your opinion. Creating yet another thread that says essentially the same thing your last one did is not going to sway opinions that are opposite.

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Originally posted by ecgordon:
I'm still not prepared to use the terms "great" or "brilliant" concerning Serenity. It is a very good film, well acted, photographed and edited (my highest accolades for that), but it's still just an action-oriented SF film that has too many cliches to consider it the pinnacle of film artistry. And I agree that the Firefly series is superior, in fact that the pilot episode "Serenity" is superior to the film Serenity.

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Originally posted by ecgordon:
the pilot episode "Serenity" is superior to the film Serenity.

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Originally posted by Storymark:

At best, I'd say it's place is secured as a cult classic.

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And really, we're not exactly good judges here, being all Firefly freaks and such.

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The proof is by how much attention it gets.

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Originally posted by chrisisall:
My initial opinion has not changed since the day I saw it, and I gave it time.

Serenity is greatness.

This ain't the rush talkin'. It ain't the emotional flood of seein' my BDH's again. This is measured thought here...Serenity is among the best movies ever made.




The broken record Chrisisall

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
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Uhmmm... Chris? Buddy? Didn't you just have a thread about this very thing, like, two days ago?

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Originally posted by ecgordon:
The Firefly series is superior, in fact that the pilot episode "Serenity" is superior to the film.

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The Firefly series is superior, in fact that the pilot episode "Serenity" is superior to the film.

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Great obseration Ecgordon. I've never actually sat and thought how the film rates along side different episodes. Truely the greatest sci-fi episode I've ever beheld was Objects in Space. The pilot episode always rates 2nd in my mind. Both of these at 42 minutes (OIS) and 1hr 20min (pilot) are far superior to the movie.

How then can I rate the film as "Great"?

There are times when a profound sadness overcomes me. It always happens when I sit and think...truely think...about what SHOULD have been. Firefly was a rich and complex tale trying to reach up to the light of day, and it was killed. Nay, murdered. Later we adopted a step-child named "Serenity" that possessed some of the qualities we loved so much, but it was nevertheless, a shadow of it's slain predessor. Painful plot points of the film were certainly destined for canon in the series (Wash's fate) but this was to have happened over time and developed with care.

This is why I'm producing my fan film. I started a thread about it in Firefly-Immediate Assistance, and it stalled out at 17 responses. I believe in the orginial vision of Firefly so much I feel like I have to do something, anything, to clone that feeling which emerged from the series. My work isn't to profit, it's to ask Joss Whedon, in the form of a short-short, to continue the storytelling. Because frankly, I cannot rest on the heels of the film. I just can't.

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Originally posted by pennausamike:
The BDM Serenity is a classic compared to other movies.
But it falls short of the series.

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Originally posted by Freebrowncoat:
How ong was it after the first Star Trek that the sequels came out? I still am holding out, gloomily, the faint hope for more Firefly.

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