Saturday, September 24, 2005
Serenity
If I like a TV show on broadcast TV, it's pretty much doomed. I liked Firefly a lot (and even bought the DVD). It was cancelled after eleven episodes with three shows left in the can. So I am very enthusiastic about the movie version of Firefly, Serenity, which is opening next Friday, the last day of September. This is fun science fiction. I am so sick of comic books-to-movies standing in for real science fiction, I could scream. I'm so looking forward to this movie.
The Serenity is a Firefly class space ship, 500 years in the future, named after the tide-turning battle for the rebellion in which some of the crew fought. They lost. There's a little bit of western mixed in with the science fiction but that's not a bad thing. As Steve Miller said so well: I'm a space cowboy, bet you weren't ready for that. Be ready for Serenity.
UPDATE: Here's a synopsis of the movie: Joss Whedon, the Oscar® - and Emmy - nominated writer/director responsible for the worldwide television phenomena of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE, ANGEL and FIREFLY, now applies his trademark compassion and wit to a small band of galactic outcasts 500 years in the future in his feature film directorial debut, Serenity. The film centers around Captain Malcolm Reynolds, a hardened veteran (on the losing side) of a galactic civil war, who now ekes out a living pulling off small crimes and transport-for-hire aboard his ship, Serenity. He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thing he has left to family –squabbling, insubordinate and undyingly loyal.
The Serenity is a Firefly class space ship, 500 years in the future, named after the tide-turning battle for the rebellion in which some of the crew fought. They lost. There's a little bit of western mixed in with the science fiction but that's not a bad thing. As Steve Miller said so well: I'm a space cowboy, bet you weren't ready for that. Be ready for Serenity.
UPDATE: Here's a synopsis of the movie: Joss Whedon, the Oscar® - and Emmy - nominated writer/director responsible for the worldwide television phenomena of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE, ANGEL and FIREFLY, now applies his trademark compassion and wit to a small band of galactic outcasts 500 years in the future in his feature film directorial debut, Serenity. The film centers around Captain Malcolm Reynolds, a hardened veteran (on the losing side) of a galactic civil war, who now ekes out a living pulling off small crimes and transport-for-hire aboard his ship, Serenity. He leads a small, eclectic crew who are the closest thing he has left to family –squabbling, insubordinate and undyingly loyal.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 8:28 PM 
