Serenity'd!

[icepixie]

Managed to get to Columbus last night to see Serentiy (because why would the theatre in Mt. Vernon play it, after all?). Yay!

- So...yeah. Whedon didn't spend a decade working on a vampire show AT ALL. That wasn't a GIANT WOODEN STAKE or anything. Nope. Not at all. (Wash! Wah!)

- Everything to do with the Reavers was awesome. Seeing Serenity all painted with red and with skeletons hanging off it definitely gave me chills. Then the whole passel of Reaver ships coming out of the nebula after them was definitely the best moment in the movie. Hee.

- The parallels to Serenity Valley during the endless firefight at the end were quite nice, even if two-thirds of the way through I was getting a little bored. I can only take so much gunfire.

- "You mean...like sex? The hell with this, I'm gonna live!" I'm kind of "eh" on the whole Simon/Kaylee thing, but that was worth it.

- Mal/Inara came across better on the big screen than they did on TV. Not much better, still a little forced, but not as painful. The "Notice how we weren't fighting? Trap!" line was great.

- And...Book doesn't have the 'fro. I miss the 'fro. I won't miss Book all that much now that he's, y'know, dead, but I will miss his hair.

- I have nothing to say about the actual, oh, PLOT of the movie. Just that I was glad they addressed both River and the Reavers, and managed to connect them in a fairly artful way.

- The speakers at the theater had something VERY strange going on with them...they bumped up everybody's voice about half an octave. Jayne was highly amusing like that, and Mal sounded a little on the chipmunky side. I really didn't like what it did to Zoe's and Kaylee's voices, and River sounded about five. It was actually really annoying. But oh, well. That may have been part of the reason why it didn't seem to translate as well to the big screen as I thought it would.

- Speaking of which...final verdict: much like the TV show. Not particularly groundbreaking, and I can't point to things I really like about it, but strangely addictive anyway. In a kind of, "Well, one day I'll want to see more...not today, maybe not this year, but someday..." way, at any rate.

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It was our monthly shift at the Humane Society this morning. Puppies! Kitties! There was one half-grown kitten, Marcy, who attempted to climb into everyone's ears. If necessary, she would jump onto you from three feet away. Craaaazy kitty. Then there was the sociopath cat, who reminded me of Cat. Mmmm, antisocial cats. Plus, two-month old wriggly shepherd puppies. Awwwwww.

And now...laundry. And studying. Yes.

Comments

[cleverocity.livejournal.com]

I can only take so much gunfire.

Yeah, me too.
Yay Serenity!

[elflore.livejournal.com]

You saw it...woohoo yay thanks! *g*

Still don't get your not-crazy-love yet ;?P, but still glad you liked it. (And the three times I've seen it in 3 different theaters, the sound was great, so that wasn't right!)

And Mal and Inara might win you over yet. *g* C'mon, how can you not love their last conversation (and the subtleness of the writing, yay!)? ;?P

[icepixie]

Still don't get your not-crazy-love yet ;?P, but still glad you liked it.

I think it has to be a Whedon thing. It must.

(And the three times I've seen it in 3 different theaters, the sound was great, so that wasn't right!)

I thought it had something to do with this theatre. I'm sure I'll see it once it comes out on DVD, preferably with non-chipmunky sound.

And Mal and Inara might win you over yet. *g* C'mon, how can you not love their last conversation (and the subtleness of the writing, yay!)? ;?P

Um, subtle? *raises eyebrow* I'd go more with "anvilicious" as an adjective, but each to their own... (Forced 'ship bugs me beyond all reason.)

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Whedon thing? Could be. I got into Firefly/Serenity *because* of the Whedonness myself...I really do love his dialogue style(s). (They're somewhat the same throughout his shows, though obviously you've got the western twist in Firefly.) I find them Shakespearean, lyrical in odd ways...and just plain hysterical. But to each their own!

Sorry about the chipmunks. :?P

And by subtle, I was thinking mostly of "I'm...not sure." "Good answer...", and the fact that we *didn't* get smoochies or sudden declarations of "everything we've just been through made me realize I always DID love you!", which I think we would have in the hands of many lesser writer/directors. That's anvilicious to me. So...yeah, I'll stick by my 'subtle' judgement, for my own self at least. ;?P

[icepixie]

Whedon's dialogue is awesome. I don't like his storytelling so much, but I love the one-liners he manages to put in everywhere, and the speech patterns of all the characters. So like the way I and most people I know talk, excpet funnier. *g*

we *didn't* get smoochies or sudden declarations of "everything we've just been through made me realize I always DID love you!"

I think that moves on from "anvilicious" to "I walk out of the theatre" territory, actually. ;) I dunno...the exchange, while technically falling under the "guidelines of "subtle," just seemed forced to me, and kind of "oh, look, they have CHEMISTRY! Don't you see it? They're gonna bicker into the sunset together!" And ordinarily I would be all over that (hello, Maggie/Joel (Northern Exposure) and Maddie/David shipper from way back), but this one just does not fly for me.

Yeah, I'm weird. I'll go stand in my mutant outgrowth corner now. ;)

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I do love Whedon's storytelling myself...the layered plot and character arcs, the way he can keep such big ensemble casts both distinctive (even though I love FS as much as Joss' shows, I don't have the same trouble deciding definitively on my favorite characters!) and busy (I find he juggles the focus on various characters in the cast better within any individual story than just about anyone)...the way he thinks everything through on so many levels. It's amazing reading his production memoes for the film (in the Visual Companion book) and seeing how every aspect of the movie...music, camera angles, lighting, sound, fight choreography, etc...was all planned out to serve, reflect and develop the characters and the story. I learn so much as a writer, and as someone who wants to work in TV and film someday, both from watching his work and listening to his commentaries.

But...that is of course me, and we all enjoy different styles.

Definitely agree on the dialogue, though! His folks talk like shippers. *g* (Granted, many of the shippers are fans of and influenced by the Collective Works of Mr Whedon...but still!)

*Shrugs again on Mal/Inara* I love their bicker-into-the-sunset routine...they're probably my favorite such couple, really. (Excepting J&A, but I think they really outgrew a lot of the bickering.) I love how they can be so disrespectful and adoring of each other at the same time, and really mean it all, because they love each other without yet quite understanding the other person's life. And then you get the little glimmers that deep down they're not so different....

Don't mind me, I'm a mushball. :?P And you don't have to stand in the corner, we like our mutant outgrowths! ;?)

[icepixie]

Whedon's good at giving each character something to do in an episode. I think the plots sometimes suffer and don't hang together very well, though, although whether it's a result of that or not, I don't know.

And you don't have to stand in the corner, we like our mutant outgrowths! ;?)

Dude, I got told to stand in a cube once on the shipperlist. (I believe the entire thing went something along the lines of "You need to stand in so many corners you should just go stand in a cube.") Hee.

[elflore.livejournal.com]

And a very belated reply fer ya here tonight...

I myself love Whedon's plotting...part of that might be having gone through all of Buffy & Angel and seen how he plots season arcs, which I love (especially how he interweaves the big plots with the small, and the ongoing actual growth of characters...reminds me of Harry Potter in that way, especially with Buffy--watching people grow through 7 very realistic years of life in a fantasy setting). But I do also just enjoy the stories he chose to tell with Firefly & Serenity. *shrugs*

And as for the list sending you to a cube...I think that was a DRD porn thing, which is a whole other issue! *snerk*

[icepixie]

Plotting: I was speaking mostly of the plots on a per-episode basis, which IMO are sometimes weak and could go through a bit of tightening. I won't argue with you about character arcs, which I think are a rather different animal.

And as for the list sending you to a cube...I think that was a DRD porn thing, which is a whole other issue! *snerk*

Oh no, this was a couple years before the DRD porn. I think it was a combination of the Pricness Bride and Beatles things. I don't even want to know what Al (the person who sent me to the cube) would have thought of that. *g*

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Fair enough on the plots...we can agree to disagree there. :?)

As for the Mutant Outgrowth thing...Beatles and Princess Bride? I'm not sure I know the story...I know Jodie doesn't like Princess Bride...you don't like PB either, or Beatles? Can't say I understand it, but I would never send you to the corner for it. ;?P

[icepixie]

I dislike both TPB and the Beatles, much like Jodie. :)

[elflore.livejournal.com]

I think we can let it slide. For now. ;?)

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

Hehe, you know, the stake thing? Wash had a friggin' target on his chest. Those rubber-like leiderhosen/suspender things that he was wearing that went over his chest? There's a big square right in the middle of it. They hit about half the target (below it as well, I think).

Yes, I did see it again. ;)

*still feel bad for Zoe*

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

Oh, just wanted to let you know a postcard is on its way to you as of this afternoon. Shiny. :)

[icepixie]

Oooh, yay!

[icepixie]

HA!

Okay, I'm really amused by that. Totally didn't notice it at all.