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dturco · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:00 am Post subject: Firefly/ Serenity

I know I not the only one here who has seen this Series/movie. So is the signal still alive? Or am I out of gas?

Mr. Green · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:08 am Post subject:

Watched both. Enjoyed both. Too bad it was cut short.

Dollhouse is pretty interesting.

dturco · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:16 am Post subject:

Mr Green can you tell that my avatar is River?

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

it's a shame they had to cram the last 2 or 3 seasons into a 2 hour movie. That would have been an awesome series to watch. Speaking of which, what the F happened to Battlestar Galactica season 4 on DVD?

dturco · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:24 am Post subject:

Oddly Enough I have never watched the new Battlestar Galactica. Cylons are supposed to be robots Evil or Very Mad

Mr. Green · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:47 am Post subject:

I've heard the new Battlestar is good, but I too haven't watched any of it.

Now that you mention it, I can see it, but no, I thought it was art work from an anime' movie or comic.

Speaking of anime' "Appleseed Ex Machina" in Blu-Ray was really good.

http://www.warnervideo.com/appleseed/

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

looks like they just released episode 4 on DVD yipee.
the first 3 seasons were really good, but they're pretty dark and I guess it would be hard to do a cheery presentation of humanity's extermination. The Cylon's are mostly metal, or "tin can's as the humans call them. There are 12 flesh models though, and some of them are HOT Twisted Evil

dturco · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:21 am Post subject:

Well maybe I'll watch an episode someday. Just not today. It can't be all bad it get good reviews. I just don't want to ruin my memories of the Lorne Greene versions. Childhood memories are always better when in your head.Then we watch the 25 year old shows and shoot it all to hell with are new found wisdom/views. Sad

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:28 am Post subject:

Funny you should mention that.

I first saw Star Wars when I was 4 years old. I was tainted for life after that. I've watched the original unmolested 1977 version around 600+ times in the last 35+ years.

I was talking to a friend of mine who didn't see Star Wars until she was 32. She just kind of shrugged it off "Meh...it was ok, nothing special" Shocked

I told her it was because she was jaded by life and couldn't see the movie for what it was. She just couldn't understand my devotion to the ancient relig.....wait no that's not it. She couldn't understand my devotion to a movie made in the '70's. She lambasted the "crappy" special effects. Then she slapped me in the falcon...I mean face ( figuratively ). She said Independence day was a better movie because the effects look better. WTF??! That movie had no character development, shallow story line and has a rewatchability value of about 0.0001%! Women!

Maybe I was having delusions of grandeur Wink

Tom.W · Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 6635

Take care of that Falcon ! Or even better let her do it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPOBPfeDqfc

Wink

dturco · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:05 pm Post subject:

I spit out my coffe while watching that . PRICELESS.

dturco · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 2:20 pm Post subject:

To this day when watching the MOLESTED VERSIONS of Starwars ,I cringe at the added so called "Bonus special effects" Han talking to, Jabba ,singing muppet thing, and the absolute worst offense Anakin's ghostly visage with Obi- one replaced with that new kid. If you want to do this to movies at least make it an alternate version and give us a choice if we want to see your crappy ...ahem revision. Evil or Very Mad

garyfritz · Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 12088 Location: Fort Collins, CO

Amen to that.

Back to the original question dturco -- I have never seen Firefly *or* Serenity. But I have the full season of Firefly on DVD and keep intending to watch it so I can watch Serenity.

I was a huge Babylon 5 fan. Sounds like Firefly would have been at least as good if it had been given a chance to develop.

ecrabb · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:35 pm Post subject:

Hmmm... I never saw Firefly, but if it was anything like Serenity, then I'll pass. I had some buddies over last year when I first had the theater up and running, and we watched Serenity on HD DVD. Everybody was pretty underwhelmed - even a little disappointed. Even one of my sci-fi friends wasn't impressed.

I thought the acting and production values were very good in some places and pretty pathetic in others. Because of that, it had a very "made for TV" feel - which totally turned me off. I guess based on the first part of the movie and all the fans' comments about how great the series was, I was expecting something more refined and better executed. For me, anyway, it started off pretty well, and went down-hill the longer it went on. By the end, it seemed more like a TV pilot than a movie. Sorry. Signal not received.

SC

dturco · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:36 pm Post subject:

Great a Babylon 5 Fan is just enough off center to appreciate Firefly .That is a compliment Thumbs Up

dturco · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:44 pm Post subject:

S C Yep it's not for every one. And it is sort of made for T.V. as it was made to keep the very loyal Browncoats appeased/happy.
And has done that well. Wink

draganm · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 8990 Location: Colorado

If you try and watch the movie without watching the series your in for a big dissapiontment. It's all about the opening theme song to the series. I think it's the coolest theme song ever written for a TV show.

http://www.fireflywiki.org/img/Ballad_of_Serenity.mp3

Dammit, who the hell bought up this topic. Every time I think about I want to burn down the Fox studio's for f*cking it up and then canceling it, MORON's. Thumbs Down

Joust · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:16 pm Post subject:

ecrabb · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:21 pm Post subject: