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Bundled up in jackets, mittens, and, of course, hats. Ana's got this hat that she loves, with stripes and earflaps and all.

In truth, it's a Jayne hat. It's fleece, not knit, but it's still a Jayne hat. So today, I caved.

"You know, Ana - girl wears a hat like that, you know she's not afraid of anything."

Of course, as I said that I managed to accidentally pull it over her eyes, setting off the terrified sobs of DOOOOM. After I fixed it, she told me, in no uncertain terms "No, Connie, I *am* afraid of anything - don't put the hat on my eyes! That scared me!"

*sighs*

Can you take $11 out of my next paycheck, and buy a ticket to see Serenity again?

I'll force myself to sit through it because, um, it supports a good cause.

Yeah. That's why.

I need the picture of Malcolm Reynolds naked, in that one episode. She wants the one where she can see his tattoo, but any'll do.

*looks around*

No, really! This is for a friend! darkangelmuse. Girl never updates her journal, but she's real.

Edit: This reminds me - Puppet Theaters Presents Serenity. Go giggle.

Prior to the movie: They warned us to get there at least 45 minutes before 7. Now, that would've been good advice if they hadn't given it out wholesale. Instead, all they did was ensure that the people who would've gotten there at 7 got there at 6:15, and those who would've gotten there at 6:15 got there at 5:30, and so on.

Fortunately, I anticipated this, and planned to be there as early as humanly possible. Because of this, I got a decent seat. Not as good a seat as I would've liked, but as good as I could get given my refusal to sit next to *two* people I didn't know.

( The movie, with spoilers )

In short, quite a good movie.

And a question. You ever have that feeling like suddenly you get cold, and your skin from your scap downwards seems to tighten, and then you jumpshake and it's good? Like a sneeze? Because I get that, and today it was like a sneeze you don't sneeze, and then since it really was cold I spent the rest of the day feeling off-balance because of it. Tres annoying.

This time, I'm asking for people to post links to other entries (or articles, whatever) on Serenity, just stick a warning on if it's spoileriffic.

I'm reading the synopsis again.

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.

I've already discussed some of my problems with this synopsis before. However, just to take a break from that, can anybody point out the glaring error that I somehow missed the first 40 times I read this? Go ahead. See if you can find it. I'll wait.

*hums a little*

Anybody? Anybody?

Yes, that's right! Buffy is indeed not a vampire! No doubt she'd make a really cool vampire, but at the moment, she's just a vampire slayer (and sometimes lover, but we don't talk about that).

I have a bit of a question here. Why do all movie synopses sound alike? I mean, there's some change, but really, they fall into a few categories: This is a romance, this is a drama, this is a comedy, and this is an action film; and a lot of times it takes some effort to even distinguish between those categories. Do they not want their movies to stand out? I stand by Joss' synopsis (hee!), which I posted earlier:

[I]f I was going to pitch "Serenity," I'd say it's a space adventure that involves the lowliest of people in the most mundane of circumstances getting caught up in something giant and epic -- without lasers, aliens, or force-fields to protect them.

That sounds like a movie! The other sounds like a string of words.

Or, compare these session films...
...with the actual trailers.

Now, the spots taken directly from the movie, with (one assumes) a minumum of editing are great. I want to see the movie. The trailers... well, they're made up of scenes from the movie, sure... but in such a way that they managed to turn a movie based on a show that will even say quite long things in Chinese, that is fairly non-conventional, into... trailers that look like every other action movie on the planet. The session tapes are vague and creepifying. The trailers are predictable. Shots of the ship, pictures of everyone with a somewhat inspiring quote, ACTIONINSPACE!, 'badass' end to the quote, Universal logo, planet, OMGJOSSWHEDON!, cool music that sounds like the music in every other actiony movie in the world, guns - quotes - backstory, implied conflict, bad guy, more bad guy and DEATH, fight scene, critic's quotes which are recycled by the dozen, semi-funny quote, scenes flashing faster, serenity logo, you can't stop the signal.

Except for the last line, it could be any movie, anywhere. Fortunately, I have more faith in this movie than I do in those trailers. And I know, a lot of people were oohing and ahhing over those trailers. Well, they're certainly cool - but movie trailers generally are. They're supposed to be. They're also generic. They're supposed to be.

If you've watched Firefly, you probably already plan on seeing the movie, and don't need any more encouragement.

If you haven't - well, I'm told that Serenity is very newbie-friendly. Don't let your lack of having seen Firefly stop you, and don't let the genericness of the trailers stop you either. Hell, don't even be stopped by the fact that the people in charge of the screening passes I'm hopefully getting didn't even trust us to advertise the movie in our own way, like most of us had been off-and-on doing for months, but instead insisted on a certain format: This sucky synopsis and the official site, and here's some pictures, by the way (will show some pictures in a cut). That's not just evilly corporate, it's insulting. They want people to advertise in their journals and blogs? Fine, that's a fair trade to see a movie for free, since we want to see it, it's not that big a deal. But we have to follow their rules, when even their synopsis sucks? *dramatic eyeroll*

I'm taking a new tack. This entry is getting emailed to them. Oh, along with the other ones, but I'm just in a bad mood, and that's no time to be a hypocrite, wanting to see a movie about people who break the law, and yet still try to do the right thing against a monolithic entity, while still conforming to what The Man wants me to do in my own journal!

Lucky I still have some of the money my Bonne-maman sent me, huh?

Now, time for those pictures!

LEGO Serenity! He's even got crew members! It's so cool... I mean, shiny, it's really shiny.

Youse guys have all already seen movie posters and whatnot, so I won't bore you :)

I remember this as the weakest episode, so here's hoping my memory is flawed.

Bah. They're living in the aluminum plated whorehouse (literally) in the land of sexist rapists, and they can't find a better place to move to? And Petalene (the hell?) can't hide someplace better than the entryway? What was she doing, listening at the door with a glass?

Oh yeah, and Mal and Inara aren't gonna have sex anytime soon. Stupid people.

Edit: I just love River, staring at this pregnant woman, full of concentration. "Mine too", like of course she's part of that conversation :)

Edit again: Yeah, that's why I didn't like this episode. ENOUGH WITH THE PRE-SEX CHATTER! JUST FUCK ALREADY!

Edit the third: Y'know, if *I* were getting my information from a confirmed stool pigeon, I'd wait until *after* the fight to demean and humiliate (not to mention rape) her. I'm just sayin'. And there's another person who talks too much. Can't you just rape her? Do you have to give a whole, impassioned, misgynistic speech to your pitchfork-carrying, torch-waving mob? I mean, really.

Fourth edit: Well, gee, Inara, I can't imagine why he slept with your friend instead of you! It couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that you're constantly insulting him and telling him, to his face, how little you think of him, could it? Nah. That's just silly.

Remember the post I made advertising Serenity?

You know, the movie that "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."?

It seems everybody trying to get into their respective screenings is posting while also pointing out that they're posting so they can get into their screenings. While that certainly does show devotion, I'm not so sure it's going to work for any of us. I mean, it's kinda blatant that people are following the letter of the law, not the spirit.

That said, can more of you comment in these things, make me look ridiculously popular and influential, and just the sort of person who should get to see an advance screening of a movie so she can advertise it to people who love her, listen to her, and would go to see this movie no matter what she said? Just, y'know, reply and make me look like I've got a massive fanbase of my own.

God, I *am* pathetic.

SEE HOW DESPERATE I AM TO SEE THIS MOVIE? SEEEEEEEEE? YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE I GET A SPOT, YOU SCREENING PEOPLE! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!!!!!!

This had better work, or else I'll be sitting here complaining about it.

Edit: Here, sitting here. God, I'm so desperate that I'm making typoes. See how much I wanna see this movie in advance, kind screening people? You love me and want to help me. Right? Right.

Edit again: How about a firefly layout? Would that be overkill? If I did that, could I change it back to my old layout once I'd seen the movie?

Depends on how much they overbooked it, right? *dramatic eyeroll* I obviously can't wait on line for hours and hours with the kid, so instead I'm going to drop Ana off with Jenn, and head there myself. Although I'll be done with the kid *later* than usual, I'll be by the area far *earlier* than I'd be if I wait for 'dul - he's supposed to be home by 4:30, he's often not, the earliest boat I could possibly catch is the 5:00, meaning I'd be in Manhattan no earlier than 5:25, and then I'd still have to head up to 34th street. No fun there.

The official synopsis is as follows:

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.

Hate to say it, but the official synopsis sucks.

Firstly, the way they state it makes it sound as though this movie is something altogether new. It's not, of course - it's the movie that has to do with Firefly. (I mean, duh!)

And it makes the whole thing sound a lot sappier than the show was, and hopefully the movie is. I mean, c'mon, does this look like a sappy movie? I didn't think so.

As for undyingly loyal... right. I'm sure Jayne would be tickled to be described as undyingly loyal after the way he betrayed them.

Well, youse all know what Firefly is, I don't have to describe the show to you. Which is good, because I hate doing that sort of thing. Come to think of it, youse all know about this movie by now, and already know if you're seeing it or not. So I'm promoting it why, exactly? Oh right. Because if I'm really good, I get a Jayne hat. Wait, no... Oh right. Because I might not *get* to see the movie, so I have to talk about it before it shows. I got $100 from my grandmother, and I'm spending it on shoes, pants, and maybe a shirt. Not even a new bra, which I also need. (And I guess a book or two for Ana would come out of that $100. I'm thinking Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Where the Wild Things Are. Love those books.)

So, basically, it's like this: I like Firefly. It's a good show. It's interesting. It could've gone farther than it did. (Same thing for Gargoyles, which was also struck down before its time, but that's another rant....) So I want to see the movie. If you haven't seen Firefly, I suggest you either watch it now or ignore me. Whatever.

*checks watch*

Yeah, I've typed enough. I was going to download some pretty pictures, but they couldn't be opened. I'll find other pictures later, and demand icons or something. Because I'm a whiny, demanding person. Plus, getting fascinated with stuff like this is a good distraction from worrying about the recent spate of hurricanes. I know people... a person, rather... in Galveston, I have family (well, I have an uncle we don't talk to or about, and a grandmother who might be dead years ago, and my father's grave) in Texas. I don't want to worry.

Some of this stuff would likely have been addressed if the series had continued - it may even be addressed in the movie. Other stuff... not so much.

( Read more... )

1. See, I've already seen the Firefly episodes. I was already planning on watching Serenity. Now... I want to do it sooner. I like movie trailers. They always get me prepared to watch (and mock!) a movie. *hums happily*

Just remember: I mock, because I love.

2. atlantapendrag has an interesting post up, which led to this interesting HP-related thread. Anybody want to help me write this series of criticizing-individual-characters-from-the-books? I'll give out imaginary kittens to all who participate! Bonus points for complimenting characters everybody hates, like Umbridge, or Chamberlain Fudge.

Edit: I love this icon, but I'm thinking I may want to modify the quote. Or, rather, I may want to ask youse guys to modify the quote for me. Lemme see if I can find a different one. Um. Wait, anybody willing to do this? If yes, then lemme see if I can find a different one.

Edit again: ( Possible quotes )

Quote-finding is a pain sometimes.