Serenity ~ The Movie ReDux
Serenity ~ The Movie: I attended the preview in Albany, NY, last night (Regal Theatres/Crossgates Cinema 18, theater 1) with my friend and fellow conspirator and sci-fi adventurer Bill Bortis - reader, thinker, movie buff extraordinaire.
We went early to avoid the aficcianado rush for seats and stood around chatting for about 15 minutes in line and seated for another 30 before the film began ~ with a rush!
The rest of the film left us clucking to one another from time to time but not indulging the distraction of speech lest it intefere with the direct line infusion of cinematic elemental excitements, of which there are more than aplenty.
I'm not one for spoiler info (or the endless repetition of star and starlet names) so this thin gruel is merely meant to tell you, it's worth your eight bucks now and your tivo time later. Here goes:
Character building (and destruction) were more than adequate to the task at hand (attempting to bolster the audience for Firefly!, I suppose), and the plot thickened well without going too too overboard, as these things have a tendency to do.
As for plot -- let's call it storyline: the movie leaned heavily of scenes from the original Star Wars, Episode 4: that heavily armed cruiser coming into overhead view like a prophetic cloud tight at the outset but not so cloyingly similar as to make one say "Oh, gosh, can't they do better'n this?" Later on, "the mule" arrives at a desert outpost in a manner befitting the arrival of OB and Luke to garner transport at excessive cost: this time the cost was reversed in favor of the good guys, thanks to a couple of lucky but seemingly ofhand trigger pulls by Captain Reynolds, one of which sends one miserable soul chasing the gold that lies at the end of rainbows.
Downs included the prettiness of the Princess Bride-to-Be and the only too well telegraphed reappearance of Mr. ? in future epsidoes yet to be unveiled on a tv (or DVD showing) coming to your livingroom just as soon as enough of you get out there and begin shaking the trees to make it happen. You'll want to ... or you think the dialogue of this movie (and the series) is just too too much by way of cuteness; but I have to tell you -- the audience around me cracked up at some sharp lines and applauded with others in a way I have not seen in many many a viewing, maybe many a year.
Serenity ~ The Movie ReDux
We went early to avoid the aficcianado rush for seats and stood around chatting for about 15 minutes in line and seated for another 30 before the film began ~ with a rush!
The rest of the film left us clucking to one another from time to time but not indulging the distraction of speech lest it intefere with the direct line infusion of cinematic elemental excitements, of which there are more than aplenty.
I'm not one for spoiler info (or the endless repetition of star and starlet names) so this thin gruel is merely meant to tell you, it's worth your eight bucks now and your tivo time later. Here goes:
Character building (and destruction) were more than adequate to the task at hand (attempting to bolster the audience for Firefly!, I suppose), and the plot thickened well without going too too overboard, as these things have a tendency to do.
As for plot -- let's call it storyline: the movie leaned heavily of scenes from the original Star Wars, Episode 4: that heavily armed cruiser coming into overhead view like a prophetic cloud tight at the outset but not so cloyingly similar as to make one say "Oh, gosh, can't they do better'n this?" Later on, "the mule" arrives at a desert outpost in a manner befitting the arrival of OB and Luke to garner transport at excessive cost: this time the cost was reversed in favor of the good guys, thanks to a couple of lucky but seemingly ofhand trigger pulls by Captain Reynolds, one of which sends one miserable soul chasing the gold that lies at the end of rainbows.
Downs included the prettiness of the Princess Bride-to-Be and the only too well telegraphed reappearance of Mr. ? in future epsidoes yet to be unveiled on a tv (or DVD showing) coming to your livingroom just as soon as enough of you get out there and begin shaking the trees to make it happen. You'll want to ... or you think the dialogue of this movie (and the series) is just too too much by way of cuteness; but I have to tell you -- the audience around me cracked up at some sharp lines and applauded with others in a way I have not seen in many many a viewing, maybe many a year.
Serenity ~ The Movie ReDux
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