I went and saw Serenity tonight. Yes, for the 1st time. As an aside, I waited until the 17th week before I went and saw Star Wars in 1977. I see no need to be in a hurry for something that’ll be around for a while.
OK, I’ll pause while some of you pick yourselves up off of the floor. You may want to sit down now though before I go any further.
$7 with my student discount; was it worth it? Hmmm, nope. See I told you to sit down. Although it was better than the last few movies I saw at the "regular" theater.
It was a pretty good action movie. I’ll grant it that. I enjoyed it. But I see absolutely no reason for all the fuss! Except, of course, the immense viral marketing ploy—much of it not even by the studio, but by fans of "Firefly."
Some people love baseball or some other sport, some love opera or some other fine performance art, and many love TV and its spin-offs.
It was a good movie and I may even buy it, eventually, when it comes out on DVD. But that $7 and 2+ hours could have been spent more productively until it is out on DVD.
Don’t hate me. We all value different things. And, for me, this was just another over-valued pop culture phenom.
Well, let me misbehave with you then. I am one of the few (if any) who will wait for the movie to come on DVD. Not because I think it may be bad. Actually, all I have heard has been positive. Granted much of it comes from fans, who seem to have an overblown proportion of the marketing operation. Then again, the internet is a wonderful thing, allows that word of mouth to move so fast. However, the couple of people who are not fans have been mostly positive too. In my case, I am not much of a theater going person. I have had one or two bad experiences of cell phones, rudeness, and so on, that unless the movie is an event on the scale of LOTR, I can wait. Now, feel free to pick yourself off the floor.
Best.
I tried to watch it (the second time through) with a non-fan’s eyes, and I decided that if you weren’t already in love with the characters and the world, then it’s probably just a pretty good action sci-fi movie.
Sounds like I wasn’t far off, eh?
Thanks for the input Jenica. Yep, I agree, it is “a pretty good action sci-fi movie.” I just want better than “pretty good” for $7 (as a student) and having to sneak in water even.
Angel, I agree about the theater, at least the typical “Hollywood” theater. I used to go, and boy do I sure miss it, to the “art” theater a lot. I probably saw 25-30 independent, foreign, and some classic films a year. It cost $3 and then $4 as a student, and all snacks were only $1 each. Yes, $1. And the concession stand was in the theater so you didn’t have to miss anything.
It is the Normal Theater in Normal, IL and is a restored 1930s art deco theater owned by the town as a non-profit. It is simply an incredible place. And the patrons seem to be cut from a much better sort of cloth than those at the GKCs of the world.
http://www.normaltheater.com/
We have two “art” theaters here in Champaign-Urbana but they are further from me than the Normal was, they cost more, and snacks aren’t as cheap. Just not the same somehow.
Boy do I ever miss the Normal!