Serenity reviews...

[fullcontactmuse]

So I’ve been thumbing through some of the negative reviews of Serenity to see what people didn’t like about the movie. For me, this can be useful information in finding out what people didn’t like to take that into consideration in my writing. However, some of these are just too damn funny not to laugh at.



Here are a few…

“Reavers are a stupid idea. They're basically space zombies, right? They were caused by a gas that makes them want to kill everyone, but NOT EACH OTHER. And they've still got enough intelligence to fly planes.”

Space zombies! Hmmm, more brains, less for you! You didn’t pay attention in class either, did you?

The title of this next comment from whence the except comes is, and I’m being completely honest about this, “Sleep inducing right wing propaganda.”

“The core seed of the film is that people who want peace are destroying the world by creating hyper-violence. (I know, it doesn't make any sense.) In particular, the people who want peace are trying to do so by giving everyone a drug called Pax (latin for peace.) According to the movie, the drug suppresses people's natural and healthful impulse toward aggression, and thus makes them hyper-violent.”

This one probably cracks me up the most. I’ve never seen “Big Brother” themes to be “right wing propaganda” whether is was 1984 or Brazil. Of course, this man has probably never seen Brazil nor read 1984. Utopian societies tend to collapse under the weight of a government trying to enforce the utopian state.

Comments

[owlsamantha.livejournal.com]

My negatives about the movie...
- Jayne went from being big, dumb, viloent and somewhat lovable to just being plain mean :(
- Mal had a stick up his ass for most of the movie (granted it worked with the plot but lighten up and call Inarra dude!)
- Simon! Simon, the man I love to hate ended up being...likable.
- Wash :( Made all the sadder if you remember in the episode called Heart of Gold that Zoe really wanted to have a baby, his baby :(

My positives about the movie...
- I think that Joss Whedon must be a Shakespeare fan. How else would he have know to name a place where innocence was lost and things went horribly, horribly wrong, Miranda?
- I think this opens things up very nicely for season two of the tv show.
- Mal has read one, one poem in his lifetime :)
- This sequence:

[owlsamantha.livejournal.com]

Darn it, I hit tab and it replied before I was done...

Mean Guy Chasing River [to Mal]: I know what you're trying to do. No matter what you do you will not succeed in making me angry.
Inarra: Please, spend an hour alone with him!

Bwahahahahahahaha! I loved that!

[digitaleopard.livejournal.com]

For a quick synopsis of any movie's reviews by virtually every reviewer that is taken seriously enough to get free passes, visit rottentomatoes.com.

Of the 119 reviewers that they scan, 80% gave Serenity a positive review. The negatives fall into a handful of categories:

1) I didn't understand it because I couldn't be bothered to find out the basic facts about the show (From critics sneering at the idea of making a movie from a show that didn't last one season, who can't be bothered to hear about the terrible botch that USA made of the airings.)

2) Miscellaneous commentary about flat storytelling and a lack of compelling characters; these show that the critic was asleep during the movie.

3) General complaints about the shooting style, level of effects, and overall TV-episode feel: Fine, give us another $40 mil for ILM (doubling the budget) and we'll make the effects as spiffy as the dialogue.

4) If you aren't into the show, you needn't see the movie. This is a GOOD argument; anyone who isn't already into the show simply cannot fully appreciate the movie. This is a nasty failing on Joss Whedon's part; he should have done more to draw in newbies. This, of course, is why we should be introducing people to the DVD's.

My favorite was the review by the idiot from USA TODAY who managed to misquote Mal when talking to Inarra: "I missed you something fierce."

Still, 80% positive for a SF flick with a small fanbase is pretty spiffy, IMO.

[bysmael.livejournal.com]

MSN gave it four stars, something I almost never see them do.

My thoughts on the Reavers is that they lost all compunction against doing violence to others and themselves they also did not lose their ability to reason or a need for a social grouping. They had a technical proficiency, but they leaked radiation like crazy. Meaning they really didn't care about their own safety.

[rank1mage.livejournal.com]

My Dad and I went to see this on opening day...

He, not really into movies too much, said it reminded him of a western. And his main gripe was a) the mixing of high and low-tech in the same ship, and b) them using weapons from WWII.

That said, he still really liked the movie, and he's never seen the show.

I loved the film, I laughed, I cried, and was only slightly pissed when they mucked up the character profiles.

My only remaining question, "What ever happened to the guys with the blue hands?"

[fullcontactmuse.livejournal.com]

I don't think the guys with the blue hands have gone away, I think it was them that sicked the Operative on Mal and his crew.

I want to know who Shepperd Book was in his past life.