Review - Mystery movie
Sep. 20th, 2005 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackIt was in fact Serenity. Was that a spoiler? :)
OK, first part of the review. Here I deal with general things only and the trip itself. If you want to form your own impressions, avoid, but it should be free of any plot spoilers except perhaps the most incidental, so non-devotees should be ok.
Wow wow wow wow. That was amazing and great. I partly felt obliged to like it because it's in, and I liked the series, but it really was very good. I hope this translates into more series!
I almost always come out of a movie going "Great (or crap) but what about [plot hole] and [physics blooper]?" Here I was just speachless :)
There was not as much hype as I'd expected, but there was a cinema full of people hoping to see Serenity. I'm glad for the staff's fault it was, lynchings were mooted if otherwise. Anticipation rose all through the trailers ("if we see a serenity trailer, we're leaving, ok?") and when the name appeared everyone sighed with relief, and there was a chorus of little 'whew's and 'yes's and then the tiniest voice in the silence 'doh' which I assume was a joke.
It had lots and lots of the great funny one-liners. You *don't* need recorded laughter to make a joke funny, some things are, in a way that everyone knows but is hard to define, funny just because they're the way they are. Even in mortal peril situations.
It absorbed and filled in a lot of the universe and character backgrounds. Many films feel tacked on because the series wrapped everything up and they need some sort of one-off disaster to write a film around. Here it feels like a logical extension, nearly as if the series was a backstory to *it*; and would fit great into the continuity as a climax to the first series between it and the next. Did I already mention it was absolutely fucking amazing?
It was cinematographic. I'm not much good at telling, but I didn't think "Ick, it's a tv programme on a big screen" but "OMG space battles bigger than I am." And it's good to have true grimy feel to cheap ships rather than all squeaky.
The plot didn't feel forced or anything, there was action at the beginning that was independantly clear, but plot-integral. A little time had passed since the series and people had moved on, which was good; you don't have to chart everything, it was good to show things truly progressing.
OK, first part of the review. Here I deal with general things only and the trip itself. If you want to form your own impressions, avoid, but it should be free of any plot spoilers except perhaps the most incidental, so non-devotees should be ok.
Wow wow wow wow. That was amazing and great. I partly felt obliged to like it because it's in, and I liked the series, but it really was very good. I hope this translates into more series!
I almost always come out of a movie going "Great (or crap) but what about [plot hole] and [physics blooper]?" Here I was just speachless :)
There was not as much hype as I'd expected, but there was a cinema full of people hoping to see Serenity. I'm glad for the staff's fault it was, lynchings were mooted if otherwise. Anticipation rose all through the trailers ("if we see a serenity trailer, we're leaving, ok?") and when the name appeared everyone sighed with relief, and there was a chorus of little 'whew's and 'yes's and then the tiniest voice in the silence 'doh' which I assume was a joke.
It had lots and lots of the great funny one-liners. You *don't* need recorded laughter to make a joke funny, some things are, in a way that everyone knows but is hard to define, funny just because they're the way they are. Even in mortal peril situations.
It absorbed and filled in a lot of the universe and character backgrounds. Many films feel tacked on because the series wrapped everything up and they need some sort of one-off disaster to write a film around. Here it feels like a logical extension, nearly as if the series was a backstory to *it*; and would fit great into the continuity as a climax to the first series between it and the next. Did I already mention it was absolutely fucking amazing?
It was cinematographic. I'm not much good at telling, but I didn't think "Ick, it's a tv programme on a big screen" but "OMG space battles bigger than I am." And it's good to have true grimy feel to cheap ships rather than all squeaky.
The plot didn't feel forced or anything, there was action at the beginning that was independantly clear, but plot-integral. A little time had passed since the series and people had moved on, which was good; you don't have to chart everything, it was good to show things truly progressing.
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Date: 2005-09-21 12:16 pm (UTC)I think my source for this may be Slashdot, though, so a pinch of salt is almost certainly required.
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Date: 2005-09-21 12:22 pm (UTC)PS. Hello. Who are you? By any chance Mr. Poppy?
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Date: 2005-09-21 12:39 pm (UTC)I liked the series of Firefly a lot, and wondered if it would make the transition to a movie at all - I mean, there's plenty of back story in the series that I'm guessing is covered again in the movie, but presumably without being boring to the afficionados. It's good that it's made the leap - the trailer looked fantastic, so if the movie's as good as you say it is, I'm really looking forward to it.
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Date: 2005-09-21 12:44 pm (UTC)I don't mind anyone reading or commenting on my lj with or without introducing themselves, but sometimes I get curious and ask.
Ah, yes. I was going but forgot to address how the movie would appeal to someone who *hadn't* seen the series. In fact, the back story works really well because they actually explain it right, instead of just letting you pick it up, which is probably really helpful for both fans and newbies. But I don't know how it'd hold up without knowing who all the characters are, for instance.
Don't place *too* much reliance on my review, I'll probably find flaws next time I see it. But otoh, I'm normally pretty critical.