Topic: Serenity

[Najemikon]

¬_¬ Guys... I ve tried three times to watch Serenity and I can't get in to it. Ill keep trying though.... I think the problem us, it just seems.... uhh, borring... and unrealistic...

and Ok now... you could say of course its unrealistic, but I mean.... in Star Wars the characters were believable in there little world :S ... I couldnt believe any of the characters... and I didn't even end up liking them :S I watched just over an hour of it :/

You suggested it!

Otherwise I agree with Tom. I can see where a first time viewer can be alienated by the characters.

Actually I suggested this one! Sorry Emma...

But in my experience this is bucking the trend. New viewers of serenity usually love it and go after firefly.

[Critter]

¬_¬ Guys... I ve tried three times to watch Serenity and I can't get in to it. Ill keep trying though.... I think the problem us, it just seems.... uhh, borring... and unrealistic...

and Ok now... you could say of course its unrealistic, but I mean.... in Star Wars the characters were believable in there little world :S ... I couldnt believe any of the characters... and I didn't even end up liking them :S I watched just over an hour of it :/

You suggested it!

Otherwise I agree with Tom. I can see where a first time viewer can be alienated by the characters.

Actually I suggested this one! Sorry Emma...

But in my experience this is bucking the trend. New viewers of serenity usually love it and go after firefly.

I am one of those people who watched Serenity before I saw the Firefly series and loved it from the opening to the closing scene. I did not know any of the characters but the style of the film, especially the music and sci-fi/western twist had me hooked instantly.

[Achim]

Actually I suggested this one! Sorry Emma...

Oops, sorry 'bout that. I ony followed the actual voting thread; I knew there was another thread somewhere but was too lazy to look.

[snowcat]

LOL.... i tried again today :p I just can't do it!

Ill post my views soon though

[lyonsden5]

LOL.... i tried again today :p I just can't do it!

[Achim]

LOL.... i tried again today :p I just can't do it!

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[snowcat]

Im sorry... my eyes are actually glazing over.... I don't know why I can't stand it...

:/ The only time ive had this much trouble watching a film was Pirate of the Caribbean.

[lyonsden5]

Im sorry... my eyes are actually glazing over....

 c'mon... it can't be that bad! 

[Critter]

Im sorry... my eyes are actually glazing over....

 c'mon... it can't be that bad! 

It isn't. It's actually quite a fantastic film in my opinion. I've never heard of someone disliking it as much as you seem to be Emma. And I once studied it in a class of bored Year 10 kids who didn't really want to watch it, but by the end all of them liked it quite a bit. About half the class even went out and bought it on DVD for themselves. The only time I've ever had as much trouble watching a film as you seem to be having was Step Brothers. To this day I still haven't finished it and everytime I try it makes me fear for humanity.

[goodguy]

I can understand if someone doesn't like it, but to be so bored that you can't even finish watching it? That's certainly a strange reaction.

[Najemikon]

Yeah, it is odd! Sorry, Emma.

Earlier you compared Serenity to Star Wars in that the latter had deeper characters. Add to that your comments that people haven't got the attention span to give a two-hour pilot a chance and I think you're coming at this from entirely the wrong angle. I reckon this just ain't your bag!

I'm just flabbergasted you claim it's so boring you can't watch it! I mean it has bloody spaceships and fights! Even then I can't remember ever being so bored I literally couldn't watch something.

[Achim]

Are you watching the wrong film, Emma???

[snowcat]

I guess I just can't see what you guys do in it, to be honest, I can't see some of the things you do.

Wow, I mean I duno....  im just not getting it.

..I had the same problem with 300.... I just couldn't stand it... I literally fell asleep.

:p and, yep watching the right film Achim

I love space, and fights! I love Star Wars XD ive been a fan club member for years! I love Star Trek, I like what ive seen of Battlestar.... I even tried to watch Firefly on the internet today... I had the same problem... Im sorry guys... its just not happening.... its not that I haven't given it a chance... Im just not enjoying it... and I mean.. even films I don't like... Citizen Kane being a good example, I sat through it and enjoyed the story... even if I ended up not liking the film.

[Jimmy]

I can understand if someone doesn't like it, but to be so bored that you can't even finish watching it? That's certainly a strange reaction.

Why? That happen to me often... I had the same reaction with Peter Jackson's King Kong, Superman Return, Basic Instinct 2 and Hot Target just to name a few. Why lost our time with something we know bored us as we watch? We can watch something else better...

Of course I don't talk about Serenity that I haven't watch.

[Najemikon]

Whoops! "It's the fuzz..." 

YouTube has blocked the Salvage clip for 'Copyright Infringement'. Strange the others were ignored, but I've taken them off anyway. I thought about emailing Fox and telling them it was for analysis purposes, but as they never gave a shit about Firefly even when it was on, I didn't bother.

Still, YouTube offers a lot of data about who watches the vids and the little map showed highlights in the US, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia and Taiwan. So I reckon it was only you lot anyway. The Crazy Ivan clip was far more popular, so god knows what methods the Fox snoopers use, but frankly, they're a bit rubbish...

I shall now go and flagellate myself until the stench of piracy has left me.