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Pretty please, no Serenity spoilers--I haven't seen the movie yet--just watched the last Firefly episode tonight.
WHAT did Simon say/think when River walked into the room where he and Kaylee were flirting and River was reading everyone's thoughts? I rewound it a couple of times and couldn't catch it.
Oh, I'm so sad it's over . . . a movie won't do it for me, I want the TV series back!
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I just finished the last episode too, but the movie theater near me isn't playing Serenity anymore! I'm so mad, and I don't know what to do. I love this show so much, and I can't wait for the movie to come out on dvd. I don't understand why they cancelled the show, because it was absolutely incredible. I really wanted Kaylee and Simon to get together too. They would have been so cute together! Don't tell me anything about the movie, because I don't want to know ahead of time, but I just needed to vent.
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Because I figured they should be seen in order. I figured things would all make more sense after seeing the show.
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That is why I told all my friends to watch the movie as soon as possible. Any nuances you might have missed out on in the movie is more than made up by the great emotional experience of watching Serenity with a room full of people. People cheered, laughed, gasped, and cried at all the right places.
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I don't know, I think that Evie made the right move. Events in the movie will have so much more power for her now that she's seen the show. Evie, I have no idea how old you are, where you live, or what your transportation situation is, but would it be possible to road trip to the nearest place that is still screening Serenity?
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Which is worth it? Seeing it in the theater before seeing the show, or seeing the show before seeing it in the theater?
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I saw it again last night (Serenity), with some repeat viewers and some that were first timers.
After it ended, myself and friend stayed through the credits, and only one other girl stayed, vocally lamenting her shock and grief over some of the events that had transpired.
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I wanted to stay till the end and hear the theme song, but it was a late showing, and the cleanup crew looked anxious for us to be out of there.
quote:Because I figured they should be seen in order. I figured things would all make more sense after seeing the show.
I agree.
quote:I don't know, I think that Evie made the right move. Events in the movie will have so much more power for her now that she's seen the show.
yep.
quote:People cheered, laughed, gasped, and cried at all the right places.
When I go to a movie, I'm not affected by the crowd's response. It's kind of like church for me, that's not right because half the churches I've been to have been more about the audience than anything else(a fact that I approve of for complicated reasons). Going to a movie is closer to a museum.
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Noemon, I mean that it's worth a road trip to see the movie while it's still in the theater... Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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I agree that you should see the show first. You could definitely go into the movie without having seen "Firefly" and still enjoy it immensely, but a lot of the subtle dialogue and inside jokes will go right over your head.
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Well I'm glad so many people agree with my decision. The only problem now is that I can't find a theater within reasonable distance that still shows it. I'll keep trying though, because I hear it's just that good.
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Well, I imagine it lessened the impact of Inara's decision at the end of Heart of Gold quite significantly.
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quote: Well, I imagine it lessened the impact of Inara's decision at the end of Heart of Gold quite significantly.
Naah, not really. I'd only seen the first two episodes by the time I saw the film, and my thought was, "Well, clearly Inara and Mal had a bit of a falling-out, and she left for what she felt was his own good." The movie makes that pretty clear, and really it's all you need to know.
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I'm so sad the shows over . I just watched the last episode last night. How could they cancell sucha thing!? But I wholeheartedly agree that I would much rather have a show back than 3 movies. Although, I haven't seen Serenity yet, the whole progression and stories through the show are wonderful, and I don't think there would be any way to cover that much development through 6 hours in 3 seperate movies. Posts: 879 | Registered: Apr 2005
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quote:Naah, not really. I'd only seen the first two episodes by the time I saw the film, and my thought was, "Well, clearly Inara and Mal had a bit of a falling-out, and she left for what she felt was his own good." The movie makes that pretty clear, and really it's all you need to know.
Right, but that wasn't what twinky was saying. He was saying that circumstances in the movie lessened the emotional impact of events in the show. You *know* that they had a falling out, so the shock of Inara's decision to leave is going to be pretty muted for you when you see Heart of Gold.
[Edit--was pretty muted. I misread what you'd written, and thought that you still hadn't finished the series.]
*I* was the one saying that not having seen the show first would lessen the impact of events in the movie, and I'll stand by that (although not discuss it in any kind of detail this thread, out of consideration for Evie.
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Oh Tom, that's exactly how I felt. I hadn't seen the pilot, but 4 episodes after that (I think Our Mrs Reynolds might have been the last one).
And I didn't feel like I was missing much in the movie, I know I knew more than some people did, and that's good enough for me.
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quote:When I go to a movie, I'm not affected by the crowd's response. It's kind of like church for me, that's not right because half the churches I've been to have been more about the audience than anything else(a fact that I approve of for complicated reasons). Going to a movie is closer to a museum.
I feel like that too for certain movies.
I deliberately watched The Insider during a morning matinee so I can have the whole movie theater to myself. I liked having my own space to quietly soak in Russell Crowe's performance. I suspect I will do the same for Good Night and Good Luck.
But for certain movies I really enjoy them more when I watch them with a crowd of rowdy fans. Movies like Serenity, Lotr, and the original Star Wars are more of an event than just a mere movie.
I enjoy talking with the fans in line, listening to their excited chatter and feeding off their excitement. When the movie takes the entire audience for an emotional rollercoaster ride, I feel like I'm connected to each person in the theater through our collective gasps of wonder and sighs of relief.
The cinema is in a sense our oral history. Through it we learn the morals, rituals, and folklores of our society. Sure, this whole thing can be transmitted through television or an empty theater. But the sense of community is more emotionally concrete when the storytelling experience is shared in person.
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. I just watched the last episode last night. How could they cancell sucha thing!? But I wholeheartedly agree that I would much rather have a show back than 3 movies. Although, I haven't seen Serenity yet, the whole progression and stories through the show are wonderful, and I don't think there would be any way to cover that much development through 6 hours in 3 seperate movies. 
