My Day

[active_apathy]

Presented here as a list. Yay!

• 2:40 - I go to bed.


• 3:40 - I actually get to sleep.


• 8:16 - I wake up. I look like Death warmed up fresh from the freezer.


• 8:53 - I'm now good to go, and look like tepid Death.


• 9:16 - The bus comes. I catch it, and am on my way to see the Big Damn Movie.


• 9:31 - I buy my ticket. Sqeee!


• 10:20 - I go and take a seat in an empty theatre. Over the next 10 minutes, 19 other people arrive. I feel oddly disappointed at not getting a private screening.


• 10:30 - Lights get turned out. Squeeeeee!


• 10:40 - Movie actually starts. Squeeeeeeeee!


• 12:43 - Movie and credits finish. Firefly fans, stay until the end of the credits, and listen. :)


• 12:44 - Notice HP poster on way out. I also notice addition of comma, and giggle.


• 12:50 - Trip to bookshop. I have a glance at the novelisation. The writing style in the novelisation does not appeal to me. I put the novelisation back on the shelf and leave.


• 12:59 - I catch a bus further afield.


• 1:34 - The music shop people take an order for an imported copy of the Serenity score.


• 1:42 - I start on my way home.


• 2:15 - I get distracted by a pinball machine on the way.


• 3:30 - I actually catch a bus home.


• 3:46 - I get home.


• 4:30 - I finish writing an entry about my day.

Serenity = teh Awesome. Go and see it. Take everyone you know to go and see it. Make them take everyone they know.

Those who have seen it: If you post spoilers in the comments, I swear by Mal's pretty floral bonnet, I will end you.

Comments

[salith.livejournal.com]

Hate to say it but from the trailer I've seen, I don't think I'll even remotely like it... heck, I don't even like the two characters who actually speak in the trailer just from their brief 'back-and-forth' of;
"Do you think you can run this ship?"
"Yes!"
"Well... you can't"

The 'leader' is so weak-willed and annoying Joss Whedon-esque to the point of just having Xander tattoo'd onto his skull, and the other guy seems rather two-dimensional.
As for the action clips they show in it... it certainly didn't captivate me on the stunts/effects front either.

Then again, I have yet to actually like anything Joss Whedon has actually had control over (his writing for X-Men was heavily subsummed into other's work to the point of only a few lines creeping in, such as the "You're a dick!" comment, which is no real surprise for his style of writing).

Sorry to be unconvinced about it... and I did try reading your synopsis of series episodes but found it too confusing to follow as it seems to be some helter-skelter of ideas and situations thrown about for no real reason :(

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Just quietly, the people writing the screenplays for the new Doctor Who episodes cite Joss Whedon as one of their biggest influences, and a lot of the dialogue in the screenplays is heavily Whedonesque.

The trailer isn't a brilliant shot at selling the movie, but this is partly because the film relies greatly upon characterisation. Characterisation is pretty much impossible to get across in a trailer.

Also worth mentioning is that Firefly and Serenity deliberately set out to not be traditional sci-fi and has the kind of moral ambiguity and lack of technogadgets that makes the hard sci-fi set run screaming. If you like hard sci-fi, then Serenity will let you down in this respect.

One bit of their guerilla marketing campaign may appeal to you more, and can be found here. It's much more character-based.

[salith.livejournal.com]

the film relies greatly upon characterisation.

True, but 3 lines of dialogue doesn't even attempt to do anything of the sort.

I may borrow the DVD's from a friend to watch, but as stated previously, I haven't liked any of Joss Whedon's characterisations so far... as they all smaack of the angst-ridden teenager-styled stuff which I was never a part of growing up so cannot associate with those sorts of characters.

[eighthcloud.livejournal.com]

Firefly isn't like anything he's done before, style wise. Characters are different too, as that sorta happens with a new style.

At least give it a chance.

[salith.livejournal.com]

I will give it a chance... it's just not the highest priority at the moment (heck, I still haven't managed to get around to watching any of the Ghost in the Shell, Stand Alone Complex episodes, and I downloaded all of them and burnt them in DVD Video format too :) )

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

The 'leader' is so weak-willed

*blink* *blink* *blink a little more*

Let's put it this way: "Mal" (that captain) and "weak-willed" don't belong in the same sentence. Ever. (Except if *character name* is involved, but then men can be fools for women.) I understand that you might get that impression from the trailer... but do recall, it's a trailer.

Great characterization is possible with three lines of dialogue if you're Lois McMaster Bujold, and it's even possible with no lines of dialogue if you've got Johnny Depp playing the character (*), but again... it's a trailer.

And if anyone can write a synopsis about any work of fiction, then by definition I don't think it would be a helter-skelter of ideas. To my mind "synopsis" implies "organized flow of events." But then that might be just me.

(*) The whole entry sequence of Jack Sparrow.