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

[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 :) )