![]() ![]() After all, the first half has a lot of work to do, reestablishing the scruffy crew of the starship Serenity, most crucially for purposes of the storyline, the disturbed teenager River Tam. It’s a hit-or-miss first half blessed by a slam-bang second half. This dulls some of the most effective themes of the TV series (most notably, the sense that the universe is full of people that the powers-that-progress have specifically chosen to leave behind) but may prove to help the accessibility of a film already hindered by a cast of characters well-established to longtime fans, but sometimes hastily sketched in to the confines of this two-hour movie.īut now…that’s enough of a review of the wisdom of making this film, what about the film itself. Newcomers who buy their tickets to Serenity will, I suspect, be perplexed.įor one thing, it takes a bit to get used to this genre hybrid, although Whedon has significantly toned down the Western trappings, opting for a more clear science fiction feel. In bringing his cancelled TV space western Firefly into theatres with what amounts to triple-sized series-finale-that-never-was, Whedon is presenting a new glimpse at a fictional ‘verse that I know very well. ![]() I am quite ill-suited to provide an honest assessment of the big-screen directorial debut of the small-screen storytelling master Joss Whedon. I'll get to the films we saw through the week, but here's the long-awaited cinematic offering that kicked it off on Friday. We've seen six films in the past two days with only the occasional break to do grown-up things like buy tiles and, well, I guess that's the only real grown-up thing we did. There's all sort of reasons and motivations, but it really boiled down to the fact that late-September/early-October tends to be our first chance to settle in undisturbed for a weekend after the academic year gets rolling. We spent this weekend with our second-annual self-programmed film festival.
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