No, wait, make that Serenity later.
Yeah, I know I promised a review tonight, but the oncall pager is going off and I’ve got work to do. Besides, as my guest to the early screening, I took a friend and co-worker who was already a fan of the Firefly series on which the movie was based. I want more of his input on my review.
In other words, I’m procrastinating. I will say this, though: go see the movie.
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One word: Awesome!
Followed by some more words; compelling storyline, perfect pacing, believable characters, good plot tension with totally natural humorous relief, some interesting cinematography at times, and some just good old fashioned fun.
When I saw a trailer for the first time, I turned to my wife and said, “Serenity? That looks like that sci-fi series, Firefly. What’s up?” I thought maybe they had just taken the series and recut it into a feature movie. But after seeing a few more trailers on TV and at the theater, I realized that wasnt the case. I was excited to see it, since I hadn’t gotten to see many of the episodes when they were on.
Well, I wasn’t disappointed, I was actually surprised to find it better than I expected. And I was already expecting it to be pretty good.
The only thing I wondered about was whether they would resort to rehashing some parts of the series in order to give new viewers the backstory. But they found a good way to tell it without doing that. A really good way, it was cool. And sad. . .
This is one of the best, if not THE best SciFi movie, I’ve ever enjoyed. Get out there and see it, and be amazed for yourself. This film delivered all those feelings that you were expecting from the final episode of a certain other major franchise, but didn’t deliver.
From Steve, the co-worker who got lucky and got to see this great movie totally for free, and in great seats, cause his work-buddy is a blogger. Thanks for taking me, Dave! =)