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Well, I've actually seen Firefly and have become a regular browncoat (though I guess I'll need to actually get a brown coat sometime) instant fan in the process. I can also now add another reason to the list of "Thanks for the ****ups,...
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Well, I've actually seen Firefly and have become a regular browncoat (though I guess I'll need to actually get a brown coat sometime) instant fan in the process. I can also now add another reason to the list of "Thanks for the ****ups, FOX" that I've had going, Firefly being the biggest entry so far...Well, after watching the series (& also reading the movie's prequel comic, "Serenity: Those Left Behind") and watching this movie again, I saw it in an entirely new light & gave the movie a bump up by a full star & moved it into my favorites. It obviously means a lot more if you've seen the series and it's obvious that it was made for the fans. While this leaves an opening for possibilities down the road, it kind of feels like it's just the real end of the series, which is sad but great because that's one thing the series didn't get... So **** you, FOX, **** you and the horse you rode in on.

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Posted aug 26, 2009 8:03 pm pt

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Joss Whedon is a Friggin Genious. The firefly series is top off in a great adventure.

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Posted feb 28, 2009 8:43 am pt

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didn't see how this movie was all that good I see where a lot of fans loved it I guess I wasn't a fan.

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Posted sep 27, 2008 9:10 am pt

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Of-course I'm going to put this in my favourites. I am biased, I love the show. But, just because I did it does it mean you should?

Serenity is a sci-fi space-opera that is constantly described as "Star-Wars for the current...
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Of-course I'm going to put this in my favourites. I am biased, I love the show. But, just because I did it does it mean you should?

Serenity is a sci-fi space-opera that is constantly described as "Star-Wars for the current century," honours bestowed upon a very un-Star Wars-like TV show, Battlestar Galactica. The truth is that Serenity is not so much a quality film as it is a vehicle of recruitment for would-be future Browncoats (A term similar Slipknot's "maggots" except with dignity). It is also a film that thousands of Firefly fans will call a favourite simply due to its history - what it took for fans to make this film. Others will love it because it's like an extra-long episode of the TV series.

Others will definitely hate it probably because it's labeled incorrectly (Star Wars it is not) or because it very efficiently kills all hope of there begin any sequels for many fans, a successful move if anything, for now Firefly fans are treated to prequel comics of the lowest quality.

Now that I think about it, I'm taking this off my "favourites" list.

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Posted may 1, 2008 1:32 am pt

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Serenity. It is one of my favorite movies, based off of my favorite television series. I am a Firefly fanatic. I watch at least two episodes a week. I didn't learn about the wonderful series until late 2006. When I learned that Joss Whedon had...
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Serenity. It is one of my favorite movies, based off of my favorite television series. I am a Firefly fanatic. I watch at least two episodes a week. I didn't learn about the wonderful series until late 2006. When I learned that Joss Whedon had created a movie sequel, I was excited. I could never find a copy of the film until January 2008, in a MovieXchange. I bought the movie (even though it was fullscreen, they had no widescreen version), watched, and now it is one of my favorites.

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Posted mar 3, 2008 10:07 am pt

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A favorite compulsion of mine is to recommend or gift "Serenity" to scifi fans who've somehow missed out on the Firefly phenom, claiming this is the best film you've never heard of. All fall in line accordingly.

Besides...
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A favorite compulsion of mine is to recommend or gift "Serenity" to scifi fans who've somehow missed out on the Firefly phenom, claiming this is the best film you've never heard of. All fall in line accordingly.

Besides all the familiar attributes of Whedonverse, i.e. fabulously witty dialogue and unlikely, difficult to predict scenarios, "Serenity remains one of the few films to have an adult, mutually protective brother and sister relationship at its core. As I share this in my private life, it makes this film all the more endearing.

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Posted feb 18, 2008 3:50 am pt

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Firefly was one of the best scifi series that ever existed. It is a shame that it never got the recognition that it should have. Serenity fills in a lot of the gap and is visually amazing. It made me cry I will admit it.

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Posted feb 8, 2008 12:47 pm pt

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I actually when in to see this film blind, never seeing the show, and loved it so much that I bought the series on DVD. This movie is THAT good. It is so well written that you where able to follow the story and characters from begining to end and...
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I actually when in to see this film blind, never seeing the show, and loved it so much that I bought the series on DVD. This movie is THAT good. It is so well written that you where able to follow the story and characters from begining to end and care about them even without the aide of the TV show. Joss is a genius.

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Posted dec 23, 2007 1:45 pm pt

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One of the best movies I've seen. No, THE best movie I've seen. I love the characters, the storyline, everything. Especially the effects. I definitely recommend this to anyone curious about watching it.

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Posted dec 9, 2007 11:07 am pt

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Fabulous movie, great storyline, great special effects and I especially loved the scene were the reavers come through. Loved everything except for the part where they killed off my favourite character!!!!

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Posted oct 27, 2007 5:11 pm pt

• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  As challenging as it must have been to pilot Joss Whedon's space opera from the TV junk pile to the big screen, the finished product is a triumph.

  by Peter Hartlaub | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  91
  If you think the "Star Wars" prequels are a disease, then Serenity is the cure.

  by Shawn Levy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  90
  Serenity is a trim little picture of epic proportions.

  by Stephanie Zacharek | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  90
  This is a film that exists because of fans, was written for the fans and yet can be enjoyed by just about anyone willing to have a good time.

  by Greg Bellavia | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  88
  A brash, funny, action-packed bit of sci-fi ecstasy--and a giant raspberry to the execs who let "Firefly" fall out of the sky.

  by Robert K. Elder | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
  88
  Whedon wants to make a Serenity trilogy, and I suspect the actors will grow on me if he does. In this case, familiarity would breed not contempt but comfort.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Dallas Observer
  
  80
  It's but a witty, engaging hodgepodge of archetypes and clichés; it retreads not only the TV show's story lines, but also those of every "Star Trek" and "Gunsmoke" episode. It needed the room of a big screen just to fit all of its influences into a single place.

  by Robert Wilonsky | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  80
  Serenity is still taut, immersive, and alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, a well-balanced blend of whooping Wild West action and space opera.

  by Tasha Robinson | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  80
  A sci-fi saga that manages to be at once stirring and screwball, gut-busting and gut-wrenching, and more fun than you had at any bigger-budget movie this past summer.

  by Ken Tucker | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
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  If you're a novice, this is a plucky introduction to Whedon's world and the most fun sci-fi of the year. If you're a devotee, this is the magnificent return you've been praying for.

  by Olly Richards | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  80
  No matter what's coming their way, post-apocalyptic doom or gloom, this James Gang of the galaxy is just plain fun to watch.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  80
  A highly entertaining piece of genre-blending fun.

  by Kevin Crust | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  78
  Serenity evinces the kind of swashbuckling bonhomie that made so many of us fall in love with the original "Star Wars" films, a love that was mightily tested by George Lucas' humorless prequels.

  by Kimberley Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  It features truly monstrous bogeymen in the Reavers, cannibalistic renegades who, legend has it, went to the edge of the universe and were driven mad by the abyss.

  by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
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  The film's strength is compelling character relationships and Whedon's trademark dialogue, a smarter version of the cliched action-movie barrage of wisecrack under fire, only better executed, laden in personality, and enriched with evocative western colloquialisms of a frontier culture.

  by Sean Axmaker | Read Full Review »