I may lose friends for this...
I've now watched about thirty minutes or so of Serenity*, and this, to someone who loves sci-fi, and general weirdness... It's actually pretty horrible. People speak in weird anachronistic dialogue like they are Space Quakers, there is Chinese thrown about with no subtitles (and not like, a character using a curse word, or a pet name, or even the weird idea that the guy in Oceans Eleven speaks Chinese but understands English, and everyone else vice versa) and only the very, very briefest of character sketches are given. It's like a feature-length tv show that never got aired. It's not terrible if I think of it as a tv show, but as a movie, I don't get it at all. It's hackneyed. The special effects are terrible. The fight scenes so far featured a man somehow poked in the kidney in such a way as to leave him paralyzed yet falling forward long enough for a dumb speech to be finished, and later someone picked up bodily and... Head slammed us the only way I can think of to describe it, with no indication why or how he attacked the heroes upside down.
I expected a seduction here, not, "Well, these are the moves my last sweetheart liked, let me break them all out in case you were told about them." It may be a great finale, but this is just a bad, bad introduction.
*how much of the omelet and all that?
I expected a seduction here, not, "Well, these are the moves my last sweetheart liked, let me break them all out in case you were told about them." It may be a great finale, but this is just a bad, bad introduction.
*how much of the omelet and all that?