I may lose friends for this...

[shaysdays]

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

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[kickthehobbit]

I never understood the hype either, but I basically loathe Joss Whedon and feel like everything he touches turns to shit, so there is that.

[shaysdays]

I don't loathe him, I mean, I don't feel he's gods gift to tv, but I also enjoy most of his stuff if I don't start thinking of him as an icon, much less a feminist one, so this weirded me out.

I was really expecting a stepping up of game. This is totally awful, for a movie. I really feel like I'm watching a mid-season Star Trek: TNG, but no one explained who the Ferengi, Troi, and Q are.

[kickthehobbit]

Zed had me do that, tho, and it was still more enjoyable than Serenity was...

[shaysdays]

I imagine this like watching Tank Girl if you've never read Tank Girl. The language is seriously confusing. It is a mix between Quakerspeak and Old West Pretendtalk. The hero just killed a dude rather than steal (paper?) money, then shrugs it off because the person he flat out shot and left for cannibal aliens or something would be too heavy for the land-based vehicle they use to rob a bank, so he would rather have the money. But he is the hero?

My cat is chasing a spider. It is actually more understandable from a character perspective. I'm not asking for simple characters, but ones who make sense to root for on first blush would be nice.

[peachpastiche]

The movie really makes no sense if you haven't seen the series

[fragbert]

Agreed.

[fornikate]

YEP

[shaysdays]

Nope. I'm really glad no one is saying, "That's why you HAVE to watch the series."

[levityinbrevity]

Yeah you have to have watched the show to get it. It really cant stand alone and I know a movie should be able to but it was made for the fans.

[smckeown]

And even us fans get angry at the movie. :(

[paperlibrarian]

IDK, my husband saw the movie before the show, and he liked it so much the first thing he wanted to watch when he saw my DVD collection was the series.

[loquaciousquark]

The exact same thing happened to me. I was on a choir trip and one of the girls brought the movie, and I'd heard so many amazing things about the series from my friends that I was totally into giving it a shot. I ended up falling asleep about half an hour into the movie. :/