Can’t Stop the Signal
- Title: Serenity
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Here’s a peculiar story, a television show that only aired for four months and was cancelled after a dozen episodes has been made into a movie. Joss Whedon’s short lived, but much beloved, Firefly told the story of Malcolm Reynolds and his crew in the distant future, got the whack from Fox Television. Cancelled after only half a season into its run it produced big numbers when released on DVD and Whedon was asked to revive the franchise on the big screen. So what’s the result? Damn good if you ask me.
The movie begins four to eight months after the last episode of the series Objects in Space took place. Captain Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) and his crew are still doing what they do, trying to make a living, legal or criminal, out in the blackness of space. The crew includes firstmate Zoe (Gina Torres) who served with Mal in the war for independence, on the losing side, her husband and pilot of the ship Wash (Adam Tudyk), the ship’s mechanic Kaylee (Jewel Staite), and the rather dim-witted muscle Jayne (Adam Baldwin).
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Aside from possibly being the worst adapted sci-fi project ever, this is the longest 100 minute movie I have ever been forced to sit through. Now I was pissed at Spielberg’s screwed up vision of Minority Report but even that becomes almost watch able compared to this reject. It’s not just that it is so bad mind you, and it’s terrible by the way, it’s the mind boggling way in which the story is run into the ground through such staggering ineptitude.