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nano_mooseWhoa.
I mean seriously, whoa.
Joss mah man, you've quite successfully made George Lucas' recent efforts look like go se, and by that I mean I cried when I was meant to cry (you'll never hear the phrase "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" in serious moment in the Whedonverse, thank the Golden Mother) and laughed at moments that were really quite intentionally funny. I gaped, and choked, and squeaked and seized up and very nearly stood on my chair in order to throw things (but that was at the hwoon dahn in the seats across from mine; they WOULDN'T RUTTIN' SHUT UP and laughed at Wash's death. *sniff* You morons, I'm over here trying to sob myself into a coma and you're talking about SHOES?! WHY DID YOU COME HERE? Throwing up isn't that gross! Compared to the many bloody messes that were made of various people in Haven and Miranda, you might even say it's clean. Gah. What was I talking about again? Why am I still in parenthe- parunth - gorramn it anyway). Lucas may have been more technologically shiny, but Whedon apes it in almost every other aspect. Except Grevious and Tyrannus.
Anyway. Such a movie I have not truly enjoyed in a long, long time. The fact that it was closely tied to something I have fallen deeply in love with over the course of two months helped, but also resulted in a statement which is blindingly obvious yet has some rather pointy implications.
The statement is this: Serenity is not Firefly.
It has similarities. The crew, for one; but they were also...different. Mal was cold, Simon was confrontational, Wash was neat (!?!), and Book and Inara had fled into the Black, which makes me sad.
The ship is something else that jarred me. Serenity was a home in the series - all golden warmth, cramped but functional, a place to rest and recuperate and love and live and all that nice stuff. In the movie, it is steel-grey. Chilly and metallic, not lovably rusty. The whole colour scheme of the movie made me shiver. It was icy. Blue and white. Alliance colours, not the Browncoat feeling we all know and love.
And the final thing, the biggest shock of all, was the pace. That movie was dragging me along by the wrist at mach-speed, threw me into vacuum, then just as my blood was about to freeze in my cells it drags me back in and kicks me squarely in the kidneys. Yie.
That said. I love that movie. I really, really do. The kidney-kicking was, of course, Wash's death (I will rant about that when I am less incoherent with grief) but the space-battles, plot, visuals, sound, script, all were awesomely outrageous things. Characters too, of course. Mr. Universe and The Operative were both nice to watch - although The Operative scared the living bejeezus out of me. Miranda was beautiful and creepy and quite, quite disturbing.
On that note. Oh my god. River Tam in a fight is so incredibly graceful I wanted to watch it over and over. Wow. I don't care what others say about that scene and its Buffy-ness - Buffy has never looked so beautiful in motion. Dancers should be hired for action movies more often.
Hence the new userpic. That Pantsless one is a bit to light-hearted for some of my posts, eh heh.
I mean seriously, whoa.
Joss mah man, you've quite successfully made George Lucas' recent efforts look like go se, and by that I mean I cried when I was meant to cry (you'll never hear the phrase "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" in serious moment in the Whedonverse, thank the Golden Mother) and laughed at moments that were really quite intentionally funny. I gaped, and choked, and squeaked and seized up and very nearly stood on my chair in order to throw things (but that was at the hwoon dahn in the seats across from mine; they WOULDN'T RUTTIN' SHUT UP and laughed at Wash's death. *sniff* You morons, I'm over here trying to sob myself into a coma and you're talking about SHOES?! WHY DID YOU COME HERE? Throwing up isn't that gross! Compared to the many bloody messes that were made of various people in Haven and Miranda, you might even say it's clean. Gah. What was I talking about again? Why am I still in parenthe- parunth - gorramn it anyway). Lucas may have been more technologically shiny, but Whedon apes it in almost every other aspect. Except Grevious and Tyrannus.
Anyway. Such a movie I have not truly enjoyed in a long, long time. The fact that it was closely tied to something I have fallen deeply in love with over the course of two months helped, but also resulted in a statement which is blindingly obvious yet has some rather pointy implications.
The statement is this: Serenity is not Firefly.
It has similarities. The crew, for one; but they were also...different. Mal was cold, Simon was confrontational, Wash was neat (!?!), and Book and Inara had fled into the Black, which makes me sad.
The ship is something else that jarred me. Serenity was a home in the series - all golden warmth, cramped but functional, a place to rest and recuperate and love and live and all that nice stuff. In the movie, it is steel-grey. Chilly and metallic, not lovably rusty. The whole colour scheme of the movie made me shiver. It was icy. Blue and white. Alliance colours, not the Browncoat feeling we all know and love.
And the final thing, the biggest shock of all, was the pace. That movie was dragging me along by the wrist at mach-speed, threw me into vacuum, then just as my blood was about to freeze in my cells it drags me back in and kicks me squarely in the kidneys. Yie.
That said. I love that movie. I really, really do. The kidney-kicking was, of course, Wash's death (I will rant about that when I am less incoherent with grief) but the space-battles, plot, visuals, sound, script, all were awesomely outrageous things. Characters too, of course. Mr. Universe and The Operative were both nice to watch - although The Operative scared the living bejeezus out of me. Miranda was beautiful and creepy and quite, quite disturbing.
On that note. Oh my god. River Tam in a fight is so incredibly graceful I wanted to watch it over and over. Wow. I don't care what others say about that scene and its Buffy-ness - Buffy has never looked so beautiful in motion. Dancers should be hired for action movies more often.
Hence the new userpic. That Pantsless one is a bit to light-hearted for some of my posts, eh heh.
