Ditto. I liked it better the first time I saw it, when it was set in the past and starred John Wayne.
No, wait, I didn’t like it that time either. I saw enough cowboy types growing up in Cheney, Washington… I don’t want to watch them on TV too, even if they’re pretending to be astronauts.
It strikes me that in my youth any time a film started with the 20th Century Fox logo I was sure I was going to be in for a treat. Maybe they made plenty of howlers back then, but non the less the logo stood for quality in my mind in those days. These days I find this no longer to be true. Somehow Fox has moved from quality to crappiness over the last 20 years or so. The managerial blindness that hobbled Firefly is just one such symptom, Fox seems to have become the Wall Mart of the entertainment world.
Oh, so it’s your fault!
I can see it now:
CEO “What moron wants to cancel Firefly? It’s a great shoQ”
Suit: “Sir, NoClueBoy wrote that he likes it.”
CEO “Shucks, that’s too bad. Kill it.”
You’re kidding, right? Because I have Fox Movie Channel as part of my DirecTV lineup, and for every good movie they drag out of their vaults, they have ten absolute suckathons.
Worse yet, they run the suckathons over and over - Phantom of the Paradise . . .Mannequin. . . gaaaaahhh. . .
And if I have to see the short film they made about the Brooklyn Bridge scene in the Fantastic Four one more time I’ll scream like a 12-year-old girl.
They also had some great ones.
The Day the Earth Stood Still, Zorba the Greek, Sound of Music, Flight of the Phoenix, The Sand Pebbles.
True, you don’t have to look hard for bad ones.
I was considering mostly 20 years ago which gave us
Star Wars, History of the World Part I , Romancing the Stone, Cocoon, Alien, Predator, Raising Arizona, and Die Hard.
A good show? “Firefly” is an example of a larger problem. Fox has a history of dropping good shows without giving them much of a chance; they’ve been doing this practically since they first went on the air and it’s been getting worse. “Firefly”, “Futurama”, “Farscape”, “Family Guy” (although that’s back), “John Doe”, “Andy Richter Controls the Universe”, “The Lone Gunmen”, “The Tick”, “FreakyLinks”, “Strange Luck”, “The Critic”, “Herman’s Head”, “Get a Life”, etc. Only two of these managed to get four seasons in.
I totally agree with you in priciple, Lute, but how was FOX involved with Farscape’s cancellation??
Wasn’t it on SciFi?
I’ll join you, but I’ll need to refill my bladder, after voiding on the grave of those who cancelled Wonderfalls.
It was on SciFi but Delmar Studios had worked out a deal with Fox. This deal was announced back in January but so far nothing’s came from it.