After following the Serenity thread on this board, my wife and I watched the movie. We loved it, but I gather that it didn’t do spectacularly well at the theaters. Based our enjoyment of Serenity, we acquired the Firefly DVDs and had a marathon viewing over the course of about 4 nights. Since then, we’ve hooked her sister and some other friends on Firefly (who have now bought the DVDs for their family). And we’ll definitely acquire the Serenity DVD when it is released this month.
Really, it’s been the most positive theatrical viewing experience in a long while for us, and with all these new sales (presumably others are making purchases as well), you’d think somebody would be making some money off this thing.
I know it’s been beaten to death, but the studio really picked the wrong sci-fi series to axe (or were production costs too high to justify?). I just thought I’d throw this experience out there, and say that I hope Joss Whedon makes another visit to the 'verse he created in Firefly (to echo the sentiments expressed over in this thread).
Let’s all buy 3 copies of the Serenity DVD on Dec 20th, then hope that Sci-Fi or HBO or the JossNetwork, considers buying the rights to the show. such a good show…
Early, totally iffy rumor is that there might be a second Serenity movie, with a much thinner budget, produced for the SciFi Channel. Joss’s camp denies this, but if DVD sales stay strong, it is a good possibility. So warm up those credit cards, people! Dong ma?
(this was linked to on Whedonesque, which immediately doubled brollywood’s site traffic)
I’d love to see more of the 'verse but the Sci-Fi channel thing looks to be just a rumor. And Joss has a lot on his plate right now: Wonder Woman, another project whose title I can’t remember, X-Men comics, a possible Spike movie, etc. I doubt we’ll see any Firefly action until most of this other stuff is finished.
Let’s hope that the OP is a representative sample of many thousands (nay, tens, hundreds of thousands!) of people out there: heard good things about the series, saw the movie, bought the Series DVD’s, and will buy the movie DVD.
I loved the series, and used to joke that it is better it died before they made Firefly the Musical. Alas, I fear a new version would be River, the Riever Slayer.
I’m in the same boat. I got the DVDs a week ago, and I’ve been watching them constantly since then. I’ve had the theme song stuck in my head for two days now.
I really wish I would have given the show a chance when it originally aired. Though I loved Buffy, I’d never gotten into Angel, and I tend to shy away from anything with “sci-fi” in the description. D’oh!
And I continue to maintain that if “Firefly the Musical” were anywhere near as brilliant as “Once More, With Feeling,” then go for it, Joss! Let that Sondheim love spill out as often as you like!
Bought a set of Firefly for my inlaws today. They like science fiction, they like Westerns, they’ll damn well like Firefly or I’ll disown and beat them.
My husband and I also went to Serenity without having watched the show. Came home, and bought the DVDs. Went forward and so far have made five converts, all of whom are angry about the cancellation. I saw the movie twice in theatres, which is something I rarely do. We’ll probably buy the DVD when it comes out.
I’ve just discovered Joss Whedon, thanks to the SDMB. Rented Firefly from Netflix a few weeks ago and *loved *them, and I just bought the set (really good price on Amazon.) Haven’t seen Serenity the movie yet, but I’ll buy a copy on the 20th.
I’ve borrowed the first three seasons of Buffy from a friend and I’m going through those now. Not as good as Firefly, but they’re growing on me.
It’s nice to see we’re all united in our appreciation of quality TV/movies.
Firefly and Serenity DVDs will probably form the staple of any late-night movie watching we do with family over the holiday vacation. And I second the observation that Amazon has good prices on Firefly, but we probably won’t have the patience when it comes to the Serenity release.
Just as a side note (and a slight hijack, but the OP has been addressed), I’m torn over which I prefer, the Firefly 2-episode pilot or Serenity the movie. Granted, I’ve seen the movie only once but the pilot 3-4 times, and the pilot ties in better with, and is supported by, the remaining TV series episodes. That said, I lean towards the pilot, since it was such a well-contained origin story for Mal/Zoe, Simon & River, and Book - the most priceless scene is Kaylee & Book’s first meeting outside the door to the ship; this dialogue and character insight and pacing is just missing from run-of-the-mill sci-fi (you know who you are, Mr. Lucas).
Any other opinions or feelings comparing the Firefly pilot to Serenity?
