Pop Cultural Moment: Firefly Movie!

[anotheranon]

Via Slashdot - Fox didn't give the series a chance, but Universal bought the movie rights and Whedon is going to try and make a <http://hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1969026">big screen version. It really was such an excellent little show, and got cancelled just as they were started to develop their first substantial story arc.

I just hope that Firefly: The Movie is not as crap as Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Movie. The latter put me off the series for years - I didn't discover it until D. became addicted and foisted it upon me!

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[tyldak.livejournal.com]

((ahem)) Running to the defense of the real Buffy the Vampire Slayer (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103893/)... The movie was long before the series (movie 1992, series 1997). There's a whole bunch of people (ahem, like me) who were saddened to see that the TV show would NOT be anything like the movie (i.e. edgy and campy), rather, that it would be a TV soap opera Buffy with the magically dissolving vampires ("now featuring absoltely no blood!"). Granted, I didn't watch more than about 10 minutes of 2 or 3 episodes of the show ever, but, my conclusion is drawn from listening to other people (99% women) talk about the TV show... Based on those conversations, I quickly came to the conclusions the TV show was the kind of thing that it seemed people tuned into just to see who Buffy was going to be involved romantically with on any given week. That is not camp and edgy... that's a soap opera, IMHO.

That said, I don't know anything about Firefly. Never seen or heard of. So at least when you post about it, I won't come in and try to tell you what's what on your journal. :)

- Greg