we seem to be mostly in agreement about movies. Went to see "Serenity" because an entire community of my friends LOVED "Firefly" & I was ok spending a few $ to support their bid to keep the series going. I pretty much loathed it, didn't find it @ all confusing, just really didn't care about most of the characters.
Those friends I told how I felt about the movie all suggested that I needed to watch the series. It's short, so I went ahead & rented it one weekend. I LOVED it. It seems that, for the series, the studio pressured Whedon to lighten up the Captain & make a few other changes that REALLY, imo, made it a good show. W/ the exception of Morena Baccarin, who played Inara (if SHE'S what Juliard is turning out these days, they're doomed. She's AWFUL!!), I think the acting is uniformly good & the writing less uniform but excellent @ its best. Sadly, when we had watched the series through & went back to the movie, it seemed even worse because it pointed up all of Whedon's "vision" (gloomy captain, River-the-Reever-Slayer, unhappy relationships, & somehow the vision of Baccarin as a good actress) & gave short shrift to the best elements of the series- the comeraderie, the off-kilter humour, & Alan Tudyk & Gina Torres. If you think you can stand it, try a few episodes of the series & you MIGHT come to understand a little better why people love it.
As for La Vie en Rose, I'm w/ you word for word. An amazing performance, NO coherency.
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Date: 2008-08-25 08:11 pm (UTC)Those friends I told how I felt about the movie all suggested that I needed to watch the series. It's short, so I went ahead & rented it one weekend. I LOVED it. It seems that, for the series, the studio pressured Whedon to lighten up the Captain & make a few other changes that REALLY, imo, made it a good show. W/ the exception of Morena Baccarin, who played Inara (if SHE'S what Juliard is turning out these days, they're doomed. She's AWFUL!!), I think the acting is uniformly good & the writing less uniform but excellent @ its best. Sadly, when we had watched the series through & went back to the movie, it seemed even worse because it pointed up all of Whedon's "vision" (gloomy captain, River-the-Reever-Slayer, unhappy relationships, & somehow the vision of Baccarin as a good actress) & gave short shrift to the best elements of the series- the comeraderie, the off-kilter humour, & Alan Tudyk & Gina Torres. If you think you can stand it, try a few episodes of the series & you MIGHT come to understand a little better why people love it.
As for La Vie en Rose, I'm w/ you word for word. An amazing performance, NO coherency.