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[rhienelleth]

Finally saw the trailer for Serenity on the big screen tonight -- we went and saw Batman Begins a second time. It was just as good the second time around, although the first half of the movie drags for me, with all the training stuff. Of course, part of that might also be due to my rolling of the eyes at the Hollywood ninja parts. Knowing the actual history of "ninja" in Japan, they never dressed in head to toe black, and the ninja-to (the sword with the straight blade and square hand guard, ala the ones both Christian Bale and Liam Neeson were using, were pirate swords, not "ninja" or shinobi swords.) For those who may or may not care, the real ninja dressed just like samurai...and used exactly the same swords. Because, duh, they were spies and bodyguards to the Shoguns, and people weren't supposed to know they were shinobi. Did they assassinate people? Sure, when it was necessary, but the little black outfits would have sort of given away their intent, don't you think? Much easier to appear to be just like everyone else. BTW, kunoichi, or female ninja, were especially good at this. No one suspected them, and their weapons were not so obvious as a sword.

*sigh*

Sorry, personal thing. I still loved the movie and think Bale's Batman is the best yet.

But back to Serenity. It was lovely seeing the trailer on the big screen. Mark did think it was not the best trailer they could have done to pull in new fans -- he thinks it might seem a little confusing, or like any other SF movie to people who haven't seen the series.

I just enjoyed seeing all our guys (and gals) up there on the big screen. :)

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[sekhmets-temple.livejournal.com]

Mark did think it was not the best trailer they could have done to pull in new fans -- he thinks it might seem a little confusing, or like any other SF movie to people who haven't seen the series.

Yeah, the trailer is confusing. I never saw the entire series but I did catch at least half of what they aired and I was still all WTF? That's nothing compared to the WTF-ing my friend was experiencing. She leaned over and said that she supposed she might understand it more if she'd watched the series. I said I'd seen a lot of it but was still very lost.

Mind you, I'm not a fan (I really tried as I'm always up for a new sci-fi show, but I guess my sci-fi vision does not see eye to eye with Joss'), so perhaps that had something to do with it. But if they want to grab the audience as a whole and not just the established fans of the TV show, they really do need to market the film better.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to try and catch the Firefly reruns that are going to be on SciFi. Everyone on my flist is talking about it, and I've never seen it, not even a single scene.

BTW, are you still looking for Mr. & Mrs. Smith icons? grrliz just posted a bunch.