Go see SERENITY Sunday & Monday!

Attention, people of Earth...

SERENITY's playing at the Brattle this coming Sunday and Monday evening (10p) and I aim to misbehave...

I've pitched these screenings to several people already in person and via email, and at this point have no idea how many different shows I might have committed myself to, but I shall reschedule my tee time with the Space Pope and my afternoon tea with Elvis and Bigfoot to make myself available to go to any and all screenings anyone would like to check SERENITY out. =)

I do love this movie -PLUS- every show counts towards the Watch-A-Thon total! =)

Do NOT feel obligated to team up with me to see this show, or compelled to join in any group that forms around my emails. DO feel obligated to SEE THIS MOVIE WHENEVER AND WITH WHOMEVER YOU LIKE =) CUZ I AM TELLING YOU THAT IS SOME GOOD $HIT RIGHT THERE THAT IS.

Let me know if you'd like to go with, tho. =)

SERENITY is the sci-fi adventure movie capstone to the excellent but greedtarded-Fox-exec-cancelled series FIREFLY, created by Joss Whedon, of BUFFY, ANGEL, and ASTONISHING X-MEN fame. However, you do NOT need to have soaked in all the TV series goodness to appreciate the film. It stands solidly on its own as a moving, well-paced story set in a wonderfully eclectic future populated with the most colorful and thoughtfully written and played characters who are driven by the most familiar desires and ideals. Whew, that was a mouthful, even typed out.

If you've got the time and access, tho, I recommend watching the pilot of the series available on the first DVD of the FIREFLY collection. It is NOT necessary, but it'll be a good bit of conditioning for you before hittin the hard stuff. I managed to get a small posse together for a screening when SERENITY was in theaters. There was one other fan and three or four un-prepped newbies to the FIREFLY 'verse, and they all came away more than satisfied.

ALSO - I just did a quick scan ahead on the SciFi channel's schedule. This Friday evening at 7pm it looks like they're playing the first half of the 2-part pilot. That's kind of frustrating, but it'll give you a taste for the show. ALSO ALSO - It looks like SciFi will be playing solid 4-hour blocks of FIREFLY this coming Tuesday and Wednesday nights, from 7-11pm! Set your Tivos/ReplayTVs/DVRs accordingly!

To those of you who might not be fans of mystery, action, and romance where space-anything is involved, this is not sci-fi for sci-fi's sake. This is not about a checklist of a plot as an excuse to put a few B actors in some futuristic costumes and crazy hairdos and let a team of CG animators and effects wizards flex their muscles. This is about telling the story of decent people caught in a crappy situation, doing the best that they can to survive, without compromising their beliefs, and all the while, delivering some damn snappy dialogue. They just happen to live on a spaceship is all. Good swashbuckling fun! =)

Sorry, I can really be an idiot about the things I like. I've gone on quite a bit and haven't given up a decent frickin synopsis! Sometimes I get too close or enthusiastic about a bit of pop culture or flash I adore and forget how to describe it in a sensible way that adult human beings without telepathic abilities might understand.

SERENITY is set 500 some-odd years in a future in which humanity has spread itself throughout the galaxy, terraforming and colonizing planets in system after system, constantly expanding. The central worlds, considered the most civilized, have joined together to create a federation government called the Alliance. The constant expansion of humanity throughout the stars has created a new frontier, and creator/writer/director Joss Whedon imagines it in a retro-future manner, a space opera with old west sensibilities, a nearly lawless rim of the civilized 'verse, populated by constables and outlaws, farmers and ranchers, slave traders and bordello madames, soldiers and smugglers. Where a cargo ship is as likely to carry a herd of cattle as a gross of space toasters. It's in this space-age western frontier that the crew and passengers of Serenity live...

Ex-resistance fighter turned honorable thief, Captain Malcolm Reynolds.
His first mate and amazon badass, Zoe.
Her first (in a matrimonial way) mate and man-boy, Serenity's pilot, Wash.
Ship's mechanic and l'il darlin', Kaylee.
Mercenary for hire, long on ammo, kinda short on brains, the man they call Jayne.
Ship's medic, hailing from the civilized core of the galaxy, Dr. Simon Tam.
His troubled super genius of a sister, once the unwilling subject of Alliance science research, River Tam.
The companion with a heart of gold, Inara.
And the preacher man with the mysterious past, Shepherd Book.

They make what passes for a living on the fringe as smugglers for hire, passing themselves off as a transport ship. In the course of their travels, they find that one of their number has unwittingly discovered a closely guarded Alliance secret, turning Serenity and her crew into marks for the federation's deadliest, most ruthless assassin. Wacky fun ensues =)

There, that's sort of comprehensible, no?

Six (and change) against the galaxy! Epic space western stuff with heart, I tell you what. SEE IT! =)

Keep on keepin on,
See you in the world~
Mutant Enemy
(ARrrhhh! Arrrrh!~)