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IMDB rates Firefly

POSTED BY: RANDOM
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 20:09
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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 1:19 PM

RANDOM


The DVD collection is promoted on the front page of IMDB.com today. But in going to the specific Firefly page the comments are awful. Who posts these things?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/

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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 2:08 PM

BRTICK


yeah, some of the reviews are good and some are bad.
you know, it doesnt take long to sign up on IMDB or Amazon or whatever and post good reviews. just a thought.

Keep Flying!

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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 2:08 PM

CANTTAKESKY


I don't know why, of all the enthusiastic reviews users submitted to IMDB, the one they singled out was "Don't waste your time."

I found this user review very interesting though.

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Alien Resurrection...minus the Aliens

Don't believe me? Re-rent "Resurrection". The Betty is also a small, dirty unregistered freighter running slightly illegal operations, occasionally smuggling or doing mercenary work in a ragtag universe. Just like FIrefly, aside from the famous "Aliens" (who are unknown to most of humanity) there are no other extra terrestrials (ala Star Trek) in this universe. Despite being set 500 years in the future (just like Firefly), the sci-fi setting looks contemporary and industrial...no fancy high tech anything. And it's very dirty. The Betty originally had a crew of 8 (cut down in the final shooting script to just six) and the Serenity has a crew of 9.

The Betty captain is crude mouthed, morally ambivalent but is basically a decent guy, who thinks of the crew as a kind of family -- he calls the ship the "family wagon" and its constantly out of food or supplies. While he isn't exactly married, he is clearly in a long-term romantic relationship with the ship's pilot. The ship's mechanic is a fiesty, cute young girl, just out of her teens. There a "muscle man", who is big and burly but a nice guy underneath it all. The ship's female second-in-command is a tough cookie who is just as smart and strong as the guys.



Any thoughts on this?


Can't Take My Gorram Sky

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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 2:29 PM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.


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Originally posted by canttakesky:
Any thoughts on this?



Joss wrote Alien Resurrection, so I wouldn't be surprised if some of the same archetypes re-appeared on Firefly.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 3:00 PM

INVISIBLEGREEN


Joss did say that the mood for "The Train Job" was what he intended "Alien: Resurrection" to be like, although we know "Resurrection" did not at all turn out the way he wanted it too.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2003 8:09 PM

SERGEANTX


I think a lot of that is just an artifact of the way people get attention online. Its just so much easier to put on the world-weary-cynic-whos-seen-it-all pose, than it is to actually make critical judgement. Most every negative post I've seen about Firefly was just a variation on "It wasn't what I expected so I didn't like it" (come to think of it, that was the complaint from Fox as well). 'Course we all know Joss NEVER gives what's expected. Where's the fun in that?

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

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