I'm glad to see this, because the Firefly universe is a franchise that really deserves to be continued one way or another. I never got to see the show but I thought that Serenity was both entertaining and thoughtful. Maybe I'll put the Firefly series on Netflix and catch it sometime.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
SERENITY tops STAR WARS for best sci-fi movie honor
Serenity, the big-screen follow-up to Joss Whedon's TV show Firefly, has been named best sci-fi movie by readers of SFX. Number two on the list is the original Star Wars. Finishing out the top ten in order are: Blade Runner, Planet of the Apes (presumably the original), The Matrix, Alien, Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Terminator, and Back to the Future.
Wow, it surprises that it beat Star Wars. I remember liking the movie but feeling that it was inferior to the TV show. I may have to rent it.
ReplyDeleteI've recently re-watched a few episodes of Firefly on DVD. Seeing how well the 2-part pilot "Serenity" was designed, I think Fox executives were morons for insisting on a new pilot episode (although "The Train Job" is also good). Also stupid was how the episodes were shown out of order (something corrected on the DVDs).
Other excellent episodes: "Our Mrs. Reynolds," "Out of Gas," "Ariel," "Trash," and "Heart of Gold."