"This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight... turbulence and then explode." - Captain Malcolm Reynolds

Dad and I made it to the Universal Studios Serenity thing. We got there too late to get a ticket/bracelet thing to get into the autograph session, but there was plenty of room in the Q & A session. Heh, they were being really "you must have a wrist band!" for that...and then they didn't even fill the room. So, I think they started just letting people in, but we had our lil wrist bands and got in and got good seats.

Summer Glau and Adam Baldwin were there, and Summer Glau is gorgeous. She wore this outfit that on anyone else would have looked slutty, but she just looked beautiful. And Adam Baldwin is really tall. I walked by him while he was walking over to the place where the autograph session was going to be and I was surprised by how tall he is.

Apparently there were a bunch of props on display, but they closed the place down about 15 minutes before I found out about it. I wasn't the only one frustrated about that, seems alot of people hadn't know. If you knew where to look (which I didn't, until I met this lady who knew and she helped me out) they were giving out posters both HUGE ones and little ones. I got one of the little ones and was pleasantly surprised to find out it fits in the plastic poster pocket thing I already have (it used to have my Back to the Future displayed in it) so I was very glad to have gotten the little one.

Serenity Movie Review

This is a movie that fans of the show will love and I think that fans of scifi in general will appreciate. With so much stuff that's just blah and seems the same, this is unique. Granted there are two scenes in the movie that seem directly out of two other well known scifi movies, but it works. It's obvious that this movie didn't have the same budget as most big scifi movies do, but I do believe that that works to it's advantage. Instead of letting the big special effects tell the story, a well crafted story, talented actors and carefully placed effects does. They "get it" that less is more.

The actors do a good job of falling back into their characters, only the character of Simon just didn't seem to completely fit. His character in the movie resembles moreso the character at the pilot of the show, instead of the developed character that is there when the show was canceled. Summer Glau played River wonderfully and showed off her talent as an actress.

Serenity herself looks really really cool on the big screen. And that's saying something because I've seen the whole on my families home theatre, but its nothing in compared to how she looks now. Subtly different, yet in a totally cool way. After a while all the scifi space ships kinda start to look alike, but Serenity (which this seems to be the theme of the whole movie) is fresh and unique.

Spoilers From Here On. Nothing too drastic, I would no more dream of spoiling the Big Secret of the movie than I would have telling someone what really is going on in the Sixth Sense.

Whedon is definately no coward with his characters. When he killed off the first person, I kinda understood that it would have seemed too unrealistic if everyone made it out, but when person #2 happened I was shocked. Like totally shocked, and it takes alot to shock me in movies.

The Reavers can stand next to The Borg as Really Scary Bad Guys. The concept in the show, sure they were scary, but no more than the next scifi baddy, but in the movie, again going back to the less is more, they are really freaky. We barely see them, yet you know they are there, and the unseen is always scarier than the seen.

One thing that surprised me was as to "sexual references (to use what it says next to its PG-13 rating)", compared to the show, there was very little. And no language (that was in English) that I could tell. It basically earns its PG-13 with violence, and it earns its PG-13, but not to the point that it's pushing it and being a wanna be R. If it was at home and where she could hide under the blanket if she wanted to, I'd let the midget see it.

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