Saturday Afternoon at the Movies

My internet friends CJ and Kathy are part of this meme where you post your all time favorite films.   I'm not sure I have more than about FOUR favorite films, but I have films I have seen that I can share.  Some I've even seen more than once!  However, unlike CJ, who says the meme cites there is no need to explain why you like the film, I prefer the way my internet friend Birgit reviews films.  I'd be interested to know how Birgit would review

Serenity.

This is the only DVD I own.  After I raved about wanting to see the film, my foodie friend Sally bought me the DVD for Christmas in 2005.  Yes, the one and only DVD I own.

I actually have Divers and Sundry to thank for hitting me over the head with this pick because a few weeks back she cited a reference to Firefly, the ill fated TV series on which this movie is based.  Had she not mentioned Firefly, I wouldn't have realized I could review Serenity.  It doesn't hurt that I have a huge crush on Nathan Fillion, either. 

A few of the specifics: released in 2005; rated PG 13; considered action, adventure, and science fiction; written and directed by Joss Whedon who gave us Buffy, Angel, and Firefly.

The cast included Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau, Morena Baccarin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, and Ron Glass.  All nine principal cast members from the television series renewed their roles for the movie.  Chiwetel Ejiofor, David Krumholtz, and Tamara Taylor were not part of the original crew of Firefly, but played crucial roles in the movie.

Rotten Tomatoes critics consensus is:

Snappy dialogue and goofy characters make this Wild Wild West soap opera in space fun and adventurous.

The critics called it a soap opera, but I heard (or possibly read) it was called a western space drama and a space opera.  There's nothing soapy about it, in my belief.  And if it's a Whedon film, it revolves around family, even if that family is a bunch of misfits living on a Firefly class spaceship.

Rotten Tomatoes also has a decent synopsis of the film. 

A band of renegades on the run in outer space get in more hot water than they anticipated in this sci-fi action-adventure adapted from the television series Firefly. In the 26th century, the galaxy has been colonized by a military force known as the Alliance, but its leadership has not gone unquestioned. The Alliance was once challenged by a league of rebels known as the Independents, but the Alliance emerged victorious after a brutal civil war, with the surviving Independents scattering around the galaxy. Also wandering the edges of the galaxy are the Reavers, who have won few allies due to their violent behavior.

We have Joss Whedon to thank for this film.  He was responsible for giving us die-hard Firefly fans final closure after Fox yanked Firefly from the airways with so many threads hanging, arcs dangling, and questions unanswered.

Thanks for visiting today.  I hope you can find Serenity on the internet or possibly on Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Hulu.  I have my own copy, something I can't say about any other film I've ever seen.  It's a great way to spend Saturday Afternoon at the Movies.