Serenity! Serenity! Serenity!

[agilebrit]

Okay, I've now seen it three times: Once in a pre-screening, and twice as a final cut. And I have to say that this movie gets better with more viewings, and the impact isn't lessened at all.

Last night I went to the midnight showing with the loverly and effulgent jerib_78 (and how cool is it that the very first friend I ever made in the JossVerse fandom lives right in my very state and we can do stuff like this together? *smooches her platonically*). The theater was filled with die-hard fans, and they gave away swag (I got a DVD box set!!! *flails* I never win anything!), had a costume contest, and we all sang along to the theme song and watched clips from the "Done the Impossible" documentary--which is SO going to rock. And not just because I'm in it.

Anywho, we laughed, we cried. There were actual screams when Wash died. I took a plush badger with me (lame, I know), but I gave custody of him to the fellow Jeri brought to the Shindig when I went for snackage, and didn't get him back until the end of the movie. He'd been squashed. LOL One thing that was pretty cool was that we had previews just like a regular showing, and people clapped after the Narnia trailer. Lord, I hope they didn't screw that up. It looks good, though.

jerib_78 stayed overnight here (since she lives two hours away), and she babysat Da Boy while the Hubby and I went to the first showing of the morning. I was a little afraid I'd overhyped the movie for him, because I've been raving about it since June (poor fellow)...and he was afraid he wouldn't think it was so good. BUT. No worries. Joss is, after all, the King of Storytelling, and the Hubby was not disappointed in the least--thought it was excellent and lived up to my hype. Which, YAY! The entire theater gasped when Wash got impaled, and even though I knew it was coming and had seen it happen less than thirteen hours before, it still hit me hard. The funerals hit me harder--Zoe in that dress? *sniffles* And even though I knew everyone else was going to be okay, I was still scared for our heroes in that last battle in Mr. Universe's complex. Because Joss is that good. Or, I'm, you know, that lame. Heh.

Michael Medved gave it three stars today, which gives me warm fuzzies. He doesn't do that often, and he's one of the few reviewers out there I actually respect. As for the bar scene that a lot of people seem to be dismissing out of hand...I still think it holds up, even after multiple viewings. River is really hitting and kicking people *hard* there. Other than how graceful she is, she doesn't look "girly" at all. These are not love taps she's delivering; it looked "real" to me. As opposed to Inara, who tries some fancy moves on the Operative and basically gets the snot knocked out of her. And looks totally girly while she's at it. River's sequence in the bar didn't look "faked" to me, like a Jackie Chan (for example) movie does. I love Jackie, he's cool...but it doesn't look like he's ever really hurting anyone, if you know what I mean. This was different.

So, yes. Go see it. It really is that good.

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[alliterator.livejournal.com]

Hee. Just watched the "Done the Impossible" trailer. So funny. "The next Deuce Bigalow." And you were in it! Amazing.