Some of these I do just for me
The always-literate* Ain’t It Cool News has a very comedic** report on a recent screening of Serenity.
Serenity is the big-screen movie that’s been made, counter-intuitively, from the flopped television series Firefly, which was created by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Whedon is also the writer and director of Serenity.
Sadly, I’ve probably written enough about Whedon & Buffy elsewhere to fill a book. Here and now, suffice it to say I think he’s a gifted, even supremely talented man who is also vastly overrated by his admiring fans. Who do not seem to grasp that he has still not had that many successes, and his work is not really that popular.*** No matter how many rooms he fills at the San Diego comic-con. I’m also concerned with what I take to be the myth of his work as “feminist.” And a reliance on blood & violence when the stories aren’t good enough.
Now back to Ain’t It Cool News. An earlier screening of Serenity, before people who were already devoted fans, apparently went well. But this is what happened when an audience that was deliberately filled with people who aren’t already Firefly/JW fans sat through Firefly, The Motion Picture:
“Some of the women had a problem with the violence…. I think a lot of non-Whedonites left pretty pissed off. I heard stuff like “waste of time”, “worst movie ever”
Ah, validation.
*Irony.
**Sincereity.
***Compared to, say, 60 Minutes or Sideways.
