Burn the Land and Boil the Sea..
October 06, 2005 @ 03:25 AM... You can’t take the sky from me.
It kind of hurts, actually. I’ve been waiting and rooting for the movie Serenity for nearly a year. Based on the short-lived television show Firefly by Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Serenity represented vindication for the group of fans who felt Firefly was wrongly canceled. So as soon as word of a movie was leaked, we’ve been waiting.
And it was worth the wait. I’m not going to say much about it, because if you haven’t seen it I don’t want to spoil it. But, it was good. Don’t just take my word for it though. Most surveys I’ve seen have said 90-95% of moviegoers reported liking-to-loving the movie. And critics have been raving. Ebert and Roeper - no fans of Sci-Fi from what I’ve seen - gave it two thumbs up. Critics describe the movie as ‘fresh’, ‘laugh-out-loud hilarious’, and there’s definitely a ton of action.
So what hurts? It’s tanking. Universal and Joss Whedon are trying to spin the box office returns, but the fact is, the movie is getting slaughtered. Still, I’m hopeful that all the positive reviews this week will drive attendence next weekend, We shall see.
If you haven’t seen it, and think Sci-Fi is even remotely tolerable, go see it. You’ll like it.
Congratulations, iBrasten readers…
For the second month in a row, iBrasten readership hit all-time highs. For the month of September, we had 360 unique visitors registering over 1,500 visits, averaging about 52 unique visitors a day. Those numbers tailed off slightly towards the end of the month, which I’m guessing is because I haven’t been posting as often. I’ll work on that.
A couple of the more interesting search terms that were used to discover iBrasten: "little finger numb with a pinched nerve", "going away cake", "superyo samurai", and "eesv.pk".
Thank you readers!