Looks like I wasn't the only one who got inspiration to give the show another (or their first) shot....
I must have gone to about 10 different stores... couldn't find
Firefly in a single. one. of. them. All of which were on order for more copies to come within the week. Undoubtedly, no one would probably have a lot of stock for DVDs that have been out for two (almost three) years, but sauntering into Barnes & Noble, they said they got up to a half dozen requests for it in the morning. It seems to me they might have anticipated the surge in popularity c/o
Serenity's DVD release... or not. I realize the show never did all that well, but I still am kind of surprised on how (undeservedly, imho) very poorly it did in the box office. Maybe it's wrong of me not being a "browncoat" and not being in the cusp of that fandom, but... the box office numbers do almost astound me. While in comparison, the
Fantastic Four did about five times as well. Maybe it's just momentary naivete and my cynicism regards to the Hollywood sausage factory will kick-in sometime later, but... that kind of does appall me just a little. There were certainly some pretties in FF and I'm definitely not abject to the occassional (very) guilty pleasure (hell, I have Hornblower on vid
and dvd), but I'm not going to kid myself in convincing anyone FF was anything but god awful (it so was). I'd say
Serenity was easily the vastly better movie,
( far beyond just the pretties. ) It looks like the show never really got it's due when it was on (included those who are now jumping so very, very late on the bandwagon - I almost feel guilty for not watching it in the theater now in attempt to boost those sorry numbers), I suppose not much is going to change despite a damn decent movie. *sighs*
btw, also saw
King Kong recently. Eh. It was alright. Adrian Brody's pretty/fugly never fails to bewilder me.
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