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Serenity
I saw Serenity last night and while there was little question that I was going to like it, I'm always suprised at how much depth and compassion Joss Whedon brings to his work.
For a scifiwestern it's kind of funny that the most compelling thing about it is how real the charecters feel. The complications, contradictions, and convolutions of humanity really comes through in this movie. I have this memory from some sci-fi story or book about someone waking up from hibernation and being disappointed that the fundamental nature of mankind hadn't changed, hadn't improved. In Joss Whedon's 'verse this is stinkingly apparent, and it is a tonic to the super clean perfected world of Star Trek. It's a lot of the same thing that makes the new Battlestar Galactica so good. In fact
Serenity had the sort of depth you usually only expect out of the "indie movie" set.
For a scifiwestern it's kind of funny that the most compelling thing about it is how real the charecters feel. The complications, contradictions, and convolutions of humanity really comes through in this movie. I have this memory from some sci-fi story or book about someone waking up from hibernation and being disappointed that the fundamental nature of mankind hadn't changed, hadn't improved. In Joss Whedon's 'verse this is stinkingly apparent, and it is a tonic to the super clean perfected world of Star Trek. It's a lot of the same thing that makes the new Battlestar Galactica so good. In fact
Serenity had the sort of depth you usually only expect out of the "indie movie" set.