I saw Serenity this weekend. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a crowded theater. Making barely another $4 mil, Serenity has so far not even made back 50% of it’s cost, which has to be one of the greatest box office crimes of the century.

This movie is everything Sith (and 99% of other so called science fiction) wasn’t. It was paced properly, something few movies seem to be anymore. It was dramatic. It was tense. It was suspensful. It was exciting. It had great acting, a twisty plot (do not fall asleep in the first five minutes!), a unique soundtrack, and characters you learned to love . . . . or fear. You don’t have to have seen the first episode of the series. Personally, I have seen a whopping total of 40 minutes of one. Everything you needed to know about everyone was in the movie, and it never felt like I was being spoon-fed.

What I’m trying to say is, go see this damn movie. If you like any of the following catagories: Drama, Adventure, Horror, Westerns, Action, Comedy, Combat, Science Fiction — you will like this movie. Notice I put Science Fiction last.

What was this movie about? Simple (well, sort of). Take the Magnificent Seven, only have them together for years. Flip the sex of a few of them. Now have them be disillusioned losers of a civil war, operating beyond the edge of the law.

And in posession of something they don’t want, but the government does. Very, very, very badly.

Wash: “This could be interesting.”
Mal: “Define interesting.”
Wash: “Oh God, Oh God, we’re all going to die?”

Don’t wait on a damn DVD.