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Serenity | Firefly Movie Reaction (Part 1)
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2020
- After watching Joss Whedon’s sci-fi TV show “Firefly,” CinemaBlend senior video producer Jeff McCobb is watching the 2005 movie for the very first time. Here’s part one of his reaction and review.
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I cant tell you how many times since Covid19 that I've been able to use the line "Two by two, hands of blue"
Every time I wash my hands or put on gloves. Glad to know I'm not the only one.
Lol I said this to a girl, a barista in a cafe, and she laughed and said firefly! I fell in love with her in that moment. She will never know this (she was wearing blue gloves).
My FAVORITE part was actually the introduction.
Its such a simple thing, but the fact that Joss did a "complete" background / info dump for anyone watching the movie who has never seen Firefly before, WHILE making it entertaining & brief (5 minutes or less) so as to not bore the FANS . . .is AWESOME!
(and sadly, a very rare thing)
AND couple on with it that the Serenity intro was done in a single long take... doesn't get much more badass than that.
Until that point I wasn't even sure if it was all in one solar system or a larger section of space.
Yeah, this movie (and especially its opening) is Joss at his best as a writer and director. There are a couple Buffy episodes that are up there too, but this is really some of his best work.
Yeah it's a perfect way of allowing anyone to enjoy the film, and following rule #1, thou shall not bore.
"There must have been tears in the audience."
Yes, yes there were.
Movies with Mikey has s great story on his Serenity episode.
Nary a dry eye in the house, but it was epic. Most animated audience I've ever been in a theater with.
@@DanWooller That tore me the fuck up.....just his description of the wail....
@ the roseville pre-screening, there were many.
I was BAWLING
That intro to Serenity still gives me chills 15 years later.
I was at the world premier of this, with Joss and some of the cast. I felt kind of bad for them tbh, they got a huge ovation when they came in, before the movie played. Then at the end, the applause was kind of muted (in comparison to their welcome anyway). It wasn't because we didn't love the movie, we were all just kind of stunned, still mourning the Wash thing. I always hoped they understood that!
Go back and watch the scene where you first see the crew. Once they go to the cockpit, it's an unbroken shot following Mal that introduces the entire crew.
After watching Firefly I was unable to watch "regular" TV shows after that for many years. (They just didn't hold water for me anymore). Watching your reactions to this makes me wonder the same thing about reaction videos ....
Thanks.
Mike Peters have you considered Agents of Shield, it will give you serious deja vu, the first season is one of the best and it gets better every season. Honestly, I don't know how both of those can be true, yet they are.
I still feel the same with sci-fi. No sci-fi series since means anything.
@@dmckim3174 Err no.
Then definitely go & watch Buffy The Vampire Slayer(and its spin-off later on, called "Angel") & Dollhouse... you'll gonna love them as much. Joss & his team were initially assembled in Buffy & Angel, & then they went to do Firefly.
Try watching The Unit; I connected with that cast just as much as I did with Firefly. And if you want a show that has a similar sci-fi vibe to Firefly, The Expanse is really good, too.
The outtakes on the dvd are absolutely hillarious.
My friend who introduced me to Firefly took me to this movie my HS graduating year. Everything was fun!...until...it wasn't....
Joss Whedon likes leaving the cast dead or near death at the end of a shows run.
Same happened in Angel.
@@enlightendbel...lets just say there are dots that connect....
My intro to the Firefly universe was from when the first 9 minutes of the Serenity movie was officially uploaded to RUclips to promote it. I went to the theater to see the movie proper. This was also my intro to the excellent Chiwetel Ejiofor.
"- SERENITY, next shot"
*SERENITY title appears*
" - I've got hell of goosebumps right now"
You are not the only one :)
Thank god you released this all at once you beautiful man you. Thank you so much for making this series its been so genuine and has reaffirmed my love for this show. Sad to see this series over but you definitely have a new subscriber, thank you so much again
Just for giggles, you should watch the mini-movie/documentary, “We’ve done the Impossible”, on your own.
The Ashrook Yes! I’d love to see his reaction of that.
Absolutely .
There's also a bad fan movie called Browncoats Redemption . I would not recommend it unless you need to fall asleep . It's fairly rare on DVD and Blu-ray but can be had on Ebay for a price.
OG fan: My reaction in the theatre? I started crying. Happy, shiny tears.
@CinemaBlend not sure if its been mentioned already, but here's a fun fact...
Around the 11:55 mark of your video, River can be seen sitting just in front of a container that reads, "reusable container... do not destroy". this was a joke placed in due to the fact that after the original series aired and wasn't picked up for a second season, many of the original sets and the like were in fact destroyed, forcing them to be remade for the film.
Just finished watching your reaction to the entire series and its always fun to be a part of someone discovering this amazing universe, so thank you for sharing!
Thank you SO MUCH for this amazing reaction, all 3 parts were like experiencing the film for the first time, watching these genuine and very insightful reactions.
I think I might have seen an episode when the showed aired and just couldn't find it again, so I forgot about it. Then I saw the trailer for the movie and I wanted to see it, but I just didn't get a chance to see it in the theater. I forgot about it again and then I saw the movie sitting on a shelf in some video rental place and remembered I wanted to see it. I rented the movie, completely fell in love with it and then rented the series. I now own several copies of the series and the movie on Blu-ray and DVD, because I wanted to see all the special features. I seek out the graphic novels, because I want the stories to continue. This franchise or world or verse is just so special and I wish I could see more.
OMG, it's here and I'm so excited!!
Everyone should watch the Firefly 10th-anniversary program. Joss Whedon said he would never have killed off any characters if he knew how well Serenity would be received. He also gave brief outlines as to how season two would be. For example, both Kaylee and Zoe are pregnant and Zoe and Jayne would argue over who'd teach the kids about guns. Also, we would have found out that Inara had a fatal disease and other tidbits that are now lost forever.
Except that Robert A. Heinlein, in his last few books, introduced the concept of the "World as Myth" which supposes that all fictional universes are equally real and, moreover, are accessible to one another via interdimensional travel. So, in some alternate universe, Serenity and her crew are still flying.
I was a huge fan of the series when it was airing, and I had no idea the movie had come out either. Similarly, I had no idea about the series until the 4th episode, because FOX also did very little promotion for the show originally (though missing the first few episodes turned out not to be a big deal since they were all shown out of order anyway).
Both the movie and the series "flew under the radar" for a great many people at the time - It seems like at least 1/2 of the people I have ever spoken to about Firefly had not heard of it until after it had aired, in part or entirely.
I was in the L.A. Firefly community. One day I read an email at lunch. It said if you're reading this, you're invited to the premiere. Universal actually invited the local fans to the premiere and after party. It was an amazing time.
Done with Firefly/Serenity, but still need some Joss Whedon, next up "Dollhouse" Another Whedon masterpiece Only 2 seasons unfortunately.
DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN How do you NOT show Summer on the ceiling?????
My dad took me to this impromptu when I was in 5th grade. I'd never seen the series, was warned it would probably be too scary for me, but it was a choice of going home with my grandparents or going to a movie with dad. I walked out obsessed, marathoned the entire TV show, and became ruined as a nerd for life. Thank you, Serenity, for shaping my nerdom.
I watched every episode when it aired on Fox. I had the DVDs, watched them countless times, with all of the different commentary (btw, there are cast commentary options, and they are HILARIOUS), and when I heard there would be a movie I damn near ascended. EXCEPT.... that it came out while I was in school in Japan. I had to wait for the DVD to come out and for my parents to mail me a copy, but ooooh boyo you best bet THAT was a happy day in Hokkaido!
This is where I suggest The Sarah Connor Chronicles for more Summer Glau (and pre-GoT Lena Headey)
Sadly, SCC didn't even get the chance to tie loose ends. Instead, we got Genysis and Dark Fate. Sigh...
Yes. Well worth the watch.
I got to see the sneak preview of Serenity 6 months before it was released world wide. The soundtrack was from The Fifth Element. None of the SFX were complete. But we were all FLOORED. An auditorium full of shocked and crying Browncoats is power in its rawest form. DAMN. So good.
u may have missed it because of pausing but the whole intro walk trough the ship was made shown as ONE BIG SHOT without cuts (in fact it was 2 shots with a "hidden" cut trough a dorway turn, as the ship are 2 sets)
still the most amazing thing about the whole show for me is that walk trough the ship that amazing intro
You are totally right about how original Firefly fans felt when this movie first came out, it was so exciting!
I'm a 1st Gen Browncoat (watching while Firefly aired). The DVDs came out a couple weeks before the movie. I was doing a watch through and my youngest teenage son decided to watch too, having not seen the show. His comment after the last episode is priceless. "Who ever canceled this was and idiot". My middle son who had not watched the series or the DVDs heard we were going to a movie and came along. After the movie he binge watched the entire series.
to us, the originals, this was the culmination of redemption. we hated that this show was cancelled, we hated the studios for doing shutting down what could have been the new star trek original series. to see the movie, man it was awesome. chills up my spine too get to see just ONE MORE episode. i still want the series to come back. but i guess its too much to ask today.
I was at the 2004 San Diego Comic con Firefly/Serenity panel where the whole crew was there and Joss showed a preview "trailer" of Serenity twice. There were tears in the crowd.
I saw the movie first, on a whim, from Blockbuster. Hadn't heard of Firefly, had seen Serenity advertised; thought it was a random, low budget sci fy, and didn't have much in the way of expectations. Life was never the same.
I LOVE that these all went up at once so that we can enjoy them all together. Makes the wrapping-up of this series a bit less bittersweet :)
I love firefly and serenity! 2 Best episodes of firefly:
When the ship gets stranded in deep space, when mal gets captured
TOTALLY AGREE.
Indeed, watching Serenity after such a long wait was amazing.
Fun fact: I came into Firefly through the movie because here in Germany it aired before the series. I loved seeing a spaceship that wasn't all sterile and unpersonal, but ... lived in. Painted walls, a wooden table...
I just binged your binge, and your excitement reminded me of my growing excitement as I watched the show originally. How the f@#k was this show ever cancelled? Thanks to the people who made the movie happen, the threads were all snipped off beautifully.
Also, fun fact, Miranda and Ariel are both characters from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”.
Did you notice that Zoe explained the definition of the word hero to a God? The Golden God! Yes, that was Glenn Howerton, meaning Malcolm Reynolds and Dennis Reynolds shared a moment on the silver screen, after a fashion. In the commentary track, Nathan Fillion reveals Howerton had been dating Morena Baccarin at the time, then jokes that it is in fact because he was dating her, not because Reavers captured him, that Mal then shoots his character dead.
Now that you have watched it. I can mention this. Though this is a spoiler for those reading comments who have not seen the series or movie. Only continue if you have. That commercial that triggers River, is like a brand name. You will notice that Jayne is wearing a Blue Sun Corporation shirt when River slashes him and says he looks better in red. That is also the brand of the labels on the cans of food that river starts tearing off and Shepperd says they will have to have some mystery meals. Blue Sun Corporation is supposedly behind the Fruity Oatey Bars in the commercial that triggers River.
Its a fantastic film, but what I noticed on a recent viewing (that I never remember being so taken aback by before on previous viewings--a great many years before) was just how grim and sad it was, right from the start. Not even factoring character deaths later in the film, right at the beginning it is such a change in tone from the show.
I was not a fan of the show. I had briefly seen the first broadcast episode when my friends and I were killing time in a hotel room, but it didn't leave an impression on me. But the trailer for the movie looked cool, so we went to go see it. That opening scene when we first see Serenity as it enters the atmosphere sold me. I was totally on board!
I love Firefly and Serenity for years......
The opening Serenity 1-take sequence is my favorite.
The explosions on the Earth-that-was is not war; it's the launching of spacecraft.
Bro it's SOOOO GOOD WATCHING YOU WATCH THIS!
I like this guy. It's been fun to watch Jeff McCobb's reactions.
There is definitely some retconning of the series going into the movie. In the series, Simon says other people broke River out. He also had no idea what was done to her.
Nope. There are a series of comics that explain what happens in the lead up to the movie. River was captured by the alliance and the scene of Simon breaking her out takes place after the show and comics.
There were tears for the OG fans. Some were when the ship popped up. Some were... well, you'll know it when you see it.
This intro was so good. It tells you so much and intros each character with no effort.
fun fact: the secret phrase Simon uses to put River to sleep is actually a phrase in Russian.
He says "eto kurom na smech" which, loosly translated, means "it makes chickens laugh"
Actually, the one thing the DVDs/BlueRays and the replays on the streaming services are missing is that EACH EPISODE had almost the same "Earth That Was" intro at the start, just before the cold opening. Book narrated it for some episodes, Mal for the rest. It went like this:
Mal1 : Here's how it is: Earth got used up, so we terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with the new technologies, some not so much. Central Planets, them as formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity. Got a good crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher, and a bona fide companion. There's a doctor, too, took his genius sister out of some Alliance camp, so they're keeping a low profile. You got a job, we can do it, don't much care what it is.
Mal2 : Here's how it is: The Earth got used up, so we moved out and terraformed a whole new galaxy of Earths, some rich and flush with the new technologies, some not so much. The Central Planets, them as formed the Alliance, waged war to bring everyone under their rule; a few idiots tried to fight it, among them myself. I'm Malcolm Reynolds, captain of Serenity. Shes a transport ship, Firefly class. Got a good crew: fighters, pilot, mechanic. We even picked up a preacher for some reason, and a bona fide companion. There's a doctor too, took his genius sister out of some Alliance camp, so they're keeping a low profile, you understand. You got a job, we can do it, don't much care what it is.
Book : After the Earth was used up, we found a new solar system and hundreds of new Earths were terra formed and colonized. The central planets formed the Alliance and decided all the planets had to join under their rule. There was some disagreement on that point. After the War, many of the Independents who had fought and lost drifted to the edges of the system, far from Alliance control. Out here, people struggled to get by with the most basic technologies; a ship would bring you work, a gun would help you keep it. A captain's goal was simple: find a crew, find a job, keep flying.
It was fucking WONDERFUL to be the OG Firefly fan in that audience!!!
I like how Joss Whedon was going to 100% insist to any film studio that he got the original cast back, but Universal watched the show and wanted them back too. Can make a perfectly good film on a $40 million dollar budget, compared to like the $113 million for Revenge Of The Sith, and sometimes that scrappy underdog vibe is kinda nice.
@@usul573 I always loved these scrappy underdogs. I grew up with Star Wars, but Firefly is my jam. No hate toward the Wars, it’s just a personal preference.
@@Amanda-mb5sp Star Wars originally started as a scrappy underdog. It barely came together.
There's an objectively bad fan film out there called "Browncoats: Redemption" which was released for charity and made with absolute love. It lacks Whedon's flair and the pacing is painfully slow but it's unforgettable and heartwarming. Seek it out if you can. There are diamonds in the rough. I make myself watch it every few years or so. It shouldn't be forgotten.
When it was broadcast, Firefly was aired out of order and frequently pre-empted so few missed it when it went off the air. After I bought and watched the DVD set is when I really appreciated the show.
Fun fact: The words that Simon speaks to stop River after the Fruity Oaty Bars song triggers her super soldier death trance is этo курам на смех. Which is Russian "For the Hens to Laugh at" or "For the Chickens to laugh at" which is basically a Russian idiom meaning "This is ridiculous" like so ridiculous that even chickens find it funny.
Or, in the words of Joss himself:
"Joss: ‘Actually it is Russian, Old Russian, it’s something my Russian teacher in England used to say. It means ‘that’s absurd’, well the words are literally ‘that’s laughter for chickens’, and that means ‘that’s absurd’. "
pretty much all I hear seeing the movie is Fox going "you wanted firefly? we'll give you firefly. the last firefly you'll ever see!"
Was at a convention where Jewel Staite had a panel and she told the story of that first long take through the ship. Since it was continous, everyone was afraid of messing up so when Wash was talking to Mal and flipping switches/looking at the consol, Alan Tudyk actually had his lines written on cards so he could read them out.
Can’t wait for the rest of these!
4.21 The look in his eyes as he realised the kind of movie this will be
You might have missed it, as this was 2005 and a little movie called "Return Of The King" was in theaters.
I think the beginning sequence was more of a reboot of the 14 episodes; a shorthand (exposition for the audience of those who have no idea about the series) as well as an explanation of things that they couldn't get to in the series. So, instead of the girl in the box, there is the escape scene from the academy.
Fun fact that I would've never guessed: Summer Glau (River) is older than Jewel Staite (Kaylee). I don't think I ever figured that to be the case if I hadn't been curious as to what the cast was doing currently.
It was not surprising to me at all that Mal left the stranger behind, but put him out of his misery. He had mercy and compassion for the stranger, but his crew... his _tribe_ was his responsibility and his concern. Not strangers simply because they were human.
"If anything happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you... I'll get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears." Mal, you smug fuck. If I were Simon, that would raise my hackles like nothing else in the 'verse could.
i dunno if any one has answered this but in one of your other vids you asked about the english/chinese language usage in the universe. The lore explains that when the colonisation happened the majority of people came from america/european and china (approximatly, naturally there is others mixed but those are the bulk) due to this the culture that formed is based off those areas. such as the capital planet being called londinium. the combination of the two languages is another. from there you can see how the different cultures developed on each of the worlds. thats the in world explanation
a local theater let my daughters' elementary school show it there for a fundraiser for Space Camp. so much fun!
I have been excited for this!
Watch the credits scene at the start, straight after "where are you, little girl?', Serenity on screen and "what was that?", the oh god, oh god, we're all gonna die. From the Mal in the window, cut inship, right up to 'directed by joss whedon' there are no cuts.......before anyone comments, yes i know theres one clever hidden cut.
OK, for those who don't know. Firefly came on air fall 2002 on Friday nights, which was terrible as everyone goes out on Fridays. It was a time before internet TV so everything was recorded if you were out. But FoxTV kept moving the show times for various reasons including major league playoffs. Episodes were shown out of order and the first 2 hour episode wasn't shown till end of season. For those reasons and more it failed, not because it wasn't good, but FOX TV didn't like it and killed it. In spite of all that, it still got fans.
Fortunately, I found Firefly's message board while Firefly was still on the air. Made a lot of life long friends that way. Saw a few friends go on to become extras in the movie. Many of us were invited to the red carpet premiere of the movie.
Up until the pandemic, a lot of us still get together each year at the fan run Can't Stop The Serenity charity screenings of the movie to benefit the Equality Now organization and other local charities. Also prior to the pandemic, there is a fan run Firefly themed shindig that changes locations every year for fans to put on their fancy duds, come out and learn about that year's locale, and dance the night away or just hang out with other Browncoats.
I was fortunate enough to attend Cant stop the Serenity for three years in Baltimore, before no theater would agree to hold it anymore.
@@jamesjohnston1935 Chicago found a historic theater to hold Can't Stop The Serenity at for many years that eventually got bought out by someone who turned it into a nightclub. They found another location for one more year, but after changing management they couldn't find any more locations.
There had been a single year when someone had hosted one in Milwaukee at a theater. Years later another Milwaukee, WI group sprang up. They hosted their's first at a table top gaming pub with a large basement space and then subsequently at another geeky pub with a private lounge area. Last year they hosted it at a larger space. Sad I couldn't make it on account of moving. (I had donated hundreds of items over the years to their charity auction.)
Also helped out a couple who hosted a couple in Platteville, WI at the historic theater before moving to a Madison, WI suburb and using their local church. The church already had a license in place to show copyrighted media, so that's what allowed them to depart from having to rely on showing it at a theater or pay the licensing fee.
Last year made it to a CSTS event down in San Diego.
I just re-watched the whole series with my son(his first time) and was very happy that he loved it, and then I found these Firefly and Serenity reaction videos. How weird is that.
Felt sorry for you. All excited 😢
Oh yeah i have to come back to make sure i hit like on all 3 parts
Joss made a deal with Universal and Fox that he would do two series of their choosing and he would then get to do one of his choosing. Buffy and Angel were the two he had to do and Firefy, which he had been working on for years was the third. The new heads at Universal and Fox did not like the deal or Firefly at all. When they came into power they made sure Firefly was not going to make it. They didn't show the pilot which explained everything until three episodes in. They put it in a shitty time slot and even called the cast and crew at their Christmas Party to tell them it was canceled. Despite all this it was a hit. Fans bought the DVD sets and set them to the troops in IRAQ and Afghanistan which created a whole other fan base. The demand to bring back the series was deafening after a few years. So Universal made Serenity to put the final knife in the back of the Series and make damned sure no one could resurrect it ever again.
Never knew that. I always assumed massive cost overruns. I'm not a huge TV/movie guy, but the sets and props were so detailed and complex, I figured the audience wasn't enough to justify the budget. A decade later, I met lots of people who were just as big a fan as I was. I still think Fox really slit it's own throat killing this show off.
Makes me want to go back and watch it all again.
a lot was missing, but cool to come across this!
Bit surprised you didn't comment on it -- Kaylee's "goin' on a year now I ain't had nothing 'twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries" line is the way they hint at the total timeline, since the last time she got laid was by the doofus first mechanic right before she was recruited :) puts us at roughly like 4 to 6 months post episode 14 if I recall right
Watching your reaction to the series, and now the movie, has been so strangely rewarding. I feel like I’m introducing someone new to something I have genuine affection for. Every time I watch through the series, I struggle when it ends. Watch the documentary Done the Impossible, we’d love your reactions!
I saw this when it opened. It had the most animated audience I had ever experienced, if they would have played the theme or the ballad of Jayne it would have become a giant sing along. Actually Agents of Shield is a very similar show to firefly, if you watch the pilot of AoS you can really see the parallels to firefly. There is even a few episodes where Shepherd Book makes an appearance (the actor, anyway).
Just a reminder ... you have more Firefly to watch, found on RUclips .... Serenity: River Tam Sessions (HQ) / Firefly
Awesome! I was getting worried that Jeff caught the "plague" and couldn't do the reaction.
Ive really enjoyed the whole journey, but now here you are at the end of all things and you realize you can never go home again.
One of the comic book series wrapped up the blue hands storyline.
Serenity opening weekend box office was $10 million. Sadly my theater was nearly empty.
Best series and movie .. has it all fear, humor, drama and horror! :)
I don't know if anyone mentioned this before, just breezed through all the vids, and I know I'm late to the party, but there's a common theory that Jayne has a crush on Kaylee. It's something you can see when she's shot in the pilot, and he sits outside while she's operated on. Plus all the times he teases her for liking Simon, and so on. I don't believe it's ever confirmed, but I love that little detail.
I was a fan of the tv show, but I found it drawn out like they were planning a five year run without earning the fans, so i was glad when the movie came out when they would only have 2 hours to get to the point.
And the movie is one of the best sci fi movies ever made.
"Girls a witch" racks shotgun "ya but shes OUR witch..... so cut her the hell down"
Serenity? Shiny!
Love River Tam, her fight choreography, so beautiful, so deadly, thanks to awesome actress, who's a dancer, grins
I actually knew absolutely nothing of firefly at all, never even heard of it or knew of it, but my friend took me to see the movie, serenity, and I absolutely loved it, still haven't watched firefly tv series though... but the movie was great
Watch Firefly one of the best single seasons of television and has one of the best episodes in television history
First time I noticed this, but in the intro they speak of and show just one new solar system. I think the original idea was that there was a system of several stars in orbit of a giant star, each with their planets and moons. I even recall a map...
IT'S HERE
By the way, did you check out why they made the movie?
After Nathan had a new series running, which still runs today in Germany, he had no time to do this job aswell.
But because they wanred to explain the most important facts, they made the movie.
Again, I can recommend the comic Those Left Behind. It tells the story between the show and the movie. And the video The River Tam Sessions is cool, too.
In the novelization of Serenity River is described several times as giving her brother a look that says: "My brother is too stupid to live."
how did Simon know the trigger? he got into a high-level facility and had a planned escape that they executed perfectly,,, he would have been able to research her training etc... no surprise to me, at least.
"I swallowed a bug"
dude your face... love it.
Because you didn't notice when she says my turn. She is to totally in control of all
So it begins...