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Off Topic => Holodeck => Topic started by: Sirgod on May 28, 2011, 11:47:08 pm
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Most people may have thought the last poll # 13 was evil given the number, But this one is truly evil. Pitting two beloved greats against each other.
Galaxy Quest (1999) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/)
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Serenity (2005) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/)
Stephen
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Most people may have thought the last poll # 13 was evil given the number, But this one is truly evil. Pitting two beloved greats against each other.
Galaxy Quest (1999) [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/[/url] ([url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/[/url])
vs.
Serenity (2005) [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/[/url] ([url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/[/url])
Stephen
I am not a fan of a gunsmoke scifi show. Lazer bolts from a colt 45 revolver is not scifi to me. I vote Galaxy Quest because though the plot is lame its more plauseable. :crazy2:
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Gentlemen, I want that third option !
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Oh goddamnit! hard question: I went with serenity for the sheer loyalty factor.
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Hard choice, but in the end Galaxy Quest was a comedy in a SciFi setting not SciFi itself.
The one thing I disliked most about Serenity was putting so many habitable planets in one solar system.
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Most people may have thought the last poll # 13 was evil given the number, But this one is truly evil. Pitting two beloved greats against each other.
Galaxy Quest (1999) [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/[/url] ([url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/[/url])
vs.
Serenity (2005) [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/[/url] ([url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/[/url])
Stephen
I am not a fan of a gunsmoke scifi show. Lazer bolts from a colt 45 revolver is not scifi to me.
The revolver fires actual bullets, not lasers. I would normally agree with you, but I think Firefly/Serenity manages to pull it off without being overly campy and tacky.
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wow, tuff one indeed....
truly a nit to pick, but they establish in the Firefly 'verse that most/all of the planets & moons were terraformed to be liveable; "a dozen planets and hundreds of moons."
http://www.fireflyshipworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/verse-frontbig1.jpg (http://www.fireflyshipworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/verse-frontbig1.jpg)
While it's a tough call, I think they both hold up really well as science fiction, just one of them is played for laughs. If the Thermians had picked up a squad of Marines instead of out of work actors, it woulda been a different movie for sure!
I even just watched Serenity the other night for the umpteenth time, but still voted for Galaxy Quest; one of teh funniest films ever, and the best non-Star Trek Star Trek movie !
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Still trying to decide. Galaxy Quest has Grabthar's hammer
What a Savings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgv7U3GYlDY#ws)
But Serenity has what's got to be one of my all time favorite movie lines
I`m unarmed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y7eiUSjc1s#)
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Sticking for the minority once again: I hated Serenity. Thus my vote was no contest. Too bad the couldn't have actually done it with Bill Shatner and crew. Although GQ this way was probably funnier than with the ST cast could have ever been.
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hard choice.. Serenity I think wins for me though
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Ack, two movies I think are awesome. For different reasons of course.
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this one's gonna be close!
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The revolver fires actual bullets, not lasers. I would normally agree with you, but I think Firefly/Serenity manages to pull it off without being overly campy and tacky.
Agreed!
Loved them both tho!
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I loved the series Firefly. There is nothing as much fun as a spaceship run by criminals. I could tolerate Blake's 7, for that reason.
Unfortunately, Serenity wasn't as funny as the series, but made up for it with compelling drama and deep character interest. Galaxy Quest was just another one of these halarious concepts that came across flatter than a pancake. I laughed when I saw the trailer, but never giggled once, during the film.
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No contest. Serenity! GQ looked as if it was written by a couple of 12 year old boys.
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wow, tuff one indeed....
truly a nit to pick, but they establish in the Firefly 'verse that most/all of the planets & moons were terraformed to be liveable; "a dozen planets and hundreds of moons."
First I recall them indicating all those planets are in one star system was the movie. Just how big was that star to have a habitable zone that big? Then you would have "years" centuries or millenia long, plants and animals are not evolved for seasons like that.
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I loved the series Firefly. There is nothing as much fun as a spaceship run by criminals. I could tolerate Blake's 7, for that reason.
Criminals? Rebels I think.
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criminals/rebels, "Poe-tato"/"po-Tah-to"
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criminals/rebels, "Poe-tato"/"po-Tah-to"
So you don`t mind calling George Washington and the other U.S. founding fathers criminals?
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So you don`t mind calling George Washington and the other U.S. founding fathers criminals?
If they had lost? The British certainly would have tried them as such. Treason is a crime, I believe.
Look, before this spins out too far, I just wanted to point out that in "Firefly" and "Blake's 7", the stars of the shows were on the run and were, by their universe's laws, considered criminals, that's all. It was part of the appeal of the shows.
Not for nothing, my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was one of the Founders, Roger Sherman. The only man to sign all four of the documents that founded the United States. Bonus points to anyone who can name all four.
If they had lost and he had been hung, I wouldn't be here ;)
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same appeal you have with Star Wars, the heros are criminals to the state. Rebels, insurgent fighters against the government. It is a common thread in movies and books.
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The characters in Firefly are criminals. They were rebels, but they lost. Now they make ends meet through legal and illegal means.
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So you don`t mind calling George Washington and the other U.S. founding fathers criminals?
If they had lost? The British certainly would have tried them as such. Treason is a crime, I believe.
They would have been tried and executed as rebels or traitors not as "common criminals".
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criminals/rebels, "Poe-tato"/"po-Tah-to"
So you don`t mind calling George Washington and the other U.S. founding fathers criminals?
The Founding Fathers were criminals, until the Crown recognized the United States of America. That's the way revolutions work. You win, you're the founder of a new nation. You lose, you get convicted and hang. Apparently, there was some kind of amnesty for the characters in Firefly. What did they do with that Amnesty? Rob, smuggle, loot, and commit just about every other conventional crime. They're criminals.