"I aim to misbehave."

Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 9 months ago to Movies
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Joss Whedon’s painfully-beloved, endlessly-missed, didn’t-even-get-a-God-damn-full-season sci-fi Western Firefly had its libertarian moments. Hell, the pilot has the main character, the funny, but wounded Captain Malcolm Reynolds, say the following piece of dialogue: “That’s what government’s for — get in a man’s way.”

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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If Mal weren't wisecracking and childish... he'd be a homicidal maniac, after what he went through.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "my days of not taking you seriously are definitely coming to a middle"

    "well, well well... looks like we got here just in the nick of time. What's that make us?"
    "Big damn heroes, sir"
    "Ain't we just".
    ...
    "yeah, but she's our witch, so cut her down".

    "You turn on *any* of my crew, you turn on me!"

    "Why'd you come back for us? You don't even like me"
    "Cause you're on my crew... why're we still discussing this?"

    "Ship like this will be with you til the day you die"
    "Cause it's a death trap..."

    "He named the ship after Serenity because, when you go there... you never leave." (deleted scene)

    "Do you know your role in all this, little one?"
    "Do you?"
    "This is what I do darlin' (pauses to look unsettled)... this is what I do..."

    "This landing is gonna get pretty interesting. "
    "Define 'interesting'. "
    [deadpan] "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die?"

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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As long as it isn't a remake. So sick of those.

    (I actually saw you pop on while I was staring at my email page to decide where to click on next.)
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  • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I didn't see Silverado til years later; was too busy working (and enjoying it) for a long time.
    They set up the ending for a sequel to Silverado but it just never happened. Now they have no excuse but to get another cast if they want to do one. Still I'd like to see it happen.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A couple of years ago, one of my four brothers let me borrow his Firefly complete series. He said the main character reminded him of his protective big brother. Dat's me-ee. I really liked the show for other reasons. (Bet you hoped I'd say that). For $15.96 I'm snapping it up.
    I enjoyed Silverado, especially when it came along after a long dry spell for movie Westerns when it came out in the late-80s. Maybe that dry spell was due to too many cheap Spaghetti Westerns of the 60's and 70's.
    I'm 67. Been around for a while.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 8 months ago
    Serenity wasn't mindless. It looked like escapist fiction but it actually had a spine of rationality. To fully enjoy it, you had to think. Hence, it never attracted a big audience. Take Star Wars. After all six of the series was in the can, pundits attributed all kinds of profundities to it. If there really were any, they were well hidden. People even stuck with it during episodes 1,2, and 3. which were pretty much abysmal. Why? Because it was really a a fairy tale and not something anyone had to give anymore thought to than that. Some of the latest batch of sci-fi films strive for a message about how the world is becoming a dystopian civilization. They don't say how or why, but Gulchers could write those back stories.
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  • Posted by $ hash 10 years, 8 months ago
    In "The Train Job" there's even a scene (probably my favorite in the whole show) which reveals that Mal is a man of principled, rational self-interest, not a mercenary. In the interest of avoiding spoilers I won't quote the dialog but it is freaking awesome.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A friend I know insists that the most practical way to freedom is building a large habitat in space (instead of colonizing Luna or Mars.)
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  • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You should enjoy it. Something of a cross between old style westerns and futuristic sci-fi with a somewhat individualist, self-reliant theme.
    BTW, did you see the western Silverado?
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  • Posted by $ hash 10 years, 8 months ago
    Serenity is basically a spaceborne version of Galt's Gulch.
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  • Posted by $ hash 10 years, 8 months ago
    Also pretty hilarious how the people of Jaynestown start to worship Jayne for robbing from the rich and giving to the poor when that was not his motivation at all :-)
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  • Posted by $ hash 10 years, 8 months ago
    Hell, the whole theme song may as well have been written by John Galt:

    Take my love. Take my land.
    Take me where I cannot stand.
    I don't care, I'm still free.
    You can't take the sky from me.
    Take me out to the black.
    Tell 'em I ain't comin' back.
    Burn the land And boil the sea.
    You can't take the sky from me
    Have no place I can be
    Since I found Serenity
    But you can't take the sky from me.
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  • Posted by $ hash 10 years, 8 months ago
    Other great lines from Firefly:

    Mal: "let me make this abundantly clear: I do the job. And then I get paid."

    Mal (quoted by Book): "A government is a body of people, usually, notably ungoverned."

    And of course: "You can't take the sky from me".
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 8 months ago
    This is freaking weird! Yesterday I received in the mail a catalog called The Big Book of Movies. Just 20 minutes ago I was flipping through its TV section and spied Firefly: Complete Series, the DVD (I don't have {$23.96} Blu-ray) costing $15.96) and had decided to order it.
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  • Posted by Rex_Little 10 years, 8 months ago
    Firefly was great, and so was the movie version Serenity, but the casting of Nathan Fillion as Malcolm Reynolds was just wrong. He doesn't have the gravitas for the part. He was born to play a wisecracking man-child like Rick Castle (in the TV series Castle).
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  • Posted by Matcha 10 years, 8 months ago
    Many of us know about Firefly. I named my farm in my new country Serenity.
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I first saw Nathan on One Life To Live (a guilty college pleasure) as Joey Buchanan.. Fell in love. still in love. He can play Hank in the PoJ movie if he wants. He was also CREEPY as the preacher in Buffy. Caleb is just a great character. I read somewhere where he once said about Whedon: no one ever let me play a villain before. That I got to star in a feature film as (Malcolm), well, I trust that man's judgment. He also jokingly referred to Firefly fans as Jehovah Witnesses. He said, I don't think they're going door to door yet, but they might be. He said if won the lottery he would produce the Firefly series and put it on the web
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