I have to say that many friends of mine who are film reviewers were telling me how wonderful SERENITY was. I'm afraid I was very disapointed. It was well made, and the cast were likeable enough but it just didn't do anything for me. I felt watching it that I'd seen it all before (there were echoes of STAR TREK, STAR WARS, and Wheedon had even re-used his motley group of renegade hero/rogues ideas from his script for ALIEN RESURRECTION, with a bit of his own BUFFY ass kicking babe type concepts thrown in). Say what you like about the PREQUELS, but there were more brand new ideas, and a highly unique visual style, and at least attempts being made to be different to the Original Trilogy, in those three movies-TPM, AOTC and ROTS- than there were in SERENITY..

SERENTIY-BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM OF ALL TIME? Sadly, I don't think so. Even if people prefer SERENITY over STAR WARS, can anyone say it was better than such well deserved classics as 2001, PLANET OF THE APES and BLADE RUNNER?

Call me a dumb-ass cynic-but STAR WARS blew everybody away in 1977. I had never seen anything like it in 1977. And I haven't had that same feeling about anything since.....