Are you ready for "Serenity"?

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Sounds sensible :) Movie prices are obscene nowadays. Here, we pay about $15-16 for a single ticket. What I do is, when I get home from a movie where I haven't been completely happy (something wrong with the sound/picture, people talking, etc), I send an email to the cinema, and they send me a couple of tickets for my trouble. :)

Back to Serenity. I guess there's no single answer why Serenity did so poorly in the cinema (world-wide gross totalled about $38m, the movie cost $40m.) Why do you think it didn't do so well? If it wasn't for the lack of superstars, what was it? Granted it's a tough movie to market, what with it being an action-adventure/horror/drama/comedy/sci-fi/western-hybrid sort of thing, but it has a solid fanbase who should have been able to spread the word. (However, some articles have claimed that the zealotry of certain extreme fans put people off and alienated potential viewers...)
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In terms of how I got to know the Firefly universe, I was in much the same boat as Dixen Andomiel, except that I thought the movie was ok-verging-on-good the first time around. I'm glad I gave the TV series a chance after that. The only reason I did so was because a person whose opinion I have immense respect for recommended it over at the AB.

There's a lot of great stuff in the series. I don't need to tell anybody here that, but I will say that after I'd watched the pilot a couple of times, I took to telling my friends it was the best Western I'd seen since Unforgiven.

I went back and watched the movie again after obsessing over the Firefly discs. Trying to steer a middle course between my high expectations (Firefly) and my low ones (the Hollywood sci-fi record over the last 20 years) I still give it about a 6 or 7 out of 10.

I don't think that explains why it did so poorly at the box office--that I'd pin to the prosaic "star power" and marketing reasons, mostly--but it might have stood a chance if it had more of whatever magic pixie dust made the TV series so special.

But...I think the fact that it was on TV had something to do with the magic.